THIS HAS NO TIME FRAME AND REFERENCES BANDS THAT EMERGED YEARS AFTER THIS IS SET
Bender was in the exact same clothing he was the day before, denim jacket, red flannel shirt and white longsleeve underneath. He looked excited, like he had an idea.
He indeed had an idea.
When he returned home and went to bed, he thought of Claire's quote during their climactic argument.
"Why don't you take Allison to one of your heavy metal vomit parties?"
Bender had many ideas through his head. Allison was the only one he spared from his wrath during the day. Although he commented on her fingernail biting and "shook off" her heartfelt comment about your heart dying when you grow up he felt something mentally connect with her and thus he reckoned she would agree with his idea.
Bender was a big fan of Anal Cunt; an American grindcore band whose song titles utilized gallows humor, toilet humor, self-awareness and outright nonsensicalness to it's most extreme.
He had an idea that he and Allison could start THEIR OWN heavy metal vomit party, and it would be much worse than what Claire on Saturday was probably thinking of when she uttered those words.
"How do you know where I live?" Allison questions.
"Andy told me! I need to talk to you so bad!" he says in a happily frantic manner.
Allison reckons that Bender is trying to confess love but goes forward.
"I had this really cool idea and you're the only one I know who would get what I'm talkin' about!" Bender says.
"Alright, go on..." Allison says, intriguingly.
"Remember how Claire was sayin' how I would take you to a heavy metal vomit party?"
"That entire conversation from start to finish I will never forget."
"Yeah, I had this fuckin' good idea that we could start our own metal band or something!".
"Me? In a metal band?"
"Yes! Fuck man, you are perfect for something like this!"
Allison seemed skeptical but soon realized that considering Bender was an unconventional street punk and a brutally honest man he wouldn't be luring her into whole-school embarrassment like popular people do to people of her type.
"Okay then, my parents ignore me so I don't think they'll notice me if I'm gone."
"When do you have dinner?"
"It's usually at 7:00pm but my parents don't cook me anything, I just grab a pack of two-minute noodles and eat them dry out of the packet usually."
"You and I seem to have the shittiest parents.", Bender mumbles.
He slips Ally a note.
8.00pm, meet at Shermer High, going to call the others if available.
Bender says a goodbye and hops out the window.
Allison keeps the note in her pocket. She patiently waits for the time to pass.