Moonshine(49)

“Come on,” I grabbed her hand. “I want to introduce you to somebody.”

“Josh, hey man.”

“Look who finally decided to grace us with his presence. Where you been, Man? I was getting worried.” He looked only at me, until I pulled Valerie to my side. His mouth hit the floor, literally. I had to twist his nipple a little and snap him back into reality. “Ouch, damn.”

“Josh, this is my sister, Valerie. Valerie, this is my pain in the ass, Josh.”

“What the hell ever, you know I’m your future best man. It’s very nice to meet you Valerie.” Josh shook her hand and held it too damn long. He has it bad already. She is beautiful so I can see why he would he couldn’t take his eyes off her.

“Nice to meet you too,” oh hell. She had that look too.

“Come on Val, I want to introduce you to everybody else.” I yanked her with me. I am not about to be having a love match between those two. I just met her today and she’s fifteen for fuck’s sake. I took her around the fire and introduced her to a few other people. There weren’t many people there and she was the only girl. That was normally the way it was when Shine was here. It never bothered her and it didn’t seem to bother Valerie either.

“Is that a Gibson?” She asked Tanner. He always brought his guitar; it didn’t matter where he went.

“Yeah it is. You know how to play?” he asked and it made me curious. There were a lot of things that I didn’t know about my little sister.

“Actually, I do.”

“Seriously,” I was shocked when she shook her head yes. “I gotta hear you play.”

“Okay, do you mind?” She looked at Tanner for approval.

“Be my guest, sweet thang.” I growled at him. Come on man. These guys act like they have never seen a girl before.

She sat down on a slab of wood next to the fire, and the five of us guys gathered round. She didn’t seem nervous. She looked really excited. When her fingers started to slowly strum the guitar I was amazed. At first I didn’t recognize the song, but then she started to sing. Holy crap she was singing Nirvana. It was the song Come as You Are, and she had put a little twist on it. I could not believe the sound that came from this girl. She was amazing. She had this blues sound that could tear your heart to shreds with a sad song. It was unbelievable. When I looked at Josh I knew it was over, he was lost in her every word. When she came to the end I didn’t want it to be over. How could she not be singing on some big stage in front of thousands of people? I’m not shitting you, she has the voice of an angel, and she sings Nirvana. A thousand times yes!

“That was fucking amazing, little girl. Where did that come from? I thought you were just gonna play us a song. I didn’t expect you to sing too. You have a gift.”

“You really think it was good?”

“Not good, it was unbelievable.” I scooped her into my side for a hug. “What other talents do you have hidden that I need to know about.” She squeezed me tight and it felt like she didn’t want to let me go. I never felt so alive in all of my life. No one here knew how badly that I needed her in my life right now. I would be the best brother to her that I could be. She went back to her seat when the guys requested her to sing another.

“What did you think?” I took a drink of the whiskey Josh was holding. He was really celebrating tonight. It wasn’t like him to be drinking and he never hit the hard stuff.

“I think I’m in love,”

“Of course you are,” I rolled my eyes. This was gonna be a long damn night.





“I can’t believe you took all of their drunk ass’s home. That’s pretty cool of you.” I nudged her shoulder. “We somehow gotta get into this house quietly since its three thirty in the morning, and did I mention I’m seeing two of everything. We are so dead.”

“No we’re not. Come on. I’ll hold your hand and lead the way. You just have to be quiet. Where is your bedroom?”

“Upstairs and to the right,” she shushed me. “You asked. Don’t ask me something and then shush me. You either want an answer or you don’t.”

“What I want you to do right now is shut up. Now, come on.”

She was a bossy little thing. I can’t believe she just told me to shut up. I followed her as quietly as I could through the house and luckily we made it up the stairs without a hitch. I couldn’t see for shit so if it weren’t for her holding my hand I would have been royally screwed.

She quietly closed my bedroom door and turned on my light. “Geez Ry,” she stood in front of the mirror on my dresser. “Why didn’t you tell me I looked like a hooker? I got mascara halfway down my face.”