Tommy woke up in a daze, his eyes not open at all, man, I just had the greatest dream that me and Lil spent the entire night…" his thought was interrupted by someone shifting their weight beside him, he opened his eyes and saw Lil lying next to him, curled up against his chest, he himself had his arms around her naked body, he looked at the clock and saw that it was only midnight, "so, that wasn't a dream," he muttered, then smiled,
Lil stirred beside him, "huh…" she muttered, yawning, "boy was I having a good dream." She whispered, "I was dreaming I was sleeping with Tommy…" she suddenly realized where she was. "Oh…my…god…" she sat up, she put her hand to her head, "oh god," she said, "I…I really don't know if this is bad or good.'
Tommy raised his eyebrow.
"I mean…okay the truth is I've been wanting to do this for a while, but…"
"But your wondering if you should have done this?'
"Yeah…"
"I thought the same, but then I thought 'you know what, life's too short to worry about that.'"
"Well that is true." Lil said, lying down again, scooting closer to Tommy to warm her body up, tommy wrapped his arms around her, "but how will we explain my being here to Elizabeth in the morning?" she asked.
"We can say that you were having a sleepover, or tell her you came early.'
"Maybe…"
"How about let's worry about it in the morning," Tommy said, "lets catch some sleep while we can."
Lil nodded, lying her head down and closing her eyes, she smiled a little as she went to sleep.
Tommy let out a small sigh of content; I wish this night would never end.
Andre sat with Twitch, Jessie, Emma, Diane, and George, he looked at them as he puffed on the cigarette, George flicking a lighter on and on, every now and then leaving it on and watching the flames, Twitch was sitting next to Diane, shifting a little every now and then, his hand twitching, Emma and Jessie were doing what they do best, making out, "man don't you two ever come up to breath!" André asked them.
"Don't you ever stop smoking?" Jessie asked.
Andre rolled his eyes, "I'm just sayin' man, you two go at it like every minute, if the rest of us weren't here you'd probably be makin' babies."
"Shut up Andre," George said, "damn, why you gotta be so negative."
"It's they way I am," Andre said, "Why you gotta burn shit down?"
'Because it's fuckin' fun."
"Guy's calm down," Diane said, "we're band mates, we shouldn't be fighting.
"Pfft, band mates, isn't the cowgirl so optimistic." Andre grumbled.
"Well aren't we?" she asked.
"We not a band," Andre said, jumping off of the tire he was sitting on, "we're wannabe's that suck! I mean come on, look me straight in the eyes and say that the songs were playing today were soundin' good."
Diane looked down.
"Exactly, a band sounds good, we not a band, we just a bunch of people playing in the wrong key.'
'We're playing the wrong music." Twitch said, making everyone look at him in shock.
"Did…did twitch just talk without stuttering?" Emma asked amazed.
"Damn what else can you do twitch?" Jessie asked him.
"I only stutter when I'm nervous." He said, "and when I'm alone with you guy's…I'm not nervous."
"Then how come you always stutterin' when you talkin' to us?"
Twitch turned red, 'n-no reason." He muttered, "but like I was sayin', we're not playing the right music, we're playing the music we think the others want to hear, our hearts aren't in it."
"Well isn't that we're doing this? To get people to like us?"
"I don't care about that." Twitch said, "I don't care if people like us, I just want to play good music."
"Same here." Diane said, "I've just been following you guy's, to be completely honest, I hate the music we've been playin'."
"Same," Emma, Jessie, and George said together.
"So what we gon' do about it? The talent show is a week from now, there's no way we can learn new songs in that short amount of time, we don't even have a name yet!"
"I got an idea for a name." Diane said excitedly.
"And I got an idea for the songs," Twitch said, "I think we know all of them."
"Twitch you're awesome!" Diane exclaimed, hugging twitch.
"N-n-n-n-no p-p-p-p-problem d-d-d-d-d-Diane…" Twitch said, turning red again.
"Uh oh, Diane broke him."
Tommy walked out of his room putting a wifebeater on, Lil had left an hour before he had woken up, "Elizabeth! Are you almost ready!"
"Almost!" Elizabeth shouted back.
"Yeah, it takes time to put this costume together!" Kimi's voice shouted.
"Probably let herself in again." Tommy muttered, "alright! We're leaving in ten minutes.'
"More then enough time!" Kimi shouted cheerfully.
Tommy walked into the kitchen and pulled out a coke from the fridge, taking a drink, he leant against the counter and sighed, smiling, 'good night." He muttered, "It was a good night."
Kimi walked out, "Elizabeth's getting her back-pack." Kimi said, and then noticed how happy Tommy was, "looks like someone got laid." She whispered to him.
"Huh? I have no idea what you're talking about." Tommy said, taking a drink.
"Oh shut up tommy, I was on tour with you for two years, it's easy to tell when you were gettin' some."
"No it wasn't!"
"Tommy your ears turn pink, you have a stupid grin on your face, and you put your shirt on backwards."
Tommy looked down and realized his shirt was on backwards, he put it the right way, 'that proves nothing."
Kimi shrugged, "I'm just sayin'." She said, walking out.
Elizabeth ran out "daddy!" she said.
Tommy turned to her and almost spat his coke out, his daughter was wearing a small wifebeater and old worn pants, she had on the boots he had bought her for her birthday and a that kept her long hair out of her eyes, on her arms she had what looked like marker tattoos, one arm was just like his tribal, while the other was just different tattoos, not like his, but a lot happier, and one odd little symbol on her shoulder, "so, what's your costume?" tommy asked her as she grabbed her jacket.
"I'm you!" Elizabeth said happily, "our teacher said the best Halloween costume is to dress like our hero."
Tommy smiled at that, I'm a hero to her… he thought happily, "well I think it's a great costume, though your teacher might not like it."
