PARANOID

Tell me right now
You really wanna spend your whole life alone?
A little time out might do you good, might do us good
Before we be done for good

TETSUO (LAIKIN)

After that night at the club when we passed each other like ships in the night I figured destiny wasn't on our side this time round.

That's okay. Sometimes not everything fits into place like a jigsaw.

I don't like to force situations to happen. If it's meant to be, it's meant to be. And in the same spirit of this basic street philosophy, I'm not going to think too much about giving that scrawny kid a job working for me either. My instincts have made me a lot of money already in my career. I doubt they're about to fail me now.

And sometimes, when you don't get the girl, you get something even better.

The tracks you lay down in the studio.

I made two rough tracks that night - diamonds in the rough you might call them. I might even use that for an album title if it's not already been taken. We'll see.

Anyway, whether she knows it or not, she got her own track now.

It's called "Fly By Night".

I'm not gonna tell her. Maybe she'll just sense it when she hear that crazy beat.

Could make her kind of paranoid though, I guess.

AMULYA

Yeah, so it wasn't to be that night. I'm pretty chill whichever way it goes. If he doesn't know which kinda way I feel about him that's okay to.

I learnt from a young age that you let men know you like them, you give away all your power. I don't roll like that anymore. Hard to get is a cliche but it's one I'm happy to deploy. Some of these mother fuckers act like they don't need to work for your ass let alone your heart.

Well, thankfully I have enough self worth to know how to hold out, no matter how big a star they are. King Midas would have realised he couldn't turn my heart to silver, let alone gold if he'd met me.

Nevertheless, I always like a challenge and taming Tetsuo is like riding at the rodeo. Can it be done? Probably not. He's one stubborn mule. You see with a certain level of fame there's a sense they live in a different moral universe to the rest of us, like their genius gives them a licence to be a cunt.

Well, we'll see who can be a cunt now.

Maybe he'll start to doubt himself not being able to obtain me.

Probably make him paranoid or something.

SABAH

I can't believe it. I'm working for my hero. I keep crying - I don't know why. Feels like some kind of divine intervention made this shit fall into place.

Only it wasn't God as such, I don't want to blaspheme.

It was her.

Amulya.

Maybe it was divine, though. Why else would I be given a perfect excuse to meet him?

Anyway, now I'm working for Tetsuo and I'll be as loyal servant as John was to Jesus. It feels almost like my entire life journey been preparing me for this time to be there for someone who is more like a brother to me than my brother, more a father than my father.

What? You think that's hyperbole. I don't give a fuck (sorry Lord). I'm flying right now. I love him. I love him. I love him.

Okay, maybe I need to chill a little.

I don't want him thinking I love him like that. Haha!

Like I don't want to make him ...

Paranoid.