Hey guys. Here is Chap. 7. You've probably noticed that everytime I post I put what city they are in and what year it is. Every post from now on will be in Toronto or I will tell you when they have left. Everything is 2 years ago and then as time progresses it comes closer and closer to present day. I hope that made sense. Thank you for all your reviews they mean alot to me. I'm sorry that you didn't like it steviemgu2. Can't please everyone right? Well thanks to everyone elses reviews that DID like it. I appreciate it. I also appreciated the constructive critisism. Hope you enjoy the rest.
Adrienne
Part 7
Toronto
Tommy walked into G Major for the first time in over a year. It still felt the same to him. That rush he always felt when he walked into the studio knowing that he'd see her that day and they would make beautiful music together. Today was a little different though. He didn't know if they'd make music together ever again but he was sure as hell going to try. Everything still looked the same but there were little things that were different. You had to really be looking for the changes to see them but Tommy had spent a good 4 years working there and knew when somethings had changed. Everything felt older and more serious. There was no laughing and goofing off like they're normally would have been. No Speiderman running around kicking people in their butts, no Kyle and Wally arguing over stupid things. The fun was gone. Ever since the band had left for their own tour for the album they had finished the place just seemed kind of dead.
Tommy walked over to Darius's office and knocked on the door. He paused waiting for a reply and then heard a muffled "come in". Tommy took a deep breath and mumbled to himself "here goes nothing".
Darius was sitting at his desk talking on his phone to someone when he finished his conversation and hung up the phone he glanced over towards the door and his jaw slightly dropped out of shock.
Darius: Well if it isn't Tom Quincy? What has it been? A year?
Tommy: Yes D. It has been a year. I know I screwed up not talking to you before I left but I want you to know that I had a reason for leaving. A good reason D.
Darius: Really? Care to enlighten me?
Tommy: You remember Mandy right?
Darius's smug look faltered a bit at the mention of Tom's older sister. It certainly was a blast from the past hearing her name. Darius smiled a little thinking back to the last day he'd seen her.
Flashback
It had been 6 years before on a cold rainy night
Mandy stood at the door to his apartment with a look of sadness on her face. It was raining outside. He hadn't been expecting her there. She had told him just the week before that they could never be together. She couldn't do that to her little brother. Darius was his idol. If she married Darius then she'd be messing up that relationship and she couldn't do that. So when she'd shown up at his door that night he was quite shocked.
Darius: What are you doing here Mandy? Come in it's cold you must be freezing.
Mandy stepped in the doorway after hesitating. She took a deep breath. She didn't know what to do. She knew that Darius deserved to know but she also knew that she couldn't be with him. She was about to tell him everything when her cell phone rang and she glanced down. It was Chris. She knew at that moment that she had to do what was best for everyone and tell Darius what he needed to hear not the whole truth.
Mandy: I just wanted to tell you that I'm leaving Darius. I'm going to marry Chris.
Darius's face fell in abject shock and horror. Here was the woman he loved for the past year the only woman he would ever truly love and she was telling him not only that she was leaving but that she was leaving to marry another man. What do you say to something like that?
Darius: How can you do this Mandy? I love you. I told you that you were the only one for me and now you pull this? Why?
Mandy turned her head so that Darius could only catch the side of her face. The rain mixed with her tears but she wouldn't let him see.
Mandy: Because I don't love you Darius. I'm sorry. I love Chris.
With that she turned and left. Walking away from the love of her life and walking towards a new life with a man who treated her kindly but she had no real feelings for.
End Flashback
Tommy had been waving his hand in front of Darius's face for the past few minutes with no response.
Tommy: Yo D?
Darius finally came back from that night 6 years before when his heart had shattered irreplaceably.
Darius: What?
Tommy looked at him in confusion but continued his story none the less.
Tommy: As I was saying you remember Mandy right? My older sister?
Darius put his head down "yes I remember her. What about her"?
Tommy: Well as you know my family has a cabin in Montana where I grew up. It was left to Mandy and Chris after my grandfather died. They were living there raising Jessie when there was an accident. Neither of them made it. So I had to come back and rake care of my niece.
Darius's mouth hung slightly open. She had a daughter and now she was dead. How could the girl that he'd known even better than himself really be gone?
Tommy noticed the look of heartache and pain on Darius's face. He didn't understand it but at that moment he looked like he needed to be comforted more than Tommy did.
Darius finally got himself back under control "What happened"?
