Sami slipped a cd into the cd player of the Lambo. HIM's Razorblade Romance. Bam put down the windows of the car and blasted the music all the way to the concert.
"SHE'LL BE RIGHT HERE IN MY ARMS SO IN LOVE! RIGHT HERE IN MY ARMS SHE CAN'T LET GOOOOOO!" Sami sung obnoxiously in the car. Bam laughed as he headbanged while driving. He stopped at a stoplight, still headbanging and Sami still singing obnoxiously. The person in the next lane over looked at them. Sami stopped singing for a second, having the feeling she was being stared at, and looked over at him. As soon as she saw his face, she burst out laughing.
"Bam! Bam! Look!" she said, laughing. Bam looked over at the guy who was lighting up a cigarette and still looking at them out of the corner of his eye. He started laughing too. The man turned to his wife who was sitting next to him.
"Crazy, kids." He said, looking away.
"I love making people think we're crazy. It's awesome." Sami said, laughing.
"Think we're crazy? We ARE crazy!" Bam replied, pressing on the gas pedal once the light turned green.
The two of them arrived at the arena that HIM was playing in about 15 minutes later. They parked and walked into the building. Bam walked in with Sami and gave the tickets to the person at the door.
"You wanna go see Ville now or after the show?" Bam asked, looking around the place.
"Let's go now." Sami replied. Bam smiled and walked with Sami. They went backstage (or upstage as Vito calls it) and was greeted by Mere Valo.
"Hi, Bam!" she said in a cheery voice. She shook his hand.
"Hi, Mere. This is Sami. Sami, this is Ville's daughter, Mere." Bam said, pushing Sami foward a little.
"Hi." Sami said, smiling.
"Hi." Mere replied, smiling also. "Is this your first HIM show"
"Yeah."
"Cool. I'm sure you'll enjoy it." Suddenly Mere felt a hand on her shoulder. She looked up. Ville stood there behind her, smiling at Bam.
"What's up, Bammy?" he asked, going over to hug him.
"Nothing much. I brought someone with me." Bam said, signaling at Sami.
"Oh, you must be Sami." Ville said to her. "I've heard a lot about you"
"Good things I hope." Sami replied.
"Of course"
"Cool."
"You guys can like sit over there. The show starts in a few minutes." Ville pointed over at a few couches like in the back of the room. Sami and Bam sat down over there and Ville went back in the back room to get ready.
A few minutes later, the whole band came out and sat around and talked for awhile with Bam and Mere while Sami sat quietly on the couch next to Bam.
"You guys are on in like 2 minutes." a man said, sticking his head through the doorway. The band stood up.
"Have fun guys." Bam said, waving to them slightly as they all walked out of the room.
Meanwhile in Baltimore...
"Twelve forty five..." Kat said to herself as she walked towards the entrance of the skatepark. Randy and his friends were standing around, talking and waiting for Kat. She came up to them.
"Hey, you made it." Randy said, going up to her with a smile.
"Yeah. So are you guys ready?"
"Yup." Randy turned to his crew. "You guys are ready, right?" He got a bunch of "hell yeah!" and "fuck yes!" responses. Randy grinned and looked at Kat. "Come on." Kat grinned too and followed him over to the bowl.
Randy and his crew of fellow skaters dropped in and started skateboarding around the park, with Kat following close behind, snapping pictures at every good trick they did. A few hours went by and the sun started setting.
"Hey...it's getting late." Marco, one of the skaters, said, looking around at the skaters that were leaving.
"Yeah. We should start getting ready to go." Jeff said to Randy, picking up his board. Ryan, Marco, and Randy picked up their boards, too, and went over to Kat, who was getting a drink.
"We should get these pictures on the computer at my house." Randy said. "Come on." He signaled for her to follow them to his house. Kat nodded as she finished drinking at the fountain. She ran over to catch up with them.
15 minutes later, they were all at Randy's house.
"Hey, bro." Randy said as he walked past his older brother who was sitting at the kitchen counter, eating. "Yo." was his reply. Randy rolled his eyes and walked up to his room with everyone else. He threw his board in the corner of his room and like sat down at the computer. He hooked the camera up to the computer and then stood up.
"You know how to use a computer to upload pics?" Randy asked Kat.
"Yeah, of course I do." Kat replied, sitting down on the chair. She started uploading pictures on the computer as the group stood behind her.
"Wow...you took some good pictures." Ryan, another one of the skaters, said, looking at them.
"Thanks." Kat said, staring at the screen. She uploaded them all and put her signature at the bottom of the pictures.
"There ya go." She said, pushing the rolling chair backwards and standing up.
"Sweet. Thanks, Kat." Randy said, patting her on the back a little, causing Kat to blXDush slightly.
Marco looked at the clock in Randy's room.
"Yo, Ran, we should be going." he said, picking his board up.
"Oh...ok." Randy replied, watching everyone else except Kat start leaving.
"Bye Ran." they said, walking out of his room.
"Well...what time do you have to be home?" Randy said, turning to Kat who was sitting on his bed.
"Um, well, it, um, it doesn't really matter..." she replied, stuffing her hands in her hoodie pockets.
"Oh ok. Well, make yourself comfortable." Kat nodded and lied down on his bed, kicking her shoes off. Randy sat back down at his computer and pulled the pictures up. Realizing how good the pictures were, he started typing an e-mail to Ryan Gee. Meanwhile, Kat was falling asleep, listening to the clicking sounds of Randy typing. About 10 minutes later, she was out cold. Randy finished typing up the e-mail, glanced back at the sleeping Kat, and pressed "send".