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Grojband: Book One
This Life of ours
Chapter one: I never knew
Corey's POV:
I laid down in my bed with my hands behind my head, a smirk across my face as I tapped my foot to a tune in my head. It's been a while since you last saw me.
I was about fourteen, those were the days. Grojband was so fun back then, but, as time rolls by, I- we got older. More awesome I like to say.
I changed up my look a bit, still have my beanie on like I have something to hide under it. But I like wearing my black hoodie over my t-shirt with my blue jeans. Hey, what can I say, I'm older.
Not much of my features changed, I've been working out, so I finally got the abs I wanted when I was a kid but other than I got a whole lot taller that's pretty much me changed. That's a transformation I know.
A lot have changed since I was fourteen though. The band isn't what it use to be. To be honest there isn't much of a band any more.
I know, it sucks. Kin took all of the sciences so he's pretty busy, other than hanging out some time and coming to a few parties every now and then he's pretty much at home studying. He's gotten taller to, still rocking the tux t-shirt and blue jeans.
Kon? Believe it or not but he's working his butt off studying. I know, my jaw dropped to when I saw Kon carrying a book around but the twins are still cool, Kon actually found a way to get Kin to drink beer once, ah, good times.
My mind was blown that day, didn't know Kin had it in him. Now we drink as if we're eighteen. Well, I'm not that far away from it so why not start am I right?
But then there's Laney, I don't see her often.
Well, everything was going alright back then but Laney started seeming sad all of a sudden. I asked her what was wrong over and over but she never told me, she seemed so hurt with whatever was going on.
I would randomly see her cleaning her make up from crying. She would walk around staring at the floor. She especially acted like this around me.
I asked the guys what I did wrong but whenever I asked they played it off as if they didn't know and sometimes they would lash out in anger or scold at me. To this day I never figured it out.
But things suddenly got better, she was happy around the guys but still weird around me. Come to find out she had a boyfriend. I couldn't explain how I felt then when I heard the news.
I was happy for her, sort of.
I was happy to know she was happy but it sort of hurt...I still don't know why.
But after...ugh, what's the guy's name...oh yeah, Josh is his name. After he and Laney started dating she just stopped coming to band practice.
The guys still wanted to try to practice but...it never felt right when she wasn't playing. It just wasn't, I don't know why...
Now I barely see her, its as if she down graded herself to my best friend to just somebody I know. I see her walking on the side walk some times, I wave and tell her hi and she does the same but when I try to actually have a conversation with her she's just busy or she has to go somewhere or meet up with Josh.
The guy's cool in all but I hate his guts. I can't explain that either but I just do. But Laney is always acting weird around me, even if I get the chance to talk to her she just acts weird.
It hurts...but she's happy now. I guess that's all that matters.
The thought of Laney kind of downed me so I rolled out of my bed and walked to the kitchen to get something. I don't even know what, probably just for the sake of walking.
I passed the garage on the way back (completely empty handed by the way) and saw all of our instruments. I walked down and held my guitar and pulled a string, it needed tuning.
I placed it down as careful as I could and moved on to Kon's drums. I gave one a tap and moved onto Kin's keyboard. I ran my finger over the keys chuckling at the sounds it made. Man, I really miss Grojband.
Then I saw Laney's bass guitar. It hasn't been used in months. Hell, I had to brush cobwebs off the strings. I plucked a few strings and sighed. Laney never took it with her.
The cyan bass was just catching dust, its a shame. I can't believe I let Grojband die. "Hey," I heard a voice behind me and turned a little freaked out. It was only Trina.
Oh yeah, how could I forget Trina? No seriously, how could I forget Trina.
Trina has taken a massive overhaul on the nice, not evil, sister scale. Since the band started to die she's be abnormally nice to me. It was freaky and I thought she was just up to her evil tricks again but, weirdly enough, she was just being nice. A good sister.
"you okay?" She asked. I scratched the back of my head and looked away. She noticed I was holding Laney's bass.
"You miss her don't you?" I shrugged and placed the bass back in its proper placed and sighed a hefty sigh again.
"I miss the band is all."
"No Corey, I asked if you missed her." I didn't realized who she meant for a second then I realized she meant Laney.
"Yeah, I mean she was important to the band you know." I shrugged. Trina just looked at me as if she was concealing something.
"I still don't know why she was mad at me." I said, my voice filled with saddened tones. Trina looked like she pitted me and she gave me a hug, yeah those are still weird.
"Well...I know why but I don't think I have-"
"Please tell me!" I shouted with the same desperation I had from all those years ago. Trina looked down to the ground and back at me playing around with her still brightly pink hair.
