Too Much Heavy Metal (spin-off thread)

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This is a spin-off from https://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?t=480531&page=4
Play Me the Music!

Alexi and Mikey's meeting at the party was kind of lost in the shuffle of quick short posts in the above thread, so this is the story of what happens during the rest of the night between them. This first post is a copy-n-paste job of the first few posts between Alexi and Mikey, and as such is fairly long. Lurkers, don't feel too overwhelmed, it's really seven or eight posts all in one.

Mikey intro post:
Name: Mikey McKay
Age: 27
Physical Description: about 5'10", long curly brown hair, usually split down the middle and falling in front of his face, brown eyes, bit of freckles, dark red beard.
Personality: He's having a good time on stage, when he's playing, or when he's jamming, or basically any other time he has his guitar in his hand. When he doesn't have his instrument, it always seems like he's looking for something, or maybe he's a bit lost. Stands off to stage right, no mic, just his modded-out red Fender Strat and a dozen effects pedals, and he leads the charge, matching his licks to Dexter's rhymes and driving home some wicked improvised solos. While he likes playing the songs from their most recent record, he really wants to be able to mix it up a bit more and get out there more. He typically plays a show just a bit loaded on beers and a joint, but lately has started dabbling in smoking opium for back-stage jams.
Relation to the Band: Lead Guitar


Alexi intro post:
https://forum.literotica.com/showpost.php?p=20319291&postcount=29
Name: Alexi Rayder
Age: 22
Physical Description: A leggy 5'7", Burgundy hair, dark blue eyes, Naturally dark Italian bronze skin. Alexi is a devout lover of leather and metal and usually includes some combination thereof in her daily wardrobe.
Personality: Dark, moody, brooding, dangerous and quiet. She keeps to herself, letting music do her expressing for her. She'd just as soon put a head through a wall as just sit and let a guy fawn over her, secretly, she probably adores the attention.
Relation to the Band: Die-hard fan


And so begins the thread:


Mikey took a last hit on his pipe, blowing the smoke out, though it was hard to tell as his car was already totally hot-boxed. He'd went straight out to his car from the stage, not bothering with the drama backstage. He knew it had been a good show... his own face had been properly melted, and he was the one dishin the licks. He had grabbed this hella foxy groupie on the way out, and she took a big hit on the ganja and announced that it was "kicked".

"C'mon," Mikey said, "let's get back inside, they're gonna start wondering... still I'm wondering why..." he trailed off, stumbling out of the car. He felt like he was missing something. He looked across the roof of the car at his smoking buddy. "Did I leave my keys in there?" he asked. "No," he said, answering his own question, as he found his keys in his pocket.

He and the girl stumbled back inside. "So... tell me," he said, "what was your name again?"



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Originally Posted by CrimsonKitten
Aahh the afterparties. In truth, the simpering, vapid, shiftless masses that followed these guys made Alexi sick like Ipecac and bad flu, but... she managed to deal. She was in no fresh hurry to throw herself in the middle of the shrieking women who by now had reapplied makeup to splochy, half-drunken faces and attepted to rearrange clothing previously lost in fits of praying that one of the guys would oogle their chests and fall madly in love. She sniffed disdainfully at that thought. Yes, that's all it takes to incite five of the most creative musical minds of their time. A pair of nipples.

Alexi quietly ordered a raspberry vodka shot and wrinkled her nose as she glanced over her right shoulder. 'The hell is that smell?? It appeared one of the aforementioned shirtless lunatics was losing beer at an accelerated rate not to far from her... through her mouth. Alexi grimaced and moved a few feet away, swirling the shot in her fingers before glancing around at the rest of the party. What... a... night.


Mikey made his way through the bar in a haze; with all the shit in his system, he was surprised he really wanted another beer. Truthfully, though, all he really wanted was to get away from all these assholes and play his guitar, let his fingers noodle on to the next riff, the next line, the next big explosion...

