Hard Rock Unrehearsed by Rene Van Dalen Page B

Jimmy had joined them at some stage.
    RJ grinned at all of them.  “Aren’t you happy I couldn’t sleep tonight guys?  If I had gone the way of Giv and Jimmy we wouldn’t be here now having a music orgasm that I’m classing as a force ten for fuckin’ certain!”
    “Holy shit that was great!”  Jimmy laughed.  “I was on my way back up when I heard you guys.  You have to wait for me to get my guitar.  I have to play.”  With that he raced out of the lounge.
    Jay grinned as Trace plonked himself down next to her on the piano bench flung his arm around her and kissed her temple.
    “Girl we are going to write the greatest album ever together.”
    Jay’s eyes opened wide with shock.  “What?”
    “Babe if you think I’m going to let you walk away with this you are fuckin' crazy.  I’ve been paging through what you have been working on and I want in.  I want in so badly I can taste it on my tongue.”  He grinned at her raised eyebrows.  “Okay I admit it sounds like sex talk but music is like that to me, sexual.”
    He paged to a song Jay had written about Diego and she cringed, it was a sort of love song but more a song about wanting to walk away but being unable to do it.
    “I want to sing this.  It’s soft but strong, a ballad but not a ballad.  Let’s do it next.”
    RJ took the pad and hummed the melody with Giv looking over his shoulder.  Giv stood back and picked out a bass line as RJ hummed the melody.  They were joined by Jimmy and pretty soon they knew what they wanted to do.  RJ set his phone to record and put it on top of the pad in the centre of the piano.  They all stood around Jay and she counted them in.  Trace sat next to her and as they got to the chorus he nodded to Jay and she added her voice to his.
    Watching you walk away
    I waste my time
    Wishing and wanting
    Falling for you again
    Every time you smile
    My heart breaks wide open
    I waste my time
    Wishing and wanting
    Falling for you again
     
    At some stage Tag had moved from the floor to a chair and Jay-Jay grinned at him as they played.  He grinned back at her and as she turned to the guys he quickly texted.
    Get your ass down to the small lounge.
    He relaxed back in his chair and waited.  It was about fuckin’ time Delgado heard what he had been throwing away because of his stupid sense of honour.  Tag knew for a fact that Val would have approved, he would have wanted Jay-Jay to move on with her life and if it included Diego that would be okay.  He gave a small smile as Diego quietly sat down next to him.  The shock on his face was priceless!
    “Is this their new stuff they’re trying out?”  Diego asked softly.
    “No it’s Jay-Jay’s stuff.”  Tag whispered back.
    “Jade wrote this?”
    “Yeah, she’s been battling with insomnia for the last couple of weeks and when she can’t sleep she works on this stuff.”  Tag murmured as the song came to an end.
    Diego watched as RJ bent over and kissed Jade on the cheek and rage lit inside his chest like an inferno.  It took everything to not show his ravening jealousy by punching the fucker out.  He breathed in nice an easy forcing himself to calm and listen to what they were saying.
    “You’ve written a lot of music but not lyrics so much.  Why’s that?”  Jimmy leant against the piano his guitar swung around onto his back.
    “I don’t have a specific formula or anything for writing I just feel it and then I write whichever comes to me first.”
    “I want to play ‘ Wishing and Wanting’ again but this time we rock it hard.”  Trace stood and prowled around the piano.  “Fuck I wish we were in the studio back home with all our shit around us!”
    “Why don’t you ask the resident band if you can use their stuff in the pub downstairs?”  Steve their crew boss threw out from the back.  “They sure as fuck won’t complain.”
    “I’m on it!”  Jimmy grinned and raced out of the lounge.
    “Where the hell is he going to find them