POV Roger

May arrived. I have two more months of college and then I'll take my diploma. I'm on the run with college work, exams and course completion work, plus the Biology teacher internship. On the second weekend of May, Freddie, Bri, Deacy and I went to the apartment where Freddie and Mary live in Kensington and I asked a friend of mine named Douglas Puddifoot from Cornwall to take photos of the boys and me on the back cover of the album . Douglas is not a professional photographer, but, he takes some nice pictures. Douglas works as a BBC camera operator. During Saturday and Sunday all day, he took photos of me and the boys, with baubles that Mary got at the Biba Stores where she works. Clare, Ivy, Mary and Veronica accompanied the photos and also gave some tips on how they could be made. On Sunday afternoon, Douglas showed the photos he took and we liked the result.

"The pictures were excellent, dear Dougie. Said Freddie, smiling. - You should invest in photography.

The girls liked it too. I gave Ivy a picture of me with the shirt open, showing my belly. I was wearing sunglasses. She smiled and said,

"Rog, you look so beautiful and sexy in this picture, my friend.

"I'm beautiful and sexy, Ivy, always. You can assume, "he said, smiling, winking.

"Convinced," Ivy said, smiling, hugging me and kissing me on the cheek.

"You're beautiful and sexy, too, you know that, kitty. I said, smiling into Ivy's ear.

"Rog, you make me embarrassed." Said Ivy in shame.

- My angel was embarrassed. She said smiling, hugging her closer.

The month of May passed and on the following Saturday, Douglas took the photo of Freddie, for the cover of the album. We all went to Trident Studios and Douglas took the photo of Freddie on a stage that was at Trident Studios. Freddie was alone on stage, holding a pedestal and singing. The photo session lasted the whole morning and a part of the afternoon. Late in the afternoon, Freddie chose the photo for the cover of the band's album and we approved. In the next few days the cover and back cover will be ready and then the guys and I will put only the band's final credits on the album.

I realized that during this month of May, Ivy has been out a lot with Bri. They have gone to the mall, cinema, theater, alone. I felt a little bothered about it.

One day, after the guys and I finished writing another song for the band's next album, I said to Bri:

"Brother, are you in love with Ivy?" I noticed that you have gone out quite alone, to the places.

"Rog, my brother, rest easy. Ivy and I are just great friends. She has become a very special friend to me as well as to you. Said Bri smiling.

"Sorry brother, I do not want to sound like a jealous friend, but, I promised Igor, Ivy's brother, that I would take care of her in his absence. And after all that she went through with a madman wanting to kill her, without knowing the reason so far, my care with her, on any subject, only increased. I do not want her to suffer in friendship, in love, you see, Bri? - I said.

- I understand Rog perfectly. But as I said, rest easy. Ivy is special and I will never hurt her. I as a great friend of hers will also take care of her. Bri smiled.

Even Bri responding that they are just friends, I feel troubled and jealous. Will Bri take my place in Ivy's heart as the great protective friend?

At the end of May, the cover and back of the band were finally ready. All that's missing is the credit, because the boys and I will work later. At the end of the month, my younger sister Clare turned twenty and gave a party in a ballroom near Imperial College. She called some college classmates, her friends, and our mutual friends. I asked her if I could take a college classmate and Clare said no, so she does not want some confusion to occur like the one at Freddie's party in November. I got a little annoyed with my sister. Actually Clare is jealous of me with women. She told me several times that I have to find a girl to date for real and not just stay with women for sex. But I can not. I was always a womanizer and after the disappointment with Jill everything got worse. Since then I'm single and I get more and more with women just for little flirtations and same sex. My mother, my sister, and even Ivy get annoyed with me, saying that I have to find a decent girl.

During my sister's birthday party, I saw Ivy and Bri talking often, laughing and dancing. They talked to me, with our group of friends, but, I feel that they are in a world particularly theirs. I'm starting to piss me off.

After Clare's congratulations, when she cut the cake, I realized that Brian and Ivy had disappeared from the ballroom. I started looking for them and after a while, I went to find them, in a large garden, which was next to the ballroom. They were sitting on one of the benches, side by side. They were hugging and Ivy was leaning against Bri's chest. Bri kissed her hair and began to sing the song Something of the Beatles, authored by George Harrison for her. I felt very angry. Only I can sing any song for Ivy, especially Harrison's.

He sang to her and she smiled back.

Are they a new couple? And they have not commented on anyone yet?

When Bri finished singing to her, they smirked at each other.

I approached them in silence. When I was closer, I said,

"Am I disturbing both of them?" He said seriously.

Both Bri and Ivy frightened me by my presence and looked at me white, like a sheet of paper.