Roadtrip

Mia’s POV
“Mia! Mia! Jimmy is here!” I turned around to see a completely panicked Izzie, she panted heavily from running.
“What? Why are you so worried? They have no money, only the money from the charity thing.”
“What if he starts winning?”
My face dropped, she was right. If he started winning we would have a big problem. Izzie and I got hired with a special mission. Izzie would be the hostess for the most of the day and I... well, let’s say I was hired to walk around the casino and... uh... chat... with people who were winning.
“Let’s not get ahead of ourselves. If Jimmy doesn’t win a lot, we will be fine and we will have a lot of money at the end of this day and so will have the boys. Chill, it will work out”

We parted ways again, Izzie went back to the entrance and I started to walk around again. I wore a little in ear in which the floor manager would tell me where my presence was wanted. This casino was big and I still hadn’t seen Jimmy.

I was walking around and got a “job” at the blackjack table. I offered the girl that was winning a lot of money a free meal and free drinks for the rest of the day, being sure she got away from the table to break her winning streak. She and her friend took my offer gladly and they moved away from the table “Good job Mia, she was already on a 1000 dollars, just mingle a little, okay, I will get back to you” I nodded. I know he could see my every move.

My stomach was knotted, I was praying that Jimmy would do bad, or got bored soon and would just leave. As soon as I walked into the Ceasar room I saw him, he was cheering and had a big smile on his face. That was also the moment I heard the voice in my ear say the one thing I was dreading since I knew Jimmy came into the casino

“Mia, Roulette table, Ceasar room, tall guy, dark hair. He needs to loose, I want you all in, I’ll pay you double”

I looked over at Jimmy. Shit! I didn’t want to do this, but we needed the money. Maybe I could do some damage control. Maybe I could make him leave, then he could keep the money he already made. I walked over to the table, putting some extra sway in my hips, I caught Jimmy’s glare. He definitely notices me.
“Hey Jimmy” I kissed his cheek “Are you playing all the money Matt made with the striptease?” I had to think of a plan fast. Jimmy was so happy
“I’m winnining! Big!! Look! I have already doubled the money from Matt’s striptease, I’m on a winning streak”
I let my hand wander his thigh, hoping for his lust to kick in, waiting for him to drag me out of this room to take me right here right now, but he was just too happy for winning. The floormanager screamed in my ear “You better do something Mia, he is already on 4000!” I sighed and told Jimmy to show me.
He put 500 on black, and won
“Goddamnit Mia! Get in there!”

I hated myself for what I did next. I made him go all in. I just hoped his luck wouldn’t let him down now. If he won this I could make him come with me. I would just kiss the shit out of him and grab his junk, I knew he wouldn’t resist that.
Just before the croupier closed the bets, Jimmy changed colour and I had a really bad feeling about it. I put my head against his chest, not able to watch the ball drop.

“22 black, all bets on black win double, bets on 22 black quadruple their wages”
I snapped my head around and my mouth was hanging open in astonishment. “How much was that?” I asked Jimmy quietly “Almost 5000 dollar” Jimmy replying, clinging onto me.

“JIMMY! PLEASE TELL ME YOU ARE VERY UPSET ABOUT SOMEONE ELSE’S BET!”

Shit, shit, shit! I couldn’t see Matt, but his voice made me shiver. When the guys came into sight, I got scared of the look on his face and tried to crawl behind Jimmy. In the corner of my eye I saw Izzie enter the room, followed by 4 security guards. “Gentlemen, would you please be so kind to take this outside?” Matt’s silence was frightening as he walk ahead of us all to get outside. Jimmy followed him obediently. Izzie put her arm around me and kept a little distance in following them. Just before we reached the door the floor manager came out of his office.

“You did very well Mia. Izzie you too. I think this will be all for today, here’s your pay, will I see you again tomorrow?”
I shook my head.
“That’s a shame” he replied as he handed me the envelope.

