Burning Desire

1. Troubled past

I'm the type of guy that you wouldn't notice, I kinda blend into the background only making myself known if I absolutely have to. I usually am an outcast anywhere I go because the only things I know how to do is play guitar and get into trouble. It automatically makes people label me and separate me from the rest. So I do what they label me as I steal stuff, I pull pranks and I play guitar with a band that only a handful of people see because of our "popularity". My name is Levi Brunner and this is my story.

I gripped my red and black electric guitar in my hand tensing up getting ready for band practice in my high school. I convinced the music teacher to let my band practice in the mornings, as I started to play the main riff to rock you like a hurricane by the scorpions. As I was playing I began to nod my black spiked hair to the rhythm along with the tapping of my right foot, my friend Will was playing guitar along with me as we goofed around as we played. Nic played drums he was going so fast you could barely keep up with the multiple techniques he used to keep the band in sync, after a while we finished off the song concluding our band session with fist bumps and smiles. I left the room saying goodbye to my friends starting to walk toward my next class when my friend caught my eye down the hall.

"Hey Levi!" My friend yelled waving his arm back and forth frantically.
"Hey what's up Ryle" I said tiredly.
"Hey dude you better watch out that prank you did to Mitch yesterday he's looking for you."Ryle said warning me.
"It was worth it seeing him spas out when I replaced his hair gel with hair removal cream." I said letting a smile cover my face. Then as almost on que Mitch came walking down the hallway.
"Levi!" Mitch yelled in anger coming down the hall with his new bald head replacing his normal long hair that was his pride.

"We'll see ya!" I said to Ryle running down the hall into the crowd hoping to try to lose Mitch in the process and then after a bit of skill I managed to lose him by slipping into one of the classrooms while he was focused on the crowd. Yup this is how most of my days go, school just gets too boring so I try to spice it up every now and then with some jokes. Then the bell rang marking the second class to begin in 5 minutes so I walk back out of the class I hid in and started walking toward my first class which is history, this is going to be a long day.

      After a grueling day of school I walked back to my house, throwing my book bag in the corner of my room full of rock posters from the 70's and 80's like Ac/Dc, Kiss, Aerosmith and Black sabbath. My red and black guitar is on its stand in the corner with the amp close by available to be hooked in at any moment, along with a pile of clothes at the foot of bed and a ps4 with a tv. I then sat down on my bed grabbing my guitar and I started to play to pass the time by playing various rock songs from my favorite bands the hours seem like seconds when I do this.

      Before too long it's time to go to bed and I do so by cleaning the strings on my guitar, brushing my teeth and throwing the days clothes into the massive pile of dirty clothes next to my bed. As I lied there I closed my eyes thinking it will be another normal day when I wake up but, boy was I wrong. I woke up at around 2:30 a.m by the sound of people trying to break into my house, my parents weren't home so I panicked. I looked outside the window to see it was Mitch and some of his cronies.

       "Come on guys!" Mitch said directing his friends, "Levi's parents aren't home he's gonna get his!" Mitch continued I looked more closely to see they had baseball bats with nails in them and other crude weapons to cause major damage to me but not intended to kill me. So I decided I needed to give them the slip so I grabbed my most prized possession my black and red guitar slinging it over my back before proceeding to the window on the opposite side of the house, I know they won't steal anything they don't want anything but me they are a spoiled bunch. As I climbed out the window on the second story and walking on the roof of the garage I thought of where I could stay while they searched for me, I grabbed on to the pipe that ran down from the gutter and slid down to the ground with a thud without seeing one of Mitch's friends leaning on the wall of the garage.

      "Hey! He's over here guys!" The jock screams as he started chasing me down. I ran down the road not knowing where to go as my guitar hit my back with every step. Then I had an idea I could hide in the old metal factory having this idea I ran down one of the alleys between the neighborhood houses taking me ever closer to the factory as the jocks followed as best they could in the dark. Within minutes I made it to the factory I sat down on what I think resembled a chair resting my tired legs thinking I lost them but then I heard footsteps approaching, hearing this I found a door like structure and I opened it closing it behind me. The thing was that I didn't know the thing I hid in was a cabinet for poisonous chemicals that they tested on the metal to make the metal have different characteristics, I couldn't see and most of the chemicals spilled on me covering my skin in them making it feel numb. Then I fell back out to where I came from to find Mitch was standing there, he had turned on all the switches to turn on the light but also turning on the automated metal producing machines. As he stared me down I saw the machines start mixing molten metal behind him, then he swung at me with his baseball bat with nails in it but I dodge the blow and start running toward the exit but he cut me off next to the machines who had a huge bowl of molten metal next to them. Mitch swung again this time he hit his mark making me fall backwards into the bowl of molten metal , seeing this he was shocked he just intended to
hurt me but he didn't do that he killed me so he threw down the bat turned off the switches and ran away from the factory scarred with the guilt of murdering another human being forever.