II.
Maroon 5 have just finished performing 'Give me a little more ', so they greet their crowd for one last time, before leaving.
They walk through the corridor when Dominic and Matthew go towards them.
"Let me just say that you've been amazing, guys!" the first congratulates them.
"Yeah, no doubt your new album will rise up all the charts!" the second smiles at them.
"Thank you, guys! It's so flattering to receive such a compliment from you who always sold out almost every concert of yours!" Adam smiles back at them, before starting hand shakings and introductions.
"Let's hope things will be alright even here in America; we'll start touring next week." Matt explains.
"Instead, we'll start touring from October on." Adam informs them, mostly because they seem to turn just to him, utterly ignoring the others.
As he's busy chatting with them, Adam hasn't even noticed that they are taking him aside, but not very far from his band anyway.
"Alright, that means that so far you're not too busy, right?" Dom figures out.
"Well, saving the interviews, some music shows, some photo-shoots... " Adam grumbles.
"What about tonight? Are you busy?" Dom goes on.
"Uh? N.. no, nothing special. Why?" he asks, confused.
"Well, you know, we are staying at a hotel nearby that is pretty close to a recording studio. Maybe we could meet there, you know... to get to know one another better. " the blond suggests.
"Yeah. Who knows? Maybe it could be the right chance to start an interesting collaboration. " Matt adds, as he stares at Adam with a strange light in his deep blue eyes.
Adam notices that ... and it's not that Dom is looking at him in a more reassuring way, either.
Anyway he accepts their invitation, asks them the address of the recording studio and then comes back to his friends.
Matt and Dom stare at each other, pretty satisfied.
"Well, well, it seems that we got our special date!" the drummer gloats.
"And it will be a date that our dear guest won't forget so easily!" the pianist sneers.
"What the hell does it mean that you're not coming with me?" Adam exclaims in his flat that, as usual, the other band mates have mistaken for their flat.
"To begin with, it seems that they asked you, and only you!" James, the second guitarist, points out.
"What? No, you're wrong. They only asked me to make me the mouthpiece of it with you, buddies!" he clarifies.
"Plus, you said you are going to talk about collaborations, didn't you? Well, usually that's stuff that only the two frontmen talk about. Trust me; the blondie won't even be there!" Jesse, the keyboard player, informs him.
"That's ok, but beyond what we must talk about, they seem two pleasant guys, don't they? And I regard them very highly as musicians. I don't think there's anything wrong if we know them better, maybe we could bring them around Los Angeles and paint the town red!" Adam suggests.
"I think they don't even have the slightest interest in seeing the town, quite the contrary, they already found something to place their eyes on… or I'd better say someone," Matt, the drummer, states.
"What do you mean?" the frontman asks bewildered.
"Oh, c'mon, Adam, didn't you notice? They definitely devoured you with their eyes!" Matt warns him.
"Hell yeah, my dear hottie, it seems you made an impression on them!" Mickey, the bassist, makes fun of him.
"Hey! Quit it, fucking quit it, you, dickheads! You don't know what you're blathering about. Matthew is engaged with an actress, I don't recall her name now… whatever, the main point is that he has a girlfriend! About Dominic… gee, didn't you see him with all those pretty girls when we all went outside the studios?" Adam makes his friends notice, as he starts losing his patience, mostly because that speech reminds him the disquieting glances the English guys cast at him.
Here we go. Congratulations, Adam, your friends say crap and you get so suggestible already! he scolds himself.
"For the last time, are you coming or what?" he insists.
"Nope, you'll go there alone and then you'll tell us about it. We have more important matters to deal with!" Jesse speaks for all the others, too.
"But you're just playing with my playstation!" the householder protests.
"Exactly: we have more important matters!" James reasserts.
"Why do I waste my time with you? Now I gotta go and, believe me, it will be a very normal meeting. You know what? Maybe we'll pick someone up, too, to your face!" he warns them, before leaving his house.
After about a quarter of an hour Adam arrives to destination, but he must forget about his plans to pick some girls up, because that building seems to be desert.
Anyway, the lights are on and when he gets in, he sees two specific life forms walking towards him.
"So, you're here, finally!" Matthew exclaims as Dominic confines himself just to smile at him.
Jesse was wrong; the blondie is here, too! Adam reckons as he observes the blondie in question.
He wears a very showy and see-through, leo-printed shirt, matched with some acid green pants so skinny that it makes him wonder if they're not a woman style. Woman style or not, the point is that they suit him, a lot. And Adam is not used to make such observations.
"Yep, I know that I have a nice butt, but there's no need to stare at it so insistently!" the owner of that eccentric outfit takes his mind off his thoughts, with a very pleased expression.
"N... no! It's… it's just that… I was looking at... " Adam attempts to justify.
