Two days later and we were once again in the garage but this time we weren’t struggling with how the song would sound and we had Vic and Jaime helping us. Gid had managed to come up with a drum beat and the guitar had flowed easily after that. Now we were just running through the song over and over until we had all the kinks out and it flowed nicely.

Having learnt from last time, Bones had left the roller door open to let the air circulate around us and Gideon had opened the door leading to the main house so there would be a breeze with the back door open.

It was glorious.

Not even joking.

Like holy shit balls that breeze felt nice.

“Uh guys,” Leia called over, her head buried in the fridge, “we don’t have any drinks in here.” Leia stepped back from the fridge and held up a Chinese take away container. “Just this pack of what looks like white sludge.”

I smiled and locked eyes with Vic who was sitting on one of the couches before I turned to Leia and held up a hand. “Yeah, that’s mine. I ordered the Cream of Sum Yung Gai.”

Leia looked over at me with a frown. “You’re disgusting.”

I smirked. “You love me anyway.”

“Doesn’t change the fact that you’re disgusting,” she turned to Vic who was snickering and frowned. “You’re a grown ass man, Vic stop laughing.”

Jaime snorted at that. “You do realize you’re talking to the guy who wrote ‘Butt Sniffer’ in green tape on our equipment box right?”

“Besides,” I cut in, “you laugh at the word ‘penis.’”

My point was made when Leia snickered.

Jaime turned away from the immature couple and smiled over at me and Bones, who had joined me on the floor by the roller door. “Do you guys have a song title yet?”

Bones nodded partially. “I was thinking maybe ‘Crawling Back To You’ but I don’t think it flows properly.”

I turned to him and frowned. “Why not ‘Do I Wanna Know?’”

I watched as Bones’ bluish green eyes widened before he grinned. “That’s perfect!” He turned and slapped me a high five that echoed through the room and left my hand tingling.

Shaking my hand out I shrugged. “It’s like the only part that I sing so I figured I should get something.”

“You sing the chorus with me.”

I smiled as I lowered myself to lie on the ground, shifting to make sure my guitar wasn’t brushing the concrete. “I know, I was kidding. I like not having to sing much which is exactly why you’re the lead singer in the band.”

“Only because he won the coin toss,” Gideon called over from his drum stool.

“Semantics,” I called over before sitting up once more and looked over at Jaime unblinkingly until he shifted in his seat.

“What?”

I didn’t blink.

“What do you want, Alice, you’re creeping the shit out of me.”

I widened my eyes even further before smiling. “Will you call Mike and make him bring us refreshments?”

“Will it make you stop looking at me like that?”

I paused before nodding slightly. “Possibly, if he agrees and brings us food as well then I will.”

Jaime sighed before he pulled out his phone. “Fine. But only because I love you and you terrify me.”

I grinned. “I love you too, Hime Time.”

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Twenty minutes later Mike walked up the driveway and found us covering Bohemian Rhapsody.

We were unashamedly head banging.

Not even sorry.

Wisely though, Mike didn’t say anything, just walked in silently and set the plastic bags he was carrying on the table before settling on the couch beside his brother and watched us as we finished the song. As we faded out I watched as Mike reached for one of the bags, pulling it onto his lap before rifling through it.

As one, Leia, Bones and I pulled our guitars off and placed them in their respective wall hooks and stands while Gideon lovingly set his drum sticks on top of the snare drum before walking over to the couches. We each collapsed beside the guys, sighing happily as we sunk down into the soft cushiness of overstuffed leather before Mike nudged my shoulder.

The grin on his face was ridiculous as he held out a folded bit of black material. “I meant to give it to you earlier but I lost it at home. I finally found it at home and I hope you like it.”

Raising an eyebrow at his aloofness, I reached out and slowly took the cloth from him before forcing myself to sit up and unfold it. Needless to say it was one of the best things I’d seen in a long time. Eyes widened, I looked over at Mike.

“For realsies?”

He nodded.

I turned back to the tee shirt and held it up to admire it once more. “Holy shit this is awesome. I’m gonna put it on right now.”

Ignoring the curious expressions of the others, I pushed myself off the couch and bounced to my feet. That’s right, I bounced. Without any hesitation I pulled my grey Star Trek tee shirt over my head and tossed it towards the door leading inside before reaching for the shirt Mike had bought me.

As soon as it was on Bones groaned while Leia face palmed. I grinned at them before looking down at the logo displayed on the front, pulling on the bottom so I could see it better.

Pornhub.

It was perfect.

The shirt fell down to my thighs and the sleeves went to my elbows but I didn’t care. This was the greatest thing to happen all day. Sitting back down on the couch I leaned over to hug Mike tightly.

“This is awesome; I can’t to find you a shirt like this.”

“I’m glad you like it,” Mike replied as he reached over to roll the sleeves up for me. “It was a bitch to get, had to fight some old woman for it.”

“Seriously?” I asked while focusing on Mike’s fingers as they folded the rolls in my left sleeve before I twisted so he could do the right one.

“He isn’t kidding, I went with him to get it and this old lady made kittens,” Jaime backed up Mike and I couldn’t help but snicker at his miscalculation.

“Do you mean she had kittens?”

Jaime frowned slightly. “I don’t know, do I?”

Vic nodded at him with a laugh. “Yeah that’s what you meant.”

The shirt was part of our ridiculous tradition where when we’re on tour we’ll be on the lookout for a shirt with something sexual on the front. This was his retaliation to the Hello Titties shirt I got him a couple of months ago.

“Oh sure,” Leia called over from where she’d splayed herself over Vic, “we laugh at butt sniffer and penis and we’re children but when you get a Pornhub shirt it’s completely fine?”

Mike and I turned to look at her. “Yes.”

Jaime just shook his head at us as he moved forward on the couch to see what food Mike had brought us. “I can’t wait to see Tone’s reaction to that shirt.”

“He’d probably just shake his head at it and carry on,” Mike shrugged.

“Screw Tony, I wanna see his girlfriend’s reaction. Bitch seems way too uptight to be with him. It’ll be interesting to see how Miss Medusa- Piercings- Are- Ugly- And- I-Don’t-Get-Stoned-Or-Wear-Animal-Onesies acts over this,” Leia smirked at the idea of Kate’s reaction.

After we filled her in on how she acted towards me and Mike at the party Leia was instantly against her. ‘You don’t insult my family and expect me to like you’ she’d said when Mike told her.

Vic smiled at the thought before shaking his head. “Can we please not antagonize Tony’s girlfriend? I get that you guys don’t like her but until Tony gets that he’s one true love is Alice we have to put up with her.”

“We may put up with her, Vic, but that doesn’t mean we have to like it,” Bones said as he dug through one of the bags on the table before pulling out a can of coke. “Alice and Tony are t’hy’la and one day soon the Turtle will realize this.”

“T’hy’la? The hell is that?” Jaime asked in confusion.

“A fancy Vulcan term for soul mates,” Bones explained simply in between sips of his drink.

I reached over and plucked a can of coke from the bag before settling back into the couch before shaking my head. “Wow, we’re lame.”

Notes

Dedicated to Prince because I was listening to Cream when I got the idea and managed to partially lift my writer’s cock block. Thanks Prince.