Absolutely Unforgivable(24)

Since everyone was there, Brick decided to share his vision for a new video he had been working on. He looked around at all the girls in the room and said “Listen, I know this is going to sound crazy, but just hear me out.”

Mindy’s head perked up as she looked his way while Darla and Starla gave him a sort of f*ck you glare. They didn’t seem to like Brick but then again they tended to give that same glare to a lot of people.

“We take the girls and put them in front of the instruments like they were playing. We can put Mindy on the drums, Darla and Starla could play the guitars while Trista shakes the tambourine and that fine ass of hers to the side of the stage.” Brick then turned his head my way and said “Billy’s bitch will play the part of the lead singer.”

I looked around the room wondering which of the girls there he was talking about being Billy’s Bitch, when suddenly I noticed everyone in the room was looking back at me.

I jumped up and started to protest. “Oh hell no!” I wanted to say first of all I’m not Billy’s bitch, nor would I ever be. But I found myself unable to come up with a way to say it without offending him and I didn’t want to do that.

“Come on! Just hear me out. It’s going to be a really cool video,” Brick said, pleading with me and perhaps the other girls as well, to consider doing it.

Billy pulled me back to him and I leaned up against him to hear what else Brick had to say. “In the first part of the video the chicks are all dressed up in really nice clothes. Then it flashes to them playing the same instruments but they are in lingerie.”

I rolled my eyes but relaxed as Billy started running his fingers mindlessly up and down the side of my thigh. It felt good. It was mind numbingly intoxicating.

Just then Trista looked at Billy and then to me. She noticed where his hand was and then gave me an evil glare. Something tells me Trista isn’t exactly fond of me, yet I have no idea why. I truly had no idea what I did to offend her so much but at that moment I didn’t really care. The liquor had started to kick in and I was feeling great.

“Let’s just give it a try”, Billy whispered into my ear. I turned my body around to face him and he lifted one eyebrow as if to say please without actually saying it. My heart melted. How could I possibly say no to that?

I placed my lips to his ear. He squirmed against my body and that gave me a charge. "For you, I will," I whispered to him seductively, drawing all of his attention to me. He began to breathe heavier but I did my best to maintain my composure even though my heart threatened to beat its way out of my chest.

He shifted uncomfortably in his seat as I looked over at Mindy and then to the other girls in the room. They were all dressed up in amazing looking outfits. I was really the only female in the room who was dressed so casually. I looked down at my baggy t-shirt and cut off jean shorts and then back to Billy. “I’ll be right back,” I said quietly and then darted upstairs to my bedroom to find something more appropriate to put on.

I searched through my closest, frantically trying to find the perfect dress. Then I saw it, it was a simple white dress that had a bit of a shimmer to the fabric when you moved. It was beautiful in its simplicity. It was sleeveless and short, probably to short. It was not a dress that you would want to bend over a lot in. I matched the dress with a pair of large white bangle bracelets and some white strappy heels I had picked up the other day while shopping with Jeromy. I touched up my hair and makeup and then headed back downstairs to the studio where they were setting up the video shoot.

“Hey that’s not fair, you can’t see me back here,” Mindy pouted from behind the drums.

I glanced over at Darla and Starla and laughed to myself as images of the Robert Palmer Addicted to Love video flashed through my mind. The girls had the exact same look of nothingness on their faces as they swayed back and forth holding the guitars awkwardly.

Billy came up behind me and wrapped his strong arms around my waist. He leaned into me and softly sang in my ear the chorus of that very song. I giggled as he sang the words to the song I had just been thinking of. It seems we were both of the same mindset. Then he led me over to the microphone stand and lowered it so that I could reach the top.

Brick looked toward Darla who was rolling her eyes at him; then he looked over to Mindy and said, “Okay girls, act like you are playing. Act like you know what you are doing.”

I let go of the microphone stand put my hands down to my side, turned to Brick and said “This isn’t going to work. We need some sort of music to pretend to play to.”