Hard Rock Unrehearsed by Rene Van Dalen

mates but after a long really wet and cold night he just hadn’t been in the mood.
    The gig had been great even though it had rained intermittently and the wind had been shit cold on stage.  It hadn’t bothered the fans though!  Tag had been like a huge mother hen around Jay and had wrapped her up in a big towel the minute they came off stage.  Nothing Jay said deterred him and he just ignored her as he made sure she didn’t get cold.  Hell, all of them ran for the showers the minute they had finished the encore!  The meet and greet had gone off without any drama and so had the after party.  And why the hell did they always have an after party?  It’s not as if they stayed at the damn thing that long!  The entire band always made their getaway as soon as they could.  Tonight Trace had mates here from way back and they had gone out clubbing while Givens and Jimmy had taken two of the fan girls up on their offer of free and easy sex.  RJ had some offers but he just wasn’t interested.  Jay had done the same, avoided the guys who wanted to spend the night with her and made an early exit with Tag and Tank in tow.  Shit!  The room was just too small and he could still feel some of the adrenalin caused by the show fizzing through his blood.  He was going for a walk and if the bodyguard gave him any shit he was going to thump him.  Opening his door he popped his head out to look around and grinned at Hanson leaning back in a chair in front of the lift.
    “Hey man, I can’t sleep.  Is it okay if I walk around a little bit?”
    Hanson grinned back at him.  “You’re not the only one.  Jay and Tag are downstairs in the small lounge if you want some company.  If you want to walk the streets don’t go out alone though, take one of the guys with you.”
    “Jay is still up?”
    “Yeah, she suffers quite badly from insomnia.  We’re all quite used to seeing her wandering around the hotels at all hours of the night.”
    “Huh.  Okay great, I’m going to go down and join them for a while as I’m not up to wandering around in the rain outside.”
    RJ took the lift down to the second floor to the small lounge and as the door opened he heard Jay and Tag laughing.  Grinning he made his way down the corridor to the lounge.  He was just about to go in when someone started playing the piano and singing and he jerked to a stop.  The song was hauntingly beautiful and the voice husky, sexy and utterly amazing.  RJ hadn’t heard a voice like that in a very long time, hell in maybe ever!  He made himself move and took a step into the lounge only to come to another screeching halt.  The one playing and singing was Jay!  Holy hell but she was good.  She didn’t need Storm Front.  If anyone heard this shit she would be a star in her own right.  He stood riveted until the song came to an end and then he clapped, long and loudly as he made his way over to the baby grand piano that Jay had been playing.  Tag was on the floor next to the piano with a small pillow under his head grinning up at him as he came over.
    “Shit Jay!  That was amazing!  Just fuckin’ amazing!   Whose song is that?  I don’t know it but I want it for Storm Front.  Fuck we could do a shit hot version of it with you and Trace on vocals.  Who wrote it?  Where can we get the rights to perform and record it?  Come on woman talk to me!”  He didn’t stop talking until Jay laughingly put her hand over his mouth to shut him up.
    “That’s one of my own and if you guys ask me nicely I might just let you record it.”  She teased as she shifted on the piano bench to face him.
    “You wrote that?”  RJ stepped back and sank down in one of the big chairs and just stared at her.
    “Yeah, I wrote it a few years ago.”  She looked down at Tag before she continued.  “I wrote it for a special man in my life that I lost a long time ago.”
    “Hell sorry man, but it’s a great song though.  So what else have you written?”  He