Your Love Is Standing Next To Me

Chapter 28 - Only monkeys

"He he he! Look who's here!" Nick giggled as we entered the rehearsals room.

"Sorry love! Only monkeys here!" Jamie beckoned to me to enter the other room, where the girls were waiting for me.

"You fuckin' nuts!!!" Evelyn shouted as I entered the door. "It might be the most important gig of our fuckin' lives, our first festival, and you're late for the damned rehearsals showing up three hours before the fuckin' show?! What's the matter with you?"

I've never seen her so angry. Well, the matter is that I'm getting married and I've got no idea what to do.

"I'm sorry, just... The last night was crazy, the flight was delayed and then I fell asleep on the couch and..." I gave them just half of the truth.

"We don't need your reasons, Marie!" Elyse saved me. "Let's play the damned songs a couple of times and then you buy us some beers and everything's fine, ok?"

The audience was cheering loudly. I felt a lump in my throat which was impossible to swallow. My guitar tech brought me the guitar and offered himself to help me arrange it over my shattered black tank top. I started to tremble uncontrollably. I pushed him apart and took some steps behind.

Too many people, too much fear. What was the first song we were bound to play? I checked the playlist taped on the stage. I spotted Karina's scared face.

"What's she doing?" I heard Evelyn shouting on the left side of the stage.

Good question, what am I doing? My hands started to sweat and the air was too hot. It was midday (of course, because we were an unimportant band we had to play at 40 degrees) and almost everyone in the crowd was naked. The cheers stopped and all I could hear was my heavy breath and my loud heart poundings.

80 000 people? More? Were staring continuously at us. I couldn't do it. I've just ruined everything, all our hard work, long and painful hours spent in a stupid garage rehearsing. Everyone was going to hate me, no one will ever trust me anymore if I don't do something.

While looking at my shaking hands, I noticed the ring. I was getting married, for fuck's sake! And there was nothing I've ever been more scared of than marriage! The worst thing that could happen was to fuck this gig because I was scared of that.

I had to come back to earth. I breathed deeply two times and then scream from the bottom of my lungs.

"You ready, Belgium?!"

The answer seemed positive and we started the first song. The girls looked relieved.

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He he he, I'm back!

I'll start to update this story regularly again, I've got so many ideas!

This is just a short boring chapter, don't take it seriously, I'm better than that!

A quick reminder, the band The Penguins are:

Marie - lead guitar and vocals

Evelyn - bass

Karina - second guitar

Elyse - drummer

Have a great day, my little monkeys! ^.^