Chapter Seven

"What kind of concert is this?" I ask, eyeing the growing crowd.

"Rock, I think." Teri replies, parking her car against the crub.

"Rock?" I repeat. "As in heavy metal, unnecessary screaming, no meaning whatsoever, Rock?"

"That's the first thing that popped into my head, too." Teri agrees. "But no it's more like Linkin Park, Skillet and Evanscence type."

We get out the car and follow the crowd to the concert. It's held outside to hold everyone. There's a lot of people here. They must really like this band.

A warm breeze brushes my bare arm and blows my hair into my face. I tuck it behind my ears and I figure catches my attention.

What the hell? What is he doing here?

I turn around and start walking the other direction.

"Audrey where are you going?" Shawn asks. "The concert is this way."

I swear under my breath and turned back around. I walk beside Gina, praying he doesn't see me.

The odds are slim. There's too many people here for him to notice me.

We find a place to watch the exciting concert. Shawn is on the outside farer from me, Teri, Gina, Chris, Hayes and Daire are in the middle and that leaves me on the outside.

I have a decent spot. Occasionally, a body blocks my view but they later move.The concert is about to begin. Everyone get out their glow in the dark stick and either wraps it around their necks or wrist. I see nothing but neon purple, green, yellow, pink and blue.

Out the corner of my eyes, I catch a neon green standing beside me. I glance at the body next to me and regret it. It's him.

Why does this happen to me? He's talking to one of his friends. I use that time to talk to Daire.

"Daire can you switch places with me?" I ask.

"Uh, no" She says. "I actually happen to like this spot."

I roll my eyes. Forget the spot more like the guy standing beside her.

"Please Daire."

"I said no. Stop asking." She retorts.

I'm about to ask again but he cuts me off.

"Audrey?"

How did he know it was me? I don't know. I'm tempted to walk away but I don't.

I face him. My ex boyfriend, Jason.

"What are you doing here?" He asks, curious.

"I was about to ask you the same thing. But then I thought about it. I don't care."

"You don't have to be a bitch about it. He was just asking." Jason's girl friend says.

I glare at her. "Was I talking to you?"

"No but you're not gonna disrepect my boyfriend."

I raise one of my eyebrow. "Boyfriend? He hasn't told you he's already-"

Before I can finish, Jason's clamps his hand over my mouth. I pull away from him.

"Let go off me." I tell him.

"No I think we need to go for a little walk." He says.

"And I think you need to let go of her." A deep raspy voice says.

I turn to see Hayes, glaring at Jason.

"This has nothing to do with you." Jason says.

"It has everything to do with me." Hayes replies back. "Remove your hand or I'll remove it for you. It's as simple as that."

By then Chris and Shawn shows up. I feel Jason loosen his grip and slowly removes his hand. He gives me one last glare before leaving with his girlfriend.

"You okay?" Chris asks.

"Nothing I couldn't handle." I say.

"Who was that guy?" Daire asks.

I shake my head. "No one."

They seem to understand that I rather not talk about Jason.

When the first song begins, the little incident is forgotton. I actually enjoyed myself. It was an amazing concert.

The stage light landed on our little group and we had to sing the next verse of the song.

And when I say "we" I meant they. I bolted from the light and stood on the side, watching.

"Thanks for the help, Audrey" Teri says, sarcastically.

It's the end of the concert and everyone's heading to their cars.

I shrug. "I would say sorry but I'm not."

"That's okay" Chris says. "We didn't need you anyway. My singing was amazing."

Daire rolls her eyes. "If you mean horrifying then yeah it was amazing."

"Hey!" Chris says offended. "Don't hate on my singing."

"Anyway, why didn't you sing?" Shawn asks for everyone in the group.

I shrug again. "I don't sing."

I can feel Teri staring at me but I refuse to look at her.

"You can't sound more horrible than Chris." Daire points out.

I'll admit, Chris is a horrible singer but he isn't ashamed. Considering he was singing at the top of his lungs.

"Yeah he's pretty bad." I says. "I don't know."
"She's sings" Teri says. "She's just a little jerk."

"Oh did you stop singing because you're the girl who lost your family!" Daire deadpans.

"Daire!" They all yell.

"What I was just saying." She says.

The tears falls out before I can feel them form. It's been a couple of days since I last I cried about them.

I tune them out and slowly back away from them. I run away, letting my legs lead the way. I hear them shouting my name. I don't stop. The tears continues to fall and I don't bother to wipe them.

So much for pretending. Way to go, Audrey. I'm back to square one, again.

I'm falling back into the dark waters and this time I don't think I'm ever coming out.

All those walls I built was useless.

Don't give up. The voice in my head tells me. You'll get over it.

I stop listening to it. It's over. I'm done pretending.