Scream Me a Dream

“I’m not going to pick you up tonight Soya, I’m actually refusing that pretty little face of yours and saying no, and don’t you dare use the voice!”

Soya laughed. “I wasn’t going to ask you to pick me up, though I believe Bam is testing me.”

“How so?” Josef asked interested.

“I’ll tell you later, I actually called with a question.”

“Ask away.”

“The girl that’s been crying…did she audition for the part?”

“Of lead?” Josef asked. “No.”

“She didn’t?”

“Nope. I was going to cast Jenna.” Josef said, talking about the limber blonde that Soya was actually good friends with. Soya nodded in approval, Jenna was a wonderful dancer. “But Rebecca came in the day I was going to announce it and proclaimed that Megan would be our lead.”

“You’d never seen her dance before that?”

“No, and I threw a bitch fit about it, too. But that’s when Rebecca said that she was the niece of some rich guy and well, you know the rest.” Josef said, she could hear the frustration in his voice. “Why?”

“Just wondering. I’ll call you later.” Soya said, hanging up on him before he had a chance to question her further and called the second number. She had promised Rebecca that she wouldn’t tell Josef about her niece, she had promised nothing when it concerned her father.

“Soya! My love! What in the world are you doing calling?” the deep voice of Benjamin Miller greeted, causing Soya to laugh. She couldn’t help but love the sound of the older man’s voice. Though Rebecca dealt the most with the company for the past two years, Benjamin Miller had been the one to hire her and take her under his wing, he was like a father to her and she definitely loved him as one.

“I just called because I became aware of a bit of a problem concerning the company.”

Benjamin sighed. “What has Rebecca done now?”

“I have no qualms with Rebecca putting family into the company, I actually like the idea.” She said. “But from what Josef has told me, your granddaughter, Megan was put in the lead spot without auditioning first.”

“Oh fuck.”

Soya smiled at the obscenity. “My thoughts exactly.”

“I can only assume Josef’s been having a field day with the poor girl.”

“He’s quite proud that she burst into tears at the mere sight of him. Apparently his reputation of being a bastard has exceeded far beyond Juilliard.” Soya chuckled.

Benjamin laughed. “This is quite a problem then.”

“It wouldn’t be one, had the girl auditioned. I just don’t believe it’s fair to have placed her in the lead spot if she didn’t deserve it. Josef’s been frustrated for the past few days because she’s not quite up to par with the rest of the dancers, he thinks that her….” Soya hesitated. “inadequacies with the dance may push rehearsals back weeks.”

“Which is a disaster seeing as they have to be ready in a month.”

“Exactly. I don’t doubt Rebecca’s competency with the company.” Soya lied. “But I think this was a bad move.”

“Of course it was.”He said.

Feeling the conversation wind down as she literally heard him think she started making her way back to the table.

“I’ll talk to Rebecca. And I assume Josef was going to cast Jenna.”

“He was.”

“Then I’ll have a talk with both Josef and Rebecca and get everything straightened out.”

“Thank you, Ben.” Soya grinned. “I’m sure everything will work itself out.”

“Now I know you’re on break, but I want us to have lunch. I haven’t seen my little Soya in months!”

Soya laughed. “Yes, I’ll see you in a few weeks.”

“All right then, thank you for calling me. Bye Soya.”

“Bye.” She smiled as she hung up, before sitting back down at the table. She looked around the table and apologized, only for April to wave it off.

“It’s fine.”

Ville got her attention, putting his hand on hers, causing her to turn to him. “Bam’s informed me that we’ll be sharing my room, unless you want to sleep with one of the other men.”

Soya looked around the table and was positive that she wasn’t going to be spending the night in anyone’s room other than Ville’s, before she looked back at him. “I’m fine sharing with you.” She grinned. “It’ll be Linde’s couch all over again.” She laughed, thinking of the times she and Ville would nap on the couch in Linde’s garage as they waited for Mige to arrive or Linde to finish with his chores.

Ville grinned back; she reached for her fork to finish her dinner. The rest of dinner went by semi-smoothly, after all it wouldn’t be a Margera dinner without some food making contact with another person.

“I’m so sorry you had to witness that.” April laughed as she helped Soya pick mashed potatoes out of her hair. The boys had all gone towards the living room leaving the mess for April to clean.

Soya laughed. “It’s fine, I’m just glad my hair was up, I’m sure it would have been worse if I’d had it down. Plus, at least I get to shower this off, when we get into food fights in the bus it’s usually twenty minutes before we go on stage with no time to shower.”

