The little book of Queen Weeks

Surprise!

Prompt: holding hands
Freddie's POV
"You're way more confident than me, Rog, I-I can't do this" I panicked but he held my cheeks in his hands and made me look at him.

"You can do this... it's just Brian and John and if they don't accept us, fuck them! We'll be out of this band and they'll have to find a new singer and a new drummer" he said and I nodded, wiping a tear off of my face, "but you can't keep hiding this. You have to tell them sometime"

I sighed a little then wiped my eyes in my jumper and took his hands, "thank you... I needed that" I sighed and he nodded a little before I pushed open the door to the studio and walked in. John was sat on the sofa and Brian was stood by the door and both of them cheered when we walked in.

"Finally! We've been waiting for ages" Brian said and both of us apologised, Roger covering for the both of us.

"Yeah, sorry... Fred couldn't pick what to wear" he said and the two of them nodded before Brian opened the door and the three of us went through into the recording room. I pulled a microphone to the middle of the room so all three of us could fit around it then stood between Roger and Brian.

Roger handed me a pair of headphones but I didn't want them so I put them around my neck and left them there. I looked over at Roger who looked just as nervous as I felt, "you alright?" He asked and I nodded, twirling the lead around my fingers as he slipped his own headphones on, "don't look so nervous" he whispered and rubbed my arm, "it'll be okay"

I wanted to believe him but my stomach flipped over and over with nerves and no matter what I did or said to myself, it wouldn't stop. I kept messing up the words or singing in the wrong key and we had to keep starting over and over. Roger could tell I was getting flustered and in a brief moment of bravery, grabbed my hand and started stroking it to reassure me.

"It's alright, just go with it" he smiled and I couldn't stop the blush on my cheeks as we went to do another take but we were stopped just before we had to start.

"What's going on?" I asked and Roger just looked at me then down at our hands.

"Oh, that? Yeah... um, surprise!" He giggled and John's jaw dropped then he came running in and almost knocked Roger over with a hug, both of them squealing.

"What's gone on?" Brian whispered and I chuckled.

"Rog and I are officially a thing now" I said and he just stared at me with wide eyes and I did small jazz hands, "surprise!"