When The Festival Is Over

Rapid hearts & blushing cheeks

Billie left the stage. We loaded up all of Jay's equipment. "So now what?" I asked.
"I'm shooting her all day. She goes on again in 4 hours so it'll be a night time shoot. We get to just chill now. You can walk around, go check out some other artists. Whatever you want." He explained.
He says that like I have a bunch of friends here or something 😂
"Hold up, what are you gonna do??" I asked.
"Oh, I got a friend I meet up here every year."
"A friend Jay??" I teased. He laughed. "Aye, mind ya business."
"I will as long as you stay out of my car with your business and your friend." I laughed.
I followed him back behind the main stage again as I dug for my chapstick in my pocket.
"Oh shit!" I hollered. Jay turned around. "What!?!" He looked confused. "Billie dropped a necklace when she was doing bad guy and I picked it up, how do I make sure she gets it back?" I asked.
He looked around. "Over there...." he pointed off into the distance at a huge black tour bus, Billie was walking into it. "You think I should just knock on the door or something????" I asked nervously.
"Yeah why not?" He said.
"Ummm I don't know maybe because they'll think I'm a crazy stalker or something."
He laughed. "You literally have event staff written all over you, just go!" He laughed.
"I gotta split Rae, call if you need me okay?" He said grabbing my shoulder. "You got this, why you so scared? You like her or something???" He teased "Fuck off Jay, I got this." I rolled my eyes and watched him walk away and disappear into the sea of people. I looked over at the bus she had climbed into & started walking that direction. Fuck.
I walked up  4 small stairs and knocked on the door. I felt like I was gonna puke. I waited a good 45 seconds before I knocked again....a little harder.
I turned to walk back down the stairs when the door opened. "Hello, can I help you?" A soft gentle voice asked. I turned around. It was Billie's mom.
"Umm, yes ma'am. I'm the photographers assistant that just shot her set. This fell off of Billie when she was performing, I just wanted to make sure she got it back." I reached out my hand with the necklace resting in my open palm. "Oh my gosh!! Thank you so much!" We were just in the back looking all over for that, Billie was so upset." She explained. I smiled.
"Just a minute, I'll get her and let you give it back to her." She disappeared. About 15 seconds later the door flung open. Billie was standing there stone faced until she realized it was me. "Hey stranger! What's good??" She smiled.

