Kate POV

Saturday, July 28, 1973.

On Thursday, July 26th, birthday was twenty-four years of Rog and invited everyone to go at night in my apartment to sing happy birthday to him. I had prepared a birthday cake for my friend and ordered some savory ones. All were at night on Thursday and sang happy birthday to him and today we celebrate in a pub, close to Wembley Stadium. I finish packing and look in the mirror. It's ten at night. I would go with my car to the pub, but Rog will pick me up. He's with Josephine and will give a ride to my friends Sarah, Julianne, his sister Clare and me. And my cousin Andrew will look for my friends Harry and Luke in their homes. Sarah is a Physiotherapy student, Julianne is an Architecture student, Harry is a law student, and Luke is a photography student.

At 10:30 p.m., Rog passes in my apartment and hitchhikes to me. In the car Josephine is already there and I greet her cheerfully. Then Rog search my friends Sarah and Julianne and her sister Clare. We chatted happily to the place. We arrived at the pub at eleven at night. We were the first to arrive and already booked the table for all our friends. Shortly thereafter, my cousin Andrew arrived with my friends Harry and Luke and also came with them Tim Staffell. In the end, my cousin gave a ride to Tim. Shortly after, the roadie of the band arrived, Jonathan Harris with his girlfriend next to Bri and Chrissy and Freddie with Mary and John with Veronica. We sat down together and made our requests.

We chatted happily and noticed that some men looked at me in the pub differently, as if they were interested in me.

"You keep getting prettier, Kate," Tim said, looking at me. "I'll tell you that with all the respect in the world.

I smile at Tim, who is single.

"Thank you," I said a little sheepishly.

I notice that Rog looks at Tim and me.

"We could book any day, just the two of us, have lunch somewhere, or go to the movies, what do you think?" Tim asked, looking at me.

I like Tim. He's a really nice guy, I talk to him a lot when we meet in the places, I'm not very friendly with him, but, I really like his person and it's been a long time since I've gone out with somebody alone, to talk, always IAM with my friends.

- I accept Tim - I smile at him - We can go to the movies, I love movies.

Tim smiled at me openly.

- I'm glad you accepted. I'll see some cool movie and in the next few days I'll call you to arrange to leave. He smiled.

- Combined. - I smile back.

I notice that Roger looks at us closely, watching us and I look at my friend and he quickly stops looking at me. I hope Roger does not feel jealous of a friend. I smile softly.

While we were at the pub, I noticed that my cousin Andrew exchanged a few glances with Clare, Roger's younger sister. I'm very observant. Clare responded to my cousin's eyes. All they have to do is fall in love. Bri, Rog, John and Freddie also told the others about the anonymous letter they had received and they suspect it to be from Michelle Ma Belle. And everyone was astonished and each one began to say something.

"Again this woman decides to appear, to attack," she said irritably. "What does she mean by all this?" Surely what she did to you was to provoke even, be careful, she wants to destabilize them. And you can not give up, you should not give up and be discouraged by what this woman is talking about in magazine articles.

- And for sure we will not give up, dear Kate - said convinced Freddie - Is not that Michelle Ma Belle that will end the dreams of the Queen.

"I want to end Michelle Ma Belle," Roger said with his glass of beer. "Damn it any time, I'll lose my temper."

"Do not think of doing anything stupid, Rog," John said, looking at Roger.

"Deacy's right, he's not thinking of doing anything stupid," Bri said.

"But we have to do something and I'm thinking of some things that our friends will soon know," Rog said.

After everyone argued for a while about it, we enjoyed the rest of the night, eating, drinking, and watching a Pink Floyd cover. Freddie then said:

- My dear, despite all the problems, I have good news: Bri, Deacy, Rog and I will return to the Trident studios during the month of August to record the band's second album.

- Really, but the second album already? I asked smiling.

"Of course, dear Kate, Queen can not be left behind. There are many bands recording new songs, new albums and we have to be ready.

"Then I'll propose a toast to Queen's second album, which will be recorded and make sure it's better than the first, and it'll sell a lot more, for sure." Health - I said smiling and we all made a toast.

I do not drink alcohol, so I made a toast with juice.

At one point I noticed that Josephine kissed Rog on the lips and left his side and headed for the bathroom. So I took advantage of the moment and sat next to him quickly.

"And Josephine?" I asked looking at him.

"She went to the bathroom," he said, lighting a cigarette and looking at me. "I realize you want to tell me something, I know you.

I grin at him openly.

"Actually, it's not telling you anything, but giving it to you for your birthday, I know it was Thursday, and I should have delivered your gift on Thursday, but what I had ordered had only arrived on store this Saturday - I said looking at him.

"Kate, my beautiful friend, you do not have to spend on gifts for me," he said, puffing on his cigarette. "Your friendship is your great gift.

- But, no fun if you have one too - I smile and open my bag and give him a small box.

He looks at the little black velvet box and jokes with me.

"Is it an engagement ring?" Are you asking me to marry Kate? If you ask me to marry I'll accept it. "He smiled and winked at me.

"Do not be an idiot, Rog," he said, smiling. "Open the box.

He stopped smoking and smiled at me and opened the box. As soon as he opened his countenance he was astonished.

"I can not believe you bought me the bracelet I had mentioned that I had seen one day in the shop window at the mall, but I had not bought it because I had no money," he said.

"Yes, I ordered the silver bracelet for you, it was to have arrived on Thursday, but there was a problem in delivery and they only managed to deliver me today, sorry for the late birthday present," I said ashamed. .

Rog smiled at me and stroked my hair.

"Kate, my dear friend, my angel, thank you very much for your beautiful birthday present. "At that moment, Rog embraces me affectionately, and I correspond to the embrace of my friend. - Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your beautiful gift. I already want to wear the bracelet now, by the way, put it on me, please.

I smile at Rog and put the silver bracelet on his right arm in the region of his wrist. He looks sharply at the bracelet.

"It's a wonderful gift, and this bracelet will never take it off my wrist, I'll actually take it off when I play and have to put on the drummer's wrist, but then I'll always put the bracelet back on." - He said to me smiling. Thank you again, beautiful blonde.

"No need to thank you, my dear friend." I smile at him.

- I love you! - He said to me smiling.

"I love you, too." I smile at him.

Rog and I talked for a while longer until he said:

"Josephine's taking too long. Is there a lot of queue in the ladies' room?

- Sure there is. I'm going to the ladies' room now. If I see Jo, I'll tell her you're expecting her, "he told Roger.

"Please do this, Kate," said the blonde.

I leave Roger's side and head for the bathroom. When I'm getting closer to the place in question, I see Josephine in a darker corridor, talking to a man I've never seen in my life. The man is very close to her and I realize that she is nervous with the approach of the same ... The young man touches the hands of her, caressing her and she looks to the sides in fear that someone could have seen her. That's weird. She says something to him, quickly and they embrace. Then Josephine hurries off nervously toward the table where our friends are, but the boy in question is still leaning against the wall, smiling, mysterious. For a moment it occurred to me that Josephine was betraying Roger. No, it can not be. Roger and Jo have been dating since November 1968. They love each other. Although Roger occasionally betrays Jo, he demonstrates that he loves her, even though he never said those words to her. Once, Josephine had commented that Roger always said that he likes her, that he had affection and respect, but, Jo, laments that he never said that he loves her. This is all very crazy. But if, by chance, Josephine betrayed Roger and my friend found out, he would never forgive her, Roger would never forgive a betrayal. Neither in friendship nor in love.

I was too tight to go to the bathroom, but I decided to go after the boy who was mysteriously talking to Jo. I want to know from him how he knows Josephine ...

To be continued.