Matt turned in his heels
“What? You work here?”
“Yes, and they did a very good job” the manager replied
I saw something clicking in Matt’s head “You! Get the fuck out of my sight! You did this! You made Jimmy loose all the money we had! I never want to see you two again. GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY SIGHT!”he yelled at me, I felt Izzie flinch beside me and my heart was racing like crazy.
“But Matt, it wasn’t...”Jimmy started
“You shut the fuck up too, I don’t want to hear it!”
Brian and Jimmy looked at us, as Matt stormed out of the casino, followed by Zack and Johnny.
Brian ran over to Izzie, kissing her quickly “We’ll be by tonight after he cools down, it will be okay”
Jimmy stared at me “It wasn’t your fault hottie, I changed my mind... I shouldn’t have.... I will talk to Matt” He kissed me softly and they quickly left.

Tears were welling up my eyes, I could tell from his face that he wasn’t mad at me, but him walking out like that, made me think... What if he didn’t forgive me? What if I never saw him again? I put my face against Izzie’s shoulder and started crying. She pulled me close to her side and started walking for the dressing room
“Let’s get something to eat and head back to the apartment, they will probably be there soon” she said hopefully, but I could hear from her voice that she wasn’t too sure.

Brian’s POV
Jimmy and I went out of the casino, I saw Jimmy turning around and looking at Mia and Izzie, he stopped in his tracks and was about to turn around again, but we needed to settle this with Matt first.
I grabbed his arm and dragged him behind me.
“She is crying… did you see? I think she is crying…” Jimmy looked gut-wrenching.
He never could see anyone cry.
“She will be fine, we will go over later, like I said. We will just wait until Matt has calmed down and then we gonna go over…”
We arrived at the van and I saw Johnny behind the wheel. Matt must have been too agitated to drive.
Jimmy had a lot of explaining to do, but if I got everything right, we just lost all the money we earned.
But how could that be Mia and Izzie’s fault?
And why would Jimmy risk so much money?

The ride to our apartment had been quiet, but when I looked at Matt he was staring draggers at Jimmy.
Shit, poor guy. He was just trying to make more money… Matt should understand, he was normally the gambler and we had to keep him away from casinos as far as we could.
So he should be the one to understand…
Damn, this was so fucked up.

When we walked into the apartment and Matt came in last, he walked straight over to Jimmy and grabbed his collar and shoved him against the wall.
“WHY?? WHAT IS GOING ON IN THAT HEAD OF YOURS?” Matt yelled at him but Jimmy didn’t even flinch.
“Calm down, Matt.” I tried to get between the two of them.
“Yeah, let Jimmy explain what was going on.” Zack said and moved to my side.
“WHAT? WHAT SHOULD HE TELL US? THAT HE LOST ALL THE MONEY BECAUSE OF THESE TWO BITCHES YOU ARE HANGING OUT WITH?!” Matt yelled and that’s when Jimmy was roused from his trance.
“DON’T TALK ABOUT THEM LIKE THAT!” Jimmy yelled back and shoved Matt’s hands away.
“YEAH SHUT UP, MATT!” I also couldn’t stand Matt talking like that, he was still angry and mad I got that but no need to lose his head about something like that now.
“Fine, tell us.” Matt said and walked to the chair and sat down.
“I got bored, couldn’t write a song… I wanted to see Mia and… yeah well, I went to that Casino.
I had a fucking winning strike, I won it all.. I was at nearly 5 grant’s… Fuck I don’t know what happened… When I met Izzie she made some comments about waiting for you and not playing even Mia…” Jimmy stopped seemed to notice something.
“Shit, Matt… It’s not their fault. It was mine… I didn’t know they were working there and they didn’t know I was visiting them… They tried to get me away from the table, but I was lost in the winning, I had luck all evening… Fuck!”
“Alright, you know what… It is still their fault, they saw you and they knew you and still they played their game with you!” Matt said but sounded at least a little calmer.
“If you wanna blame someone, blame me.” Jimmy said again.
“Doesn’t matter to me, I still don’t wanna see these girls again, I don’t want you to get near them. We have a job to do! And you two are not concentrating on the task at hand, since they came to the picture, so better get used to the thought of not seeing them again!” Matt said and turned a little to the side - conversation over for him.
I looked at Zack and Johnny to wager their reaction.
“Matt don’t you think that’s a little harsh… maybe we should let the girl’s explain-” Zack said and I was glad that he was at least a little on our side.
“Don’t, Zack!” Matt said and looked back at us.
“Better put your time to a good use and write some music, wasn’t that your idea all along?” Matt said and then stood up and walked to the bedroom.
Zack and Johnny shrugged then walked to Jimmy, “Sorry man, I tried. But you shouldn’t have gone there alone… I mean.. it’s still our money you lost there…” Zack said and clapped Jimmy’s back who nodded.
“Let him calm down… he already has a job for us tomorrow… let him sleep over this and lay low.. you know how he likes to pull the father speech when he is all hot-tempered.” Johnny said and walked towards the bathroom.

