Chap 2
dont own anything...
'Wear something cute' was very specific in Seiya speak. It meant I couldn't look like a total zero, but I couldn't upstage her either. I could expose my stomach but never my cleavage….tits were her trademark.
I tried on multiple outfits until I settled for a dark, long sleeve shirt with a purple lace tank top on top, with dark denim jeans. There's some space in between the shirts and pants, exposing my abdomen.
"Those jeans are hella low. I can almost see your front butt." Mamoru Chiba, my boyfriend since forever, who I call Mamo-chan commented, while lying on my bed watching me.
"It's a rock show. This is my rock look" I reply facing him with a smile.
"Well I can see your womb, so…" he replies
I turn back around and add a belt.
"I never even heard of Low Shoulder. Which one is Seiya stalking?" Mamoru asked.
"The lead singer, girls like her don't date drummers." I tell him.
He smirks, "Thanks a lot." He took offense since he's a drummer on the school band.
I turn towards him. "I mean no offense, and she would probably go out with you if you were a drummer who's also a lead singer."
"You mean like Phil Collins."
"Who's Phil Collins?" I say, looking in the mirror.
"Forget it, he's some old…whatever" he replied nervously.
"But this singer guy, Seiya says he's extra salty, so…." I tell him crossing my arms, and facing him.
"Salty?" he questioned, looking at me skeptically.
"Salty means beautiful," I say, walking towards him with a smile.
"Well you must be soy sauce babe" he tells me with a smile and I lean down to kiss him. Before we can get to deepen the kiss, I stop.
"Seiya's here." I say, eyes roaming around.
"How do you know?" he asked. After he speaks, we can hear a voice downstairs saying, 'Odango, quit pants-alluting yourself and get down here.' I look at him with a sheepish smile and shrug.
"That's freaking weird." Mamoru says, creeped out.
"Better hurry before she gets annoyed" I say, leaning away from him.
"You always do whatever Seiya tells you to do." He says
"No I don't, it's just I like the same things that she likes. That's why we're biffs" I say holding up my best friend's forever necklace. Seiya has one just like it. But hers has three red stones (which is her favorite color) on it and mine has a diamond.( this really means bff's)
"You guys don't have anything in common" Mamoru says, getting off the bed to follow me downstairs.
"Okay, Mamoru" I say skeptically and start walking downstairs.
When we get downstairs, Seiya's leaning against the entryway to the kitchen with her arms crossed. I turn to her and show her my outfit. Seiya herself had on a dark green lace tank top, jean mini skirt, with pink fishnet stockings, and heeled ankle boots.
She smiles and says "Guess who has the whip until 11:30? A 2003 Chrysler Sea Bring and it's all mine." She shows us the keys and giggles.
"Oh hi, Mamoru" Seiya says, walking up to him. "It smells like Thai food in here. Have you two been fucking?" She says with a smirk and looks at both us knowingly.
I scoff at her and push her, "You're gross"
"No, you're gross" she says, pushing me back.
"You're so gross" I say and push her back again.
"Fuck you!" she says, laughing and pushing me again. Only this time she pushes me too hard and I fly back against the front door. I'm taken by surprise, by the strength she used, that all I can do is smile back awkwardly.
"Let's go to the club" she says, heading for the door.
"Melody Lane is not a club, it's a bar. Matter of fact it's not a bar, it's a bingo hall with tabs,"Mamoru says snidely. Seiya looks at him crazy-like.
"Eat my ass, Mamoru. You're just jello cause you're not invited." Seiya says to him, heading down the porch towards the car.
"I'm not jello, that place is disgusting. Everyone in there has a mustache." He says from the top of the porch.
"You're totally jello, you're lime green jello, and you can't even admit it to yourself" Seiya said to him snarky with a roll of her eyes.
Mamoru sighs, "Stop kidnapping my girlfriend," he says to Seiya as we near the car.
"You wish," she says, flipping him the finger and getting in the car.
Mamoru is right though; Melody Lane is definitely not a club. Clubs are for attractive people, who live in suburban areas. Clubs have DJ's and Champange. All we have is a jukebox and a sticker toilet.
As me and Seiya enter the club, we get our hands marked with an 'X' to show that we didn't sneak in or anything. Seiya looks around as she waits for me to get my mark. We can see men playing pool and drinking.
"I cannot wait until I'm old enough to get wasted." Seiya says, walking with a grin.
"Hey, Seiya. You look really pretty," says Craig, one of the football players at our school. He looks at Seiya with a dumb, slightly nervous look on his face.
Seiya gives a fake giggle, "What up, Craig?" she says, not really caring and keeps walking. She then says to me, "He thinks he's cute enough for me, and that's why he's in retard math."
We then lean against a counter and I began to look around.
"Hey, it's Emmett from India." I say, spotting the foreign exchange student from school. He was sitting all alone, looking lost and lonely.
Seiya turns around with an unlit cigarette in her hand and says, "I wonder if he's circumcised, I always wanted to try a sea cucumber."
"Ew…" I say with a laugh, and she looks at him and smirks for a second and puts the unlit cigarette between her lips.
