Love is a Broken Window | Cricky [C]

19 | Touchy

| Ricky's POV |

Ahhh, the familiar rush of the stage. It felt good. No matter what, this is the one place I can be happy. I lay my heart here on this stage. We were halfway through our set, in the middle of a song, when I felt someone's presence behind me.

Ghost leaned in, breathing down my neck. He pressed his face against mine, and our lips were close to kissing. The fans, of course, we're going insane. I've never heard them scream like that. Ghost smirked, pulling back and walking away. What a fucking tease. I'm sure the audience was thinking the same thing!

It wouldn't surprise me if he wants to get rumors going about us. It would piss Kylie off, and possibly get Jani to break up with me. I'm not sure if I want that or not, to be honest. I'm still trying to figure it all out. It didn't matter what I thought. Ghost can be w bit pushy with getting his way. I found it hot though, that he was so dominant.

We came to Dead as F**K. Chris' voice always sounds so sexy on this song. What am I even saying?! Speaking of, though, he came over to me. Chris put his arm over my shoulder, around my neck. He leaned in really close to my face when he sang, "lips on my boomstick." In the pause in lyrics, he came in close like he was going to kiss me, but then brought the mic in between us to repeat, "lips on my boomstick."

Looking past him, I saw Ghost was pissed. The lights flashed over his face, which was just steaming with anger. Damn it, Chris! Why did you go do that? He moved off of me, and smiled when he realized how mad Ghost was. What the fuck?

Ghost ran over to be as he played. I was trying to stay focused on the song, on playing. He, however, had a different thought in mind. I turned my body towards him as I played, just to look at him. All the sudden, I felt his lips crash into mine. Did he seriously just kiss me on stage?

I heard the vocals stop on the song, right where they shouldn't have. We both fell apart to look at Chris. He gave a "kill it" signal to one of the roadies. The sound screeched out and the lights went down. A few fans screamed out of shock. What has gotten into Chris?

We all retreated to the wings of the stage, where the fans couldn't see us.

"What the fuck was that?" Ghost spat.

"What the fuck was that?" He said, pointing out to the stage we just kissed on.

Ghost stepped closer to Chris. "A statement." He growled.

Ryan walked in between both of them. "Hey, hey. Guys. Ghost can kiss his boyfriend on stage. There's nothing wrong with that. Let's just get the show back on so we don't have to cut anything from the set."

"We're wasting valuable time!" Josh yelled at us. "I don't care what's up with you guys. You have a show to finish!"

I sighed, looking at all my friends. What became of us? I just shook my head, put my hands on my guitar, and turned back towards the stage. "Put the lights back up." I muttered to the control guy.

He did. Testing a note on my guitar, it was back on the amps. So was Ryan's, so him and I walked back out. Balz and Vinny followed, and we started playing the show, without Ghost or Chris. Ghost leaned against the back of the amps, where he couldn't be seen, and kept playing, but he didn't come back on stage.

I sighed again. Fine, Chris. I leaned into my mic, Josh telling the mixer turning it up when he realized I was going to have to sing. I started to sing Break the Cycle, with or without Chris. The show had to go on. He dropped his attitude once I had gotten through one chorus, and he rejoined us.

I ran backstage after the song. Then I looked at Devin, and I gave him a long, warm kiss before the next song started. "C'mon. It's not the same without you."

He smiled, rejoining us. Chris glanced over at me. He still wasn't happy. Why? I wish I knew.