Not Just A Fan

Chapter 7

Brad sees her coming up and checks her over and smiles, he says hello and compliments her outfit. Ester goes all red thanking him, and she asks them what the plan is, he told her it's a surprise. No matter what corner he'll take her, she knows Brooklyn like the back of her hand. They stroll along the hard concrete floor, while their hands brush against each other, debating to clutch onto for the rest of the night. Brad stopped to look at the rustic sign and building.

'The indoor skate park?' Ester said to him.

'Yep, thought you might want to do something different, is that ok?' She nodded, she would of wished she didn't wear the dress now, jeans would've been better. She didn't want to fall over and flash herself. Brad can see she is concerned with what she's wearing. 'It'll be fine.' he tells her.

As they paid for their fee, they went into the room to get some helmets, pads, stake boards and rollerblades. They opened the door and saw the highlight wooden ramps and watched the enthusiasts with no protection gliding freely. Ester felt overdressed, Brad helped put her helmet while she puts her elbow pads on, she used to rollerblade, but it's been a long time and might need some help to start her off. Ester sat down to clip the fastenings tight, and Brad offered his hand to lift her on her feet steadily.

'I'll help you out.' He says to her, the deep tone in his voice makes her legs jiggle. He faces her forward and holds onto her waist and pushes, making her go and he holds on while they move around on the ramps. He doesn't clutch too hard, and she finds it comforting, he made her feel protective and safe. Ester believed he had no intention of making her fall.

As they go down on the ramp, the physics of them going back up to a flat surface, which makes her stop and Brad falls closer to her.

'You're good?' He whispers to her ear, and she can feel his body grinding against hers.

'Never better.' She smirks at him over her shoulder, Brad moves to face her and holds both her hands,

'Ready?' He starts to move backwards and is ready to fall, and she goes with him while holding on. She smiles at him and giggling of how brave he is to be falling backwards. As they go back up to the flat surface, she falls into him, grabbing onto his shoulders and looks up at him and he bites his bottom lip as the gap closes between them.

'You sure know how to get a girl close to you.' Ester taunts and he scoffs a friendly laugh.

'The only girl I want close to me is here with me now.' He says to her, looking deep into their eyes.

'She's glad she's here too.' As she grins, her heart flutters inside. For a while, they go around the ramps holding tight onto each other while enjoying the company. They started to become some sexual chemistry between them, desperate to kiss and hold him frustrated Ester.

They stopped for a bit and leaned on the rail to have a chat. Brad mentions about wanting to be in a band and asked her for some advice on how he should do it. Ester didn't go into technical details, but gave him enough for a kick start. He even asked her about her time being in a band in her teens and the experience of the TV show, you would of thought she would be tired of telling everyone, but she doesn't mind.

'If they do another season, I might enter it.' he tells her.

'Yeah, I mean there is no harm in trying. I mean look at my friend Ryleigh, she only recorded tracks in her bedroom and for no one else, then gave it a go and became the winner.'

'I think she's brave of doing it too. Found out the other day she's dating that Rory guy that was in the show too. Crazy.' Ester wanted to tell him the truth, but knew it's not fair on her friends, she shrugs.

'Who knew.' Brad can tell she wanted to change the subject.

'So, want to have a go at skateboarding?' Ester shook her head,

'I'll watch you.' She winks at him.

Ester stays there leaning on the rail and relieved to be back in her comfy shoes, as the blades were starting to hurt her ankles. She watches Brad makes his way to a high ramp ready to set off and glides along the ramps and each jump he performs a trick. A man of many talents she thinks to herself, not missing a beat and excels in his landing every time. A few minutes later, he comes back picking up his board and smiles at her, that smile gets more attractive each time she sees it.

'You hungry? Shall we get something to eat?' He asks, and she nods.

They didn't want to do anything romantically, so they decided to get a hot dog at a stand and stroll around the busy city as it is a Saturday night. As they munch on their hot dogs, watch out from bumping people, avoiding the party-goers and watching the fascination of tourists taking pictures of landmarks, they always keep close to each other.

'So, do tell me why you rushed out the other day, before I was about to ask you out?' Brad asks,

'I've been offered an audition, couldn't be late for rehearsal.'

'That's sound cool, what for?' He finishes his food and throws the nearest napkin in the bin.

'An opportunity to go on tour.' After she finished, she did the same.

'Wow! Can I ask who for?'

'I can't say, as they're a private person at the minute.'

The anticipation is there to tell Brad it's Absent, but giving the type of person he is and not telling Katie either, she decides to keep it to herself.

'So when does the tour start?'

'As far as I'm aware, September.'

'That's only six months away. If you go on tour, does that will mean you'll quit your job?' Brad said this with some sadness in his voice, as he didn't want her gone, it's the only thing that made in get up and go to work.

'I'll guess so.' Ester felt down about it, especially the fun she had with Brad tonight. She shouldn't be, the tour part is all she dreamed of, and she wasn't in any way of giving it up for a guy. 'But hey, I'll come back when I'm done.' Ester grabs his hand and squeezes it, and he looks at her. 'That's the thing with music, got to go where it takes you.' He smiles at her.

'How long is the tour?'

'Only six months.' Brad sighs and she can see the pain in his heart. As they keep walking, they reach a popular park seeing over the bridge and following the street lights.

'Well, I guess we have the summer with each other.' He says.

'And we see each other every day at work.' She giggles as he smiles.

'But I can't do things like this.' He looks down at their hands as they intertwine together, she plays on and stands in front of him, stopping him walking.

'And what else?' She teases, looking up at his dark blue eyes.

'I don't know.' He gets all shy, 'It depends if you're ok with it.' Ester takes a little step closer, tilting her head up to his face, getting closer to his mouth.

'I'm more than ok with that.' She smirks, and he reflects, then felt his lips touching hers.

It was a nice kiss and felt sweet. All this time waiting, and it finally happened, but nothing sparked, feeling confused and just ignored it.

'Come back to mine?' He whispers, Ester rules not to sleep on the first date but who is she kidding, Brad was there ready for her.

'Sure.'