He finally got to the bar, practically collapsing on it, leaning heavily against it. He slapped a fiver on the counter and asked politely for a pale ale. The beer came back a few moments later, and then a few moments after that the smell hit him.

Mikey turned and saw the girl losing her dinner. Well, dinner wasn't quite right, it looked like it was all liquid, and it smelled like it was all liquor. Suddenly, a foxy young lady bumped into him, trying to get herself away from the stink of the alcoholic vomit.

"Sorry," he said. "I'm in your way." He stepped back to let her pass, smiling at her, his mind still on scales and chords and progressions and face-melting improvisations...




"Sorry, I'm in your way."

She'd scarcely realised that in her haste to put as much distance between her and the vom-bot as possible, she'd very nearly run over.. Mikey McKay. It took less than a second to recognise him with a cant of her head and a lift of a brow. He had obviously been having his own little party for a while now. Alexi thought it a small wonder that he was still standing of his own volition.

"No one's ever in my way honey." Lifting the stringent vodka with hints of raspberry to her left cheek, she winked. In one smooth motion rolled the glass over her lips. Tossing back her head, she downed the liquid as the glass continued to roll it's way to her right cheek. Alexi ran her tongue across patent red lips to gather all the remaining traces of her drink as the shot glass fell against her right hand that had been patiently waiting at her hip.

"By the way, nice show tonight Mikey."



"Thanks," Mikey said. "But you just had the best lick of the night." That was quite a move! Mikey didn't think he could do that sober, much less as shitty as he was right now. He checked her out as she did so, and she definitely had a killer body. Groupies tended to have nice tits. Mikey knew you'd have to watch out for the ones that had complete packages, like this one. There was always more than met the eye.

"You know my name but I'm afraid I don't know yours," he said. "What am I going to be shouting later?"




She had to give him credit, even wasted he was endearing. What he didn't seem to capture, was that she wasn't exactly going to hop on the bar, spread her legs and lift her skirt for him. Her dream was the music, sure, the guys playing it were drool-worthy, but respect for them went deeper in Alexi than in 90% of the female population there that night.

Placing a net-gloved hand on her hip she leaned against the bar and sized him up obviously. Eyes the color of the deep ocean after a storm appraised each detail as though she were an artist, sketching a likeness.

"Shouting hm? Am I going to take your spot as lead guitar or something? Plan on being my fan-boi, huh?"




"I just need to know what to name the song I write as soon as you leave me. The only shouting I ever do is over the screech of my guitar. It's probably good they don't let me have a mic," he said. "Can I buy you another shot? How many more of them tricks you got up your sleeve?"



She lifted a brow giving him yet another once-over. When she decided he was about as sincere as Mikey McKay was want to get, she shrugged lightly and tapped a black-tipped red laquered nail against the bar, lifting one finger at the bartender to order a repeat shot. Alexi leaned in slightly with a smirk.

"This one requires that you order one for yourself, so.. take your pleasure." She grinned as he mulled it over in his mind and seemed to be having a difficult decision. Tapping the bar again she lifted two fingers instead taking the heat off of him... for a moment.

Waiting for their shots to arrive, Alexi slid onto the bar on her stomach and plucked a stemmed cherry from the garnish tray. All the while, her maneuver allowed the briefest glimpse of a black lace tanga beneath her leather skirt. Feet firmly on the ground once more, she looked up in time for the clear glasses to be placed before her and dropped the little red treat in the one closest to her. Shots in hand, she turned to Mikey and tapped the glass that held the cherry.

"You hold this one in your mouth. When it's gone," She tapped the glass containing only the vodka. "You put this one in its place and hold it there. Got it? Think you can handle that?"

OOC: I still need to post a reply to Kitten's last post just above, and will do so ASAP
 
"I'll have you know, first off, that these two little shots of vodka could quite possibly have me on the floor, and second, I'm terrible at drinking acrobatics."

