Adrian POV

5 years ago

"Sydney, come on, I'm going to be late," I shouted to my best friend, Sydney Sage.

"Adrian, they're rock stars. I'm sure they're used to lateness, " she said, coming down the hall.

"That's easy for you to say, little Miss Perfect." I shot back.

I was currently on my way to meet my band mates and go on a tour of the U.S.A. By that, I mean every single state. Sydney was coming to see me off. We had been best friends since we met when I was in my Senior year of high school. She was a Junior, so I was 18, and she was 15. Now she's in college and I'm in a band. College isn't really my thing.

"Adrian, where have you been?" Dimitri Belikov, my manager shouted. "Hello, Miss Sage," he said, his voice now polite. Before I could say something witty, he stalked off to talk to my band mates.

"See what you did Sage, now I'm in trouble," I whined.

"Really Adrian, I thought being in trouble was your thing, " Sydney said, crossing her arms.

"It is, but I'm their leader, and I need to show I'm not pushed around by Cowboy Belikov over there."

"Ivashkov, now." Dimitri shouted.

"But you are," Sage said, and I pouted.

"Come on Adrian, you know you're the best lead singer in the world, and I'm sure the other members don't base their opinion on how Dimitri treats you. Only on how awesome you sing."

"I knew I could count on you Sage." And like that I was smiling again.

"Good, now you have to go, so e-mail me your schedule," she said pushing me towards the bus, but I grabbed her arm and pulled her to me kissing her cheek. She looked in my eyes and blushed.

"Bye Sage, see you..."

"Later," She whispered.

"Later," I agreed, and like that she walked back to her car and drove out of my life for God knows how long. When I stepped on the bus, Christian, Mason, and Eddie were smirking.

"Aren't you supposed to give your wife a better kiss?" Christian said, and they all started laughing.

"Haha, Sage isn't my wife, we're not even dating, we are just friends," I said turning around, tuning them out. But they were right; there should have been more to that kiss.

Present Day(Sydney POV)

I was currently looking at the morning newspaper when the front page caught my eye. The band "The Golden Lily" was playing a show in New York City, where I lived.

"Whoa, are they playing here?" my boyfriend Keith said, grabbing the newspaper from my hand and reading about "The Golden Lily."

"Yes, they are. Now can I have the paper back?" I said, trying to grab it, but he snatched it away before I could.

"Wait, don't you know the lead singer?"

"Yeah, I know all of them, so?" I replied impatiently. His mouth dropped.

"So, you could get us tickets!" Keith exclaimed.

"I have no interest in seeing them play, or even seeing them at all."

Okay, so that was a lie, I loved their band.

"Why, did something bad happen with them?" He asked, confused.

"No, the lead singer and I were just friends, and I don't really miss him anyway."

Another lie, I missed him like crazy.

"Look babe, I'll think about it, but I have to go to work," I said.

Keith pouted, but left it alone. At work, I was at peace. I worked for the "Tabs" magazine. I decided to forget about him, really I did, but that was before I opened my computer, and saw the news. He had been arrested again. It was the third time this week. That''s when the memories started coming back.

Flashback

My first day of hell...I mean high school. Walking in was horrible, I had no idea what that smell was, but I hoped I would get used to it soon, or I was switching schools. The front office didn't smell any better, it smelled of blood and books.

The secretary told me to wait in one of the chairs until Principal Koriva called me into her office. There were two guys in here also. One was standing and had blue eyes, the other was sitting and had green eyes. Green eyes was cute. They both were bruised and a little bloody in the face. I'm guessing they were in a fight. I settled for standing in the middle of the two, so I wasn't that close to either.

"Hey baby, what's your name?" Blue eyes asked me.

"Sydney Sage," I answered, not looking at him. He moved closer and looked at me like a piece of meat.

"Well Syd, I'm Jesse Zeklos," he said, flashing a smile at me. I think it was supposed to be cute, but it was more annoying.

"I didn't ask, and it's Sydney, not Syd," I said, still not looking him. I heard Green eyes chuckled behind me. Jesse got in my face.

"Hey, look at me when I talk to you?" His voice took on a more angry tone, and he jerked my chin up. I wander what the secretary was doing, because she obviously wasn't paying attention. Green eyes shot up.

"Back off, Zeklos," he said. Jesse was still holding my chin when he looked at Green eyes.

"I wasn't talking to you, was I, Ivaskov." Jesse growled.

"Look, man just let her go, she's new and probably a freshman, " Ivashkov tried reasoning with Zeklos.

"I know, she's probly a virgin too," he said looking at me hungrily. I was disgusted, but I couldn't do much in Jesse's death grip. Ivashkov shook his head and smiled.

"Okay," he said before his fist came up and punched Zeklos with a force that made him let go of me and fall to the ground.

"Hello Sydney, I'm Adrian Ivashkov, nice meeting you, but I got to go," Adrian said. Hmm, Adrian, I liked it. He took off before I could say thank you.

Present day

That was the day Adrian and I met. After that he took me under his wing, protecting me like I was his little sister.

Flashback

My phone was ringing. When I looked at it, I said "Crazy" and I rolled my eyes.

"What do you want, Adrian?" I asked, annoyed.

"Is that any way to talk to a homeless person?" He asked.

"What?" I exclaimed "Why are you homeless, what did you do?"

"Why do you assume I did something?" He asked innocently.

"Adrian," I said in a demanding tone.

"Alright, alright my folks kicked me out, because they found out I quit college. "

"Which I still don't understand; you love your art classes," I said.

"I'm in a band, who needs college anyway, besides I can still paint on the open road," he said.

"Fine, you can stay with me," I offered.

"I didn't ask," he said, a little confused.

"I know, but you have nowhere to stay, and you are not staying in a motel."

"Aww Sage, you sound like you almost care."

"Whatever, just pack your things, I'll be there in a minute," I said, hanging up on him.

Present

No matter how much we'd been though, it didn't matter now. I was completely happy with Keith.

"Miss Sage, there's a man here to see you," my assistant said through the intercom.

"What's his name?" it was probably Keith still wanting tickets.

"He said you know him by Cowboy," She said. Before I could respond, he burst through the door.

"Adrian needs you," he said, before security grabbed him.

Okay maybe not completely happy.

I had it edited. :)