Chapter 5
He mumbled angrily to himself as he headed to the locker room, sure he'd won his match, but he had been stupid to think that he wouldn't be jumped. He walked into the locker room and slammed the door. Every occupant stopped what they were doing to look up in his direction. "What!?" He snapped, they all avoided his icy cold stare, which was becoming more common with him. Everyone knew he had been left at the altar by the woman he loved, but no one dared to mention it.
He sulked moodily across the room, throwing himself down on the bench next to his bag. He took out his cell phone and turned it on, he hoped it would beep, tell him he had a message, and tell him she was safe. Did he really care? No, he told himself, she had left him without a reason, an explanation, even a phone call; it was her loss, right? That's what his friends had told him, the ones he still had left. He had driven all the others away. They were used to him being hyper and happy, constantly, only his true friends knew of his darker moods. Slowly the locker room emptied out until he was the only one left. He lay down on the sofa and turned on his iPod. He tried to clear his mind, but couldn't get the image of the small blonde with the temper out of his head. She looked as if she would have pounced on him if she hadn't been so tired. But there was something so familiar about her face. They way she walked. Her voice.
Desperately he tried to place the blonde. With no luck he opened his eyes to find his older brother staring at him. He looked as if he was going to yell at him, or lecture him. But when he saw the intense confusion flicker through his younger brother's eyes, he decided that a lecture wouldn't be the best thing for him. "Bar?" He asked.
Without answering he got off the sofa, picked up his bag and followed his brother out to the car.
--Meanwhile--
"God, what a bastard." Bailey was still muttering under her breath about the man that had run into her hours before hand. They had the night off. Well, technically they had the night off, but some of the divas had asked them to join them on a night out. Bailey had declined knowing that she had promised the boys she would sing with them for a friend's wedding they had been booked for. Not you're normal wedding party happened at the city's best kept secret, but these people weren't just anyone. Bailey hugged Bree and Nikki on her way out to her car. She climbed in, and for a moment she just sat in silence. Today had been a long day; she tried desperately to clear her head. Her cell phone beeped. "Hello?" She answered warily.
"Hi, are you coming down or what?" Jake's voice filled her car, as she switched her cell to loudspeaker and laid it down on the seat beside her. She could hear Mark in the background hitting his drumsticks off anything he could lay his hands on.
"I'm on my way." Bailey replied, now racing through traffic to reach the club.
"Right, well hurry up." Jake paused before he hung up, leaving Bailey to her own silent thoughts. She swung her Camaro Z28 into the closest parking space, grabbed her bag from the passenger seat and ran off into the bar.
It was jam packed as usual so Bailey had to squeeze through the crowd with her head down. She got close enough to her door and ran inside, dumping her bag on the ground by her feet. "Hi." Jake and the others looked up at her.
"Get changed. Get out." Jake ordered before brushing past her and out the door. She looked up at the others.
"Something I said?"
"No, he's just being a dick. He found out that you have a new job, but it wasn't you that told him, then he tried calling you but you wouldn't answer. He just got worried." Mark explained. "You've got ten minutes." Bailey smiled.
"That's six more than I need."
Bailey kept her word, less than four minutes later she was ready. She wore a pair of black flared cut trousers with white pinstripes, a white tank top with a black skull tie and a black baker boy hat over her blonde hair that she had pulled back into low bunches. She followed the boys out onto the stage and as the lights dimmed she took a deep breath. At that moment the man that had run into her earlier walked in with his older brother, they headed straight for the bar.
She said "I've gotta be honest,
you're wasting your time if you're fishing round here."
And I said "you must be mistaken,
cause I'm not fooling...this feeling is real"
she said...she said "you gotta be crazy,
What do you take me for? Some kind of easy mark?
"No, you've got wits, you've got looks,
you've got passion, but I swear that you've got me all wrong."
As they sat down at on the barstools, her voice caught his attention. "I know her." He turned.
All wrong.
All wrong.
but you got me...
I'll be true, I'll be useful...
I'll be cavalier...I'll be yours my dear.
And I'll belong to you...
if you'll just let me through.
This is easy as lovers go,
so don't complicate it by hesitating.
And this is wonderful as loving goes,
this is tailor-made, what's the sense in waiting?
And I said "I've gotta be honest
I've been waiting for you all my life."
For so long i thought i was asylum bound,
but just seeing you makes me think twice.
And being with you here makes me sane,
I fear I'll go crazy if you leave my side.
You've got wits...you've got looks,
you've got passion but are you brave enough to leave with me tonight?
Tonight.
Tonight.
but you've got me...
I'll be true, I'll be useful...
I'll be cavalier...I'll be yours my dear.
And I'll belong to you...
if you'll just let me through.
This is easy as lovers go,
so don't complicate it by hesitating.
And this is wonderful as loving goes,
this is tailor-made, what's the sense in waiting?
this is easy as lovers go,
so don't complicate it by hesitating.
And this is wonderful as loving goes,
this is tailor-made, what's the sense in waiting?
He watched her, every movement, flick of the hair and smile. When she finished, she walked off stage to get a stiff drink from the bar. He decided to make an appearance, and possibly an apology. He lay a soft hand on her shoulder. She turned quickly.
"You!" She scowled.
A/N: Any guesses on our mystery man here? Review please
