I Never Meant To Be 'The One' - Chapter 1
Please note that all the band names the girls suggest are ones made up by myself. I didnt steal the names or copy any other bands name, its all totaly origional.
My arms were full of different bottles and cans containing all kinds of consumable liquids. From a Capri-Sun to a bottle of beer, it was all there.
"Whoa there Amy girl! You're gonna drop something. Here", Lily said as she grabbed a few of the bottles from me.
I gratefuly let her take some and said, "thanks Lily. You were the only one to come help me." My voice got a little louder towards the end, purposely making it so that the other girls had a chance of hearing me from the living room.
Lily smirked at my comment towards the girls in the other room, making her snakebits stick out a little, and skipped out of the kitchen with the drinks she had.
I chuckled at her. She was so random.. She reminded me of CC a little. Oh CC, how I miss your playful banter. And Jake with his appetite that could eat anyone out of house and home. Id also heard that he had started to date my friend Ella- they had met before at a little party I threw for BVB whe they had returned from tour. I missed Jinxx with his quietness and even Ash and his Purdyness. A smile formed at the thought. Though I do see Ash on skype sometimes, he and Ruby are still a loving couple. But he has been on tour for the past two month- ever since Warped, actualy- so I hadnt seen him in person yet. I didnt want to say that I missed Andy but.. I did. Stop, Amy. Its over.
Although I tried, and failed, at trying to stop my process of thought, that last night came running back to me. The images consumed my brain, making my head burn. The picture of Andy and Juliet. My tears. Danny outside the bus. It all flushed through my brain.
I decided to try and think of the postitives that came from that night.
Id returned home to a more aware mother and Id also made some new friends on the way. Maddy, for example, was one and once she had made me show her my screaming skills, she wouldnt shut up talking to me...
"I play drums", she had said back on Asking Alexandria's bus.
We were talking about music and what we could play. The fact that I could scream a little came up.
"No fucking way!", Maddy had gushed. "Scream for me? Please? Ive never heard a girl do screamo." She then started to jump up and down on her seat a little, leaving me to giggle from my position on the floor.
I remember screaming a few lyrics from Asking Alexandria's newer song called To The Stage. Id heard it and instantly fell in love with it.
Maddy seemed pleased with my screaming skills, but I have a long way to go until they are perfected. The guys had even heard me and had applauded a little. I remember blushing at that part.
We then all spent the rest of the ride home- which was a long time- discussing the topic of becoming a band. Maddy had wanted to be a famous drummer for ages, apparently. I wasnt bothered about being famous, sure I wanted to have some effect on the world and not just stay in the background all my life, but I wasnt sure if fame was for me. Turns out I was so wrong.
"Amy, you okay back there?" Caitlin shouted back to the kitchen where I was. She was the youngest of us all yet she was the most motherly I guess you could say. You could always hear the concern in her voice and she always made sure we were safe when going out and stuff.
When I returned home from Warped, I was shocked to discover that we had new neighbours. Caitlin and her little sister and mother had just moved from Ireland to next door to us. She had an awesome accent! Lucky enough for me, she was into my style of music and didnt care about the voulume of my radio. We had become fast friends and after a while we discovered that she could play guitar really well.
"Yeah", I said as I walked into the living room.
Scuzz was, once again, blasting from my Tv. My mum couldnt moan because she was working again. And with the way she has been lately, I wonder if she would even moan at all. She has been really awesome with me ever since we had that phone conversation back at Warped. Fuck, why did my thoughts keep going back to Warped? Get. Over. It.
"Finaly! Im fucking thirsty", Maddy said as she took a beverage from me. "Thank you." Sure, now she talked all sweetly.
Everyone who didnt yet have one took a drink from me and conversations started from all points of the room.
"We should practice soon, mother fuckers. The fallen angels are weeping because they cannot hear the awesomeness which is our band", Lily said with a serious face. She flipped a long strand of platinum blonde hair over her shoulder, showing off the darker layers underneath.
Everyone chuckled at her comment.
"Dude, you are so randomly funny", Ruby giggled.
Ruby had returned from Warped as soon as she found out I had gone. I didnt want her to leave Ash and be unhappy but she just told me that Im her best friend and she would never leave me. I aww'ed at that. Ash and the guys had told her that they had to stay over in America to do some more tour dates, therefore, she skypes him.
"Anyway, shouldnt we think of a name for the band yet? Its been a couple weeks and we are still no where", I suggested.
