ICARUS pt.2
The telephone rang and its sharp sound cut the dense atmosphere between Shion and Levian as a knife.
"Yes?", Levian answered. His face lightened up as the voice at the other side spoke. "Oh, Akiko, my love, how are you?"
Their conversation went on, but Shion did’t pay any attention anymore. Akiko, Laiven’s girlfriend, that little bitch who thought she had some influence among ICARUS only because she was an idol and the leader had a love affair with her…
He stood up, took his leather jacket from the chair where it had been lying all the evening and prepared to leave.
"Wait a moment, Akiko… Hey Shion!", Levian shouted at the one about to open the door, "You come tomorrow to the practice at 3pm and think about what I just told you, ok? I want to see the changes!"
Shion bit his lip and swallowed the adjective he was about to spit. He turned towards the bassist. "Tomorrow I’m not going anywhere at 3pm only because you say it and I guess youīll be missing a voice and a guitar the next days also", then he turned the handle and opened the door. "And donīt be such a bastard. Or you’ll end up all alone. You almost are"
The blam of the door muttered the last sentence, but that didnīt bother Levian. They had a contract, and he knew Shion needed the money, they were about to record the album and that would bring them lots of it, he was already supervising the posters and interiews he would give to the most important magazines, he could even see himself on the covers… Shion would come back. If he started his own band now he would just starve before he saw the first coin. And about Sven… He should begin to get used to the idea that Akiko belonged to his best friend no longer. Now she was with him, with Levian, and he would soon be famous enough as to appear on tv holding her arm and kissing her.
"If there is any problem?", he centered on the telephone conversation again, "No, no, my love, it’s nothing. Nothing that can’t be solved, at least"