Rebel With a Cause

Dive In

We rode for about twenty minutes and then we pulled in front of what looked like a hole in the wall. 

Zach turned the bike off and put the kick stand down. We both hopped off and I took my helmet off. When he took his off his hair looked wild. I had to laugh a bit. He looked at me and grinned.

"Do you forget we have the same haircut, I assume its the helmet hair your laughing at." He said and put the helmet on to his seat. I put mine on the bitch seat and just smiled and ran my hands through my hair. 

"Yeah but I have product in my hair, it helps. Don't be afraid of product." I said jokingly and he laughed. He lit a cigarette, took a deep breath in and then blew the smoke out. 

"Yeah I didn't much feel like it today. I was running since I woke up. I had a little bit of a break when you texted me." He said and then took another drag. My heart sank.

"Oh, geez I'm sorry I didn't mean to be a bother." I said and he blew out smoke and shook his head.

"Believe me, after the day I had I needed a good ride and a cold beer. Plus I'd love to take a look at your music. I mean I did offer." He watched the ash fall of of his cigarette and glanced up to me. I felt my face warm up. His eyes were just so piercing with a side of sexy. I almost couldn't handle them.

He finally scraped the cherry off of what was left of his cigarette and tossed it into a random trash can that was in front of the building. He walked up the door and I followed. He opened it and motioned for me to go in. I giggled and did a little curtsey. 

"Well thank you sir," I said and as I went in he pretended to kick me in the ass. We both laughed.

There was a few tables and some chairs up at the bar. The whole place was pretty dark, but my eyes adjusted after a little bit. Zach went to sit at the bar and the bartender nodded to him.

"You want your regular?" He asked Zach and he nodded.

The bartender grabbed a glass and filled it up with some draft beer. I looked at all the handles quickly deciding what I wanted. They were all unfamiliar to me. Zach leaned over to me.

"This is all beer brewed around LA. You'll eventually have to try them all." He said and leaned back onto his stool.

The bartender put his beer down in front of Zach and then looked over to me.

"What'll be pretty lady?" He asked. The bartender had long hair pulled into a low pony and a big beard. I panicked and just ordered the first thing I looked at. The bartender nodded and got the beer for me.

He put the beer down in front of me and I took a swig. I nodded in approval. I'm glad I picked a first one for panicking. 

Finally Zach slapped the bar in front of me and it made me jump. 

"So lets see these songs! Ya know that's what I find so interesting about you guys. I love how your write about horror. It reminds me of horror punk. I don't know if that's how you guys identify." 

I took another quite large drink of my beer. I was kind of nervous to show him my lyrics, especially when the girls haven't even seen them yet. He was seeing truly rough drafts. 

I pulled my laptop out and moved the mouse around to get it to wake up. 

"So I have a bunch of lyrics wrote up. Some are complete, some are just ideas that I threw together. Usually the we all go over them and talking about which ones we like and  start throwing around what they should sound like." I said and he grabbed the computer to put in front of him.

He looked through and clicked around. I tried to nonchalantly watch what he was doing and gage his facial features. He was pretty neutral as he read. I took a drink of my beer and looked over and saw him click into another folder. I nearly spit my beer out.