Thanks again to Jess and echelongirl your reviews do help and they make me want to keep writing.
I don't know quite yet where I am going to end up in this story but trust me that it will end up with J/A together and there will be some drama, of course, but for the most part I think they deserve a fan/ fic. where they can be happy for once. Don't you? Also I apologize in advance for the length of this one, I could find a place where I wanted to stop!
Disclaimer : I don't claim to own any of the character's form MSCL, I just like to write and read about them!
Jordan walked into the studio to meet up with Shane and the rest of the band. They almost have everything on this new song he wrote recorded with the exception of his vocals, so today they are going to record him and then sit down with Mutt. "I think it will be a really good song, Jordan." Shane said as he listened to what they had down so far. "What did you have in mind for the lyrics?" "They are about a pair of lovers who had lost each other but then somehow become friends again and found their way back." I tell him. Shane just shakes his head and laughs, he knows that I found Angela and that we have been together now for a few months. It is really going much better than I could have hoped. I stay at her place most of the time; it just seems easier and more comfortable.
"Does she know that this one is about her?" Shane asks me quietly. "Not yet, she knows that I was working on a new one though, I thought we could surprise her by playing it the first night of the new tour." This reminds me that I still haven't talked to her about the upcoming tour or the fact that I want her to come with me. I know that she has a little more time left in this semester so I am trying to get the label to put it off until summer.
"Speaking of which, we have to get all the band members together so we can decide on a play list and set design. Have them meet up after the session at my place." "Will do." Shane said before heading out the studio door to the control room.
The music begins to play and Jordan begins to quietly sing the first few words…
I talk to you as to a friend It was you who picked I don't wanna hurt you I look at you and see a friend You gathered my dreams in
I hope that's what you've
come to be
It feels as though we've
made amends
Like we found a way
eventually
the pieces up
When I was a broken soul
And then glued me
back together
Returned to me what
others stole
I don't wanna make you sway
Like I know I've done before
I will not do it anymore
I've always been a dreamer
I've had my head among
the clouds
Now that I'm coming down
Won't you be my solid ground?
I hope that's what you wanna be
Are we back now where
it all began?
Have you finally forgiven me?
When they all blew away
And then tricked them
back into me
You saved me I was
almost dead
I don't wanna hurt you
I don't wanna make you sway
Like I know I've done before
I will not do it anymore
I've always been a dreamer
I've had my head among
the clouds
Now that I'm coming down
Won't you be my solid ground?
And as the music fades away Jordan can see Shane and the rest of the guys just beaming at him through the window. Mutt calls out to him over the speaker, "Jordan that was it, you can't do it any better than that and that song is going to be your big ht, I can feel it." Shane gives him a nod to show that he approves and Jordan just smile to himself. He goes into the production room and they begin to mix the song for a while before he gets up and tells the guys to do what they do best and leaves to go to Angela. He just has to see her and tell her about the tour and the thoughts that are going through his head.
Angela opens the door to her apartment and sees me standing there. She had obviously been crying so I come into the room and takes her into my arms. "What's wrong? I ask her. "My grandfather died and I am just so sad that I am not at home with my mom right now. She just called, Danielle is driving down form Colombia and she wants me to fly in tomorrow. I have to get out of my classes and file for extensions and god how an I going to afford a flight and I don't want to go alone but I can't ask Rickie to leave his work or Sharon to miss school and I am just…" she begins to softly cry against my neck again. "So, I will go home with you", I say to her, "and don't worry about anything but talking to your school, I can handle everything else. Ok?"
"But can you just leave like that? I mean, I definitely want you there with me but aren't the guys counting on you to be here." Angela asks me with the question in her eyes. "I said don't worry about it. I am going with you and we will leave tomorrow. Besides I finished laying the vocal tracks for the last song on the album today. I won't be needed back in the studio for at least a month or more while Shane and Mutt play around with the mixing." And that is the truth, I write the music and the lyrics and they worry about the production. I am usually there to offer opinions but she doesn't need to know that. I gently kiss her on her lips and pull her down on to the couch, onto my lap, so that I can cradle her in my arms and try to take some of her hurt away. "I hate it when you cry; it always makes me feel helpless." I tell her. "You are helping, I love you Jordan, thank you for everything." She appears to be falling asleep so I pick her up and carry to her room. I lay her down on the bed and get in with her and we just fall asleep like that. With her looking so small and fragile in comparison to me and me wrapped around her.
