"There he is!" I yelled as we pulled in with a quick power slide into the gravel parking lot with snow and dust kicked into the air around the truck. Jon and Jim were standing at the door, at least Jon was, Jim was laying on the hood of his Oldsmobile with a bottle of whisky in his hand that was half empty singing some song about the weekend.
"Weekkkenddd! Weeekeend! Going! TO mmyy favoriteeeed barr!" He sang drunkly before falling off of the hood of the car and into the snow and gravel. I got out as fast as I could to give jim a piece of my minded before he stagger up to his feet to greet me. "Karlll! My buddy! How... How are you ha ha ha." Jim said with a slur as he fell into the snow and nearly broke his bottle. Jim was in his forties, but looked at least fifty or sixty, with bald head with some grey hairs on the sides of his head. Jim looked like a walking train wreak, wearing nothing but a wife beater, pair of boxers, a robe, and a pair of wool socks on his feet.
Jim was a wreak after his divorce, taking it over bored with the sauce till he started started the bar. Now he only hits it hard once the pressure is on, This deal with those reptiles in Destroido must have pushed him to and over the brink. "Looks like this has pushed him over the edge on this one, He never looks this bad." I said as he came closer to us. "Who's the sexy.." Dusk knocked Jim down to the ground with one hit to the jaw and he fell to the cold ground below. "Don't you even think about touching me." Dusk said coldly as she stepped over Jim and into the bar to get away from the cold. "I'm going to find somewhere warm to sit, see you inside klokateer." Dusk said with a smile as she walked to the door.
"What the fuck just happened?" Jon asked as he walked over to meet me. "No idea, maybe she though he was going to touch her. All I know is that she can pack a punch if she can knock out a drunk Jimmy!" I said with a laugh as I shook jim to see if he was awake. "Did you get any more info out of jimmy?" I asked Jon as I shook jimmy some more. "Only that he didn't sign the paperwork."
"What? He name was on the document, what do you mean he didn't sign it?" I shouted as whipped to my feet. Jon opened the Oldsmobile and threw a file onto the hood. "Look at the way it's written. Thats a woman's hand writing." Jon said, pointing at the way the letters were written. "Either Jim is hiding a secret, or someone is trying to get us out of here." I said with assurance that someone is trying to get to us. "If you've seen what he keeps on that laptop of his, than you can drop the first one. Jimmy's got a thing for the kardashian sisters something fierce." Jon said honestly as he ran his fingers though his gel filled hair.
"Come on lets get jimmy out of the cold before he freezes, we won't be much help to us if he's suffering from hypothermia." I said, picking Jim by the legs and Jon by his arms. "Wow! He's light!" Jon chuckled as we go into the bar and threw him into a booth. "Damn he is out cold."
"Yeah, She did a number on him. Look at his jaw, its already swollen!" Jon said astonished at the fact that someone as young as Dusk managed to knock a forty year old man out like a light. "Speaking of Muffy, you see her anywhere?" I asked Jon as I looked around for her. "She's with me chimney sweep!" A familiar, and rather unwelcome one at that, said with a giggle. We turned around to see the unpleasant figure with bright teal hair with matching make teal make up with her long teal hair in large pig tails that looked like the wings of a peacock. She was dressed in a black and teal cyber goth style with black short leaved button up with a bright teal top and a black latex skirt. She stood on a pair of black and teal knee high boots with buckles, making her at least the same high as Dusk and I. She was sitting in a booth with Dusk giggling and joking around together.
"Well Well Well, if it isn't Karl Dael in his usual attire." The Cyber goth girl remarked. "Who are you?" I asked her, "Aww Karl... You don't remember me do you?" She said with a little bit of sarcasm and a trace of hurt. The Cyber goth girl stood up and struck a pose similar to the picture of my family I had in my wallet. "Bro! Thats Sandra!" Jon said in surprise as he went to hug her. "Damn... Sandra, how did you get here?" I asked her reluctantly. "I herd from a little birdie that you were in trouble and that you needed a little help from the number one bass player in jefferson county for four years running." She said in a joyful voice as she hugged me. I looked behind her to see Dusk giving her the '1000' yard stair and I gave her a measuring look that sandra was not my interest at all.
"I'm going to get my bass out of the back of the Oldsmoblie, See you smokey!" Sandra said, blowing a kiss to me in the air as she walked to jimmies car. The door slammed behind her and soon a awkward silence took over the room. I walked over to the booth and sat next to dusk who instantly leaned against me, "Baby, what were you and sandra talking about?" I asked her as I motioned Jon to keep Sandra busy. Dusk put her chin on my shoulder and looked at me with those beautiful piercing black eyes of hers. "About you." She said with a girlish laugh. "Oh really, like what about me?" I asked her with a cutie smile. "Just about how your sweet, kind, generous." She gave a brief cutie smile with each pause. "A good kisser..." Dusk took her finger and pressed it against my lips ever so slight with a smile on her face. "And a few other things, Like how you got drunk and passed on the grass in front of your house. Telling people to get out of your room when you were laying in the grass covered in mud." She said with a cute laugh as my face turned bright red as I remembered that night.
