Nothing Else Matters

Rosie returned to her and Max's apartment one afternoon after a long and boring morning stuck in lectures. Listening to lecturers drone on about animal welfare and adequate care brought her close to falling asleep, she knew it all already and if anything most of it seemed like common sense. It annoyed her that she had to spend pointless hours like those in uni and not at home with Max. Most the time they worked different hours from each other so rarely got to spend mornings in bed together or even evenings in each other's company, so any time out of the ordinary when they could spend time as a normal couple was valued. At least Max had tonight off work.

However Rosie needed to find a way to twist his arm and abandon the plans for a quiet night in. A friend from uni had invited Rosie out to her brothers bands gig. Rosie had heard some of their songs before and really liked them, plus her and Max hadn't been out to a gig in ages, she had to get him to go!

"Hey" he smiled, looking up from reading a newspaper at the table

"Hi" Rosie sighed dropping her bag on the floor

"Rubbish morning eh?"

"Yeah" she collapsed into his lap letting her arm flop round his shoulder, as he wrapped his around her waist

"Aww" he sympathised

Rosie smiled kissing him gently.

"What?" he questioned the smirk on her face

She ran her finger along the rim of the new glasses he was forced to wear on his face.

"They make you look well sexy" she giggled

Max frowned "and I didn't look like that before?"

"Sexier" she corrected with a wink

"Better" he laughed.

"Soooooo," Rosie began, running her hand through his hair "You know how we were going to stay in tonight?"

"Yeahh"

"How about instead of that, we go out?"

"And why might that be Rosie?" Max raised his eyebrows

"Because it would be nice" she said happily, "and, there's a gig in town we could go to"

"Oh is that so?" He teased

"It's Chloe's brothers band, and they're really good and yeah she invited me, well us to go"

"Sounds good"

"So is that a yes?" Rosie grinned

"If you want it to be" Max smiled kissing her again.

(x)

That evening Rosie found herself pulling Max through the streets of central Cape Town to the venue where the gig was supposed to be happening. Max had got wind of the fact that the band was on the verge of breaking up, and when he listened to a song of theirs he'd already decided that this wouldn't be his thing. His reluctance meant Rosie was literally tugging him to get out of the apartment and even now as they approached the gig.

"Hey!" Chloe waved

"Hiya" Rosie grinned as Max too greeted her

Once inside Max disappeared off to the bar, Rosie rolled her eyes before giggling with Chloe.

"Yeah it's a shame we're both taken" she sighed

"Why?" Chloe frowned

"'Cause some of the guys in this band are fit!" Rosie heightened her voice and raised her eyebrows.

"Hahaha, most of them are single too!" Chloe agreed

"Damn, we missed out" Rosie laughed

"It would be weird though, I've known some of them since I was like 10"

"Aww childhood sweethearts!" Rosie teased

"No Rosie it would be weird, my brothers too over protective as it is with me and Jacques" Chloe shook her head.

Max soon returned with the drinks and the three of them chatted amongst themselves until Jacques, Chloe's boyfriend turned up just before the band came on.

The seven piece a cappella band opened with a cover of The Way I Are, Max was surprised at how good they actually were allowing Rosie to gloat for the rest of the evening. The gig continued with the band singing some of their own songs as well as covers, which the crowd seemed to enjoy. Max stood behind Rosie, his arms wrapped around her waist as she swayed or danced lightly to the music, he buried kisses into the top of her head from time to time earning him grins as she turned to him. He knew she was having a good time and that's all that really mattered.

Someone in the corner of the room caught his eye, an older woman with dark hair and eyes and a wide smile on her face. Max recognised her, he'd seen her face somewhere, in the newspapers or something. He continued to switch his attention from the band to the lady and back again.

"What's wrong?" Rosie said into his ear, noting his confused expression

"Nothing" he smiled

Rosie raised her eyebrows.

"Do you recognise that woman over there?" Max pointed in the lady's direction

"Not really no" she shrugged turning back to face the stage

"Hey isn't she that woman Clint Eastwood's married to?" Max realised

"Who?"

"Clint Eastwood, that big film director" he informed

"Oh! Anyway why would you of all people know who he's married to?" Rosie laughed

"I dunno," he said "I'm just sure it's her"

The pair of them focused their attention back onto the band as they began to sing their next song, a cover of a traditional South African folk song Shosholoza.

Before they knew it, the gig had neared its end. Max hated to admit it but he had actually enjoyed it.

"Before we end the show, we wanted to play you our newest song, this is Nothing Else Matters" one of the band members announced.

It was one of more upbeat songs of the evening and got everyone in the crowd dancing, even Max loosened his grip around Rosie so that they could dance with each other.

Everywhere I go, I can't help but let it show I'm love

Oh the world keeps spinning going round and round,

Girl I'm just sitting trying to figure out

What I'm to do, 'cause I'm just passing time

Girl I got, you on my mind

So I forget, what I gotta do,

'Cause nothing else matters when I'm with you,

All the money in the world just won't do,

'Cause your love is priceless girl,

And nothing else matters but you.

Max smiled and bent round from behind her so he could kiss Rosie on the lips, she grinned too before kissing him back and wrapping her arms round his neck and dancing into him as the song played on.

The chorus continued to play throughout the song so the pair of them managed to get a hold on the words by the time it was sung for the last time and could sing a long too in between stealing quick grins and kisses off each other, because Nothing Else Mattered.

So basically this is sorta based on real life, and it was a spur of the moment thing to write this 'cause i've been having a crazy fangirling evening. In the real life event that this is based on, it was Clint Eastwoods wife Dina who by chance ended up at this gig and cut a long story short she loved the band so much that they ended up singing the soundtrack to Clints movie Invictus which he was filming in SA at the time and now the band live in LA where Dina manages them and they're trying to make it to the big time. There name is Overtone and I have been a fully fledged superfan for over 2 years now 3

Thats the story :') hope you liked it and you should give Overtone a listen, nothing else matters is one of my fave songs of theirs and i've always deemed it a Rax song :P

Emily x

PS I thought Max would look really fit with glasses on...like the fit guys in the big specsavers billboard adverts :P

PPS to Katy this isnt the actual song fic i spoke about...that's still to come :p