Rock God

Hide And Seek

(Before we get started, here are the songs for this chapter. :D)

Once we got into the car, I heaved a sad sigh. "This was my father's old Subaru." I said while I started looking around. "Mom's not sure at the moment whether to sell it or keep it." I explained.

"Well, if you sell it what good is that going to do? There's memories of your dad attached to it." He pointed out.

"That's the point DJ memories hurt." I told him.

"Yeah,.. I suppose they can,.. but they can also help keep your father's spirit alive. After all, he never really left you in the first place. It's like a game of hide and seek. After a person dies their spirit hides away from you sometimes. Sometimes to the point where it feels like they're gone forever. The truth is though they're only waiting for you to go and seek them. Hide and seek just happens to be one of my favorite games." He said with a grin.

"Yeah, but you can't die though." I pointed out to him.

"No, that's true. However, one it's just a fun game all around and two,.. if I always was wide in the open for everybody and making myself known then people wouldn't take the time to even try to seek me and I think that it's better that way. That's why I gave everyone free will and a brain to decide for themselves what they want to do in their lives. If they screw it up, they have nobody to blame but themselves even though they often try and blame me for it anyways. I don't want to force people to love me though and have a relationship with me. It would be as pointless as me giving them a love potion." He explained.

"You know, you're not at all like I thought you'd be. You're nothing like a lot of people project you to be as mean, scary, and angry." I told him before he heaved a long-drawn out sad sigh.

"That's because the people who tell you all of that science fiction type stuff don't really know me. Not really." He told him with a shake of his head. "I only act like that when I really have to and no parent likes being "mean" and having to discipline their child or children." He said as he used his fingers as quotation marks. "And I hate that! I would much rather be hanging out with people like you and rocking out and so that's why the other version of me Jesus came into the world so I could be a whole lot looser and chiller." He explained before pounding his fist upon the dashboard and popping it open and then putting a pair of dark sunglasses on his face.

"Yep, if I've got a whole entire eternal life to live, this is the way that I would rather be living it." He told me making me laugh.

"You're such a goofball." I told him.

"Well, don't forget you were made from my image so that makes you one too." He replied with a grin. "Anyways, ready to go?" He questioned me while buckling himself up.

"Yeah, but we forgot one very important thing." I began. "The key." I finished and that's when he simply just grinned again and chuckled.

"Watch this." He began before placing both hands upon opposite sides of the steering wheel. "Start!" He exclaimed and within an instant the engine turned on.

"Whoa,.. can you teach me how to do that?" I questioned him out of a breath of complete and utter astonishment.

"Could, but it would sort of be useless for you since you don't have powers like me." He told me.

"Well, pin a rose on your nose." I teased sarcastically with a roll of my eyes.

"Come on, buckle up so we can go get some chow." He told me and after I put on my seatbelt he started backing up and pulling out of the driveway.

"Alright let's get some tunes!" He exclaimed excitedly and that's when All Star by Smash Mouth came onto the radio and we both started singing along rather loudly to it at exactly the same time even placing a finger shaped L on our foreheads at the appropriate time. DJ was even a really good whistler, and he bopped his head to the music turning it slightly from side to side and I laughed again.

"You look like Stevie Wonder." I told him.

"Well I take that as a pretty big compliment and what do you know? Stevie's coming on now." DJ said as sure enough the next song was Higher Ground. Once we got to the restaurant DJ parked the car and we went into Pizza Palace.

"Wow, I can see why they call this place a palace." DJ began. "It's a lot bigger on the inside." He finished as he slowly began to turn while he looked around.

"Now you sound like Doctor Who." I told him.

"Oh yeah I know that show." He began. "But I was never really into science fiction type stuff. Cartoons are more up my ally like Scooby-Doo and my ultimate favorite SpongeBob SquarePants." He finished before he started singing the theme on the top of his lungs and I quickly covered his mouth with my hand.

"Would you keep it down!? Geesh, you act like you're seven years old or something." I told him before he swiped my hand away.

"Mickey, would you take a chill pill? I already told you that I hate being so authoritative, strict, and serious all of the time. Right now I'm just here to have some fun." He told me while he started jiggling around.

"Yeah, I can see that you're really dancing for joy." I told him.

"That's because it's been thousands of years since I've had a body and a urinary system!" He snapped while holding his privates and I quickly grabbed his hand and tried to ignore all of the other people that were stopping and staring at us.

"Come on then, let's just go to the men's room before we start making a spectacle of ourselves!" I snapped in a whisper before I dragged him down the hallway.