Josh's POV
"Josh, the new designer is ready for you." Danny said as he walked up to me,
"Is she an old lady like most seamstresses?" I asked as I stood up from my dressing rooms couch,
"Oh definitely," Danny replied as he walked out. I walked down the hall flipping through my notebook thinking of what songs I wanted on the setlist. I opened the door and finally looked up from my notes. Danny was a liar. I started at the ground, scanning the woman in front of me with my eyes. She had on bell bottoms and a green top with lots of necklaces layered on top of it. As my eyes reached her face my eyes settled on the freckles adorning her face, her wavy red hair with some shorter pieces framing her face. And her hazel eyes, they were somewhere between gold and light green.
"Wow" I didn't realize the words had escaped my lips until she responded
"Sorry..?" she said, giving me a weird look. I had definitely been staring, but so was she.
"Oh, nothing" I felt my palms start to sweat, I didn't normally get nervous but she was stunning. "Hi, I'm Josh" I said wiping my palms on my pants
"Hi, I'm Rhiannon," She said confidently,
"Like the song?" I asked excitedly
"Yes like the song," her tone changed, it suddenly occurred to me how many people probably asked her that. I cursed myself for being so typical. I wonder how many people could sing it for her though. I watched as she walked over to get her measuring tape. I had to see how she'd react, I started loudly singing the song. She turned on her heels and watched with her eyes following me as I danced around. When I eventually stopped singing she clapped and burst into laughter. I couldn't help but smile at the way she had reacted and that cute little laugh.
"Very impressive, I'm guessing you are the singer then?" She said continuing over to the table to finally grab her tape.
"You'd be guessing correct," I grinned, pausing as I contemplated my words, "also can I just say, you have an amazing laugh," Her movements froze as her eyes shot to me, I caught her expression and smiled at her as she blushed
"Turn." She said quickly turning me around by my shoulders, she was obviously avoiding my compliment, but it was adorable. I grinned as she continued to take my measurements. It was silent for a moment before she spoke again. "So Josh, what kind of stuff are you wanting me to design for you?"
"Hmm" I hummed as I pondered her question, I hadn't even thought about it, "I have been into vests recently, is that helpful?"
"Is that all you're going to give me to go off of?" she laughed "Likes, Vests." she said as she wrote, causing me to laugh at her wittiness.
"I don't know what else to say, this is my first time working with a designer" I said loudly, shrugging my shoulders and throwing my hands into the air. She walked closer to me as she flipped through her sketches, standing next to me now, our arms slightly brushing against each other as she flipped.
"Well what about details?" She asked, I kept my eyes on the pages, I saw something that caught my eye and reached my hand out to stop the pages from turning,
"I really like that," I said as I inspected the designs sketched onto the page, gold swirly patterns on a black background, "Thats lovely, I'd love something with those kinds of details." I paused looking at other things on the page "Did you draw this? You're very good."
"Yes, I did. And thanks, isn't that why you hired me?" She grinned, taking this compliment better than the last one. As much as I wanted to take credit for her being here, I wasn't the one who had suggested her.
"Well, I'm not going to lie to you, Sam is the one who found you and requested you to our manager. But it looks like he made an excellent choice." I continued looking at all her work when I saw Jake enter the room out of the corner of my eye,
"There you are, I've been looking for you." He walked up to me, completely ignoring Rhiannon's presence, "You think I have time to see a medic before the show?" he asked holding out his bruised and slightly swollen hand.
"Jake, you're being rude. This is Rhiannon" I motioned to her raising my brows at Jake,
"Oh, sorry I'm Jake," he said shaking her hand with his uninjured hand
"What happened to your hand Jake?" she asked
"Uh, I got into an altercation," He replied
"Hm ok, well if you have time I can go ahead and get your measurements now?"
