"hearts of smoke" - Kirk Hammett

chapter 1, page 2.

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"Finally we are here!" Charles says, practically racing out of the van to stretch. "Its only been what..15 minutes?" Angel says, hoping out of the van. "15 MINUTES?!" Charles says, holding his heart and breathing heavy.

"Yes, 15 minutes" angel repeats, confused. "Oh em g" Charles says, fake fainting. "Is he still drunk?" Sydney whispers to me, "maybe" I say, shrugging my shoulders. Chris finally gets out of the van and realizes Charles on the ground.

"What did you guys do to him?!" Chris looks at us, Charles jolts up breathing like he a nightmare. "You had us sit in a care for 15 minutes??!!" Charles says standing up and acting hurt towards Chris, "yes, now mr.dramtic, we gotta get inside" Chris says, hitting Charles in the back of the head.

"OW!" Charles says walking to the door. "Dramtic much" Sydney says. We all get inside and walk to the room we'd meet the band in. Chris sees the Manger and he introduces himself to us "hiya! I'm John, im the manger of Metallica, the band you will be going on tour with!" He says, shaking everyone's hand.

"METALLICA?" Charles says, mouth wide open, "yes, did he not say Metallica" Sydney says, punching him in the back. "Sorry bout him, he's uh... special" I say, smiling. "Don't worry about it!" John says, shrugging it off.

We go into the room, and everyone introduces themselves, "james?!" I say, "val?!" James says back, we almost run to eachother and hug. "I havet seen you since sophomore year!" James says, letting go of the hug, everyone looks confused, like they "sup angel, sydney" James also says, nodding his head towards them.

James, Sydney, angel and I all went to the same highschool for 9th and 10th grade, but then me, angel and Sydney moved, then we met Chris and Charles.

"Sup" angel says back, "two girls In a band, that's so wrong" lars says, I shot a glare at him, "shut the fuck up" James says, lars just puts his hand up in the air and goes to talk to Charles, "here lemme introduce you guys to some people" James says, walking to two people from the band.

One of them was a tall, another was average, a couple inches taller then me. "Kirk, cliff this is val, angel and Sydney" James says "hi! I'm kirk!" The long back haired boy said, giving his hand out to shake.

I shake his hand, we make eye contact, oh he's handsome. "I'm val!" I say, smiling, he smiles back at me, oh he's perfect. "I'm guessing cliff I turn" "Yeah duh" he says, I smile and nodd at him, Sydney and angel get introduced and everyone just talks and gets to know eachother.
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"So val, how'd u meet james?" Kirk asks, looking at me, "I met him in highschool, and some of middle school we were friends" I say, "wait, did you go Jefferson middle school and downey highschool?" Kirk asks, straighting his back and perking up. "Yeah! I did" I say, smiling, "no way so did i!" Kirk says, smiling.

"How come we never talked to eachother? I mean we both were friends with James" he says, "I don't know really, never came across eachothers paths?" I say, shrugging. "Yeah definitely!" He says, happily.
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After awhile of talking Chris and John get everyone to quiet down and we talk about the tour. "So tomorrow is rehearsal for both band, just to practice what songs you'd like to play and stuff" John says, "you all have to be in the building by 7:30, we are practicing all day, till atleast 10, we need all practice we can get" Chris says.

"When does the tour start?" Cliff asked, "the day after tomorrow, so Tuesday" john says, "and we leave at 5am for it, so if you're not there by 5:10 for it, we are leaving without you" Chris says, looking at Charles.

"Anymore questions" Chris says, everybody looks around and nobody says anything. "Well it's only noon so anybody wanna go get lunch?" James says, and everybody says yes.

"Is the van big enough to fit everyone in it chris?" Syney asked concerned, "hopefully" Chris says, getting in the driver's seat. "If not I'm not going" Charles says, crossing his arms, "same here" lars says, crossing his arms "Great we have two dramatics" angel groans, "then we'd just leave you here" kirk says, shrugging.

"Ugh focking fine" lars says, Charles just nodds and sits in the to front seats behind the driver's side and passenger side, that's facing towards the back of the van.

Sydney and angel get into the side of the van that's facing lars and Charles, me and kirk get into the back facing up front and James and cliff get into the seats facing us.

"We are going to McDonald's!" John yells from the front, "YES!" lars and Charles shout from the front, "clam down children" Chris says, lars and Charles gives him the finger and he starts to drive to McDonald's.

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