Chapter 4

For about half an hour, Izzy, Duff and Slash sat helpless in their Hellhouse and thought. None of them could remember what happened. Steven seemed still asleep. He was still holding a beer bottle in his left hand. He slept very quietly, no one noticed him at all. Slash stared at him the whole time. He now had worse problems than Duff, who was looking for his right shoe in the room. He had helped with a murder. In the murder of one of his best and only friends. He couldn't understand. Why did he let himself be persuaded to do this? The first time Cooper is caught by the police, he will most definitely not be able to hold the edge. He'll betray him, and then Steven, Duff, and Izzy will find out too. Everyone will know. He winced once quickly. Then he awoke from the stupor. Izzy looked in the paper for any job offers in vain. "Office worker, experience required .. great, we'll be successful this way," he put the newspaper aside and said, "Duff, where's Axl?". Slash had suspected that someone would ask this question. Now it was time to close your eyes and go through. Duff, who had found his shoe in the meantime, paused." I, I have no idea ... "then he looked at Slash in the least what he might just be thinking. "Slash! "Slash winced" do you know where he is? "" No! No, I don't know "Slash replied very quickly, which could give him away. Luckily Duff wasn't naive, otherwise he would have been exposed. Duff just nodded and sat down on the couch. Why can't I get rid of the feeling that he knows something, and I do I forgot .. why does it seem to me as if Axl is not doing well ?! thought Duff. He believed Izzy's words "Oh, he's probably sitting in a bar and flirting with the waitress" Izzy didn't see it as that dramatic.
After two days, when they still had no word from Axl, they began to worry. Duff didn't seem to care."No, I don't need to worry about him," he said. "If he has the feeling that he can jump around with us as he wants, then he's cut himself there. We don't have to rely on him, actually it's the other way around." Inwardly, he is seething with curiosity and worry, but in this case his pride is impossible to give in. When Alice Cooper suddenly stands in front of the door and asks for Slash, Duff can't shake the strange feeling that something is wrong. But he is forced to give up.
"Hey partner .. you forgot someone else" Alice nodded towards a sack that he must have dragged along behind him. "He lives?" Slash wanted to know first. "No, it died this morning. Thanks for your help! Now nothing stands in the way of our career, when will you announce your change?" Alice wanted to know. Slash replied "Are you crazy ?! First we have to cover up the body somehow!". "I thought we'd just drop them off somewhere so they'd hear about death?"" No idea, do what you want, but leave me out of the game for now! "And with that he turned his back on Alice" Wait! Don't you want to look at it first? I mean ... who knows if I took the right bag. "Slash was horrified." Does that mean you are a mass murderer? "" I use the term serial killer! "Smiled Cooper. He opened the sack a crack. Slash saw red hair, a sad horror spread across his face. It actually was, a second ago he still had hope that Axl was alive, but now he was sure he had hoped wrong. He pulled him out. Bring him inside. Put him gently on the floor. "Axl ... he ... I think ..." he stuttered. Duff jumped up as he saw Axl pale and still saw lying on the ground. "What happened? Slash where did you get it from? "Duff shook Slash tightly." I found him in front of our cabin! Clear?! "Duff nodded quickly and leaned over to Axl." Can you hear me?"In the meantime, Slash and Izzy have also arrived." We absolutely need an ambulance ... "