"Calm down. You're free to stare at whatever you want!" Matthew smiles at him, as pleased as his boyfriend.
Matt is dressed totally in black, except for his white braces. Anyway, Adam must recognize that black is a colour that tremendously suits him.
Can I fucking quit staring at their clothes? the American guy reprimands himself, a little bit confused.
In the meantime, Matt and Dom are staring at his outfit, too, appreciating his light blue jeans, matched with a blue t-shirt that sets off his amazing iridescent eyes, covered with a black jacket that fits him to a t.
"Do you want something to drink?" Matt asks him and Adam just nods.
After all, he really needs something to drink, since out of the blue he lacks salivation and he's the first to wonder why.
Dom throws him a can of beer from the mini-bar. He catches it, thanking him and opening it.
Sure, he would enjoy it more if only these two stopped staring at him so ravenously.
"I'm sorry, but my band mates are not coming, they were just too busy… " he warns them, mostly to break that awkward, oppressing silence that has fallen among them.
"Actually, we never said that the invitation was extended to your band mates. It was only for you!" Matthew informs him.
Adam almost chokes with the last swallow of his beer.
"W... why on… only for me?" he asks him unsurely.
"Just like that," Dom sneers, mysteriously.
The frontman of Maroon 5 starts thinking that maybe it wasn't a good idea to accept that invitation.
A part of him would like to go and get the hell away from them, without giving any explanation; but there's also another part that already figured out that that night won't be a standard night and is curious to see where it will take him. It's a part that is pretty much puzzled by the way Matt and Dom are staring at him, but mostly by the way they are staring at each other.
That part of him is puzzled, but also bizarrely enthralled by that and maybe with the complicity of the beer, that part wins, so he decides to stay.
"Gee, Adam, you're so tense!" Matthew observes, approaching him. "Would you like us to do something to make you feel better?" he suggests to him.
"No, wait. No way! I don't need you to make any massages to me or stuff like that to make me feel better, you would just make me feel worse!" the American guy protests energetically, keeping his distance.
"What did you understand?" Dominic chuckles.
"I just meant something to make you relax, just like playing. Why don't you play something to us? I'm sure you'll feel more comfortable, " Matt clarifies.
Adam feels like a complete idiot.
Okay, I let myself be carried away by my imagination way too much! And it's also my friends' fault, due to all the crap they said! This is just and only a night among musicians, where music is the absolute protagonist. Anyway, I'd better stop drinking beer! he thinks as he follows them to the music room, where there are several guitars, a drum kit, some bass guitars and a couple of keyboards.
Plus, there's also a little stage, meant for small crowds.
Just what the trio needs.
"You, first!" Matthew invites him, as he sits with Dom on the chairs in front row. "Anyway, you know, I don't like conventional things very much, so, please, don't play a song of yours, we already know them, " he warns him.
"Yeah, so… why don't you try to play a song of ours? If you know one of them, of course!" Dom suggests him.
"Well, it's not that I know your repertory very well, but there's a song I really like, also because it was a very popular song and I heard it wherever I went, that's why I ended up memorizing it somehow. " the American guy chuckles as he goes on stage and takes the acoustic guitar, since he wants to perform that song in a way he's particularly fond of.
He starts with an intro longer than the original, but very pleasant, nonetheless.
"I think I'm drowning asphyxiated, I wanna break this spell that you've created," Adam starts singing.
Matthew and Dominic seem to appreciate that choice a lot, along with the way he's playing it, the way his fingers fly on the tastes, with a tiny swish on the chords that is anything but annoying; but mostly they enjoy the way he sings and hums, the way he moves to keep the rhythm and the way he keeps his eyes closed in order to concentrate better on the hardest and most intense parts.
Sometimes he makes some mistakes with the lyrics and he avoids the most difficult riffs that the rightful songwriter always does, but they don't mind at all.
Now that Adam seems to be calmer and at ease, the atmosphere among them is something unique. Plus, that song is a temptation way too strong and when the English guys' looks meet, they can't resist any longer.
In the meantime, Adam has just finished the second chorus, performing also successfully the yells and the falsetto. He's about to start the finale verse, as he opens his eyes again.
"Yeah, you will su… "
The lyrics die on his lips, just like the notes disappear abruptly, as he observes defenceless the show in front of his eyes, i.e. Matt straddling Dom as they're busy kissing each other passionately.
(End Part II)
What can I say? For the last part, expect a Matt and a Dom who will be really, REALLY uninhibited! :P
You know, I would give everything to hear for real Adam playing that song in that way.. that guy is incredible with acoustic versions, aaaww! By the way, the song was 'Time is Running Out ' by Muse… a disclaimer is a disclaimer, lol!
Since you can easily picture our beloved duo's outfits, this is about Adam's one:
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hope you'll still like it, but feel free to tell me anything, as always!