((A/N Thank you to penccils on Tumblr for the amazing story idea I hope you all love it (L))
"Alright let's take it from the top!" You shout, beginning the cover song your band was working on. You were learning so many new rock songs it was exhilarating. Sure you had a mediocre band but in your opinion it was totally fucking awesome. Your band was called the Auxiliatrix, it had been Kanaya's name since you always used her garage to practice. Your band consisted of all girls- as you were a female rock band. These girls were Jade and Kanaya who played bass, Feferi who played drums, Vriska who played the electric guitar, and you, Nepeta Leijon, on vocals.
Currently you were working on a cover of Def Leppard's 'Pour Some Sugar on Me' and it was going great! You had been practicing so many cover songs lately for one reason and one reason only; the Auxiliatrix was planning a concert in Kanaya's driveway. You would be getting all your stage equipment courtesy of Jade and Kanaya's girlfriend Rose's brother Dave- he was a DJ but he was also in university studying paleontology, something he was very fond of. You were extremely nervous for the up-coming concert; it would be held in only a week and today after practice you and the girls were going to hand out the flyers you designed after practice.
Mostly you were nervous about Kanaya's neighbor from across the street coming to the concert. You had never spoken to him but you thought he was extremely cute. He had a temper as you had seen when he fought with his brother whose name you didn't know. Come to think of it you didn't actually know the Kanaya's neighbors name. Yes, you had asked her when the bad had seen him shouting something profane the first time you ever saw him, but she dismissed you politely like always, saying she didn't know the boy's name. You were disheartened by that but you had continued to admire him from afar.
When the song ended everyone began to put their instruments down.
"Soooooooo… Are we going to hand out flyers now or not?" Vriska says impatiently, almost immediately receiving a nudge in the side from Kanaya.
"Oh! Yes defurnetly!" You say excitedly as you pick up your stack of flyers and one of the staple guns. Each of the girls either nodded or in Vriska's case, grunted, their agreement and picked up their flyers and staple guns as well. Each of you had about thirty flyers so that you could spread the word better, you had also gotten permission from the town hall to play, and that way the police wouldn't randomly show up and start arresting your band.
Everyone split up with each other, Feferi went with Jade and Vriska went with Kanaya; that left you on your own, which you were fine with. You were glad with the way you chose to dress today, you loved your clothes. Currently you wore some really ripped up monotone-tie-dye jeans, black combat-boots with distressed olive green laces that matched the green of your top that had an inverted black cross decal on the front and was ripped up to sort of reveal the royal blue bra and bandeau you had on underneath. You also were donned with your favorite black leather jacket; the jacket was a little short on your torso and the left pocket was held together with safety pins. As for the sleeves, well it was a vest-jacket and the shoulders had short metal spikes on them, you loved this jacket.
The other girls had taken off before you, the five of you had agreed to meet back at Kanaya's when all the flyers were handed out, and so you set out on your own. You start by stapling some flyers to lamp posts and other things of that nature as well as handing out some flyers to passers-by. Now you had crossed the street and were putting flyers up on that side when you were suddenly startled by someone tapping you on the shoulder; this almost- almost- made you drop the flyers you had tucked under your arm. You turned around to face the person and realized it was the boy you had admired for so long.
"Excuse my but what the fuck are you doing?" He asks, cranky as ever.
Unable to form full sentences you manage to squeak out a, "Band, uhm… flyers, my band… concert, next week." Before holding out a flyer towards him, which he takes reluctantly.
"The Auxiliatrix?" he questions.
"Yeah, one of our base players made up the name, her names Kanaya, she lives right over there." You say as you point across the street and smile back at him. "Personally I liked the name Arsenic But we all agreed on the name Kanaya made since we always practice in her garage." You explain.
"Oh, so that's your band I'm always fucking hearing. And yes I know of Kanaya from my stupid motor mouth brother who's friends with her sister Porrim." He huffs, crossing his arms.
"Oh yeah, Porrim's really nice." You say, shifting your weight between your feet before sticking you and out towards the boy. "I'm Nepeta by the way, Nepeta Leijon." You say and he shakes your hand.
