Secretly Talented

Chapter 18

Chapter 18 

After that phone call my phone was monitered all day and night. I wasn't allowed to tell anybody other than my family what happened and I was ok with that. I didn't want to get looks of pity from everyone I knew. As all this was going on I had managed to write a couple songs and they sounded decent to me. Ronnie liked them too so he called some people and got me a band together. Today was the day that we met and played together for the first time. I walked into the studio with Bryce right behind me. He turned out to be a really nice guy and I loved having him as a friend but as a bodyguard......not so much. He's 21 and flirts....a lot, he never lets me out of his sight, I can't even be in the bathroom for more than 15 minutes before he knocks on my door to ask if I'm ok. We walked to the back where the lounge was and saw that everyone was already there. Scooter smiled when I walked in and came to give me a hug as he said "There she is." I hugged him back then sat down and said "Hey Scoot, what's up?" he smiled at his new nickname I gave him and the other guys, that I had yet to learn the names of, chuckled. "Nice to know you have a sense of humor. So everybody knows Emma as she's the only girl here....." One of the guys interrupted and said "Not the only one, Rob's here!" The guy next to him, who I assumed was Rob, punched the guy who made the comment in the arm while everyone else laughed at the two. "As I was saying," Scooter said getting everybodys attention," since everybody knows Emma I'll start with Rob here who you may know now he plays drums....." he said and pointed to a guy that looked to be in his early twenty's. He had black hair and the most beautiful blue eyes. "Casey, plays lead guitar....." he pointed to a guy with blonde hair that looked to be about my age. He seemed to be the jokester of the group so I knew we were gonna be great friends. "Grant, plays bass......" Grant had black hair that went to his shoulders and grey eyes that would send shivers down anybody's spine. He had this ora to him that said "Don't mess with me or I'll beat you up" so I decided it would be best to just be nice to him. "And last but not least on keyboard..." before he could finish I screamed "Victor!?" and launched myself into his arms and wrapped him a hug. He chuckled in my ear and said "Good to see you too little bit." I pulled away and smiled at my old nickname. Victor and my dad had been bestfriends and he spent lots of time with us when we were little. Before my dad died they got into a huge argument and I hadn't seen him since. "Oh my gosh how've you been!?" I was so excited I kept squealing through the whole sentence. "I've been good, making it. What about you? What are you doing in London? Didn't run away did you?" he started laughing at his own joke but stopped as soon as he saw my smile fade. "Mom died." I said barely above a whisper, I'm surprised he even heard what I said. He pulled me into a hug and stroked my hair as he said "I'm so sorry little bit." I pulled back and wiped the tears away that had fallen. "Its fine, I'm living here with my uncle, everything been going great." Except for the fact that your being stalked my mind said. He gave me a sad smile and I looked away. I couldn't take any more pity. At that moment I realised that we weren't alone during this whole encounter and everyone had been watching us. I blushed and looked back at them and said "Sorry Scoot." He smiled and said "Its totally fine. So now that you know everybody why don't we go over the music and then we'll try playing together." Everybody nodded and a few of us said "yeah sure". We went through all the music and played together and we sounded great. Scooter wanted everybody to come in everyday so we could practice before we started opening for people. I was totally fine with that, it gave me a chance to get my mind off of the whole stalker issue. The only thing that would bring it all back was at the end of our session when Bryce was there and I remember what was happening. We've been practicing about a week now and Alex has been to almost everyone. The only way he doesn't come is if he has a session of his own. I haven't talked to Kolby since the day he found about Alex and I. I've seen him around the studio a couple times and everytime he's with a different girl. When he sees me coming he'll start kissing he trying to make me jealous but I just shudder and walk away. I hadn't got any calls or seen anything mysterious over the week but it didn't make me any less paranoid. Anywhere I go I'm always looking over my shoulder to see if he's following me again. When Alex sees me doing it he squeezes my hand and tells he he wont let anything happen to me and I know its true. I feel safer when I'm with Alex than I do with Bryce. As weird as that is, I know I can trust both of them but Alex makes me feel better, it's probably because he's my boyfriend but I don't know..... As I was thinking all of this through I was laying on my bed. I suddenly shot up, waking Bryce up. He came to my side and put a comforting hand on my back and said "What happened, was it a bad dream?" I shook my head and looked at him. "No, I just realised something really important." He waited more me to respond but I just played back down and tried to go back to sleep but before I could I whispered to myself "I'm falling in love with Alex Garcia."