Be My Bad Boy

Now, you'd think I'd have been totally over the moon to see Dad again. He could fix this mess. He would look after things and say it was all going back to the way it had been. But, when I saw him, my stomach lurched. Instead of running to him, my feet stayed cemented to the ground. My old life had been perfect, so why didn't I want it back?
I watched as all the shouts and cries flooded the room with noise then I turned and went to find Angie.
"What's wrong?" she asked but I didn't want to go into it.
"Nothing. Let's get this shit organised so we can get everyone as they come out. I'm wishing now that we'd invested in more stock. At least we won't have to lug those heavy boxes home, right. That's a good thing.”
Angie gave me a quizzical smile but then she grinned, not willing to push it any further.
Then the band finished. It'd be fairly quiet until after the headline act Angie had said but people flooded out the doors before the next band even started.
"What do you mean you have no t-shirts left?" a girl asked me. "Can I go on the mailing list so I can get one?"
I looked at her in confusion but Angie whipped out some paper and a pen.
"Put your details on there and we'll get you sorted."
Inside the sound of the next band started but the energy had gone from the room. I almost felt sorry for them, playing to a few of their friends.
The line got longer and longer. I swear half these people had already bought stuff before. Then to make it worse, CC came out and decided to help us but that just meant more people flooded around us so he could sign things. In the midst of the chaos, a man waved me over.
“Are you two okay on your own?" I didn’t want to run off and leave CC and Angie to deal with these crazy fans alone.
"Yeah, we're fine. And he looks like some bigwig. Better run." Angie gave me a shove.
I walked over to the guy.
"You're the manager?" he asked. "We'd be really interested in having a chat with you. I think you'll be interested too."
He handed me a business card with the name of his record company on it. I didn't squeal out loud but I did just a little bit in my heart.
"Call me during the week," he said, "and we'll set something up. I'm sure you'll want to celebrate tonight."
When I got back to the table, CC and Angie both looked at me. I showed them the card.
"This is awesome," said Angie.
"It's just a card. It might come to nothing."
"You are the best manager we've ever had," said CC. "We'd have never got anywhere with someone like that before. He'd have kicked us out the door."
"Well, if you guys hadn't played your asses off tonight, he'd have never been interested."
"And thank you, Angie. You really made it all happen. How did you get so many people here?"
Angie grinned.
Finally, the crowd died down. We had a box of money and pretty much no stock left. I began to understand why people loved business so much.
"Are you coming out for drinks with us?" CC asked.
"Hells yeah," said Angie.
But I could see Dad and Frank waiting just outside the doors. I couldn't put that off.

Notes

I'm, it's short XD Sorry