Thank you to everyone who signed up! Everyone who is signed up now will be in the story, but will appear in the next update. Also, my house smells like cookies. Thought I'd share. ____________________________________ "so you guys actually did a cover of Victoria Justice's Make it Shine?" the interviewer giggled nervously. She was sitting beside Nikolai- the hottest guy in music currently. Enough to make any girl swoon. "yeah, it was Dawn's idea." he smiled and she giggled again. What did he say? Something about dawn. Did he want to sit and watch the sunrise with me? She thought. "great idea. When?" She smiled. He frowned slighty. "maybe... Two months ago. Why?" "no reason." she snapped back into reality (it was just a little foggy when she looked at Nikolai) and ended the too-long interview with a smile and a wave. "you doing anything after this?" Nikolai smiled and moved a piece of hair from her face, smiling, his accent just barely there. "Not today, Nikki." Hill, Soulful Ginger's manager, pulled him away from the swooning interviewer and pushed up his glasses. "we need to leave if we're gonna make it to Oregon." "where's Dawn and Shane?" Nikolai fixed his hair and smiled at passing girls. "stop that. Their already in the bus, like good band members. It isn't your band, Nikki, you're just part of it." Hill rolled his eyes and pushed Nikolai out the door. "I wish you wouldn't call me Nikki." he mummured and opened the door to the bus he shared with four other people. "I wish I got paid more. Oh well, Nikki. Oh well." Hill smiled and winked, then turned to the driver. "onward, good sir. Fast as you can!" he shouted and Dawn giggled. "flirting again, Nikolai?" Dawn place her favorite keytar on its stand and grabbed a bottle of water. "shut up, Dawn. Shane sleeping?" "yeah. He was tired. He worked way hard." Dawn would only ever talk in front of her band mates. She never said anything on stage, or to anyone she hadnt known for very long. "hey, Chester French caved for the rest of the tour. Some band called LoveLetters in replacing them." Hill barely looked up from his iPhone while reporting the news. "damn. I liked their lead. He was cool." Nikolai layed on the fold-put couch, putting his head on Hill's lap. "I am not a pillow." Hill didn't try to escape, knowing Nikolai was an immovable force of narcism. "shhh. Nap time." Nikolai closed his eyes and was asleep in seconds- he always gave concerts his all. "I'm gonna go call Neely." Dawn whispered, moving to the back of the bus. Hill rubbed the back of his neck and closed his eyes too, wanting to get some sleep before the next few days of meeting some half-assed band. LoveLetters, Hill thought. Sounds like a ****ing boutique.
The two wonderful poems I used as songs were not written by me, they were written by two lovely people on a site fir sharing stories and poems. Anywho, enjoy. ____________________________________ "Rooooosie!" Victoria dragged out the last syllable as she danced around on the stage in front of an empty amphitheater. "holy. Shit. This place is HUGE!" Rosie ran her hand through her brown hair and stared at everything. "I can't wait to meet Soulful Ginger!" Autumn hummed one of her guitar solos. "Nikolai is my idol." "I feel like doing flips, this is so holy****amazing. Gina, we would die alone without you." Rosie smiled at the band's manager. "yeah, I met their manager once or twice. Chester French couldn't play, so I asked if we could fill the spot. We aren't getting half as much as Chester, but this will totally bump you guys up." Gina fixed her blouse and her bangs. "as long as Nikolai looks at me, I don't care how much we get paid." Silvy moaned and leaned on Gina, making her blush. "you are the only sex appeal this band has, boy. I swear, you add so damn much." Silvy smiled. "I'll go get our guitars. Autumn, baby, come help." he blew kisses to Rosie and left with Autumn. "so. Soulful Ginger." Victoria sat down at the edge of the stage. "I promised myself I wouldn't puke... But damnit, Vic, I'm so nervous! Do you know how many people will see us play?" Rosie sat next to Victoria and put her head in her hands. "tell you what. I'll force a few grams of acetometaphin down your throat, like, almost enough to cause liver damage, and set you behind you drums. We need to do sound check anyway. Pretend Silvy is in his underwear, it'll prepare you for the awesomeness that is Nikolai." Gina smiled and helped Rosie up. "have you met him?" Rosie took the water and