Rock God

Chapter Eight: Friends Or Foes?

(Before we get started here's the song that DJ sings and dances to in this chapter. :P)

When I woke up the next morning, I found to my surprise and amazement that I was lying beside DJ all curled up beside him and cuddled inside his chest. DJ slowly began to wake up and smiled rather warmly and lovingly at me.

"Good morning Champ, how did you sleep?" He questioned.

"Pretty good I guess." I began with a shrug. "How about you?" I questioned him back.

"Honestly really good for somebody who hasn't slept in over two thousand years." He replied with a grin and watched as my eyes darted to the picture on my bedroom wall of my dad and I inside our garage with all of our band equipment. "Are you alright?" He asked me.

"Yeah I'm fine." I lied.

"First of all it's alright to show your emotions you know because it's not a sin and Jesus wept is the shortest verse in the Bible." He began. "Second of all it's pointless lying to me since I already know you are." He finished before I quickly rolled over and faced the wall.

"Just leave me alone alright!? I don't want to talk about this." I told him before he simply just heaved a sad sigh.

"Alright, but if you change your mind, you know where to find me." He told me before he got up out of bed and headed towards the bathroom while I let out a sniff as a tear rolled down my cheek.

However, I didn't wind up staying upset for long because I was too busy laughing at DJ's rendition of Splish-Splash. Little did I know that inside the bathroom it was even funnier because before he stepped into the tub to take a shower he was dancing around the bathroom with a towel on and pretending the bath brush was a microphone and singing into it. (I only found out that part later that afternoon.)

One afternoon after the school bell rang for dismissal DJ showed up at my locker. "What are you doing here?" I questioned him.

"Your mother and I figured that we would take you out for ice cream before we continued working on our new song." He replied.

"Really? That's awesome! Thanks!" I exclaimed excitedly before I heard the familiar voice of Eugene Douglas.

"Hey Dawson, only talking to God now are you?" He questioned me with an evil sneer upon his face as I quickly spun around to face him.

"Who told you!?" I yelled angrily at him.

"That's for me to know and you to find out. Anyways, I always knew that you were a freak, so this only justifies it, but I didn't know that you were also a crybaby." He told me and that's when DJ tightened up his fists and clenched his teeth.

"Hey!! You leave my boy alone!!" He demanded.

"Oh yeah? And who's going to stop me? The Almighty God? More like an almighty loser if you ask me." He told him.

"I don't care what you call me, but you leave Mick alone. He's my friend." DJ began. "And there is no greater love than those who lay their lives down for a friend."

"Well, to be perfectly honest with you I'm surprised that anybody wants to hangout with him at all. Ms. Wright had to send him to the office because he wouldn't stop crying. He's such a baby and all he does now is cry!" Eugene snapped before all of a sudden DJ snapped and slowly reached his hand out and grabbed him by the throat while he narrowed his eyebrows and glared angrily at him.

"Now it's your turn." He began. "For if you're for me I'm your best friend, but if you're against me,.. I'm your worst nightmare." He hissed while slowly hoisting him into the air.

"Alright I'll stop! I promise that I'll leave him alone!" He cried while his voice broke and silent tears rolled down his cheeks.

"Good. See that you do. I'll be watching." He told him before throwing him into the lockers and we managed to escape before he started telling his story to the principal.

"You didn't have to do that." I told him as we made our way out into the parking lot. "You could wind up in big trouble for that you know." I pointed out but he simply just shrugged at me.

"Eh, what's the worst they can do to me? I've already been nailed to a cross, I doubt anything that they have in store for me could be much worse than that." He told me.

"Okay then let me rephrase that,.. I could wind up in big trouble." I told him.

"Don't worry about it. If you do I'll take all the blame since I'm the one that threw that kid not you." He said with a grin. "Now, let's go get some ice cream." He told me.

"Sounds like a plan to me." I replied before we both got into the car and drove to the ice cream shop. We worked on our song lyrics on the way there since we already knew that our song was all about having the strength to carry on even when things get tough and being there for each other. I made a promise to DJ that there wouldn't be any cussing in it. All that we needed to do now was practice.

Hey guys! I apologize that this chapter was rather short but I wanted to be fresh for the first original song by Shock Therapy entitled "Carry On" so I'm going to probably upload that one tomorrow!! :D Also, it's going to be a really good chapter all around because DJ will be signing his signature song (that will also be revealed next chapter) and one of my ultimate favorites!! :D