Just Friends

Chapter 11: The After Party

Kellin's POV

Watching her on stage was like being face to face with an angel; beautifully breath taking. I was watching from the front of the barricade and decided to capture the moment with a few pictures on my phone. It was mesmerizing hearing her voice like that and hearing the crowd cheer behind her. I had always loved to hear her sing even though she never thought her voice was good enough to be heard. But it was so beautiful. But in all honesty she could sound like cats scratching chalkboards and I would listen because every sound that fell from those full sweet lips was golden. When the song ended the crowd cheered even more and Alex and Jack hugged her. Jack longer and tighter than I liked. I knew I had a girlfriend and that she was just my friend and nothing more but I couldn't help but be protective. . . And a little jealous but that was besides the point. I had seen her hurt before and I never wanted to see her hurt again.

"Thanks guys! We are All Time Low and it was great playing to you!" Said Alex into the mic before they cleared the stage. That meant that we were on next and I needed to go make sure we were ready. But not before I saw Cheyenne.

"Turtle!" I yelled as she drinking a bottle of water. When she heard me she turned and jumped into my arms.

"That was literally the best experience ever!" She said and I continued to hold her up in the air.

"You were fucking amazing! I told you, you were a great singer."

"Kellin put her down so we could hug her!" Yelled Jack Fowler as him and the rest of the band came to greet us.

"But I don't want to." I let out without meaning to. I expected Cheyenne to unwrap her legs around me and go and hug the guys, but instead she held on tighter and buried her face in my neck. I thought I heard her say something. "What?"

"Kellin, I," she pulled away and looked into my eyes. Her big beautiful brown eyes gleamed and she blinked making her long eyelashes clap together like a hundred tiny hands. She smiled and I felt my own cheeks begin to grow pink but then the smile faded. "I really need to tell you something."

I was going to ask her what it was but I realized that we needed to on stage. "I'm sorry Turtle but I have to go on stage." I started to walk still holding her on me.

"You need to put me down to play, Kells." She laughed and I reluctantly set her on the ground and took my place at the head mic.

"Hey guys! We're Sleeping with Sirens and we're gonna play some songs for you. So hope you listen!" I said and we started to play. The crowd swayed and cheered for us but even with the commotion going on in front of me, I found myself looking off to side stage at Cheyenne. I laughed as she mouthed the words to every song. Then I don't know what came over me but I decided to do what any corny movie would do. "Well guys we have one more song with you and I would like to dedicate it to the number one girl in my life. This song is called Let Love Bleed Red."

She swayed to every note with her eyes closed and smiled that beautiful smile. I continued to sing,
"I'll be the shadow at your door,
I'll be the moth into your light,
'Cause you deserve much more
Yeah, 'cause you deserve much more

Lay me down,
And tell me everything will alright,
Things will be alright
Thunder storms could never shake us
Lay me down and kiss me like
Things will be alright
Everything will be alright. . ."

As we took off from the stage I ran to gather Cheyenne in my arms. I didn't care anymore, she needed to know how I felt. She needed to know how much I fucking loved her. As I made my way over to her I was stopped by lips on me, and very very unexpected ones. "Kellin that was the most romantic thing you've ever done! In fact that anyone's ever done for me!"