Ugh, remind me why we decided to go out on a day like this.” I said laying back in my chair on the patio of the gateway food court. It was a bleak day, the grey clouds casting a huge shadow and the heat, there but not. No sun motionless and still. Chantel and Mitch laughed at me, casting a shadow over my head.
“It is you who asked us to trek out here for your birthday today and now your complaining of it being to hot?” Mitch bonked me on the head and tried to laugh but the heavy dullness of day prevented that. Chantel pointed at a shop and asked us if we should go in. Mitch and I nodded our heads and followed her in, all of us getting the queer feeling of someone watching, but that did not deter them from being the happy couple that they were. Casting a bigger shadow over my head, we carried on anyway, talking and laughing, turning a blind eye to the feeling. “Maddi, that guy is watching you.” Mitch whispered in my ear making it look like a common embrace between siblings. I looked at where he pointed at a shirt giving me a direction to look at, I glanced over and my breath hitched and the man standing there watching all of us with his jaw open was breathtaking. He was beautiful in every kind of way. From his long hair to his worn out sneakers, the way he held himself was in a confident manor, but there was an air of evil around him.
This stranger walked up to all of us and I gasped. We all looked up at him for he stood a full head taller then me and Chantel, a half head for Mitch. Chantel and Mitch glared up at him and held onto each other hands in a desperate way to keep from ripping his eyes out (for some reason that evil air didn’t go well with the two of them). “Hello, my name is Adam, and I can’t help but notice your amazing hair…” He gently pulled a strand of hair from behind my ear and ran his hand down it. Mitch looked at him and became the big brother I knew, pulling me away before Adam could start his next sentence. Mitch hugged me close to his chest.
“I swear to god if you touch my little sister again I will break all your creeper fingers.” Mitch threatened him. Not letting up on the death grip on my shoulder. I peeked put from behind his arms that were holding me in place, getting a better look at Adam. He was beautiful, in a manly way. Like he has been around for a while or seen a lot of changing events. Or something like that, I am not sure… On the other hand, it could be my imagination running away from me about this stranger.
“She is very beautiful, like a rare flower.” Adam said sitting there looking into my eyes and making me turn crimson. Mitch didn’t enjoy that comment much either getting more defensive and belligerent towards this stranger. Adam bent down somewhat and looked me in the eyes, the only acceptable part of my body, my face getting hotter then it already was from this man’s inquisitive behavior. He smiled and gave me a slip of paper, placing it in my hand due to the lacking use of my arms thanks to Mitch’s death grip on me. I closed my hand around it and watched him sauntering his way out of the store.
“I don’t know how, or why but I hate that man with a burning passion.” After saying that Mitch let go of me, I gasped for air, his death grip only letting the minimum amount of air in my chest, making breathing harder and harder. I slid the slip of paper into my pocket hoping to inspect it later.
“Mitch? Can we go home now? I’m not feeling so great.” I pled looking up at him and faintly trying to smile. He hugged me close and I sighed in content pulling Chantel in the mess of love. We all laughed and left the store and the horrid mall.
“Well that was a total mess today huh?” Chantel asked once in the car holding Mitches hand at the stop sign, I enjoyed my best friend dating my brother and everything and having her be happy and all, but seeing them everyday in such a haze of love between them made me realize how alone I am in moments like this. I pulled at my new pair of shorts I bought at the mall, they were ‘booty shorts’ and on my figure they didn’t flatter me at all. I was big, but I looked kind of skinny, when fully dressed up in my usual outfit. My thighs were huge, I herd some guys like that but where I am I seem more like something to poke then something to love, my tummy was a huge glob of fat it wasn’t mega fat but it was big. My feet were fat also, making shoe shopping a dead past time to me. I enjoyed my chest area, it was big, but it was filled out in a good way. I had a slim neck and broad shoulders, but all of this did not deter me from wearing what I want. I looked good, average. I liked to stand out but with my actions, I don’t need to be ‘a perfect scene girl’ to be happy here.
