A few days passed by and Priss and Leon were getting use to parenthood. Priss was always tired from staying up all night with the baby when Leon was working and Leon was tired from being up all night when he was home. Tuesday rolled around and Priss headed down to Hot Legs to meet the members of The Patriots. Priss walked in the dressing room where the band members were and found Faith on the phone in the back of the room. The lead guitarists going over some music. The drummer hammering out a beat on his drums. And Faiths backup singer working at a table with wadded up papers all around it.
"I remember when Sekira was still playing here." Priss said closing the door behind her. "The lead singer was the one who made new lyrics. Not the backup singer things have changed in the past 3 years I guess."
Faith hung up the phone as soon as she saw Priss standing in the doorway.
"Hi Priss." Faith said. "Let me introduce you to the band."
All the members stood up to meet Priss as their names were called.
"This is Andy on the drums." Faith said pointing to Andy. "This is Sara my best friend and the best lyric writer I know of right now she is working on an old song form the 1980s called Turn The Page by Bob Seger."
"Never heard of him." Priss said.
"Well if Sara finishes the song you'll hear it tonight we have the music made up we just need the words." Faith said.
"Ok that could be cool. And these two are?" Priss asked pointing to the guitarists.
"Those two clowns are Rick and Dick. No pun intended." Faith laughed. "Well that's the band. It goes without saying but everyone this is Priss Asaragi our manager."
"Wow I can't believe I'm meeting the great Priss Asaragi." Sara said shacking Priss's hand. Priss blushed at the thought of being called great.
"I know how you feel Sara this is a trip. I mean I've been to all of your shows I was crushed when Sekira disbanded." Rick said.
"Its nice to be working with you all." Priss said. "But I can't stay my husband has to be at work in an hour and I need to be with the baby."
"How is Miss Lilly doing?" Faith asked.
"Well she can't sleep more than 2 hours at a time so we don't sleep much. And who ever said a life in music can be hell has never changed a dipper in their life I can tell you that." Priss said walking out the door. Leaving the band laughing as hard as they could.
When Priss arrived home she found Leon sleeping in a chair with Lilly fast asleep in her crib. Priss pulled the blanket over Lilly and put her hand on Leon's shoulder.
"Leon wake up you need to go to work." Priss whispered as she shook him. "Leon get up."
Leon steered and stretched.
"What's wrong." He groaned.
"Its time for you to go to work." Priss said.
"Oh man." Leon whimpered.
"I know how you feel I'm not sleeping much either." Priss said helping Leon to his feet. "Daily is on his way to get you. I know you are to tired to drive."
"Is this ever gonna end?" Leon asked.
"I'd say in about 2 or 3 months." Priss said.
Daily was pulling into the driveway as Priss was pushing Leon out the door. Daily reached over and opened the door and Priss threw Leon in and buckled his seat belt. Leon was asleep before Priss even closed the door. Priss was about to collapse on the couch when the phone rang.
"Oh man I'm gonna kill whoever that is if Lilly wakes up." Priss said springing for the phone. "Hello?" Priss said as she picked up the phone.
"Hey Priss its Nene." Priss heard Nene's voice.
"Nene if Lilly wakes up your dead where you stand." Priss said.
"Oh I'm sorry Priss I didn't think she was sleeping." Nene said apologetically.
"So what's up?" Priss asked.
"Well we haven't seen you sense you had Lilly and we were wondering if you wanted to go out somewhere tonight." Nene said.
"I'd love to but Lilly." Priss explained.
"Bring her with you." Nene said.
"Where are you thinking about going?" Priss asked.
"Not to sure yet." Nene said. "Where do you want to go?"
"Well Faith is performing tonight at Hot Legs. But yet again Lilly." Priss said.
"Well Priss if you and Leon feel comfortable with it my neighbor runs a daycare for babies. And said she would look after her for a few hours no charge as a favor to me." Nene said.
"Can she be trusted? Priss asked.
"Oh absolutely she has been running the daycare for 22 years now. And never had a problem bigger than a kid puking on her now and then." Nene said.
"Well I'll bring it up to Leon when he gets off work." Priss said.
"So it's a go if Leon is cool with it?" She asked.
"Yea that's fine with me." Priss said. "Look Nene I'm gonna take advantage of Lilly being asleep to try to get some myself."
"Ok Priss see you later." Nene said.
"Ok later." Priss said and hung up the phone. She walked back to the couch and landed face first on the cushions and was asleep. She slept peacefully for about 2 hours until Lilly was up and crying again.
"Well at least I got some sleep." Priss groaned as she sat up to tend to Lilly. After an hour or so Lilly was sleeping again and so was Priss. Most of the day was based on an hour or two of sleep and tending to Lilly till Leon came home.
"Priss I'm home." He said as he walked through the door.
"Good your home I've got a question." Priss said giving Leon a kiss.
"You want me to look after Lilly so you can get some sleep right." Leon said smiling.
"No actually Nene and the others are going out tonight and want us to go." Priss said.
"What about Lilly?" He asked.
"Nene's neighbor runs a daycare for babies." Priss said.
"Can we trust her?" Leon asked.
"Nene said she has been running it for 22 years now without any major problems." Priss answered.
"Do you want to go that badly?" He asked.
"Yes Faith is performing at Hot Legs tonight and I said I'd try to be there." Priss said.
"Well then lets go. I want to hear her sing." Leon said.
The time of the concert came around and Priss was in the dressing room with the band.
"Ok you guys its show time." Priss said.
"Cool lets do it." Faith said getting her self pumped up.
"Sara did you finish the song?" Priss asked.
"Yep it's the opening song for tonight." She answered.
"Ok then lets see what you got." Priss said. "I'll be at the front row table."
"Right, Patriots its show time." Faith said opening the stage door.
Priss made her way to her table where the others were weighting. The Patriots were on the stage setting up some equipment and Faith was handing Sara a saxophone. A few minutes later Faith picked up the microphone and held up a hand calling for silence.
"Thank you all for coming tonight." She said. "Tonight we have a special treat for you to start things off. We have been working on an old song from the 1980's called turn the page. My backup singer will be playing the Saxophone for this so enjoy." As Faith finished Sara started to Howell on the Sax and Faith started to sing.
"On a lonely lonesome highway east of Omaha you can listen to the engine moaning out its one note song." Faith sang.
"Hey Priss I think you got a winner." Linna said tapping her feet to the beat.
"I agree Faith has a golden voice." Syila said. The others nodding their heads in agreement.
"Say here I go, on the road again. Here I am, up on the stage. There I go playing star again." She sang on.
"I've heard about this song." Daily said. "It was a popular song in the mid 1980's by Bob Seger."
"Turn the page." She sang. The song ended much to the disappointment to the crowd that was loving it.
Faith and the others played their hearts out for 2 solid hours leaving the crowd speechless. After the show Priss meet the band in the dressing room.
"All I can say is that if Sekira could play like that we would still be playing." Priss said.
"No way Sekira was way better then us." Rick said rubbing the back of his head.
"Hey I'm just saying your good." Priss said. "I'd love to stay and celebrate with you but we need to go get Lilly and go home. We need to try and get some sleep tonight we are bushed."
"Ok Priss we'll see you at the next rehearsal." Faith called after Priss as she closed the door.
(Ok now with all the pleasantries out of the way its time to get down to business. All hell is gonna break lose in the next 2 chapters. Mr. Mason will start the operation Knight Loss. This may take me a few days to put togeather any help would be great just e-mail them to me and Ill get back to you ASAP.
Thanks for reading this far.
Rev. Joshua Hunt)