Jimmy and I sat down in the living room, Jimmy told me the whole story in detail and honestly, I couldn’t blame him. I have seen Izzie and Mia in that hot outfit and… shit, I would have done the same.
I looked at the clock and saw it was nearly 11.
“Hey, you wanna try to sneak out now? We told the girls we would come over, I think Matt needs more time to calm down.” I said to Jimmy.
Jimmy nodded absently and got up, we had scribbled down some notes and lyrics fragments but nothing made sense now.
Better leave it that way…

I got up and took the car keys quietly from the counter and moved over to the door, Jimmy tiptoed behind me, when we slowly opened the door and I put a foot outside I was about to cheer when suddenly…
“Where do you think you are going?” Matt voice sounded behind us.
Damn that guy!
“We just wanted to get some fresh air? Is that a crime now?” Jimmy asked and glared at Matt.
“Guys, come back inside, I told you no meeting these girls again. I don’t wanna loose anymore money and time with them…”
“Fuck, Matt… You liked them too, don’t talk about them like that. It’s not their fault… Jimmy just had bad luck, don’t play the innocent lamb here on us, you fucked up often enough too.” I told him and turned around.
“Maybe… anyway… We got a job to do tomorrow, the Charity Race organized this car wash thing, I told you about yesterday and we have to be there in time and make some good money… as you know we don’t even have enough to rent a decent hotel or anything.” Matt replied and pulled us back into the flat.
“But-” Jimmy began but Matt stared him down.
“I will see her again tomorrow… I promise you, no matter what you say.” Jimmy narrowed his eyes on Matt who shook his head in annoyance.
“We will see about that. Now get some sleep.” Matt went to the bedroom again.

Jimmy and I sat on the couch, I had my guitar in hand, strumming softly.
“Give that to me.” Jimmy took my guitar, he couldn’t really play but it helped him with his lyrics sometimes the best ideas came from a drummer writing on a guitar… and sometimes the worst.
He began to strum the guitar and it was an easy riff, at first I didn’t really like it, but then we played around with the idea and it turned out into something good.
We wrote it down and Jimmy made a drum beat with his sticks on the table.
I smiled, “Yes, that’s it.”
“Wait, I got an idea… what you say…”
Now that I've lost you, it kills me to say
I tried to hold on as you slowly slipped away
I'm losing the fight
I treated you so wrong, now let me make it right
Come back to me, it's almost easy
Come back again, it's almost easy
Come back to me, it's almost easy
Come back again, it's almost easy

I looked at Jimmy who had his eyes closed and sang softly in his unique voice.
He was an amazing songwriter, has ever been… and this.. this was one of these moments you never forget.
“Damn Jimmy, that’s amazing.” I clapped him on the back, I took the guitar from him and feeling inspired as hell. I played the riff and completed it with a solo of my own.
“Fuck yeah, that’s it. That is perfect!”

I looked at the clock, shit it was already 3 in the morning, we had to sleep, but first we scribbled all our lyrics and notes down so we could present this new song to the rest of the guys in the morning.
This was it, ‘Almost easy’ one of our new tracks, I knew it.
And I knew of whom Jimmy had thought writing it…

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