Awkward (Dave Grohl love story)

Chapter 3

December 1990

Melanie

Once the sun had risen Dave and I went back inside.
"Shit," I said looking at the clock realising i only had half an hour to get to work. I work at a record shop 5 days a week. I ran upstairs and put on my overalls with a cropped top with daises on it and my black converse.
"Bye," I said to the guys and grabbed my bag. I turned on the radio once I was in the car and Rock The casbah which is one of my favourite sings came on. I sang along to it until I got to the shop. A few hours passes and lots of people came in and brought records.
"Hey," Kurt said making me jump.
"Shit Kurt you scared me," I said annoyed at him.
"Hey Dave," I said.
"Hi," Dave said. Dave and I chatted while Kurt looked records.
"I have some exciting news," Kurt said. Dave and i both stopped talking and looked at Kurt.
"Were going on tour and your coming with us Melanie," Kurt said.
"Ok," I said. Kurt had promised me he would take me on tour with him if he was ever in a band since I have always end wanted to travel.
Kurt and Dave left and I picked up my book and read it. The lady around my age came to the counter to pay for her records.
"I would be careful if I was you," she said.
"Why," I asked.
"I have been on tour with a band before and it didn't turn out to be that great," she said. I recognised her from a magazine. She was Slash from Guns N Roses sister and she went on tour with them and her and Axl dated then he cheated on her and heaps of stuff happened. I know all of this since it was in every magazine. She payed and left. At 6:00 i left work and went back home.
"Hey mum," I called out. My mum came downstairs all dressed up.
"Where are you going," I asked.
"On a date. I have to go now or I will be late," she said and left. I sat on the couch and drank a glass of vodka. I was so confused with what Dave said this morning. Did he mean it or did he just say it. I watched tv and had some more vodka. By 11:00 I was pretty drunk.
"Hey," I slurred as Kurt walked inside.
"Look I don't have time for any of your rubbish," Kurt said. Kurt gets into these moods sometimes. I stayed up till about 5:00.I woke up in the morning with a pounding headache and i felt so sick. I looked at the clock and it was already 2:30. I started to pack a suitcase since I was going in tour with the guys tomorrow.
"Hey," I said walking into Kurt's room.
"You ready for tomorrow,?" Kurt asked.
"Yea," I said. We weren't getting back from tour until New Year's Day. I slept well that's night and at 7:30 the next morning Krist had arrived with his van. Dave came over and we loaded the stuff into the back of the Van. Krist drove the van and Kurt sat next to him while Dave and I sat in the back seats. Dave and I played cards and mucked around. We finally arrived at the place we were staying at. It was a fairly nice hotel.
"I get top bunk," Kurt called.
"I get bottom," Krist shouted.
"You have to share the double bed with with Dave," Kurt said while laughing.
"I can sleep on the couch," Dave said to me.
"No it's fine I don't mind sharing," I said. We unpacked all of our stuff and got ready for the first show which was in less then 2 hours. When we arrived at where the guy were playing and we got the stuff onto the stage. They set up then when the show started I went backstage and took some photos. When they finished their last song the crowd went wild. Kurt looked so overwhelmed.
,u,
Dave

"You guys played great," Mel said when we got backstage.
"Thanks," we all said. We went back to the hotel since it was quite late. When I went to my room Mel was already sound asleep so I got carefully into bed with her. She rolled over and opened her eyes.
"Good night," she said.
"Good night," I said and with that we both fell asleep. I woke up and couldn't sleep so I went outside on the balcony to have a smoke. I heard someone behind me when I got outside .
"It's a nice night," Mel said.
"Yea," I said looking at the sky. We went back to our room once we had finished smoking. As we walked past the bench i noticed a syringe filled with liquid in a plastic bag it was obviously some type of drug.
"Who's needle was that," I asked Mel. She turned around quickly.
"What does it matter to you," she snapped but I could tell she looked hurt.
"I just wanted to know," I said. Mel just rolled her eyes there was silence for a few minutes.
"I am sorry for yelling at you. It's Kurt's he's being doing drugs for about a year.," Mel mumbled. I did feel sorry for her.
"I am going to sleep on the couch," I said since I could tell Mel was hurt.
"No Please stay with me," she said.
"Ok," I said. We both got into bed and I put my arm around Mel and we fell asleep.