"Sure, lets get it done," Jake said, his tone in a rush but not rude
"Josh, I kind of need that to write down Jakes measurements," Rhiannon said as she reached out for the book, I wasn't nearly done looking at all her work
"We are twins just copy down my measurements," I said as I continued to flip through it,
"I hate to break it to you, but thats not how it works Joshy." she said as she snatched the book from my hands, my eyes shot up at the fact that she had called me 'Joshy',
"Joshy huh, already giving me a pet name are we?" I smirked as I waited for her response, she had gotten seemingly flustered earlier and I wanted to see her blush again, but without missing a beat she spoke,
"Oh, are you saying you want to be my pet?" I froze trying to decided if I heard her right, she was facing away from me, measuring Jake, "Well are you trained to kneel?" My mouth fell open and my eyes grew wide, I knew I heard that correctly. I felt my face get hot as my eyes met hers in the reflection of the mirror across the room, a very pleased look on her face. Her confidence had both shocked me and completely attracted me on a whole other level. I didn't know what to say, holy shit, say something Josh, anything. Suddenly someone spoke from the hallway, calling me out. I quickly took the out and went to the hallway. There was a problem with some of the sound equipment and I worked on fixing it for a while before I started to walk backstage again. I saw Rhiannon heading into the lounge and finally felt like I had finally gotten enough confidence to speak to her, knowing now how confident she was and mentally prepared for anything she threw my way, in theory at least. I stopped at the door when I saw her smiling and walking to Jake's guitar tech. I felt my face drop as I heard him ask her out before handing her a piece of paper. I hadn't heard her answer but if she was getting his number it must have been yes. Which meant she wasn't as interested in me as I thought she was. I turned and started down the hall to my room, I had almost made it when I heard her call my name.
""Josh, can you do me a favor and let Jake know I need to see him again? I forgot to ask him his style preferences." she asked as she started getting closer. I gave her a quick nod and walked into my room. I waited a couple minutes for her to leave before heading to Jake's dressing room. I walked in and found him and Sloan sitting on the couch,
"Hey Jake, It's almost time for sound check," I said as I walked in and sat in the chair across for them "Also Rhiannon said she needs to ask you a few more questions."
"Oh, I met her, she is really pretty," Sloan said as she perked up a bit
"Yeah Josh thinks so too," Jake said raising his brows and shooting me a look,
"Shut up Jake." I snapped at him,
"Oh please, I saw the way you were looking at her," He said back with a laugh,
"Alright, alright leave Josh alone," Sloan said pulling on Jakes arm, "Both of you go to soundcheck so I can get some work done." Sloan was Jake's girlfriend and had decided to come on tour, she worked as a travel blogger for a magazine or something like that. We had known her since we were little and me and her were pretty close. Jake and I got up and walked down the hall,
"So, you do like her right?" Jake asked quietly
"She is beautiful, but I think she is interested in someone else," I replied with a frown,
"What? she was totally flirting with you. I've never seen you look so nervous in my life," he laughed, I shoved him as I rolled my eyes
"I thought so too, but I just watched her agree to go out with your guitar tech."
"Nick? how did she even meet him?" He said confused
"I don't know but I saw them talking in the lounge and he gave her his number." I sighed as we got to the stage
"Well, just sweep her off her feet before he has a chance to," Jake shrugged,
"I think if there is any sweeping of any feet it will be me, she nearly knocked me on my ass with that comment she made earlier," I felt my face getting red again
"I know, I thought it was hilarious and bold," Jake laughed as he picked up his guitar. We finished sound check and played a great show despite Jakes injured hand. Jake and Sloan decided to go to the medic for Jakes hand so me and the rest of the guys had decided to just get changed and head back to the tour bus. As I was about to leave I saw Rhiannon standing in the lounge looking at her phone, she looked a little worried.
"Everything ok?" I asked, peeking my head in.
"Well, I was supposed to be told what hotel I'd be staying at tonight and where to be picked up but I think I missed the car the rest of the crew took, and I haven't gotten a text with the hotel," She said tiredly
"Here, let me make a call." I said. I spoke to a few people and found the right hotel. "Here I ordered you a uber to the correct hotel. I'm sorry the SUV left without you, I made sure they know to wait for you from now on."
"Thank you so much," She said as she hugged me. It felt like I could melt into her, she was just about the same height as me, which would intimate some guys but didn't bother me one bit. I pulled away first, trying to place space between us.
"No worries, here I'll wait with you for your uber." I said opening the door out of the venue.
"Did I say something wrong," She said after some moments of silence
"Of course not, why do you ask?" I said turning towards her
"Well, it kind of seemed like you ran away from me earlier in the hallway," She said looking up at me. She wasn't wrong, I was trying to get away because I had been let down a little seeing her with Nick,
"Nope, everything is fine." I said plainly as the car pulled up. I opened the back door for her, "Have a good night Rhiannon, I will see you around." I closed the car door, I started to walk away when I heard the window roll down
"See you around Joshy," She said with a smirk as she winked, I grinned, shaking my head as I waved. She was going to absolutely ruin me.