Kate POV

Saturday, September 15, 1973.

I've had lunch and after lunch I decide to go to the center of London to buy some supplies for college, which returns on Monday.

I park my car in front of a stationery shop and go inside and decide to buy notebooks, pens, essentials for a college student. After my little purchase, I got into my vehicle and decided to go there, to a vinyl record store. I buy Pink Floyd's album, The Dark Side of the Moon, which I released in March of that year, however, I just bought it now and the album is a great success. I still see in the vinyl record store, Queen's first album. I had won the boys an album, I did not have to buy it though, I think I'll buy one, because I want to help the guys sell the album. I buy Queen's album. I have two at home now.

I arrive home again and as soon as I enter my apartment the phone rings. I look at the clock. It's five o'clock. Tonight I'm going out with the girls, we've already arranged. Are they them?

- Hello? I said without looking at the caller ID.

"Kate, hello, it's Roger," my friend said on the other end of the line.

I sighed. Honestly, I do not want to hear Roger's voice or talk to him. He treated me very badly on Thursday after the band's performance.

- What you want? I asked coolly.

"I want to talk to you, Kate," he said flatly.

"Roger, I'm out of time, I'm going out with the girls tonight, I have some things to do okay?" - He said cutting it.

"Please, Kate, call me Rog or Roggie, as you always did," he said flatly from the other end of the line.

"Roger, what do you want anyway?" - She said irritated.

"Kate, I'm sorry the way I treated you on Thursday. - He said sadly - Please, let's talk. I can go there now, I promise I will not be long.

"Did not you understand that I do not want to talk to you and that I'm out of time too?" She said irritably. "Stay with Josephine tonight, and please, forget me."

"Jo will be with you, have you forgotten?" I'll be alone tonight, "he said in that doggy voice without an owner.

- ROGER - I yelled at him on the phone, but then I calmed down - Roger, you have a car, go out with the boys tonight, do something okay? Or stand alone, as you suggested to me on Thursday, that you wanted to be alone. We talked for another hour, but, I do not want to talk to you right now, you took all of your anger into me and that made me very much of your life with you.

"Kate, please do not be cruel to me," he said sadly. "On Monday, our college classes begin. I'll get her to go to college together.

"You do not need Taylor, I have a car," she said harshly.

"But you always drive me to King's College," he said flatly.

"But on Monday I'll go with my car, okay?" - She said irritated.

"Kate, wait," Roger said, but I hung up the phone in his face.

Maybe I was very mean to one of my best friends, but, Roger needs to know that it made me very upset to be rude to me.

Then I sat down on the couch and sighed. I really do not want to talk to him. I resolved to put the album The Dark Side of the Moon to play and put in the song Time. I start to pay attention to the song and lie down on the couch.

POV Michelle Ma Belle

I'm at my house on Saturday, it's past six o'clock. The phone rings. Who will be this hour? I see in the caller ID that this is Joseph Marion, one of the heads of the New Musical Express.

- May I help? - Said boring.

"Hello, my dear Michelle Ma Belle," he said, smiling.

- What do you want? - You said a little authoritarian.

- I hope you have finished writing the article. I want him ready on Monday to go to the printing press. You'll talk about everything that happened at Queen's last performance, "he said, smiling.

- Those people with the posters tumultuating the presentation at the end? They did a great job, "he said coldly.

"They really did a great job," Joseph said. "And they've paid off. Now I want your article ready, go thinking of other ways to attack the band.

"I want to receive the triple that I receive from all Queen's publications," he said categorically.

- WHAT? He yelled at the phone and I smiled.

- That's what you heard. I have a lot of work to write a text that makes a success in the media, for the magazine, you have your reasons to hate Queen and I just want MONEY! I'm moved to MONEY, my dear. I want it from Monday, triple what I've been getting. She said impatiently.

"But what you get is a lot," he said defending himself.

"I want the triple or else, my dear, I'll look for another place to sell my stories," he said, smiling.

"If you do, I'll tell the press your identity, who you are, and the boys at Queen will know who you are behind Michelle Ma Belle." He smiled victoriously. "You will face a big problem with them, , be sure about it.

Curse you. He holds me in his hands. For a moment, I am silent.

- I can pay double. You accept? He smiled wryly at me over the phone.

- I accept. Agreement is closed! - Said convinced.

- Nice dear. I'll see you on Monday, "he said, hanging up the phone.

I hit the phone with everything on the hook. Damn Joseph Marion, damn Queen band.

Roger POV

At night Jo went out with the girls and Freddie, Bri and Deacy had called me out, but I'm depressed. Depressed by my friend, by my Kate not wanting to talk to me.

I'm in the living room with my guitar and start singing and playing Pink Floyd's song, Time. I feel lost, old man. I do not know what's happening to me. Kate is making me have emotions that I did not have before. I'm very bad, because my friend refused to talk to me and still hit the phone in my face. That hurt for me. If she wants to, that's fine.

I finish playing and sing the song and I take my beer and light my cigarette, thinking about my life.