♫ Lemon ♫
When Drew left, Kip excused himself as he wants to nap. Kellen followed and a while after, I felt sleepy too.
“I’ll go upstairs and nap,” I told the trio who are still busy playing Switch. They just nodded without even looking at me.
“Go ahead Lem, we’ll just wait for Drew,” Roj said when I’m halfway thru the stairs.
When I got inside the room, the twins are occupying the bunk bed. Left without a choice, I plopped on the double bed and started yawning with my eyes closed.
After who knows how long, I woke up to the sound of Kevz’s voice. I heard him saying someone’s taking advantage of someone. When I opened my eyes, I was greeted by Drew’s nervous face.
‘Don’t tell me he’s the one who’s taking advantage and I was the one who got taken advantage of?’
I asked him what he did, but he denied Kevz’s accusation. But the Bee Gees are persistent and they didn’t stop teasing him until I went down.
I slumped on the couch, leaned my head on the backrest, and closed my eyes. I heard someone coming down but I didn’t bother checking who it was.
Still keeping my eyes closed, the couch dipped, signaling someone sat next to me. “Leslie,” he called. It was Drew.
“Hmm…”
“Sorry…” he whispered.
“What did you do this time?”
“I… tsk… I just run my hand to your hair,” he explained.
I was about to say something when someone butted in, “Just her hair?” it was none other than Kevz. “I saw you caressing her cheek too!”
“Exactly!” Homme seconded. “You were about to kiss her too, but we caught you!”
I can hear Drew letting out a harsh sigh, when I peeked, he was even pulling his hair out of frustration. “Stop making up stories! I didn’t do the things you said!” he yelled, looking like he was about to cry.
“Calm down, I don’t believe them,” I chirped to end the conversation. I opened my eyes in time to see him sticking his tongue out to the trio who can’t stop themselves from roaring in laughter.
“If Lemon wasn’t here, he would have punched us,” Roj stated.
“Or threw something at us,” Kevz added.
“Or we’re dead!” Homme finalized.
“That means he’s not violent if Lemon’s here,” then Kevz burst into another fit of laughter.
“We should take advantage of that!” Homme suggested and they continued laughing.
I sat up straight and was about to say something when my eyes landed on the wall clock. It’s already five in the afternoon.
“Enough of your craziness, we have to get ready or we’ll be late,” they all turned to check the time and panicked in unison.
I saw Homme running upstairs so I called after him right away. “Hey, where do you think you're going?!” I asked with a hand on my waist and my brows shot up.
“I-I’ll just wake up Kip and Kellen,” he replied, scratching on his nape.
“Oh, ok. Go! I thought you were going to take a bath.”
Everyone was ready when the clock strikes six. Ten minutes after, Myco arrived followed by Kale. We then boarded Kip’s van and I was even surprised to see Drew sitting next to me.
“Do you think Nico will be there?” I heard Roj ask.
“I hope she’s there so you won’t miss your strums,” Kevz jest, followed by laughter.
I really think it’s his hobby to annoy everyone in the band. Then again, it was wrong to think that only my band members will get annoyed tonight. Even I felt annoyed when I saw who was waiting right outside the bar.
As soon as we stepped out of the van, Minnie jumped on Drew and this asshole looked like he’s liking it. But why do I care though?
Instead of getting annoyed, even more, I just pulled Kale and Kellen away from the group. When we got in, we headed to our reserved seats.
We still have an hour before our set so we decided to drink first. The stage is already set up so we don’t have anything to worry about.
I waved at the waiter and asked for a bottle of beer, Kale and Kellen ordered the same. “I’ll just go to the restroom,” then I turned on my heel when they nodded.
On my way back, I can already see Kale and Kellen looking at me, smiling. “O-M-G!” Kellen exclaimed in her most exaggerated tone. “I just realized how sexy your outfit is!” and I turned around to give her a full view.
I'm wearing a denim cutoff short overall and black midriff. I wore my favorite slip-on too and my hair was tied in a half ponytail.
“I just noticed it too!” Homme echoed. Heck, she even blushed at his agreement.
“True! See those she passed by? They’re about to turn into giraffes!” Kale commented and we all turned to look. The boys from the table not far from us either bowed their heads or looked somewhere else to not be obvious.
“And she actually liked it!” Minnie chirped sarcastically while talking to her nails.
“Hmph! That smells terrible!” Kale spat as he pinch his nose, looking disgusted. And even if he doesn’t say it, we know what he’s referring to so Kellen and I burst into laughter.
When we all fell silent, Kevz suddenly roared into laughter. We all looked at him with our foreheads creased, confused as to what happened.
“Ahhh! Minnie’s comment smells terrible! I didn’t get it right away!” then he continued laughing and this time, it was way louder. “I thought you were referring to my feet!” he added, clapping Kale’s back.
I facepalmed as I felt embarrassed because of his reaction. I even saw Minnie roll her eyes at Kevz and her smirk at Kale.
Kevz really is out of this world. Whenever his abnormality strikes, there’s no telling who will be picked.
We had two rounds of beer before we were called for our set. We started with two songs before taking a break and when we came back, we started accepting requests from the crowd.
After five songs, we took a break again and when we came back for what was supposed to be our last set, more people sent their requests. Since we’re feeling generous, we accepted them but we ended up playing eight more songs.
Everyone was exhausted when we came back to our seats. “Gosh! Ram makes the most out of your set!” Kellen exclaimed, referring to Homme’s brother.
“I really thought we’ll only be playing three songs,” Homme chimed in as he wipes his sweat.
“I wish I can do that for you,” Kellen whispered. But since she was sitting next to me, I was able to hear it. She was even surprised by my reaction, seeing me with my eyes wide and mouth slightly open.
“This hopeless romantic!” I commented before laughing and she pouted at me.
“What was that?” Homme asked but I was quick to shake my head when I saw Kellen’s panicked reaction.
Minutes passed and everyone has already recovered. A waiter approached us with a glass of tequila sunrise and placed it on our table.
“Miss, this is for you, from that man,” he told me smiling as he gestured toward the table next to us where a guy waved at me.
In all fairness, he looks good but he looks familiar too. He looks like he’s one of those wandering playboys around campus.
“Tell him I said thanks,” then the waiter left.
I was about to reach for the glass but Kevz beat me to it. He downed its content and grinned, “Thanks man!” then he waved back at the guy.
“You jerk! Why did you do that?!” Kellen scolded him, but Homme, Kip, and Roj are already dying in laughter.
Instead of responding to Kellen, Kevz just clicked his tongue, “This is all my friend’s fault! If he wasn’t too slow, he should be next to you now and no one can hit you up!” he spat.
“Why can’t you just tell us who’s this friend of yours?” Kale asked with his forehead creased.
“Who else? It’s Drew!” then he laughed out loud.