From The Coffee Shop To...

I walked into the bar and greeted with the band before, so it was a bunch of new faces. They all seemed very nice too. The lead singer was a bit drunk already and he had come off to be kind of clingy with me. He was cute I guess but he was just not my type, especially if this was my first impression of him. His name was Alex.
“Alright so, do you guys need anything else before you play?” I loudly asked the band members. They all shook their heads except Alex. “Yeah, actually sweetheart can you bring me a beer? I’ll even tip ya.” He winked at me.
“Uhh…sure yeah I’ll just get you beer.” I stuttered and walked away. I was starting to feel extremely uncomfortable. Whatever, I just have to shoot for them tonight and I will tell Nick to never book them again. I handed him the beer while he smirked at me. I rolled my eyes while I checked my watch; they have 5 minutes til 8. I looked around the bar to see if I recognized anyone other than my co workers. Honestly, the only person I was looking for was Gerard. I finally saw the top of a guy’s head in the crowd of people that had black shaggy medium length hair. Before I could see if it was him, the band started to introduce themselves.
“Hello everyone! We are Eternal Tide and we’re going to melt your fucking faces off!” the drunken man slurred as he started dancing on stage as the music started. Wow, he is just awful I thought to myself. I looked back to see if the black haired man was still standing there but he was nowhere to be found. Ugh.I set myself up and got into my image making mode. I was in the zone and got the best shots that I could. Alex kept making faces at me, winking at me and what not but I just ignored it. I was so excited for tonight but this Alex guy was totally ruining my mood. Now I couldn’t wait to go home. I haven’t had a chance to see if that guy was really Gerard that I had seen at the beginning of the set. Their final song had just ended and I was so relieved. Didn’t have to deal with that weirdo anymore. Now if I can just go home and crawl into my bed and fall asleep. Alex came up to me and wrapped his arm around my shoulders.
“Heyyy sweetie, how about I buy you a drink? You seemed so stressed and we can j-just get to know e-each other.” he wiggled his eyebrows. UGH EW. In the midst of this, I saw Gerard from the corner of my eye. I shrugged him off as fast as I could.
“Can you please stop? I really don’t appreciate you putting your hands on me especially without my permission.” I snapped, adjusting my vest.
“Oh really? What, do you have a boyfriend of something? No o-one turns me down honeyyy.” His drunkenness was really starting to show again.
“Actually yes I do and I don’t think he’d appreciate it either so back the fuck off.”
“Well then, why is he letting you stand here all by your pretty self in a place like this?” He smirked. Shit I think he knows I’m lying. I had to quickly think of how to get out of this one. I was feeling ballsy tonight.
“He’s not, he’s waiting for me at the bar.” I started walking away from Alex as he stood their scoffing. On my walk there I cursed to myself the whole way. Gerard was facing the opposite way as I walked up to him and tapped him on the shoulder. He turned and face me, before he could say anything I placed my finger on my lips to silently tell him to hush. I then did something I didn’t plan on doing with the man I had just met this morning. I embraced him in a huge meaningful hug to show that lush that he needed to back off and just go away. The hug was long and comforting. I didn’t know what it was exactly. It was like he knew my feelings, my heart ache and my loneliness. I could feel his understanding in the hug and it was so relieving, especially because I did not what to expect from this. I then let him go and looked up at him.
“I’m sorry if that was terribly awkward. The lead singer of that band was trying to hit on me and I had to improvise, I hope your girlfriend or whatever won’t get too upset. You’re the only person I recognized here and I just wasn’t thinking.” I said sympathetically.
“No it’s totally okay Riley! I am glad you could get away from that creep, it was smart of you. And don’t worry; there is no girlfriend that will get angry at you.” He smiled at me trying to lighten up the conversation with a soft laugh. My eyes widen at this last statement. How can aguy like this not have a girlfriend?!
“Oh, well that’s good to know.I definitely wouldn’t want to deal with that tonight!” I laughed, trying not to show that I was so happy that he didn’t have a girlfriend. I remembered that I had wanted to go home earlier but now I just wanted to look into his eyes and talk all night.
“Well I came here with my friends/ band mates if you want to hang out with us until you’re ready to go home so you won’t be alone.” He looked down at me with those big hazel eyes.
“That would be lovely, thank you.” I said and shot him a weak smile.
“So this is Frank, Mikey and Ray.” he said as he pointed each of his interesting friends out. “Guys this is Riley- uh what’s your last name?”
“It’s Winters.” I spoke loudly over the roar of the people. He smiled.
“Yeah, Riley Winters, she is the girl I told you about earlier. She’s in charge of the shop at the moment while her supervisor if off for the weekend.” he proudly said.
“Hi Riley! It’s nice to meet you!” the short man with tattoos and piercings said. They were all so nice and they each gave me hugs and the greeted me.It was really nice to finally meet some people that actually gave a shit. We all got a round of drinks and chatted it up. The boys were so friendly with me, we each had something deeply in common which was of course music. With Frank it was our love for punk music, with Mikey it was British pop punk music and with Ray it was out love for hard rock and metal music. Since I have lived here, I have not met anyone that had the same interests as me. We just all got along great and it seemed that we had known each other for ages. Gerard seemed really surprised that we had all got along so well. We kept stealing glances from each other while I talked to the guys. We got a few more rounds of drinks and then decided that it was time to get out this place. It was getting late anyway.

Notes

eeeee I hope you like this one! the next one should be better I hope. more thing shall happen with riley and gerard! I can't believe I've made like 5 chapters for one day in their life. I wanna do gerard's pov of the bar scene but I think it'll be too much for this one day haha. hope you like it so far.
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