Andrea:
"So Andrea, what is your opinion?" Mrs Marsden looked at me expectantly. I looked at Andy sitting next to me. He was scribbling in his book so he was no help. I decided to bluff "Well I have trouble siding with either side in this predicament as it is so controversial." I smiled at her, trying to look like I was genuinely interested in whatever she was talking about. "Well who does have an opinion?" She asked the class. I sighed in relief. I nudged Andy. "You're no help, you know that?" He just shrugged and went back to scribbling.
"You got out of it fine. You're good at making shit up. You don't need my help." He replied
"Yeah well...good point." I decided to go back to the sketch I was drawing in my book. It's not like sose matters anyway. Well not unless you want to be an environmental lawyer or something, which I definitely don't. I have always wanted to be a singer and I don't want to be anything but that. Andy wants the same thing. We have a band with himself, his two other friends Shaun and Bradie and I. It didn't have a name yet and that was one of the things we were going to try and come up with tonight. I took my mobile phone out of my pocket and checked the time. Time to go. Thank God! Andy and I were meeting Shaun and Bradie at Bradie's house to rehearse. "Ok class, you may pack up your things and leave. Have a good weekend." I packed up my things and waited for Andy.
Andrew:
Mrs Marsden finally said we could go and I packed up my stuff. I looked up and saw Andrea waiting. I grabbed my bag and guitar and walked over to her. We walked through the corridor and started walking to Bradie's. "Have you thought of any names yet?" Andie asked me as she tucked her long blonde hair behind her ear. "Not yet." I replied, "Have you?"
"No. I'm stumped. I can't think of anything. But we have to come up with a name soon." I nodded in response. "Do you think your friends like me?" I stopped walking and looked at her. She was biting her lip like she always did when she was worried. "Of course they do, why wouldn't they?"
"I don't know, people tend to not like me." Her eyes moved from him to the floor.
"Well they do like you," I put my arm around her like I had a million times before. "And the people who don't are idiots for missing out." She looked up at me and smiled.
"Thanks, Andy" We walked the rest of the way arm in arm until we reached Bradie's house. I knocked on the door and saw Shaun and Bradie open the door. Andie, Bradie and I had been best friends since we were kids but we only met Shaun in high school. I let Andie walk in first and then followed her. We all walked down to Bradie's basement. It was adorned with band posters, amps and boxes full of miscellaneous stuff. Everybody found a seat and I set down my guitar next to me. "Ok so the first thing we have to do is come up with an awesome name." Andie said breaking the silence. "Yeah" Shaun agreed. We all sat there in silence. "We should make it something about lovers considering we are such sexy people." Shaun said winking at Andie. She giggled back and replied "Of course." I felt my anger burning up inside of me and stifled the urge to punch Shaun in the face. Why did I care if Shaun was flirting with Andie, he flirted with everybody. "But what can we put with it, we can't just be called the lovers." I broke the eye contact between Shaun and Andie.
Andrea:
Wow. Shaun was flirting with me. Me of all people. But then Andy had to break the connection between us. We all sat in silence again. I racked my brain to think of a good word, something catchy and edgy. "How about the Crimson Lovers?" I asked. All three boys smiled at me. "That's awesome!" Shaun said looking into my eyes again.
"Yeah. That's cool." Bradie agreed
"So we are the Crimson Lovers." finished Andy, "Should we practice a song?"
Andrew:
"Ok" Andie answered finally looking away from Shaun, "What song do you guys know?"
"I know all Paramore, All Time Low and Short Stack songs." replied Shaun
"Same" Bradie added
"Ditto" I said
"Ok, then can we do Decode by Paramore?"
"Sure" I replied and picked up my guitar. I found and amp and plugged it. I turned the volume up to medium and started to tune. Bradie walked over to his spiderman drum set and found his sticks. I looked over and saw Shaun doing the same thing as I was with his guitar. Andie found a wireless microphone and then started adjusting the microphone stand. Bradie counted us in and I played the bass line like second nature. I saw Andie waiting to start singing.
Andrea:
I heard the guys start playing and readied myself to start singing. I glanced to my left at Shaun who smiled at me then I looked over to Andy on my right who did the same. I started singing and lost myself in the song.