He then looked at the two little glasses placed before him. He took the shot with the cherry, catching the little red marachino between his teeth as the vodka tumbled burning down his throat. He grabbed the next shot, upending it over his mouth and pouring it over the cherry, gulped it down, and the looked at her, cherry still between his teeth, and then he smiled and crushed the cherry, popping it, squirting a little cherry/vodka juice on the bar and onto the swell of Alexi's breast.

"Sorry. Is that what you meant?" he asked, grabbing hold of the bar to keep the room from spinning. He closed his eyes, shook his head. "Woo, I think I need a cigarette," he said, fumbling about his pockets for his pack. The vodka still burned in his throat, and he wondered for the millionth time how people drink the stuff.
 
Canting her head, her eyes traveled from his feet to his face in a slow glance. She gently wiped away the cherry-raspberry vodka with her thumb and licked it clean. With a smirk, she glanced to the bar tender and motioned her over, leaning in to whisper her order. Turning back to Mikey, she snuck another cherry from the tray and held it between a shiny thumbnail and fingernail.

"Now that we know you can still stand after that, it's my turn." Alexi pursed her lips as she thought for a moment. "Too tall, on your knees." Helping him to his knees, she moved to stand just in front of him, sizing him up once more. "Perfect. Head back, mouth open and hold still."

Once he assumed the position at her instruction, she took the small shot glass with a now amber colored liquid and set it between his lips carefully. Popping the cherry into her mouth, she leaned over and plucked the glass from his mouth using only her teeth. Tilting her head back to swallow the liquid. She set the glass on the bar and leaned back over him, lips barely touching and passed the now amaretto-flavored cherry from her mouth to his. With a sly grin, she whispered into his mouth, the liquor still flavoring her breath. "Name's Alexi."
 
He looked up at her, in awe at her display. He took a bite on the cherry, making sure to keep the resultant explosion in his mouth this time, and swallowed it down with a gulp.

"Nice to meet you, Alexi," he said, as he reached for the bar and slowly pulled himself up. The room had been spinning earlier, but now his heart was really racing. He shook his head, trying to calm himself down. He had the vague impression that he might be in way over his head, but that thought was pushed back into the haze.

"Shit, how am I shupposed to play if I'm thish drunk?" he asked, looking at her, his eyes glassy. "No, it'shokay, I jush needs a little warmin-up time..." he tried to step away from the bar, but grabbed onto it again when the room spun out of control. Everything in his system was demanding a seat and a spliff to help him calm down.

He turned back to Alexi. It would figure that he would be trashed when he met a girl like this. And she didn't seem at all fazed by the liquor...
 
Alexi drug her tongue slowly across her lower lip, cleaning the sweet liquor's remnants from it watching him with a bemused expression. Just how much partying had he done beforehand? A soft smile made it's way across her patent red pout. Most men were just a nuisance when they were this pitiful, Mikey, was adorable. She couldn't very well leave him like this.

After watching him struggle to stand for a few pained moments, she moved next to him, sliding beneath his right arm and wrapping her left tightly around his waist to lend him some balance.

"We'd better get you sitting down before you fall flat on your handsome face. Where ya want me to put ya?"
 
"How 'bout an open barstool?" he said, looking around for one, but coming up empty. The bar area was packed full of people anyway. He spied an empty sofa across the way, and that seemed as good a place as any. Oh, but then some college students fell on it and started making out. He looked around again. Where the hell was he? When had they started having after-show parties in clubs instead of fans' houses? He pondered the frat-party showdays for a moment before he spied another open sofa, and gently grabbed Alexi's arm and pointed. "Hurry," he said, and found his feet with some help from this girl who was being entirely too sweet to him.

"Thank you," he said, as he collapsed on the sofa. It was more comfortable and cushy than it looked, and he was happy to be sitting. He looked up at the ceiling for a moment before looking up at Alexi. "So... how long have you been a fan? I kinda feel like I've seen you in the front row before."
 
"So... how long have you been a fan? I kinda feel like I've seen you in the front row before."

