rock lovers - kirk hammett story 🖤

kiss

August 4th, 1984 - New York, United States
----- (the girl in the picture was Cliffs girlfriend but just pretend it's Luna since her and Cliff are besties now 🤍🤍)

An hour passes that Kirk is still sleeping. Me and Cliff talked more about the music we like. Lars and I talked about drums. Me and James talked about alcohol and how their band nickname is "Alchoholica", I couldn't help but laugh.

James offered me a beer, I shrugged and took it, I dont have anything else to do. I sit next to Lars and he tries to smoothly put his arm behind me. "Nice try" I say and move back over by Cliff. Cliff laughs and shakes his head. "Is he always like that with girls he just met?". Cliff replies, "not always, just if you're lucky enough".

Another hour passes. "You should go wake him up" Cliff says. I furrow my eyebrows and ask "why me?". Cliff just shrugs. I get up and head to the room, quietly knocking on the door before I hear a small "come in". I walk in the room to see Kirk sitting up on the bed, his hair poofy and messy. I smile just enough for only me to know. I sit on the edge of the small bed and ask him how he slept.

"I slept alright, I was too busy reading this", Kirk said pointing to a magazine about vampires and other goblins. I pick up the magazine, curious on what he reads about. I read a few pages, it's actually really interesting. I look down on the floor to see a box filled with other magazines & comics like this. I smile and ask "you must really like these huh?", "Yeah they're my favorite" he replies.

Me and Kirk made eye contact for a minute, he quickly looked at my lips and then looked back at the box of magazines and comics. "Well they uh wanted me to wake you up but it seems you already are", "tell them I'll be out in a minute", I nod and head out to see the others.

(Kirks POV)

She's so pretty. Watching her walk out made me frown a bit. Sure I couldn't sleep because my comics were keeping me up but I also couldn't stop thinking of Luna. I barely know her, why do I feel this way?

I put my shirt back on and walk out with the others. Lars is eyeing Luna like a hawk. I'm curious on what that's about so I sit next to him. Lars grabs a piece of my messy hair and says "someone slept good". I move his arm away playfully. "She's gorgeous isn't she?" Lars whispered. "I uh, yeah" I reply awkwardly.

Just as I said that, Luna looked right at me, smiling at whatever Cliff told her. I can see they're getting close. I'm not jealous of that, I'm jealous of whatever Lars is trying to do.

(Luna's POV)

Cliff explained to me his first instrument was piano. I told him it was my first instrument too, i can still play a bit. I smiled at the fact we have more and more in common. I looked over at Kirk to see him already looking at me, half zoned out. He looks down at the ground, fidgeting with his fingers. Lars gets up and heads to the restroom, I decide to sit next to Kirk.

Carefully I ask him, "Cliff tells me you've been anxious lately, is the tour doing that?". He shrugs, "I just have a lot on my mind". He points to the bedroom door and says "I wanna show you something".

Curious on what it is, I follow him and he pats the bed, waiting for me to sit. He picks up the guitar, playing an acoustic song, I've never heard it before. I smile and listen, he occasionally looks at me. "Earlier when I said I couldn't sleep, I was practicing this for a bit, it's nothing much but I wanted you to hear it first". I couldn't help but smile. Me and Kirk made eye contact for a minute.

Kirk reaches out to my hand, "I made that for you". I couldn't help it. I kissed him.