Simple. It's all I was and all I ever thought I would be, just a small town girl with a notebook in my hands dreaming about one day being a famous writer. But dreams are a tricky thing, we don't have just one dream, we have many and sometimes you don't even know it was your dream till it comes true.
"Okay, I like the color on this one but the style is a bit off putting." Amanda said as she walked out of the changing room.
"It looks great." Juliet said then went back to writing in her notebook.
"Will you put that thing down?"
"I can't right now, I'm working on an amazing plot." Juliet said then her friend grabbed the notebook out of her hands and closed it. "Hey!"
"You need help Julie, it's truly an addiction."
"It is not an addiction, writing is like art but in word form."
"Yes I know about all the wonders of writing because you have told me about it a million times but right now we are supposed to be shopping for some sexy clothes to wear to the club tonight."
"Do we have to?"
"Oh come on, you promised that I would get to pick what we get to do tonight."
"I know but clubs aren't really my thing."
"How could it not be your thing? Drinking, dancing, partying and most importantly lots of hot men."
"You know I'm not looking for men right now, I have to focus on my writing so I can get published."
"That is the craziest thing I have ever heard, I know you are the type of person to go for what they want and not let anything get in the way but boycotting men is not the way to go."
"I know you think it's crazy but I am, tonight I will go to the club but no men whatsoever."
"Fine… I can still talk to men tonight, right?"
"Yes."
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"Spencer, your set starts in ten minutes." Jaxon said walking up to Shawn as he set up his band equipment.
"Kay… And I was also wondering if maybe I could play some of the songs from my CD I gave you last week?"
"Which ones were you thinking?"
"The last few from the track, the more mellow heartfelt ones."
"Kid, this is a club. Clubs are meant for upbeat music like for dancing not your depressing life stories."
"They aren't depressing just because they have meaning."
"I don't care, keep those songs for playing in your basement or something." Jaxon said and walked away.
"That was rough dude." Jay said.
"Don't worry about it man, Jaxon is a jackass." Matt said.
"It doesn't matter, we have to go on in a few minutes so lets set up."
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"Names?" The bouncer said as the girls walked up to the club.
"Amanda Pace and Juliet O'Hara." Amanda said and then the man skimmed through the list and found their names.
"Alright." He said and let them both inside.
"This place is so loud!" Juliet screamed to Amanda over the music.
"It's a club, the music is meant to be loud. Lets find a seat in the front before all of them are taken." Amanda said then they found two chairs at a table right next to the stage.
"We are probably going to catch some sort of disease sitting on these chairs, this place is so unsanitary."
"Will you stop complaining and just have fun, let's order some drinks... Waiter two rum and cokes over here." Amanda screamed to a waiter near them.
"Coming right up." He said back with a smile and headed to the bar.
"He was cute, I should get his number." Amanda said and Juliet laughed. "What? It's nice to have options."
"You have a problem."
"It's not my fault I like to live a little."
"Here you ladies go, can I get you anything else." The waiter said setting the drinks down at their table.
"A phone number would be nice." Amanda said and the man grabbed out a pen and paper then started writing on it.
"My pens out of ink, either of you got one I could use?"
"Yeah." Juliet said and went in her purse and grabbed a pen off of her little notepad and handed to him.
"Here, I'll look forward to your call." He said handing Amanda the paper then walking away.
"I can't believe you just did that." Juliet said laughing.
"I can't believe you smuggled a notepad into a club."
"If I have an idea I need to write it down so I don't forgot."
"Oh and I'm the one with the problem."
"Ha." Juliet said then the music stopped. "Why did it stop?
"They have some band playing live tonight that's starting."
"Oh cool, what band?"
"I don't know, some local one." Amanda said then the curtains on the stage opened, it was almost pitch dark on stage and you could only see the figures of the band and their instruments.
"Hey everybody, welcome to Tonic and I'm glad you could all make it out here. We're Augustine and we will be playing for you tonight." Shawn said then the instruments started up, as soon as he started singing the lights on the stage came on.
"Woah." Juliet and Amanda both said at the same time.
"He has a beautiful voice."
"His voice is the thing you're noticing, do you see his face? He's hot as hell." Amanda said staring at him.
"I think you are drooling a bit." Juliet said with a smile then Shawn looked over at her from on stage and smiled.
"Oh my god, he just smiled at you!"
"Calm down, he could have been smiling at any body."
"Yeah, i'm sure you're right. He was smiling at the group of dudes behind you." Amanda said and Juliet looked behind her.
"You don't know what his type is."
"Clearly his type is attractive blonde, blue eyed girls." Amanda said looking at Shawn who kept glancing over at her, Juliet tucked a piece of her hair behind her ear and looked down at the table already blushing. "Ohhh!"
"Amanda, shut up!"
"You are so red right now!"
"I am not."
"If it makes you feel better he is blushing too." Amanda said and she looked up at Shawn who had pink tinted cheeks, he looked away a bit embarrassed as he kept singing.
They sat and watched as the band went through most of their set until their last song when Shawn got off the stage and walked around, he played around and danced with some couples that were dancing to his song. He walked over to all the people sitting at the tables in front, jokingly taking a sip of somebodies drink. He made it to Juliet and Amanda's table last, he smiled at them both then grabbed Juliet's notepad and went to an empty page and wrote something then handed it back to her before returning to the stage and ending his set.
"What did he write?!" Amanda asked hardly containing her excitement.
