As she walked through the streets of New Orleans, Lexa contemplated all the sights and sounds around her. There always seemed to be something going on, never a dull moment. She sighed audibly thinking "one day I will be able to share my city with someone else".
"What's up with you tonight? " Anya questioned after hearing her friend sigh.
"Oh nothing just being gloomy…" Lexa stated matter of factly. "With Costia and I just breaking up, I just feel like I'll never find anyone who appreciates this city like I do."
"Well get over yourself!" Anya joked hitting her in the arm, "The Commander is on the PROWL!" she laughed and Lexa couldn't help but smile.
"Your right, cant let myself get in the way of enjoying the evening. Where are we off to tonight?" Lexa questioned.
"I was thinking Jean Lafittes, could use me some purple drank to start the evening off right. Plus I know its one of your favorite spots."
Lexa laughed at that and agreed wholeheartedly. The little blacksmith shop sat on the corner in the French Quarter and there was always someone singing or a game on the TV. It was New Orleans at its finest, music, booze, and friendly conversation. As they moved through the streets, Lexa watched as people passed by. She could always count on the tourists to give her a chuckle because they were drunkenly running about flashing the people around them on Bourbon Street in an attempt to get beads thrown to them.
"Tell me again why we come down Bourbon to get here?" Lexa asked while laughing at someone who just fell over themselves trying to catch a pair of beads.
Anya was laughing as well "Because of those idiots! No one better to lift your spirits than drunken tourists flashing their tits at anyone who will look."
"Very true…" Lexa tried to say as solemnly as possible, but couldn't help but crack a smile." "So who are we meeting up with tonight?"
"Indra will be there, and you know Lincoln will be too. I heard he has a new girl who he wants our opinion on." Anya said.
"Well this should be an interesting evening then, Lincoln always brings the most…interesting people around with him." Lexa replied. "Remember Ontari? That bitch was Crazy with a capital C."
"Yeah I remember her, and I remember how you almost beat the crap out of her when you found Costia and her making out in the back of Cats Meow." Anya replied, with a hint of anger in her voice. "You were always too good for her Lexa, I don't know why you stayed with her for so long."
"Because it was safe. Her and I had been together since high school. It terrified me to lose her and be alone for the first time in 6 years" Lexa stated quietly. Lexa knew that Anya was her best friend and knew everything about her, but it just hurt that Anya had never liked her girlfriend. She knew she was just trying to protect her, and in the end, she had been right. Costia was not the one who she was going to spend the rest of her life with, it just wasn't meant to work out. Anya made sure Lexa got through that dark time, making her get up and go to work, making her go back out and get on with her life.
"EARTH TO LEXA!" Anya snapped her fingers in front of her face, "Are you back with me here now?" Anya asked exasperated. "I was asking if you wanted to get something to eat before we went and started drinking."
"Sorry, was thinking about life," Lexa apologized, then jokingly replied, "This is New Orleans hunny, there is always food! Lets just meet up with Lincoln and Indra and see what they want to do." Anya nodded her head in agreement and they set off down the street again.
As they crossed Dumaine St, Lexa heard the music coming faintly from Lafittes. "Sounds like jazz in on the menu for this evening" Lexa thought. As they got closer to the old black smith shop, Lexa started to feel worried that she wasn't up for this night out.
"Anya….I…" she started to say and Anya cut her off "Oh Hell nah Commander, your not chickening out on this now! We are here and that's that." Lexa reluctantly agreed to continue on.
As they entered the small shop, they were greeted by the bartender Niylah, "Hey guys, I think your group is over there. Is there anything I can get you?" She asked sweetly. "Yeah, two voodoo daiquiris please," Anya replied throwing a sultry wink at the girl. Niylah blushed red and giggled, then went to get their drinks.
"You are the worst for leading that poor girl on Anya, really you are" Lexa joked.
"Who said I'm leading her on? She is hot, just gotta work on my game a bit…" Anya replied.
"There you are!" Indra's voice boomed across the small shop, "Come here, we have a table."
Lexa and Anya grabbed their drinks and made their way across the small bar. Weaving their way through the small tables and past the fireplace in the middle of the bar, they found Indra and Lincoln sitting near the doorway to the patio, near where the piano player was warming up.
"Hey guys, long time no see" Lexa said to them. Everyone exchanged hello's and began their evening.
"Well lets start with some shots to get this party started!" Lincoln exclaimed.
After a couple of shots and a Voodoo daiquiri, the conversations moved from your normal pleasantries about the days and work and what everyone had been up to, to the question on everyone's mind.
"So Lincoln, where is this girl you were supposed to bring with you?" Lexa asked, her tone just slightly slurred by the amount of alcohol they had consumed so far.
"She is the piano player. She just moved down here from New York with her friend. They are hoping to make it in the music scene down here. Her friend is a singer." Lincoln replied. "They are supposed to go on at 9."
"Will we get to meet twinkle fingers before she plays?" Anya joked.
"Don't call her that! I don't know her well enough yet for you to be giving her ridiculous nicknames." Lincoln retorted, but there was a smile on his face, knowing the witty banter was just starting between Anya and him.
Their exchange went back and forth for a good twenty minutes, and no one noticed that the band had gone on. The piano began playing a slow, almost sad song, accompanied by someone playing the violin. Lexa wasn't all to interested in the music until she heard the hauntingly beautiful voice being to sing…
The moon and you appear to be so near and yet so far from me,
And here am I, on a night in June, reaching for the moon and you.
I wonder if we'll ever meet, my song of love is incomplete,
I'm just the words, looking for the tune, reaching for the moon and you.
Lexa felt like the world had slowed down, she felt herself turn in her chair and look towards the stage. There on the stage was the most beautiful woman she had ever laid eyes on. She looked like a angel and sounded like one too. The spotlight caused her long blonde locks to create a halo effect around her, and her voice, oh god her voice. It was beautiful and had just the right amount of bass to it, to allow her to growl some of her notes. As the singer swayed to the music of the violin and piano, Lexa couldn't take her eyes off her. She felt her cheeks heat up when she looked her over.
The beautiful singer suddenly opened her eyes to start her song again, and she scanned over the crowd. As she looked she caught a set of gorgeous green eyes, and locked onto them.
I wonder if we'll ever meet, my song of love is incomplete,
Lexa felt the blond staring at her, and her green eyes locked with sky blue ones. Everything else in the world seemed to fade away as they stared at one another, and Lexa knew this beautiful singer was singing directly to her.
I'm just the words, looking for the tune, reaching for the moon and you.