"Why not?" she said, her smile
"People are like that."
"Oh…well I don't care." She said smiling again.
Tommy smiled, "hold up real quick." He said, pulling out the small phone that he had gotten a few days ago, he took a picture of his daughter and put the phone up, "Come on, lets get going." He picked her up and walked out of the house.
Elizabeth looked at her father, "so we're trick or treatin' tonight right?"
'Yep, and we'll hit all the good houses," he said, "Come home with a big bag of candy."
"Yay!"
He walked her into school and took her to class; he wanted to see the look on Ms. Ramones's face when she saw his daughter.
"Ms. Ramone! I'm here!" Elizabeth said happily running into the classroom.
"Hey Eliza…what are you wearing?" she asked quickly, looking from her to her dad and back, a camera flash made her look up, Tommy was laughing.
'I just had to see your face," he said.
"I'm my dad!" Elizabeth said, "You said dress like my hero."
"Uh…but…I meant like superman, or wonderwoman."
"Who are they?"
Ms. Ramone turned red, 'Never mind, go play with the other kids." She said kindly, Elizabeth ran over to the other kids, Tommy was still laughing a little, "I'm glad you find this funny Mr. Pickles." Ms. Ramone whispered fiercely at him, "what possessed you to dress her up like that!"
"I didn't dress her up like that, she did it herself, even the tattoo's, I think she got the tribal down just right." He said, looking down at his left arm.
Ms. Ramone held her head, "well to be honest it is a pretty good costume." She said.
Tommy nodded.
"But why did you walk in here today?"
"Because I knew the face you were going to make when you saw her would be priceless." He said with a grin.
Tommy walked into the choir room, it was five minutes to the bell and he wasn't too siked about seeing the small band that he was trying to help.
"Hey Tommy." Lil said, walking over to him with a smile.
"How's it going Lil?" he asked, walking over to her.
"Pretty good." She said, twirling a piece of her hair with her finger, "I had a good time last night…"
"I'm glad you did." He said with a smirk, 'too be honest it was a great evening." He said, putting an arm around her waist, "wanna do it again sometime?"
"Do what again?" someone asked, Tommy turned and saw Emma leaning against the wall, dressed as a witch for Halloween.
"Um…you know…" Lil said, turning red, "we were…um…"
"You guy's did it didn't you?"
"What?" they both said stunned, "no! We wouldn't…how could you…" they both said at the same time.
Emma laughed, "yep knew it, matching each other word for word!" Emma said, "sure sign that you two are doing it."
"Don't tell anyone." Tommy and lil said.
"Don't worry, we won't tell." Emma said.
"We? What do you mean we?"
She held up her phone and they heard laughing, 'I was on the phone with the gang when I came in here."
Tommy and Lil groaned.
"Hey don't worry Teach! We won't tell anyone!" Andre shouted.
"Y-y-y-y-yeah." Twitch stuttered.
"Way to go Mr. P! Get some!" George shouted.
Tommy shook his head, "why are you even here Emma? Shouldn't you be in class?"
"I have a free period right now, so do the rest."
"You could be using this time to practice."
"We do," she said with a smirk, "at the talent show we are going to blow your mind." And with that she walked out.
"Wow," Tommy said, "They didn't sound this confident yesterday."
"Maybe they found that motivation you were trying to give them." She said.
"Maybe," he said as the bell rang. "Now I better go check on those kids." He said, giving her a quick kiss, making Lil blush, he quickly ran down the hall to a practice room, he could already hear them practicing a song, he opened the door and a look of shock appeared on his face, "oh, we're gonna rock that Talent show…"
Tommy and Elizabeth walked through the streets, going to a house every now and then and getting candy, "hey Daddy, what's a 'girlfriend?'"
Tommy raised an eyebrow at her, "a girlfriend…is a friend that's a girl, that's more than a friend."
"Oh…" Elizabeth said,
"Why?"
"No reason." She said.
Tommy raised an eyebrow at her.
"I heard Aunty Kimi said that Lil was your Girlfriend, so I wanted to know what it was." She said quickly.
Tommy found himself blushing, "Well…she might be."
"Really?" Elizabeth asked excitedly.
Tommy smiled, "maybe."
"That would be so cool."
"Hey Pickles!" an angry voice shouted, Tommy turned around and saw Sean walking towards him, "what I tell you about hangin' with Lil? She's mine."
"I don't think she's property." Tommy growled, "Now I suggest you leave."
"Why should I Pickles? You gonna make me?"
Tommy clenched hid fists, a small hand took his hand and he looked down at Elizabeth, who was looking up at him with scared eyes.
"Your lucky my daughters here…" Tommy muttered, "Come on Elizabeth."
"Don't turn your back on me pickles!" Sean shouted, starting to grab his shoulder, a fist shot out and punched Sean in the chin, knocking him out cold.
"Whoo!" Z shouted, jumping up and down, "Float like a butterfly sting like a bee bitch!"
"Z!" Tommy exclaimed, turning to his friend, "where did you come from?"
"Oh I was visitin' Kimi, you know, she lives on this street, and I saw this guy goin' to punch you so I punched him."
"You alright?" Tommy asked, "you have like some kind of twitch in your eye.
"Yeah man, never better." He said quickly," I just took a hit before leaving my house."
Tommy shook his head, 'that was one of the reasons why you got arrested last time." He grumbled.
"Oh come on, it was just a small hit." He said, "Barely even had the needle full."
Tommy shook his head, "don't talk that way around my daughter."
"Daddy what's he talking about?" Elizabeth asked.
"Nothing Baby, come on lets get home," he said picking her up, "I'll see ya later Z.'
"Alright Tommy!" he shouted as Tommy left, "remember! If you ever need somethin' to take the edge off I'm here!"