Hmm, fiancé? Well well, all will be revealed in this final installment...
My fiancé.
Yeah, I know, but it's fair enough that I should tie it up with her. Aside from all the fans, friends and family, she was the one who I could count on to pull me up to where I am now. She supported me, in more ways than one.
For one thing, it was her parents that helped me pay for the show where I got noticed, but that doesn't really matter now.
What matters, is that all those times where I felt like raging on music and walking away, she was there. Before I thought of the fans, friends, or even my family, she would be the first one on my mind.
God, I can sit back in this chair backstage and laugh about it now, all those years ago when I'd just be chasing anything in a skirt. Actually, that's how this relationship started in the first place. Yeah, she was all soft, drunk and weak after getting dumped by some loser, and I was looking for something to cap off the night. So I flirted, she bought it, and I went home with her. Another one night stand on the board. Except that nothing actually happened. I thought she really was insane when she said she didn't want to do it, but I let it go anyway. After all, she still let me sleep with her.
I tried to get out of there early, but she busted me. She was a little pissed, but she said that she expected as much, and asked me to stay for breakfast anyway. That was probably when I started asking myself what the hell I had gotten into. But that wasn't even the weird part. The weird part happened when she started being all nice to me, apologising for whatever and telling me what she'd been up to in the last few years, like we were a couple of old friends who hadn't seen each other in a while. When that happened, I just felt like running, because when we were just sitting there, in her apartment, in the morning, talking, laughing, and eating, I could feel myself pulling towards her.
It's like one of those cheesy-ass romance-comedy movies that are always flooding the box office every month. You know, where a guy meets the unlikely girl who pulls him onto the right track? It was a bit like that, except it took me heaps longer to figure out what was going on. That time it took for me to figure out what I wanted was a real grind, for her as much as me, and I know that because, well, she told me.
So we had a break, just to get it together. It wasn't a long break, maybe a few days, but that was all the time I needed to realise what I wanted was to be with her.
It's really different, a relationship and a three-week-fling. Maybe, I could've seen it as an extended fling and bounced, but time's changed things. It made me and her different people than we were all those years ago. So I called her, and it just built up from there.
Of course things get hard, but we haven't had the worst hit us yet, so why shouldn't we enjoy things now? I proposed a few weeks ago, and I could tell that she wasn't expecting it at all, with my reputation, but that really didn't matter when she said yes.
We were probably the last two people anyone would've expected to get together, and here we are tonight. I'm sitting here backstage, spacing out to the max, about to kick off the biggest show of my life, and she was probably coming to get me now so I could go out. So I'll just keep waiting, until-
"Drake?" Well, it's not a crew member. I look up at her smiling face, and I smile in return as I get up from my chair. We walk towards each other, and meet with a quick kiss.
"Hey, Mindy."
She leans close to my ear, and whispers, "Ready to head out?"
I put my arm around her shoulders in reply as we walk out the door. "Thought you'd never ask."
It's about now that I can enjoy all this. All the excitement of heading to the stage, shaking off the nerves, it all comes together in these final few moments. At stage left, I can see the crowd, all screaming and shouting and moving to the beat being played by the band.
It's here that I quickly kiss Mindy again. "I'll see you in a bit!" I have to shout, because it's that loud. She just grins proudly in response as I run out onto the stage.
For the fans, for my family, for my fiancé, I'm singing it for them all.
"That's just my way, of saying that I love you!"
I honestly have no idea if you expected all that. If you follow my updates on my profile (yeah right) then you would know that the D/M ship is my favourite one for this series.
So that's that for this short project. I hope those of you that have read have enjoyed, and I should make it clear that I'll be staying away from D&J writing for the near future. I'm going to be embarking on a project for RWBY and a big follow-up to my Warehouse 13 story. If that's not what you're into, then I guess I'll encounter you again when I start work on the Hangin' Around sequel in time!
"That's just my way, of saying that I love you!"