May Day by Elizabeth Doherty

Author:Elizabeth Doherty [Doherty, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Elizabeth Doherty

8

May

“You didn’t have to come here,” May asserted.

She always got a little annoyed when Lisa came to the diner. There was an unspoken expectation that May had to entertain her during the shift.

“You met Eighteen Times Rock the last time you were here,” Lisa said, as if her motivations were obvious. “If I’d known how you meet famous people here, I’d have applied for a job myself.”

May stopped walking, letting the group of fraternity brothers coming to the diner walk around her. “They’re not famous. They just tour colleges.”

Ever since Eighteen Times Rock’s appearance at the diner two nights ago, she’d searched for an album or a single of theirs. She’d even requested their song on the campus radio station. But there was nothing to find, and if the college radio played their song again, she’d tuned out before it played.

A part of May suspected it was all a dream, a late night hallucination caused by exhaustion and anxiety about her relationships. Except she could remember the exact angle Jack’s dimples curled in on his cheek. If he was a dream, his features would have faded by now.

“They’re more famous than we are,” Lisa countered.

May shook her head, banishing Jack’s face from her mind once again. “Do you want to be famous?”

Lisa thought about this. “Not really. Too much pressure. I’ve always wanted to sit with a musician and talk, though. If someone can create melodies and words from their minds, they must have something meaningful to say.”

May’s hands shook as she remembered her conversation with Jack, how easy it had been. They’d been sitting right outside the diner—right here—when it happened…

“I don’t know. I’ve heard rock stars can be kind of mean.” Her voice sounded too breathless.

“Not all of them.” Lisa grinned like she knew all May’s secrets. And maybe she did. May shouldn’t have mentioned Jack Mueller.

“I need to get to work.”

Lisa followed May inside, begging to be sat in the same booth the band had been assigned. Every time May passed by her table, Lisa had another question about what Dennis looked like or how Simon’s voice sounded. Lisa peppered May with these questions for two straight days. She’d tuned them out so much she almost didn’t notice May’s table was empty.

Most tables were empty.

May turned in place, scanning the diner. Where had everyone gone? And what was that noise outside?

She shouldn’t go out. Bruce had been making comments under his breath about her skipping out on work since the other night. So she took her time walking back toward the kitchen, letting her neck turn as she walked past the front door where at least a dozen heads stood by… a big, old bus.

She recognized that bus.

May set the coffee pot she held on a counter and sprinted for the front door. No one was left in the diner, she reasoned. Bruce couldn’t get mad.

But all thoughts of Bruce flew out of her head as soon as she shoved the door open.

The keyboard played first, followed by a guitar or two.

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