The Rocker's Muse

Tristan: Hi, Emily.

Emily: Hi, Tristan.

Tristan: Do anything interesting today?

Emily: You might say that.

Tristan: I’m still mad you wouldn’t switch buses and stay with me tonight. Now I’m cuddling with Duffy and not you.

Emily: Duffy?

I looked over at the worn, gray stuffed toy I’d had since I was a kid.

Tristan: My ratty teddy bear from childhood. Where I go, he goes. The guys have given me a lot of shit for that over the years. But he’s my good-luck charm.

Emily: That’s actually adorable.

Tristan: Adorable for a nearly thirty-eight-year-old man to be sleeping with a teddy bear? Not sure. But I don’t give a shit. It’s the one thing I have from home, and he’s sticking with me.

Emily: I can only imagine the things poor Duffy has witnessed.

Tristan: Thankfully, one of his eyes is coming loose. So he can’t see very well.

Emily: Oh, that’s good. LOL

Tristan: He wishes you were here on the bus with us, though.

Emily: I’d be safer on the BDSM bus.

I grinned.

Tristan: Ah yes, the BDSM bus and magic mushrooms.

Emily: Pretty sure the only magic mushroom is in your pants.

I bent my head back in laughter.

Tristan: I think you’re right. And boy, you are fucking sassy tonight. I love it. Definitely seeing different sides of you today, literally and figuratively. 😉

Emily: If today taught me anything, it’s to stay on my own bus.

Tristan: Ouch. Am I that scary?

Emily: You’re that good. And therein lies the problem.

Tristan: I barely showed you how good I am. I wanted to do more, but I need to be careful with you. I also don’t trust myself not to take it too far.

Emily: I had no business messing around with you.

Tristan: Why do you keep saying that? We make the rules. And if I had my way, you’d be on this bus right now.

Emily: Didn’t you have enough to explain to them today? You want to add why I’m suddenly traveling with you?

Tristan: I don’t care what they think; although, I did deny anything between us when they asked earlier. But that was mainly to protect you. I didn’t think you’d want them to know.

Emily: They suspected something?

Tristan: Ronan caught me with your scrunchie before. He also saw us getting out of the car together today.