A few hours later I hear a knock on her door and I don't want her to wake up so I get up very carefully and place a kiss on her forehead before I go see who it is. I go out to the living room and see Sharon and Rickie who are both looking sad. Sharon looks up at me and with tears in her eyes asks if Angela is ok. "Yeah, she is going to be fine, she is just tired form crying so I want to let her sleep. We are going to fly into Philly tomorrow, I just have to make the arrangements." "Well" Rickie begins, "we have been talking and we decided that we are going too. I mean I didn't really know her grandpa but I want to be there to support her family, especially since they have always been so good to me."
"And I have to be there" Sharon tells me "I mean I have known the Chase family since birth! Her grandpa is like my grandpa" and then she begins to cry again so Rickie slides over to hug her. "Ok" I say "Then I guess I will make arrangements for four." "Can I use your room Rickie?" "Sure" He replies.
In Rickie's room I take out my cell and first I call Shane to let him know that I will be out of town for at least a week but that I will be with Angela for as long as she needs to be in Three Rivers. I told him only to call me if it really can't wait till we get back. I then call the airline and book four first class seats to Philadelphia International for tomorrow morning. I want to get her there as soon as I can and I have not really spent any of the money that I have made on anything big so I can afford the upgrade, besides who wants to be stuck in coach for 7 hours. I stick my head out the door, "Sharon? Can you get a hold of her professors and tell them what is going on when you contact yours? "Sure, no problem." Sharon tells me before getting up to get the kitchen phone.
A/N switch here to Angela POV for a little bit!
When Angela wakes up she wanders out to the Living room and is surprised by the flutter of activity around her. Sharon is on the phone and Rickie is packing up clothes for all three of them. "What are you guys doing?" I ask them. "We are going with you silly." Sharon answers. " What did you think you were going to go all that way without us, what kind of best friends would we be if we let you do that?" Rickie asks me with a raised eyebrow. "How did you guys do this so fast?" I ask them." You have one hell of a boyfriend Angela; he just came out and calmly took charge of everything. We are booked on a flight early tomorrow morning and will have you home by dinner. Rickie and Jordan are going to stay at your house and I am going to go home, of course. We talked to your teachers and your excused for two weeks, that should be enough right?" Sharon explains all this in one big breath. "Well where is he?" I say. " He had to go to his place and pack but he said to tell you that he would be back to stay here with you tonight, and that you shouldn't worry about dinner he is bringing something back with him He shouldn't be much longer, you have been asleep for four hours!" Rickie tells me.
"Oh, ok then," and I sit down on the couch. "He really did all this?" I ask them in awe of him. "Well duh Angela" Sharon says reverting back to her high school vocabulary… "He loves you and even I can see that he has changed, he has become a man, and a good man at that." "Amen!" Rickie chimes in with a smile and a wink at me. I smile at them but mostly to myself because as I am falling apart I know that I have a rock to lean on. He won't spook this time. "All right, then I am going to go call mom and see how she is." But first I sit and think back over the past three months we have been back together, I am glad I can do this because it takes away some of the pain of losing my grandpa, if only because I am not thinking about it.
We have been so happy. We are together as often as we can be with his recording schedule and my school. We go out on real dates but sometimes we stay in eating pizza from Bella's and snuggling under the covers. Making love with him has been amazing too! I think with a blush, He knows my body so well it is like we fit together somehow, like we were made for each other. I have come to discover so many new things with him, We went to San Francisco and drove down the curviest street in America, Lombard Street, and we went over the Golden Gate Bridge and down into Golden Gate Park where we had a very romantic picnic lunch by the water. It has been perfect until now, I remember sadly, but he has really surprised me with how he took charge of everything, I am proud of the man he has become and I'd like to think that I had a small part in that. Just then the door opens, and there he is, I turn my head to look at him and he just smiles at me and says, "Hey angel, I'm home."
The lyrics for the song "sway" are The Persihers/Kluft I just really thought that they fit the whole A/J situation...and I love the song too!