Absolutely Unforgivable(23)
As she pulled up the band’s YouTube page I read the title of the video, ‘Our Little Superstar ... Stacy Keller’. Then she pushed play and I could have died, right then and there. I felt so violated. How could they do this?
The band’s webmaster had pieced together a video montage of me and just uploaded it to their YouTube page. I know he had just finished it because the video started off with a shot of me doing my back handspring off of the diving board into the swimming pool earlier today.
I cringed watching every second of the video.
After the opening shot of me doing my back handspring off of the diving board, which they played back in slow motion, the video cut to a shot of me painting in my bikini, prancing around the back yard covered in different colors of paint and then the video flashed to my dance number I had done for Jeromy the other day by the pool, when I thought we were alone.
Oh God. Did they see everything? I began to panic as I watched the rest. Was this going to turn into a real life sex tape? I pushed pause and turned to Brick demanding to know how he got this footage.
“You guys are jackasses!” I shouted as my face reddened with an angry blush.
Billy came up beside me giving me a reassuring look. “It’s not what you think,” he said softly while grabbing my hand and stroking it in an attempt to calm me.
I frowned at him and sighed as he continued. “After he recorded your dance while hanging out the window,” his eyes looking upward for just a moment as if he was showing me where they were, “I pushed him away and made him give you some privacy. I promise. He left right after. I told him it wasn’t cool that he was spying on you like that.”
He leaned into me and grabbed my chin and forced me to look up at him. “I promise. If anything else did happen by the pool, nobody would have seen it.” My blush had returned in full force as he squeezed my hand tightly and then his fingers linked with my own.
“Please just watch the rest of the video. You are so adorable; we just wanted our fans to fall in love with you as much as we have.” I felt the hum of his words vibrate over my skin. “Trust me.” His voice was hypnotic.
I turned back to face the screen as the rest of the room cheered me on. They may have been enjoying it, but I wasn’t happy. This is not normal. What kind of jackass goes around recording people and posting those videos on the Internet?
The video cut to some scenes of me singing Jessie’s Girl with Billy on the stage that night at Rowdy’s and then ended with a shot from another part of that night that made my stomach fill with butterflies. It was the part of the night where Billy put his arm around my waist and pulled me into him tightly. I gently squeezed Billy’s hand as I remembered how that felt.
As mad as I wanted to be at Brick for creating this video of me, something else was keeping me calm. It was Billy. After the video was over he tilted my chin back so that he could look at me; I felt as if I could drown in the intensity of his gaze.
“Why?” I whispered to him, scarcely able to force the word from my lips.
He arched a brow, like he had just thought of something amusing. Then the corner of his mouth tilted up in a dangerously sexy grin. “You are my little superstar,” he rasped.
My mind flashed to my dream of Billy from the night before and I started to pull away from him; but he wouldn’t let me. The more I struggled to get free of his embrace, the more he pulled me in tighter to him, pressing his body against mine. I tried to relax but his body was mercilessly hard against me, provoking thoughts of lust and desire.
The frustration of the video mixed with a sweet ache that roared a little brighter with every brush of his body against mine was more than I could take. I struggled to regain control of my senses.
Luckily Mindy bounced back over to me handing me a drink. “Here, you look like you need this right about now.” She was right, I did and I quickly downed the entire glass and then took Billy’s drink out of his hand and drank it just as quickly.
She smiled and then pointed to the screen. “And look, you've already gotten over 80,000 views!” I turned away embarrassed. How could this really be happening? Did Jeromy know about this? Oh God, what was he going to say when he sees this video?
Eventually Billy dragged me back over to near where he was sitting before. He nodded to all the liquor bottles sitting on the table; so I happily joined him on that side of the room. Billy sat back down on his bar stool and pulled me partially down on his lap. I leaned over and poured liquor into my glass. I was so mortified after watching that video that I needed something to help me relax.