(Love) Contract

Matt’s POV

The breakfast was rather quiet, Brian and Tara were talking about things they needed to know from each other and I tried to concentrate on my food.
Not looking at her or staring, and I really had to think about the whole situation.
I shouldn’t stay here, this closeness was making everything just worse.
I would always try to steal a touch or a kiss from her, I couldn’t risk the whole plan to go down, because I was thinking with my dick.
Was it my dick that was thinking… only?

“Matt?” Brian looked at me eyebrows lifted.
“What?” I frowned, what did he say?
“The festivals are in a week, Tara needs to know because she has to talk to her boss… I mean her other boss not you.” Brian smirked and I nodded.
“Yeah, next Thursday starting, but we will leave on Wednesday evening I guess, have to talk to Larry about the details.” I tried to concentrate again. “On Sunday evening we should be back so you need at least the time off between Wednesday and Sunday…” Brian nodded.
“We are driving with the Bus?” Brian asked.
“Yeah, I thought about cancelling and doing it by plane, but wouldn’t make sense and would cost a lot more. I think we can handle the bus for the few rides… or?” I asked and saw Tara glancing at Brian who nodded self-conscious.

“Sure, we can, maybe we gotta talk about the rules of our relationship again before that, cause if we get the back room of the bus, the guys will be wondering why you are not moaning all night long.” Brian chuckled and I lifted my eyebrow “Maybe we will just think you are lousy in bed and that’s the problem.”
“Oh bro, that was a low blow and you heard woman otherwise.”
“Wow, that’s enough testosterone talk for me.” Tara stood up and the doorbell rang.
“Alright guys, show time.” Brian announced, instead of walking to the door he walked over to Tara kissing her and I turned away, this doesn’t bother me, this doesn’t bother me….
“Don’t you want to open the door?” I asked finally and Brian let go of Tara.
“Now, I will go.” He grinned and slapped Tara’s ass when she turned around.
I sighed and helped her clean the table.
“Hey Zack, man.” Brian greeted and just when he closed the door Jimmy and Johnny arrived.
He motioned them to the living room and I walked over there, a last time I threw a glance at Tara who stood a little lost in the kitchen, I wanted to turn around and comfort her but thought better of it, she was Brian’s girlfriend, he would have to notice.

“Matt, hey man. Thought you would be the last…” Johnny grinned and plopped down on the couch.
“Nope, I was the first actually. I stayed with Brian for a couple of days, had a problem with some water pipes and they need to renew a couple of things...” I lied, didn’t come up with a better explanation just now.
“Yeah, right, we all know you wanted to have a better eye on Gates.” Zack grinned and I nodded.
“Well I killed two birds with one stone, right?” I sat down beside Zacky.
“Where is Gates? He opened the door and vanished?” Jimmy asked suspiciously.
“Don’t know, was here a minute ago.” I shrugged.
“HANER, Stop fucking that mysterious girl and introduce her. No fucking manners, that guy.” Jimmy yelled.
“I will think about introducing my girl again to you, if you keep talking like that, Jimmy.” Brian walked into the living room, Tara by his side, holding hands, her knuckles were white, she must be squeezing his hand pretty hard, but Brian wasn’t showing it.
“Alright, so these are the guys I told you about, my band mates. Zacky, Johnny, Jimmy and you met Matt before.” Brian motioned from one to another and Tara nodded with a smile.
“Hey, it’s nice to finally see you. I heard a lot.” Tara started but was interrupted from Johnny “A lie, everything he said is a lie.”
“Oh so you are not the best bassist in the world, damn…” Tara grinned and Johnny chuckled.
“Alright, truth, couldn’t deny that, huh Haner?” Johnny grinned and Brian rolled his eyes “As if I would say something like that…”
“So since when are you together, and why haven’t we met before?” Jimmy narrowed his eyes on Tara and she just shrugged. “We had other things to do…” Brian kissed her cheek and she smiled even more.
“Oh nice, dirty talk.” Zack grinned.
“Joke aside, we had a little rough start… so we didn’t wanna make it out in the open too soon.” Tara said and Brian nodded.
“Tara is a friend of Jason, I saw her in this club the other night, how long ago now, beauty… Like 3 months or 4? Damn, time is flying.. anyway Jason and I been to the club. I danced with Tara, had a good time, as you can see she is damn hot… when I wanted to leave I went to Jason telling him I found… someone, he saw Tara and damn got a hold on me and gave me the whole ‘Hands of speech’. I didn’t know what he wanted, but Bro Code following I agreed. But how could I fucking stay away from her… she wouldn’t leave my head, so I went to Jason for some answer… well finally after a lot of work I got the number of her and we texted, we wanted to meet but of course, Jason warned her off me and then as if faith wanted us to be together, we met again. I went to Jason and who was there, Tara. Since then we hit it off…” Brian leaned over to Tara, pulling her to his lap and kissed her, his hands in her hair and I rolled my eyes, what a show.
“And what does Jason say?” Johnny asked eyebrow lifted.
“Ask him, I told him I don’t care, she wouldn’t leave my mind, I knew she must be mine and she is.”
“Why would Jason tell you to stay away? You had something with Jason?” Jimmy asked curious.
“No, Jason and I are just friends, but he liked to.. you know watch out for me, did that whenever he visited me in Portland. I used to live there for quite a while.” Jimmy nodded satisfied and I had to change the topic, couldn’t hear any more of it now.
“Fine, we are not here to talk about Brian’s love life the entire time. So what if we just start with the business. You can squeeze answers out of Tara the next time, alright?”
“Yeah, good.” The other grumbled, I guess not really satisfied with everything thrown at them.
“You guys want something to drink?” Tara asked.
“Yeah, coffee.” We agreed and she smiled, “Be right back.”

