Brooke's favorite band is in town -- will she get to meet them?
(Author's notes: This is a work of fiction. In this fantasy, nobody is worried about STDs. In real life, all non-monogamous sex should be practiced using accepted safe-sex precautions.
All persons involved in sexual activity are 18 years of age or older.
Special thanks to LunaRosa for her perceptive, insightful editing. This is a better story because of her.
Note to readers: if you prefer your stories to be non-stop action, this may not be the story for you -- it is slow to become very Literotic. But if you like the characters and stay with it, I think you'll find it worth the effort.)
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Thursday night, getting late.
I was waiting at the stage door for a possible appearance by members of the hottest rock band in the country. It was me and about twenty other girls, about half of them with their boyfriends. I have to say, it was really funny watching the body language: the girls all looked excited, waiting for the band to appear, while the guys looked terminally bored, each one counting off the minutes until he could talk his lady into giving up and leaving.
Big Bang -- some people think it's a silly name, but I think it's better than what most bands call themselves these days. Regardless, they're a great band.
I've liked them since their earliest days. When I was in college, they were just a local band, playing all the bars. Even then they were really good, especially when they covered songs off the radio; however, their original tunes were, to be kind, awkward.
A year after I graduated, and moved to the big city to climb the corporate ladder, I was browsing on iTunes, and noticed a new CD by a group with the same name. The cover art included a photo of the band, but online it was so small it was hard to tell if it was the same guys. The group I used to go see was a quartet, though, and this group was a five piece, so it was probably a completely different band with the same name.
The more I looked at the photo, though, the more four of them looked familiar. So, what the hell, I bought it. Worst that could happen was I'd hate it, and be out $9.
I loved it. It was the same guys. I found their web site, and saw that they had added a lead singer -- great voice, incredible looking, and he seemed to have a flair for songwriting as well. The songs were great -- I recognized the bones of most of them from the old days, except the new guy must have re-written the vocal parts, because everything that used to be cringe-inducing sounded great now.
That was three years ago. Since then, they've put out two more CDs, both really good -- their songwriting keeps improving. They produced some really cool videos for several of the best songs, but I guess the videos weren't creative enough to go viral, so the CDs ended up not selling much.
Then, last fall, they went on a national tour, opening for a major act. The major act's audiences loved them, and that got them signed to the major act's major label, and for their new CD they used the major act's producer. With a more radio-friendly sound, and the promotional budget of the larger record company, they hit it big: their new CD entered the charts at Number Five, and has been Number One since then - eleven weeks. It's been certified Gold, and is well on its way to Platinum. Now Big Bang is a major act.
I saw on their website that they would be playing here, and went online to get tickets. They were playing two shows, Thursday and Friday night. Obviously I'd rather go on Friday and not have to worry about work the next morning, but by choosing Thursday, I got good seats near the front, instead of nosebleed.
My boyfriend and I had been going through a rough spell, bumping into incompatibility after incompatibility. The only redeeming thing was, the post-fight sex was always incredible. When I told him I'd gotten tickets to Big Bang, he coldly told me I should get one of my friends to go with me, he had no interest.
"You're kidding me," I said.
"Nope, NOT kidding," he smugly replied.
"All of those stupid bands you like that I've gone to see," I hissed at him, "without complaining, by the way. You know that I've liked Big Bang since college, before they ever recorded. Are you really that self-centered, you refuse to go with me?"
"You got it," he said, as he slammed the door to my apartment.
Normally what would happen was, within an hour, one of us would find the other one, we'd fall into bed, rip each other's clothes off, and fuck each other's brains out. I'm talking wild, out of control, animal sex -- he called it "lizard-brain fucking," whatever that means. Then the rutting would be followed by softer, more tender, more human love making, still with monumental orgasms for both of us.
This time, no one came back. No make-up fuck. It was over.
Good riddance. A friend from work was glad to use my other ticket.
A few days before the show, my college roommate emailed me, saying she had just seen them, and, in her typical understated way, it would be "worthwhile" to spend some time at the stage door afterward, because the band was hanging out after a lot of their shows.
My work friend loved the show, but wasn't interested in the afterwards, so she left. I understood -- we DID have work the next day.
So, there I was, standing there at the stage door, a little off to the side from the main cluster of other girls. I became aware of a guy standing beside me. I didn't want to be rude, but, bottom line, I was not there to hook up. I optimistically hoped he was just there as a fan, also.
"You think they'll show?" he said.
"I hear that they have in some of the other cities," I answered, without really looking at him, trying to send a signal of "not interested," without being rude.
"Who's your favorite?"
"I like all the original four. I don't really know much about the singer -- I used to see them all the time when I was in college, before he joined."
"I bet he's the reason most of these girls are here. You're from College Park?"
Cool, he at least knew a little about these guys, so maybe he wasn't only there to bother us girls... "I went to school there, but it's not where I grew up."
"So, you don't have a favorite?"
For some reason, I was thinking of Dan, the bass player. "I dunno... back in the day, I thought Dan was cute."
"I wonder if he'll show, tonight..."
I nodded.
"Do you think you'd know him, if you saw him?"
What an odd question...
I turned and really looked at the guy for the first time. He looked somewhat familiar, but I couldn't place him. He was actually quite nice looking: very short brown hair, friendly, open face, trim bod, sparkling blue eyes. He had an amused look on his face, like he was enjoying a joke that I hadn't gotten yet.
I continued looking at him, and if anything, his smile increased a bit. Then he unconsciously brushed his cheek with the back of his hand, and that gave it away -- I remember Dan doing that very gesture back in college days, and he had done it throughout the concert tonight.
But Dan had a shock of shoulder-length, thick, curly, honey blond hair, quite different from this guy's buzz-cut. Other than that, this guy was a dead ringer for him.
My face must have registered a change as I recognized him, because his grin widened.
"Dan?" I asked, slightly disoriented.
He held out his hand, and I shook it. "And you are?"
"Oh, right, um, I'm Brooke, but everyone calls me B."
"Pleased to meet you, B."
"So, what's with the hair?"
"Well, long hair is a hassle, especially when it's as thick as mine. So a few months ago, I was thinking it's time for a change, and I cut it off. When our manager saw it, he completely flipped out -- he just went on and on, saying over and over that the tour was ruined, that our looks were every bit as important as our sound, and I had wrecked everything. So, even though I think he's underestimating our audience, I got a Dan wig."
"It fooled me."
"It should, it cost enough. So now I've got the best of both -- I have 'the look' for on-stage, and the rest of the time, this (he gestured at his short cut) is much easier to maintain, and, as you now know, I can blend into a crowd and not get hassled by fans."
"Yet here you are, with the fans."
"Sorry, I didn't mean it that way. Fans are great, we owe everything to our fans. For the most part, I love our fans. There's a downside, though -- being 'recognizable' 24/7 is exhausting. It's a luxury to be able to be anonymous - have some privacy, go out in public, eat a meal, see a movie, walk around the park, without being interrupted."