Chapter 4

In addition to the cross, he wears mostly black—tight jeans and tank tops that show off his arms and body. He has a flat stomach, a taut ass, and the band’s logo tattooed on his left bicep. It looks like a jailhouse tattoo, all inked in shades of gray and blue, but it’s awesome and he goes without sleeves as often as he can just to show it off. It’s a grungy coat-of-arms that looks infected or diseased with the words VIRAL BLUE stamped across a banner on the front. Adam designed it himself. It matches the logo on the back of his guitar, and half the shirts in his wardrobe sport the same image.