It only stays there a second before it's snatched out of her mouth and she looks up. There standing next to her is Ronan. He's a graduate, who is in the police academy, also Seiya's current plaything, or was…. I don't know, she moves fast in these things.
"You shouldn't poison yourself with that shit. Unless you want me to arrest you." He says, taking off his shades and hanging them from his shirt. I sit here and watch this whole scene amused.
"You're going to arrest me? You're not even out of the academy yet, Ronan." Seiya says to him smartly.
"Two more months, then I'm on the force forreals." Ronan replies, sipping his beer.
Seiya looks at him, shifty-eyed and says, "Are you uh…. You gonna cuff me?" she then grabs his special place, causing him to grunt.
"Ah, don't do that…." He looks around, then turns back to her. "Okay, not here." Seiya continues to look at him smugly and cocks her head a little.
"Hey, that's the band!" I say, causing Seiya turn around and look where I'm looking and smile. There on the small stage are five boys setting up their instruments. The lead singer is cute in a gothic, emo sort of way with his slightly dark eye shadow.
"Mmmm you can totally tell they're from the city. "Seiya says, bouncing a little from excitement.
"Yeah, they're wearing eyeliner; they're a bunch of fagos." Ronan says, chuckling a little.
Seiya rolls her eyes and purse her lips out for a second before turning to look at him and say, "Of course you would think that because you are a small time gummer. I wish we had more guys like that in Devil's Kettle, all stylish and shit." She says, looking at the band dreamily. I notice Ronan get a hurt look on his face and walks away but I don't think Seiya noticed…or cared.
"I think they need two groupies." Seiya says, pulling me towards them. I giggle a little and tell her 'no'.
"Don't be so scary, Odango. They're just boys, morsels; we have all the power, don't you know that. These things…." She grabs my chest, "are like smart bombs, you point them in the right direction, and shit gets real." She replies, walking to them. And all I could do was chuckle and blush slightly from embarrassment. I follow her as she introduces herself to the lead singer, who looks at her heading toward him
"Hi…uh, we just wanted to meet you or something I'm Seiya Kou, and this is my friend" she says while shaking his hand.
"Hi, I'm Nicoli and uh, these guys are my band…" he replies.
"Low Shoulder," Seiya replies, smiling at him. He looks at her, surprised with a small smile. "Yeah, I've heard about you. You play your instruments…really super good." She looks him up and down really quick with a smile.
"Thank you, we are professionals," he replied as Seiya continued to smile at him.
"Hey, can I ask you a question? Um, why would you come play way out here at Devil's Kettle? You live in the city, right?" I asked him, speaking for the first time.
"Well, we believe it's important to reach our fans in the more shity areas too' Nicoli replied. I just looked at him like he was crazy.
Seiya just giggled and smiled "Wow, that's amazing. Can I um…can I buy you a drink?" she says all nervous and excited. Wow, I never seen her so hung up on a guy before.
"Sure, what are we having?" Nicoli asked her.
"They have this really cool 911 shooter. It's red, white, and blue but you have to drink it fast, or it'll turn brownish." She tells him excitedly.
"Alright, well, we'll drink it fast," he tells her.
"Okay," she says till smiling.
"Good," he says, smiling at her.
"I'll be right back," she says kind of breathless. She turned around to head to the bar, but I got in front of her really quick.
"Hey! How are you gonna get alcohol?" I asked nervously.
"ERR I'll just play Hello Titty with the bartender." She says, then heads to the bar. I head to the pinball machine game and began to play. It's close enough that I could still hear what Nicoli was saying.
"Durk, what about her?" Nicoli asked his bass player.
"Who Jan Brady?" Durk replies referring to me.
"No, man! Fuck you! I'm talking about the one who just went to get me a drink. The stage butter princess. That's the one. " Nicoli said
"Are you sure?" Durk said skeptically.
"Trust me, I grew up in a town like this, OK? There's always that girl. They like to show it off but they do not give it up."
"You told us you were from Brooklyn," Durk said confused
"My point is this girl is definitely a virgin, OK? Now I know girls like that…"
"I don't know," Durk said unsure.
"Well, you know we didn't drive all this way for nothing." Nicoli replied smartly while I heard everything they said, started to head their way with a serious look on my face.
"Fine, okay….you knows I'm not just your bassist. I'm a person with feelings, who happens to play the bass. I would like a little respect, Nicoli," Durk said, getting upset. Neither noticed that I came up and said 'excuse me'.
'Durk, I didn't know you had feelings," Nicoli said with fake sympathy. Durk then saw me and pointed to me, and Nicoli look at me.
"Hey, that's my best friend that you're talking about and you're right she is a virgin. And that beats sleeping with guys like you." I say and walk away. Nicoli and Durk look at each other and shrug.
Seiya then comes back with two red, white, and blue drinks. One with a little less blue than the other , and she looks at it then at me and moan.
"Ugh! The taller one isn't full enough" she says
"Those guys are rigged, Sei-chan, just forget about them." I say, still mad.
