30 Minute Love Affair

Paloma Faith

Noeloma

Hurt/Comfort / Romance

She might have lied. Her 'love affair' might not have been with a bouncer. And a certain someone who'd be completely willing to saw rainbows with her might have stolen her heart!

"I'm slightly in love with Paloma . . . I'm thinking that, for the first gift on a date . . . it'd have to be a rainbow that I'd have to give you, or a section of a rainbow."

"Awww!" Paloma's heart fluttered.

"Paloma just went 'aww' like it could actually happen. Like that was actually a thing."

Paloma didn't glare, because she knew the cameras would pick it up, but she was angry he ruined their moment. Paloma, in truth, slightly fancied Noel. "That's the problem! People don't believe in these things any more, and they should!"

"Wh . . . they don't believe in what?"

"We've all got rainbow saws. Where is yours? They're like hacksaws, but they're longer."

"The world could be so wonderful if you just joined us . . ."

"Do you want to know the only problem here? He's doing this for comic effect. You're ACTUALLY BEING SERIOUS."

She wasn't being serious! Granted, she was wearing an outfit covered in pom-poms, the Children's Bull-Fighter. But really, did he think she was being serious?

Then Noel, of all the songs he could of hummed, he hummed Use Somebody, by Kings of Leon, one of her favourite songs, while wearing a David Bowie shirt, one of her favourite people, in his Aladdin Sane period, one of her favourite periods!

She didn't think it bothered with them Noel and her conversed from across the room, everyone was either laughing at them or thinking they were adorable.

"Tune in next week when your host will be Rod Gilbert. Goodnight!"

"Wh- What? It's over?"

"It's only a thirty minute show, Paloma," Phil shouted over the applause.

"Well that's not fair!" She pouted for a while, but went back to her dressing room. She took off her hat and started brushing her hair. "Thirty minute hmm-ba-bum. De-dah-dah de-dah-dah eye. There you were standing there, hmm-hm-hm-hmm-hmm hah." She curled some hair around her finger. "Runaway lover, I soon discovered hmm was hmm-hmm-hmm left it, I'll never forget it. Our thirty minute love affair." She grinned. "Shit, I should write that down." She scrambled for a sheet of paper.

"Paloma?" Her heart stopped as Noel knocked on her door. "Can I come in?"

"Sure!"

"What were you singing? I hadn't heard that before."

"Well, surely you haven't heard every song." She redid her lipstick. "It may be a song you just haven't heard."

"It seems like it would be one of your songs, but I haven't heard it."

"Well, I just got the idea. Why do you ask?"

"It's lovely."

"Aww! Thanks." She kissed both of his cheeks. "Would you like to go out to lunch, sometime? Bring your rainbow saw?"

"I'd love to," he smiled. "I'll pick you up tomorrow." He winked, and she blushed. "I would kind of need your address to do that, you know."

"Oh yeah!" She scrambled to get a piece of paper.