Tara’s POV

I went to the kitchen and sighed, first meeting down, but I knew this would get only more difficult.
I prepared the coffee machine and pulled 5 cups out of the cupboard.
“Hey” Suddenly a voice sounded beside my ear and I jumped to the side. “Damn, you scared me.”
“Sorry, didn’t mean to, you are a little jumpy, huh?” Jimmy asked leaning on the other side of the kitchen island looking at me curious.
“Something wrong?” I asked a little helpless.
“Not yet. I just think Brian is way too into you for such a short time. He is normally just about… you know one thing.” Jimmy walked closer to me and I had to look up to meet his eyes.
“Is that a good or a bad sign?” I asked him and tried not to show any weakness or anxiety.
“Good for now. I just want you to know, that he is my best friend and I will have an eye on you. Brian’s heart was broken once, and he deserves the best. If you are not the best for him, I will find out and I just want to warn you...” I swallowed thickly.
“Jimmy??” Matt yelled.
“Oh and I want milk and sugar, please.” He smiled, his whole mood changing from one second to the other and with that he walked away back to the conversation of his band.

I breathed in deeply and held the air for a moment, as long as I could until I let it all out at once.
Wow, this job would be harder than I thought.
And what did he say?
Brian’s heart had been broken before, and he deserves the best? Had this something to do with Michelle?
Maybe I should really google the story’s about him… if he still refused to talk to me about it.

I brought the coffee to the guys and sat silently in the corner watching their planning and discussions, the time was flying and soon the doorbell rang again.
I wondered who that could be.
“Babe, will you answer?” Brian asked and I got up. “Sure.”
I walked to the door and saw Alessia standing there with a smile. “Hey, oh hey Tara.”
“Hey, shit did I miss something? Work related?” I asked her and she frowned then smiled.
“No, actually… I got the address from Zack… is he not here? We have a date for lunch?” Alessia looked a little helpless and I smiled, nice to know.
“He is here, come inside.” I motioned her inside and closed the door.
She followed me to the living room when the boys were just standing up and packing their notes together.
“Zack, it’s for you.” I said and he turned towards us. When he saw Alessia he smiled brightly.
“Hey, you are early, but we are just done.” Zack smiled.
“Who is that?” Matt asked.
“That my friends is Alessia, we are having a date now, so wish you all a nice day.” With that Zack laid his arm around Alessia’s waist and walked a couple of steps.
“Since when are we not introducing our new girlfriends?” Jimmy asked.
“Since Brian also thought it wasn’t necessary.” Zack shot back and with that he and Alessia left without another word.

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