"You know what; I think the lead singer want me." Seiya says, looking Nicoli over my shoulder, grinning.
"Only because he thinks that you're a virgin. I heard them talking." I tell her
"What?!" she hissed. "I'm not even a back door virgin anymore, thanks to Ronan!" she looked in his direction at the bar. "And by the way… that hurts! I couldn't even go to Six Flags the next day. I had to stay home and sit on a bag of frozen peas." Seiya finishes kinda glum at the end.
"My god…" I say with a laugh in my voice at how crazy that sounded.
We can hear the microphone coming on and Seiya puts the drinks down, takes a deep breath and walks up to the stage to see the show.
"Good evening, Devil's Lake!" Nicoli replies to the crowd. Someone shouts Devil's Kettle, correcting him
"Fuck! A right it is" he says and points to the person, then begins to play.
I stand next to Seiya though I don't care to hear their song anymore.
All alone in an empty room
Nothing left but the memories of when I had my best friend.
And I don't know how we ended up here, I don't know but it's never been so clear.
We made a mistake, dear
And I see the broken glass in front of me
I see your shadow hanging over me
And you face….i see
Through the trees I will find you
I will heal the ruins left inside you
Cuz I'm still here breathing now
Seiya then grabs my hand hand and smile excitedly at me and I smile back and stare at her.
I'm still here breathing now
I'm still here breathing now
Until I set free,
Go quite through the trees
As I smile at Seiya, my smile starts to fade as I realize she's completely absorbed in the show now, and she releases my hand, her own smile waning. I turn to look back at the stage. Out the corner of my eye I noticed a spark of a fire on the wire.
I remember when we used to talk about the places we would go
And all that we were going to find
I remember watching our seed grow
How you cried when you saw the first leaf show
And love was pouring from your eyes
It started to travel along the cord along the ceiling. I drifted away from seiya and followed with my eyes the trail it was making. I noticed that the bartender saw it too and was looking. It then came to a flag hanging up, which then fell on a couple siting at a table below it. The fire then started to spread eveywhere and everyone panicked. All I could do was look in horror as people got burned and stepped on by other people trying to escape.
The band had stopped playing too. Nicoli stopped singing and stood there and watched as if it was nothing but a little fire. Seiya just stood there too, but she looked as if she was in a daze. Her eyes were all blank as if she was day dreaming in la la land. People were pushing and moving against her and she still didn't move. I looked around still at people burning, watching a lady get stepped on. We have to get out of here was all I could think about.
I ran back to Seiya and pulled her along. "I know where to go," I tell her but she doesn't respond, just let me drag her.
I take us to where the sticker toilet is located and push the lid down so I stand on if and with the window above it up. I then lifted myself out the window, when I was out I turned around to help seiya. She turned to look back like she didn't want to go. When we finally got out, we stumbled a good distance away from the burning building and sat down. People were running around, screaming, trying to get away from the fire, some people were on fire.
I put my hands on Seiya's face "Seiya, hey…" she didn't say anything; she just stared and was moving her mouth like she wanted to say something but couldn't.
"Oh thank God you guys are alright, I've been looking everywhere for you two." Nicoli says, suddenly beside us with a drink in his hand.
I just continued to look at my friend, who looked completely out of it.
"Listen, it looks dangerous out here. Do you want to go someplace, maybe to my van?" Nicoli asked us.
I shook my head confused "What?"
"I'm in survival mode right now, and I want us to get to a familiar place. Right now I feel like that's my van." Nicoli said and squatted down next to us.
Seiya spoke for the first time since everything started. "Okay…." She said and mumbled something else that I couldn't understand.
"Okay, great ...You in shock? Drink some of this." Nicoli pressed his drink to Seiya's lips, making her drink,
I look at what he was doing and softly say 'no', worried about wat he could possibly have in that drink. I stare at Seiya as she drinks it. She takes a small sip and softly coughs. "Seiya?..." I ask her, seeing if she was ok.
Nicoli then takes the drink from her, takes her hand, pulls her up; causing me to lose my balance and fall. I quickly stumble to my feet and followr them.
"Let's go, Seiya" I call out to her,
"Let's go to the van" Nicoli say, looking back while pulling Seiya. She has that sort of dazed look again as if she's been hypnotized.
"I wanna go to your really cool van. Odango, let's go see the van" she says, looking at me while still being dragged along.
"Why?...Why should we? We have the Sea Bring, let's just get out of here. Let's go to El Ole and get some nachos with extra bdger sauce! Please, I'm starving!" I plead with her.
"Odango, stop it! Just shut up!" she says to me, before climbing in the back of the van.
I look at her shocked, with wide eyes, mouth hanging open. Seiya scooted back in the van and looked confused for a second before she looked at me with a deer in headlights expression right before Nicoli closed the door. At that moment the building exploded more, making this horrible scene more dramatic.
I watched her get into that van and I knew something awful was going to happen. He was skinny, twisted and evil like this petrified tree I saw when I was little. I stood there breathing heavily, panicking just a little. Nicoli looked at me with a fake smile, shrugged his shoulders and got in the van and drove off.
And all I could do was stare….
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