"Oliver Queen, frontman of Green Arrow, was spotted at Starbucks today!"
"Oliver Queen is back with keytaurist and fellow Green Arrow member Laurel Lance!"
"Oliver Queen cheating on girlfriend with sister?"
Felicity just laughed at all the rumors floating around the internet about her friend Oliver. They had met back in high school, well sort of. It started out as an English assignment, for the advanced 9th grade English class to be paired up with a freshman at college. They were to email each other for the semester, trying to get to know the other and the freshman in college was to help the freshman learn the path through high school. Letters between the two started out dull and impersonal, but then Felicity decided to just really open up to him, not really knowing why except she had a feeling that she could trust him. By the end of the semester they were keeping in constant contact, from texts with each other, to full blown chapters of emails. Oliver told Felicity how he didn't want to work in his dad's business, nor how he wanted to be a failure to his family. He told her about his love of music, about how he taught himself and his sister how to play the guitar. How his sister learned to play the piano and was starting to teach him. It was Felicity who gave him the idea to create a band and try the rockstar lifestyle. The name came from her love of the color green and his love of archery. That all happened five years ago and now his band had two best selling albums and was happier than ever. Well that she knew of.
Her phone beeped letting her know she had a text.
"I hate paps :P" It read. And underneath a link to the same articles she was reading just then. She giggled at the text.
"I know. You tell me that every time you are on the cover of a magazine that wasn't a photoshoot." She replied back. She waited for the call that she was about to get from him due to her writing out her entire sentence. He hated when she did that, but she always told him it was a habit of hers. She was just finishing up reading another article on him when her phone rang with his ringtone.
"Hi buttercup!" She exclaimed as she trapped the phone between her ear and her shoulder. She needed to get back to working on the computer codes project that she was given.
"Felicity, why do you do this to me?" he groaned out. Felicity could hear some noise in the background, making her wonder where he was.
"Real quick are you at home or the studio?"
"Studio, hold on, I'll put you on speaker so you can say hi and everyone else can say hi." She heard some shuffling through the phone before a beep sound.
"Say hi everyone, it's Felicity." Oliver said in a louder voice than usual. There was a cacophony of various replies from the rest of the band that Felicity has gotten to know also.
"Hi everyone! Play hard to party hard!" She heard Roy Harper the drummer and Sara Lance rhythm guitarist yell in agreement, while everyone else just laughed. There was a beep again before the shuffling sound came back and it was just Oliver.
"Now what was I saying, oh yeah! Why do you feel it necessary to write out all your words instead of just keeping to text speak. It makes life so much easier."
"Because Oliver if I kept it text speech then I would go almost code like and then you would hate me."
"I wouldn't hate you! I couldn't if I tried. You're my girl Felicity." Felicity smiled and blushed at that. Through the years of them talking to each other and getting to know one another, Felicity started developing feelings for Oliver. She heard a couple "aw's" from the background and someone making exaggerated kissing noises before the clicking of a door closing.
"Sorry about that. They're idiots." He told her.
"It's ok. And they're not idiots, they're your family and friends. I'm pretty sure it's in a rulebook somewhere that they are allowed to raz you like that."
"That book needs to burn." He joked. He didn't mean it because life on the road had given a deep appreciation for novels, well tour-life and good suggestions from Felicity, who did a semester of school as a librarian. Felicity just giggled at him before silence came on over the line. What neither one knew was that they were both leaning back in their seats with their eyes closed listening to the sounds of the other breathing.
"Hey Felicity?" He whispered. He didn't know how long they had been silent and there had been times when they both fell asleep on each other while still on the phone together.
"Yes Oliver" She whispered right back.
"We go on a mini tour in two weeks and we are going through Starling. I want you to be at the concert. I want to finally meet you." Felicity felt like her heart stopped for a second before it returned but at a faster pace. The grin that was on her face was bigger the the chesire cat's.
"You get me a ticket and I will be there."
"I'll do one better and there will be a backstage pass. But I have to go Felicity, I'll text you later ok. I love you." Felicity lost her breath at him saying that and never got the chance to respond before she was met with the silence that came from a phone being hung up. Felicity looked at her phone in disbelief before a smile came to her lips, she couldn't wait for the concert.
Oliver hung up his phone with a smile on his face also. He had been holding that line for over a year now and never knew when to tell her. Now he couldn't wait to get on tour and tell it to her in person and have her in his arms.
"So Ollie, when's the wedding?" Thea asked through the speaker. He forgot that he locked himself in the sound-booth and that they probably hear the entire conversation. All he could do was groan as he heard everyone else laughing at him. He really couldn't wait for tour and for Felicity to be there to save him from everyone.