"Karkat." He says before walking away and taking a second flyer with him.
You stand there for a moment in slight shock, but shake it off and continue to hand out and put up flyers around town. When you get back to Kanaya's you realize that you're the last one to get there.
"Sorry, how long did you guys wait for me?" You ask.
"Don't worry Nep we didn't wait long!" Feferi voices.
"Yeah, we only got here a few minutes ago." Jade pitches in.
"Oh, okay, well do you wanna look over out set list?" You ask and the others nod, except for Vriska who says she already did and she was heading out to feed her pet tarantulas Eight and Cue. You all let her go, if you didn't she would bring them to then next practice just to spite you all. Regardless of Vriska's departure, Kanaya pulls out the set list and begins to read off all the songs you need to practice.
"We have, Do you wanna touch me, Bad reputation, I love rock n' roll, and Cherry bomb by Joan Jett, Plumtree from Scott Pilgrim, Black sheep by Metric, Zombie by the Cranberries, Pour some sugar on me by Def Leppard, na-na-na, Teenagers and mama by MCR, face down by red jumpsuit apparatus, kryptonite by three doors down, and livin' on a prayer by Bon Jovi to cover." She says, not even getting winded by the speed she spoke at. You however just plopped down in a bean bad chair and groaned.
"My voice is going to die isn't it?" You pout.
"Not if you warm up properly!" Jade giggles along with Feferi.
"Oh by the way me and Vriska were the first ones back. I saw you talking to my neighbor from across the street, Kankri's brother." Kanaya says pointedly and your face flushes.
"Is that his brother's name?" you ask.
"Yes, but I was curious as to what Kankri's brothers name actually is."
"Yeah what's his name!?" Jade and Feferi shout at the same time. Sometimes you could swear that the two of them could be identical twins if it wasn't for their appearance.
"Karkat, I think?" You say, you don't quite remember, it was all quite the blur; however you are almost certain that's his name.
"EEEEEEEEEEE! Did you ask him to come to the concert?!" Feferi squeals in delight.
"Well, not exactly, I mean he took two flyers but even if he doesn't go he lives right across the street anyways." You say bluntly.
"Regardless it would be nice if he made the conscious decision to come. I've seen the way you look at him Nepeta." Kanaya states as she wiggles her finely tweezed eyebrows at you, then Jade and Feferi smile coyly at you while your face burns bright red.
"Oh purrlease, I can't be that obvious can I?" You ask shyly and all the girls nod at you.
"You're just lucky Karkat's so oblivious!" Jade exclaims.
The rest of the day goes on with you talking to Jade, Kanaya and Feferi until Kanaya kicks you out to wait for Rose's arrival, you are fine with this. You go home and say hello to your sister and your cat before racing upstairs to plan an outfit for the concert. All of you had agreed to wear corsets so you could at least be somewhat matching.
You decide on a dark green pleather corset that's decked out with golden gear decals and brass buttons with a lace up back. The pleather stopped as a strapless top but the corset had a sheer brown and green that was like a halter-type collared button up shirt. For pants you picked some distressed black and grey vertically striped leggings and you decided you were going to wear your black combat boots. For accessories you chose scary-cat type studs for your four lobe piercings on each ear along with three black hoops for the helix piercings on your left ear. As for makeup it would just be your usual black lipstick and thick black cat-eye eyeliner with some false winged lashes.
After you were finished you and Meulin had pizza and milk for dinner while you signed to each other.
"So how was your day?" She signed to you.
"Good, we handed out the flyers I made!" You sign with enthusiasm.
The rest of the conversation droned on the same boring way. Like every day you were tempted to ask what happened to your mom but you knew Meulin would just brush off the subject like she always did and you would end up crying in your room about how you never knew your mom and how Meulin wouldn't talk about her. You had given up on asking last year when you turned seventeen; by that point you had realized Meulin would probably never tell you what happened.
When you finished your dinner it was around eight so you decided to do some drawing before you went to sleep; like usual it was an uneventful night.