"Hello, pretty ladies!" A red haired young man casually walked by Tamara and stopped in front of Eternia. "Seems like I just missed the others, huh?"
"Wow! You must be Rayne, right?"
"That's correct, sweetie!" he said and winked at her. Eternia giggled. She had known the drummer of Dark Delight only from posters so far but in real life he looked at least as good as on paper. She threw back her hair and batted her eyes in flirtatious play.
"Yes, you missed Arion and Brian. Too bad." Tamara's voice was cool. "If you hurry up you can still catch up with them."
"Now, now. In the company of two babes such as you I don't feel rushed." Rayne sat down on the armrest and eyed Eternia from head to toe. "No wonder Arion never tells much about you. Aparently he fears competition", he flirted with the blonde.
His brash behaviour irked Tamara. "Do you have something to store?"
"Nope! So far I didn't even get drumsticks, let alone a new drum set." The man shrugged, then let his hand wander up and down Eternia's back. "Has it's good sides too, since I have my hands free."
Eternia squealed laughingly. "Geez, you don't loose time, Rayne!"
"When you want to beat Arion you can't allow yourself dawdling!"
"Did you just paw my friend?" Tamara hissed and sparks flew from her eyes.
"Hey, hey, calm down!" Rayne parried, completely taken by surprise by her outbreak.
Tamara had no plans to calm down. While she wasn't yelling her voice was still loud and cut like a knife. "I asked you if you really groped my friend's bum just there, buster!"
"Good lord, Tamara, now don't get upset over such a minor thing." Eternia rolled her eyes and the man said: "Do you feel discriminated? Is that it? Well, I can assure you, I do have two hands..."
"Shut up!" Tamara ordered him.
Now come off it!" Eternia shouted. "I flirted, he reacted. You didn't flirt, he didn't grab your bum. So where's the problem?!"
"You know perfectly well what the problem is!" Tamara hissed, unmoved, and Rayne, who got the feeling to have stirred up a hornet's nest, preferred to stand aside.
"No, I don't know! I'm tired of being solo and you seem to actively hinder me from finding a nice guy!"
"And you know perfectly well why that is!" Tamara repeated. Now Eternia was just as angry as her. "And you know that I don't care! I left the clan because I DON'T want to live according to your customs!"
Tamara went silent. For a long while. Thoughts ran over her face. "Okay. Well. Put me on the list."
"Err... what?" Eternia was confused.
"Put me on the list, I'll travel with Rayne." When she said that the young man was pleasantly surprised but that feeling subsided when she added: "I'm sich of being your babysitter. Do as you want, but I will not watch how you bring destruction over yourself."
Two minutes later Eternia was alone. Tamara had grabbed Rayne on his collar and dragged him into the box.
"Dammit!" the blonde complained and put her hands on her hips. "Now I don't have a date and on top of that Tamara's angry on me!"
She thought about all the work still laying in front of her and pouted. Then she recalled who was still about to check in and a cold shiver ran down her back.
"Dammit!" she said again. "What shall I do now? I hope I can persuade Sinistra to help me!"
She said to herself that she didn't care about Tamara. That wasn't true but she didn't want and didn't plan to have others decide about her life.
"I hope she didn't scare Rayne away from me totally. He wouldn't be bad as a boyfriend..."
Moving - Arion and Brian <-- # --> Moving - Kurt and Apollo