Guts

I spent the next two days trying to figure out how I was going to write this song. I knew what it was going to be about. But I needed solitude to write it and let the music flow. I was sitting in math on our third day back from break, which I will mention was total hell, when I had an idea. I needed an escape from the glares and people talking behind my back. I needed to go to the one place I could be alone.

After class was over and it was lunch time, I told Jack to go to lunch without me because a teacher needed to see me. He looked skeptical and asked who. I told him Lee wanted to talk about some band stuff with me. He told me he would get the Maria and we would all go. I had to come up with a lie; I told him that it was singer business. He looked like he didn’t believe me, but let me go anyway, telling me if I didn’t show up to next hour he was calling a search party.

I ran off to the music room in hopes it would be empty. Lee normally went out to lunch and wouldn’t be back for a while because his next period was free. I got in there and it was empty! I let out a breath I had been holding and grabbed a guitar and some paper and just got lost.
I have no idea how long I was in the zone for, but someone messed me up by clearing their throat. He startled me and I messed up the line I was writing. I looked up and one of the upperclassmen I didn’t really talk to was standing there. He told me that he didn’t mean to scare me but he wanted to talk. He said he had been listening to our band play since the 8th grade dance and thought we were good and had potential. He also said a little birdy told him that we might get signed to a record label and he wanted to help.

I was skeptical. I knew him and Jack were friends, but what did he want with me? He saw my hesitation and threw his hands up like he was surrendering. He didn’t want money or anything; he was interested in being our manager. He said he was a senior and he was going into music management and production and wanted to get started. He figured it would be easier to get started so he would have experience. Also he had nothing to lose and neither did we.

I told him to come by practice next week and we would have an answer for him. I didn’t want to just say yes without consulting the band. He nodded and walked off, leaving me alone once again. In the 45 minutes we had for lunch, I had most the song done. I just needed to clean it up and it would be ready.

With that song we would have two for the EP, the one for Tom and this new one. I was pretty happy making my way back to Jack. The rest of the day went by really fast and I called a band meeting after school. About an hour after school let out we all meet up in my garage.

I told them I had two announcements. The first one was that I had almost finished the second song for our EP. They all cheered and said I better hurry, they wanted to hear it. The second announcement was that I was approached by Matt Flyzik, the senior, claiming he wanted to be our manager. I shared my apprehensions and thoughts.

Jack stood up and said it would be a great idea. He knew Matt and said he was a great guy. Maria also said he was a basketball player and he was a really nice guy. Neither of them thought he would do anything to sabotage us. Rian agreed we should give it a try, and of course Zack agreed since Maria did. They all looked to me; I said okay, I mean what did we have to lose? Plus none of us knew any of the business side; we just wanted to play music.
Since we were all there, we decided to play the song I wrote for Tom, I had named it
"Memories That Fade Like Photographs.” The first few go rounds were rough, but once everyone got on the same page, it went great.

After a few hours of practice, everyone went their own ways. It was still Jack’s turn to stay at my house so we ate, showered (separate), and headed to bed. I still had the song on my mind and Jack could tell I was a little down so he put in Peter Pan and we drifted off to sleep.
That following week when Matt came over, we told him the news. He was ecstatic, this was his biggest dream. He started asking questions about us and our name, and everything under the sun! After about 2 hours he was done with the questions and he ran to his car saying Friday he would see us and he would have a huge surprise.


I’m not gonna lie, I was scared after the 5 billion questions.

Notes

Hey guys, so question for you,


I read fanfic from here and BVB and I wait like days by mi email waiting for them to update, do any of you wait for mi updates and get excited when it comes??


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