The Rockstar and The Graduate//L.A. Guns •Kelly Nickels•

You Owe Me A Cigarette

Kelly ended up taking me to a place he and his band hangout. "Where's the rest of your band?" I questioned him. He shrugged. "Probably at bars or with women. I don't know." He said honestly.

I nodded as I looked around, fishing in my pocket for my pack of cigarettes and my matches. I found them and pulled them out, opening the pack and bringing it to my lips, picking a cigarette out with my teeth and pulling the pack away, returning it to my pocket. I took a match and lit it, returning them to my pocket as well.

I turned to look at Kelly as I took a drag from the cigarette. He stared at me. "What?" I questioned through a light haze of cigarette smoke. "You are are full of surprises." He said between a smirk.

"You've never seen a woman smoke before?" I question before I put the cigarette in my mouth again. He shook his head, the smirk still evident on his face. "No...I have, they just don't look like you..." He said as he paused for a moment.

Now that confused me. "What does that mean?" I questioned as I walked over to him. "I don't know, but there's something different about you." He said. I furrowed my eyebrows and put my hands on my hips.

"Name one thing that's different." I told him as the cigarette dangled from the side of my mouth. He took it and smirked. "You keep secrets." He answered as he put the cigarette in his mouth. I shook my head and folded my arms over my chest.

"And other girls haven't and don't?" I questioned, trying to see where this rockstars point to all of this was. "I think you keep secrets for the right reasons. You don't bullshit to people unless it's your parents." He explained.

"Well that's because I kind of have to. Y'know what they'd do if they found out I wasn't at Janey's and was actually here? They'd probably send me to a fucking all girls school or whatever the fuck." I said honestly.

He smiled bigger. "See, different." I rolled my eyes and shook my head as a I smile crept onto my face. "Maybe one of these days you and Janey can come and hangout here with the guys and I." Kelly suggested.

"Yeah, I think Janey has a thing for one of your guys. I don't know his name, but she seemed very keen on talking to him when we left the bar the other night." I told him.

"I'll let him know." Kelly said. I nodded, happy that Janey could possibly not be alone anymore. I sat down in a chair as Kelly walked over to a record player across the room.

I was surprised when I started to hear the beginning of 'I Want You to Want Me' by Cheap Trick. One of my favorite songs, I listened to it just the other day on my way home from school.

The day that Janey told me about the guy's show. "I don't take you as the type of person to listen to Cheap Trick, Kelly." I said to him as I stood up from the chair. "Why not?" He questioned as he walked over to me.

I shrugged. "I don't know, just seems like they're not your style." I told him. I haven't known Kelly long, I didn't know what music influenced him or his band or what he liked.

Cheap Trick was just unexpected.

We stood there as the music played. We weren't that far apart. If we stepped maybe one or two steps closer, our noses would be touching.

We stared at each other as the music played.

I want you to want me

I want you to need me

I'd love you to love me

I was unaware and I'm assuming that he was also unaware of the two of us moving closer. Cause our noses were pretty much touching by now.

I don't know what I expected from Kelly when I told him I wanted to hangout with him today, but it certainly was not this. Don't get me wrong, Kelly's cool, I like him, but I don't know him that well.

Hell, he drove a very drunk Janey and I home when we didn't even know him.

This was weird. I mean how else does someone explain this situation?

The music continued to play and I watched as Kelly's eyes flicked down to my lips and back to my eyes. Tod never even acted like this with me.

We didn't really have any moments. It's funny, your boyfriend of almost two years treats you wrong, but then this bass player you met at a bar when you were there to see his band, treats you better, and he's basically a complete stranger.

I don't know if chivalry is dead, I just think there's the possibility that we've been looking for it in the wrong people.

I still stared at Kelly. I watched as he finished the cigarette he stole from me, dropping it onto the hardwood floor and crushing it under his shoe. I looked back up at his eyes again. He did the same. He looked at my eyes and then to my lips again.

I couldn't help but look at his too. We then met each others eyes again, and before I knew it, we were kissing. I don't know who made the move first or if it was something that both of us silently decided to do at the same time.

I don't know how we got here, but am I mad about it? I have no clue. I mentally laughed; not at the fact that Kelly and I were kissing, I was laughing at the fact that for right now, it was just Kelly and I.

No band, no booze, no Tod, no Janey, no parents. Just a rockstar, and a Christian's daughter.

It was nice. I'd never been kissed like that before...with compassion, or like someone needed me. After all, my whole relationship with Tod? He had Jessica Hents instead.

Eventually we both pulled away. Heavy breathing and swollen lips. We went back to staring at each other again. It was silent, all except for the fact that Cheap Trick was still playing in the background. It was just a different song.

Oh Caroline

My life shined when you walked in

Oh Caroline

Our breathing subsided and I was the first to break the silence. "You owe me a cigarette." He smirked at me. And we finally moved. He wrapped an arm around my shoulders and we started walking towards the door.

"That I do." He said as we walked through the door. "That I do." He said softly, no longer with the smirk as we walked over to his bike.

(A/N: fucking finally a new chapter. I'm sorry for making y'all wait so goddamn long. I'm working on other stories beside this one /please read them, I'm desperate/ but I finally pushed out another chapter and I'm happy about it. I hope y'all enjoy it. I appreciate you all so much. Happy reading- Jaimie ✌️🦆)