"I don't understand, everyone refused to tell me why. What did I do to Laney? Did I borrow money from her and forgot to pay back? Did I mess up her make up and never apologized? Did I-"
"Corey stop," She cut me off suddenly. I was a little hurt and I waited for her to finish. She took a deep breath, I could tell she knew. Why did no one ever wanna tell me?
"Corey, this isn't something I'm supposed to say. So if you really wanna know you need to ask Laney." I sighed.
"She doesn't have the time to talk to me." I eye balled the ground and a depression hit the room like an earthquake. Trina sighed again and looked me in my eyes, she was dead serious.
"Corey, I'm really sorry but I honestly can't tell you. It's not my place and I would think Laney and the boys would be more mad at me than you if I say." I was infuriated. I did something no one wants to tell me about that destroyed the band, and I have no clue what it is.
I replied with a simple, saddened nod and Trina patted my shoulder and walked out. "Maybe you should ask the boys, it's been years. Maybe they'll help you out."
I didn't reply. I just simply stared at the bass in a quiet sadness. I rubbed the strings as if I was rubbing her sweet, long and soft hair.
"Wait...no, you're not supposed to be thinking those sort of thoughts Corey. What's wrong with you?"
I mentally slapped myself and walked out of the garage, got my shoes and headed out the door to the twin's place.
I haven't been there in a while, usually they would come to my place. I got to where they dwelt, a simple small home with a massive amount of antennas coming from, what could only be, Kin's room.
I knocked and greeted Mrs. Kujira respectfully and she allowed me to enter and pointed me in the direction to they're room. Weird enough Kon wasn't around but Kin laid on the top of the large bunk bed reading a book most likely.
"Sup man?" I greeted. Kin looked a little startled, he was surely not expecting anyone.
"Everything's awesome, I wasn't expecting you man. So what brings you to my lair?" Kin jumped down and childishly planted himself on his spinning chair and kicked up his feet with a grin on his face.
I scratched the back of my head, I didn't really know how to say it. I was sort of afraid that Kin would just lash out in anger again and kick me out of his house.
"I...sort of wanted to know why Laney was so sad all those years ago." Kin face was dumbfounded. I could already read, just from his facial expression, that he wasn't expecting that.
"Umm...you actually still remember that?" I nodded wondering why he was so shocked that I still cared. Kin placed a hand on his chin, his legs still up on his adjacent desk.
"Well, I don't know if it's my place to tell you but I was more than pissed that you 'never realized'. Not to mention Laney." My eyes opened wide, wild with confusion. Kin noticed and shook his head in pity.
"I'm sorry, I don't know what you're on about. What did I do wrong?" Kin huffed at my statement.
"It's not what you did, you were perfect for her. You just were so 'freaking oblivious' is all."
"Oblivious? To what?" Kin sighed, a lot of people are having a lot of pity on me today.
"Scratch that, you're still freaking oblivious. How did you not notice? Kon even freaking noticed!" Now if Kon noticed it I'm really bad so I could understand his frustration.
"Well I'm sorry for all the simplicity back then. I mean we all done some maturing haven't we? Maybe if you could tell me then I could right what I've wronged."
"Just because you've done some- wait, that might actually work really." Kin rubbed his chin and looked to the ceiling, his eyes was doing that 'I'm thinking about the situation' deal.
He took a while to consider but he came around to it. Thank God, I was about to fall to sleep.
"This is not an ideal position I'm going to put myself in but to avenge Laney's feelings and seeing that its a bit late now I might as well tell you. Corey, Laney had feelings about you." I rubbed the back of my neck and Kin gave me a sharp annoyed look.
"You have no idea what I mean by that do you?" He said in a sarcastic tone. I shook my head and he groaned pinching the skin between his eyes, what was he talking about feelings?
Laney had feelings for me? What kind? And how does this relate to her being mad at me? "Why was she mad at me?"
Kin ran his hand through his hair and gave a bit of a confused look. "You never knew did you?" His face of anger turned into pity. He fixed his glasses and looked at me more closely.
"You never realized, the giggles or the flirting or the hearts in her eyes did you? You were completely blind and clueless. It wasn't you, its just you're nature." I was puzzled. What is he talking about?
"You never knew Laney loved you, didn't you?" The statement made me shiver, then all the moments just suddenly flashed back in my mind. I slowly realized what it all was.
The giggling, the nervousness when I got in her face, our fake date, the hearts in her eyes, the literal hearts in her freaking eyes. I mean her pupils turned into hearts, how did I not figure it out?!
