Ricki and Pete: My love will not let you down

Back to the past

Ricki's hand was traveling between Pete's hair, when she noticed he had fallen  asleep laying on her shoulder. She thought he was as cute as he was in his 20s and she recalled all those times he fell asleep on her chest after making love. Those memories made her shake her head; she couldn't allow herself to regret anything, she regretted nothing. Even if she wasn't a successfull rock star, she was happy with her life and Pete was just an old chapter of the still open book of her life.

She moved slowly away from Pete and took her phone to call Greg.

Pete halfly awoke after a while and heard Ricki saying words like 'I miss you' 'here's so boring' ' i wish I could play some rock and roll'. He could tell how much Ricki was unhappy with him and spent some time staring at the ceiling  thinking about what to do to make her feel better. He acted coldly with her most the times, right, and maybe being sweet just once wasn't enough to make her feel comfortable. He had to do something that could really make her happy. He had a kind of inner voice that was suggesting him to try to conquer her again.

After the phone call, Ricki went to take a bath and Pete looked inside some boxes he had in the attic, trying to find something of their past that could cheer Ricki.

In the meantime Ricki was silently relaxing in the bath, thinking about Greg, but more about the fact that during the call she kept on thinking about her youth with Pete.  

Her heart skipped a beat everytime she met him, even walking from a room to another. His eyes were her weakness and she tried to do not look too deep into them.

That "storm" of confused feelings made her recall that spring she fell in love with Pete.

She was on a little stage made of wood singing some famous rock songs and he was sitting at one of the tables in front of her with a friend and a pretty girl.

After the concert, Pete's friend offered Ricki a drink, while the girl was still talking to Pete, who didn't seem very interested into the conversation and had his eyes all laid on Ricki's neckline.

Pete congratuleted with Ricki for her powerful voice, but his friend feeling a little jealous replied: "Actually they aren't much fans of rock music. They can't understand too much about it, but I do".

Ricki didn't care at all and answered:" They're still here, maybe they are liking our music now... it's never late to learn to love" she didn't totally complete her answer cause she felt caught by Pete shy smile.

The girl behind them said:" are you dating me or her? Because if you like that kind of girls, I'm not good for you at all" and then she walked away, maybe expecting Pete to run after her. He rolled his eyes, instead, and said "So touchy!", making Ricki laugh.

The next morning he went to that bar again hoping to see Ricki. Luckily she arrived after some minutes and exclaimed "bars aren't made for studying. That is what libraries are made for"

Pete blushed and asked Ricki if she had a boyfriend, but she answered that she never cared about having one and that her guitar was her only lover. They both laughed, but not knowing what to say, Ricki apologized and moved towards the stage claming she had to get ready for the show. Pete followed her saying "I'm Pete by the way".

Ricki stopped and laughed realizing they didn't even introduced to each other, so she answered "My name's Linda, but I'd rather be called Ricki". Pete slowly walked towards her, caressed her cheek, put his hand on her hip, moved her hair away from her face saying "Ricki, Ricki... I love this name" and then he kissed her passionately.

She eagerly responded to the kiss, softly strocking Pete's cheek and when they broke from the kiss, she touched his nose with hers and gave him a quick peck before to go and get prepared to sing.

Ricki totally closed her eyes at the thought of Pete kissing her back then and it was Pete himself who suddenly made her open her eyes knocking at the door.