"Dude, it's just not fair," Jason whined. "All the cool stuff happens to you."

I laughed. I had been offered a part in a new movie that morning and, as usual, Jason had to bitch about why they had chosen me over him before he could just be happy for me. "Come on, cool stuff happens to you guys, too."

We had a couple weeks off from the tour, and we had told our management that we didn't care where we spent it, as long as it was a hundred miles from the nearest paparazzi. We'd meant more along the lines of a high security resort, but here we were, in a small diner, in a small town in Michigan that I hadn't bothered to learn the name of. While it was true enough that the paparazzi would never find us, I wasn't thrilled at the notion of living without Starbucks for two weeks; but at least the coffee at the diner wasn't too bad.

"Name one thing," Jason dared me.

"The album went platinum!" That was lucky, right? I thought we were all pretty damn lucky.

Nate shook his head. "That happened to us, not to him…"

"Oh…well…"

I thought about the question for a minute, but I got distracted when I noticed a group of girls at a booth in the corner. They were laughing about something one of them said. They were all pretty, around my age, but one of them really stood out. She had the most amazing smile I'd ever seen. She pushed a strand of long red hair away from her face and whispered something to the pretty blonde girl sitting next to her.

"See? You can't even think of one thing!"

"I don't think that's why he isn't saying anything…" Nate smirked, following my gaze towards the girls.

Jason glanced over his shoulder to see what we were looking at. The blonde girl caught us staring at her friend. Shit, that was embarrassing. She nudged the redhead and pointed towards us. We all turned around quickly, but it was too late; they were all laughing at us.

"Way to be obvious, guys," I said sarcastically. "That was just beautiful."

"No, but she sure is," Jason admitted. "And, lucky you, you saw her first."

"Shut up," I laughed. I swear, he was a three-year old trapped in a 23-year olds' body. "Let's get out of here before we give them any more reasons to laugh at us. And I'm not that lucky."

I stood up and grabbed my jacket. I took a subtle glace over at the girls; they were all getting up, too. I stood out of the way so that they could get passed me in the narrow aisle. The fact that I'd get to stare at her ass didn't hurt, either.

"Hey," the pretty redhead smiled mischievously at me. What, was she mocking me now? I was embarrassed enough as it was.

"Hey…"

Before I could say anything else, she grabbed my tie and pulled my lips to hers. A spark of electricity surged through my body. It was the weirdest thing. I'd never experienced anything like that before. After a moment, she broke the kiss and winked at me. Then she just walked away.

"What the…" Nate started, but stopped as he saw her hold out her hand. The other girls were handing her money.

"Do you still want to argue about luck now?" Jason smirked. "Hot girls don't come up and kiss me out of the blue, not even for money."

I barely heard them. I watched her walk out the door, laughing with her friends, and tried to figure out what the hell it was that I had just felt.

I thought about her all day. It's not that I had much else to think about; as far as I could tell, there was nothing to do in this town, wherever the hell we were. We spent most of the day lounging around watching movies at the house the record label had rented for us.

I glanced at my watch as 2 Fast 2 Furious ended. It was almost ten o'clock. I was so bored, and I wanted to go find her. But how the hell would I do that? I didn't even know her name.

"Do you guys wanna order pizza or something?" Jason asked lazily, flipping through the movie channels to find the film that would occupy the next two hours of our lives.

"I think I'm going to go for a walk," I replied, getting up off the couch and sliding on my shoes. I may have no idea where, or who, she was, but I knew I wasn't going to find her sitting in front of the television. "I'll see you guys later."

"Bye," my friends muttered as I grabbed his jacket and pushed the door open, emerging into the warm breeze.

I headed to the only place I could think to start looking for her – the diner. It was only about a five minute walk from the house. Luckily, it was still open. I walked in and looked around; I wasn't sure why, because I hadn't really expected her to be there, and she wasn't. I saw my waiter from earlier behind the counter. He looked like he was around my age.

"Excuse me," I said, getting the water's attention. "There was this girl here earlier…she had red hair…"

"Gracie," the man said. "The girl that kissed you."

"You know her?"

"Yeah, Grace is one of my girlfriend's roommates," he explained.

"Great," I smiled. That was easy. "I'm looking for her."

"You're not gonna slap her with a sexual assault lawsuit or anything, are you?" the waiter laughed. "She's a little wild, but she's harmless."

"No, nothing like that," I smirked. Wild? I liked the sound of that.

The man looked at his watch. "My shift ends in fifteen minutes. They're having a bonfire tonight. If you want to wait, you can come."

"Yeah, definitely," I nodded. "Thanks. I'm Shane, by the way."

"I'm Matthew," the waiter called, going back to wiping the counters.

I sat down in a booth, feeling accomplished. That had been much easier than I thought. I guess I should have expected that someone would know her – I bet there were only like, fifty people in the whole town. But what was I going to say to her when I saw her? I was getting a little nervous. Would she think it was creepy that I had been looking for her? I thought it would kind of be hypocritical for her to think that, since she was the one who kissed a stranger.

"Ready?" Matthew asked.

"Yeah," I replied, standing up and following him out the door onto the street. "Are you sure it's okay that I just show up?"

"Yeah, don't worry about it, man," Matthew assured me. "Most of the people who usually show up didn't get invited by anyone who actually lives there."

"Okay."

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