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"God, shoot me now! I never though maths could be THAT bad!" Alexis cried as they headed to the lockers to get their stuff and leave school for the weekend.

"I did!" Erika answered with a small smile.

"Wanna come over to my house?"

"Yeah, sounds better than going home and wait for the monster to arrive"

"You know you'll have to face them again and it's gonna happen soon, right?"

Erika laughed "I know what you're thinking! No, I don't plan to run away… at least not now"

"Good. Let me know when you're about to and I'll follow you"

"Bullshit" They laughed as each headed to their cars and then to Alexis' house.

Alexis lived not too far from Erika's house. They had become friends since day one, probably because in a general look, they were the only ones at school who didn't care about showing off their latest cell phone. She lived only with her mother, Kristi, her dad passed away ten years ago from cancer. Kristi worked as publicist for a clothing store and never were interested in getting married again.

"Ka! So good to see you here!" Kristi greeted

"Hi Kris! You too. I hope it really isn't a problem"

"Oh, of course not my dear! But your mom knows you're here, right?"

"Yeah. I called and left a message"

"Good. How's she?"

"Pregnant"

"Really?"

"Yup"

"Oh, what great news! I'll call her latter to say congratulations"

"She'll be happy about that" Erika answered with a fake smile before Kristi finally let the two of them alone.

"So…" Alexis began while brushing her short dark brown hair, her blue eyes were shinning in hidden excitement "What we gonna do tonight?" Erika threw herself on Alexis' bed and exhaled hard. "Nah, nah! Don't come with that shit to me! Come on, it's Friday!"

Erika sat and hugged a cushion "What you have in mind?"

"Well…" Alexis clicked her lips, Erika knew she already had a plan "You remember Dan, right?"

"Aaaah no! No! NO!"

"You didn't even let me finish!"

"'Cause I know where this is gonna end!"

"Where?"

"You setting me up another blind date that will end up with me getting drunk because I can't stand the shit head who's by my side!"

"All I did was try to help you!"

"Aahh please…"

"Ok, whatever! BUT that's not it! It's not a blind date, you go with me!"

"Oh God!" Erika made a disgusted expression and Alexis threw her a cushion, what made Erika to laugh.

"Not like that dumb ass! Apparently, the band he's into has a gig scheduled at Nit's. He invited me to go and told me to bring a female friend, which means you!"

"No blind date my ass!"

"He's gonna play Ka! We'll both just sit and enjoy! Plus, he said female to make sure I wouldn't bring another guy!" Erika eyed her suspiciously "Come oooon!"

"What if they suck?" Alexis sighed "You know I HATE to listen to crappy music, it makes me angrier than normal!"

"Argh! Ok, here's the deal: we go, if they suck or you don't enjoy yourself AT ALL, I'll give you my Brad Pitt poster!"

"Holy shit, really?"

"Yeah!"

"Ok then… I think I can stand a shitty night for a Brad Pitt in my room!" Erika answered smiling.

"Man, is it for real?" Jack asked on the phone to Dan. Inside the envelope there was a white ID card for the Nit's night club and bar, it informed the others that he was performing there tonight.

"Yeah dude!" He answered laughing "We all got one"

"Awesome! That place is full of rich bastards, no wonder why everyone wanna have a gig there, they give good tips!"

"Just what we need Jackie! I'm tellin' you man, tonight is my night! I also have another date with Alexis"

"Aaahh here we go…"

"Watch it! I like her!"

Jack brushed into laughing "You mean you haven't fucked her yet?!"

"No, what's the matter?"

"You're such a pussy!"

"Fuck you Jack-O! Mock now and cry yourself later!"

"Dude, that sounded like shit!"

"Shut up, you'll still be in the same position as me, I'm tellin' ya!"

"Yeah, yeah! Whatever… I'll see ya tonight"

"See ya!"

After hanging up the phone Jack laughed out loud to himself, listening to Dan was so funny, he was falling for the rich ass girl. She was hot, no doubt with that, but let's face it: he was a wannabe rockstar, had nothing to do with the girly! Jack finally shook those thoughts off his head and went upstairs to practice by himself. He had to kick asses tonight.

"Oh crap!" Alexis exclaimed at the same time they parked near the club.

"What?"

"You don't have your fake ID with you, do you? It's at your house! Damn!" Alexis slapped her forehead and Erika smiled.

"Relax Alex, I don't step out of bed without it" She smiled as she inclined to take it from her back pocket. "Here it is" She smiled, showing off the ID.

"It's good to have a smart ass friend"

"You can count on that!"

The security looked at them and then to the IDs, without any trouble, he let them in. The club was already full of people, but not in the way that you couldn't even move your arms.

"Dan booked us a table up there" Alexis pointed to the up area of the club.

"Booked us? How sweet" Erika said sarcastically

There was another security right before the stairs, Alexis gave him her name and showed some kind of special card, again, he let them in with no problem after clipping orange bracelets on their wrists. So far, so good.

Alexis was unconsciously shaking her legs under the table and looking around every time, what was rather amusing to Erika.

"Relax Alex. You look great and he'll appear soon"

"How- what?" Alexis asked confused. Was she that obvious or Erika knew her too well to know what she was wondering?

Erika simply smiled before taking a sip from her beer.

After about half an hour they were there, the bad finally started playing. Alexis couldn't control herself and squealed like crazy when Dan waved to her. Erika watched all that amused, she was happy for her friend. Dan played the bass, while another guy set himself on the drums and a third one took the lead and set himself in front of the others, it seemed like he both singed and played guitar.

Erika couldn't really see any of them clearly, there were too many different colored lights flying around plus the bright ones on the front, so she gave up on forcing her eyes and just sat back to listen. Not bad… not bad at all! Someone there had a really great voice, she assumed it was the front guy. They played several songs she knew, that gave her a chance to lip sing with them.

