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Now that I was at the club, I just wanted to get on stage That feeling wasn’t helped by thesmell of curry and stale farts that enveloped theeway It was a short corridor, filled with drue, at the other end, a fire exit There was a locked door, as well as the backstage room

Ferdie and Pete foundand handed me a drink

“Vodka and cranberry,” Pete said “That’s what you drink, isn’t it?”

I’d never drunk vodka and cranberry before in my life but I took it from him Pete had trouble with everyday life details, like what people drank or their hair colour or details like that If it’d been Ferdie, he’d have known exactly what I drank, which brand and the perfect temperature

Pete looked up, staring at so behind aze

Alex walked through the doorway

Tension rose up in h chick e plan was great on scope but lacked a bit in the finer details This feeling was one of those details

Alex

Well, I’d been ht Dee would have her say then quietly leave town She hadn’t left town and, up there on the stage, she sure as hell wasn’t quiet When I’d seen her getting ready to go on, I wondered what kind of madness it was She was in a band? Surely that was a joke

It was no joke Not even close I guess that made sense Jake had been a brilliant ift too Any band with a hot blond in a skiulars but she got so more Respect She kne to perform Even more, she radiated a charisma that made people sit up and take notice

If anything, I’d expected her to be doing a cutesy chick thing All breathy vocals and sweetness But this wasn’t cute and it wasn’t sweet It was raw and violent and insane Pent-up anger released on stage in a way that should’ve had uarantee it was aimed at me

It’d sure givenaround her, looking like she owned the place Before I’d had a chance to say anything to her, Sally interrupted us

“Tirin As her gaze went frorin slid off her face like it’don but she sure realised that there was so was between us Dee hated me but she wanted to be around me? That did not bode well

It was then I’d noticed Pete standing behind Dee The last words he’d said to reet someone after all that? We’d been band

I have hiave me one back Aard Made me wish he’d slaround zero to build frouy, Ferdie, I knew hi more I wanted to talk to Pete, like old friends, ask hi But that was a distance I couldn’t hurl

I followed theoing to miss this Pete was a decent bass player, probably better than Fabian, the bassist in inal but then, do you want that in a bass player? Soood bass player should be Pete was all that and he kne to pick up what I was putting down I didn’t need to explain things in minute detail like I did with Fabian But then, that’d been the old days That band had a whole different dynamic than the one I had now

Still, I’d like to have a jas between us

There were about five regulars in the bar when they got on stage, and about as htest bit of attention Until Dee started playing She wasn’t technically brilliant, not even close, but she had a fiery passion that ca the room I’d heard a thousand bands play in this room Souts, no balls But Dee had the fire