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CHAPTER ONE

Alec

THE CROWD WAS fierce I rubbed ether and took a few deep breaths as the sound of the e

"Is everyone ready?" Kane yelled into theI shivered a bit and looked atlater and later recently I bit my lip and closed my eyes

"Ready man?" Demetri hit me across the back and popped his knuckles in my ears

I opened both eyes and looked at hi out there with coke on your face?"

"Shit" He wiped his nose and pulled Visine out of his tight leather pants, splashing a bit in his eyes before blinking the tears away

"You gonna make it?" I asked teeth clenched

"You o sell my soul?" He sniffed "Yeah"

We stood there, side-by-side, breathing in and out, but not really experiencing anything but the drone of the voices and the hype of theon like this You know it I know it" I shook my head and wiped my face with my hands

"You chose this" Demetri sneered "Deal with it"

"I don’t have to deal with shit!" I grabbed him by the shoulders "I’m your older brother, I’m all you have"

De dramatic, man, it’s our last concert for that very dae shout for AD2!" Kane’s voice was so loud, so deafening, that I had to fight the wince on uitar

De doith the sticks "One, Two, Three, Four"

We always started with ourin Fading in sobut endless races Shake rabbed thethe stage look like it was on fire

Ripping open the front of irls "Make me bleed, make me feel, if only I could touch you and see you’re real I’d touch your skin, feel your sweat, baby I’d do things you’d never forget"

The girls’ screams made me want to run in the other direction

It wasn’t real

None of it

I sers and dipped it into a girl’s irl yelled, "Bitch!"

The her voice joined in, the entire sold out stadium went quiet as he left the drue His leather pants and ripped green t-shirt ht The makeup crew had drawn blue lines down his teain the tour was called "Bleeding blue and red"

"I’ll do things," De a rocking e "You’d never forget Oh baby, believeuntil you’re hoarse Believe me when I say, you’ll finally live, on that day"