“Then you got off lucky this time.” April laughed.

“Do you want some help cleaning this up? I don’t mind.”

April waved her hand at the mess. “The boys made the mess, the boys will clean it.”

“Do you really think they will?” Soya asked.

April scoffed. “Probably not.”

Soya laughed as she and April walked towards the TV room where the boys were scattered.

“Phil it’s time to go. Soya, do you want me to stay?”

Soya grinned at April, as Ville looked up. “That’s very sweet, but it’s fine.” She laughed.

“All right, don’t say I didn’t ask.” April warned as she and Phil said goodbye to the boys, April giving Bam a warning. “Be nice.” She muttered into his ear, before she left with Phil.

“Well,” Bam said getting off the couch. “I saw we go to Duffers for a drink!”

The boys hooted and got off the couch to get ready, while Ville stayed and looked at Bam. “I think I’ll stay.”

Soya frowned at him as did Bam, both for different reasons.

“Olet menossa, Ville.”(You’re going, Ville.)

Ville shook his head. “Ei, jos et.”(Not if you don’t) Soya glared at him and stomped her foot, causing Ville to grin. “I haven’t seen you do that since that time we wouldn’t help you sneak out of your house.”

“Ville, go.”

Ville rolled his eyes. “We’re talking as if you hadn’t been invited; if you don’t go then I don’t go. You go, I go.”

Soya rolled her eyes. “I don’t drink.” She said crossing her arms over her chest. “No point in me going to a bar and not drinking.”

“I don’t drink either.”

“Ville!” she laughed. “Go! I’ll be fine. Just show me where the room is and I’ll work on the things I brought to work on.”

“You brought projects?” Ville asked. “Were you expecting to be bored?”

“No, but it’s safer to bring my work, than leave it at home.” Soya argued. “Go out with your friends. I’ll be here when you get back.”

“Yeah, she’ll be fine, it’s not like anyone but us can come into the house anyway.” Bam pointed out.

“I don’t feel comfortable leaving you by yourself,” Ville said. “I invited you out here; I would feel guilty if I left you by yourself.”

Soya laughed. “It’s fine Ville, its only one night, I’m tired anyway, I’ll probably end up working for an hour then falling asleep on top of my laptop.”

“Liar.” He muttered.

Bam rolled his eyes. “Dunn!” Bam yelled.

“What!?” Dunn yelled back, appearing on the landing above them.

“You’re staying here.” Bam told him, and then looked at Ville. “There, it’s fixed. Soya has a babysitter and you can come out now.”

“I don’t need a babysitter, and Dunn doesn’t need to stay.” She looked over at Bam. “Unless, you don’t trust me by myself.”

“Hey, we both want Ville to go, the only way he’s going is if someone stays. Dunn stays, Ville goes, problem fixed. Plus Dunn doesn’t care.”

“I would have liked to be asked, but whatever.” Dunn said as he walked down the stairs then jumped over the couch to sit next to Ville.

Ville sighed. “You’re sure?”

“Positive.” Soya laughed. “Go put on a shirt and go.” She said, grabbing his hands and pulling him off the couch. “And in the mean time you can show me where the room is so I can change.”

“Fine.” Ville groaned as he walked towards the stairs, he looked over at Bam. “Give me ten minutes?”

“Yeah.” Bam nodded, watching as they disappeared.

“Dude, you have got to be nicer to her, all you’re doing is pissing Ville off.” Dunn warned.

“I’m trying, I just,” Bam dropped off the couch. “She’s so….nice!”

Dunn laughed. “That’s your problem with her, she’s too nice?”

Bam shrugged. “I guess, I don’t know, she’s just...I know she’s close to Ville. I do, I see that.” Bam groaned. “I just…if I were in his shoes it’d be hard to accept someone who’s been gone for thirteen years back into my life like that.”

Dunn shrugged. “Yeah, for you, but it’s not hard for Ville.” He looked over at Bam. “It’s not like Ville’s the only one accepting her with open arms, Bam. It’s the entire group.”

Bam groaned and rubbed his hand tiredly over his face. “I’ll fucking try harder.”

Dunn laughed. “That just means you’re not going to keep testing her patience.”

“Pretty much.” Bam muttered with a sigh.

XxxxxxX

“Is it all right if I take a shower?” Soya asked as she walked into the room that she would be sharing with Ville.

Ville grinned. “I love that you ask, the bathroom’s down the hall, my advice is to take the clothes in with you. It’ll just be Dunn here, but still.”

