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hours, the band
members chatted with their fans, signed copies of their CDs, posters, T-shirts,
arms, and in a few cases, chests and accepted kisses from the female fans.
    At one point Colin glanced down at the end of the
table and saw Liam being monopolized by a very attractive young woman.  He
noted that she was tallish, probably around Alethea’s height, and like Liam,
she had light hair, fair skin and blue eyes.  She bent down and whispered
something to Liam whose face flushed noticeably.  Colin snickered, kicked Jake
and pointed to his brother.  “Wonder what she said to him?”
    “I don’t know, but I wish she’d say it to me!”
    Colin grinned at the effect his baby brother was
having on the female fans.
    Jazz had come along too and he appeared thrilled when
some of the kids recognized him and asked him for his autograph.
    When the last fan had departed, Colin sank back in his
chair and breathed a sigh of relief.  He glanced over at the store manager and
his employees, all who were in various states of collapse.
    “How many kids do you think we had come through
here?”  Steve asked the manager.
    He shook his head wearily.  “I don’t know.  I lost
count after three hundred and forty something!”
    Colin whistled.  “I’d say we earned our pay today!”
    While Steve tied up some loose ends, the band thanked
the staff for having them and left the store.  Steve hurried after them, making
sure nobody strayed.  On their way to the Omni Coliseum, Colin nudged Liam and
whispered, “So, what did she say?”
    “What did who say?”  Liam said, pretending he had no
idea what Colin was talking about, but his flushing face gave him away.
    Colin shrugged, amused.  “Okay, so you don’t kiss and
tell.”
    “Her name’s Alison,” Liam said softly.
    “Pretty name for a very pretty lady,” Colin replied.
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

Chapter 5
     
    Unforgiven arrived at the coliseum for their sound
check.  Colin walked in, looked around and whistled.  A shiver ran up his spine
when he remembered the show had sold out and thought about how many fans would
be seeing them tonight.
    Peter and Amanda were backstage already with Russ
Taylor, Unforgiven’s tour manager.
    “Mom, dad, how was your flight?”  Colin greeted them
with a hug and a kiss.
    “We hit a patch of turbulence coming out of Denver,
but other than that it was fine.”  Peter said.
    “How was the in-store?”  Amanda asked.  “How did Liam
do?”
    Colin grinned.  “It was really amazing!  We must’ve
had close to five hundred kids and Liam was a major hit with the female fans.”
    “Well, I noticed there were some guys openly lusting
after you, Colin,” Mace remarked.
    “Hey!  Can I help it if I’m gorgeous?”  Colin joked. 
“Even Jazz got asked for his autograph.”  He glanced at his watch then said, “I
guess we’d better get our sound check done so Armageddon has enough time to do
one, too.”  He walked out on stage and took a turn around it in order to
familiarize himself with its layout.
    “What are we going to do?”  Jake asked, picking up his
bass.
    Colin took his guitar from his roadie, Clem, and put
the strap over his shoulder.  “How about Because The Night © ?”
    “Fine by me,” Mace said as he settled himself behind
his drum kit and picked up his sticks.
    Liam ran his hand across his keyboards,
experimentally, causing an unearthly shriek that echoed through the coliseum. 
He grimaced.  “Sorry!”
    Colin fitted his headset.  He preferred to use a
headset rather than a microphone because it allowed him to move freely about
the stage.  Because The Night © , a song written by Bruce Springsteen and
Patti Smith, was one of Colin’s all-time favorite songs.  Springsteen and Smith
had both recorded it and in recent years, Keel.  Colin harbored a secret wish
that Unforgiven could record it someday, too.
    Unforgiven ran through the song, stopping