Rock God

Chapter Four: DJ's Secret

That evening my father and I decided to print up some papers that held information about our new band and I passed them out at school the following afternoon once the bell for dismissal had rung. "If you're talented please come and audition for Shock Therapy that starts this Saturday at three o'clock." I said while one by one kids took a paper as they were headed out the front door.

By the time Saturday had come the only people who had showed up were Josh and a few other kids. "Alright, I hope you guys are good because it looks like we're a little bit shorthanded." I told them while trying to hide the disappointment in my voice and looked at the two other kids. One of them was rather tall and had short black hair, peached skin, and baby blue eyes. The other kid was a bit shorter than him and had rather long and shaggy dirty brown hair and chocolate-colored eyes with tanned skin and a bit of freckles on the back of his neck and some on his cheeks, but he didn't have nearly as many as Josh did.

"Mick, this is Logan Daniels and Caleb Johnson." Josh said first pointing to the black-haired kid and then the shaggy brown haired one.

"When are we going to get the girls?" Logan wondered.

"Forget the girls, I just came for the snacks." Caleb said with a grin in a rather deep voice before I just simply slapped my forehead with my palm.

"Did anybody here actually come here for the music?" I inquired. "Actually, forget that, can anybody here actually read music or at least carry a tune?" I wondered before there was a sudden silence and they just stopped to stare and me and I swore that I could hear crickets chirping. "We have a lot of work to do." I said with a groan.

Then, just when I started practicing with my new band and my electric guitar in my hand, I saw her. The most beautiful girl I ever saw in my life walk down the street. She looked like a younger version of my teacher but instead of blonde hair she had bright red hair like Josh's only darker. She also had bluish-green eyes with a hint of gray in them, skin as white as snow, and bright red lipstick. She was also walking a white fluffy dog that I had guessed to be a poodle.

That's when I took a deep breath, decided to go ahead and swallow my pride and go speak to her. "Hi." I began quietly as she stopped in front of me and looked up at me and smiled.

"Oh hello there, I'm just coming to listen to my brother play." She told me as I didn't know or care which band member was her brother, but I was just glad that a beautiful girl like her would be our audience. However, I just secretly hoped and prayed that we wouldn't make fools of ourselves. "Actually he's my stepbrother which is why we have different last names. My name is Alyssa Cross, but my friends call me Allie." She explained as I reached out to shake her hand.

"Michael Dawson but all my friends just call me Mick. Or rather they would if I had any." I told her.

"Well Mick it's certainly a pleasure meeting you." Allie began. "How long have you known Caleb?" She wondered.

"You mean snack boy is your stepbrother?" I questioned her with uncertainty as she nodded and giggled.

"Yep! That's him! My stepfather usually gets pissed off with him because he thinks more about his stomach than his homework." She explained before I led her up the driveway and introduced her to my dad and they started getting to know each other.

It turns out that I was correct when I was thinking to myself that we would be absolutely horrible at first, however Allie didn't seem to mind, and she practically just kept smiling at me the whole entire time. However, because she came to watch us perform, once we started practicing and getting better at it she told her friends about us, and then they told their friends about us, and pretty soon us Shock Therapy kids were the most popular kids in school.

Crowds of boys and girls would gather in the hallway and ask us for autographs. Although we were all incredibly happy and extremely excited about it, much to our dismay none of us had girlfriends yet. Since I barely knew Allie, I couldn't very well call her my girlfriend yet either. One day when I was coming home from school my heart sank as I saw an ambulance parked out in front of our house and that's when it hit me like a ton of bricks. Even before I got inside and had my mother officially tell me the news, I already knew that my father was dead.

After that I just locked myself in my bedroom like I always did when I wanted to be alone while silent tears streamed down my cheeks before I fell into a deep sleep. My father's funeral was rather nice and we all took our turns talking about him and how much he loved to perform and disliked hunting but was a really good fisherman and the greatest thing about him was that he was a loyal servant of God.

Once it got time to bury him, I looked up and saw the very person that I least expected to see. For right there, standing before me was DJ dressed in a black suit and had a somber expression on his face. "Hey, what are you doing here? I didn't know that you knew my father." I said as I walked over to him. That's when he smiled rather lovingly and affectionately at me and placed a supportive hand on my shoulder.

"Weren't you listening to everyone at the service?" He inquired. "He knew me very well." He told me but I slightly shook my head at him.

"No,.. nobody mentioned him knowing anybody named DJ." I replied before he let out a chuckle.

"Of course they wouldn't! Nobody knows me by that name yet as I just picked it out to blend in with everybody else here on earth." He told me before all of a sudden, my mother interrupted us.

"Uh Mickey sweetheart, aren't you a bit too old for imaginary friends?" She asked me as I spun around and then saw her standing there before me and I raised a questioning eyebrow.

"What are you talking about? I'm talking to DJ." I told her.

"Who's DJ?" She asked me.

"This guy right in front of me don't you see him? He told me that Dad knew him." I replied while pointing over at DJ.

"No,.. I don't see anybody." She told me with a shake of her head. "You better get some rest. I'm worried about you honey." She told me before she wandered away and then I turned back to face DJ.

"Why couldn't she see you? Are you an angel or something?" I asked him.

"No, but you're close." He began. "And the reason she can't see me is I have the ability to make myself visible and invisible to anybody and at anytime and I'm not really here yet either."

"So you mean my mom is right and I'm just hallucinating then?" I questioned him.

"No, you're really seeing me, I just meant that my purpose for why I came to earth in the first place hasn't begun yet. Mick,.. I'm God." He told me.

"Okay, why don't you come and meet my friends Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny?" I suggested sarcastically while I started to turn around and walk away from him.

"You don't believe me do you?" He questioned as he started to follow me.

"If you're really God then why don't you tell me since you know everything already." I pointed out.

"It's a rhetorical question bud. Anyways, your mother is right. You better go home and get some rest because then you have to start band rehearsal." He told me as I suddenly stopped and turned back around to face him again with a look of complete and utter shock and astonishment on my face.

"How did you know about that?" I asked him.

"I already told you I'm God and I know everything about you." He told him.

"Whatever, it doesn't matter anyways." I began with a solemn expression on my face. "I quit." I told him before running back to the car as it started to rain.