- flashback -
Ring ring
"Hello?" I asked through the phone. It was Jared, our band manager, "No way!" I yelled then hung up. "GUYS! WE'RE GOING TO L.A.!!"
Immediately Alex and Shay started flipping out.
"We're WHAT?!" Shay yelled, almost tripping over her guitar on her way over to me.
"GONG TO L.A.!" I repeated. "That was Jared on the phone and he said we're gonna try it out in L.A.!"
"THIS IS GREAT!" Alex yelled, jumping over the coffee table to get to us.
"I know!" Shay and I yelled at the same time.
All three of us started jumping up and down saying "We're going to L.A.! We're gonna be rockstars!"
-end of flashback –
It's been three months since our manager said we we're coming to L.A. So far our gigs haven't been bad, but definitely not the rockstar worthy stuff we were expecting within the first months. We soon realized we we're expecting way too much.
Overall, the money is enough to pay for the apartment we live in, the necessities, and some luxuries, like new equipment, but we are also teens, so we can't spend all our time on our music to earn the money. Jared home-schools us. And if teenage girls don't get their fill of staring at hot guys, there will be consequences.
"TV on," I said leaning over to edge of the couch to look at the TV. I was upside down and the blood flow was starting to get to me.
"You have to actually press the buttons," Alex said to me while pointing at the remote.
"Accio remote," I said sticking out my hand in the direction of the remote. Unexpectedly, the remote came flying across the room, hitting me hard in the stomach. "OW!" I yelled. Shay started laughing.
I sat up and glared at her for a second. I flipped through the channels until I found Discovery. A Haunting was on.
"Change it, that stuff freaks me out," Shay said.
"You really believe in that?" Alex asked smiling.
"No, it just freaks me out!" Shay replied. I rolled my eyes.
knock knock
"Come in," Alex yelled. Jared walked in.
"Hey," he said.
"Hey," we replied.
"What's up?" I asked.
"Just got your check cashed from Thursday," he said setting an envelope on the table. Shay was closest, seeing as she was in the bean bag chair. She snatched it up before Alex or I could get it.
"Three hundred for each," Shay said raking out her money and handing the envelope to me.
"Wow, they pay good," I said getting my money out of the envelope.
"You know what this means?" Shay asked.
"Shopping?" Alex asked even though she didn't have to. Shay loved to shop.
We just came out of a store when Alex told us to stop.
"What?" Shay and I asked.
"I saw a sign for a gig," she replied, walking over to where she saw it. I followed suit.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the street…"I like the one with the red hair," Jason said.
The boys of Connect Three just happened to be across the street at a Starbucks. They were all looking over to the girls across the street: Skylar, Shay and Alex.
"I think the one with the straight brown hair is cutem" Shane replied.
"What about you, Nate?" Jason asked. "Do you like one of them?"
"Yeahm the one with the curly hair," Nate said.
"Let's go," Shane said.
"Over there?" asked Nate.
"Yes," Shane replied.
Back on the other side of the street…"Jared?" Alex asked into her cell phone. "Yeah, we just found a gig for Tuesday…"
- boys P.O.V. -
"Here, watch this," Shane said.
- girls P.O.V. -
I looked over to the edge of the sidewalk where I saw Shane Gray tripping over the sewage drain while trying to flip. Or, at least, that's what it looked like.
"Oh my gosh!" I yelled and ran over. And I didn't run over because I was overly obsessed with Connect Three, it's just because I care if someone gets injured.
"Are you alright?" Shay yelled running up to Shane too. I just noticed Nate and Jason standing there.
"Yeah," Shane grunted, getting up. "I'm fine."
"Smooth," Jason said giving Shane a hand.
Alex walked over and hung up her cell phone. She was speechless.
Okay. We aren't obsessed, necessarily, but everyone knows who Connect Three is. And we do like their music. Actually, they are on of our influences.
"Hi, I'm Shane," Shane said, recovering and trying to look cool. He stuck our his hand for us to shake.
"We know," we all said at the same time. I stuck out my hand then stuck it out to Jason, then Nate.
"Are you guys fans?" Jason asked.
"You're an influence for our band, so yeah, just a tad," I replied smiling. Alex was still awed that Jason was standing right in front of her.
- Our story -
When we we're an aspiring band, we began to choose influences, you know so we could specify out musical genre. Well, one of those bands just so happened to be Connect Three. We never included them in our favorite bands until then, but we don't have posters of them all over our walls or are devoted fans. We just listen to them.
Though, over the time of listening to them, we have developed favorites. Shay likes Shane the best, Alex likes Jason the best, and I like Nate the best.
- end -
"Oh," Shane replied.
"It's not like we're obsessed with you, definitely not. We just like you. We like your style of music," I retorted. I don't want to sound like a fangirl.
"That's cool," Nate said. Finally, he speaks!
"Yeah. Well we saw you over here while we were in Starbucks," Jason started.
