There she was sitting in the semi-dark corner watching the people in the smoky hazy bar, drinking their beer and playing pool and listening to the music, she was doing a locals report on the band that was playing that night “The Threads” they were called. She crossed her legs and pulled out a pen from her bag , letting the noisy crowded bar drift into the background of her mind she was preparing to write her opinion about them when she noticed a slender dark haired man writing in a worn out notebook on the opposite side of the bar. She couldn’t see who it exactly was but had a feeling she knew him, so she decided to order a drink from the bartender to get a closer glimpse at the guy. She ordered a vodka tonic and decided to wait for it there, as she waited she saw in fact who the guy was she knew she recognized him. She couldn’t believe her eyes it was the lead singer of her favorite band “ Dark Sacrament”. His name was Ville Valo, Finnish rock god according to her, she knew their songs like the back of her hand. She thought he was the most handsomest man she’d ever seen, she never thought in a million years that she would see him in one of the bars she covered. Having had about a million daydreams about him when she was supposed to be doing here final drafts at her desk .What in fact was he doing here out of all places where she was at was beyond her.

While she was thinking in her head she didn’t notice him staring at her while she was staring at him, until he winked at her. Her cheeks grew pink as she turned back to the bar “ Damn it! Damn it! How could I be so stupid ? Now he thinks I‘m some crazy stalker I blew my one chance to go and talk to him.” she thought “Where the hell is my drink?”. She tried to get the bartenders attention a few times, in the fourth attempt she got a hold of and reordered her drink. The bartender shouted out her order and instead of handing it to her handed it out to someone behind her , angrily she turned around to chew out the person who had taken off with her drink and realized it was him Ville Valo, who had stolen her drink. Thinking to her self “ Who does he think he is ? Just because he’s famous doesn’t mean he can do whatever the hell he wants”. Deciding and letting her anger get the best of her she went to the corner where he was sitting and got his attention by taking her drink back,” Excuse me but you have stolen my drink, I have been waiting fifteen minutes straight for that drink, and I’m taking it back!” He looked at her and smiled “ I believe your mistaken that’s my drink, I have stolen nothing that belongs to you.” he said with his deep rich voice. She noticed even in her anger that he had a accent, “ No that’s my drink I ordered it and you took it.” he looked at her with his sea green eyes and asked her “ Are you sure that’s your drink? Are you positively sure?” “ Of course I’m sure I’m a hundred percent sure.” Just as she said that someone tapped her on the shoulder, just as she turned around to see who it was, she realized she was the biggest idiot of all time she blushed red as the waitress handed her , own drink. She could not face him but she had to apologize for accusing him of stealing her drink, she slowly turned around and looked at him. As she lifted her eyes off her drink she noticed he was smiling at her, he asked her laughing “ Now are you sure its your drink this time?” she blushed even more “ I’m sorry I accused you.” she turned around to quickly leave before she made a bigger fool of herself , as she turned he grabbed her wrist and asked her to sit down with him. She looked at him in amazement he laughed again and said “ I’m sorry for what I did ,your going to hate me.” With a puzzled look she asked “ Sorry for what? Why would I hate you?” He patted the seat next to him, and waited for her to sit down before speaking “ Well I did steal your drink .” “Wait what?? But Why??” She didn’t understand “ Well I wanted to talk to you but didn’t know how to approach you, so when I over heard you order your drink I asked the waitress to tell the bartender to delay on giving it to you , then when you got mad I would come and sort of uhh ‘rescue’ you and use my star credibility to get you your drink back. But then I decided to take the drink and make you come and talk to me so I wouldn‘t have had to do it in front of everyone at the bar, didn’t you ever wonder why I was smiling when you were yelling at me?” She looked at him and thought about it then she realized that her ’rock god ’in the flesh ( and sitting very closely to her) was interested in her enough to devise a plan just to get her(a crazy stalker )to talk to him ( a Finnish rock god) “Well no I just thought you were being a jerk, you can’t blame me I was mad at you because I thought you had taken my drink .” She looked at him pushed her raven black hair out of her face and said “ But what I don’t understand is why would you go through such lengths just to talk to me, you could have had done it the old fashion way, I wouldn’t have had turned you down believe me.” She sat back and looked around the bar for a moment or two and realized that this would be her daydream coming true and the greatest thing in her life. She smiled at him feeling ridiculously comfortable around him and said “ well you have me here what are you going to do steal another drink or start talking.”

