Melting The Snow

“Hey, Gates? Is this your…tenth beer or what? Don’t you think you had enough? We still need to find a way out of here.” Jason mumbled to Brian, interrupting his loud talk with the two girls he seemed to have stolen all the attention from.

“Excuse me for a sec, ladies…” he showed his index finger, stopping their giggling for a second, to turn his face to Jason. “Look… I’m just trying to have fun here. Those fuckers accused me of being old and cranky before, so I wanna show them I still got it, I can still party. If I tell you I’m seeing four girls instead of two in front of me, then you tell me to stop, alright man?”

“Yep, dude, up to you. I’m just warning you…” Jason raised his palms up and searched around with his gaze quickly. “Have you seen Matt around? And that other chick, the blonde one?”

“Nope, maybe she went out for smoke and he joined her.” Brian’s answer was a little drawled even though he acclaimed he wasn’t drunk yet.

He wasn’t drinking that much lately and Jason knew it was just a matter of time for some girl, or girls, appear on his sight and shake his insides again. They were still young but had given up on the crazy and fast life on the road a few years ago, mostly because of Jimmy’s passing. But sometimes they managed to ‘escape’ from their boring rockstars routines. What a better time than a blizzard to do that?

“Oh… yeah, must be it.” Jason tapped Brian on his shoulder and went back to his place on the couch, where he could join them on the conversation again.
When Brian moved back to the girls, they were being entertained by Johnny and Zack already.
Damn it… they won’t steal my girls!

“So, tell us, where are you from?” Zack asked with that penetrating green gaze up to Mei and Leyla.

Fuck, he’s using his eyes to get to them!

The girls traded glances and smirks and Mei spoke up after drinking a sip of her beer. Brian noticed she knew well how to handle her drinking.

“Well… why don’t you guys try to figure it out? C’mon, that’s the game of the night. Who guess where we are from, win a prize.” Leyla opened her eyes wide to her friend and she imagined it was about time she should’ve stopped with the beers.

“Prize? What… kind of prize?” Brian asked trying to disguise his smirk and the dirty thoughts. Or not really trying that much.

“That… we decide later, my friend.” Mei showed her broad dimpled smile and it made Leyla almost spit her drink away. That seductive side of Mei wasn’t a side she was really used to face every day. Leyla knew her as a polite and reserved woman, but what a few beers cannot do, huh?

The guys let out their surprised interjections and smirks, showing all their excitement to guess their countries and get the special prize.

“What are you doing...?” Leyla elbowed Mei discreetly and mouthed it.

“I’m showing you how to have fun.” Mei answered and winked to her friend, who shook her head in disbelief with a silly smile. “Trust me.”

“Alright…” she mouthed hesitantly.

“Are you both Germans?” Zack tried without thinking too much. They were in Germany so… the most logical thing was to say they were Germans.

“Nope, wrong answer.” Mei looked with the corner of her eye to Leyla and hoped she would keep her mouth shut about the fact that he had got it half right. But technically, he didn’t guess who was German, so… wrong.

“You have different skin colors. You’re not from the same country, right?” Johnny tried, looking at Zack as if he was stupid and analyzing the girls features mindfully now. He would love to win whatever they could be offering to him.

“Yeah, you can say that…” Leyla replied, finally stepping into the game after a few more sips. Mei grinned in excitement, she loved those kinds of games and never thought she would be playing with… them. But she better keep it together, or they would find out about their little secret.

“You can be from Latin America but… I don’t know, maybe Spanish? Or… Australian? Damn, your hair color confuses me!” Johnny kept going, focusing on Leyla, the red head with tanned skin.

Mei chuckled when she noticed Leyla’s expression of outrage.

“What? My accent is that bad to be compared to Spanish? You’re damn wrong, and I don’t have that Aussie accent either so… Sorry, bro.” Leyla answered sharply and everybody laughed loudly at Johnny’s disappointed face, booing him for trying too hard.

“Damn, this is too hard… I don’t know the world that well as those guys. They should know all types of women around the world.” Arin said it, implying something the girls understood, and received a knee from both Zack and Johnny, like he had said too much.

“Hey kid, shut the fuck up, alright? We’re passed 30, we’re not in that same frantic pace we used to be when we were 25 so… yeah, not that much women now.” Zack wanted to fix Arin’s speech.

“Oh c’mon, guys, what about that night after the con… OUCH!” Arin received another good tap on his head for insisting on that subject. The girls didn’t know about their fame so… why start telling now?

“Don’t mind him. He’s just NEW at this… travelling around the world kind of thing. That’s what we do, by the way, we’re a bunch of travelers. Oh… can you… guess where we are from?” Johnny tried to change the game, smirking after.

“United States” Mei and Leyla said it both quickly in unison and made the guys arch their eyebrows and open their mouths in another surprise. Leyla showed her hand and Mei high-fived her with a smile. They were so fooling them.

“We’re that easy to read, huh?” Jason finally spoke up.

“Yeah… pretty much.” Mei replied and Leyla nodded.

“Okay, apparently those guys don’t know anything about women. My turn now!” Brian’s voice appeared intimidating and as he drank another sip with narrowed eyes, the girls smiled. Their hearts were pounding for some reason. Then he prepared his voice and sat straight. “Well… you, Mei.” He pointed to the brunette. “Mei… is it short for…?”

Mei was about to answer when Brian himself interrupted her, as cocky as he could be.

