I looked at Derek and saw the confusion on his face. I grabbed his hand and pulled him in and shut the door. "Derek, I'd like you to meet some of my family. These are some of my cousins on my mother's side."
They each introduced themselves and shook Derek's hand. My cousin Don clapped him on the back, "How have you been? I haven't seen you in years. It was good to hear from you again Derek."
"How do you two know each other?" I just laughed. Don seemed to know everyone.
"Well a few years back Derek brought another girl here who was a friend of the security guard. We just hit it off and have been friends since."
"Oh ho! So you've used this trick before now, have you Derek?"
He smiled sheepishly, "Ok to be fair, there was no concert or anything. We just got a backstage tour. This is different."
"Sure." I laughed and shook my head. "Then how was Don here?"
"She's got you there." He laughed and motioned for us to sit on the couch. "But I was only doing a sound check. That was the year we thought we were going to play here but ended up playing in New York instead." Don was a major tech guy for the Orchestra. He even could fix most of their instruments. "So Jesse how have you been? When was the last time you were in Scotland?"
I laughed, "When was the last time you were in Scotland?"
"Ok you got me there. But mom misses you. She keeps insisting you visit your father's side of the family, but never your mother's."
"Tell her that if you four weren't the only ones left I'd visit more." In reality there were more than just her, Don, and Don's sister on that side but Derek could see most of them here.
He just smiled, "I told her it was fine. We don't want vagrants like you in the family anyway."
"I'm the only non-vagrant in that family!"
Don laughed but didn't say anything further, "We should probably stop so Derek can remain to think we're civilized people."
"I didn't know we had him fooled."
Derek just laughed, "Don't worry; I'm starting to think otherwise."
We could hear the orchestra in the background but continued to talk the entire night. The members of my family that were on stage during the show came in this room at the end; it seemed my family got a whole room to itself and our guests.
