You're the One - Part 1 || Greta Van Fleet

Chapter 15: Jealousy

Josh held his stare, now biting his lip. I could feel my face turning bright red the longer we sat here; every second felt like hours. I wasn't sure what to say, but I knew I had to break the silence somehow. Thankfully, there was a knock at the door. I snapped out of it. I heard Josh sigh.

"I feel like everywhere I go there's something going on with you." Sam said to me, peeking his head in. My cheeks burned even more. I guess it was better than Jake walking in. It didn't exactly look great being alone with Josh right now.

"Oh, shut up.." I said, tossing a pillow at him. He laughed, dodging it, then making his way inside the room.
"What are you guys doing?" he asked, plopping down next to me on the bed. He saw my journal and reached for it. I quickly grabbed it. The last thing I wanted was the whole band to read what I had written.
"Come on!" he whined "What's that? Why can't I see?"
"Because.." I laughed. "It's private."

He scrunched up his face, now looking at Josh.
"Did you get to see?" He asked. Josh smirked, but shook his head.
"No.. she wouldn't let me see either. Probably just ideas on how she'll eventually kill us." he joked. I peeked over at him, smiling. He gave me a wink when Sam looked away.

"Soooo.." Sam said, looking back up at me. "We were thinking about going out tonight after the show. What do you guys think?"
"Yeah, that'll be fun." Josh said, looking back over at me. I nodded.
"Oh, yeah sure. Just-" he cut me off.
"Don't worry. It won't be like last time." He laughed.
"Alright.." I smiled "then sure."

Later that night, I stood in the wings of the stage, watching them play. It was one of the last songs of their set, and one of my favorites. I always made sure I got enough photos so I was able to enjoy it from the sidelines.

Can you light my love?
flames glowing bright as the sun
deeper than oceans you run
watch as our world has begun

Every so often, Jake would peek over and smile. I'd always manage to snap a quick photo, but most of the time I would just smile back and enjoy it. Those were the moments that made me feel like we were the only two people in the room, until the screams happened and I was snapped back into reality.

Your mind is a stream of colors
extending beyond our sky
a land of infinite wonders
a billion lightyears from here now

Then, Josh turned to look at me, holding eye contact. I moved backwards to make sure I was out of sight from the audience, but I couldn't help but smile. He noticed, his smile growing and turning back out to the crowd. I felt my cheeks start to burn, and turned on my camera to take more photos to hide behind it.

Whoa, light my love
Whoa, light my love

When the lights came up, you could see everyone in the audience cheering. I quickly ran down to the front section to capture the guys taking their bow and see the expressions on their faces. It never got old. Click. Click. Click.

Jake was beaming from ear to ear, holding his guitar over his head, bowing down again. I smiled, lowering my camera to watch. He looked down at me and smiled, blowing me a kiss. I could hear loud screams from behind me and my face felt like it was on fire. I smirked, shaking my head at him. He smiled, shrugging and blowing another one. I pretended to catch it. He laughed, and ran off stage with the rest of the guys. Then I heard yelling from behind me. My stomach dropped.

"Jess!" they screamed. I didn't turned around. I'm sure I just heard them yelling for Jake. But then I heard it again.
"Jess!" I hesitated, and finally turned around to see two girls in the front row waving in my direction. I looked around.
"Jess! Hi!" they yelled, waving harder. I gave them a gentle wave and they yelled again. I didn't really know what was happening. They waved me over. I slowly made my way over.
"H-hey.." I said, still not sure what was going on, feeling bad that I didn't recognize them.
"Hi!" They screamed again. "Oh my god, you're so pretty!"
"Th-thank you.." I finally said, still confused. "I'm sorry, do.. do I know you guys?" I asked. They laughed amongst themselves.