Chapter 4
Dear book. Its been a few weeks since I wrote in you, which will probably get me into shit but I could care less. Ive been having a blast. I hooked back up with my old band who were more then happy to ditch the talentless hack they found as my replacment and we have been rehersing non stop. It was easyer then I thought to get back in to the swing of things and Tyler has already booked us a gig at a local Teen night club. I can't fucking wait.
After her first decent nights sleep in days Helena finished writing in her journal and bounded out of her room in search of breakfast. Entering the kitchen and heading straight for the coffee pot she noticed a note "Good morning my darling daughter. Barb and I are out of town for the day, I trust you will get yourself off to school and behave yourself. Don't be home late. Love you- Mum"
Pouring herself a cup of coffee and grabbing a box of her favourite pop tarts Helena seriously thought about going to school. Then common teenage sense kicked in and she decided her time would be much better spent persuing more interesting activities, like anything but school. She ate her breakfast grabbed a shower and changed into the most inappropiate outfit she could find, then she was out the door and headed for her favourite school skipping spot in the city.
Arriving at her destination, a small run down looking house with a broken fence and a small patch of unkept lawn. Helena jumped the gate and jogged down the broken path to knock on the front door, seconds later the door flew open and a tall, thin, long haired boy wearing a pair of old torn and warnout jeans and a tight white T shirt, greeted helena with a hug and pulled her inside as he said "hey girl, what are you doing here? Shouldn't you be off getting an education or some shit?" Giggling at her friend Helena shook her head and replyed "nah, skipping out. I figured we could get the other guys over here for a run through of saturdays set list" Tyler laughed at his recently returned friend "aww hunny are you nervous?.. I know its been a while but but you are rockin it hard core, you barley need the practice"
"never said I did" helena winked "its you guys who need the practice, so call the lazy fuckers up and lets do this"
A few hours past with Helena and her band practicing and lightheartly arguing about what order the songs for the set list should go in and weather or not they should bother with covers. When things had calmed down and all the plans were made they all decided to go out for a break. "I know a great place where they don't check ID" Max (AKA Maximum Noise) the drummer piped up, Andy the bassist shook his head as he came back with "dude are you serious? Its a little fuckin early to be getting on it don't you think? Plus miss thang over here is supposed to be at school what happens when she rocks up home pissed as a fart?" Max looking a little sheepish through his hands up in surrender and said "Hey it was just a suggestion, I can't help it if im a teenaged alcoholic" The rest of the group laughed and continued walking, with no real direction in mind they ended up in the middle of the downtown area and just wandered from shop window to shop window occasionally peering inside and making comments on various gadgets, costumes or other mainsteam consumables. Eventually the group stopped at the window of a small but busy art gallery to look in and see what all the fuss was about. As Helena looked from painting to painting skipping over most of them her sensitive hearing picked up a familiar sound and her eyes immediately widened and shot to the source. There amoungst the crowd of people stood her mother looking directly at her shaking her head and looking extremley pissed off. Oh stupid stupid stupid fool, of course she'd be here she's an art buyer for some of the biggest Galleries and personal collectors in the world. Helenawatched as she saw her mother politley excuse herself from the conversation she was having and swallowed down the lump in her throat "Hey guys you had better blaze, my mom has just spotted me and is on her way out" turning toward her band mates she expected to see their retreating backs but instead was surprised to see them all snickering about her being busted. "Oh no girly, im staying" Tyler said between fits of laughter "I can't wait to see you bull shit your way outta this one". Helena rolled her eyes at her friend and turned back toward the door she knew her mother would be coming out of any second only to find that she had already arrived. "Wow that was quick" she commented. Selena however was not ammused had she not in fact asked her daughter behave herself just this morning? "umm I thought you were out of town for the day?" Helena answered her mothers unspoken question. Selena raised an eyebrow at her daughter and said "so you decided to skip school and roam the streets with a bunch of boys?". Wow she is pissed, her face is going beetroot reddy/purple.. oh shit say something. Shit! What do I say? "umm, ok so yeah I skipped a day. With everything thats been happening lately I just needed a day off you know? To blow of steam" Helena finished her sentence with a slight pout and look of distress Oh yeah that was good! "Nice try sweetheart. But no you are not, as your friend here so delicatley put it 'bull shitting your way out of this one'. Who the hell are these boys anyway?" Selena suddenly realised that she had not met these boys before and they looked quite a bit older then her sixteen year old daughter.
"Oh mom, you've met Tyler before, he's the lead guitarist of the band im in. and this is Maxi, the drummer and Andy our bass playing god, they are all very responsible and and we've actually spent most of the day going through set list of the gig this weekend." Fuming at her daughters extreme lack of consern and remorse for not attending school when she knew she was already skating on very thin ice Selina lost her temper and layed down the law "There will be no gig this weekend young lady, you will get your arse to school everyday and pick your grades up out of the gutter and you will behave yourself from now on. If I catch you putting even a toe out of line again I will pack this family up so fast and move to the smallest, most remote and boring place I can find until you grow up enough to act responsibly. Now wait here im calling bruce to come and get you so I know you will get home" and with that Selina stormed back in to the gallery and disappeared from sight.
The group of teen stood still, stunned into silence and blinked a few times at where Selina had been standing. Max being the first to find his voice said "woah babe, she was pissed.. are you really not going to come to the gig?" Snapping out of her shocked state, induced by her mothers rant Helena shook her her head and replyed "I will sneak out if I have to. I am not missing this gig for anything. You guys should take off though, Ill call you later Ty. We can sort out a plan of attack".