“Where are we?” I asked looking out of the window, we were in the middle of SLC but I didn’t know why we were here. I took out the ticket in my pocket while waiting for Mitch or Chantel to answer. I noticed that the slip of paper was a concert ticket, for some band called ASkylitDrive I’ve herd of them but never thought that Adam would be part of it. They are a big screamo band, they constantly have girls way prettier then me. I was excited about the show, I was going to go tonight it didn’t matter how but I was going to. Chantel looked back at me and smiled a big goofy grin.
“Are you ready for your real birthday present ?” she asked, I looked at her puzzled and nodded my head. We pulled up to the Murray theater front and parked the car there. I noticed the extremely long line wrapping around the side of the building. “We are never going to get good a spot!” Chantel whined and walked to the back of the line. I looked up to see who was playing and it was Adam’s band, ASkylitDrive. My heart skipped a beat as I half-heartedly followed Mitch and Chantel. I bumped into a hard surface, it wasn’t a wall thought it was breathing. I freaked out and apologized,
“What do you have in your hand?” the breathing wall asked me, I looked down and showed him the ticket. His eyes went wide “What are you doing standing in line?!?” he asked harshly, this grabbing Mitch’s attention and running over here to see what this guy wants. He looked over at Mitch, “Is she your daughter?” he questioned pointing at me.
“It’s my little sister. What do you want with her?” He put his hand on my shoulder making me fell a little better but not much standing next to this monstrous human.
“She has a ticket to go straight inside and back stage once she arrives. “ the man said. Leading me to the front of the line and Mitch following not letting out of his sight. The human wall pushed me in the door Mitch giving up once the door locked behind us. We went up a spiraling staircase, until we reached a floor with all of the band sitting around laughing and just chilling. I noticed how I was the only girl in the room. The six member band smiling and welcoming me into there arms warmly. I spotted Adam sitting half way across the room and wandered over to him and studied him. His hair was medium length and side swept, his ears had tiny gauges in them, he had a lithe but muscular body. His tight boy pants clinging to his legs, and baggy low cut shirt showing off his slightly tanned chest. I was staring I couldn’t help it, why this man took any interest in a 15 year old girl like me I had no idea.
“Are you just going to stare at me all night then?” Adam gazed up at me smiling and laughing while he was setting down the book he was reading. All the band members looked amazed all five of them (there are six if you include Adam)
“No one has ever been able to do that!!!” Joey the Drummer jumped on me and hugged me babbling on about me being their savoir or something like that.
“I am So Happy!!!” Nick, Joey’s twin said hugging my leg. Kyle one of the guitarists patted my head and gave me a thanks by placing a bow in my hair that he pulled out of his pocket. David jumped on top of us and started to cry tears of joy, also babbling about me being the savoir of the band or of his loneliness one of the two for a back up vocalist and a keyboard player he was weird. It was Mikel another guitarist who pulled everyone off of me and explained the situation
“You see Maddi, Adam has this pesky habit of locking people out of his room and/or being completely anti-social a couple hours before a show. So him talking to you is a great deal for us.” Mikel stated adjusting the bow in my hair and then shooing everyone else away from Adam and I.
“The band grows on you after a while, please excuse them.” Adam smiled and laughed,
“Oh, no worries I find them to be a charming bunch of guys.” I smiled up at him and blushed, noticing the intense gave that he held on me “Adam?” I asked gently tugging on his arm.
“huh?” he looked puzzled, I giggled and let go of his arm, blushing for being so bold to a almost complete stranger. “I don’t want to stay in this room with these eyes staring at you. I looked around the room and everyone was staring at me, all except Mikel who was throwing things at the rest of them to stop staring. I nodded my head to Adam’s suggestion and followed him up a different spiral stair case, which lead into an other room. Adam sat down on a couch near a wall and waited for me to sit down also. I sat, in the middle of the cushion, not to far or to close to him.
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