Hayley's POV
"I saw you, yeah you, you're breaking down. I hope you, yeah you, you come around." Lynn sings, her voice the most beautiful thing I've ever heard. I didn't think I'd fall in love with my best friend, but here we are. Her voice rings out into the night, a few people gathered around the stage to view our act, mainly people out on the dance floor, slow dancing and being adorable couples. It's always nice to see some romance in the air, I would know. The song we're playing, Lynn slaying the hell out of the vocals, makes the mood all the better. I gently tap the wood drum, keeping a low and steady beat with her vocals and beautiful guitar strumming. It all sounds fantastic, especially since this is an acoustic performance. I try and keep my focus on the beat, but I can't help my eyes when my vision constantly drifts to gaze at Lynn, just how adorable she looks, all dapper in her suit, her hair shaved on the side and curly in the long ends. She's honestly such a handsome girl. She's amazing.
"I took all this love I found, and I hope that it's enough. Is it enough?"
The song goes by slowly, my nerves present the whole time. Although being up on stage with Lynn calms me, and the sounds we're making together is more than worth it. I try and train my thoughts on the notes and rhythm, occasionally harmonizing with her lead vocals. For once, my gaze shifts away from Lynn and instead into the crowd, watching the partygoers and observing them. I see quite a few straight couples, but to my pleasant surprise, I see many boys with boys. From what I can see, only Lynn and I are the main "lesbian couple," even though technically I'm not lesbian, I'm polysexual. She on the other hand is straight up lesbian, so I guess it's close enough, right? One couple in particular catches my eye, they seem so content with each other and don't really care if anyone else is watching. One boy is dressed in a handsome gray suit, white shirt and red tie, tall, with olive skin, brown eyes and dark hair. His partner, also very tall, say 2 inches shorter than the boy in the gray suit, has brown hair in a messy fringe that goes just below his chin. He's very slim, cladding a black suit coat, white button up, black tie, and gray dress pants that match the color of his partner's suit coat. They dance together softly and intimate, the taller boy's hands on his partners hip and another having linked hands together. They look into each other's eyes, then let off small smiles occasionally. The taller boy seems more confident, standing tall and giving more smirks than mellow smiles, while the shorter boy seems more on edge, looking around at his surroundings occasionally and brushing his long hair out of his face. They're super cute together, I can't help but get a warm feeling inside at the sight of them.
I can hear the song coming near towards the end, Lynn super into everything she's doing. "Don't you shut this down, don't you give this up..." I watch her as she gets to the ending of the lyrics. And with the last few lines, she looks up from her guitar and looks at me, almost singing to me. "Before you came around I was lost and out of place. You're the only love I found and I'm hoping you'll stay." She sings with a soft smile. I blush and smile back, hitting the drum a little harder than I probably should have. "Please stay." She sings, just regularly like it goes in the song. "Please stay." She then repeats. It sounds like she's just giving more emotion to the song, but her face says she's saying more. Through the written lyrics of the song, she's still sending me a message. "Please stay." She sings out again, even more powerful and so full of emotion. I keep eye contact with her and simply nod my head, my eyes slightly glistening from the emotions of the moment. She returns the soft smile, seeming satisfied, and then we close out the song with the fairly long musical outro. I glance back at the tall, male couple, and I see the shorter boy leaning his head close to the other boy's face.
"You're amazing Bilvy, you know that right?" I can fairly make out, mainly lip reading what the taller boy says. The slim boy nods and smiles, then stands on his toes ever so slightly and leans in to kiss his lover. The taller boy grabs his partner, Bilvy, I'm guessing a nickname, and lifts him slightly off the ground, hands on his hips, then gently spins around. Bilvy grabs the shoulders of his partner, holding on for dear life as the two gently spin around.
"Gabe, I'm gonna fall." He says with a laugh. The taller boy, I now know to be Gabe, gently slows to a stop, both of them laughing and slightly red faced. They lean in for another kiss, Gabe stroking his partners long hair.
Lynn and I then come to a close with the song, and people applaud us, including Bill and Gabe. Lynn shines with pride, brushing her hair out of her face as she waves to a few people. I smile and nod my thanks to the crowd, and their clapping eventually dies down. I look to Lynn, who winks at me in congratulations on the performance. I blush and smile back, then we get up to set up our next song.
"That was a little something I wrote for a special someone." Lynn says, smirking at me. "It's meant to be an acoustic, so it was pretty cool to play it how I intended. I like to call that Only Love." Lynn explains. She passes by me, pecking me on the cheek as she goes. I hear a few enthusiastic cheers from the crowd and I feel my ears start heating up. I then proceed to the microphone, bringing it down to reach my height. Lynn sets up her guitar, while I get mine prepared as well. While Lynn finishes up, I take to the microphone to announce the next song.