“Wait, wait, you don’t even need to answer it. Just by the way you can handle your booze, how soft white is your skin and how deep is your stare… hmm…” he went closer to her with his head and she froze on her seat with his cologne drenching the air. Leyla was just a bit jealous, nothing much. “Easy. You’re German.” And he sat back up with a proud grin.

Mei showed her dimpled smile again and all of them waited for her answer. She just nodded, glaring at Leyla with her snow white face being replaced by a reddish tone.

“WHAT!? NO, THIS IS WRONG! I got it right in the first place! I said you were Germans first!” Zack protested.

“Nope, you said we were BOTH Germans. My friend here is not.” Mei placed her arm around Leyla’s shoulder playfully and Zack was indignant. “Willkommen in meinem Land, by the way.”

“What did she… what was that?” Zack whispered to Jason by his side and he laughed. “Did she… curse me or something?”

“YOU!” Brian pointed to Leyla now. “Hmm… let me think. Tanned skin. Latin traces, as my dear friend Johnny stated, but not really Latin… Well, you’re a tough one to guess, huh?” he was seductively approaching her now, just as he did with Mei but Leyla decided she would play like him, going closer to his eyes contact and pretending she was hypnotized by the sight of that man. Which wasn’t a lie, by the way.

She licked her lips quickly, showed her dimpled smile either and he caught something.

“A country with good beaches, hot weather and beautiful woman with plump lips…” he licked his own lips and teased the hell out of that girl. “You’re definitely… Brazilian.” He whispered only to Leyla hear and she was almost going for the touch of his lips on hers and make her dreams come true when he backed off with the biggest smirk on earth. Leyla closed her eyes with her hand and nodded in agreement.

Leyla glanced at Mei in amusement and could finally breathe properly again. Mei was a bit shocked now, she never thought one of them would guess them both. Damn… they lost…

“And… that’s how it’s done, gentlemen.” Brian bowed to everybody and his cocky grin wouldn’t leave his face now.

“Yeah… that’s how you cheat on a guessing game.” Zack grumbled as drinking his beer, still pissed at the fact he won at least one of the girls’ prizes and Brian had stolen it from him.

Brian pretended he didn’t hear and stood up. “So… I let you two decide my… prizes and I’ll be right back with something for you.” He winked at the two girls and left the bus in a hurry, fixing his jacket and his hoodie before.

“Oh shit, Mei… look at what you’ve got us into! What is he… what is he expecting from us? I mean… You know I would give anything to have that man but…” Leyla talked in private with Mei.

They lost, they needed to decide his prizes. There was no way out of this.

“We could let him decide…” Mei arched her brows with second intentions.

“What? No, no way, did you see the way he looked at us? He really is that womanizer we always thought he was. And he almost got me into his trap. I can’t even think what kinds of things is going through his mind now.”

“C’mon, he can’t be that bad! I told you, we are here to have fun, enjoy this, it won’t happen again so soon. By the way… where the hell is Kim? She left the bus with Matt a while ago and still didn’t get back.”

“Oh god, do you think something happ…” Leyla stopped her worried words and thoughts when she caught a glimpse of the man of her dreams in slow motion coming back with a… guitar in hands!!! “Oh god, Mei, is he walking in slow motion in your head either?”

Mei gulped hard and nodded several times. “Yeaaaah….”

They kept drooling on Brian as he approached them and sat in between the girls, in a really tight space, making Arin to be pushed away from the little couch by Mei. She didn’t even noticed the kid there when Brian was setting up his acoustic guitar in his lap, ready to play exclusively for them.

“Ah, c’mon Haner, you’re really gonna use that card!?”Zack asked and Brian only shrugged, placing his hands on the fret board and fingering some chords.

“So… besides being a hell of a good guesser, I am a hell of a good guitar player too. What do you girls want to hear tonight?” he exchanged looks with the girls around him and waited. They were kind of speechless. They haven’t seen their concert tonight but they got better, they got Brian playing only for them. “Alright, alright, I’ll give you this song and then we discuss my prizes, okay?”

The girls could only agree as he fingered the first notes to Gunslinger.
They had to hold their mouths not to sing along with him, pretending they didn’t know the song, as they traded melting glances to his fingers moving on the guitar and to his lips singing beautifully. And before he could finish serenading the women, Jason’s voice interrupted the incredible moment.

“HEY, everybody! Where the hell is Matt and… the birthday girl, Kim, right? They are not outside, Brian did you see them outside?”

“No, not really, I… I thought they were inside already.” Brian frowned and the guys followed him, standing up.

“Oh shit… Whe-where are they?” Leyla and Mei asked to each other, getting so pale from the thought of losing Kim on her birthday and Matt, all at the same time. The grin on their faces melting away. “Oh my god…”

Notes

sooo...hmmm i was thinking about cutting this chapter cause you Kim said u didn't care about what me and mei would do on your story buuut...i am being a good friend here and im showing it to u just for u not get so left out on ur BDAY WEEK, cause IM AN AWESOME FRIEND and u better admit it!!! xD hahaha

im here with my tooth hurting posting ur story, so...i think me and mei deserve some credit for handling those guys the way we did huh?? Don't u wanna see where it goes? Will us find you and Matt eventually and ruin your time alone?? Or maybe save u two from a snow monster?? =p

Stay tuuuneeedd bday girlll <3 <3
(only one daaa-aaay)