Hell To Pay

Called Love

"...Sam? What...."
"I work here." She tries so hard to smile to the band and Taylor, especially is trying to return the smile, but Sam doesn't even have a will to look at his eyes. She's just passing an eye contact to everyone but him. "Oh, okay... Just, kinda weird to see you here." Dave and all the members take a seat and including their selves in that meeting. But all that Taylor does is looking at Sam, for a couple of chances.

"Is that clear?" Greg just closed the last slide and turns to all of them, wait for a response from the band. "Can we go back to the position and print that?  I'm new on this." Sam ask for it, but not for what she said. She just want to make sure she can still do the work without have to having any talk with Taylor. She is placed in his area so she wants to make the position familiar for her to make it less awkward. To avoid as many contact with him.

"Anything else?"
"No. That's all." After she get a print out, all the other crews are leaving the room and Sam is about to do the same. But Taylor catch her on the front door. "Sam, please don't do this. We're not talking at all. It's like, you're avoiding me."
"I am. What's your problem with that? Leave me alone."

"You guys want to tell me what happened?" Dave suddenly shows up with Jordyn. Seems like Jordyn was suspicious from the moment Sam saw the band. Because her face shows unpleasant expression. "First you quit your job, you didn't say anything to Taylor as we got here. And I heard what you guys said here. I'm not stupid okay."
"Dave... It's just..." Taylor tries to stop Dave to continue even further because he's really trying to have a talk with Sam and makes things better. "Nothing Dave, it's just..."
"We broke up Dave..."
"Taylor! What....uh, whatever. I'm outta here." She really pissed that Taylor actually tell Dave about it. She keeps this all the time because she doesn't want any question that follow after the statement. "Why? Why broke up?"
"Nothing matter. So excuse me, I have another meeting." This time she can actually walks out without being stopped by Taylor. "Sam..Sam!" Dave quickly grab Taylor's shoulder before he can run towards her. "Dude. Don't do that. Now tell me what happened."
"What else Dave? I can't tell anything. Okay?"
"Oh really? Why is that?"
"Because I supposed to not! Can't you see she's already pissed when I said that we broke up? I shouldn't tell this to you." Taylor covered his face with his palm and then walk away from Dave and Jordyn.

"Someone must know something." Dave insists to looking for it and goes to where Chris and Nate sit. "Hey, any of you know that Taylor and Sam broke up?"
"Wait, what? What are you talking about?" Nate looks very surprised and looks to Chris, "You know?"
"No. I don't. Who said that?" Chris looks to Dave, thinking about where did he get that. "Taylor. He told me. But won't tell me why. So you guys have no idea?"
"No. Absolutely. How about Sam?"
"Pissed. I don't know what's going on but Sam is really not wanting to see Taylor's face. I don't know wether it's love or hate."

••••••

Sam is still extremely insecure about the upcoming show. Even though she knows everything is gonna be fine, she just can't snap it out of her mind. Also the way Taylor begged her earlier also makes her heart melt a little bit. "No. No way I will go easy with him."

There's a leftover food that she remembers Chris bought last night. And thinking about all those things makes her hungry a little bit. "Uh. I hope Chris not angry to me for taking his food." She get a spoon and then seeing a poster near the dining table. "A show... Tonight?" She read the poster but can't find Foo Fighters on it. Only Chris. It seems like he will perform as himself on that country show, along with some other musicians. "What time is it?" It's 7.30 PM and the show is at 8 PM, she rush to bathroom to get clean, leaving the food back in fridge. She remembers not sending her clothes to the laundry. So the only outfit she has to be wear is  a white T-shirt, black jeans, and a converse. She looks like a teenager with that. "I hope I don't look that ridiculous there." She's staring at herself in the mirror and cringe.

After put outfit on, she get on her bike and drive her way to the club where the gig is on. It only takes 12 minutes for her to get there and find the club.  Just a nice, small club with a very warm vibe around it. But just as she predicted, it seems like she wear a wrong costume. All the people there dressed like the real definition of 'country' and it makes her doubt herself to get into the club. But soon after she hear a guitar sound that she's sure us Chris', she force herself to step inside. Considering Dave and Taylor are usually have the most attention in Foo Fighters, it looks strange to see Chris being the frontman here. She waves to Chris and he notices her, giving her a wave while keep playing. She sit on one of the chair, order some beers and sitting still to watch Chris and the band. Surprisingly she enjoy this and didn't expect to like it since she's always around the rock scene for her whole life. This is new to her.

After 6 to 7 songs, they take a break to have some rest which Chris uses to come and greet Sam. "Country huh?" She stands up and give him a high-five. "Yeah. You must think this is a joke."
"No. Absolutely not, I'm just surprised. You amazed me actually."
"Is it? Haha. How's work by the way? I heard from Dave that he knew you guys broke up."
"Yeah... It pissed me off, also about the show. I'm still over thinking about it."
"Your okay?"
"Yeah. It's just my insecurities. Not a big deal. Anyway... I genuinely think this side of you is cool. You know...not being a rockstar."
"How's that?"
"I don't know.. maybe because you show so much soul into it. I'm not saying that you don't do that with the Foo, it's just different from you in daily basis."
"Well, glad to hear that. That you enjoy the show. I'll considering to do this frequently whenever I have times." When they're talking, someone suddenly come to talk with Chris it's Sullivan who plays bass. Like bringing some bad news. "Hey, Pete can't play for the last song. His wife is going to give birth. Should we end the set earlier?"
"Oh, god. Yeah sure. Pete can go to see his wife. I'll tell people that we can't play...."
"Wait, what Pete plays?"
"Drum, and a little bit of background vocal." Sullivan says, replying to Sam's question. "I can play that." Sam smiles, waiting for both Chris and Sullivan to say something. They're frozen. But then Chris going back to his mind. "Okay. Sure. We can play." He turns to Sullivan and giving him the look.

"We'll play the last song. Just send my best wishes to Pete, okay?"