I wake up my eyes locked on my ceiling. I guess I’m just nervous about today. I’m going to have to perform today. Play guitar in my own not very good way and It’s not going to help that Jack and Alex are going after us. I mean Alex is an amazing songwriter, at least I don’t have to go after them have to be in their shadow.
“Rian sweetheart get going!” My mom calls from downstairs givig me the final push to pull myself out of bed.
“I’m up ma!” I shout down stairs and make my way to my dresser. How the fuck am I supposed to know what to wear? Ugh. I hate performing for people. Where they can see me. The awesome thing about a drum kit is that nobody can see you very well.

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I step into the school my heart pounding in my chest. Fuck I don’t need to be nervous.
“Ry!” I pivot on my heel to see Pierce just a little ways behind me. She clutches her backpack with one hand and holds the other out for mine. I can’t help but to smile, admittedly she makes me so proud. Just watching her get through this shit with Kyle.
“Hey Beautiful.” I grin when I see her and hold my arms out ignoring her hand pulling her into a tight hug. She giggles and hugs me back. It’s just being with her is so comforting, just to know that she’s safe.
“You ready for class?” I loosen my arms around her and run a hand over my head,
“As I’ll ever be.” I chuckle, “Come on, lets go.” Our fingers wind together and I start to pull her at a faster pace to class. Thankfully we’re just early enough for me to organize the sheet music I had to write out the day before because everything we wrote wasn’t the technical version.
“Alright everybody take your seats. Rian, Pierce you’re first up.” I jump as the booming voice of our teacher comes from behind me. He sighs and takes a seat by his desk, looks like he’s been having a rough morning. I turn to look at pierce who nods at me and stands up. We walk over to the small set up in the front of the room. I pick up the acoustic guitar and close my eyes praying I don’t fuck this up. I open my mouth to start to sing the intro,

“Time to lay claim to the evidence,
Fingerprints sold me out
But our footprints washed away from the docks downtown
It’s been getting late for days
And I think myself deserving of,”
“A little time off.” I look over at pierce who has a wide smile on her face as she begins harmonizing with me,
“We can kick it here for hours
and just mouth off about the world
and how we know it’s going straight to hell.”

I can’t help but to smile way too widely back at her as we sing. She looks so happy and for some reason this feels so right, like this is where I belong. Honestly maybe not singing my own words. Alex is a much better writer then me. He and Pierce wrote the majority of the lyrics.
I watch pierce as she moves slightly to the music closing her eyes for a moment just to feel it as she sings.

“Meet me on Thames street
I’ll take you out though I’m hardly worth your time
In the cold you look so fierce, but I’m warm enough
Because the tension’s like a fire
We’ll hit south broadway in a matter of minutes
And like a bad movie, I’ll drop a line
Fall in a grave I’ve been digging myself
But there’s room for two
Six feet under the stars.” I sing the last chorus and play the outro letting my eyes wander over all of the people in the class. Jack has a huge grin on his face but Alex’s frowns and glances at the door. I follow his gaze to see Kyle looking in the window with an angry look on his face.

Guess he knows I got the prize.

Notes

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