I woke up to the alarm blaring loudly.

“Turn that fucking thing off” I moaned. I didn’t care whether I sounded charming or not, it seemed way too early to be awake.

“Awh, does someone not want to get up to go to school?” Alex put his hand through my hair and then slowly reached over to turn the alarm off. I sighed in happiness as the alarm stopped ringing in my ears. I
snuggled into Alex’s side and said

“Nope, I’d rather stay here with you allllll dayyyy” I then chucked quietly.

“I don’t think that’s possible beautiful” He quickly slid out of bed and headed to the bathroom.

I laid in his bed and all I could think of was how everything was slowly coming back on track. Jack and Alex were going to be getting along better and that this whole episode would blow over eventually. I heard a muffling coming from the bathroom and the Alex said,

“Aw shit” So I just called back to him

“What’s happened?” He just shouted back

“Just stubbed my toe on the bath, no biggy”

I couldn’t help but laugh. I don’t even know why but I ended up laughing until I was crying. Alex walked into the bedroom wearing just a towel on the lower half of his body. All I could do was stare at him. All I wanted to do was run over to him and drag him back to bed. I continued staring at him until he cleared his throat.

“Enjoying the view?” he said and chuckled slightly

“Actually, yes I am” I laughed as he walked over and sat down on the edge of the bed.

I sat up and lent my head on his shoulder and started to play with his hands. He then kissed me on the top of the head and so I turned to face him. I started kissing him from the collar bone to the edge of his lips and then stopped.

“Hey!” Alex said

“What?” I smiled

“You’re such a fucking tease”

I continued to kiss his neck until he started getting more and more into it. I stopped and got up out of bed, picked up my clothes and headed to the bathroom.

“Awwwwwwwh” I heard Alex moan from his bedroom “You’re so annoying Charlie”

I just laughed and continued to shower and get dressed. When I got back into Alex’s bedroom he was out of the towel and dressed in skinnys, a New Found Glory tee and a grey beanie. I was dressed in skinnys and a plain red tee. He was just sitting on his bed waiting for me to come out of the bathroom and when I walked over to him he just stood up and pulled me into a hug. We walked downstairs with our school bags and went to the kitchen to have a coffee. I didn’t feel like eating anything like breakfast so I just drank the coffee Alex made us and checked myself over in the mirror before hurrying Alex out of the door.

Alex’s point of view

Charlie and I finished our coffee’s before she literally shoved me out of the door.

“Charlie, why are you pushing me out of the door so quickly?” She just laughed as we got into my car

“If you hadn’t noticed we wasted a lot of time in your bedroom and we’re going to be late otherwise” I sighed as I remembered the time we spent in my room this morning.

It wasn’t much but it was the most romanticish thing we’d ever done and it was nice. I glanced at the dashboard to see the time. Holy crap we only had 5 minutes to get to school which was 10 minutes away.

I drove as fast as I could to get to school. When we got there we kissed and went our separate ways to class.

I wandered over to English and met Zack outside the classroom

“Hey Alex”

“You alright Zack?”

“Yeeeaaah, I’m just tired”

I knew there was something bothering him but I left him be. If he wanted to tell me he would. We walked into the classroom and took our seats at the back of the classroom. We started getting on with the work until Zack jabbed me with his pen.

“Did you hear about the battle of the bands thing being held next term?”

“No but I have now, we have to enter” He nodded in agreement “Is it just within school?”

“Yeah only school pupils are allowed to take part that’s all I know really, we’ll probably find out about it more on the notice board”

We then both agreed that at lunch we would all head up to the notice board to see if there was anything about it up. After my usually quiet lesson with Zack I headed to music for my singing lesson.

When I got to the classroom I quickly walked up to the teacher,

“Do you by any chance know anything about this battle of the bands that is supposedly happening next term?”

My music teacher, Mrs Styler, has known me for five years because I had a relationship with her daughter about five years ago. It was a short relationship that lasted only about six months if that. Mrs Styler and I got along great and still have even after the break up between me and her daughter since her daughter, Scarlett, was the one who ended the relationship with me.

Mrs Styler just stared at me before shaking her head from side to side,

“I’m afraid you’ll have to find that one out along with the rest of the school.” I pouted slightly

“Buuuuuuuuut” Then she cut me off

“No Mr Gaskarth, I have been personally told to not tell you anything at all”

I looked at the ground.

“Well at least tell me when the details are being announced”

She sighed and looked at me for a moment

“Fine. At lunchtime on the notice board”

I knew it! Hopefully other people didn’t and we’d be able to win and get whatever the prize is going to be. For the rest of my singing lesson nothing else was said about battle of the bands it was only when I went to break all of the talking started.

“So you guys are in a band and you are amazing but what if I wanted to be in a band?” Charlie announced

“What do you mean Charlie” Matt sighed

“I mean, what if I made my own band, would I be able to enter since it starts next term and we’ve only just started this term” We all looked at each other for a second.

I then pulled her into a closer grip on my lap. As I did that I notice Jack’s eyes drop to where my hands were around her waist. Was he still after her? Did he not take the hint last time he tried to go after her. If this carry’s on I’ll have to say something again. Before I could wind myself up anymore I replied to Charlie
“You can, if you can find people to be in your band” I chuckled slightly and then Charlie turned round to face me. Oops.

“You don’t believe I’d be able to form a band do you?” I just stared at her looking for a hint of sarcasm or joke but there was none.

“It’s not that it’s just, who are you going to find in such a short amount of time?”

“I can make other friends” Then she started laughing “Well I’ll try to at least”

Charlie’s point of view

I thought about what I had just said to Alex and him not believing that I would be able to form a band made me want to even more. I knew it was a long shot but I was stubborn and wouldn’t let Alex win.

