I woke up to the sound of yelling. Big surprise, Malcolm must be home. Cliff and Phil had come home too. I felt kind of bad for Angus, getting yelled at by four other guys. Though something tells me Malcolm did most of the yelling. Two voices were getting louder along with footsteps coming up the stairs. "...just looking out for ya' Ang, you could try to be a little appreciative. Just pretend for God's sake!" My door opened and Angus closed it after him. He sat on the floor and simply lit a cigarette. It seems he wanted to get away from Malcolm so he just picked a room to hide in. He surely didn't mean to pick mine. I quietly stared at him not wanting him to know I was there. But after sitting there a while he looked up at me. Just stared. And I stared right back. It was too late to leave now. Without taking my eyes off his I got out of bed, walked over, and sat next to him.
"You okay?" He didn't answer. "You didn't mean to come in here did you?" He sighed. "You can leave if you want, I don't mind."
"Not with them all on my case like that," he said inhaling the smoke. "'ve had enough of that."
"Well you can always stay here then. I won't yell at you." I didn't. Neither one of us spoke. We just sat in silence, sat together.
Malcolm stomped back downstairs to the living room. "Well that's it then. The boy won't talk."
"He go pout in his room again?" Phil asked.
"No, he's locked himself in Hannah's room."
"Uh oh," Cliff said.
"Was probably an accident," Brian said. "He seems to have been pretty finicky with her as of late."
"No, not Angus," Malcolm said. Brian nodded. "He was the most excited to see her again, they were inseparable."
"He can't be completely stressed about the album," Cliff said. "We all are, and none of us drunk ourselves into a doozy. If you ask me, something happened between those two."
"But even Hannah herself doesn't know what's wrong with him so they couldn't have gotten into a disagreement," Brian pointed out.
"She's probably involved some way though," Phil said.
"I just can't imagine my brother actin' like this," Malcolm said. "What would drive him over the edge like that?"
"He needs to man up and tell her he loves her," said Cliff smiling, almost joking but not quite.
"That's for sure, but that wouldn't set him off would it?"
"Not if he wasn't married no," Cliff answered. "A little nervous maybe."
"He knows nothing would happen even if she felt the same. So he's got nothing to lose if she doesn't," Phil said.
"It amazes me how we managed to end up here again," said Malcolm. "I'm sure you remember Phil?"
"Hell yes. Little bugger wouldn't admit it for weeks. Nearly got her killed." Malcolm shook his head.
"Never did like that Lucy. He liked her when we moved to Australia. She left him and only came back when he got famous."
"Well Hannah's a time traveler. She left once, she'll leave again," Brian explained. "Prolly doesn't want to tell her if she'll only leave with his feelings."
"Which is why he should tell her, might never see her again," Phil said.
"You're damn right," Brian agreed. "Tried to tell him a while ago."
"But if she's telling the truth, if she really is from the future," Cliff said. "he's gotta be like, a hundred years older than her."
"Only about, forty four," said Malcolm. "Course that doesn't make it any less weird."
