With The Band

Chapter 4 Bass

Regina was indeed taken with the guys' talent. She felt sort of special that she got to hear a song for the first time before anyone else.

The guys dispersed and put themselves together for the show. Regina felt flattered that Killian almost commanded she be by the stage and not down in the audience.

Killian appeared first with his hair styled up, and she could smell his cologne wafting off him, just like the scent on the pillow.

He wore a blue long sleeve shirt with some buttons that were half undone and his cross glistening on his chest.

Clean jeans, and brown shoes were the remaining components of his outfit. The rest of the guys all cleaned up pretty nicely and were dressed in classy and casual styles.

"So it will be a little loud, when everything is through the speakers," Killian began explaining to Regina. "Wearing these headphones will actually protect your ears," he held the black headphones up to her and placed them over her head.

As he adjusted them to fit her, she felt his heat and smelled him as he leaned over a little bit. Looking up at him with her brown eyes shining, he paused there a moment, on purpose.

Killian's POV

She's got such deep eyes, and curiosity was filling them as she looked up at me.

The crowd was starting to fill in and the volume was definitely escalating. The group could be pretty big if they got a bigger break, but the guys seemed so genuinely in love with the music itself that they were happy as it was.

"She's cute," Neal mused to Killian as they started wiring up their own ear buds to hear the other instruments.
"Yeah and?" Killian shrugged. "You've kind of taken her under your wing." Neal mentioned.

"Well I am the lead, and frankly I like to think more mature than you and Graham and we know David is taken," Killian said.

"That's it? Just want to keep calling it guard dog type?" Neal mocked. "Yeah for now okay, stop," Killian sassed at him.
"She's still cute," Neal mentioned again, and Killian looked over at Regina who seemed to writing down some notes as she casually nibbled the top of her pen looking around.

Killian's POV

Oof okay she's definitely cute and catching my eye a lot.

The guys took the stage and their announcement came up before the black cloth screen dropped to reveal them all in their places.

As Regina's eyes gazed the crowd, she saw many young women, near her age, definitely drooling over all of them.

Killian's voice echoed into the microphone introducing their first song and moving into the first guitar riff of it.

Regina watched Killian's fingers and his mouth near the microphone as he sang. Graham and he sang in harmonies together mixing the bass and lead guitar in a perfect melody with their voices.

Regina couldn't help but realize she stared at Killian far more than the others and listened to him, hanging on his every note and word that escaped his lips.

Regina's POV

For whatever reason I couldn't stop paying the most attention to him. He was truly talented and a hidden gem.

Regina found herself bobbing her head to the music and getting used to their style. This show was indeed her chance to get more familiar with all of their music.

Killian came off stage for a quick water break, and she watched him down an entire bottle. The lights obviously made him sweaty and she looked at the sparkling sweat sit on his forehead.

He flashed her a grin before resuming his place on stage, and the screams of other girls climbed as he did.

Regina felt a tiny twinge of jealousy in the pit of her stomach.

Regina's POV

What are you jealous of? You just met the guy and frankly that's what musicians will always have, why you think he's yours? Wait what? Why am I even thinking this?

Regina kicked herself mentally shaking thoughts of jealousy out of her head.

Regina's POV

Besides Regina if you ever DID be with him you would have to deal with The screaming fans, but he would be mine... Wait what? Shut up Regina.

As the almost two hour show came to a close, the audience had lighters in the air for an encore.

Providing them with a final song, the one Regina already heard, they took a bow and left the stage, shuffling off towards Regina, with their instruments and David with his drumsticks.

"Let's go guys, we gotta book," their assistant, pressured them to get moving.

"Come on," Killian said gently taking Regina's arm.

They all got out the doors and fans were there with cameras and flashing lights. Held back by fences and some security, the guys pushed through. Of course Graham taking some quick selfies and giving the girls a reason to scream at his touch.

Regina got stopped a moment, by security, "Hey, She's with us," Killian pressed the larger man back and took Regina under his arm once more and guided her by the small of her back onto the bus.

The crowd wasn't as huge as it could be if they hit it a bit bigger across the industry.

Getting on the bus, the group took a deep breath, and were all noticeably sweaty.

"Did you have fun?" Neal asked, and Killian threw the guys water. "Yeah it was great," Regina answered.

She looked at Killian, and he held the bottle up, "water?" He offered, and Regina held her hands ready to catch it.

He chuckled a bit, "my dad played baseball, come on," Regina welcomes and Killian tosses the bottle.

"Thanks for not leaving me there," Regina said opening the top of it. "Yeah well Can't very well get famous without you can we?" Killian grinned sitting down.

Regina smiled back at him, "so we drive until 3 am and get to stop at a real hotel," David confirmed. "Really?" Regina asked.

"Yeah properly shower and such, Plus David gets to see his boo," Neal teased.

"Yeah it's an hour away from where I live, so she's meeting us at the hotel," David explained.

"David needs to get off," Graham joked. "Hey; a lady present," David scolded.

Regina tried not to giggle and just looked at Killian, who was already getting ready for them to play cards.

"Guys got you all pizza, this rig is ready," their driver returned with two large pizzas.

"Mmm," the guys dove in, "Regina you need to steal a piece before these animals eat it all," Killian said throwing napkins at the guys.

"Hope you like meat," Graham mumbled.

"Of course I do," Regina smirked and picked up a slice and took off a huge bite.

Killian's POV

Ok that's fucking adorable, being the cutest one of the guys I ever saw. And finally a woman who eats.