Ch. 1:
- Kai's POV -
"Wait. Guys stop for a second." I say into the microphone in-front of me."What's up Blue?" Jason asks me, using the nickname he gave me after I died different parts of my hair blue. He was the only one who used it and it bugged me beyond belief.
"I need to take five, o.k.?" I say. I look at each of my band mates and they nod.
"No problem." Milo says from behind his drum set.
Me, Autumn and Jason take off our guitars and put them an their stands. Milo puts his drum sticks on his snare drum and gets up. Jason and Milo walk into the house from the garage to get a drink. I grab my water bottle from the desk and take a drink. I walk over the couch in the corner and sit down. Autumn was watching me the whole time and opens her mouth to start talking then stops. She comes and sits next to me on the couch.
"What's the matter?" She looks me in the eye. I start to protest that anything is wrong and she stops me. "I can know something is wrong, tell me."
"I just.. I don't know." I look down at the floor.
She looks at me skeptically.
"Its just. I want bigger things for the band. We have so much potential." I explain.
"Yeah, I think we do too."
"We need to get some sort of gig. Somewhere to play. Just so that people can hear us."
"I think we should do just that."
"But we have practice!" She looks at me. With one eyebrow raised. "We can cancel! Right. Kinda forgot."
Just as I start putting away my guitar and Autumn grabs hers, Jason and Milo come walking in.
"..so that the cat doesn't really complain." Milo explains to Jason.
They look at us putting away the equipment and there expressions change from foolish grins to perplexed and frustrated stares.
"What are you doing?" Jason asks frustrated.
"Hold on before you shit yourselves." Autumn says putting up her hands like a traffic guard.
"We are going downtown." I say simply.
"And why is that?" Milo asks me. His face is mostly perplexed.
"Because we too good to only be playing in my garage."
"Oh, well okay then." Milo began to put his things away then stopped and looked at me again, with a perplexed face. "That still doesn't make any sense."
"We are going to look around downtown, talk to some clubs and try to find somewhere to play. For actual people, not cats."
"Ohh, now it makes sense."
"Yeah. So lets go!"
We finished cleaning up the garage turned practice space and jumped in the car, demo's and band cards in tow. Jason was driving with Autumn in shotgun, while me and Milo were squished in the back.
We arrived downtown and parked the car. We got out and went into the first club we saw. The person sitting behind the bar was about 40 years old. Balding, with salt'n'peper hair and a stern, wrinkled face. He was smoking a cigarette and reading a newspaper. Just as we walked in he looked at us, all still under the age of eighteen, and a smile broke onto his face and he said,"Are you guys lost?"
"No, we would like to speak with the owner of this.. establishment." Autumn replied.
"Sorry. He won't be talking to none of you. How old are all of you anyway?"
"I just turned 18 and they are all 17." Jason answered him.
He looked at all of us. Turned back to the newspaper he was holding and chuckled to himself. We waited patiently for a few minutes to see if he would answer. Once it was clear he wasn't going to answer we left.
Much of the afternoon followed the same pattern. As we were taking a break at Starbucks, Milo suddenly shouted,"Holy shit!"
"Milo! What the hell?" I whisper-yelled at him, everyone was turning towards us due to Milo's sudden outburst.
" Look at this!" He got up suddenly from his chair and walked to a post on the side of the sidewalk. He walked through all the people walking down the sidewalk not caring about them much.
We followed him, watching out for the people walking.
"What's up, Mi?
"Look." He pointed to the sign on the post.
We looked up and seen a sign. It read:
Band Needed
Unknown alternative bands needed. Please call 416-543-6443 between 9 AM to 4PM Monday to Friday to register.
It was a short sign amidst large ones for concerts and sales at stores. Short and not at all colorful or eye-catching yet Milo seen it.
"How did you even.. It's not even.. What?" Autumn blabbered, not quite sure what to say.
"I was just looking at signs and there it was."
We copied down the number and went back home to wait till Monday to call.
Autumn's POV -
Once Monday came we all skipped first period and used Kai's cell phone to call the number we found in the poster.
The number rung twice and a woman answered in a nasally voice,
"Hello, this is Rachel. Would you like to register for the audition?"
"Yes, we would." Milo affirmed.
"Band name and phone number to contact please."
"We are No Results Found. Our contact number is 416-265-6942." I answered.
"Thank you. We will be contacting you within the next two days to tell you your audition time and where it is taking place."
"Alright. Thank you very much."
We hung up the phone and looked around the tight circle we made around my phone. We gave a shaky laugh and stepped back from my phone.
"That was weird, it wasn't even a company or anything." I said.
"Yeah, that was pretty strange.." Jason agreed.
"So?! We got an audition!" Kai said excitedly. "We are getting a chance to play for people!"
"That is pretty exciting." Milo agreed.
We hung around till next period started and went to class.
We spent the rest of the day waiting, then we spent the rest of the night waiting for a call from the mysterious Rachel, instead of practicing.
The call didn't come and we all went home anxious.
Tuesday was much the same waiting. We were growing more anxious by the minute. Did I give the wrong number? I asked myself. Did they look at our Myspace page and listen to our music and think we sucked?
