Hell to pay

Kyle hadn't expected everything to be set up in Derrick's livingroom. It looked like Christmas. There was actually a Christmas tree up in the room and an array of Christmas nostalgia on the shelves and such.

What had Kyle and Nick walked into?

"We just never take it down," Derrick shrugged as if they should accept the fact they loved Christmas.

Kyle just nodded. Derrick's brother was there too. He looked as if he'd just woke up. Kyle wasn't sure what the point was of him being here if his brother was here. He was a drummer.

"This is Dan," Derrick gave Kyle a pair to drumsticks. "Lets see what you got."

"Hey, kiddies." His brother looked at them as if there was no way in hell they'd ever produce anything worth listening too.

"Where's Amanda?" Kyle had to ask. He at least wanted a glimpse of her, yet it tore him up inside that he'd introduce her to Nick, and it would practically be love at first sight. He could sense these things.

"Mandy!" Derrick bellowed through the little house.

"What?" She looked agitated as she came up from the basement with a load of laundry.

"Kyle's here."

"And?" She looked tired and a little pressed for time, or pissed at the world.

"And this is Nick," Kyle smiled as if he was bringing her a prize from school.

"OK." She shrugged and shuffled through the livingroom just in her pink camouflage pajama pants and pink thermal top.

This was definitely going to be dull.

"Why don't you go," Kyle said to Nick. "I hate to drag you into staying." Kyle could see it was going to be boring.

"I have nothing else to do." Nick sighed sitting down on the sofa.

"All right," Derrick was swaying already as if he could feel exactly how it would be on stage. "Lets get started." He wanted to see what Kyle could do with an old Led Zeppelin number.