Hey! I'm very sorry that I haven't updated in about 20 years. Maybe not that long, but it feels like it. I had the worse case of writers block when I was writing the second chapter. I'm sure that you don't want to read all of my lame excuses so on with the chapter!

Disclaimer: For all those geniuses out there, I don't own How To Rock (characters and all) or any of the songs that I use.

Zander's P.O.V

We were heading up to my room to hang out. My mom had said that dinner was going to be ready at six o'clock. I was strumming my ukelele while Stevie was strumming my guitar. After a while I stopped strumming and got on the interwebs. I then come across the Perf's blog. By came across I mean that I went on there to see what they had written about Stevie and I. I went on there for the others too, but it was mainly for me. Oh look, they have another entry. Oh joy.

Perf's blog

Hey fans, Molly here. Now I know that I never blog on the site, but I decided that as head Perf, I should at least put in one entry. I'm here to update some more of that Gravity 5 love that you guys just eat up! As you know, Justin Cole is having a totes major party tomorrow night. Anybody whose anybody will be there. I expected Gravity 5 not to be invited, but it looks like I was wrong. It looks like Justin Cole might like Stevie back! Now I know that you guys are just waiting for someone to get together, but get this. Stevie was seen going home with Zander today! Now if you haven't read our other blog, you should know that Zander is majorly in love with Stevie. He might be trying to win her over! I mean like, who couldn't just feel the jealousy that Zander had when Justin Cole stole Stevie from him to go eat at his table? He was totes jealous. Anyways, we'll keep you guys updated with the love cluster that we have here at our very own Brewster High. Next time, Grace will be back with the blogs. Stay perfect.

-Molly

I couldn't believe this. Actually most of it I can believe. I look over at Stevie whose still strumming away on the guitar.

"Hey Steves?"

"Yeah?"

"Take a look," She gets up and looks at the blog. I was expecting her to blow me to pieces via her fist, but she was really calm. She seemed to get this amused face as she was reading the thing. Now that I think about it, it was pretty funny.

"This is priceless," she said.

"So you think it would be impossible for you to like me?" I say, preteding to be hurt.

"No, it's just that me and you are best friends that just don't know the meaning of personal space,"

"Personal what?" We both laugh.

"You want to write a new song for Gravity 5?" she asks me.

"Sure, what about?"

"The rumor mill," I like it.

By the time we're done, dinner's ready. I guess we just poured all of our frustration with the whole blog thing into the song. The song is called Rumor Mill. (The band who made that song is called We Are The In Crowd.) It's a duet. It will obviously be sang by Kacey and I. I kind of wanted Stevie to sing with me. No one knows this, but Stevie has an amazing voice. She can play bass in front of millions of people if she wanted to, but she can't even sing in front of our band. I'll get it out of her someday. We were humming the song when we got do to the dining room.

"How was your day today kids?" my mom asked us.

"It was great!" my little brother answered.

"How about you guys?" We look at each other.

"It was fine," we both say simultaneously. My mom had served us Mac and Cheese. Did I tell you my mom is an amazing cook? No? Well then she will blow your mind with food. It's that amazing.

We were eating and chatting with each other. All of a sudden my brother looks at me accusingly.

"What were you doing with my future wife in your room? Shouldn't she be in my room?" We all laugh except for Sammy.

"What're you guys laughing at?" We laugh some more.

"Whatever, but Zander, you better not be trying to be making a move on my Stevie!"

"I-I-I w-won't S-Sam-my," I say trying not to laugh but failing miserably.

After dinner, Stevie and I go back up to my room. She goes to her section in my drawers. That's right, Stevie spends the night so many times that we have some of her clothes here for her to use when she sleeps over.

The next day at school, everyone comes up to us asking us whether or not we're dating. Apparently the whole "love" cluster is the center of attention for everyone. They were even picking out the couples. Some were very passionate on the matter. They even came up with mash-up names for the couples. They made posters about it. It was ridiculous. I walk around with my arm around Stevie all the time. Before, people had their suspicions, but they never really thought about it. Now they were swarming around us like bees. I like attention, but I really do not like this kind of attention. All of my fan girls were giving Stevie and Kacey death glares. Stevie receives most of this anger because we show more closeness than anyone ever. People came up to me and said that I should be with Kacey. Some say that I should be with Stevie. Of course my fan girls say that I should be with them. Some have even went up to Kacey and Kevin to tell them who they should with. Most people want them to be together if they didn't end up with someone else. I noticed that nothing has been said about Nelson.

The others and I were chilling in the band room. Kacey then brought the whole blog situation.

"Don't you just hate how they get into your business like that?"

"Yeah, it's definitely not cool," Stevie says as she's tuning her bass.

"Hey Nelson, how come nothing's being said about you?" Kevin asks. (Aha, you probably thought that Zander asked that.)

"Yeah why is that?" Kacey said.

