For The First Time

“Yo, Reverend Tholomew Plague! Open up the fucking door. I’m sweating like a pig out here.”

Brian threw his cigarette away after one last whiff and picked up his guitar case from the ground. Soon he heard the frantic voice of Jimmy howling from the other side and the garage door opened slowly, revealing a double pedal drumkits and a few Marshall amplifiers around the modified space.

“Sorry dude. I forgot we have practice today. Thanks for showing up, Hollywood Boy!”

“Shut up. I hate that nickname. It’s been almost a week now. People should have forgotten about me already.”

“No they won’t. Come on in. Make yourself at home.”

“Yeah, um..why are you half naked?”

Jimmy looked down to his boxers and chuckled nervously. “I have a girl over. It’s the weekend. My parents and sisters aren’t around so, you know the drill. If you know what I mean.” He nudged.

“Yeah the drill.” Brian laughed and tucked himself another stick of cigarette while giving an approval ass-slap at Jimmy. “So who else is coming?”

“Matt and..um Zacky.”

“Zacky? He’s joining? Nice!”

“Yeah, Matt got him agreed to leave MPA. Said he’s been bullied by them.”

“I know. Poor kid. I saw him got bullied the other day. I just wanna beat the shit out of that ass but hey I’m a new guy. I got nothin’ on me.”

Jimmy shrugged and suddenly remembered that he left a girl upstairs in his bedroom. “Oh shit!” He scrambled away from the garage while Brian continued setting up his instrument. A little while later, Matt came with Zacky, both animatedly talking to each other.

“I’ve been to Warp last year. Slayer’s so fucking awesome, I met King-” Matt halted at the sight of Brian inside the garage, with his backwards cap, cargo shorts and a black Slayer tee. He immediately felt irritated.

“Hey, what’s up guys?” Brian greeted and Zacky went on, giving him a hug. Matt narrowed his eyes. Since when did they become close?

“S’up Matt?” Brian offered a hug and Matt took it hesitantly. “What happened? You look like you’ve seen a ghost or some shit.”

“Nah. I see you’re joining the session.”

“Yeah, Jimmy said you guys could use my solo skill so here I am.”

Matt pursed his lips and moved on to the computer nearby, turning it on while listening to Brian and Zacky’s conversation.

“You solo? Awesome! What song can you play?”

Brian exhaled the smoke and slid the cigarette back in between his lips, while his fingers drew out a pick from his pocket and started shredding.

“I can do Sweet Child, if you’re into GNR.”

“Yeah, man! Totally! Slash is my fucking idol!”

“Yeah? Mine is Dimebag. You know Pantera?”

“I’d be crazy not to.”

Brian smiled and shred again, licking his fretboard using his fluid fingers as Zacky and Matt stared at him, jaw dropped in awe. He combined the solo from Sweet Child O’ Mine and invented a few licks of his own, making the track sounded a lot heavier than the original Guns n Roses.

“Wheew! They called you Hollywood Boy for a reason, baby!” Zacky yelled, giving a high-five slap to Brian right when he ended his small showing off session while Matt still glued to the ground. He was impressed, a little more than that actually. He was blown away by Brian’s god-like fingers.

“Wow, Brian. Never thought that you’re metal enough. I thought you only play acoustic or jazz like your dad.”

Brian glanced at Matt and shrugged. “Nah. Jazz is fine, but not really my shit you know? How bout you, Matt? You sing?”

Matt laughed darkly and went over to set up his mic.

“YEAHHHHHHH YEAHHH YEAHHHH!!!!” Matt screamed at the top of his lungs making both Brian and Zacky taken aback and bulged their eyes at him. His voice was hoarse but it was the most amazing pitch they have ever heard.

“Woah! Matt! Hell fucking yeahh!” Brian clapped and so did Zacky.

“Can’t you see I’m easily bothered by persistanceeee!!.”

With Matt’s voice echoed by the setting on his mic, Brian nodded his head and played the rhythm while Zacky quickly brought out his guitar and plugged it in.

