Sin.

It’s been a couple days since our first show and we are now in a hotel in the middle of Nevada thanks to the bus getting a flat tire. Thankfully it was supposed to be our day off anyway so we won’t be missing any dates. I don’t think the boys would hear the end of it if they had to cancel shows. Some of their fans are pretty crazy and think they are entitled to everything. It’s sadly always been like this.

I’m sitting in my hotel room, removing the nail polish off my toes and listening to I Caught Fire by The Used when I hear a knock on my door. A string of curse words flow out as I pad over to the door. Opening it, I see Lola, Meadow and Tanis standing there all decked out for a night on the town.

“Why the hell aren’t you dressed?” Lola asks, pushing her way into the room. “We have a night off and you plan on staying in the hotel room?”

“We’re in the middle of a desert.” I remind her. “Besides, I thought I said I wasn’t going out tonight with you guys?”

“You told Ashley and CC no.” Meadow smirks. “You never told us no.”

“Come on, Jinxx found this topless bar down the road.” Tanis whines. “I know you don’t want to stare at chicks tits all night but it’ll be a night of drinking and dancing and spending time with you new and old best friends.”

“You guys know the answer already.” I sigh. “Besides I have a date with a bottle of pink moscato and the jetted tub this place surprisingly has.”

“Come on!” All three girls whine.

“Guys, this won’t end well.” I tell them. “Lola and Meadow you know what happens when Ashley and I are around each other while there is heavy drinking involved.”

“Maybe you two need to fuck for old times sake.” Meadow shrugs. “Would it be such a bad thing? The sex couldn’t have been that bad.”

“You guys aren’t going to leave until I say yes, huh?” I ask, changing the subject. The girls nod their heads with a smirks on their lips. I let out a sigh before going over to my bag to get a change of clothes. This causes the girls to squeal before rushing out of my room to leave me to get changed in peace.

**

“Tease.” I chuckle as we walk up to the bar. “How original.”

“You worked at a place called The Devil’s Whorehouse.” CC reminds me. “That’s not much better.”

“I don’t know The Devil’s Whorehouse sounds more badass.” Ashley defends my former workplace. “That’s the whole reason we walked into that dive.”

“I thought it was because we were blasting Girls, Girls, Girls?” I question with a smirk. “Because what strip club wouldn’t blast that.”

“We were so disappointed that no one was stripping to that song when we walked in.” CC playful frowns.

“Because while we may work at a place with Whorehouse in its name, we had more class than that.” I remind them as all of us walked into the place.

“So what kind of music did you dance to?” Tanis asks as we find a place at the bar. “If you don’t mind me asking.”

“Everything and anything.” I reply. “If I could sway my hips seductively to the music, I’ll dance to it.”

“Okay what song were you dancing to when you met these two assholes?”

“Tainted Love by Marilyn Manson.” Ashley replies even before I can say I don’t remember.

“You remembered that?” I ask, really shocked. “I didn’t even remember that.”

“A man doesn’t forget that first time he falls in love with as stripper!” CC exclaims, earning a glare from Ashley. I don’t say anything until the bartender comes over and starts taking our drink orders. And with the amount of alcohol we just ordered, I know this night will go down in flames.

**

I walk outside where Ashley was. He was sitting on the concrete playing with his phone. He has a bottle of beer next to him, which was obviously taken out without anyone knowing.

“We are in Ashley Purdy’s happy place and he’s sitting outside alone.” I say, earning a jump from the bass player. He looks up at me and glares a little before I sit down next to him. “So spill rockstar. What’s wrong?”

“Needed to escape a little bit.” He shrugs.

“But there are boobs instead waking to be gawked at.” I chuckle. “Does this have to do with what CC said about falling in love with a stripper. You’ve been uncharacteristically quiet since then.”

“No it has nothing to do with CC.” He states. “Were you really shocked that I remembered the song you were dancing to the night we met?”

“Yea…” I reply as if it was obvious. “I’m not your first stripper and I wasn’t your last, I honestly didn’t think my performance stood out that much for you to remember I was dancing to Tainted Love. I didn’t even remember that tidbit of information.”

“If it was any other girl, I wouldn’t have remembered.” He states. “But I remember every song you danced to. Every stupid line in every stupid movie you’ve laughed at. I wish you were like every girl, but you aren’t and it pisses me off.”

“So you’re out here because of me being here.” I mumble. “I honestly didn’t want to come, the girls made me. I knew me being here would mean, you not having a good time.”

“It’s not that.” He states. “I’ve been thinking…”

“That’s never good.” I joke, earning a chuckle from Ashley.

“Let’s start over…” He states. “Let’s forget about the last five years. Let’s erase the memories of us sleeping together and breaking each other’s hearts. Let’s just be friends. Because believe it or not before sleeping with you, you were one of my best friends.”

“You want to go back to being just friends?” I question him. “Before we became two horny people that got drunk and slept together? You think we could do that?”

“There is only one way to find out.” He shrugs. “What do you say Sin? Be my friend again. We can laugh at the stupid shit CC does and not have to worry about our past.”

I lean closer to him, “that’ll never happen again, Ash.” I tell him, frowning. “I didn’t leave you because I didn’t love you like you loved me. I left because loving you as much as I did scared the ever living fuck out of me. Pretending what we didn’t happen would kill me more than anything else. I’ll love more than anything to be friends with you but I’ll never be able to forget what happened between us.”

“I was actually hoping you’ll say that.” He says quietly before his lips crash onto mine...

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