As soon as break was over I headed to the Library, since it was my free lesson, to think about my plan to make a band. It got to lunchtime and I still hadn’t thought of an idea so I just headed to the notice board.

Once I turned the corner down the hallway I noticed Alex, Jack, Rian, Zack, Vinny and Matt all standing
next to the lockers by the notice board. I laughed and walked up to Alex who already had his arms out for me to hug.

Just as we were all saying hi to each other the head teacher walked down the stairs and towards the notice board with a piece of paper in his hand. He saw all of us standing there and sighed as he pinned the piece of paper up. Once he had started walking up the stairs again Alex quickly let go of me and skipped towards the newly pinned piece of paper. I followed him and saw what it said:

“Battle of the Bands

Hey guys this is the first time we are going to be holding a Battle of the Bands competition!
It will be for all ages to join and can have a minimum number of three students per band.
The Battle of the Bands competition and audition will be held at the beginning of next term.
You are not allowed to do original songs until the final, so only covers of songs.
There will be a prize which will be announced on the night of the final on the last day of this academic year.

That’s all you need to know right now so go and get ready because the signup sheet will be put up at the end of this term in FOUR WEEKS!”

“Fuck” was all I could say once I had read it. Everyone else was still staring at it silently because either they were speechless or they still hadn’t finished reading it yet.

We all slowly made our way to the school canteen and sat down on the nearest table. On the way there all they were talking about was what songs they were going to play since they weren’t allowed to do original songs and they had to do covers.

“Maybe we should do Head On Collision or something since that’s where we got our band name from and almost everyone in the school knows the words” Rian suggested.

I zoned out the second they started talking because I needed to think of a way I could form a great band in four weeks and I didn’t need them distracting me with their ideas.

Throughout the rest of the day I came up with a plan to entice people to be in my band without having to physically walk up to them and ask them awkwardly in person. I thought of making a sort of signup sheet for people who wanted to be in a band. I’d then get them to audition or whatever and then choose who I thought was best.

After school I was sitting on my car waiting for Alex when he ran over to me and started tickling me.

“ALEX STOP IT” I screamed at him until he finally stopped and just hugged me instead “I’ve come up with a plan” he looked at me confused

“A plan for what?”

“To make my band, silly” He chuckled and pulled me off of the car.

“Are you going to tell me this plan or do I have to figure it out myself?”

“I could tell you but I’d have to kill you” I whispered in his ear before kissing his neck and retreating into my car.

We drove to Rian’s house for their band practice and when we stopped outside of his house I ran over to

Alex while he was just about to wind down his window.

“I’m going to go back to yours so I can work on my idea of getting people into my band” He just laughed while I stood there out of breath from running.

“Okay beautiful” He then got out of his car and kissed me before walking into Rian’s house.

I pulled away and headed to Alex’s house. Once I got there I knocked on the door and his mum answered,

“Hey Charlie, where’s Alex?” she looked around to see if he was standing behind me.

“He’s not with me, he’s at band practise but I thought I’d come back here because I needed to work on something. Is that okay or do you want me to go back to Rian’s?” Isobel just shook her head.

“Of course it’s fine!”

Isobel then let me in and I walked straight up to Alex’s room and sat down on his bed. I got out some pieces of paper and started to write out ideas and shizz. Twenty coffee’s later I had made a signup sheet and it went like this:

“Hey!

I wanted to start up a band to go into Battle of the Bands with and I wondered if any of you could help.
I can sing and play a small amount of guitar so to make this work I need a:

Drummer
Bassist
Lead guitarist
Rhythm guitarist

If you have any of these amazing talents and want to be in a band just put your name below and I’ll put up another piece of paper telling you when the audition thing will be,
Charlie”

I didn’t think it was amazing but it would do since i wasn’t going to be posting it anywhere fancy it was just school. I heard Alex walk in through the door and say hi to his parents so I put the piece of paper inside my bag and just fell back onto the bed. I heard Alex open the door, walk over to me and just fall onto my stomach.

“Alex!” I shrieked he slowly rolled off of me “Fuck me, that hurt”

“Was that an offer or are you just teasing me again?” I looked over to him and I saw him smirking.

“Hmmm....let me think” and before I could say anymore Alex said

“Too late” and was on top of me kissing me.

He then rolled over so that he was on his back and I was straddling him and we continued making out. He took his shirt off and threw it across the room and then proceeded to pull mine off as well. We continued kissing like that for a while and then Alex reached one of his hands from the back of my head to the hook of my bra. Just as he was about to unhook it Alex’s dad shouted up the stairs

“YOU TWO, IT’S TIME FOR DINNER”

Alex just sighed and started to get up but I refused to let him. I started kissing his neck until he laughed.

“Charlie, c’mon we have dinner” I pouted at him

“Now who’s the tease” I stuck my tongue out at him and he just rolled me onto my back and left the bed in search of his top. Once he had found his he threw mine at me.

“I swear to god our parents have cameras in our rooms or something” We both laughed and headed downstairs.

We sat down at the table and Alex’s parents looked at us horrified. I looked at Alex and noticed his hair was sticking up all over the place. Shit. Alex was looking at me at the same time and we both burst out laughing. Alex started smoothing out his hair but I just quickly excused myself from the table and headed to the bathroom. I looked in the mirror and saw that my hair was crazy and defiantly not how it looked before Alex came home. I went to Alex’s room got a brush and quickly brushed my hair through before returning to the dining room. The whole meal was eaten in an awkward silence and I couldn’t make eye contact with anyone apart from Alex who was no help since whenever i looked at him he smirked and nearly made us both start laughing again.

Once we had finished dinner we decided it would probably be best if we just went to bed and slept to avoid anymore awkwardness between us and Alex’s parents.