I was completely shocked, flabbergasted and ashamed of myself. Laney was in love with me all that time? I never noticed, I broke her heart and that's why she was so depressed. It all makes so much sense now.
Kin clipped at me a few times snapping me out of my thoughts. He looked at me weird and I returned the gaze. "Well?" I asked, expecting an answer.
"Well? Well what Corey?" I shrugged, I didn't know what to do. I felt weird inside and I sort of wanted Kin to explain the feeling.
"Dude, Laney is dating another guy. It's sort of to late to apologize...for what? Years obliviousness?"
"But I feel weird now! Like I feel sorry for Laney and I just wanna hug her and tell her sorry a million times but its something else, I don't know. You have to help me, please." Kin narrowed his eyes at me.
"Because of me the band completely fell apart, you can help. Do you really want to not help me and to have the fact that you had a chance to bring us back together and you passed that up on you're shoulders?"
Kin was still thinking. He looked back at me with a blank expression. He did a bunch of things before he answered me, spinning around, thinking some more, humming to himself.
He shrugged, it could only be a 'why not, I have nothing to lose' thought but I don't know what to do, what to say, how to go about saying it and I need Kin's help.
But this strange feeling inside me is...just eating me up. How...in the world could Laney love me? I just never noticed but now its just so clear now that I'm such an idiot.
Its like taking a test and have all the answers except for one but when you hand in you're test and you remember the answer you're just wondering to yourself how stupid you are for not remembering.
But Trina knew, Kin knew, Kon, Kon the huge giant that's thick as a stone knew that Laney had feelings for me, that she loved me and I never knew.
"Look man, its obvious that you never knew and I guess it was wrong for me and Kon to lash out at you for something you didn't commit or really know about, we thought you pretended to not know so you didn't have to deal with it. So I'll help you but I don't exactly know what I'm helping you with, how do you feel about Laney?"
I gulped, I never thought about Laney in that way. She's nice...sweet...caring...just...she's just awesome to me.
"I...I-I don't know."
"You're stuttering, why?" He asked in a detective voice.
"Like, I just like everything about her. She's nice, sweet, caring, she always wanted to keep me out of trouble those years ago and it freaking hurt when she just stop coming to practice and it hurt when I see her passing by and she's ignoring me and it hurts to know she likes another guy and it hurts-"
Kin gave a swift slap on my right cheek, I didn't even notice from my rant that tears were streaming down my face just from thinking about Laney.
"You're in love God dammit! You loved her! You loved her so why didn't you say anything?!" I gulped and looked down in sadness.
"I thought it would ruin the band, why the f*** would she love me?" I said in a depressed tone. I just sat there, crying for the first time in a long time.
Its been years since I felt that way. Years since...mom and dad died. Why am I feeling this way now? Why not back then when I could have done something incredible with Laney, show her how much I cared, how much she meant to me, not just the band.
"Corey, tell me right now how you feel about Laney and I don't wanna her the word 'like'." Kin was obviously pissed about this situation. I never knew Kin was that close with Laney.
"I love her, I love her and I don't have a good reason why. She was everything to me but I pretended so I couldn't mess the one thing I had, she was my friend and I thought she could only be my friend so I pushed every hope and dream about making her mine in the deepest corner of my mind. But they're out now, I love Laney with a passion."
Kin felt heart struck, I could tell from the shock look on his face. He never saw me cry in a fashion like this before and I wanted it to stay that way but there was no way for me to think otherwise about Laney.
I'm a massive screw up, she did love me. Now she's with another man.
"I have to tell her Kin, I have too." A puzzled and bewildered expression on Kin's face said otherwise.
"Don't tell me no." I said in a slightly threatening tone.
"She's with another guy. What can we do? Get our a**es handed to us?"
"Do what we always did as kids, Kin, I have a crazy idea that just might work."
Right there and then me and Kin sat and formulated a plan as fast as we could. My love for Laney would not go unnoticed and she will know how I feel sooner rather than later.
But then there's the chance that she doesn't feel the same way any more. What then? Just thinking of that circumstance almost brought a waterfall to my eyes.
Then there's the problem of Josh, her boyfriend is known for being more protective than he really needs to be. But look out Josh, I'm coming for the girl that was rightfully mine.
Yes! He finally knows am I right my viewers?! Yes, yes anyway I promise you that the next chapter is on its way because...I already written it! I had this story planned out and if you're a reader of my old grojband series I am more than sure that you're pleased with this because my story lacked anything to do with romance, so here we are my viewers! A new epic saga awaits you! All you must do is review and click that next chapter button! Cheers! Yeah I'm working on my British slang. I freaking love British slang, its awesome! Cheers!