Yeah, our band had only been around for about two weeks. But it was only two months ago I left Warped. Gah, stop thinking!
"Yeah we should think of a name first. You guys have been working really hard, you deserve a break." Caitlin. Alway the protective one.
I looked over and smiled at her. She smiled back enthusiasticaly, her nose ring and snakebites shone in the sunlight from where she was sitting near my window. Her long, dark hair looked lighter in the direct light and her new glasses reflected the outside beams.
"That would be cool", I smiled. We do need a name.
Ruby jumped in straight away and said, "Oh how about 'Satan's Sluts'?"
Lily, Maddy, Caitlin and myself all turned out heads towards her. Im pretty sure we all had the same expression, too.
"What the fudge donkey?" Lily and her randomness, but its not totaly difficult to understand her.
Ruby rolled her eyes and pushed her hands through her bright red hair. "Satan's Sluts'. For a band name that is. Our fans can be called our 'Whores'", she said excitedly.
"Rube thats, um, and awesome idea but its wrong on so many levels", I giggled. I doubt our fans would like to be called whores.
Ruby shrugged it off and continued to down her drink. She wasnt mad at us for not taking her idea, fuck no, Ruby isnt like that at all.
"How about 'Forever The Holy Passion'?" Maddy said to us. She always had great ideas and this was just an example of that.
"Thats awesome!" I grinned. The rest of the girls nodded along and smiled with me, they seemed happy too.
"Or, if you want to go darker since we are kind of a screamo band, we could be called 'Downhill Murder'?" Maddy continued.
"That would be cool too, but Forever The Holy Passion seemes less... scary", Caitlin said quietly.
I, Ruby and Lily all agreed.
"So I guess thats settled. Now, lets go practice my fellow FTHP children!" I fist pumed the air as I rose from my seat.
"FTHP?" Lily asked, distracted by my Tv.
"Yeah, FTHP means Forever The Holy..." I trailed off and gestured towards her, indicating she was missing something.
"Ohhh. Okay! Sorry, my brain was taken over by the alien Tv at that moment in time", she said.
"Oh no, Lily! Did they probe you?" Maddy shouted in mock horror.
That set us all off. Ruby went into her silent giggling fit and fell to the floor while Caitlin snorted a few times through laughing and I bent over clutching my sides. Overreaction? Possible. But their expressions, priceless!
"No, Maddy, they did not probe me", Lily said after finishing her laughing session. "Only Caitlin can do that", she winked at Caitlin who is the only other bisexual member of our group. They wernt together, Lily just had a better relationship with Caitlin because they both understood how hard it was for eachother to come out and be proud of their sexuality.
Caitlin blushed a little but wasnt slow with a comeback. "Bitch please, you wish Id probe you."
That set us off laughing again.
"Okay dude, no one is getting probed in my house. Now lets go and practice." I pulled Ruby up from the floor as I spoke.
We left all our drinks down in the living room and headed down to my basement.
Ive never used the basement before now. Neither has my mum. We never needed it so we just filled it with all the crap that we never use anymore. But when it was decided for definate that we were making a band, we all tried to figure out a place where we could practice. Since my mum is always away working, I practicaly dont have a dad and I have the space in my house, I decided to clean out our basement and use that as our make-shift studio. It turned out to be awesome.
Ruby had her own bass and since shes never really at home, she brought it here and left it in my basement. We also had a few electric guitars- curtosy of me going to cheap shops and bootsales- and an acoustic which was actualy mine. Id bought a mic a few weeks ago and customised the stand a little to make it more my own. Maddy brought over her old drum set she had- Sam bought her a new one when he found out she was in a band but she kept that at home. Which meant we had everything we needed to tear shit up with our music.
And now we had an official name! You could sense a new wave of happiness around us because f that simple face. This was going to be one hell of a good practice.
Forever The Holy Passion. Remember the name, mother fuckers.
Fuck Yes!
The first chapter of I Never Meant To Be 'The One' (MORLS 2) is done! I love it alread and cant wait to share the rest of the chapters with you guys!
And Caitlin, Maddy and Lily are all based off real people who are my social networking friends haha.
You can find Maddy on here as she writes stories (a BVB story, too) and on twitter at All_My_Hate and you can find Caitlin on twitter at Vamptabulous :) Lily doesnt have twitter but you can find her on Wattpad.
Ruby and Amy are my official character. Totaly made up. But I do give each of them a few traits of mine and a few traits of my friends, it makes them more personal to me :)