Alexi slid beside him reclining in a very feline fashion. She fought the urge to slide a hand through his hair to clear it from his face and simply smirked at the situation.

"I kinda happen to believe I was born a fan, just had to wait around for you guys to put out some music first. I've been to..." Tilting her head back, she took in a breath and paused as she tallied some number in her head. When she finally looked at him again she exhaled softly, "All but four of your shows, actually. I think I have a fairly good excuse for those, but not entirely sure. Let's just pretend I do."

A woman far more gone in her cups than Mikey stumbled over to sit behind Alexi. With a peevish glance behind her, Alexi moved closer, the leg she had tucked beneath her now resting against his thigh. As her hair brushed his shoulder an ambrosial wave of jasmine and honeysuckle swept over him. Her perfume, was the only guess.

"Anyway, I didn't think you necessarily noticed anything when you were onstage. You seem to well occupy your own space, if you know what I mean."
 
"Anyway, I didn't think you necessarily noticed anything when you were onstage. You seem to well occupy your own space, if you know what I mean."

He breathed in the scent of her perfume, just strong enough for him to notice over the smoke and liquor, but not too powerful, and he liked what his nose found. It sent a jolt through him to feel her leg against his, however innocent and meaningless such a touch might be. He comprehended her words through his hazy mind, and spoke:

"Well, the lights are bright and I do look at my fretboard too much, but it hasn't quite gotten to the point yet where every show is the same hazy trip. You've been to most of 'em, huh? Have we been mixing it up enough for you? You're not getting sick of the same ole songs yet, are you?"
 
"Have we been mixing it up enough for you? You're not getting sick of the same ole songs yet, are you?"

One thing she had loved about these guys, since their conception, was their devotion to those devoted to them. He was genuine. Completely three-sheets, but sincere nonetheless. Alexi laced her fingers through her hair, resting her elbow on the back of the couch and relaxing her posture.

"Why do you think I'm always at your shows? Certainly not because you're boring the shit out of me. I don't strike you as a groupie just there in the hopes of a one-nighter do I?"
 
CrimsonKitten said:
"Have we been mixing it up enough for you? You're not getting sick of the same ole songs yet, are you?"

One thing she had loved about these guys, since their conception, was their devotion to those devoted to them. He was genuine. Completely three-sheets, but sincere nonetheless. Alexi laced her fingers through her hair, resting her elbow on the back of the couch and relaxing her posture.

"Why do you think I'm always at your shows? Certainly not because you're boring the shit out of me. I don't strike you as a groupie just there in the hopes of a one-nighter do I?"

Mikey smiled. "I wouldn't think to call you a groupie at all. Groupies aren't fans, they're toys. But maybe I just can't stand the vapid type." He watched her getting comfortable, and she seemed totally in control of herself and her space. Mikey's space, however, was tilting just a bit to the side. He patted down his pockets again, and said: "dammit, I left my smokes with my axe." He usually burned one or two cigs during the course of the show, though he only ever took a few drags on them; mostly they just burned away, smoking against the headstock, started and tucked between the strings and forgotten in the next solo, even though it's right there, and all gone by the time he was done. "You're too smart to smoke, aren't you?" he asked her.
 
"You're too smart to smoke, aren't you?"

A wicked grin slid over her lips like ruby silk, dark and mysterious. Alexi reached beneath the belted waist of her leather skirt to withdraw a slender black case with one of the band's first "concept logos" hand painted in the middle of the cover. With a deft flick of her wrist, she held the case open to him.

"Camel. Turkish Gold. 100's obviously. Smart people do stupid shit when they drink." Amid the nearly full row of white cyllinders, two shorter, black sticks with gold foil filters and no other obvious markings seemed to grab his attention.
 
He reached over, and with amazing dexterity for being drunk, slid a single cig from the case. He produced a lighter from his pocket and lit the cigarette, a single puff to get it burning bright, and he let that cloud float up into the air as he took a hit deep into his lungs. His eyes lingered for a moment, noticing the pair of fancy black cigarettes in her case (and was he impressed with the case! they had only made a handful of those and they were gone after the first show).

