glitch: mgc + adb AU

five.

Mike's POV

Unedited.

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Sydney, Australia

The alarm clock kept blaring BUZZ BUZZ BUZZ BUZZ, making Mike groan at each BUZZ it made. Exhaustion hit him like a ton of bricks. He turned over in the large messy bed, covers bundled up all over the bed, but they were a soft and dark blue, his favorite color. He kept hitting the snooze button this lasted for about an hour. Mike groaned one last time then realized he was late for work; again. "shit, fuck, god damn it" he exclaimed as he tried to find his black polo shirt he wore for work. Its tiny guitar logo in the left hand corner of the shirt, with MIKE written under it. He grabbed his ripped blue jeans and pulled them up over his boxers. He ran to the bathroom to quickly brush his teeth with his favorite mint toothpaste. After the brushing he grabbed his black converse and slipped those on. There was a large hole in the top part of the shoe. His bracelets jingled at the motion of him tying his shoes which echoed through his spacious bedroom. Even though pizza boxes, potato chip bags and empty energy drink cans were riddled throughout the entire room. He scanned the room, thinking he should clean it, but he was too lazy to clean, plus is some sort of sick way he wanted to see the mess.The mess was somehow comforting to him. After Mike finished getting ready for work he grabbed his keys, wallet and IPhone and left the door of his small white house. He locked it behind him as he went to his 2015 black Audi S5. As he got in and started the loud punk music played over the radio. Which blasted as he drive the 30 minutes to work.

***

"Mike your late, again!!!" Paul Mikes boss said to him as walks through the door.

"im sorry man!" Mike said to his boss as he put his stuff away and went to apologize to Paul.

"sorry doesn't cut it man, if your late one more time" Paul said.

"I said i was sorry!" Mike defended himself.

"you're lucky your my brother in law or id fire you" Paul said to Mike sternly.

Paul was Mike's brother in law who owned the Guitar Shop. Paul was married to Mikes oldest sister. Paul moved to Australia as a teen, and started his business at the Guitar Shop in Australia after he made enough money working odd jobs. He did what he loved, he wanted to help other musicians like himself. Believe it or not but Paul was in a pretty big band while his early days living in the tropical country. Paul met Mikes sister at one of his concerts and love at first sight then the rest is history. The pair even have a set of twins.

"I know" Mikey said to Paul, as he sighed and went in the back to start working on his guitars. After a few hours Paul went to go check on him.

"so...why are you late today bro?" Paul asked Mike concerned.

Mike sighed and began to tell his brother about what happened with Sophie. He sighed as he finished replacing the guitar wires.

"wow...you did all that?" Paul asked Mike stunned.

"yeah.." he said and laid the final wire onto the black and blue gibson electric guitar. He took the sodder and burned the wires that broke off.

"thats freaky, but really cool man" Paul said amazed not sure what exactly to say since he didn't understand hacking or computers.

"yeah I guess so" Mike said and wet the hot wire with a cloth to cool it down.

"what?" Paul asked seeing how Mike had a pained answer.

"nothing its just...well.." he said but stopped mid sentence.

"what?" Paul asked holding onto every word of Mikes story telling.

"they are coming here..."

"oh" Paul said.

"thats good right?" Paul added.

"no...they are pretty pissed, I cleared everything on her computer..." Mike told Paul.

"wow, that kinda sucks man, she must be pissed though" Paul noted.

"yeah..." Mike said and sighed as he placed the finished guitar down.

"why did you do it?" Paul asks his brother in law.

"Its fun, I mean to me anyway..." Mike said as he grabbed a new guitar, one that needed cleaning.

"why, I mean how is it fun to you?" Paul asks Mike.

"its thrilling I guess, it makes me feel like god, i can control this thing, this electronic thing, that ruins peoples day, its poetic actually" Mike tells him.

"thats fucked up man, but yeah its poetic in a way" Paul shruggs and heads toward the door.

"make sure your on time tomorrow and get your work done, last warning, or i'm cutting your pay" Paul says and leaves Mike alone with his guitars.