After dinner I thought we were going back up to the room but the guys found out there was a piano bar in the hotel and they wanted to hit it. Even though it was Sunday night the place was packed but we managed to find two tables we pulled together.
The guys went to get us drinks and all of us girls were alone for the first time. Candy pulled out a chair and sat on my right side. I was surprised since I don’t think she’d said two words to me since I met her back in September. She was definitely the shy one, blonde, blue-eyed, she looked more like Alice in Wonderland than a back-up singer for a rock band. Cyn told me she’d heard Candy singing when she thought no one was around and she was blown away.
Sweets on the other had didn’t have a shy bone in her body. Loud and bossy, she oozed sex all over every guy she met. I knew girls like her in college and I never liked them, and it was weird she and Candy were so close. But then they were the only twogirls in the foster home, so if nothing else I guess it would have given them a bond.
“How’s married life?”
Cyn laughed. “I’m not sure I can answer that yet. You know how we used to think our lives were so boring?”
I nodded. In a way mine still was except when I was around Flame.
“Well not anymore, and I don’t think we had two nights in a row alone since we got married. I am looking forward to some down time.”
“I bet. But it must have been fun too, right?”
“Oh yeah, it was. Right girls?” She looked at Candy and Sweets.
“Oh shit yeah, and the shopping was amazeballs,” Sweets said.
“I liked the food, it was fun eating in all the different countries,” Candy added.
Teresa nodded. “I think I’d like the food part best and all the sightseeing.”
“We didn’t have a lot of time for that. Here and there. We got to see the Louvre, which was awesome.”
“Damn I bet it was. I’d love to see it one of these days.”
Flame appeared at my shoulder and put another glass of wine on the table in front of me. “See what?”
“The Louvre, and I’d love to tour Paris, just wandering around and all the little surprises of the City of Love.”
“You will, next time we go you’ll come with us.”
I wanted to, it would be wonderful, but it would depend on when they went. If it was summer time I’d be all over that. “We’ll see I guess. Are you leaving again soon?”
“No,” Cyn said. “We have to finish the second album first. Then Joe said we’d probably not do another European Tour for about a year.”
“See, a lot can happen in a year, babe.”
“That’s true.”
The stories were great, but every once in a while I felt a pang of jealousy I didn’t get to do all of that, and when I glanced at Teresa I wondered if she was feeling the same way. I wasn’t jealous Cyn had gone, just that I didn’t.
Flame surprised me when he convinced the piano player to let him take over and he started with some classical music. I didn’t even realize he knew that kind of music, I guess I figured he was just a rocker and always had been. It didn’t take long though before he started playing some of the songs from their first album. I was kind of shocked at how many people knew the words, especially in a stuffy hotel like the Waldorf. But it just reinforced how popular they’d become.
They guys were having a blast and I didn’t want to take Flame away from their fun but it was getting late and I had school in the morning. I felt like a stick in the mud but I saw Teresa looking at her watch.
“I think I’m going to head upstairs, want to go with?”
“Yeah, good idea or I’ll never be able to wake up tomorrow. I’m not used to all thison a work night.” She winked at me. But she was right, we’d be in our rooms already either reading or watching TV until we fell asleep.
I caught Cyn’s eye and signaled we were going upstairs and waved goodbye. As the elevator doors closed we both yawned and laughed.
“Damn we’re boring.”
“No kidding. I bet they don’t notice we’re gone for hours.”
“Probably not. Maybe we need to hang do not disturb signs on the doors.”
