I don't own Twilight or any of the songs used in the story.
Born for This
Chapter 1
BPOV
"Rose, did you smoke my last cigarette. I swear to God I will kick your ass. We're already running late for our show at Ethan's. We don't have time to stop and get more." I yelled. Seriously, what was she thinking. I only had one left and I would need that to calm me down before we went on. I'd stop on the way home to get more after the show.
"Calm down, hoochie! Alice smoked it earlier but she went out and bought more so were set." Rose replied as she came out of the kitchen. "Everyone knows not to let you try to go on stage without your fix."
I'd been smoking since I was 15. Something I picked up from Rose, Kate and Alice. Not to mention all the bars that we played in.
Rose and Kate just messed around until one day they heard me singing getting ready for school and the idea hit them that we could actually make a band and hit the big time. Whatever, it sounded like fun so I was in. So was Alice.
We had literally grown up around music. My Grandpa Swan had us guitars at the age of 4. Kate got her first drum set at the age of 6. I slowly picked up piano as well. Grandpa Swan thought everyone should have a musically upbringing. He liked to tell stories about sitting on the porch pickin' guitars with Buddy Holly in Lubbock, TX before he made it. Grandpa Swan's influence was probably why we had such eclectic taste and style in our music.
We were raised by our dad, Charlie and Grandpa Swan. How two men raised four girls is beyond me but they managed. Kate's parents were shitty and had left her with Charlie and Renee about six months after she was born. Renee passed away due to complications during child birth with me and Charlie had died about a month before my 15th birthday of a heart attack.
I'm pretty sure he saw it coming. He had he will drawn up and had appointed Rose guardianship of me in the even t of his death. Luckily Alice was already 18 so there were no issues there.
Rose worked her ass off for us running the bar Charlie has owned. Since we owned the bar I was allowed in. Charlie's was the first place we started playing. Once we started drawing a crowd we branched out. Rose said it was the only way to get out of Texas. I got a fake ID to use at the other bars and started playing across Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma.
I went in the kitchen and got the bottle of Jack Daniels and four shot glasses. Walking back into the living room I sat the bottle and shot glasses on the coffee table and Rose and I waited for Alice and Kate to join us.
Finally, Alice and Kate made it out to us and I poured the shots. "Here's to us, girls! Hopefully there's a music scout there tonight that falls in love with us. Let's rock!" and with that we through our shots back and headed out the door.
Ethan's was a typically bar. Full of drunks, slutty girls, horny men and do to their reputation for bands getting noticed there normally packed with up and coming musicians. We were so lucky to get a spot there on a Saturday night.
There was a line wrapped around the building when we arrived. Rose parked the car and we walked to the entrance. Rose explained the bouncer that we were one of the performing bands, gave him our names and we made our way in.
Once inside, Rose went to look for Ethan to gets all the details about what they expected from us tonight while Kate, Alice and I found a table and ordered a round of shots.
The waitress had just returned with our shots when Rose came up to the table looking like a she had seen a ghost.
She calmly sat down next to me before looking around the table. "I just talked to Ethan. Got all the details. We're up after the group performing about 20 minutes or so. We need to get these shots and get back stage to change." Then almost as it was an afterthought she turned back to us and said "Ethan also said that Carlisle Cullen of Cullen Records is here tonight looking for some new talent"
With that she threw back her shot, got up and walked back stage.
The three of us sat there stunned. This could be our big chance. Cullen Records was huge and had a reputation for taking on relatively unknowns and turning them into big names. We downed our shots and took off after Rose.
We found Rose backstage and started getting ready. Tonight Alice had us in black leather mini's and our usual color of tanks. While getting ready we started to discuss our set list. We had only thrown in a few of the songs we had written but with Carlisle Cullen here we wanted to show our true talents. So, 10 minutes before show time we sat down to review the list.
"I think we need to showcase Bella's talent for singing and her playing ability. It's definitely a selling point. " Kate said.
Rose and Alice quickly agreed. "We also need to let him here some of our own work. We are not a cover band and I don't want us marketed as one." Rose replied.
Eventually we decided to throw in a few more of our own songs. We decided to also do a cover of George Harrison's "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" and I would take the guitar solo.
With those decisions made we took the stage. " Hey everybody! We're Swan. We hope you enjoy the show. We are going to do some of our own stuff but we'll also be doing some stuff I'm sure you've heard before. So get off your asses, dance and enjoy yourselves! Ready girls 1..2..3.. 4!"
And with that we tore into our first song of the night.