Soya nodded as she unzipped her suitcase that was lying on the bed, grabbing the pair of blue cotton boxer shorts. She was about to take out the matching tank top, when she saw Ville’s vintage Hanoi Rocks shirt laying on the bed.

“Mine!” she said grabbing it and hugging it closely to her chest.

Ville looked over his shoulder and sighed. “Haven’t you already stolen one of my shirts?”

Soya frowned. “I have no idea what you’re talking about.”

“I thought it was Bam who had taken it,” Ville said, “But when Linde told me you were at the concert, I knew you’d stolen the shirt I’d taken off during the show.”

“Well it’s at home and you can’t have it back.”

“I like this shirt Soya.” Ville said tugging at the sleeve that was peeking out from her under her arm.

“You’ll get it back.”

“I’ll never see it again!” he teased, going back to the dresser and pulling out a ‘69 Eyes’ shirt that Jyrki had given him as a gift for his last birthday.

“Of course you’ll see it again, just not on you.” She teased back as she took her towel out of the suitcase, along with her pink slippers, then dug around until she found the small black ruffled toiletry bag that Josef had packed for her.

“Come on.” He said grabbing his wallet from the dresser and stuffing it in his back pocket. He led her to the bathroom, “Take your time, Dunn will probably be downstairs watching TV when you’re ready.” He frowned. “Are you sure you don’t want me to stay?”

“Go!” she laughed pushing him out of the doorway. “I’ll be fine,”

“Tomorrow, we’re going to spend all day together.”

“I don’t think Bam will like that very much.” Soya pointed out.

Ville shrugged. “Don’t worry about Bam.”

“Valo!” Bam yelled. “Let’s go!”

“I’ll be back later.” He said, kissing her forehead.

“Have fun.” She called as she shut the door. Ville went down the stairs to see the group waiting; he turned to Dunn who was looking over the couch at them.

“Soya’s taking a shower,” Ville said, grabbing the back of Novak’s shirt as he started up the stairs.

“I forgot my wallet!” Novak said with wide eyes.

“Bullshit,” Ville laughed. “I doubt you own a wallet.”

“And it’s not like you pay for shit anyway.” Bam laughed.

Ville shook his head. “She’ll be down in a few minutes, if she’s not, pull her out of the room.”

“Got it, use force.” Dunn nodded, turning back around to the TV.

“Then let’s go.” Bam said leading the group out to the Hummer.

Ville took one last look upstairs causing Dunn to laugh as he looked back at him. “Dude, she’ll be fine. I promise I won’t attack her or anything.”

Ville shook his head. “Yeah, I know.” He muttered before following the rest of the group outside.

XxxxxxX

Soya wiped the condensation off the mirror, before going through her bag, finding her brush and brushing out her hair, before parting it in half and plaiting both sides so that two braids hung down her back.

She unfolded the boxers and pulled on the blue polka dot cotton panties before pulling on the sports bra she’d made sure she’d packed, knowing that she couldn’t walk around this house without a bra like she did at her own home. She looked in the mirror, catching sight of the blue inked ivy that was scrolled against her ribs before she pulled on her blue shorts and Ville’s Hanoi Rocks shirt. Leaving the bathroom, she went into the bedroom, hanging her towel next to Ville’s on the hook above the door, pushed her feet into her slippers and left the room, heading down the stairs.

She saw Dunn sitting on the couch flipping through the channels of the TV with a beer at his side.

“I’m sorry you had to stay behind.” She said as she sat next to him.

Dunn jumped and stared at her. “Jeez, give a man some warning next time!”

“Sorry.” She laughed, pulling her leg up to her chest and resting her chin on her knee.

“Its fine, and I don’t care that I stayed, why pay for a beer when I can get one for free here?” Dunn said waving the beer bottle that was now in his hand.

“True.” Soya laughed.

“You want one?” Dunn asked.

“I don’t drink.” Soya admitted.

“Court order?” Dunn asked with a grin.

“Personal choice.” Soya grinned back. “I’ll have a drink here and there, but not often.”

“Then indulge.” Dunn told her. “It’s just you and me here.”

Soya bit her lip and gave a nod. “Fine, only one, I’m what you would call a ‘lightweight’.”

Dunn laughed. “That’s definitely the wrong thing to say, in the wrong house. You let anyone else hear you say that and they’ll be shoving drinks down your throat.” He warned as he got off the couch to get her a beer, coming back minutes later with two cold ones.

She accepted the bottle and as she usually did when accepting a drink, she checked to make sure it was unopened.

