the after party

All I could do is sit back and watch while Till and Michelle oodled at each other, I kind of thought it was a bit gross to be perfectly honest. After maybe 5 minutes of it I started to get impatient because I wanted to say HI to Till and more urgently I wanted to see Richard. So I started waving my arms frantically and jumping up and down. I am really short as is Michelle, so Till easily saw me. He looked up from Michelle,

“Hi” I said to Till

“Guten tag” he said in that deep baritone voice I loved for so long.

“I just thought I would say hello, its nice to finally meet you. I shall leave you two to get acquainted, one question though, where's Richard”

“Down the hall and to the left is his dressing room” he said

“Danke” I said as I started to walk away

I gave Michelle a tap on the shoulder, winked at her and walked away. I walked down the hall, there was so many butterflies in my stomach that it felt like it was going to explode. I turned the corner I wasn't even looking up because I was looking at my stomach because it was in knots.  My head hit something hard, I thought I bumped into the wall, I fell back to the ground on my butt. I looked up to see what I ran into, and low and behold, it was the man I was looking for, Mister Richard Zven Kruspe. My mind swirled with all types of thoughts as he reached his hand out to help me up.

“Oh I am so sorry, I guess I wasn't watching where I was going” I said.

“No worries, here let me help you up.”

I grabbed his hand and he pulled me up, a little too hard because I had totally missed the ground and fell into his chest. He caught me and I looked up at his face, he was so much sexier in person, I could get lost in his eyes. I gained my balance and backed away. We both shared a good giggle at my klutziness.



“You must be Rebecca, I recognize you from Facebook.”

“Oh wow, that is really your Facebook, I was a skeptic for a long time about the validity of it.” I said with a giggle.

“Well I can see why you would be, anyway I was headed to talk to Till, want to tag along”

“Um, hes a bit busy with a fan, well, my friend Michelle, they're chatting it up.”

“Well then, shall we go for a walk anyway. Lets go to the stage and you can check it out? I have to do something up there anyway"

I nodded profusely, he grabbed my hand and we made our way to the stage. All my nerves seemed to be numb, I felt like I was walking on air, I was holding Richards hand, his grip was strong, I would expect that from a man with such arms like his. We walked up the stairs to the back of the stage, I walked out onto the stage and Richard let go of my hand. I never thought in a million years I would be on the stage that Rammstein played on. I looked out into the empty arena, I spotted Joe from Combichrist walking around. So I yelled out to him and waved. I inspected every inch of the stage, I was dumbfounded. I turned back to see what Richard was doing, he was fiddling with his pedals, something I knew vaguely about since my husband was a musician. I felt so good, so happy, I decided to jump around and act like Paul. Paul was one of the cutest people in the world, Paul was just so full of energy and just adorable. Richard looked up at me and chuckled.

“Hey, I heard that.” I yelled.

“Well what do you expect me to do, you're acting silly.”

I let out a 'humph' and decided to do a Flake dance. I was making a lot of noise so Richard looked up again. He stood up and laughed really hard at me.

“Rebecca, you are just a riot, but I would leave the dancing to Flake”

“Hey now” I said putting my hands on my hips.

He laughed and said

“We're done here, I saw you waving to Joe, you want to say hi?”

“Nah, I can meet up with him later, I want to spend time with you.”

He nodded and we left the stage. We walked around to where I last left Till and Michelle and they were gone, where to? I don't know. It was around 6:45pm by now and the doors were opening soon, I wanted to get a good spot right in front of Richard. I shrugged and went to the merch table to get something. I had a decent amount of money so I bought a hoodie, a tour shirt, and a flag. I walked back into the GA area and there was Michelle, I waved to her, and walked to her.

“Hey, where did you go?” I asked

“That's a secret” she said and winked.

I smiled at her.

“Did you find Richard?”

“Indeed I did. I turned the corner and ran into him head first and fell over”

She laughed.

“Ha, that's funny. What did you do?”

“After I fell he extended his hand to help me up, pulled a little too hard and I fell over and into  his arms”

Her jaw dropped.

“Holy shit”

“I KNOW! So after that he wanted to look for Till, and I told him that he was busy with you, so he said 'well ok you want to see the stage I have to do something up there anyway' I was like, OH MY GOD in my head of course, so he took my hand and led me on the stage,”

“So you got to go on stage? Holy shit!”

“It is so much more epic from the other side of the stage oh my god. I took a picture”

I look my camera out and showed her.

“Oh wow, that's an awesome picture” she said

“I know, so Richard started to fiddle with something as I checked out the stage, I went over to Paul's side and started to jump around and act like Paul and Richard laugh at me”

“Ha that's so funny”

“He went back to his work and I started to have some fun and did a Flake dance, and he stood up and laughed at me and told me to 'leave the dancing to Flake'”

“Oh wow.” She said as the masses started to come in.

Doors had opened and people started to rush in.