Page 2 of Finding Storm

And he never knew me.

My mom kept me a secret from them all.

But when she was diagnosed with incurable cancer when I was thirteen, she reached out to Jake.

My mom used to be a TMS groupie. She’d slept with both Jake and Jonny around the time she got pregnant with me.

Back then, Jake’s and Jonny’s lifestyles were very similar to how I live mine now. Women, drugs, drinking, constant partying, and nonstop traveling.

Mom didn’t want to raise a baby around that.

It took me a long time to understand why she’d kept me away. Living the life I do now, I get it.

So, she moved away and kept me secret. Until she was dying.

There was a DNA test, but it was set on that I was Jonny’s kid.

I look exactly like him.

So, it was no surprise when the results came back that I was a Creed.

Jake moved me and Mom to LA. When Mom passed, I moved in with Jake and his wife, Tru, and their kids JJ, Billy, and Belle. My grandpa, Jonny’s dad, moved in too.

Grandpa died three years ago though. He had a stroke that he never recovered from.

The last of my blood gone.

Even though I had my grandpa back then, Jake and Tru adopted me. My mom had asked them to. She wanted me to have a legal guardian after she was gone.

I had a ready-made family. And I love them all. I do.

But, really, music was always my home.

I never felt more comfortable than I did when I was at the studio with them.

But Raze eventually stopped coming around the studio when his dad decided that he preferred drinking to working.

Now, the asshole just spends his days getting wasted and leeching off his only son.

But that’s a story for another time.

Raze and I continued being friends though. I didn’t have many friends around that time, so I wasn’t letting go of the one I had.

Raze and I were friends long before we formed our band, Slater Raze.

Speaking of our band …

“Where’s Cash and Levi?”

Cash is our drummer, and Levi plays bass. I’ve known them almost as long as I’ve known Raze.

I met them both at high school. Eventually, I introduced them to Raze. The four of us created Slater Raze when we were fifteen. We’ve been together ever since.

“Cash got distracted.”

I laugh. Cash gets easily distracted. Usually by women.

Who am I kidding? It’s always by women.