"Heeey, you dropped this while you were performing earlier, I just wanted to make sure you got it back." I explained nervously. I extended my arm again with the chain hanging off of my fingers.
"Bro! I thought I lost this shit for good!" She reached out and pulled it off of my fingers. "What are you some kind of saint??" She teased. I laughed.
"My parents wish" I giggled.
"I just believe in karma. It's all good." I waved awkwardly and started backing down the stairs.
"Wait! what are you about to do?" She asked.
I shrugged. "Probably find something to eat and sit down until the next set somewhere."
"The next set is in like 4 fucking hours." She giggled. I shrugged again.
"You wanna chill? It's cool in here." She smiled.
"Umm, sure." I answered nervously. "Come in." She opened the door wider welcoming me. I walked up the stairs and through the small door, Billie shut and locked it behind me.
"Follow me." She smiled. I did. Her hair was damp and she changed her clothes, I kept getting whiffs of  her scent. She smelled amazing. She led me to what was a small living area and sat down on a couch.
"Have a seat." She said. I sat across from her. She was leaned into a corner with her legs stretched out across the couch. "So where you from Rae?" She asked. "Here.....well San Diego." I answered.
"SD is fire, beautiful as hell." She replied. I smiled, "very beautiful.........would you mind if I used the bathroom? I chugged like 6 bottles of water out there lol." I explained. "Oh yeah! It's down there where we first walked in on left."
"Thanks." I replied. I hurried in and shut the door, I didn't think my piss was ever gonna stop and holy fucking shit I'm on Billie Eilish's tour bus 🤦🏼‍♀️
I flushed the toilet, washed my hands and walked back towards the couches.
"I'm gonna go get get something to eat, you wanna come?" I asked. Fuck was that stupid question? I didn't even think about the fact that she probably can't just walk around places 😬
"Yeah I'm down......give me a minute?" She asked
"Of course." I replied smiling. She walked all the way to the back and opened a door, I heard a faint conversation. She was asking her mom for a security escort. She headed back towards me, stopped in front her bunk area and grabbed a hat and some sunglasses. There was a knock at the door and then her mom hollered from the room at the end of the hallway. "Be careful baby I love you!"
"Love you too mama!" She hollered. She turned to me while sliding her sun glasses on "you ready gorgeous?" She asked. I was blushing "yep!"
There was a security escort waiting outside the door.
"He's just going to trail behind us just in case." She explained. "No worries, I didn't even think about it when I asked you to come , I'm sorry." I replied
"Don't be sorry, I gotta live you feel me?" She giggled. "Of course you do." I replied.
We walked around looking for this burrito cart she told me was good. We got our food and sat in an open grassy area, she pulled her hood up. The security guard was sitting on a bench about 50 yards away. So far no one recognized her.
"This is bomb! Or maybe I'm just starving." I said.
"No you're right, it's fire. It's all I eat when we're here lol." She laughed.
"So are you performing all 9 days?" I asked.
"Oh hell no, just twice today and tomorrow." She replied. "Are you and your boss shooting me both days?" She smirked. "I actually have no idea, he said last year it changed everyday." I replied.
"Well damn. Watchu doin after all this?" She asked.
"Working and chillin until school starts again." I said.
"School for what?" She asked. I was trying to finish chewing my food. "Biochemistry." I answered. Her jaw dropped. "Get the fuck outta here, what!?" She laughed. I was laughing too. "It's true, I'm a nerd." I explained. "That's fucking sexy as hell bro, like wow." She said. "Where do you work?" She asked.
"Right now I work from home, medical billing and coding. It's nice while I'm still in school."
I explained. "Damn Ma, I'm intimidated as fuck right now." She giggled. I pushed her arm making her rock to the side a little "Stop it, I'm just a lame ass nerd nothing to be intimidated about." I said. She scooted closer to me and grabbed the tip of one of my braids, gently playing with it "It was a compliment mama. You're beautiful & smart. I don't know why, but I wanna know everything about you." She whispered.
She was looking directly into my eyes and biting her bottom lip.
God she was beautifully intimidating. I felt those fiery butterflies again. I broke the gaze and let my head hang into my chest. "Thank you Billie." I looked back over at her blushing.
She smirked, "So do you live in LA?" She asked.
"I live in Santa Clarita."
"Damn that's not too far from me. You live with your parents? She replied.
"Nope, I moved out when I was 18. Bought a house thanks to my grandpa leaving me an inheritance." I answered.
"Damn, that's insane. I'm still too scared to live alone lol." She laughed.
"Nothing wrong with that if you have good parents. My parents are overbearing, religious nut jobs."
"Yeah that would suck a bag of dicks." She replied.
I spit out my water cracking up. "Billie you have a beautiful way with words." I laughed.
She stuck her tongue out and winked.

I had my legs together stretched out in front of me & to my surprise she leaned all the way over and laid her head in my lap, I wonder if she could hear how hard my heart was beating. Her hood slipped off of her head slightly revealing her hat. She was replying to a text. "Sorry, my mom was checking on me."
"All good." I replied.
It drove me crazy when she licked her lips. I don't know what compelled me to do it but I reached down and ran my thumb across her bottom lip, she looked up at me confused.
"I'm sorry, you have the most beautiful mouth I've ever seen." I explained awkwardly.
She licked them again, smirked & reached her hand up to my mouth. She ran her index finger across both of my lips. I closed my eyes and accidentally let out a soft whimper. She smiled.
"You like me don't you?" She asked sitting up but still facing me. My face was on fire from blushing.
"I mean we just met Bil......" I felt those soft warm lips press against mine. I was melting & couldn't pull away. She felt so good. I grabbed the collar of her hoodie and pulled her face closer. I felt her tongue massaging the tip of mine, I was whimpering again only now it was a louder moan. She pulled away licking her lips. "I like you.......a lot." She said.
"I like you too Bil..." I responded.