Page 30 of Don't Bang a Bandmate

I join Knox and Jonah center stage as Addison stands with Katrina by her keyboard.

“Then, piss off, Shock,” Knox says, tossing diplomacy out the window. “You’re not welcome here.”

“I’ll leave as soon as I’ve said my piece,” Logan says.

“We don’t care what you have to sayat all,”Jonah says.

“I think you will.”

Goldie and Tesla giggle behind him.

Knox looks around and shouts, “Doesn’t this place have security?”

“It does!” Logan shouts back. “Headed by a wonderful man named Glenn. We took him out for a drink following our show here two days ago. A very nice man. Beautiful wife named Helen. Two kids!”

Jonah bumps his blue beanie an inch up his forehead. “What do you want?” he asks.

I crack my knuckles, ready for anything.

I missed the chance to pop this bitch in the jaw back in Seattle. I won’t miss it again.

“All right.” Logan nods. “I’ll get right to it, then.” He rolls his leather-clad shoulders back and looks at all of us, one-by-one.

“We need your help,” he says.

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My blood boils already.

Help?

Did this prick really waltz into our rehearsal and ask forour help?

Knox steps toward the front of the stage. “Why the fuck would you think we’d help you?” he asks.

Good. Nice to know we’re on the same page here.

Logan nods once. “I understand that we?—”

“No,” Knox says over him, his voice echoing. “You clearly don’t understand a damn thing, or else you’d know that you have no right to be here.”

Jonah and I step forward, flanking Knox on either side.

Logan sighs, but he does so with a calm smile. “Knox?—”

“You filmed my girlfriend,” Knox says. “You blew up a tire on our bus, nearly killing all of us.”

“That wasn’t me.”

“You bugged us.”

Logan doesn’t blink. “I didn’t do that, either.”

“But you knew about it,” Jonah says.

“Yes,” Logan answers.

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