A/N: I know I'm rushing things but really well I don't want these what if fics to drag on and in Hollywood don't they all fall in love pretty darn quick? Songs chopped up too needed to move it along. I do not own Misery Business or Emergency the songs used in this chapter.
All We Know
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Her father.
Out of the say fifty people she asked, they had all turned her down except for one.
Her father.
She was going to see her favourite singer with her father, it's not that it was embarrassing okay so it was but she loved her dad but when it came to his music choice. Katie Dexter the up and coming punk goddess was not on his Ipod play list and doubted it would be in the near future.
Sure it was late notice and a school night but the one person she was counting on had turned her down after a quick phone call to her mother, just like everyone else 'sorry can't go' did they not realize just how big this was?
"Should I dye my hair black or something?" her father voice entered her mind snapping out of her little impromptu trance.
"Dad it's a concert, not a date speaking of which I'm seeing a few grays" he quickly went over to the mirror attached to the colossal dresser that she guessed was as old or probably older than her.
"Not funny young lady" holding back a grin she stood up coming up behind him.
"I'm just saying you want to look put together but not like you're a pedophile looking for his next victim" his eyes widen with his daughters choice of words
"Alright I'm at your mercy what oh what should I wear?" he went back to his closet only to be pushed away seconds later. It didn't take long for Hayley to pick out something that she would for sure look good on her dad.
"Wear it no if ands or buts about it" she thrust the clothes into her fathers waiting arms and left the room for him to change.
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Curtain time was in 30 minutes and already the arena was jam-packed, she smiled as she peeked out from behind the black curtain near the drums. She had people around her finishing her hair, last minute touch ups of make up, ear pieces so she could hear the songs in her head and knew when to sing – it was her managers idea the thought of thousands of people looking up at her what if she forgot the words to her songs? Hard because they were drilled into her and they were a part of her coming from her own thoughts.
"They're here" her bodyguard Rick informed her.
She really couldn't place why she felt so connected to the one girl who was brave enough to approach her for an autograph and talked a mile a minute while others didn't know what to say and it was awkward as she signed, but not with Hayley Stokes, she seemed different set apart from all the thousands of other girls who wrote in thanking her for songs they connected with and simple for being the rock goddess they all said she was.
"5 minutes" one of the techs told her, and she absent-mindedly nodded her head.
It didn't help that Hayley's dad was hot either, but a little too old for her to have a teenage daughter while Katie was in her early twenties no it just wouldn't work out and that was even if Katie did even remotely have feelings for him.
"2 minutes, places people!" screamed another and Katie wiped all thoughts from her head as she was about to go on. She waited for her cue…any second now.
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"I think I'm the oldest one here" Nick mumbled to his daughter who glowed from head to toe from the neon lights she had hanging from her ears, neck and wrists.
"Dad shush" Hayley told him as the lights began to fade.
The music started, fans screamed and the light show the techs spent weeks on began flashing to every member of the band except for the lead spot where the microphone stood. Drums, guitar, keyboard and swirling lights and finally center stage as the familiar notes to a well known hit started but the large gasp had Katie smiling as it landed on center stage and she wasn't there. Another two seconds and the lights would change to up where she was in the drums section there was a reason why they showed drums first.
Pop!
Fire and lights illuminated where she stood and she immediately began singing Misery Business, her voice almost drowned out by the screaming her dedicated fans produced.
I'm in the business of misery,
Let's take it from the top.
She's got a body like an hourglass that's ticking like a clock.
It's a matter of time before we all run out,
When I thought he was mine she caught him by the mouth.
Nick found himself watching her as she moved about the stage, he was sure if he wanted to he could reach out and touch her, but why would he want to do that all she was to him was his daughters favourite singer?
Second chances they don't ever matter, people never change.
Once a whore you're nothing more, I'm sorry, that'll never change.
By the end of the song he was convinced he had secretly developed a school boy's crush on her and they've only spoken once.
By the third song he found him trying to move a little so she would look down at him he was close enough she would see him if he did something and she would look at him. How childish was that? Almost as much as picking on her so no one would find out they liked her.
So are you listening, so are you watching me?
She looked at him while she sang the chrous of Emergency and he could have even swore she winked at him on one occasion.
The end of the concert had him up and out of the chair dragging an innocent Hayley along to the change rooms that served as dressing rooms tonight in the arena. Seems he wasn't the only one who thought they could sneek a peek at Katie, about fifty or so small teenyboppers were already there waiting and so were two uniformed officers and two secrurity guards outside the door. No one was getting in.
"Dad did you forget we have backstage passes! We can get past them!" she shrieked, dodging her way through the girls it was now her who dragged him she showed the guards her pass and they stepped aside slightly only enough for him to squeeze through barely.
Secruity however stopped her as she went to knock on the door, Nick being her father stepped in showing them the badges, one of them nodding knocking on the door saying a few things before the door opened to choas. Katie sat in all of it on a green couch sipping a bottle of water through a straw, her head shooting up towards the door as it opened.
"Hayley! Come sit" everyone stopped what they were doing to look at the two intruders, Katie made room on the couch padding the seat beside her. Hayley beet red cheeks was the only sign of how overwhelmed she was as she sat down beside Katie.
"Don't be shy Nick have a seat. Everyone else leave now" before the word now was out of her mouth everyone was already leaving. Nick looked at her, he would have to ask how she did that, there were days where he couldn't get his kids to listen to him.
"So what did you think of the concert?" she asked Hayley
What drove him nuts was she kept looking in his direction the entire time they were there but completely ignored him.
To be honest he kinda liked it.