“One step from lashing out at you..
You want in to get under my skin
And call yourself a friend
I’ve got more friends like you what do I do?”

“Son of a bitch!! You guys started without me!!” Jimmy ran from upstairs only in his boxers and started smashing away his drums to the song. A girl came along from behind him, only wearing his oversized t-shirt and a pair of socks.

“Re! Spect! Walk! What do you say?? Re! Spect! Walk!”

~*.*~

A few more songs after that, mostly from Pantera and Metallica, they took a break and finally realized that they clicked really well.

“Dude, we should start making demos! Like Pinkly Smooth but this is totally fuckin’ serious! You remember Pinkly Smooth, Brian? Maybe we need to start that again too! With these guys! I mean, I’m talking Warped. Imagine all the kids out there, singing or screaming to our songs and calling our names! Cool eh??”

Brian, Zacky and Matt laughed at Jimmy’s frantic and hyperactive behavior but they had to admit it sounded really awesome when he put it that way.

“You’re an awesome drummer Jimmy.” Zacky suddenly said and after seeing everybody stopped laughing to look at him, his cheeks blushed in red.

“Thanks, Zacky. You’re awesome too. I told you that.”

“Yeah, Zack. I never thought that I could find another guitarist that can follow my lick that fast.” Brian added, making Zacky even more blushed.

“Nah, I just thought we could…you know, harmonize things a bit. Like Eagle, you know.”

“I heard you, I heard you. We should experiment more on that. But anyway, Jimmy. Who’s that chick?”

All eyes turned to a girl who was sitting comfortably on the couch with her long slender legs crossed and her long brown hair draped over her shoulders. She widened her eyes and waved awkwardly when they stared at her.

“Oh this is Mei, uh...she’s a transferred student in our school. Where are you from again, baby?”

“Um, Germany.” She answered shyly in a German accent, tucking strands of hair behind her ear.

Matt, Zacky and Brian raised their eyebrows in unison. Seconds later Brian whispered to Jimmy;

“You’re boning foreigners now? You’ve really gone beyond your limit, man.”

“Well, I have to widen my scope.” Jimmy smirked proudly.

“Damn. Hey Matt and Zack, did you guys know, this fucker once said to me, if he’s screwing girls from outside of this country, it’ll be his last.”

“No shit. You’re only 17 dude.” Zacky gasped.

Jimmy leaned in and whispered to them. “I lied okay? German girls are hot, man. I only screwed this one. Imagine more..”

“Dude, you’re sick. Are you protected?” Matt threw a disgust glance at him and Jimmy laughed aloud.

“Of course I am! You want me to get a fucking STD? Relax. I’m in the big league.”

Matt drew back, realizing that he wasn’t in the so called ‘league’ at all. Then the three of them continued talking about sex, including Zacky. Matt couldn’t believe his ears that Zacky had lost his virginity when he was 15!

Fuck, am I the only virgin here?!

“I’m gonna go have a smoke.” Matt excused himself and broke away from them while they were still laughing and talking about stuff that Matt didn’t have a clue on.

It wasn’t that he never thought of trying it with any other girl before, but he just couldn’t do it. He felt like his first time was ought to be a special one, and he deserved a special girl. He had found the girl, it’s Valary. The only flaw is, she’s the most popular girl in school and she will never look at him that way. In fact, she won’t even look at him at all.

He lit up his cigarette and thought deeply about this. May be Jimmy was right. Maybe because he still hadn’t lost his virginity that he came off as a loser in her eyes.

There was a sudden sound of a motorbike hoarded past Jimmy’s front porch and went straight to the yard next door. The driver wore a full biker suit with a red and black helmet on his head. Matt watched as he parked and killed the engine.

“Nice bike.” He muttered while inhaling the cigarette deeply.

Soon the driver took off the helmet and Matt choked on his own smoke.



