The Good Old Days (Synyster Gates Love Story)

July 1997

"Are you sure your brother likes me?" Valary, or Val for short, asked me.

I laughed, "Val, my brother is in love with you. And has been since the moment he met you."

Her face turned a light shade of red and handed me a beer.

Val is my brothers girlfriend, they've been together for a little over a year now.

"You guys ready for the night?" Jimmy said walking in and wrapping his arms around me and Val both.

I laughed and pointed to the huge cooler of beer and liquor bottles, "Get that thing out of here and down by the lake."

"On it boss!" He laughed and got Johnny in the room to help him carry it.

I got up and tossed my, now empty, beer can into the trash.

"You and my sister don't seem to get along very well, do you?" Val asked me as she got up.

I shook my head fast, "Hell no, she gives me dirty looks all the time. No offense but your sister seems like a slut."

Val laughed shaking her head as well, "None taken, I think so too."

We walked outside and got into her car, then drove down to the lake where all of us was hanging out for the fourth of July. It was a small party with us and our friends. Brian, Jimmy, and I were in charge of lighting the fireworks off, since we were the pyros of the group.

"Did you get any fireworks?" Brian asked me as Val and I got to the spot at the lake we were having the party.

I shook my head no, "Because a thirteen year old can get fireworks?"

He flipped me off and unloaded stuff from the car.

"I got some." Jason Berry, another friend we've made the past few years, said as he carried an arm load of fire works to the chairs we had set up to watch the show.

I grabbed the radio from the  car and ran to the chairs, turning on the radio blasting music. I grabbed my brother by his shirt as he sat down a case of beer and started to dance.

"Excited?" My brother laughed, dancing with me.

I smiled big and fell on the grass laughing, "I love the summer."

My brother sat next to me, Val sitting next to him leaning on his shoulder.

"You ready to blow some shit up?" Brian asked holding out his hand to me.

I looked at my brother and he nodded his head. I grabbed Brian's hand as he helped me up, then ran to the firework pile with him and Jimmy.

"Be careful!" My brother yelled as I took off.

Brian handed me a lighter and I grabbed a line of firecrackers. I slowly followed behind Johnny as he went toward the line of trees to take a piss. I light the fuse to the line of crackers and tossed it near Johnny's feet. When they started going off, Johnny took off running with his pants around his ankles and right into the lake. We all busted out laughing as he slowly came out of the lake, pulling his pants up.

"You're so easy." Jimmy laughed

Johnny flipped us off and grabbed a beer, then sat on the grass.

"Its starting get dark, lets set up?" I asked, looking at Jimmy and Brian.

They both nodded, then the three of us started caring the fireworks to the other side of the lake. Jason came along to help too.

We sat everything up and get everything ready, then we went over a plan on what would go off first, and which would be the finale. We decided on all three of us setting off three different tubes with a three shot shell. Then we would set off a 50 shot round, then the fire work label 'Big Boom' to be the very last one to go off.