After a year of being friends we find them walking to the same bar when they first met, he slows down and looks up at the cloudy sky and asks her “ Hey don’t you remember the first time we met? You got really mad at me.” she looks at him and says “ Well yeah you stole my drink I wasn’t going to let you just take it.” he notices a bench and suggests they sit down. She smiles and pushes him in the chest “ You know if I was really mad I would of kicked your ass, celebrity or not.” He laughs his deep laugh and sits next to her “ You would of not , you were so embarrassed that you looked like you were going to cry.” He turns to her and watches her earring sparkle in the street lamp and tells her “ I think you would of if I hadn’t told you the truth.”
She looks at the city streets and listens to the wind blowing and the city sounds, and sky scrapers twinkling in the night. She sighs and says to him “ You know I wonder if I hadn’t have met you if my life would still be the same, I mean its sort of different with you like for instance for my birthday you bought me my own house and I practically live in your house in Helsinki, come on who buys a house for their friend in Finland?, I guess im still in shock that you’re a rock star and you’re my friend my best friend as matter of fact.” she smiled at him with the warmest of eyes, the sound of thunder rumbling in the distance. He stands up and sighs “ Come on lets go before it rains, and if it does then your hair will get puffy and you’ll look like a poodle then you’ll get mad at me, as for me you’re my best friend too but for different reasons.” they head toward the bar and it starts to rain, they cross the street and he stops under a light post “ Hold on I have to tie my shoe” he gets down on one knee and bends down and pulls something out of his pocket but she doesn’t see she wiping the rain from her face, she looks down and he hands her a little velvet box. She gasps and looks at him on one knee and looks at the box, “open it, its yours if you want it” she opens the box and in it is a ring with the biggest heart shaped diamond she ever saw.
“ But why would you want marry me?” she asks shivering in the rain , he takes her hand in his and says “ Because you gave me something nobody else gave me, you treated me like a human being from the first moment we met, not once you treated me like some hot shot super star or some guy with money. I know it isn’t a big thing to you but it is too me. You gave me friendship when I needed it most and showed me love when I least expected, I love you for who you are from the moment I met you I knew you were different, I knew I was going to be in love with you. I needed you when I didn’t even know I needed you. I still need you but I need you to be with me forever and only mine.” He looked at her standing in the rain with him she had her face turned, “ I love you too, I love how your always worried about me, the way you always want to take care of me, even after all this time I’m still star struck. I really still haven’t come to terms that I used to daydream about you and now you’re here with me.” She looks up into the sky letting the rain fall on her face she doesn’t know where her tears start and raindrops end.
She looks into his eyes and tells him in an almost a whisper “Yes I will marry you.” He stands up and embraces her , he holds her tear stained face in his hands and wipes away the rain, and tells her he will never let her go and she will always be her best friend. She pushes his wet hair out of his face and kisses him. He returns the kiss with a passionate force and swings her around laughing. She pushes away from him and starts walking away toward the bar she turns around laughing turning in the rain, she puts her hands on her hips her ring glittering in the rain and lights, and says to him “ Hey “are you just going to stand there or you going to kiss me?” He runs to her and kisses her again and looks at her with his green eyes shinning “ does that answer your question?” She laughs and hugs him tight “ I will always be your biggest fan.”
He turns to look into her eyes “ and I will always be yours.”

They start walking hand in hand toward the bar they both met in when she says “ hey don’t you still owe me a drink?”

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