"So, uh, how are you all doing tonight?" I ask, getting back into my enthusiastic host-type mood. I hear some cheering, some waving, glasses of punch raised in the air. "Awesome. I'm glad you all could make it, this has turned out really great so far. Anyway, that was a pretty cool song my girlfriend just sang, amiright?" I say, realizing I just said "girlfriend" to everyone here. Lynn doesn't seem bothered by it, and to my pleasant surprise, neither does anyone else. Instead it's a quite positive reaction. Some cheering and clapping for us, a few miscellaneous things called out that I couldn't quite pick up. "Thanks you guys, you all are great. So anyway, we gotta get this party going someway right? So here's something more upbeat. These acoustics are great, so we're still sticking to that for this, but I got something else up my sleeve. Some, business I guess you could say." I say with a wink. On that note, both Lynn and I start up our instruments. The mood immediately lightens up and already sparks with more energy.
"I'm in the business of misery, let's take it from the top. She's got a body like an hourglass, it's ticking like a clock..." Lynn and I immediately pick up speed and energy in comparison to Lynn's slower and more emotional song. At the sound of this faster paced song, I see more people come to the dancefloor. Some simply talk lightly and discuss the music and the night, but I'm very pleased to see quite a few people start dancing, just as we all should be doing at a dance party. Lynn and I constantly exchange smiles and small laughs during the song, which helps ease my nerves since I'm the main one in the spotlight now. It's nice to see other smiling faces, dancing and enjoying a song that I'm singing. Who would've thought I'd be here performing my own song in front of school people I've known since kindergarten? It's a pretty great experience.
I see Frank grab Gerard's hand in the distance and pull him to the dance floor, Frank immediately breaking out into a silly dance while Gerard stands there with red cheeks and looking flustered. He smiles at Frank's moves but continues standing still, looking around to see if anyone is watching. In another section of the room, I see Brendon talking to some other boys, one of them I know as Dallon. Brendon gestures towards the stage and makes tiny dance moves in his spot, which gains a laugh from his surrounding crowd. I then see Pete and Joe returning from the food table with a plate containing multiple slices of pizza, followed by Patrick with one slice and a few pieces of fruit, then Andy with an odd looking vegetable dish and a cup of punch. Joe cheers at the music, making Lynn and I smile again. I look around to the other areas of the room and spot Ryan just chilling in the corner, a few others scattered around the room exchanging smiles and conversation, some looking awkward and slightly uncomfortable but a lot of them seeming to have fun. Near the front of the stage area, I see Gabe and Bill again, not slow dancing anymore but instead jamming out and making some pretty cool dance moves. Gabe goes down the floor, bending his legs wide as he goes and nearly lands with his back on the ground, but pulls himself back up before he falls. Bill gasps at him in amazement, then tries for himself, which he in turn ends up sprawled on the floor. Gabe helps him up and Bill brushes off his clothes, his cheeks turning red. He stands up straight and positions himself, then goes sliding off across the floor, making Gabe chase him, running too fast and crashing into Bill.
Everyone continues with what they're doing, and as the song starts winding down, I can see Patrick fidgeting a little out of nervousness, since they plan to play after Lynn and I finish. Pete reassures him, while Joe lightly hits his shoulder to encourage him. Andy smiles at Patrick, giving him some advice, then turns to Joe looking a little nervous himself. I'm looking forward to their performance so much, I'm sure they'll be the ones to really get this party going.
"Cause God it just feels so, it just feels so good." I finish the last line of the song, Lynn and I close up the musical ending. The crowd cheers, then I see Pete, Patrick, Andy and Joe head up to the stage to star situating their set. They hug Lynn and I, and we exchange smiles and words of luck and congrats on good performances and what not. Lynn and I take off the instruments they won't need, as they start bringing up the ones they do. I run off the stage, more of a skip I would say, followed by a very smiley Lynn. We head back to the music room to put away our things, trying to carefully put away the instruments through our hyper actions and sudden rush of adrenaline and energy. As soon as I put my guitar down, Lynn's pulling me around to face her, and in an instant, our faces are pressed together once again. She walks me against one of the walls, her hands having a firm grip on my waist as she walks her hips up to mine, her neck craning down to meet my face. I guess my song lyrics were pretty accurate for right now, cause damn this is the greatest feeling ever.
AN: yay an update, and more gay ;) AND NEXT CHAPTER IS GONNA BE SUPER GREAT SO IMMA START THAT RIGHT AWAY, so hopefully the next update should be a lot quicker than this one??? leave comments on what you think of this and all that jazz. I've realized how much of a time span i've been working on this for, just within writing author notes at the end. like one of my first chapters I had put notes about the Emperor's New Clothes mv, and now for this one I can talk about the Don't Threaten Me With A Good Time video! ITS MAY ALREADY WTF, I started this in October. It just seems like a long time, and that seems pretty cool to still be working on this i guess? I've almost given up on it a few times but I wanna finish it and see how it turns out. I had some plans for this to be a lot longer and the story to go on for another year or so, but I'm actually not as interested in this story as I was when I first started it. So i'll finish this up while I continue plotting out some other stories I'm more excited about, so hopefully after this will be another long story, probably a band fanfic, but a different ship or a totally original AU type thing. Anyway, stay tuned for more updates and what not. Thanks for reading!!