'Love again - Duff Mckagan.

chapter 1 - Love on tour

July 23rd, 1987 - Rose Hoffman and Slash's birthday.
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IT WAS ROSE HOFFMANS and slashes birthday. They were turning 23.

Rose Faye Hoffman, much known as Rose, was an L.A. photographer, she had beautiful dirty blonde waved hair, downb to her mid back.

It's almost like stevie Nicks.

Her eyes were green-ish blue, and her skin was pale but had a light tan to it sometimes.

She was a dancer, mostly all her life. She had finished college when she was 21– along with her best friend; Danielle Brown.

Danielle Broan was an assistant or photographer. She had worked for big bands or big stars in L.A. She was a known person.

She had black big curly hair, almost like slashs, as it went past her shoulder by an inch or two.

She had dark hazel eyes, and her skin was a Carmel color; she was gorgeous.

Rose and Danielle had an almost hippe-like style, danielle a little more 70s disco, and rose a flowy hippy style, sometimes as Duff would say, 'a street rock band style' as well.

Duff was Rose's long-time crush. For years, she'd seen him as more than a friend.

They constantly flirted when they were alone, or sometimes it would he infront of the group.

They've had multiple times that they talked about sex, they've almost done it together before.

Duff has felt for her nothing but love ever since he laid his eyes on her. His heart pumps for her every day.

He hoped he said his feelings for her soon rather than later. He hoped the tour would help it.

He hoped.

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"There's the birthday, girl!" Slash exclaimed to me, holding his arms out.

"There's the birthday, boy!" I smiled, wrapping my arms around him for a hug.

"23 ay?" Slash laughed, "older by the minute."

"I'm your age, slash." I rolled my eyes at him, pulling away from the hug.

"Sure you are!" He waved me off, turning on his heels to walk to the kitchen.

Everybody came to me and Danielle's house to hang out and get wasted, it wa she nicest house that they could go to.

"Happy birthday, Rose," Duff kissed my head, walking past me to the kitchen.

"Thank you," I smiled, sitting on a stool that was in the kitchen.

Axl placed two cakes down, one said, 'happy birthday fucker' and the other said, 'happy birthday shark bait'.

"Who the hell put shark bait on my damn cake?!" I look up at the five men infront of me.

Danielle peers over slash, looking at the cakes and chuckling to herself as she moves past them.

They all point at Axl, who snares at the other men, "assholes."

"Why shark bait?" Danielle asks, opening a case of beer.

"It seemed funny, you know?" Axl reasons, "it is, a little."

"Watch what you say, axl," izzy pats Axls shoulder.

"Yea, she might jump at ya," slash laughs.

"Keep talking, and all that pretty hair of yours will have cake in it," I glare at slash.

"No bullshit rose, you wouldn't," Slash said as he turned around to the fridge.

"Don't say that know slash, you don't know what she will and won't do," Duff chuckled as he lit a cigarette.

"Yea, I've seen her do some not-so normal things," steven agreed with duff.

"Sure you have."

and next thing he knew– he had whipped cream all over his hair.
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"My hair is still sticky!" Slash whined, drying off his hair.

"Who's fault is that?" Axl laughed, sipping on his beer.

"Roses!" He huffed, turning off the sink.

He had washed his hair multiple times, but it still has a stickiness to it.

"You said I wouldn't, and I did, so," I turn to look at him, "your fault!"

He groaned, "asshole."

"The cake is good," steven interupes the argument.

"Seriously! Where did you get the cake?" Duff asks Axl, stuffing it into his mouth.

"I Dunno, some bakery," axl shrugged, "some older lady, she was really sweet."

"That helps so much, thank you," danielle snickered, rolling her eyes.

It was already 11 pm here, slash was drunk, axl was maybe a little tipsy, I had a few drinks I was on the verge of drunk, izzy was on someting along with Steven and duff and danielle were like axl but a little worse.

I got up to grab another drink till I noticed both cakes were completely gone.

"Who ate all the fucking cake?"

Everyone looked at duff, izzy and Steven who all had cake stuffed in there mouths.

"Sorry, I was hungry," steven shrugged.

"Same," Duff agreed, putting his plate down, "it was good cake."

"But it was two whole goddamn cakes?" Danielle looks at them with a werid face.

"Well– slash had a lot to," izzy pointed over to slash.

Slash shrugged, "I only had about.." he counts on his fingers as he holds onto the couch for support, "4 pieces."

"Shocking," I remark, laying back on the couch, "my head is spinning."

"How much have you had to drink?" Duff asks.

I shrugged, "Not much."

Axl shoots up, "I was supposed to meet with a girl an hour ago!"

"Better hope she doesn't kill you," steven laughs.

"You're going with me," he glares steven, walking to where he put his shoes.

"Oh, steven, that sucks," slash laughs, moving hair from his face.

"You're going to slash, and so is izzy," he chuckles, grabbing his coat.

"Why not duff?" Steven whines as he gets up, stumbling a bit as izzy holds onto him.

"Because in staying here," he smiled as he got up.

"You have 30 seconds to be out this door, or I will bring her in the car," axl threatened.

"Ugh!" Slash groaned, stumbling over to me, "Happy birthday rosey."

"Happy birthday, slash," I laugh, hugging him.

"I hate you," steven mumbles to Duff, walking over to the door, "Bye Rose, hope you had a good birthday! bye danielle!"

"Thank you, steven!" I smiled as he walked out with izzy behind him, and slash already walking out.

Izzy waved as he shut the door, holding onto steven gently as he did so.

"I'm going to sleep," I mumbled as I shut my eyes.

"On the couch?" Duff asked, a hint of amusement.

"I don't feel like getting up."

He nodded, "Okay then."

"I'm gonna shower, Rose, goodnight," danielle smiled as she patted my shoulder and walked away.

I was tired, and my head hurt, so falling asleep came quite easy.

"Goodnight rose," Duff whispered, kissing my cheek, "Happy birthday."

"Goodnight duff."

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UPDATE!
CHAPTER FIXED/UPGRADED (4/15/23)