He looked up, and into her eyes, blowing out the smoke up above them in a thin stream, and said: "what other stupid shit do you do when you're drunk?"
 
Emmulating his movement, she rested her own cigarette between her lips as she clicked the case closed and slipped it back into her skirt. Snatching his cigarette to light her own, the smirk remained as Alexi took a deep drag.

"Pick up drunk, sexy lead-guitarists." She exhaled slowly, more letting a thin tendril of bluish smoke drift from her lips in a lazy curl. Turning her head slightly, the rest was quickly expelled away from his face. "Oh, and drink even more than I already have."
 
"Well, I'm sure you've heard this before, but those are both things you'll regret in the morning." He smirked back at her, his hand touching hers as he took back his cigarette. A bargirl walked by, and Mikey called out for her. "Miss! Get this woman whatever she wants. And a pint of Schlafly's for me. Hefe." He handed the bargirl a twenty, took a drag on his smoke, and she looked to Alexi for her order.
 
Lifting a brow, Alexi glanced to Mikey then to the girl awaiting her order.

"White Russian with a cherry, please." Taking a slow drag, her lips parted as she smiled. "Thanks for the drink. Not that it's the wisest decision, but thanks just the same."

Alexi exhaled a torrent of smoke, ruffling her hair as she withdrew her hand and let her arm hang over the back of the couch. She let her gaze trail down his body, then met his eyes with her own.

"So, what's it like to be Mikey McKay?"
 
"What's it like to be Mikey McKay?" she asked him. Nobody had ever asked him that before.

"Who are you, some undercover from the Rolling Stone?" He took a drag and winked at her, and continued, "I wake up in the morning, or afternoon, or whatever, and I eat and then who-ever is there is playing and I play with them and, well, I don't know. I'm living the dream. I'm the happiest guy on earth. But only when I'm playing." He puffed on his cigarette. "Since I picked up that instrument, and really started to get what music was about, it's been the only thing that keeps me sane. How's that for what it's like to be Mikey McKay?" He desperately wanted his guitar, but it was not to be. He took another look at Alexi... her curves were way more dangerous than the ones on his guitar.

The waitress returned with their drinks and Mikey took a sip on his beer, gulped it down, puffed another drag.
 
She took a healthy sip of the creamy drink, sliding a thumb over the lip of her glass to remove the light print of lipstick left behind. A canned answer, though honest as he dared be. At least he gave it a second thought before the performance though. Either he'd told himself that long enough for it to be his gospel, or he was 'comfortable' enough hiding behind his instrument that he never gave serious consideration to anything else.

"Fair enough. Feel free to tell me to fuck off if I get too personal. I'm not normally so extroverted." Alexi glanced at her smoke before bringing it to her lips and inhaling, her eyes never leaving his.
 
He kept her gaze. He knew, even as he uttered those words, that she knew that he was full of shit. What was he supposed to say? That he was a lonely addict who ruined all his lovers' lives? That stuff was already written into the music. They sang it every night. She sure as shit knew every word, if she was the fan she said she was.

He leaned in towards her and said: "I'm sorry. Sometimes it's hard to turn off the asshole reflex. Mikey McKay is just as much an asshole as every other frat guy at this party. He just gets to hide behind his guitar, which is fine by him, because wailing is almost as good as sex. So what about you, Miss Biggest Fan? I'm feeling disconnected from the crowd; what's it like to be a Guardians fan these days?"
 
A slight shrug was more to appologise for suddenly breaking through his carefully built walls than anything else. She knew what it was like to feel secure in insecurity, and she surely didn't begrudge anyone that.

"I'm just like every other fan. You guys express what we feel in your music. Have you ever turned off all the lights and just sat listening to what you guys put out? I get chills. The deep soul kind. The ones that shake your psyche. That's how I knew you guys were right for me, because the fucking earth moved when I heard you play."