“Don’t trust me?” Dunn asked.

Soya looked up at the serious look on his face and quickly backpedaled. “No! No, it’s not that, I just…It’s habit.” She said quickly.

Dunn laughed. “Dude, I was kidding! You have every right to check, you don’t know me, it’s common sense. Smart, especially here.”

Soya sighed in relief. “It’s just a habit.” She assured him before she accepted the bottle opener from him and opened the bottle.

“So.” Dunn started. “How did you meet the band?”

Soya looked over at him as she took a sip of her beer. “You mean HIM?” she asked.

“Yeah.” Dunn nodded looking at her. “How’d you guys meet?”

“Ville hasn’t told you?” Soya asked with a raised eyebrow.

“Just that you were sixteen and he was twenty when you guys met.”

“I was actually fifteen turning sixteen.” She told him. “And I met Ville first.” She admitted. “After school I had dance practice twice a week, I was in advanced dance classes so I use to dance with girls who were a few years older than me.”

“All right.” Dunn nodded, showing her he was listening and actually was curious about her. There was something that Ville saw in her, and Dunn wanted to know what it was.

“The studio I used to go to was about two blocks away from Kari’s shop.”

“The sex shop?” Dunn asked having been in there before.

“Yes, that’s the one.” She laughed. “Anyway, a couple of the girls I used to hang around with wanted to stop by. Apparently one of the girls was very adventurous with her boyfriend.” Soya said with a giggle, remembering that day.

“I don’t know why I have to go with you.” Soya whined, as she followed Elli and Inka down the sidewalk.

“Because we’re your ride home Soya.” Inka said impatiently as she grabbed Soya’s wrist and tugged on it.

“I won’t even be allowed in!” Soya pointed out, as they got closer.

“Then just stay by the door and out of the way,” Elli said with a roll of her eyes. “We’ll only be a minute.”

Soya sighed and didn’t have a chance to fight it as she was dragged into the store, then left by the door as the girls walked in giggling, shooting glances at the boy at the counter as he checked their ID’s before they went giggling further into the store, causing him to roll his eyes.

She looked over at him and bit her lip, before scooting closer to the door to avoid his gaze, only her movement caused the opposite to happen as his green eyes met her grey ones. He raised an eyebrow and smirked.

“You can come closer.” He teased. “None of the merchandise bites….much.”

“I know that.” She snapped, only to wince at the sound of her voice. She looked over to see if he was annoyed, but he only looked amused. She sighed. “I’m fifteen.”

“Yes, and I’m nineteen.” He laughed then looked over at the other girls who were giggling at one of the packets on the wall. He looked back over at her. “You can stay, as long as you stay near the register.”

She nodded, but stayed near the door. “Thank you.”

He rolled his eyes. “That was a hint for you to come closer.”

“Oh.” She muttered, nibbling her bottom lip and moving slowly closer to him.

“There you go.” He laughed. “I don’t bite either.”

“Hmm.”

“So if you’re fifteen, why are you here?”

“They dragged me in.” she said looking at her friends. “They’re my ride.”

“Ride from where?” Ville asked.

“I practice at the dance studio a few blocks down.” She admitted, pulling her sports bag up for him to see the dangling ballet shoes.

“Ah, so you’re flexible.” He smirked.

She frowned. “I have to be.”

He snorted in amusement as he looked at her, eyes gleaming in amusement. “I’m Ville Valo.”

“Soya Toivonen.”

Ville frowned. “Toivonen?” he asked. “As in…”

“Yes, Jonah Toivonen, I’m his only daughter.” She said with a roll of her eyes.

“I didn’t think the Minister of Finance had a daughter.”

“I’m not in the news much, they keep me pretty well shielded.” She admitted. “Go to school, go to practice and go home.” She shrugged. “That’s my life.”

Ville smirked. “Then I think I need to help you branch out.”

Soya laughed. “I don’t even know you.”

“Then I say you get to know me.” He said with a grin, causing her to grin as well.

“You met him at his dad’s sex shop?” Dunn asked in surprise.

Soya nodded. “I did, though Kari still doesn’t know that’s where I first met him, and my parents would have a fit if they ever found out I walked near a sex shop.”

“So how do they think you met?” Dunn asked.

“That we met at a music store that’s also pretty close to the studio, it was one we both frequented so it was believable. Linde and Mige didn’t know the real story of how we met for about six months before we finally told them.”

“How’d you get to know Linde and Mige?”

