L O U I S V I L L E || A Bryson Tiller Story

§ Chapter TwentyEight §

~...every time you leave I need more--might just have to bring you on tour, on tour...~

"So I was thinking like--when the beat drops--that the smoke can start coming up and I walk out right here," I told my stage team.

Stephanie and Lexx were both now in town and Steph immediately suggested that we prepare for my show Thursday night. She didn't want any complications. That would be the worst way to start my comeback.

"I like that idea," Stephanie nodded her head as she walked on the stage to meet with us,"We can practice with the smoke machine after we get the medley down packed."

"Cool," I coughed into my elbow.

Down below in the seats sat Swan and Lexx talking. Everyone else on my management team were hectically moving around the stage setting up even though we still had another 24 hours till showtime.

Last night, I texted Naomi and told her about the shows I had coming up since I forgot to mention it when we were together.

I invited her to come to the one on Thursday if she was able to. I could use the support for my first show in a while. Naomi said she would try to clear her schedule just to come and see me. That meant a lot to me when she said it.

The next time I see her though, I had to keep my lips away from hers before things between us become anymore awkward than it was at times. I had called her a friend only to come right behind it and kiss her.

I've been told that I always send mixed signals when it came to women. Now I see why.

"Can someone get Bryson a water please," Stephanie fussed,"The man is coughing his life out over here."

"No uh I'm fine. Really," I explained as a girl brought a mini bottle of Dasani water over and handed it to me.

I accepted it anyways.

"Please don't tell me you're sick."

I shook my head,"No, I rarely get sick. I'm fine, I promise."

"The engineer needs to know what five songs you're performing so he can go ahead and put it together. We have only another two hours here. You know we have to put in a practice run," Steph told me as she took a quick glance at her Gucci watch.

"Yeah ok. I know I want to do a fan favorite like Exchange. Then I want to go into For However Long and I'll throw it back to Don't Worry/Molly. We can hype it up some more with 502 Come Up and I kinda wanna finish with something new."

"New?" Stephanie looked shocked,"What do you have new exactly?"

"I don't really have a title yet, but that won't be too hard to get cause I've finished the whole song. Both verses, the beat, the chorus, ad-libs and all that. I have it on my laptop," I said.

Stephanie didn't look too fond of the idea.

She gritted her teeth together," This is something like a comeback show after a long break and I don't think a new song would be best. No one would know the words!"

"Yeah maybe not, but they could learn them. They did with all the others."

"That means you would have to drop the song," Steph tapped her foot on the floor.