Got my attention, when she walked in
Turning heads with a tiny skirt and sassy grin
She's a blond one, they say they're more fun
I'll let you know when the sexy dirty deed is done
Hinder~Up All Night
Chapter Nine
Bright
Cassa was right, they would go on. They played with only a few amps that worked off the Geni and the crowed had lit the sky with lighters and cell phone. Where I had been scared that things could get worse with Noah due to the show, they'd only improved. He was so happy, happiest I had ever seen him. They all were. You could tell they loved to play, it wasn't about the money or the fame, they were truly in it for the music. They were dancing and rocking and everyone was enjoying the show.
At one point Chad and Noah both invited Carrie to come out and sing with Noah. Chad told the story she had told me earlier and the crowed went nuts. She didn't tell me she sang that night. I didn't even know she could sing, but she does and she sings beautifully and looks just like Noah.
By the time the electricity was fixed the crowed was a heartbeat all its own. The guys took a fifteen minute intermission so they could test the equipment, Noah came straight to me and lifted me in a hug, spinning us until I was dizzy.
"Of all the nights to wear that shirt girl." He spoke low so only I would hear, then kissed my cheek before setting me down and disappearing in the fans. My cheek burned from the contact and my stomach was still spinning. I didn't know what to think or how to act, replaying his words and what they meant.
I grabbed my notebook and wrote what he said and how I felt.'Of all the nights to wear that shirt girl.' He calls me girl a lot and though it really has no sweetness to it, how he says it, and to me only…? It makes my skin crawl in the most delicious way.
I didn't see him again other than when they took the last time, until after the show. This time I was escorted by security with Cassa and Carrie because the guys were with the roadies making sure their equipment was all accounted for and we were still on a natural high.
By the time I left the venue with the girls and made my way to Noah's bus I was exhausted and kind of buzzed from the beers we drank at Cassa's for a few hours. I had hoped that tonight we could talk, but as I walked in to see a few of the roadies and fangirls galore, and no Noah.
"Where's Noah?" I ask Sev and sit to take my sandals off, thinking better of it though because one of these crazy bitches might steal myFerragamos.
"He's on his way back now with the guys. They stayed and drank with the other bands. They're high on life tonight." He says and turns his attention back to his new friend. But, I'm not done asking questions.
"Sev? How long have you known them?" He kisses the random chicks chin and tells her to give him a minute.
"About seven years." He smiles at me sweetly. "What's going on sweetie?"
I want to budge in and ask everything he knows, but I know it isn't fair. I shake my head no and smile. "Nothing at all. Have a good night."
"She wasn't his forever Bright, he just thinks she was because where they ended it was perfect."
I turn at his words and play dumb. "What do you mean?"
He rolls his eyes and walks to where I am standing by the counter. "Candey was crazy and in the best way, and they did love one another. Chances are yea, they'd have been together forever. All I mean is that Noah thinks that's it for him, she was his chance and now she's gone so he is stuck in this perpetual hell he keeps barricading himself inside of."
I don't know why he is telling me this but I nod. "I can only imagine."
His fangirl comes up pouting that he's ignoring her and I turn to go. "He's my friend Bright so I know him pretty fuckin well, and I have only ever watched him act like he does with you for one other woman?" He looks at me seriously. "Remember that."
Poor Sev, he tried he did but there is no way in hell I will try to keep that in mind.
I go back to my room, feeling defeated by the hope of telling him how sorry I was and that maybe we could talk. I could hear Sev clearing the girls from the bus, and I didn't know why and I didn't care. I grabbed my shower caddy and went to take a shower.
An hour later I was showered, exhausted and ready for bed I had my clothes in one arm and my towel in the other when I open the door to see Noah. The bathroom door is on the right wall adjacent to my room and his door sits at the end of the hall, where I pass his door to get to and from.
His door was open and he was sitting on the end of his bed, pleasure etching every feature, and his hand in the hair of a brown and green haired girl with as many tats as him.
My heart fell and shattered at his feet.
The gasp I made was a quiet one, but he heard it and his eyes pinned me where I stood in just a towel. I couldn’t look away, I just stared as he gave himself to another woman so freely and denied me with such a fight.