Palladium Theatre, 2003

I took his arms and put it back to his sides. My eyes soaring through his hazel irises, trying to really understand what the hell did he meant by that. Enter Sandman loudly blared on the speaker next to me so we had to shout to each other.

“Excuse me?”

“Scream for me.”

“What do you mean scream for you?”

He chuckled, and shook his head a little. “Darling, I would love to do whatever it is that’s going through your pretty little mind right now. But no, that’s not what I meant.”

Whoa, wait. What was going through my mind actually? Sex? Ehm.

“We’re writing some new material for our new album and we have this song called Scream. Jimmy thinks we should put a female scream at the start of the song. Been auditioning a bunch of girls but they suck.”

Jeez, I don’t know why I felt so disappointed at that time. What the hell, Lzzy? What did you expect? I ran my hand through my hair and shrugged at him.

“Well, in return for you to be here with me, why not.”

“Thank you Lzzy. You’re the best.”

He leaned down closer and as a reflex, I backed off. My body pressed against the barrier behind me.

“What are you doing?”

“Er..umm..” he stuttered. Boy his face turned red all of a sudden. He drew back too, scratching his head and awkwardly smiling his two dimples on me.

Was he..about to kiss me or something?

~*.*~

Holy fuck, I can’t believe I’m in the backstage of a fucking Metallica concert! The dressing room was full of people but only the ones who related to the concert; the orchestra members, roadies, opening acts and Metallica themselves. How the hell did I end up here?

It was Matt. He used to know Metallica’s security guard so the guy let us in so easily but hesitated at me. Matt told him I was his ‘girlfriend’, and then he smiled and nodded. He even congratulated Matt for finally finding someone to settle down with. What the hell?

Matt took my hand and brought me into the room, greeting each and everyone like he was really used to them. I think he did, because everybody in there knew him.

“Hey, Shads!! How’re you doing?”

Matt let go of my hand and gave James fucking Hetfield a hug. It was James Hetfield guys! How can I not be starstruck at this point?

“I see you’ve found yourself a lady, huh Shads? Care to introduce me to here?”

I didn’t realize that my mouth had opened wide when Matt and James walked closer towards me.

“This is Lzzy, my..ehm..friend. And Lzzy, James.”

“Hey there-”

I threw myself at James and hugged him tightly. Not every day I get to meet this legendary vocalist of a legendary band!

“Huge fan, James. I fucking love your band. I listened to your songs every day, every hour. Hell I even make Whiskey in The Jar as my sex song!”

There you go my stupid mouth. I clasped them quickly but Hetfield laughed at my remarks. I turned my gaze to Matt who was bulging his eyes at me, smirking in amusement. Well, I don’t really meant what I said, since I haven’t had sex in a while but when I lost my virginity to some guy at prom night, he had this song played in his car. Yes, we did it in his car.

“I like this girl, Shads. She’s a keeper.”

He hugged me one last time before moving on to the open beer tap in the corner of the room.

“So, Whiskey in The Jar huh?” Matt folded his arms and stared at me, his eyes glinting soft and a dimpled smile still worn on his lips.

“Shut up.”

“What, I think it’s an interesting choice of song to be listened to while having-”

“Matt, don’t start.”

He laughed and took a step closer to me, his demeaning eyes now softly greeted me, inviting me to swim into his deep hazel ocean.

“I love listening to your voice while I’m having sex, Lzzy.”

My eyes wide, my insides screamed with pure embarrassment as I was surrounded by my favorite band yet my focus only molded on him alone. Holy shit is it hot in here or is it just me??

“Listening to your scream for over and over,” he added. I swallowed the lump in my throat. Cold sweat dewed on my forehead.

“While I’m fucking you from behind, and you screamed my name, ‘Ohh Matt! More! More! Matt! Oh’-”

I can’t take it anymore. I stepped on his foot harshly and stomped away from there. This guy had crossed the line. He can tease me as many times as he wants but he can’t play with words and make my heart beat a lot faster than normal speed. I heard him groaned and called my name but I ignored him. Fucking asshole!

“Hey don’t I know you from somewhere?”

I turned to my side. “Josh!”

“Oh, hey. You know my name!”

I was relieved as fuck when I finally got to talk to him. “You’re the one who gave me the ticket, remember?”

“Oh yeah. You’re the vocal from that band..you performed in front of my uncle..right?”

“Yes, that’s right.”

“Cool, you made it.”

I smiled and he handed me a beer. “Thanks.”

“Welcome. So, how are we doing?”

“Um, actually. I’m here to talk to you about that.”

~*.*~

I was bummed because Josh said that he couldn’t leave his band now and their payment was beyond awesome eventhough he did admit that his band members are a bunch of assholes and they have no fucking talent. They only got gigs from around the state because of his uncle.
Screw him. I can look for another bassist in town. There’s so many talented people out there that I can scout. I was walking to my car after I was done talking to Josh, leaving that dickhead Matt, when suddenly a voice called me from behind.

“Lzzy, Lzzy! Hey! Wait up!”

I didn’t have to turn to know who that voice belonged to. “Go home, Matt.”

“Hey, hey.” He ran up until he stood in front of me. I wasn’t really offended by his jokes to me back there, it’s just, I felt like my heart was about to explode when he did that. I looked at him. His aviator now slipped on his collar and his hoodie was down, revealing his backwards baseball cap.

“I’m sorry. I’m really sorry.”

“For what Matt? You didn’t do anything wrong.” I walked forward, but then he blocked me again.

“For everything. From Chain Reaction to what happened back there. I’m sorry.”

Wow. He apologized for all? This is fucking unbelievable! Or did he only apologized because he wanted me to scream in his song?

“So, can you forgive me?”

I stared at him for a while and figured maybe I should apologize too. Since I’ve said some nasty things to him a lot during our acquaintance.

“Well, I’m sorry too. For saying that you’ve got yourself some bitch ad whores.”

“Yeah, she was my girlfriend actually but we broke up.”

I raised my eyebrows at that unnecessary information. “And I’m sorry for having some thoughts about killing you while you’re sleeping.”

His mouth dropped open but then he chuckled nervously. “Heeeyy, don’t worry about it. I’ve had some thoughts of you too. But I’d rather not say about what.”

“Huh?”

“So, are we cool?”

He offered his muscular tattooed arm to me and I glared at it. I can’t believe I just made up with the guy that I hate the most. I took his hand and he gripped it tightly.

“We’re cool.”

Notes

A/N: muahaha XD yeah i know Scream comes after City of Evil, but they're collecting materials at this time so..haha comments! XD