[punkrocker22]

-Avril-

I walked into Koi to immediately see Deryck. He was sitting at a table in the back with his band, and as I had suspected, he wasn’t dancing. I knew he wouldn’t dance, he just did not seem like the type. But, I had hoped he would. Dancing was one way that we could get closer, one way for him to notice me. Now that he wasn’t dancing, my only hope was to go and talk to him. I figured that would turn out bad. I would probably stutter like crazy and make him think I was stupid. But, it was my only chance at this point.

I was staring into space, dreaming about Deryck, when I heard someone call my name. I turned around and saw Evan right next to me. “Are you alright?”

“Huh? I mean, yeah I’m fine…just tired. That’s all.”

“Oh, poor AV. Do you want to go home and rest? We can do that if you don’t feel up to this.”

By home, he meant the tour bus. I didn’t care how tired I was. I was not going to give up a chance of impressing Deryck to go the smelly bus and sleep. “No, I’m fine.”

“Are you sure?”


“Yeah, positive.”

“Ok, well, do you want anything to drink?”

“Um, sure. Get me the usual.”

“Vodka?”


“You know it.” As Evan went to get the drink, I looked around to spot Deryck again. He wasn’t sitting at the same table as before. Suddenly, I turned around to see him right behind me. I smiled at him and since they were already looking at me a bit weird, I figured I better start talking.

“Hey, um, Deryck, right?”

“Yeah, your Avril, right?”

“Yep.” I smiled a bit, realizing what I hadn’t before. He knew my name. As simple as it sounded, it was a start.

“Sooo, did you like our opening act?” Stevo said impatiently. He had to be one of the rudest out of the group. Immediately when I started to answer, all of the group put their heads down, not looking at me. Except Deryck. He looked at me as I talked and although that was what I wanted to happen, it made me a bit uncomfortable. I felt my knees grow weak and my cheeks blush. I hoped he wouldn’t notice.

“Oh, yeah, of course. I love your music. I think your awesome.”

“Oh, you do.” Deryck said nodding his head in agreement. He obviously knew his music was great but was too humble to say it. “We like your music too. In fact, we listened to it in our bus this morning.”

“Really, well, that’s great.” I nodded my head in agreement. Suddenly, there was a long awkward silence. Deryck kept staring at me. I stared at him back but then looked at the ground, feeling shy.

To break the silence, I asked the most embarrassing question ever. “Deryck, would you like to dance?” I grew up to believe that it was the man’s duty to ask a girl anything. Girls were not suppose to ask guys out, it was just not right. But, I just couldn’t help myself this time. I wanted to dance with him so bad that I would do anything just to be able to hold him close for awhile.

“Um, no thanks, I don’t really dance.” Deryck obviously thought the question was kind of sudden. He put his head down as if kind of embarrassed.

“Oh, ok.” I said disappointed. I was about to turn away when I heard Stevo begin to talk.

“Oh, come on Deryck. How can you just let a chick down like that? You know you want to dance with her. Go on. Look, your favorite song is playing too.”

I listened to hear what song was playing to find that it was IRIS by the Goo Goo Dolls. I couldn’t believe that was his favorite song. That was my favorite too. We had a lot in common, although he didn’t realize it.

As I saw his bandmates continue to push him into the idea of dancing with me, I just waited there, hoping they could convince him. Finally, after several minutes had passed, I heard him say “oh fine.” Inside, my heart began to beat faster and I felt like I just might die. I saw him get out of his chair and like the gentleman that I knew he was, he asked me for my hand to dance. I said sure (of course) but kind of stuttered from my shyness. But, I doubt he noticed. The music was too loud. He softly grabbed my hand and held it tight within his. I felt like we were connected for a minute. It felt so right to be holding his hand. Almost too right. AT this point, I had forgotten about Evan and he had forgotten about me. I saw him dancing with a girl that he just met. Also, it was apparent that he was hammered (or close to it) so, he wouldn’t notice anything.

When we finally got to the dance floor, Deryck awkwardly pulled me closer to him and put one hand on my bottom back. I put my arms around his neck. Deryck kept smiling at me, and I smiled back. But after awhile of smiling, we both grew shy and stared at the floor, rather than at each other. We were so close to each other that we could feel each other breathe. When I looked at him, I saw his eyes sparkle and somehow, I knew that he felt something for me. Although I was uncertain of what he felt, I hoped he felt the same as me.

After awhile, I lost track of time. Iris was still playing which meant that we must have been dancing for about 2-3 minutes. But it felt like an eternity. I didn’t want it to end. I didn’t want to let go of Deryck…ever. However, the song soon finished. But Deryck didn’t let me go right away. He held me closer and stared down at me, with a small smile appearing on his face. It looked as if he was about to kiss me!

However, he soon realized what he was doing and quickly released me. He was heading back to his band when suddenly, he turned and walked back over to me. He lifted up my hand and kissed it gently. I smiled and looked down at the ground as I felt my cheeks turn a bright red. He also stared at the floor. Without saying anything, he turned and went over to his band. I just stood in the middle of the dance floor, regaining my senses. Suddenly, I felt someone tap my arm.

“Av, I’m sorry I forgot to give you your drink. I was dancing with that girl over there. Are you alright?”


“Yeah, I saw you dancing.” I giggled a bit. “And yeah, I’m fine.”

“Oh ok, well, here.” Evan handed me my drink and then quickly walked back over to the girl he had danced with.

I just stared back at Deryck to find that he was staring at me. I blushed and walked over to Evan.

-Deryck-
“Sooo, Deryck, it looked like you enjoyed that dance!” My bandmates started to laugh but when they saw that I didn’t joined in, they stopped and stared at me.

“It was so weird.” I said after awhile of thinking. “I felt something while dancing with her…something I never felt before. I think I’m falling for her.”

“But isn’t she four years younger than you?” Cone asked.

“So?” I said confused. What did age have to do with anything?

“Oooooo, Deryck and Avril sittin in a tree…KISSING!” Stevo started to laugh hysterically after saying this. I knew it wasn’t his fault. He was hammered. He couldn’t take anything seriously right now. It was the same with the rest of my bandmates.

“She is cute.” I said to myself as I watched her walk out of Koi with her band, leaving me behind to reconcile my thoughts.