"It may be because I sort of am dating Grace," he says barely audible.

"What!" Kacey says. She's pretty much the only one in shock. I'm pretty sure Molly even knows.

"Yeah, but Molly said that she doesn't want me to hurt Grace so I shouldn't tell anybody about it until Grace says it's okay,"

"Wait, Molly actually cares about Grace?"

"Yeah, I mean, they are best friends," Makes sense. They go back to talking about the blog that the Perfs post. I look at Stevie. We sort of have a silent conversation. We show Gravity 5 the song that we wrote last night.

"This is amazing guys!" Kacey says.

"Yeah it's really good," Kevin comments.

After band practice, we go home to get ready for Justin Cole's party tonight. When we get there, I have my arm around Stevie like usual. I have on a grey V-neck with a red flannel shirt on. Stevie has on the same, but her flannel is purple (the flannel shirt is also mine). We are both wearing combat boots with black skinny jeans. Kacey went with a dark purple sequin mini dress. Kevin is wearing a white shirt with a grey hoodie. Nelson is wearing a red V-neck with an unbuttoned red plaid shirt on top.

We walk in to see everyone partying and drinking. How they got alcohol is beyond me. Justin Cole gives me a death glare when he sees my arm around Stevie. I'm starting to think that maybe he does like Stevie. He walks over to us.

"I'm glad you guys made it!" he says mainly to Stevie.

"Great to be here," Kacey replies. Stevie and I walk off. We think that drunk people are funny so we are going to be laughing hysterically by the end of the night.

"Great party so far," I say to her.

"A real bash," she replies. We both laugh a bit. I drag Stevie to the dance floor. We start dancing like idiots. Justin Cole comes over and offers Stevie a drink. She takes it. I'm not surprised. She let me have about half of her cup. Justin then starts to try to give her another cup. She takes it again, but lets me have half of it again. We're still dancing like idiots when Justin hands her a third cup. We follow this pattern until the fifth cup. After that one, Stevie doesn't take anymore.

"Why not buzz kill?" Justin asks. He's obviously trying to get her drunk and do something stupid. He definitely doesn't know Stevie like I do. I know that she's not stupid.

"Because I don't want to get drunk," she says yelling so that he can her.

"Isn't that the point of drinking?"

"No, it really isn't,"

"Come one. Just one more drink,"

"No thank you,"

"Come on!"

"Hey! If she said no then she doesn't want one," I intervene. He's obviously ticked off by this. He starts to get in my face.

"Why don't you let her have some fun?"

"Because she doesn't want to,"

"You jealous?"

"Of you? Not likely,"

"You want to go!" he says. I can smell the alcohol that he was drinking. He must be drunk. Luckily, Stevie steps in.

"Hey Zander, I think we've been here long enough, don't you think? I think so. Let's go," she says as she quickly takes my arm and leads me out. I look back at a subdued Justin Cole. We tell Kacey, Kevin, and Nelson that we're going home. Kacey will just ride with Kevin and Nelson. That's how she came here anyways.

By the time Stevie and I get to her house, it was midnight. I decided to just spend the night there. Yes, I do have a section of clothes at her house. We walk past her parents and into her room. We change (in separate rooms) and go to bed.

"Thanks for yelling at him for me Z,"

"I didn't yell at him,"

"Yeah you did. Everyone stopped dancing to look at us,"

"Well he deserved it,"

"Yeah, he really did," She rested her head on my chest.

"I can't wait what the Perfs blog about tomorrow," she says faking enthusiasm. I laugh. We then fell asleep.

We wake up to see Stevie's brothers and parents looking at us. This isn't the first time they've caught us cuddling. The very first time this happened was sheer terror. Her brothers tried to pick me up and throw me out. Stevie yelled at them before they could touch me. They looked like they would've killed me. They still do, but each time they see us they have less anger towards me. For that, I am very grateful. Her parents knew that I wouldn't do that and neither would Stevie, so that was pretty okay.

After we look at them, they kind of say good morning and go downstairs. It was very awkward. After we got dressed, we went downstairs for breakfast. It consisted of jokes, courtesy of the Baskara brothers, and the normal morning conversation. They asked us about the party we went to last night. We said it was pretty okay. We've been to a few parties in our days, but this is the one that we actually came home before three in the morning. We usually crash at each other's houses.

"You guys came home pretty early compared to the other times you guys went out. Why is that?" Stevie's mom asks.

"It wasn't all that fun," Stevie answered.

After we had finished breakfast at the Baskara's, we went to the school to go hang out in the band room. Even though it's Saturday, we can still go to the band room. It's like a hang out spot. When we get there, Kacey's already there. Nelson and Kevin are probably still asleep. Kacey was texting a mile a second. Stevie was on my lap when I got on my laptop.

"Let's see what the Perfs are saying now," I tell her.

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Stay classy Zevians. Songbird out.