Meredith Delany (band_chicka) wrote in btvsal, @ 2009-07-20 20:42:00 |
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Can She Forgive?
Who: Mere and Ginny
Where: Mere's Home
When: Sunday Night
This was hard. WAY harder than she'd expected. Ginny had decided to make peace with the Suicide Messiah girls, even though they'd all declined to meet her at the gathering she'd formally invited them to. She didn't blame them, really, and besides: it gave her the chance to meet and get to know Lexi. And speaking of Lexi... she'd given (after much nagging from Ginny) the girl the addresses of the other girls, on the condition that Paige never know she had them. So... may as well start with the 'leader' of the band, as it were... she stood at the door of the Morrisons, clad in a curve-hugging black, knee-length dress, elbow-length black gloves, and black heels. She had a nervous wince on her face, and held a small bouquet of flowers.
Mere answered the door, wearing a pair of jeans and a tank top. She was clad in what was basically her 'home' clothes. She barely wore anything past her knees when going out anymore. What was the point? She didn't feel cold like before. She looked at Ginny in confusion for a second. "You sure you have the right house?" she asked.
"Are you Skylar Morrison?" Ginny asked. She looked like her, but obviously she'd only seen her all made up and onstage. "Please tell me I have the right place."
"Nope, wrong place, babe," Mere said to her. "I'm rhythm guitarist." She left it at that. She reached for the door to slam it in her face. She didn't want to deal with Coma White bitches right now.
"W-Wait..." She threw in, before the door could close. Dammit, she must have read the addresses wrong. "Please, I'm here to apologize. I've been sick to my stomach over how Paige has been acting..."
"Paige has been acting like a total shit," Mere said to her. "Can't you people put a fucking leash on her? And one of those gag things, too."
"Trust me. It's being looked into." Ginny winced and shook her head. "Not literally though. That's... that's just yucky." She nibbled her lip, feeling like hell when she calmed down and realized that she'd been so nervous that she couldn't even remember which band member lived at which house. "Meredith... please, may I come in?"
Mere stepped aside so that Ginny could enter. Hey, if you're a vampire, you don't invite *anyone* in verbally. You fucking knew better than that. "So, you come by to apologize?" she asked with an arched eyebrow.
"I did, actually." Ginny said, her voice almost a whisper. She was barely audible as, while her voice was quiet to begin with, she now also felt horribly ashamed. "Meredith... I respectfully ask you to forgive me. I know that I personally did nothing, but I take my band and my music seriously, and when she does those kind of things, I feel very much responsible."
"Are you sure that you and Paige are really in a band together?" Really, those two didn't seem like they would normally go near each other, if this wasn't all an act. Of course, Mere could sniff out a lie now, and all she smelled coming off of Ginny was embarrassment and sincerity. Yes, sincerity does have a smell. It smells kind of like roses, for your information. "You seem so...nice. How do you put up with that shit?"
"Because she's good." Ginny stated, and then admitted, with slight embarrassment. "And she kind of saved my life once. And I feel more than a little indebted to her."
"Being good at guitar doesn't cover the fact that she has the manners of a baboon," Mere pointed out. "I'm sure you've paid that debt a thousand times over by just putting up with her. You've got to have the patience of a freaking saint."
"Well.. some say that I do." She smiled, sadly, those big eyes seemingly begging forgiveness. "Sometimes... when someone is important to you, you let them get away with more than you probably should. And for that... again, I apologize. I never thought she would take it this far. And I've already warned her... she needs to stop, or she WILL be kicked from the band."
Goddamn, with eyes like those...if she wasn't already with Lexi, then Mere would find all sorts of ways to make her beg. Still, that was one line Mere didn't cross. Fucking friend's significant others, and, while her and Lexi weren't quite as close as they once were, they were still friends. "Might want to put that warning in writing, though, to make sure it get's through to her. Kicking people out of a band sometimes helps to remind them to fix their shit." It had worked with Lexi, it seemed.
