"Where the hell is she?" Nikki said, quickly checking the wall clock. It wasn't quite time for the audition yet, but still, the girl was impatient.<br/><br/>The drummer, Kim, merely shrugged, the kohl around her eyes only accentuating her disassociative lack of concern. "Dunno."<br/><br/>"I swear, Kim, if we didn't need your british accent to seem authentic..." Nikki began, then shook her head awkwardly. She checked the clock again before checking out of the garage door to look for signs of someone coming.<br/><br/>Nikki "Lotus" Jameson was the lead of the budding punk rock band, Dead Girlfriend. She was also the daughter of L.J. Jameson, a blues legend who had taught Nikki everything she knew about the bass guitar. Grateful for those teachings, Nikki still eventually rejected her father's "down-home" style and embraced hard rock at an early age, moving on to become the queen of Seattle's indie punk scene and using her dad's fortune to found Dead Girlfriend by the time she was eighteen years old.<br/><br/>Being cut off from that same fortune, however, led to the situation Nikki was in now. Desperate to succeed and holding auditions in the drummer's basement, she needed a guitarist -- not to mention a lead vocalist. Hopefully this girl would be that person.<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>