Flicking away the ash, Alexi took a deep drag from her cigarette. The deep blue storm of her eyes almost looking right through him.
 
His eyes twinkled as he looked back at her. He took a long drink of his beer, another drag on his smoke. He hadn't just sat and listened in a long time. "Listen," he said, his mood brightening a bit, "Our new record is coming out in a month. I'm not supposed to do this, so you can't tell anyone, but if there's anyone who deserves to hear it first, I think it's you. It's with my tourbus guitar. Do you want to come and chill out and listen to it with me?"
 
She started to laugh and brought her drink to her lips, but quickly realised he was more than likely telling the truth. Her smile melted away as she lifted a brow.

"You're serious." Stunned, Alexi took a slow sip and set her half-finished drink aside. "Take me there."
 
"C'mon," he said, and mashed out his cigarette in the ashtray. His hand found hers, and he grabbed hold of her, and with newfound sobriety, managed to stand and find the general direction of the back door. "That way," he said, pointing and pulling her close as they made their way through the crowd of people, the loud music, the smoke and the booze, the dumb girls and the drunk dudes.

They finally got to the door and he opened it for her. It led out to the parking lot. There was the tourbus, a nice rental for a ten-city tour they were about to embark on. It was locked. Mikey fumbled about for his key, opened the door, and led her to the back of the bus. He made sure to lock the door behind them (there had been an incident involving a drunken jealous groupie and the drummer and another drunken jealous groupie, and now the tourbus door was always locked) There were several big cushy seats; most occupied by some musical instrument or amp, or sleeping bags, or booze, but still plenty of seats available.

They came to the back of the bus. Mikey sat down on the bench seat on one side of the bus. There was a table, and another bench seat facing them. He pulled a CD out of the pocket of a guitar case and popped it in the little boombox on the table.
 
Slipping through the haze of the party around them, Alexi barely had time to put her own cigarette out before he was tugging her towards the door. She stayed close, ignoring the off comments and wilting glares thrown at them both. One more piece of meat off the market, in both of their respects. She had no pity for those they were leaving behind.

As they stepped onto the bus, she took a deep breath. It may have been just a bus to the band, but Alexi realised it for what it really was. A creative haven. She stayed close to him, even in the confined space and seated herself close to him on the bench. Perhaps it was the bond of music. She didn't really care at the moment. A smile found her once again and she made herself comfortable, turning towards him.

"So... I'm going to hear brilliance first-hand, before anyone else?"
 
"Well, besides the rest of the band, and the producer, and the label executive, yeah," he said, smiling. "But don't call it brilliant before you've heard it, please."

With that he pressed play.

1, 2, 3, 4 (drumsticks on the beats)
a pounding bassline, the same note for a measure, then higher a step and a half, repeat before the rhythm guitar adds his chunky heavy-distortion powerchords to the line, and then the drums kick out and Mikey's guitar wails to lead into the vocals:
Dexter sings: "Well Johnny said:" suddenly Mikey's voice rings out: "let's roll us another smoke
And we'll be riding high, easy to forget we're broke..."
Dexter: "I can't tell, which way's north or south
east to west, chasin a long gone sun"

Dexter: "Johnny said:" Mikey: "keep your eyes on the road!
"On tween the lines get to the next show."

bass breakdown, powerchords on the first and last beats for the chorus:
"tanks are full
minds are loaded
time stands still...

a crash ahead
but we can't tell, till
it's too late

round the bend
much too fast
we've hit the end..." *guitar starts wailing* "of the road"



Mikey closed his eyes, leaned his head back, tapped his foot lightly to the beat as the song went on into the next verses and chorus, and then had a wicked cruisin jam that culminated in a cacophony of metal before running the chorus again and closing it out.
 
She sat motionless, a marble statue save the tense rise and fall of her chest with each labored breath. Her eyes were closed, crimson lips barely parted with a soft flush creeping across her cheeks. Alexi remained still long after the song had died. It was almost as if she were drinking in the silence.
 
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