Without Me

All I Wanted

I could follow you to the beginning
And just to relive the start
And maybe then we'll remember to slow down
At all of our favourite parts

All I wanted was you

The words left Ash's mouth in the booth, her headphones were on, the band playing in the background behind her. Marshall sat behind the mixer, watching her as she put all her energy into the lyrics. She'd written it last night, and Marshall didn't need to ask to know what or who it was about; the only person she ever wanted was Arthur, it always was, he had a feeling it would always be.

Ashley took a big gulp of water after she'd finished the final line of the end of the chorus, which was the end of the song. Her hair was in a mess as while she had sung she had run her fingers through it so many times it had tangled itself up. She thanked the band telling them that they could leave, she had other plans for the day, ones she wasn't exactly going to enjoy.

''Wait that's it, you ain't gonna record anything else today?'' Marshall asked her as she came back into the room, still drinking from the water bottle.

''No I gotta choose a dress for the Met remember, Tai's coming by to pick me up in,'' she glanced down at the watch strapped to her right wrist, which people found strange as it was odd to wear it that way, ''five minutes,'' she finished glancing back up at him.

''Can I come?'' He'd blurted out the words before he'd even realised what he was saying.

He looked away from her as the strange look she gave him made him feel slightly embarrassed. Why would he wanna go dress shopping? Also with Tai of all people being there too. His dislike for Taila went way back to 96 when Ashley had first met her. The two of them were always together all the time, and it didn't help that they all hung with Kim too, which at the time drove him crazy. Taila, he was almost sure was the one that convinced Kim to sleep with other guys, he was also sure (even though Ash never believed him) she tried to frame Arthur for cheating, all because she was jealous.

''You wanna come dress shopping with me?'' Ashley quizzed him, afraid she hadn't heard him the first time. It wasn't like he was the first Mathers in that week to take dress shopping, it was only a few days that Nate had.

''Well I can't have you choosing something too revealing can I, I mean have you seen what celebs are wearing these days, barely covered,'' he tried to justify, getting up from his seat to grab his hoodie to pull over himself.

''They can wear whatever they like,'' Ashley pointed out, which was true, however, she did feel that some needed to tone themselves down just a tad when it came to the red carpet.

''Ash you ready to go, and you got some explaining to do concerning Alonzo cause I just got off the phone with him, and he said you're over,'' Taila burst into the room a look of fury on her face, ''if it was because he was bad in the sack then put up with it until I'm married,'' Marshall couldn't help but snort at the comment she had just made.

''Can we not do this now, I'll tell you later I promise,'' Ashley pleaded to look up at her friend hoping she'd understand.

''Tell me in the car,'' Taila replied, but Ashley shook her head, ''Why not?''

''Because I'm third wheeling lets go,'' Marshall pipped up grabbing both women by the wrists and dragging them out of the room.

***

Traffic, lots of it, they had been stuck for about twenty minutes, they were in silence which made the situation seem longer and a lot worse.

''I'm putting the radio on and I don't care if all the music is shit in your opinion,'' Taila spoke up pressing play.