[Telling Lawrence Dimick that women lie is like telling him that the sky is blue, water is wet and Freddy is super cool. He knows. But there's something about the allure of the rock star and if you got it in front of you, well...]
He's your thing.
[He crosses his arms, a little smirk of satisfaction and a hint of something else is on his face.]
[Freddy leans, Larry leans. He almost puts up his hand to guard the kid's mouth for him. Fuck there is no on else here at all. Pulling back he blinks those brown eyes.]
You like them like that?
[This was more than he what he was expecting in case Freddy needs to know that. The old man leans now, talking at not quite a whisper.]
....... [Really, Larry? Really? Green eyes narrow. He leans back to fold his arms across his chest, giving a snort from his roman nose. Note the way Freddy sits with his knees spread a little wider.]
Is that cause you can't get your ass into assless chaps or cause Diamond Dave got my body ready before you ever did.
[He's got his flappy hands ready and wheeling for a story, using the rolling chair to his advantage.]
I was in the pit with a couple friends and you know with all that people nobody really sees what's going on. It was hot and fuckin' steaming in there, all these bodies up against each other, I'm just soaking it in watchin' this guy jump all over stage wearin' fuckin' nothing, feeling hands and who knows what next to me. One of the guys we know, Petey the Prick, he starts passing around a joint, rolled up with some shit I don't even know. The point is when I smoked that thing I saw God...Diamond Dave took a jump off the stage and was surfing right above me. I had his leather-wrapped dick right here.
Like they'd fucking notice. Who wasn't hard? I mean there were girls in there too taking their tops off or whatever. [The kid may or may not be playing up his disinterest in those ladies compared to his interest in Diamond Dave.] I kinda don't remember the rest of the show. I woke up in some trailer, face down on the floor with a really sore ass.
[Freddy wets his lips, green eyes narrowed in blurring the line between fact and fiction. There's a pause here for Larry to use his imagination.]
...Turns out I slipped in the pit, hit my head on one of the barricades, got my ass stomped on by some shithead in steel toed Docs. I mean, that's what they told me anyway. [He shrugs.]
Real clever. [He nods, giving props to Larry whether or not he meant for that to be a reference. At this point though the kid shrugs.]
Someone's cousin, just a place to crash, the other guys were outside shootin' the shit, I could hear'em. The point is when I woke up, that first moment, I thought holy shit did I just get fucked by this guy? Instead of feelin' worried, it got me all wound up. Wishful thinking, you know. That's why I started jerking off to Van Halen, cause it reminds me of what could've been my rock and roll fantasy.
[The chair creaks a little as Larry stands. He musses up that floppy head of hair and then combs it back.]
Is that how you would have wanted it to go? Fucked until you passed out. That would have been another big secret that your parents would never ever know about.
[Besides the concert. We're talking about back then, not fraternizing in every sense of the word with a criminal.]
[Oh, Freddy loves that, the feeling of having his hair messed with then combed back by those thick fingers. His hand on his head, he fucking loves it.]
Would it make me a pussy if I wanted to get fucked like that and wake up next to the guy?
[Something about the way Larry touches him this way makes Freddy feel younger than he really is, more like a boy than a man.]
No. [He closes a green eye for the ruffling because that shit's getting him in the eyes. Maybe it's time for a haircut.] I mean they're nothing next to Queen or Rush for me.
[That must leave Diamond Dave pleasurable only to the body, not the mind or soul.] Most Van Halen fans are douchebags anyway.
[Both hands together they can hold his hair away from his face. Hey, it is pretty fucking long. Experimentally, Larry fixes it all together and he can hold in something of a ponytail.]
Except, as far as I know, you don't whip it out for Queen. Or do you?
[Oh, he catches on. Van Halen is a one night stand or a wild party. A man doesn't go to them all the time. Hair is pulled gently so that they can make eye contact.]
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