“Man our boss is being really nice to us” Tahlia say “It’s weird”
“You can hardly call giving a 5% discount off all music for employees an act of being really nice” I say “I mean at Big W it's 10% off everything”
“Well its better then nothing” Mel says “We got a couple of freebies this week too”
“Cool, what did you get?” I ask.
Mel passes me some CDs from her bag.
“Black Effect? Ransom Holder? The Cheap Drink?” I ask confused at the weird names of bands I had never heard of “Pisspots? Reggy Carlo and The Thompsons? That one sounds like a really old band”
“It is … and they aren’t that much good either” Mel sighs “Meh better then nothing”
“Tahlia did you get much?” I ask.
“Yeah, there is a good one too” she replies, “I’ll put them on now”
She walks to our little stereo and puts in a CD and turns it on.
“The first track is just a music thing” Tahlia say clicking a button “It’s pretty good but the actual songs are really good, so yeah skip the first one”
The intro starts and it’s just a guitar and builds with drums until the singer starts singing. That voice sounded awfully familiar.
“This band is very new and this CD was released like this week” Tahlia goes on “The album name keeps escaping my memory it’s long”
She picks up the CD and reads off it.
“I Bought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love” she says
I walk over to her.
“Is that?” I ask “What’s the band name?”
“Didn’t I say the band name?” she asks.
“Obviously not” I say.
“Oh sorry, I forgot” she says “My Chemical Romance”
“Are you serious?” I ask surprised.
“Yeah must do some research on these people” she says “They are really good”
“How much are they selling this for?” I ask.
“Twenty” Tahlia replies “Why?”
“I kn…” I say but stop myself.
Maybe it was best not say.
“It should be like thirty, they are so good” I say “But I think I might get myself a copy too”
“I can share my copy with you” Tahlia says.
“Nah I want my own, you know for, like, my car” I say.
“I might get my own copy too” Mel says passing me a coke “They are really good”
“Yeah” I say with a smile.
We sit down and listen to the whole CD. All I can say is wow, it was great, no more then great, AWESOME!
I look at the clock 5.45pm.
“I’m gonna call someone” I say.
“And tell them about this band?” Mel jokes.
“Oh totally” I say, they didn’t realize how true it was.
I take the phone and go into my room.
I call Gerard’s home number.
It rings a couple of times.
“Hello” Mikey says.
“Why hello young Mikey” I reply.
“Heya Jacquie” he says.
“May I just say I listened to a great album today” I say “I thought I might pass it on to you rock fans”
“And it is?” Mikey asks.
“I Bought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love by umm who are they? I don’t know” I say.
“You listened to it?” Mikey asked “How did you get a copy only a couple shops bought it?”
“And one of those shops happened to be one that employs my friends” I say.
“Okay, so umm what you think of it?” he asks.
“Fucken awesome” I say “Loved every second”
“Cools” I say “I need to ask a question that’s been troubling me and Gerard”
“Umm sure” is say.
“Okay last time we called a guy answered who was it?” he asks.
“Umm Andrew?” I say.
“Okay” Mikey replies “Anything you want to tell us?”
“Ahh I see what your getting at, No me and Andrew aren’t together again, he was just upset, a couple of his family issues, I was helping him” I reply.
“Okay, Just asking” Mikey replies “Guessing you want to talk to Gerard too?”
“Sure” I say.
The line goes slack for a bit and then Gerard speaks.
“Hello Jacquie” he says.
“Hiya” I say.
“How are you?” he ask.
“I’m good” I say “Great album”
“I hope you're not being sarcastic” he says.
“Hell no, I love it” I say “Fuck you sound amazing”
“Thanks” he says.
“Everyone sounds awesome” I say.
“Yeah, have a favourite track yet?” he asks.
“It’s a tie between Cubicles and Demolition Lovers” I say.
“Yeah” he say “ I can’t believe within only a couple of months of being a band we have an album out”
“I know” I say “Its fricken awesome”
“So what did your friends think?” he asks.
“They think it rocks” I say.
“What did they say when you told them you knew us?” he asks.
“I didn’t tell them” I say cautiously.
“Why?” he asks surprised.
“Well, I don’t know how they will react” I say.
“You're not ashamed are you?” he asks.
“Hell no, I would love to tell them but, its complicated you know they might you know crush over you guys” I say.
“Umm okay” he says.
“I gotta go start making dinner, it’s my turn again” I say.
“Okay, talk to you later” he says.
“Bye Gee” I say happily.
“Bye Jacquie” he says.
I hang up and go put the phone back.
“Who did you talk to?” Mel asks.
“My mum” I say quickly.
“How is she?” she asks.
“Good” I say.
“How about Mark?” she asks.
“He is fine too, can you excuse me? I have to make us dinner” I say getting a little peed off.
“Geez someone’s pissy” she says.
“Shut up” I say jokingly.
“Gosh your moods are unpredictable” Mel says “By the way, you called Andrew right?”
“Not yet” I say “I’ll call him after dinner”
“Nah, I wanna do it” she says, “He is my brother, I should help him out too”
“Sure, just make sure you say hi from me” I say.
“Jacquie” Mel says.
“Yeah” I ask.
“Thanks a lot, seriously” she says with a smile.
“No problem” I say.
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