There is a saying you should never kill a drumline. Nico always knew he wanted to be a drummer but once the summer of his second year of high school he never picked up a drum stick. he was sulking over his mother's death. His best friend Pandora Lewis comforted him. Once he cried in her lap all night. Then she made him pick up his sticks and drum out his frustration. Then he started to carry a snare pad where ever he went. The first day came around fast. He saw her inthe parking lot singing for some stupid-ass jocks with her sisters Kira & Addie. His friends Will and Leo came up to him. Will clapped him hard on the back
"Man she got up whipped goddamn." Will said. Nico pulled the snare pad and some stucks out of backpack, and went up to the huge crowd. The closer he got the more he left like he was entering heaven listening to the angels sing.
" Yo, wassup Nicky." She said. She was giving him her incredible smile. One of the jocks Percy Jackson son was whispering something to another one Jason Grace.
" You need a drummer cause your timing was off a little bit." He said. He always acted cocky to hide his nervousness.
" Uh, that's why you came over here. I thought you wanted to say hi." She said. He place the pad on a hood of one of the jocks trucks.
" Yo, Dora who is this kid. Yo, Perce this must be a little freshman and you know what we do to freshmen."Jason asked. He smirked at him. She grabbed the stick and aimed it at the taller boys throat.
" The kid whose stick is gonna go down your throat like a dick if you don't shut up. And if you touch him well let's say it gonna be hard for Piper to ride a dickless boy." She said.
" Yo, Dora you know I was just playing damn. You don't need to go Atlanta on me." He said. She but the stick down.
" Like I thought ...bitch" she muttered. She rolled her eyes. Damn I've known Dora since I was ten and I ain't never seen her snap like that.
"Girl get outta here before you get in trouble." Her oldest sister told her. She grabbed her backpack and obeyed quickly he followed her in. Will and Leo were behind him in.
"Damn, Dora I heard you yell at Jason from over here what did he do?" Leo asked.
"They were trying to hurt my little drummer boy and I was pissed off." She said in concern. She was like my stepmom she cared for me ,but I still wanted to bone her. The bell rang and I had classes on the side of the building. It felt like someone was following me. Then the looker door hit my head. Then the boys from before percy was holding me down. Jason punched me in the gut. I wanted to kick him in his balls shit I'm tall enough to do it. He held my forehead back against the lockers.
" This little shit ain't worth a damn of my time but he know he's the only one who's Dora let tap dat ass." He said.
"You got five seconds to get off Nick and I swear I will hurt your dumb-ass" she said. He looked her dead in the eye and let go of me. They were gone like a flash.
" Now, please take your butt to class." She said" Okay," I said. I went into the classroom and everyone was staring at me ,then at the floor. I felt woozy and out of conscience. Went he got to a seat little red droplets trailed down from the door to my desk. I felt the back of my head and blood coated my fingers. I didn't want to scream but it would cause to much chaos. The teacher came in and saw the trail"Ah, is someone playing Jason." He asked. He looked up at me." Um, Nico you might wanna go to the nurses office before you bleed out." Then I fell on the desk head first. I woke up in my room in some black sweatpants. My head started to throb and I rubbed my head there was a cloth wrapped around his head." Nicky don't get up so fast you still a bit beat up." a voice said from the window. It was Kayla she was sitting in the bay window in my room. Her brown skin reflected perfectly against light. She got up and sat beside me.
" How long have I been out." I asked. I know it wouldn't help.
" About two days." She said flatly.
" Two days." I said nearly shouting. She got a bowl of water and a towel and pressed it on my forehead.
" Your sisters are home and they are okay." She said.
"Oh, okay." I said. She laid me back laid beside me." Come on."
"What." She said. I pulled her to lay on my chest. I know she was hearing my heartbeat cause she was humming it. She was tapping her fingers against my bare chest. I felt safe and I know she would always be sweet to me. I looked down her and kissed her lips our tongues fought for dominance my hand went down to her slider waist then up to the back of her shirt. She pushed me off of her.