Red soft curls slithered down to the shoulder of its owner and Matt realized it was a she-driver. She shook off her head, making her red curls swayed from side to side and his heart skipped a beat. He didn’t realize that his cigarette had already fallen to the ground because he opened his jaw too wide. She put the helmet aside and unzipped her jacket, peeling it off from her body – slow motion in Matt’s view – revealing her black tank top wrapped around her pale skin that clashed beautifully with her hair color.

“Damn…” that was all that he could say.

She didn’t notice him staring and drooling, she just went inside the house carrying her helmet and jacket.

To Matt, she looked so badass and beautiful.

“Are you okay, Matt?”

Matt winced and felt a wet arm being slumped on his shoulders as Jimmy stood next to him, majestically sweating like a construction worker. He looked around, the German girl that was with Jimmy earlier now curiously interviewing those two guitarists at the back of the garage. Matt narrowed his eyes at them and then turned to Jimmy again.

“You’re sweaty dude.”

“I’m a drummer, what do you expect? Bump me one?”

Matt gave his cigarette box to him and Jimmy drew out a stick, lighting up on his own.

“Jim…can I ask you something?”

“Sure.”

“Who..who..I mean, I’ve been going in and out of your house for a while but…I’ve never met your neighbors.”

“My…neigbors?”

“Yeah. Who’s the badass girl lives right next door to you?”

Jimmy’s eyebrow shot up as his cigarette hung lazily between his lips. “Badass girl?”

Who? Ryder? Is she a badass? From what I know, she’s far from badass. She’s an introvert. In school she rarely had friends and she always spends her free time either studying or playing games. She’s a lot like Matt actually. Well, Matt only had me as his best friend and he’s a freak when it comes to games…


Wait a minute.


Jimmy sparked an idea. A sudden brilliant idea that usually came to him when he locked himself from people and try to write a song.

“Why do you ask?” Jimmy narrowed his eyes.

Matt was caught off guard. He laughed nervously, scratching his neck, fiddling with his cap and so on.

“No reason. I just think…she’s a beautiful girl. That’s all.”

“Beautiful huh? Well, she’s not exactly a girl, my dear Matt. She’s a woman.”

Matt blinked at him. “What’s the difference?”

“The difference is, my man…she can make your dream come true…even your wildest dream.”

“What…the hell does that supposed to mean?”

“She’s a goddess, Matt. A sex goddess. Boys call her ‘a savior’. I call her…” Jimmy raised his hand upwards, his mind winding up lies – beautiful lies to fool Matt. “Aphrodite.”

Matt stared blankly at him for a while. “Wow.”

“Yeah. She took their virginity and turned them into a better man. And you, my man, are in need of her the most.”

“You’re telling me…that I should go and have sex with her so that I can…be a better man?”

“Exactly.”

Matt let out a loud laugh and threw his cigarette on the ground, stepping on it after. “You mean she’s a fucking prostitute? Right, you want your best friend to sleep with a hooker because he’s so desperate.”

“No! She’s not a prostitute alright? She never asked for money in return.”

“Really? Then…what’s in it for her?”

“Oh…that varies. You have to ask her for yourself. It really depends on her client.”

Matt crossed his muscular arms on his chest. “And have you ever been as one of her clients?”

Jimmy’s eyebrows arched straight up as he widened his eyes. He lost his virginity to some girl at some party actually. But for the sake of fooling Matt right now, he admitted to a white lie.

“Of course. She made me this way Matt.”

“No fuck. Seriously?”

“Yeahh, sureee.”

Matt bit his lip and looked down to his sneakers. “So you think I should…go to her?”

“Yeah. Totally. You need some fucking confidence man. How will you get it if you’re still a virgin?”

Matt threw a glance at the house next door. He wanted to lose his virginity so much, even better if it’s with Valary. But seeing how easily Brian could win her over, he can’t wait any longer. He needed to become one of them, soon. If losing virginity can turn him into a better man, he’ll do it.

“Okay. I’ll do it.”

Notes

A/N: hi mei...;)

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