Hide Your Love Away: book two

Chapter 21

(George)

I'm sitting in my new hotel room, a bottle of whiskey on the side table, guitar and notebook in hand. Writing all my emotions down hoping that will get all of these dark thoughts out of my head.

I find myself playing an old song I wrote. "Yesderday... All my troubles seemed so far away. Now it looks as though they're here to stay, oh I believe in yesterday."  I cry as I sing the words to this song. I have never felt so connected to the lyrics. 

I hear a knock at the door and open it to see my three best mates. "Go shave your face and put on some pants. For Christ's sake George." John says, they all come into my room and sit around the coffee table. 

"You need to stop drinking, you're going to become addicted." Ringo says taking the last swig of my whiskey. "This shit is discussing."

"She left me boys... Lucy left me."

"We know Hari... That's why we're here. You haven't left this room in five days, our vacation is almost over and has hardly started." Paul says. 

"We couldn't let you spend the rest alone, were here for you mate." John says, "We're ordering room service and jamming out like we used yo. Tomorrow we are going out to a pub and dancing. Without the girls or Dylan."  I smile at my friends. We start experimenting with cords and lyrics we've all written out over the last few months. 

"I'd say we have at least one hit out of what we've played today." Ringo says wiping his mouth. "George can we talk for a moment now?" John and Paul went to pick up more food for us four hungry lads. "I know you've been having problems with a razor again mate. I've seen the scars." I frown at the table. "I've talked to lucy, she's  lucky to have you and she knows that. She's just hurting. Don't give up on you two mate. Fight for her, show her you love her."

"I am by staying away. That's what she wanted."

"No....go find her. Do something crazy and out of the blue. Like now mate, before John and Paul get back."

I walk into Lucy's room and see her in the bed, curled up with tear stained pillows. I take a deep breath, she needs time alone. Suddenly the realization of how dependent we've been on each other hits and I leave her room and go back finding John yelling at Ringo for letting me go. "What if he kills himself Richard! We can't loose this boy, he's important to all of us you can't just let him go when he gets like this!"

"Calm down John, here he comes now." Paul says.

"Yeah mate. Thanks for worrying mate but I'm back, ans with you guys here I'm not going to hurt myself."  They all relax a bit and Ringo pulls out a pipe. "Man... It's been a while since I've smoked actual weed and not just a cigarette." I take in a deep breath of the plants smoke. 

We all get high and spend the night eating and writing music. "I'm engaged." Paul says taking a hit he hands me the pipe, "I proposed to Pru a few days ago." 

"Me and Anna finally did the deed..."

"Dylan's worried about getting married."

"I miss my girl." They all look at me as I take a hit. "Fuck boys I'm hard in love. I have to get her back."  We all start planning a way to surprise her, waiting till the last day of our vacation to sweep her off her feet and make her fall in love with me all over again.