Author's Note: Hi everyone and thank you for checking out this stand-alone story, featuring one of my characters, Noa the actress from The Gift - part 5 of which will be here soon. I hope you enjoy this and please rate and comment, all feedback is welcome!
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The venue was small, sweaty and packed to the gills, just how I like them. It was a "secret" gig for our Fanclub members and they hadn't disappointed, turning up and filling the place. We'd just released our second album and it was doing alright for itself.
The stage was large enough that we could move around without tripping into each other -that's Charlotte (guitar/vocals), Kate (guitar) and Jen (drums) and me (bass) who make up the band Violet Stiletto. It was a little smaller than we were used to now, but we didn't care, it put us in the sweat with our fans.
We'd hit them with a couple of new songs right from the off but now we were starting the fourth song of the night, one of the fan favourites, Shut Your Mouth, which starts with a long bass intro from yours truly. I'd moved to the front of the stage and lit up by one of the spotlights. There was a loud cheer from the crowd as most if not all knew what was coming. I started playing, a heavy bass chord resounding through the amps and the crowd roared and kept roaring as Charlotte screamed into her mic "I SAID..." "SHUT YOUR MOUTH!" the crowd screamed back, and Kate laid in with her guitar and Jen started smashing the hell out of her drums. I stayed under the spotlight as it started to strobe and scanned the crowd, watching them jump and writhe to the music. Our music.
I saw her standing to the side, just on the edge of the moshpit where legs and arms flailed wildly. She looked cute, wearing a white leather jacket and sunglasses. I smiled as we played out the song, moving to Charlotte's mic to sing out the final refrains.
I've made no qualms about my sexuality. In fact, there are plenty of photos in magazines of my shoulder tattoo of interlocking fem symbols. It adds to the allure of the band, the lez punk image ensured we had a lot of girls following us. The fact I didn't currently have a girlfriend meant there were many a hopeful groupie knocking around after.
Tonight was a bit different though, as we had to attend an after party thrown by our record label to kick off the new tour. We were there to shmooze and press the flesh. It was a small price to pay for the success we'd had and there was plenty of booze and eye candy. I have something of a roving eye and loved living up to my slutty bad-girl rep.
I was talking to a journalist about the upcoming tour when she came over. The girl I'd spotted in the crowd. She was in the same leather jacket but had freshened herself up - she must have, coz no one looks this good after a sweat fest like our gig. Under her jacket was a fitted black blouse loose over skinny black jeans and ankle boots. Her hair was dyed black and cut to frame her face perfectly. She ran her fingers through it as she said, "hi...loved your set tonight. I'm Noa".
There was no shyness to her which made me think she was used to attention. A model, perhaps.
"Thanks, Noa. I'm Bea," I smiled at her.
"Yes, I know...I'm a bit of a fan actually. I saw you guys last year supporting Wolf Alice in Rotterdam." She took a drink of her white wine.
"Rotterdam? You travel a lot, Noa?" My guess at her being a model was looking good.
"Yes...not so much at the moment but I was in a Danish tv series for a year and travelled a lot when not filming."
"You're an actress? I was beginning to think you were a model."
"Oh I've done a lot of that too but acting is my passion." Well, I was almost right then.
"So, what have you been working on recently?" I asked, genuinely intrigued to look up her work. She was beautiful in person, and I wanted to see her through the camera's lens.
"Actually, I've just wrapped filming on the new Lioness Pictures movie. Have you heard of them?"
I chuckled. Lioness Pictures? Every lesbian on the planet had queued at least once to see Dark Desires.
"Yeah, I've only watched Dark Desires about a hundred times."
"Oh, then you'll be glad to know Me and Beth Starr are the leads. We play cousins."
I'd lost count of the number of times I'd orgasmed watching Bethany Starr fucking her mistress in that film.
"Cousins, huh? Does that mean here's no hanky panky between the pair of you?" I was being lewd too quickly but she didn't seem to mind. The rest of the party was just background noise now. I quickly glanced around the room.
"Am I keeping you from anything?" Noa asked. I shook my head. "No I was just checking, we've spoken to all we need to. I can slink off, if you'd like? Or is that too forward?"
