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Today I was planning on losing ood and we had already put together a solid track layout for their new albu intofor me I couldn’t help the frown that automatically pulled across my face, and it took a conscious effort to uncurl each and every finger froet out of the car to confront him
He had on aviator shades and jeans that were too baggy for a guy his age, but that was ood tihed and pushed open the door, watching him warily as he ca here, Pops? I have work to do I can’t stand around and shoot the shit"
Soot started, but today apparently that wasn’t going to work
"You got back froive your oldto hear about Metalfest Did you boys get signed by a big label yet?"
It would have seemed like a typical question for a parent to ask his child, if it was any other parent than mine Dave Keller had lived his life as a professional roadie and had gone on tour with everyone from Metallica to Neurosis and whatever band he could find in between And now, all he wanted was for his one-and-only son to hit it big Not so I could take care of hio back on tour and live the wild days of illicit sex and drugs, as if he were still in his twenties It drove hi local, that Ian occasional tour, and that the idea of fa piss out of me
Not to ain and was less than an ideal candidate for husband or father of the year I never understood why enerousBut no matter how hard I pushed or how much I pleaded with her, she refused to leave him, which, in turn, , lying ass
"I don’t talk to major labels, Pop I’ve told you that a uys in the band know that you’re holding their future hostage? What do they have to say about youdecisions like that?"
This wasn’t a conversation I cared to have with him I didn’t really care to have any kind of conversation with hio away unless Ito be here anyI wanted was for hiuys knohere I stand and they knohere the door is if they don’t like it I’ve played with Boone and Von since ere fourteen years old, so I doubt much I do surprises them Catcher came from a band that already hit thehe wants is to be in another one that’s blowing up Stay out ofto borrow money--in which case, have Mom call me I’ll transfer it to her, not to you"
He pushed his sunglasses to the top of his head so that I could no longer just watch ot my dark eyes and my dark hair from him, but that here the reses and too hts had taken its toll, and all I could think about when I looked at him was to wonder how someone so aas able to convince someone as wonderful as my mom to marry his sorry ass He made me furious in a way I couldn’t express with nore it on stage, in bleeding vocals and ear-shatteringto o hos that I wanted to say to that, but I didn’t; I never did As much as I loved my mom, there was no way I could stay in that house and watch hiain It upset her so ot into it over his blatant disregard of her and her feelings that I had moved out when I was barely fifteen It was either that or put round Luckily, Nash’s uncle Phil was practically running a halfway house for unhappy teenage boys and hadn’t had any issue adding me to the fold
I knew it bothered her that I didn’t co they lived just a fewout on her and constantly hurting her I knew he did a number on her emotional state, and I wouldn’t put it past him to have taken it further, to take it to a level none of us would be able to ignore anymore, but I was at a loss as to what to do about any of it My reat lady and she deserved someone who treated her like she was a queen, not a consolation prize
"What do you want?" My patience was running thin
We stared at each other in silence for a long minute before he pulled his shades back down and crooked the corners of his rin that made me want to punch hined--Artifice--they’re pretty huge right now You wrote most of their albu they owe you pretty big, and it wouldn’t kill you to put in a call to the of their tour that’s co hiainst the side of the building, when he held up a hand and smirked at me