Tylenol from Gina and swallowed quickly, walking to the drums. "Once. If possible, he's twice as hot as Silvy. But completely straight." "who's twice as hot as me?" Silvy and Rosie came in with the three guitars. "who do you think?" Gina helped Victoria plug in her guitar and went to go make sure the microphones were on. "what song, Gina?" Victoria said into the mic. "doesn't matter, it's just sound check. How about Fairytale?" Rosie hit the bass drum a few times, and Silvy started playing. Victoria hummed. Autumn started just as Rosie really darted to play. "Darling, let's float to a fairytale, Let's escape this bitter world. We'll live with creatures of the sea, We'll be as happy as can be. Or we could live inside a van And travel anywhere we can To visit hidden hideaways; To plan for better yesterdays. Perhaps we'd move into the sky And learn from birds on how to fly. And at night, among the stars, We'd watch the universe from afar. Yes, let's do it, hand in hand, We'll twinkle in the stars so grand, And with each moment passing by, Our happy ending will comply." Victoria's voice rang out, beautifully complimented by the drums and guitars that accompanied it. "that was great!" someone said. "you guys must be LoveLetters. I'm Hill, it's a pleasure to meet all of you. Hello, Gina!" the hipster was smiling as wide as he could. "hi, I'm Victoria. Drums is Rosie, main guitar is Rosie, and rhythm guitar is Silvy." "hello, again! If that's what you guys sound like, I would gladly take you girls, and guy, instead of the lazy sons-of-*****es I'm in charge of currently." "we aren't that bad, Hill." Shane came and plopped down on some chair, followed by Dawn, who did nothing but stand, slightly behind Nikolai. Silvy took this opportunity to thrust himself into Nikolai's center of attention. "hello, big boy. I'm Silvy, it would be a pleasure to meat you." he winked shook Nikolai's hand. "well. Hello, then." Hill laughed at Nikolai's dumbfounded expression. "I like him." Shane wiped his eyes and laughed harder. "best 'I wanna do you' remark made so far." Dawn put her hood up and turned away to laugh- she didn't know these people. They were automatically not allowed to hear her. It's a social fear, totally reasonable. "don't mind him." Gina pushed Silvy away from poor Nikolai and shook his hand. "I believe we've met once before." "of course we have, I'd never forget a face like that." Nikolai brought Gina's hand to his face and barely brushed his lips against it. "Gina." "y-yes. Anyway, we just started sound check, but I bet we would all love to see you guys play." Gina turned, her face bright red. "that would be awesome!" Rosie exclaimed, fist pumping. "I'm good with that. Dawn, you good?" Shane got off his butt and walked over to her, handing her her keytar and pulling off her hood. Dawn nodded and fixed the strap. "I'm good too. Any requests?" Nikolai winked at Rosie who smiled wider than anyone thought physically possible. "Oooo! Do 'You Sicken Me, Darling'. It my all time favorite." Autumn burst out, even raising her hand. Dawn played a few notes and Shane filled a third of the silence with his bass. With one small cough, Nikolai started singing. "You sicken me, darling. Though we've built on such a run down ghetto of pain, You've made me feel like the dirtiest being to have ever inhabited it. You disgust me, sweetheart. Though I know how you ache, And I know how how aches And how you disregard it as ignorance. I know how he needs you; But you need not listen because you've shown me That you're a liar. You upset me, honey. You've proved to me that you are deadly And not worth a second of my time. Though I have convinced myself that I need you And love you And ultimately cannot live without you. You sicken me... Yet it seems as if I must find medication for my sickness. Seeing as though I will be sick with it For some time." "amazing!" Silvy gasped. "totally sexy. You should only ever sing. Wait, you can't hear your accent when you sing. Oh, fuck me. I can't decide what I like better." Silvy winked at Nikolai, who grabbed a bottle of water. "that one ****ing note drives me insane, Nikki." Hill laughed, imitating Silvy. "Nikki?" Autumn asked. "Don't." Shane shook his head, warning Autumn. "You all are wonderful, but someone and their hand kept me up all night, so I'm going to go find a couch. Shane." Hill rubbed the back of his neck and rolled his eyes while Nikolai walked away. "Nikki is such a drama queen. Who's up for pizza?"