Youth Gone Wild Work It Out

Leaving Pain Behind

"Vivian, please stop hurting yourself," I reply, almost crying. "Promise me you'll leave Sebastian and come back to me and the guys," Viv begs, holding my hand. "Okay, I'll come back," I tell him, squeezing his hand. A few hours later, I'm released from the hospital and Viv drives me to Sebastian's house. "Seb, listen. You know I love you, but you hurt me. I'm sorry, but I have to end our relationship." I tell him.

"I..." he stops in his tracks. "Okay, I understand." I smile and hug him, then he helps me get my things. Once we've gotten everything, we get in the car and drive to my place, which is a few houses down from Vivian's. "Need help unpacking, Ori?" Sebastian asks once we've unloaded all my stuff into the house. "Sure, if you wanna help," I reply.

As we unpack, Viv looks over at me putting up the wall hangers for all my guitars. "I know you're staring at me, Vivian." I laugh. He walks over and wraps his arms around me. "I love you, Ori. Wanna be my girlfriend?" I turn my head to look into his gray-blue eyes. "Yes, Vivian, I'll be your girlfriend and I know you won't hurt me the way Sebastian did. I love you." I smile as he softly kisses my lips.

"Viv, you know how I was writing that song about leaving pain behind?" I ask, grabbing my favorite acoustic guitar and starting to tune it. "Yeah. Can I hear it?" Viv replies, sitting next to me. "Sure," I smile. I start to play and Sebastian storms in and grabs my guitar. "That's it! You can't play this anymore!" Sebastian hollers as he throws my guitar to the ground, breaking it.

Vivian pulls him aside angry. "Why did you do that?" Sebastian looks over at me guiltily. "Ori?" he asks. I look up with teary eyes. "I'm sorry I broke your guitar. Come on, I'll take you to get a new one," he says as we get in the car and drive to the guitar store. We go inside and I see one of my favorite bands, Winger. "Oh my god. I... I... I..." Sebastian taps my shoulder. "I asked them to come here. Go say hi." he smiles.

I walk over nervously and wave. "Hi." Kip Winger, the bassist and lead singer, turns around. "Hi, what's your name?" I glance back at Sebastian and he nods. "Ori. I'm a huge Winger fan." I smile. "What's your favorite song?" drummer Rod Morgenstein asks. "If I had to pick one song, I'd have to go with Madalaine or Seventeen."

Kip, Rod, and the two guitarists, John Roth and Reb Beach, start to play Madalaine and I videotape the performance on my phone. Afterwards, Kip comes over to me. "I heard you know how to play bass." I smile nervously. "Yeah, I do." Kip hands me his bass. "Wanna play with us?" he asks and I glance at Sebastian and he gives me a thumbs up. "Sure." I grin as I put the bass on. "Wanna play Easy Come Easy Go?" Rod asks from behind his kit and I smile. "Yeah." We start playing and I look around at the rest of Winger. Then I look at Kip and he winks at me.

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