Nightmare Came True

Chapter 1

The sky was dark and moon was high, suggesting that it was time to sleep. The window to the boys house was open, the wind entering and exiting.
The room was lit in a faint glow of yellow. Caused by the bed lamp near the boys bed. He was seated on the bed, a notepad on his lap. His lips were slightly pursed and his brows were furrowed subconsciously as he colored the image of his dreams.
His eyes darted to the slit under the door, as the light which was seen through it died out with a sharp click. It could be his mom or dad finally going to bed. He quickly shoved the book under his pillow, switched off the bed lamp and layed down, covering himself in the blanket.
He pretended to be asleep as his mom quitely entered the room.
The Korean women went over to her son to see if he was sleeping soundly. She ran a hand through his hair. She kissed his forehead sweetly than muttered "goodnight honey."
Joe didn't respond. Just breathed peacefully as his mom went over to the window and closed it. Than exited his room.

Joe opened his dark eyes and waited to hear another click of a door, to make sure that his mom was gone into her bedroom. A few seconds later he heard the sound than pulled out his notepad, from under the pillow and began to examine the picture.
It was a picture of a boney and dried paw of a monkey in a red wooden box. The box was covered in red cloth from outside and a rusted yellow hole for a lock was in the middle.
He tried to remember where he saw it, other than in his dreams.
But it didn't ring a bell.
Not even the box.
Eventually he gave up on guessing and thought about their audition tomorrow.
His band 'Xero' is gonna do their 40th audition tomorrow and Joe can only hope that they become successful.
He sighed keeping the book back under the pillow then turned over to sleep.

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"hey Joe! What's up?"

Joe was greeted by his half Japanese fellow, named Mike.

" Not much man, just got a zero in test" Joe shrugged dropping his bag on the kerb. School had just ended and they were to head home in Mike's car.

"Oh Xero IS in a life test" said Brad shifting his eyes to emphasize the sarcasm.
He was seated on the hood of Mike's Car, a bottle of soda dangling from his hand.

"yeah." Rob agreed, who was leaning against the car.

These were Joe's rowdy best friends. Not actually rowdy, seeing that Brad has a soda instead of vodka, but they liked to pretend.
And that's not all of them.
There's five.
One, Phoenix, who left to tour with another band just last week. Another Mark, who was supposed to be sitting right there.

"where's Mark?" Joe asked looking at Rob, Mike and Brad.

"PMSing..." Brad mumbled and tried not to laugh as he brought the bottle up to his lips.

"No kidding." Rob agreed smirking and Brad looked like he was choking as he forced himself to gulp the drink before bursting into laughter.

"Guys he's just stressed and pissed" Mike explained.

"for this audition that we have today?" Joe said remembering.

"yeah, and it's for the 40th time!" Mike stated loudly.

"and Mark is really pissed, says he'll leave the band if we didn't got labeled Tonight." Rob voiced recalling the conversation they had with Mark last week.

" You guys really think he's gonna ditch us?." Brad asked seriously looking at Mike. Since Mike,Brad and Mark were friends from junior high, it was weird for Brad to think that they'll separate that easily.

"I dunno man....but it gotta be hard for him." Mike Said, feeling same as Brad.

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The night in their district was so lively. The hotels were almost crowded for dinner by bachelors, the neon outlines of a bottle and a pair of lips were blinking away on top of the bar.
People were gathered near the Roxy to see this new concert from a huge band.

A car stopped in front of the double glass doors of a huge building. The polished lobby was clearly seen with the help of the bright lights inside.
Xero got out of the car along with Kyle, there temporary bassist.

"Good luck boys." Brad's boss, Jeff blue wished them and drove away.

The six looked up at the huge building towering upon them.
Mike took a breath than said
"this is it guys, let's rock hard."

Than stepped on the footpath to enter the building of Warner Brothers and his friends followed suit.

TBC....