part 6

Mission had bought his house, so the story went, because there wasn't enough room in his apartment for his drums, his girlfriend, his girlfriend's cat, and his sister. The drums had been living in his parents' basement until they'd moved out to Arizona. Mission had packed up his kit and unwillingly put everything in storage, except for the seven months Steerpike rented honest-to-god rehearsal space, where he could set up his kit and leave it. His girlfriend's cat didn't survive the house-moving process and for a couple of months after they'd moved in, the girlfriend insisted that Mission had let it escape because he hadn't ever liked it in the first place. The girlfriend lasted almost another year, much to her credit, but by the time she and Mission broke up they could both honestly say they should've done it sooner. His sister, unfortunately for the band, wasn't going anywhere any time soon.

( cut for band stuff )