Soya laughed. “After our first conversation, I had mentioned that I practiced every Wednesday and Saturday at the studio. After that, Ville just ended up meeting me almost every time I had practice, I guess he was missing band practice or running late a lot and Mige and Linde got suspicious and followed him.”

Soya laughed as she thought back to that day. “We were having coffee at a small shop and I just kept seeing this wave of blonde hair flying over the corner every few seconds. I told Ville that I thought someone was watching us, and when he turned around and saw Linde, he groaned, apologized and waved them over. I guess Ville never really explained what he was doing when he was running late, just apologized and got to practicing.”

Dunn smirked. “He’s like that here, too.”

“How so?” Soya asked, finishing her beer and putting the empty bottle on the table in front of her. She was already feeling the alcohol go straight to her head and knew that one was definitely her limit.

“Every time he talks to you on the phone, he leaves the room. We all know it’s you on the phone when he gets the stupid grin and leaves.”

Soya blushed. “He’s always been like that. Linde and Mige tease us, because Ville’s always been my favorite of the three of them.”

“I can’t believe you pick favorites.” Dunn laughed.

“Don’t get me wrong.” Soya quickly amended. “I love them all; I’m close to all three of them in different ways, just…Ville’s always been different.”

Dunn nodded. “Sure.”

Soya smiled. “You can tell, can’t you?”

“Tell what?” Dunn asked wondering if they were speaking of the same thing.

Soya bit her lip. “That we’re close.” She smiled and hid her face in her knee before looking back at Dunn, who was looking at her, amused. “If you don’t see it, then I’m not telling you.”

Dunn laughed. “Oh I see it.” He said with a nod, he had watched them when she had dropped Ville off a week ago, he had seen at the dinner table when they would talk quietly with each other in a mixture of Finnish and English. “You guys are super tight.”

“I still find it amazing that it hasn’t been awkward after all this time. We saw each other and just…jumped right back in.” Soya said. “It’s always been like that with us, including with Linde and Mige. It’s never been awkward with us.”

Dunn smiled at her. “That’s not what I meant when I said I see it, but you were close.”

Soya frowned. “Huh?”

Dunn smirked. “If you don’t see then, then I’m not telling you.” He mocked, causing her to laugh.

“I like you.”

Dunn nodded. “I can truthfully say I like you too.”

“Good, having one of Ville’s friends hate me is bad enough.” She muttered, she patted his hand and got up from the couch. “The beer did me in, I’m off to bed.”

Dunn raised an eyebrow. “It’s barely ten thirty.”

“Then it’s definitely past my bedtime.” She mocked herself. “Good night.”

“Night.” Dunn called back as she climbed up the stairs.

Two hours later, Dunn looked over the couch to see the crew walking towards him and fall onto the couch, Novak falling on top of him.

“Get off!” Dunn said, pushing Novak off his lap, causing Novak to groan as he hit the ground.

“Dude you missed it!” Bam laughed. “Novak totally had the waitress in the palm of his hand, then she found out he’d slept with her sister and just went off on him.

Dunn chuckled. “I wouldn’t have missed it if you hadn’t told me to stay here.”

Bam frowned as he looked around the living room. “Where’s the chick?”

“Soya.” Dunn said with a roll of his eyes. “And she went to bed a couple hours ago,” he looked around at the crew and saw Dico and Raab on the other couch and Novak was still on the floor. “Where’s Valo?”

XxxxxxX

Ville closed the door quietly behind him, stripping off his shirt and pants, throwing them on the corner with the rest of his clothes, leaving him in his boxers. As carefully as he could he slipped into the bed and was about to turn around with his back to Soya, only for her to turn around and look at him with sleep filled grey eyes.

“Tämä on tuttu.”(This is familiar) she whispered.

Ville chuckled as he wrapped an arm around her waist and brought her closer, much like he had when they would take naps on Linde’s couch, crawling as close together as they could to keep from falling off the edge.

“I didn’t mean to wake you.” He whispered.

She frowned, her sleep filled mind a little slow in translating the English to Finnish. “Mmm, ette.” (You didn’t) she whispered, her accent more pronounced, causing a shiver to run down his spine. “Ville?”

“Kyllä?”(Yes?) he asked, making it easier on her and speaking in their own tongue.

She laughed quietly as she snuggled closer to him. “When was the last time you washed your clothes?”

Ville couldn’t help the laugh that escaped him. “It’s been a while kulta,”

“Mmm. Then I know what I want to do tomorrow.”

Ville smiled and kissed the top of her head. “Sleep, kultaseni.”