Day Fifty-three - Je ne t'aime plus

I can't remember now where I might have seen it first, but it was likely either somewhere inside a music magazine or maybe in one of the very few specialized stores we still had back then, but as as soon as I saw that there was a metal festival shceduled for May 1995, featuring a couple of my favourite bands at the time - Tiamat and Samael - as well as a band that would suprise the hell out of me in their live performance - the finnish band Sentenced, I knew I had to attend it. As soon as I could, I bought the ticket for the gig. Sometime before the actual gig, though, and late one night as I was exiting the subway, some random dude pushed me down to the ground from behind, and stole my wallet - among what was lost to me was the ticket which I was keeping safe in my wallet, or so I thought. Thankfully though, getting a new one wasn't that difficult a task - though well attended, I don't think it was ever in any risk of selling out. So when the day finally came, I hooked up both with 'James', who I'd went to ninth grade with, and Paulo, who I met in the eighth grade. They got along well enough, I guess, and before the gig started we were already loaded up on booze - that was just part of the ritual. I knew that I was going to meet Valter at the gig as well - he'd told me as much. Before I met up with him, though, I ran into this kid who was a friend of his - though I got along well with him, we were never truly friends - and all the time I knew this kid - we'll call him JC - he was datinga a girl called Lucia, who was pretty but not beautiful, a little bit of a resting bitch face, but she was still very attractive to me. But that day JC had a couple of different girls - yes, plural - wrapepd around his arms. I felt that something has been off between them for a while - a while before the concert we attended a gig JC's band at the time were throwing, maybe to promote their demo tape or something like that, and after the gig he and Lucia got into a spat, but I thought that things would be mended between them. Obviously, they did not, and after I ran across JC, I met up with Valter and he was accompanied by two girls - Lucia, and one other I'd never met before. She was introduced to me, and her name is Dora. I have to say, for reasons that will be patently obvious soon, I didn't really pay that much attention to her. Her presence there just sort of registered in mind, because while on the one hand I was very heavily invested in getting the most out of that gig, on the other hand I now had Lucia making the moves on me - something that had had only happened to me once, and very recently at that, up to that day.