"I will never, never, never drink bacardi again. EVER!" I said with a hearty laugh as I remembered waking up sun burned, covered in mud, and hung over all in the same day. Dusk laughed harder as we joked about some of the stories Sandra told her. 'Thank god Sandra didn't go psyco on Dusk.' I thought to myself as I wiped the imaginary sweat off my brow with my mind. "She's nice karl, even beautiful. What happened between you two?" Dusk asked me with her eyes gleaming in the dank amber light of the bar.
I gave a sign and wished I had a drink to calm my nerves, but just having her in my arms gave me the confidence to let a secret about myself out of the bag for once.
"Before me and Jon left for the North, We made a stop to Sandra's to break the news to her. At the time her mother was sick and we wanted to pay our respects to her family and drop off some money for them. Where we came from it was almost as if everyone in the community was connected with one another, even though some of us lived out in the sticks or just in town, we stuck together as people should. But when we got there we found Sandra in tears and we asked what was wrong, but then we started arguing and fighting then we broke up. It turned out that her mother had died early that day and didn't want anyone to help her. So she took it out on me and I did the same to her. It was all a misunderstanding, but either way it was bound to happen." I told dusk as I played with one of her pony tails with my finger.
"So you broke up over that? Did you think of getting back together with her?" She asked, begging for an answer. "Dusk, Honey, what happened between me and her went away a long time ago." I reassured her. She looked up at me with a serious look in her eyes, "Don't call me honey..." "Why not, Baby cakes?" I said with a laugh as she sat up and punched me in the arm. We couldn't help but laugh at each other as we play fought and tickled one other like school yard brats. "Aww god your so cute when your mad." I couldn't help but say as we leaned on one another again breathing quickly with little chuckles in between.
"And your cute all the time." Dusk said with a smile. "AWWW Look at the happy couple! Get'em dusk Rarrr!" Sandra said with a cutie play growl like a 40 year old woman on the hunt at a singles bar. "Got him today Sandra! He's mine!" Dusk said kissing me on the lips before rushing to Sandra. "Thats all good and wonderful, but can someone fucking help me hear!" Jon yelled as he almost dropped Sandra's cloths and amp on the ground before I rushed over to catch some of it. "Try not to break some of my stuff Hun, I need it for tonight." Sandra said as she put her bass guitar case on the table where me and dusk were.
In the case was a slick all black Gibson bass guitar with teal writing that read ' ' in gothic writing. As we admired the Bass, I couldn't help but ask how she knew we need someone else for the band... And how the fuck she knew we were here in new england for heavens sake!
"Sandra... How did you know we were here in the first place?" I asked her. She smiled and pointed at Jon who was twiddling his thumbs behind us. I looked at him like he was a madman till he answered, "Don't worry, She's been in NYC as of two weeks ago for a convention. I just hit her up for a little detour, you know?" Jon said nervously. I rolled my ears and looked at sandra, "How much?"
"How much what?" She asked me with a smile and a little laugh. I rolled my eyes once more, "How much did he pay you?" "Nothing, I came here to see you. Also because I wanted to meet Dusk from the Hex girls of course! Sorry to here about the break up by the way." She said to me and dusk. "Yeah Karl, she's cool. Plus just look at it this way, You have me on drums and back up vocals, Sandra on bass and vocals, then theirs you and Jon. You got a dream team for tonight!" Dusk said positively. "Yeah babe, you have a killer group here. Send out some flyers or a advertisement on the radio or some shit and we can have a kick ass show tonight.
"Holy fuck! How... How did I... I get... fuck..." Jim staggered to life from his booth. "I need a drink..." Jim swaggered to the bar and fell over again and began to snore on the floor. "Who's the drunk?" Sandra asked with a laugh. "Nobody, ugh what time it is?" I replied as jim began to awaken again and crawl to the booze again. "It's now at least four or five, Eddy will be here to open in a few. Someone get jim home and make sure he doesn't get out again, last thing we need is this fucker to screw up our night. Jon, when is Jessica suppose to get her for her part?" I ask, rallying up a plan for tonight. "Sometime around six or seven, Depends on weather." Jon said as he walked to get jimmy off the floor. "Speaking of which, how is the weather looking? Its mostly overcast all day and some snow here and there, but I don't know about anywhere else."
"I check the weather and we are looking at snow drift coming in tonight, traffic is hell as it is outside of the rural areas like this." Sandra said as she put her phone away. "We need at least a day for advertisements, thats what the managers would talk about. If the word isn't out about me, than all this work is worthless!" Dusk added, "Will that station Tk101 let us in for an advertisement?"
"Hun, advertising the hex girls is like advertising free booze. Theirs no question about it!" Sandra said with fire in her voice "Hell yeah!" Dusk yelled as they slapped a couple of High fives. "Alright heres the plan... Jon I need you to get Sandra's shit to either mine or your trailer, she needs a place to stay. Sandra, make a few calls to some of the rock stations and get the word out that Dusk here is making a comeback to the stage. Dusk, work with sandra and make it legit. Jon, eddie, and myself will take care of the other junk. We all need to get this shit moving before those pigs at Destroido come with the collection plate." I said with zeal, "Black tuesday on three! One, two, three!"
"BLACK TUESDAY!"
