Unavoidable by Yara Greathouse Page A

advice.
 
I’m starting to feel a hard on coming up, when she smiles at me and gets off my lap
     and starts to walk towards the stage to finish the last verse. She belts out all the
     hard notes and shows the power she has in her voice, when it dawns on me that Brianna
     is powerful in many ways, she is strong, fearless, opinionated, honest, loyal, and
     beautiful beyond words and I love every single aspect of her personality.
 
She ends her song in the same position as the one she had when she started singing,
     but during the last note, her shoulders move and her head twists allowing her to look
     over her shoulder at the audience, her audience, and the final trick is to wink and blow a kiss out to them. The crowd goes
     completely wild, they are clapping and hollering twice as hard as they did for me.
     Traxx and Notso are signaling that I might as well be dead.
 
I hate to admit it, but Brianna is the one who has the cat in the bag. I smile at
     her and get up on my feet to clap as hard and loud as I can while whistling and hollering
     for her. Only her.
 

 
Brianna
 
I cannot believe it. I have outdone myself! The best part? To see Colton’s face when
     he heard me belt out the notes… Ha! Priceless!
 
The emcee comes to the stage with his microphone.
 
“Well ladies and gentlemen, was that fun or what?” More screaming from the audience.
     “Colton, can you please come to the stage? We are getting ready to vote between the
     two of you.” He gives Colton a few minutes. “At this time, I need the showcase judges
     to vote for their favorite performer of the night.”  Colton has jogged to the front
     and is now on the stage next to me.
 
“I am going to point to one of them, and you are going to make noise – as much or
     as little as you want, to decide who is the winner.” He points at Colton first and
     the place goes crazy. I notice that most of the hollering is being done by girls.
     I figured as much, but I am confident that I kicked ass, too, so I clap for Colton
     as hard as I can. He is putting his hand to his ear, like the wrestler Hulk Hogan,
     to work up the audience. Too funny.
 
Then, the emcee quiets the audience and then, with a grand gesture, he points at me.
     If I thought this place was loud before, it is super loud now. I move my arms up and
     down gesturing the crowd to give me more and lo and behold, they do – it gets even
     louder. There’s clapping, table banging, whistling, hell, you name it.  Colton is
     also clapping with a look of pride on his face. I would have thought he may be upset
     that he lost, but he doesn’t seem to care. He is definitely NOT a sore loser.
 
The emcee says “And the winner of the bet is…” he takes my hand and raises it as high
     as possible, “Brianna!!!! Show her some love!” I jump in place and then feel Colton’s
     arms around me, he is lifting me high. I place my arms around his neck. He lowers
     me to the ground where we end up forehead to forehead, looking at each other with
     gooey eyes. I think he is going to kiss me. I can see it all over his face that he
     wants to. Then, I realize that I want him to kiss me, too. I have magically tuned
     out everyone inside this bar and in my head it’s only Colton and I. Kiss me! Kiss me! Kiss me! My heart is beating so fast and when he suddenly starts to move his head, I think it is going to happen, and as I am closing my eyes, I feel his breath near my mouth and
     then, he finally kisses me… on my cheek .
 
What the hell?! Really? Is this really happening to me? Geesh, Not cool – not cool at all!!! My eyes pop open and a frown takes the place of the gooey eyes I was giving him.
     He looks at me aware that something has shifted. I feel my cheeks flaming and suddenly
     I am embarrassed. All I want to do is be gone. Away from him. Turning around, I try
     to walk back to the table to get Ciara and go. I’m only thinking how I could be so
     stupid to get caught up in this moment.