"Don't.. not right there..not right now. " she said . She covered her chest and started to pant. I was concerned about her cause she look so scared. She grabbed her boots and left. A tear rolled down her cheek.
The next day I saw her with the jocks singing with her sisters. I know she saw looked at me put then she looked away. But then she came over to me.
"I'm so sorry about what happened yesterday I didn't mean to act like such a needy little hoe around you I'm Sorry." She said.
" Hold up you didn't do anything." I said.
" I'm just sorry. " she said. She ran back to her sisters.
" what did you do ? " her sister asked.
" Oh, nothing no problem." She said. She kept singing with her sisters in harmony. I went in and found my locker. I grabbed my books and found a note. It was from Dora.
" I wanna talk to you about something. It is important."
When he went to the classes. She was talking to some boy in a varsity jacket on. She got up and he jerked her arm violently.
" Oh, hell naw." She said. He ripped the necklace from around her neck,dropped it and crushed in with his boot. She pressed her lips together tight and a tear rolled down her cheek. She looked up and walked away slowly. She picked up the peices of the necklace and clutched it tightly. I was waiting for her to explode. Cause for what you can tell she kinda has a short fuse.
" I'm done with your sorry ass." She said softly. She went to her desk. And put her feet on the desk, and put her beanie over her eyes. I tapped her shoulder.
" Niccolò not right now." She said softly
"What did you want to talk about." I asked.
" Not right now I will tell you later now leave me alone. Please before I say something in will regret." She snapped. I hated this version of Dora. I grabbed my sticks and snare pad and started to drum a small steady beat but it was loud enoughfor Dora to hear. She started to hum softly.
"Dora, I hear you up there." I said teasingly. She was flat out singing. So when a old beyonce song 'Move Your Body' and to her sing. She always sang loud, so when the teacher came in the first thing he said was.
" This ain't choir so who ever is trying to be Mariah Carey you can quit." Pandora sat down.
" Nah, more like beyonce man."She said sarcastically. He wrote something on the chalkboard.
" People what do you want to learn about what do you have a interest in learning in this year." He asked.
"I want to write a musical for some reason." Dora said.
"Everythang ain't about music Dora." He boy who was messing with her earlier blurted out.
" Well, Luke who fucking asked you." She snapped.
" I value all your opinions but your gonna watch your language in my class." He said.
" My apologies,Mr. Sunday it's all good no disrespect." She said.
"Well, writing a play maybe letting it be a major production for the school hopefully." I said. He looked at me and wrote it on the board. He didn't think of write musical on the board wich made no sense.
"And don't stop right there I want to produce Pandora's musical even put a drum solo in there." I said. He looked at me with a eyebrow up like 'Are you forreal' but he still wrote on the board anyway.
"Are you that stupid to produce anything that hoe writes." Luke said.
"Ah, Ah,Ah, Luke watch your language. " she said teasingly.
"She is not stupid cause she wants write a production. People have to start somewhere Lucas now anymore interruptions and will put you out. Is that clear" he said.
" What ever you say." Luke mumbled.
"Well Shakespeare would be nice." A girl in the back said quietly. He wrote it on the board
" And what does this have anything to do with anything." A boy Frank asked.
" Well if you looked on your schedule it said Literature so I would think this list could at least take about the whole quarter if I go I depth. " he said.
" Please don't." Dora groaned.
" Well, give me more options so this will be an interesting year." He said. Everything was yelled out Biographies,to read the whole hunger games series and Divergent, one girl even suggested to read some Rauchy book about some guy cheating on a girl and she plays his ass for his friend. That's when Mr. Sunday cut the list. It filled up the whole board.
" This, is good enough especially the books just letting you know you get quizzed on the ever five chapters. And those are some long books. You sure you wanna read this." He said . The response was mixed. I wanted to a little, but yet I knew he wouldn't take it off. Then the bell rang. Damn came up to me while I was packing up
" Yo, sorry I snapped off on you but I wasn't in the mood. So we still need to talk, so please you know where to find me during lunch." She said. She smiled and left out the room. I wanted to run after her but the time will come
