Cal laughs and makes his way with Lex to the studio and out of the sound booth. I hate that she has red hair. I replay his threat to make it hurt a million times a day and it hurts. Seeing it is a whole new level of torture. He takes her hand in his as the come's in the room, then moves his hand to her back in that comforting and protective way as he holds the door for her.
"Holy shit! That was unreal Cal." Shame says and gives him the one arm man hug before kissing Lexington sweetly on the cheek. "You too, your voice is platinum for sure."
"I didn’t know you could sing like that." Noah says, still seated between Bright, Axe and myself. A look of awe and wonder on his face. I agree I didn’t know either, but I don’t have the knowledge like these guys do. I simply could tell he had a voice.
"That’s because when I do back up my tone only makes Chads even stronger. Alone I am moreZaynethanBenjamin Burnley."
"Awe, thanks man. That’s a hell of a compliment." Chad says and Cal rolls his eyes.
"How humble of you to pretend you don’t know your voice is similar to his." Cal says and laughs before they exchange knuckles. "So, we are going to play thatFleurieone now and show you the orchestral side I told you about earlier."
Everyone agrees and wishes them good luck, but I am watching his every move and hear her laugh as the light goes red signaling that the outer sound, i.e. us in the production room, is cancelled out and then he hits record just as he does last time.
She is still laughing and flinging her bright ass red hair over her shoulder. Chick thinks she's the fucking little mermaid or something. I shake my head warding off my own demons when Noah interrupts my toxic thoughts.
"Hey!" He whispers yells and snaps his fingers in front of my face. "You told him no remember? If you can’t be supportive because you’re jealous then go smoke or some shit, but stop glaring at Lex. She is sweet, wet behind the ears and very fuckin young. Calm down baby psycho."
I lean back and look at him when he called me baby psycho. "Baby psycho?" I ask, the fact I am obviously offended kept me from screeching it out loud for everyone.
"Yes. You. He is the main psycho here, courtesy of your defiance, now you act as bad as him. Knock it the fuck off Jen. If you aren’t going to be his, then stop interfering for anyone else to be in his life by choice. You have no right to keep denying you want him then act offended or jealous when he spends time with any woman."
Noah-" I stopped talking though the minute I heard Hurricane start. It was captivating and still hip hopped out like the first one, but this had an undertone too it that made it far more poignant that the first. This one felt hollow or lost... it left an ache in the first verse.
There is denying the talent between them or the fact her voice was remarkable and unique.
Cal sat silent playing the piano as she sang and captivated us all. I watched him though. His emotions were all over his face no matter how hard he masked them and watching him was magnificent. I never knew he had so many layers or that his talent was so vast.
The song is titled 'Hurricane' and I remember calling Tay a hurricane he kept walking into. The lyrics tell me this song reminds him of that moment, but it could be wishful thinking.
It is the first time I question if I could tell him my secrets and trust he would forgive me and perhaps help to heal me. I question it because I have never watched him shed the mask he wears and welcome the realness of his emotions.
Exactly what Lexington told him would happen.
Oh my god, he is so beautiful.
Tears prick my eyes as I try to hide how much I love him... but I don’t know in this particular moment why I would ever deny him? I feel so foolish.
The beats she created get louder and his face becomes more intense the louder and harder it hits.
As if he knows I am paying attention to his every move he stands as Lexington sits to replace him as he reaches for his guitar... and blows me completely away.
His guitar is a loud presence in the room when the beat she produces plays loud, but doesn’t burry his sound. There’s these crazy sounding drums and a mixture of his guitar and the piano, it is so intense.
Right when I think it is over though, Cal plays a light cord as she plays just as slow on the piano. Then, in sync they both stop to only come in harder than the song could have predicted and now we are all screaming and cheering.
Axe flies from my lap and goes to the window and beats on the glass to the tune of what percussion he hears and I know it is why he changes the beats of this song, to hit hard and play it so Axe can feel it. Every song is created for Axe since the day his hearing went to shit.
This is no different. He needs Axe to hear it.
So, we can feel it.
He is, truly a God damned Rockstar.
Cal
I saw my boy when I brought in those percussion drums and knew he would love it, feel it. By the look on the faces of our intimate audience told me I knew damn well I was on to something.
"We rocked it." I say to Lex and she smiles from ear to ear.