All of these questions took up our school day and by the time we got to Kai's house we were about to start yelling at each other for screwing up, when there wasn't even anything to screw up.
Kai opened the door and threw her backpack on the couch and everyone went to their own place around her house to sulk. Milo went and sat in my kitchen, searching for some sort of sugary treat. Jason went into the garage where we practice to start playing some sort of acoustic ballad. I went out to the back to sit on the grass under the tree.
Grrrr! I mentally yelled at myself. The world of "if's" is infinite.
"Everyone get over here!" Kai yelled at us out of no where
We came running in her house just as the first message started.
"Hey Kai. It's Mom. I know I said we would be home today from this conference but we won't be. We are staying the weekend in Calgary and going straight to Chicago for that two week conference that I told you about. Call you later! Love you."
"I don't care! Say the other message!" Kai shouted back to her mother in Calgary.
"Second message: Hello, this is Rachel. I am calling for No Results Found. Your audition will be tomorrow night, that is Wednesday night, at 5:15 at Arrow Hall. You will get more information there."
The answering machine beeped and went off. We stood in silence and gave each other startled, deer-in-the-headlights type of looks. All at once we ran to the garage, plugged our instruments in and started practicing.
Kai's POV -
Later that night, after many hours of practice we decided that we haven't practiced enough. We all elected to skip school the following day and practice. Jason went out the door and we waited for Milo to leave too but we couldn't find him.
Suddenly he ran out of my kitchen, arms and mouth full of chips and random other snacks. He said a muffled goodbye and ran into Jason's truck.
By that time it was about 10 and we elected to go get some pizza and go over to Autumn's house to get her some clothes. I grabbed the 'emergency' credit card that my mom insisted I use and we jumped in the 'spare' car my mom bought, and made me use.
"I don't know why you hate your mom buying you all this stuff, Blue. It's pretty sweet." Autumn stated with that envious glance at the car. Our positions were pretty much reversed. We lived in the suburbs so both our families were pretty well off, my parents bought me everything and didn't let me work. Autumn's parents wanted her to make her own money and she had to work hard for whatever she wanted. I wanted to work for myself and she wanted a break. We were obviously born to the wrong people.
"I just want to do everything myself ya know?"
"I guess. I just want to be able to go shopping and not use my own money for once." she looked at me with a look that said 'I wish we could'.
"I think we should go shopping for things to wear to the audition tomorrow. We can bring Milo and Jason too. Arrow Hall is just 15 minutes from Vaughn Mills. How 'bout it?" I smiled and looked at her.
"Ohmygosh! Yes! Thankyouthankyouthankyou!" all the way to her house she kept thanking me over and over. Eventually I just turned up the Fall Out Boy CD and she finally shut up.
I stayed in the car and she ran in her house and grabbed her stuff.
A few minutes later she ran back out and jumped in the car, throwing her stuff in the backseat.
"Sorry I took so long, Blueeeee." she mocked, she knew just how much I hated that nickname.
"What was that about?" I asked with a groan.
"While I was inside, he called." Autumn said, referring to Jason.
"Uhh, what did he say."
"He was wondering if you were gonna be alright tonight. He volunteered to stay over with you if you were alone." she explained about the call. "Is he still bugging you 'bout.. Umm.. Then?"
"Yeah." I affirmed. I had dated Jason sophomore year. That was the year we started the band, and the year he convinced me to dye my hair blue. I loved it and even after we had broken up I never got rid of it, but Jason took it as a sign that we still had a chance to get back together.
"Really? He was just telling me on the phone he was gonna bring up.. Getting back together." she made a face as she said this and so did I.
Autumn's POV -
"Do you like this?" I asked Milo. He was looking of into space and I yelled at him. "Milo!"
He turned, startled, to me. "What's up dude?"
"I want to know if you like these?" I asked, holding up a pair of blue acid wash skinny jeans.
"Yeah! Are they for me?" he asked stupidly.
"No! These are mine! Look for you own." I told him. He shrugged and walked to look at the other jeans.
I looked at some of the tops in front of me and Milo walked up a few minutes later.
"This is a girls store. I will be waiting outside." he whispered in my ear.
I laughed as he walked out. I couldn't help but do that, he practically my brother. Even if I already have two.
I paid for the jeans with the money Kai gave me and walked out of the store. I found Milo sitting on one of the benches and looking enviously at the little children riding the little fake motorcycles that cost a loonie to start.
"Milo! Come on, we have to find Kai and Jason."
"Alright then. Let's go."
We walked thru the mall and found Kai and Jason sitting in a booth with Starbucks on the table and there hands in front of them on the same table. Jason was smiling and Kai laughed. Just as she stopped laughing Jason tried to hold her hands across the table, very slowly. Kai looked at his face and pulled her hands away and put them on her lap.
I decided that this was a good time for me to walk in and sit down.
A/N: Thank you, thank you, thank you if you read through this chapter.
It is the first. Kinda a filler.
Next chapter will be awesome. I assure you.
Also! I am open to suggestions about stuff!
What do you want to happen with Kai and Jason?
R&R! Please, all suggestions are welcome!
