The Look Of Knowledge

Chapter 2

10 YEARS AGO

The band left the stage ignoring the crowd's request of playing one more song.
"Gimme that" Julian said taking a bottle of beer from Ryan (his manager)'s hand and emptying three quarters of it without even breathing. "Ahh, yes nena, sweet elixir"
"Jules slow down man, this is your fourth without counting the ones you had before the show" Fab said looking concerned. Nick left his guitar on the couch, hugged Fabrizzio from his back and pecked his cheek playfully. "Don't worry about him, sweetie. He knows how to handle it, don't you Julian?"
"Oh yes I do, I'm feeling fantastic baby!" He answered lighting himself a smoke.
Albert and Niko entered the dressing room laughing about something.
"Albert where is your guitar, man?" Nick asked.
"Oh shit man, I was feeling kinda light. I must have left it with the security staff... We stayed there chatting with them, they're actually cool, one of them gave me a bag of snow and this!" He said showing off his new black t-shirt with the word STAFF in big white letters.
"Albert shut up and go get it" Julian interrupted.
"Get what? I have it right here, man" Albert slipped his hand in his pocket and tossed over a little bag of cocaine which Julian clumsily catched. He examined it and then rubbed some of the powder on his front teeth with the tip of his pointing finger.
"It's good" he stated. "However, I was talking about your guitar, Albert" Julian added passing the bag over to Nick.
"Oh right!" Albert turned around and went back to the staff tent which was next to the Emergency Doctor's tent. His guitar was waiting for him on a corner next to a six-pack of beer cans.
"There you are baby" he whispered grabbing it, then the six pack on his free hand. "Daddy is never leaving you again" Albert added and kissed the strings while stepping out of the tent.

"Excuse me, can you help me out please?" A tall brown eyed girl came out from the Emergency's tent and stood in front of Albert. He stood still looking at her, she was very beautiful. "Do you know how to get back out there with the rest of the crowd?" She asked.
"Why'd you want to get back there?" He said amused.
"Well, long story short. I was just listening to the band that played about 10 minutes ago and lost my friend Jared. His brother was supposed to pick us up later but I don't know where he'll be, so I pretended to be deaf in one ear so a doctor would take me here backstage and I could maybe borrow a phone and call him, but 1, there was no phone and 2, now they won't let me go back to the field 'cause they really think the music made me half deaf and I'm gonna miss the rest of the festival" She said. Albert stared at her squinting. "So, I told you my crime. Take me back out with the rest of the peasants.." The girl joked raising both her wrists pretending to accept a pair of handcuffs as punishment.
Albert laughed and finally spoke up "I don't give a fuck if you lied, that was actually quite a smart plan"
"Aren't you supposed to kick me back out there so I don't freak out over some musician or something?" She asked confused.
"Why would I? There's people that get paid to do that, like the Staff and Security. I'm just chillin', girl" The brunette looked at Albert's shirt and furrowed her eyebrows.
"I'm starting to think you're not a real member of the Staff, am I right?"
"Like I said, I'm just chillin'" he smiled at her and she smiled back. "By the way, there's a phone in my tent in case you still need one" he added.
"You would be saving my life" she said cheerfully.
"Let's better get going then" Albert said, secretly proud of his brand new catch. He went back to the tent where the band was resting and they both got in.

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I haven't decided the exact time i want the story to be developed in, but get an idea that the Flashbacks are from a moment in between room on fire and first impressions of the earth, unless stated. :) x