"Meet me at the bar for drinks after my set."
"Damn Julie, you just get extremely hot and talented guys asking you for drinks now."
"It doesn't matter anyways, I'm not dating right now."
"You aren't gonna make an exception for him?"
"I said no men, so no men.. No matter how perfect they may seem."
"You are a writer not a nun, it just seems like such a waste to say no to him."
"Amanda-"
"Wait, how about you have drinks with him and see if it changes your mind at all. If you still aren't interested in men after that I will stop bugging you about it."
"Stop bugging me, is that even something you know how to do?"
"Haha, now go wait for him."
"Come with me."
"He only asked you, meaning he wants one on one time."
"That's why you need to come with me, I don't want to give him the wrong idea. He has to know I am not interested in dating or anything."
"Fine, but I'm ducking out at some point to go dancing." Amanda said then they walked over and sat at the bar, after a few minutes Shawn and the two other guys in his band walked over. They all smiled at both of them and they both smiled back, Juliet only really looking at Shawn.
"Would either of you ladies like to dance?" His band mate said then Shawn elbowed him in the side. "I'm sorry, would you like to dance?" He said looking at Amanda.
"Or would you like to dance with me?" The other one said to Amanda.
"I'll dance with both of you." Amanda said and got up.
"Damn you, Amanda." Juliet whispered as she walked by her and left her there with only Shawn, he took a seat next to her and just looked at her with a smile.
"Hi." Juliet said nervously.
"Can I get you a drink?"
"Can I ask something first?"
"Shoot."
"Is this your thing? Smiling at girls from your stage then asking them for drinks, because if that is-"
"Stop. What's your name?"
"Juliet."
"Juliet, I can see you put me in the whole rock star box. Self involved, careless, uses talent and looks to win over women. Am I close here?"
"Very."
"I'm not, well I'm a bit self involved but not in a bad way. I make music for a living so I need to be somewhat focused on myself and what I do. I am a little careless, I ride my motorcycle in the rain sometimes so I feel like that makes me kind of a badass. But I definitely don't use women, you are actually the first person I have asked out at one of my shows. I think I had the courage to do it because I was mad at my boss, I would never have had the nerve to talk to someone like you because to be honest you make me really nervous... So now that we got that out of the way, can I buy you a drink?" Shawn said and Juliet nodded. "Can I get a beer and-" he said to the Waiter looking to Juliet for her answer.
"Rum and coke." She said then the waiter got them their drinks.
"So do I get to ask a question now?" Shawn asked and she nodded. "That notebook of yours, I had to go way to the back to find a blank page."
"That wasn't really a question." Juliet said with a smile.
"That's right, I gotta put it in a question form. Why is there only a few pages in the back not written in?"
"I'm a writer, I write down all my ideas in that notepad so I can come back to it later and decide whether to write it or not."
"That's really cool, art in word form." Shawn said and Juliet just looked at him. "Did I say something wrong?" He said with a nervous laugh.
"No, it's just I always say my writing is art in a word form. My friends tease me for it actually."
"I always say my music is art in a music form, my friends like mess with me for it too. I'll be sitting writing lyrics in my notebook and my friends will tell me to get a life, I guess they just don't understand that the music is my life."
"I have never had anyone say exactly what I think."
"Maybe I'm a mind reader." Shawn joked and she smiled.
"You are an artist."
"I wish other people thought that, like my boss."
"Your boss should understand music, he hired you."
"He understands what gets his business money and that's stage performers like me but he selects which songs of mine I have to play and never let's me use the music that really means something."
"I thought your songs tonight were pretty meaningful, behind the loud, thumping sounds the words itself really meant something."
"You really thought so?"
"Yeah, your last song you did about escaping into the music was unbelievable and the level of emotion that was hidden in that song made it a masterpiece. It didn't just show that music is meant for dancing or singing but that it is meant to be a place where we can go to when everything around us is going badly and we find peace and happiness in a song."
"How have we never met before?" Shawn said in disbelief and Juliet laughed.
"I don't go to clubs much, this is actually a one time thing my friend talked me into."
"Remind me to thank your friend." Shawn said with a big smile then Juliet covered her face with her hand.
"Oh no."
"What's wrong?" Shawn said grabbing her hand off her face and holding it.
"I think I may have gave you the wrong idea." Juliet said looking at their hands tangled together then he pulled his away.
"Oh god, I am so sorry. You have a boyfriend?"
"No, no. I don't have a boyfriend, I just am not looking right now."
"It's okay, if you don't like me you can just say it."
"No, I do like you which makes this even harder. I'm not looking because right now I am just focusing on my writing till I can get something published."
"Well you aren't looking for a boyfriend, how about a friend?"
"We won't stay just friends and you know that."
"I promise we will and I know people in the publishing business so we can get your work noticed as soon as possible."
"Friends?"
"Yes, friends."
"Okay, deal." Juliet said then shook his hand.
"Am I still allowed to flirt with you?" Shawn said with a sheepish smile.
"Are you trying to make me regret our deal already?"
"Just trying to figure out the boundaries."
"No flirting, no cute boyish charm, no being too perfect."
"Now you are trying to make me regret our deal?"
-Hey Psych~O's! I'm finally back with a new story & shout out to psych7706 because she has been wanting me to post something for a month now, who also happens to be a Shules writer too so go check out some of her stuff. Hope you all enjoyed the first chapter and let me know what you think. :D