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Okay, this was a fast fun story to write that I finished off in a screaming hurry between other writing projects except in the end it wasn't that fast. It's written for the 2018 Literotica Valentine's Day Competition (after I started it for the 2017 Valentine's Day Competition and didn't get it completed in time) and okay, it's about 40k words / 11 LIT pages so it's not a short one. What else can I say? Valentine's Day. Roses. First Time. Definitely not a Romance although there's Love in there. Non-Consent / Reluctance, Gangbang. Revenge. It just all came together. Hope you enjoy.... Chloe
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You go talk to your friends, talk to my friends, talk to me
But we are never ever ever ever getting back together
Like, ever...
"We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together", Taylor Swift
Screw Your Roses, Asshole
"I'll give my all to you, you're my end and my beginning, Even when I lose I'm winning, 'Cause I give you all of me, And you give me all of you ..... I give you all of me, And you give me all of you, oh oh...." My voice faded away.
Leaving the mike, I smiled at the non-existent applause and jumped down of the small stage, leaving Sadie and Megan and Sandy to keep playing background music. Me? I needed a drink real bad and I wanted to puke. Playing saccharine music in bars did that to me. God, what wouldn't I have given to be doing a Nightwish cover. Or, and bite me if you don't like her, Pat Benatar. Miley maybe. Taylor Swift even. God, anything except this sentimental pap.
"Doing real good up there, Alex." Mikhail pushed a drink at me across the table in the corner where he was hiding out. Definitely not his kind of bar and he wasn't their kind of customer. My kind of guy though. Definitely. Tall, blonde, blue-eyed and hunky with those chiseled cheekbones. Worked out and it showed. I just looked at him and I melted every time. Why he was dating me and not some blonde cheerleading slut I had no idea.
Maybe coz he loved me? I liked that thought. He hadn't ever said it though.
"Hey, it's all good experience." He gave me a grin. And that drink.
"Yeah, I know, I know." Bacardi and coke. I needed that. Badly. Free drinks and a hundred bucks, that's what we were being paid and it wasn't like we could drink much and still play. Not me, anyhow. Asian alcohol intolerance; that was me. Two shots of Bacardi and I'd be giggling. Half a dozen and I'd be on the floor.
Anyhow, we weren't exactly making the big bucks for playing four hours of background music. At least I was getting requests and nobody was cat-calling or booing. Or, god forbid, throwing things at us. That hadn't happened for a while now. Not since two weeks ago at that dodgy bar and it's no fun being called a gook slut by a bunch of drunken assholes when you're trying to sing. That'd been a totally Blues Brothers moment and I'd never have gotten that either except Mikhail liked that movie and I'd watched it with him.
Mikhail shrugged. "You guys got a gig tomorrow night, Alex?"
I shook my head. "No, just this one tonight. And next Friday. Every frigging Friday for the next month." Maybe I should've said yes when they asked if we could do Saturday's as well, but hey, I'd been optimistic. We'd land another gig, maybe get to do something a bit more edgy and that manager at that Nightschool Club had been kind of interested in us playing there and they went for kind of more edgy music.
We'd have had to wear school uniforms but whatever, they wanted edgy music. That was what I wanted to do. Edgy. Metal even, like Mikhail's band. Metal, that'd be so cool. We did these amazing covers of Nightwish's Amaranth and Sleeping Sun whenever we got the chance, which so far was never. I could cover Tarja anytime. Any! Time!
"Wanna come along to our gig next Saturday, maybe do some backing vocals?" Mikhail's band did death metal, they were starting to make a name for themselves. Playing pretty much every weekend.
"Sure." I was smiling. Their gigs were fun, they even had fans. Fans that cheered and yelled and screamed. Even backing vocals was okay. Maybe they'd even give me a spot for a song, they did covers too and hey, what can I say? I covered Tarja like you wouldn't believe. Way better than that bitch, Laney. Waaaay better.
"Better get back up." He gave me a grin. Sadie was looking at me.
And the bar manager was next to us. "Gotta request for you, Ms. Wong." He grinned. "Old dude over there wants you to do Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow. Know that one?"
"Sure we can do that one." I finished my drink, jumped back up onto the little stage. Time for some more schmaltz. Another hour and I'd be done the Roberta Flack impersonations.
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Gig done. Mikhail helped Sadie and Megan and Sandy load their gear in Sadie's old van that one of her brother's had given her for her eighteenth birthday. I lugged my amp and speakers and guitar out to my beat up old wagon. Mom's old car that she'd given me this year for my eighteenth birthday, an old Corolla wagon. It was actually older than me. Stood around outside dividing up the cash. Twenty five bucks each. Gas money split. My share'd half fill the tank. I was losing on this, I'd used half a tank just getting here. At least we weren't playing for free. We'd done that last year.
"Wanna park somewhere on the way home?" Mikhail asked, once we were out on the freeway. His hand rested on my leg, sending little shivers through me.
I thought about it, but no, Mom and Dad, they'd be expecting me home. They'd worry. They'd call if I wasn't home on time. I'd already called them to tell them we were leaving. They knew Mikhail was with me, they didn't worry so much when he came along, even though they didn't like him that much. Guess Mikhail was the lesser of the two evils. At least they'd let me go ahead with the band and the gigs, they hadn't put their feet down and said no. Amanda's parents had, which was a frigging disaster coz she was way and beyond better on the keyboards than Sadie. That'd been a total bitch.