"Trust me... it's the next step. She's had her warning. She's to leave you all alone, effective immediately." Ginny was a soft-spoken girl, but her voice sounded stern and cold there. "I mean it, too. I won't have anyone, even someone I love, harassing innocent people."
"Well, good fucking luck keeping her in line," Mere said. "Personally, I'm surprised that someone as sweet as you come off would put up with a mecha-bitch like her." Mere smiled at her.
"Like I said... you don't always get to pick who you love, you know? I'd be dead if not for her." Ginny said, still no humor in those big, sad eyes.
Mere nodded. Ain't that the truth. For example, who would want to put up with Mere on purpose? Like, in the long term, and not just for a night. "Well, then I suppose I'm thankful for one thing toward her," Mere admitted. "You're forgiven, sweet cheeks, but I still don't think that you personally needed it."
Sweet cheeks? Between that and some of the almost gonna-eat-you looks she was giving, Ginny blushed HARD, which wasn't tough to do when you're as pale as she is. "Well, I did, though. I don't want you girls hating me for something Paige did. I'm actually a big admirer of what you all have done so far."
Mere smiled an almost wolfish grin. She really couldn't help that she seemed to make people slightly uncomfortable with her style of flirting. She couldn't control it anymore. "Really? You admire us? I'm flattered."
"There aren't many girl-bands out here that don't... just hammer you over the head with sexuality. I admire the ones who get by on talent instead of that." Ginny gave her trademark grin, which was almost comically unfitting of the girl she was onstage.
"Well, that is true, I don't want to be another Vixen, you know?" Just because she was hot didn't mean that she couldn't actually play, no matter what some random bitch said.
"And for the record?" Ginny actually gave a mischievous grin then. "I think Paige is jealous. Because she's good... but she's not even in your LEAGUE."
Mere smiled at that. "Well, that's something that I can't disagree with," she said to her. She looked at the flowers in Ginny's hands. "Did you really bring me flowers?"
"I did. I wanted you to see I meant it." She realized that might have sounded dumb. "I mean, why would I spend money on someone if I didn't mean my apology?" Then, with a sheepish grin, "I have more in the car for Skylar, Tina, and Chloe."
Mere smiled more and took the flowers from her. "I'll have to put them where they can get some sunlight, which means away from my own room," she mused, looking at them.
"Away from..." she thought there, before it hit her... maybe Paige was right about at least that ONE thing! Well. It wasn't like Ginny didn't have her own supernatural secrets. "So... it's true then? About you?" She asked, mimicking a 'Dracula' pose.
Mere laughed a little at the pose. "And here I thought everyone in town already knew about that." It wasn't like she kept it a secret. "Yeah, I'm all 'grrr'."
"Wow." Was all she could muster. Yet... she didn't look even slightly scared. "But... yeah. I swear to you, I'm not going to put up with Paige bothering you poor girls any more."
"Well, we can take care of ourselves, but thank you, anyway," Mere said. "Something needs to be done to calm her the hell down."
"Please don't hurt her..." Ginny asked, a cute pleading look on her face. "She's... she's not as terrible as she seems sometimes. When she cares about someone, she can be very nice."
"I'm sure she can," Mere pointed out. "But she's a hateful cunt when she doesn't happen to like you, and seems to try and pick on competition instead of embracing it and using it as fuel."
"I agree. It's her biggest fault." The girl bowed to Mere there, like an oriental show of respect. "But yes... I'm terribly upset about this whole situation, and I didn't want you to think we were all like Paige."
"Alright, I'm beginning to think that at least some of you are fairly normal," Mere said to
"No problem. Thank you for forgiving us. I need to go as well. I have... more grovelling to do." She smiled and laughed a little.
"Well, good luck with that," Mere said. Although, if she got through to Lexi and and her, the others would be cake.
"Thank you, again." Ginny gave about the most unintentionally adorable smile EVER, and made it hard to beleive this girl screamed and sang such powerful, strong lyrics onstage