"So, what you think?" Alexis asked with a smile when all the lights went off for a second before the DJ put some music on, the band's gig was over.

"They suck" Erika answered without a second thought.

"Liar! You're sayin' that JUST to get my Brad poster!" Alexis accused while pointing at her, but the smile never left her face.

"How can you say something like that? Would I ever lie to you?" Erika faked a broken heart

"You're a good liar, but not when you already had more than a couple of beers! Plus, I saw you lip singing"

"That only means I like the song! And I'm not drunk"

"Yet"

"Yeah, yet!" Both laughed, they already were tipsy.

"Hey!" A third voice joined them and both girls turned their faces while their laughs were still fading.

"Dan!" Alexis jumped from the chair and hugged him. "This is my best friend, Erika" She introduced after releasing him.

"Hi" Erika smiled as they shook hands

"Hey! Good to finally meet you"

She laughed "You too"

"This is my friend and band mate, Jack" He said pointing to the guy standing right behind him, who looked rather distracted and was looking somewhere else. As Jack didn't make a move, Dan elbowed him.

"Wow! What the fuck?!"

"This is Alexis and this is Erika"

"Ah, right! Hey" Jack shook the girls' hands with a small smile.

"So, can we join you?" Dan asked to Alexis

"Sure!" She answered smiling and Erika tried to hide her shock as she looked to her friend. Not blind date my ass! I knew it!

This wasn't exactly where Jack wanted to be. Dan would start making out with his girl and he'd have to stay here with her friend. Well, he didn't HAVE to, but he also didn't feel like being such an ass and leave her by herself, after all, she wasn't bad looking at all, he couldn't check on her body, but by her face he knew it shouldn't be bad.

"You guys are pretty good" Erika complimented with a smile. Jack was a bit taken aback by her starting a conversation.

"Thanks" Damn, he didn't know what else to say

"How long you've been playing?"

"Ah, that's tough! I guess we're together since 9th grade"

"Cool"

"What about ya, you play anything?"

"Ha!" Erika laughed "I started taking acoustic guitar classes, but as much as I wanted to learn it, I suck! It's hard to admit, but I do"

Jack cracked a laugh "Daddy told you it was ok to give up?" He asked sarcastically, thinking she wouldn't understand what he really meant.

She took a sip of her beer before replaying "He wasn't with me when I started learning… Nice way to call me a rich spoiled daddy's girl, by the way" Again, Jack laughed "You thought I wouldn't notice that, huh?"

"At least clever is one way to describe you"

"What would be the others?" She asked interested to hear what this guy who just met her had to say.

"How old are you?"

She sighed "Are you one of those guys who doesn't talk to underage girls because you might get arrested if you screw them?"

Again, Jack was taken aback and laughed to mask his surprise. Maybe she wasn't that spoiled "No, I can talk to underage girls"

"Good"

"But you don't look like one"

"Thank God the securities thought the same" Both laughed.

Alexis and Dan were having a serious making out on the corner. Sometimes Erika would look at them by the corner of her eye, just to see if everything was alright.

"Can I get ya another beer?" Jack asked

"Sure, thanks"

He smiled and got up. If someone else was there with Erika, she'd bet ten bucks that he wouldn't come back, since there was no one, she made a bet with herself and started wondering ways of entertain herself. Maybe dancing wouldn't be so bad? About five minutes and he hadn't come back yet, yeah he had left her. Without signs of someone who had just been dumped, she got up and gracefully walked to the stairs, like if nothing had happened. She was in the middle of the stairs when she met Jack.

"Where you going?" He asked, two bottles of beer in hand. She couldn't help but smile.

"Bathroom" She spoke quickly

"There's one up there"

"There's a huge line inside" Lie!

"Oh, ok!" Erika gave him a last smile before starting to go down the stairs "Hey!" He called and she turned "You really are goin' to the bathroom, right? You're not gonna leave me by myself in a table with two beers like a lonely bastard, are you?"

Now she really laughed, that was exactly what she feared he'd do to her "No, I'll be right back"

"'K!"

Her replies to him must have created some kind of 'respect' to her from his part. Erika was glad about it, maybe this night wouldn't suck as much as she thought. She really needed to pee anyway, so headed quickly to the bathroom.

Well, Erika isn't really a spoiled brat. She might still be a brat, but ain't spoiled, she had a descent talk and was able to curse, more than he already expected from her.

Erika got back from the bathroom and smiled as she saw that Jack hadn't started his beer.

"Hey" She greeted as she sat

"There you are"

"Thanks for waiting"

"Thanks for coming" He answered smiling. Since when he decided to be charming? They made a toast and took a long sip. "Ok, I swear I'm not high or anything, but do you have two different eye colors?"

She laughed at his first statement "Yeah if by this, you judge if you're high or not, you really aren't. I do, one is green, the other is hazel"

He furrowed his eyebrows but smiled "That's cool! I've met a girl with that before"

"Oh really? It's a pretty rare condition"

"Yeah, I was nine or something. She was my neighbor, it was also one green and another hazel. Is it always like that, the colors?"

"No, it can be… I don't know, blue and brown, hazel and blue…"

"Oh, right. And-"

"Jack" She cut him off.

"What?"

"What's your last name?"

"Mercer…why?"

"Do you have any brothers?"

"Other three. Why the hell are you asking me this?"

"Are you all adopted by your mother and live in a… not so good neighborhood?"

"Yes. Fuck, why? It's your turn to start with the money prejudice?"

Erika laughed "Jack…"

"What?" She was really freaking him out.

She smiled "I was your neighbor"