Music Notes and Heart Strings

Chapter 8

"Hey has anyone seen Alastor?" Charlie asks, walking into the lobby where everyone was taking their afternoon break.

"I haven't seen smiles all day now that you mention it," Angel shrugs while eating some chips.

"Yeah...I haven't either," Vaggie frowns slowly becoming suspicious. "Maybe he is up to something..." she says as she stands up holding her angel spear.

"Let's not assume the worse!" Charlie quickly says taking her girlfriend's spear away from her quickly. She sighs holding the spear and looks at Vivan. She was sitting beside Angel mumbling something to herself. "Ummm....Vivan have you seen Al..?"

Vivan nods and sighs, "he got drunk last night and is probably sleeping off his hang over..."

"WHAT? AL GOT WASTED?!" Angel shouts surprised causing Vivan to cover her ears.

"Yes! He did!" Vivan frowns upset, "he got dunk drinking half of a bottle of my favorite drink!"

"Ugh! I missed my one opportunity to go suck him off!" Angel groans annoyed and looks at Vivan who was glaring at him. "I mean...ummm...I didn't mean what I just said!" Angel quickly says laughing awkwardly.

Charlie frowns confused, "why do you know Vivan...?"

"Okay first of all I didn't even want him to unpack my room, but he did it for me! And on top of that we ended talking and drinking! Then we went to his room and he got drunk and fell asleep!" She groans and pulls on her hair a bit. She sighs and leans against Angel. Everyone looks at her seeming surprised.

Angel looks at her and wraps his two right arms around her. "You two talked without getting into a fight...?"

"And he made up your room?" Charlie asks a bit happy that the two had got along.

"Yes! But he isn't gonna even remember any of the shit we talked about! So it was pointless!" Vivan groans and shuts her eyes.

Charlie opens her mouth to speak but is cut off by a low hum of radio static as it fills the room. "Why is everyone shouting?" A groggy Alastor asks. He was standing behind Charlie supporting himself on his microphone. He had a terrible case of bed head and he was missing his signature jacket.

Vivan glares at him and frowns. "I'm going to go to the stage and practice my act for later tonight!" She says annoyed and gets up. Her green orange eyes were glowing and her horns were sticking out as she left the lobby.

Angel sighs and looks at Alastor. "Do you remember anything from last night...?"

"Umm...I believe all I remember is reconstructing Miss. Vivan's room after Charlie talk to me about my misconduct. And I believe that Miss. Vivan and I conversed over a bottle of vodka! But the rest my dear fellow is a blur!" He chuckles lowly with his laugh track playing. He then coughs a bit rubbing his throat.

"So.....why is she upset...then? I don't get it," Angel frowns.

Alastor taps his chin thinking. "We may have discussed the past when we were in a relationship," Alastor thinks aloud.

Vaggie sighs, "great going dickhead..." Angel looks a bit upset at Alastor and Charlie frowns looking at the floor.

Alastor tilts his head to the side confused. "Why are you all so upset about this..?"

"Well I'm upset since she is my gal pal you strawberry pimp." Angel frowns crossing his four arms.

"I'm upset since I told you not to upset her anymore Al. And you did that unintentionally," Charlie sighs shaking her head.

"And I'm mad since you upset Charlie." Vaggie frowns glaring at Alastor.

Alastor sighs and rubs his forehead a bit. He frowns thinking back to the fuzzy memory of spending the late night and early morning with Vivan. He closes his eyes trying to remender more than just the beginning of the story she told of the radio she got him. He shakes his head and looks at everyone. "Well I apologize for upsetting Vivan...I shall...be around the hotel somewhere if you need me.." He mutters and shuffled away. He honestly didn't know how he had upset Vivan. He thought that things between them were cleared last night. But he was guessing he said something...and well things must have never cleared. He stops in his tracks as he enters the top balcony of the theater room. He sits in the back row listening to Vivan sing. He opened his mouth to say something but felt a fuzzy paw cover his mouth.

"Don't even think of talking to her till you know how you fucked up Al," Husk mutters quietly so Vivan won't hear.

"Alright...but that may be centuries..." Al sighs feeling confused with himself. Why was he disappointed about upsetting her and Husk's warning. It didn't make sense since he still felt upset with Vivan about the song fiasco.

"Why? Were you really drunk..?" Husk asks curious a bit, since he had only seen Alastor drunk once and that wasn't pretty or a great morning after.

Alastor nods, "yes...Vivan challenged me to drink every time she drank and well I forgot...and started to drink on my own...while she spoke." He sighs and rubs his face. "I can not recollect anything after that though."

"Well then... from what Angel said about Vivan's acting out this morning you either said something rude... or something about when you two broke up or something else..." Husk says out loud thinking a bit.

"How do I recollect what I forgot though," Al asks.

"Whenever I get drunk as fuck and forget what I did the next day, I try to really think about what I said....and if I can't, I give up... or ask someone what happened if it's serious." Husk mutters looking at Al.

"This was something serious was it not?" Alastor asks looking at Husk now seeming tired.

Husk sighs and shakes his head. "Yes. This was something very very serious. I mean look at her!" He whisper shouts gesturing at Vivan, Who had stopped singing and was just sitting on stage listening to the music with her head in her hands."You like.... broke her Al..."

Alastor looks at Husk surprised at his words. "Broke her...," he asks. "Her limbs do not appear to be broken and she seems to be whole." He says confused.

Husk groans and looks at Al. "I mean you said something that is making her really think about what you said to her last night.... and she is over thinking it too much..... I mean based on what I've seen her act like before, she isn't herself exactly." He says shrugging a bit.

Alastor sighs and looks over at the stage below them seeing Vivan. Husk did have a point. She wasn't her normal self. She looked as though she missed out on years and years of something that never happened. "I know...I wish that I could recollect what happened between the two of us though.." He sits up and keeps his dimmed red eyes on Vivan.

"Well after all the stuff I've seen you do over the years I know that you can Al. You've just got to remember." Husk says, hesitantly patting Al's back.

Al looks at Husk and nods subtly. "Thank you for your belief in me, Husker but... I feel as though my feelings reflect what happened last night." He sighs and pushes back his hair a bit. The feeling within him were all in turmoil. Some part of him was upset with Vivan. Another part was wishing he could see her smiling. He knew that wish all to well. It's what he used to wish would happen when Vivan was upset when they were together. Alastor felt his heart beat faster at the thought of being with her.

Husk looks at Al confused and his ears perking up. "What do you fucking mean," he asks.

"I feel as though....I might actually love her." Alastor says quietly and looks down at Vivan on the stage.

"Well....fuck...." Husk says surprised.