The McQuaids greeted me like I'd been a member for years and not 2 weeks. Doug and Harry high fived me and Judy hugged me. The only exception was Tom. He stood, not far away and just looked at me. When he saw that he had caught my attention he motioned with his head for me to join him.

Once again I found myself walking toward Tom McQuaid, who was, according to every person that had known me for the last 4 years, a murderer and a drug dealer.

"We'll catch up with you later "Tom said to Doug, Judy and Harry. Harry and Judy just nodded but Doug looked like he was gonna ask something but one sharp eye from Judy and one elbow from Harry stopped him from doing so.

"Later"? I asked as we started to walk away from the crowd.

"Yeah, Brian asked us if we wanted to hang with them after the concert."

"Can I come too?"

"Of course you can. I think that Brian would be surprised if you're not there. I think that he wants to hear what you thought about his new song."

"About that song…" Tom looked unhappy.

"Was it you who asked Brian to write it?" I asked and looked at Tom. I didn't realize that we had stopped walking.

"Yes, it was me. I thought I could give you an explanation for being gone all the time so I called him asking him to write something."

"It was beautiful, thank you Tom." I looked at him. It was kinda hard to see him as the street was quite dark. The street lamps didn't seem to work. Heissocute!Hisbrowneyesaresodeep. I realized that I had never seen him without his bandana. His hair was dark brown. I couldn't do anything but stare at him. Then I realized what I was doing. HeprobablythinksI'mafool. Before he could comment on me staring I began to walk towards the club again. I felt my blood rushing up to my cheeks.

"Amy" Tom called after me.

I turned around.

Tom walked up to me.

He stroked my cheek softly. I'minheaven

"Thank you for forgiving me" He said very softly before following me to the club and backstage.

At the club everything was chaos. Fans to the Dark glow were doing mosh pits, death walls and trying to break in to the backstage arena while guards frequently tried to stop them. The people who were doing the mosh pits and death of wall did not care at all that Dark Glow had stopped playing. I stopped and gawked.

"Is this NORMAL?" I asked Tom. He just laughed.

"Yes it is". "Even though the death wall is just crazy and stupid!" He added.

"But isn't it dangerous?"

"Yeah, but the guards does their jobs pretty well. No one gets seriously hurt that often" Tom said with a shrug. " Come on now staring eyes, do you want to stay here and be a part of the crowd?" He smirked. I followed him quite fast after that.

3d POV

Backstage, everything was different. It wasn't like at the club where it was way too much energy. Instead it was not calm but not really wild. The band played some stuff but quite calm. Brian sat in a sofa playing on an acoustic guitar while Phil and Fred Morris sat in chairs, drinking soda. The fourth member, John Moyer was nowhere to be seen. Judy Doug and Ioki sat in chairs, just listening to the music.

Brian rose up from the sofa.

"Hey man good to see you!"

"This is the girl I talked to you about, this is Amy Hamilton." Tom said. Brian looked at Amy.

"Oh man, Tom was right, you are pretty! I didn't get a good look at you on stage."

"You liked the song?" Amy asked while blushing

"Yeah, it was awesome. Can't believe you wrote that in a week"

"Anything for Tom". A few seconds later, Doug, Harry, Judy, Fred and Phil joined the conversation.

"Phil this is Amy." Brian said. Phil and Amy shook hands.

" Nice to meet you."

"Nice to meet you too Ame, Phil laughed." Amy grimaced.

"Just Amy please."

"Sorry about that it's just that Amy didn't fit somehow." Brian said.

"So do you write all the music and lyrics?" Amy asked. Brian Paul and Fred laughed

"No, he's hopeless with music. Paul said. I write the music while he writes the lyrics. But with Screamy Bloody murder, it was actually John who figured out the melody."

"I really enjoyed that one" Ioki said. The rest of the gang quickly agreed.

"Yeah it was awesome" Doug said

"Thanks,no one has ever heard it so we hope that you all liked it."

"Have you played any instruments?" Holly asked Amy.

"Uh… no not really. My mom forced me to play the clarinet but that doesn't really count as an instrument does it?" Amy said laughing.

"No it doesn't" the gang said in unison.

"You want to learn how to play guitar? I could teach you a few chords"I mean I'm mostly play the bass but I can play guitar pretty good, Fred offered.

"That would be awesome!" Amy said.

"So let's go."

"Now?"

"Yeah sure, why not? I have an acoustic guitar here. We can go to the sound proof room"

"Yeah… okay"..

"So how are you?" Tom asked as soon as Fred and Amy were gone.

"I'm fine man, really, I am." Brian answered.

"What happened after Hanson had arrested you?" Harry asked.

"Even though I confessed, the jury proved me not guilty. So my mom and I decided it was best to move so we moved to New Jersey and I was about to start senior class when it happened."

"What?" Doug asked.

"When I strolled around in Jersey, looking for something to do I met an old member of the Friendly Neighbours."

"How did that go" Holly asked.

"At first, not good, man. We fought a lot the first couple of days. We lived in the same block. Then one day I was chilling out, I heard someone playing the guitar. It sounded so cool! It was him! I just sat there, listening. After 2 hours he noticed me. So we began to talk. We hang out that day, just talking. He had left the Friendly Neighbours when I still was under the command of Lancer. So to avoid the members he moved up to New Jersey. So we started to talk. It was not like we were enemies in the real life; we were just enemies because of the two gangs. So, we became friends. Now that we weren't in the gangs anymore it seemed ridiculous. Then he showed me a piece that he had written himself. After that I wrote a lyric to it and showed it to him. That was our first song. I started to write lyrics while he wrote the music and suddenly, we were a band. I didn't ask him or anything it was just natural. So we hired two more and we started professional. Mum wasn't so happy about it, though. She wanted me to enter college but instead I jumped off high school and started a band. Brian smiled.

"How did you meet Phil?" Judy asked.

At this Phil and Brian laughed. Phil extended his hand.

"I'm a former Friendly Neighbours member, nice to meet you."

Judy shook it and laughed. "Nice to meet you too.

"So Tom, where did you meet Amy?" Brian asked.

"Well… Tom and I met her as the McQuaid brothers. It's a cover that we use a lot when the case is about drugs", Tom said.

"Wow, I get to meet the McQuaid brothers," Phil said.

"You know them?" Doug asked.

"Yeah, of course we do, every teenager who's had problems at school knows who they are." Brian said.

Doug looked extremely proud.

"I'd never guess that you were the McQuaids" Brian said impressed.

"So Amy is dealing with drugs?" Phil asked.

"No," Doug answered immediately. "She lost her friends, got kicked out of the house and got detention just because she stood up for us." He continued.

"And nearly got raped." Tom said.

"WHAT?" Brian said.

"She's been through all that in a couple of weeks?" Phil said. "How on earth can she cope with it?"

"No idea, I wouldn't be able to." Harry said.

"She currently lives in a house with us but its getting dangerous and difficult."

"Why difficult?" Phil asked.

"Well, being an undercover cop is dangerous 'cause you never know what happens but one of the good parts is that you can be yourself when you get home but now we can't be ourselves 100%. I mean I love the McQuaids and all but it feels like I'm starting to become Doug McQuaid in a way." Doug said.

At that moment Hanson's cell phone called.

Hanson picked it up and walked away. When he came back it was obvious something had happened.

"Guys, we need to get back,now!"

I'm so sorry for the long wait! Please R'n R! It would make my day!