Undercover Love

How to Save a Life

Days passed by..... Or months. I lost count. Cameron got sick and worse as the doctors piled on his medications. But Cameron was strong and tried to carry on the best way he could.

Cameron's father owned a bar/night club in town called Midnight Hour. When Cameron was young he learner how to play piano and guitar also learned how to sing. When he was able to start working or when he was 10, he work at his father's bar part time, singing and playing his instruments. Later in life, he formed a band called Midnight Rush. Midnight Rush was chosen to be the name because without Midnight Hour, they would never meet and that was the first public place they played for the first time.

They been a band since they were pre-teens. Also they were great and still are friends. Cameron told me all the times they went on tour in Alexander's (tap drum set player) mom's mini van. They been to Ocean City, Brooklyn, Key-port, Seaside Heights, all of those good places. There were so many epic stories about there tours. Once they got stop by cops, and they had weed in the car, and they freaked out. The cop gave them a ticket for there tail lights being on, but then Mike ( electric bass player) yelled out " selling weed for $25 a pint." That was the first time they spent a night in jail.

They meet Steve (34 man (age now not back then when the band meet him) , buff with a lot of tattoos, looks like a bouncer) which is now their body guard when they got to out of town places. They meet him in jail. He was in there was kicking the cop in the balls and stealing the cop car, trying to make a run for it. But sadly he didn't make it.

After John's ( electric keyboard player) mom bailed them out, they were determine to raise enough money to bail Steve out and hire him as their body guard. They did 25 shows in two months which raised them enough. Once they bail Steve out and asked him if he could there body guard, he said "Since you guys went out of your way to bail me out even though you only know and meet me once I will be your body guard for free, out of the goodness of my heart."

Since then, they became popular, every night having sold out concerts. Every one paid top dollars just to see them preform. That's how good they were. When they all turn 15, because they where the same age, they sign up for American Got Talent. They perform with a cheering crowd, but at the end they were to young, not ready, and don't have lots of 'talent' in the sing business. With 3 no's they left in tears and crushed dreams. They played once more that year, and that was the end of it. They all split up, they never try to get the band back together, or try to communicate.

Cameron told me so much stories of his young childhood band times, that just for him, I am going to try to get the band back together. I'm only doing this because I would love it if they played at my 17 birthday at the Midnight Hour. I want my birthday there because I spent so much time with Cameron over the year or months that most of the time we spent it at Midnight Hour. Cameron's dad was like my Uncle George. I don't remember him well but all I could remember was that his strong Italian accent and him always telling joke, and that's Cameron's dad Joe.

It was very hard to find Mike, Alexander, and John. I had to go into Ron's computer, look up their names, and then try to find the right person based off the information it give to me. This took me a week to find them, but I had back-ups if they weren't the person I was looking for. Also the house looked like a mess. There was bottles, pills, thongs, white power, money, and condoms. I bet Ron was busy at night when I was with Cameron to make sure he's alive in his sleep. You must be think "Didn't you sleep?". No, I didn't,

Alexander was in Florida, part time job at a pizza hut. Which was very hard because there is about 1,000 Alex or Alexander. But the rest was fairly easy to find because they most were around each with out knowing. Such as for Mike and John, they lived in the same town for two years with out knowing that they lived down the street for each other. They facial expressions were priceless when they found out. I even took a picture. I took many pictures of each member of the band, and I was planning to make a slide show, which was going to play while they played their music. Now the only person that was missing from this bunch was Steve the body guard. I tried to look through the data base computer again, but there was no luck. He must of hidden all or erased all his information for the data base. But that's impossible to do unless you hacked in or you work for the FBI or CIA. With his criminal records they wouldn't even think twice about letting him in. So the only option left, is that he must of hacked it.

I still have to find him. He is part of the band is you kind of think about it. Me, Alexander, Mike, & John all set put to find Steve.

But at the end of this journey, we came up empty handed. So we let it slide. One of the reasons we didn't couldn't continue to look for him is that a reason for his information to disappear from the data base could be that he is die.

After returning back from my four day safari for these three. We started to plan a surprise party for Cameron and a birthday bash for me. The party was on a Friday night, at Midnight Hour at 10:30. Everyone was suppose to be there at 10, to get ready. I told Cameron to meet me up there at 10:45, for business. So far its 9, and we have everything set up. The stage is all set up, including all the things they need to perform. The tables, chair all place out and ready for people to sit on them. The bar, stocked up with famous brands everyone likes. People started to come in at 9:30. Its started to get pack and its not even 10.

When it was time, everyone got ready. The doors of the bar open slowly, suddenly Cameron body appeared. Shocked and surprised flash across his face. The tears of joy spilled over. He walked over to me, he huged me.

"What is this all for?"

" Well Cameron, i got the band back together. It been so long, and I thought 'why not get them back together'. "

"Thank you so much. I missed them so much. And I'm sick, and its good for all of us to be together one last time."

"And since I got them back together for you, could you sing me a song for my 17 birthday. And by the way its a party for me and you. Back together for you and celebration of my birth for me. It a win win." I laughed.

"OK, since you done so much, I sing a song just for you." he kissed my cheek. He walked on to the stage, grab the guitar. The band follow behind him. Cameron mumbled something to them, they all nodded and got ready to play.

----------------------- the song on the side is the song they sang.---------------------------

Cameron, front center of the stage, at the last verse he started to cough. Then the coughing got heavier and louder, like he was trying to get air. The band stopped playing, Alexander got up from the drums and took off the guitar from him. But thats when he fell. Off the stage. On to the floor. Dead silents covers the room. The coughing stops. I run to him. I go to my knees, placing my hands on to his chest, listening for the beat of his heart. It was fading away.

" CALLED 911, HE IS GOING TO DIE. HURRY, WE ARE LOSING HIM." I scream at the crowd.

And that's the day we lost Cameron James. Or other words, my only company in this dark world.

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