"JACK!" My 10 year old brother, Jamie, can barreling into the room.

"Hey Jamie!" I chuckled. Even though having to sell my songs to overpowering companies was tiring and honestly, depressing, Jamie was the best thing in my life.

"How was the studio?" He asked cheerfully.

"Great. Actually-" I was cut off by my ringtone. I pulled out my phone, confused when I didn't recognize the caller ID.

"Hello?" I asked.

"Is this Jack? We are the band called Guardians, contactin-" The phone seemed to be snatched out of his phone, and a different voice came on seconds later.

"Hi Jack?" She said, not even bothering to wait for a response. "Yeah, this is Tooth, the bands manager, and we want you to come to 67 Winter RD at 5:00. Thanks, and bye!" She- Tooth hung up, leaving me to get my butt to that address in five minutes.

"Jamie, we need to head out, I got a call from a band." This happened often, so Jamie knew the drill. He grabbed his hoodie, and ran out to the car, jumping into the back seat next to my guitar case. I'm lucky that there are seldom police in my neighborhood, cause if they were, I would have about 100 tickets.

We pulled up to the address when it was 5:05 (I had gotten lost a couple of times). The very large boy I had seen at the auditions came out of the door, almost knocking the wreath off the door. Wait. Wreath? It was only November 15. Whatever.

"Hello? Jack? Come in friend. I am Nikolas, but you can call me North." I hesitantly followed him in, noting all the Christmas decorations.

"Who's your friend?" North asked.

"Jamie, my son," I joked. "No, he's actually my kid brother. I tried to ruffle Jamie's hair, but that hat that I had gotten him got in the way. Grinning, I let North lead the rest of the way, lugging my guitar.

"Jack!" Tooth said. She gasped, then practically flew over to me. "Your teeth! Do you floss? I bet you do! Baby Tooth, come look at this!" A girl with blonde and pink hair ran over, almost fainting when she saw my mouth, currently being held open by Tooth. I had dropped my guitar case on the floor, due to her violent attack.

"Tooth, no need to scare off the little bugger." A boy, probably a year older than me said. He had a serious tan, green streaks in his chestnut hair, and was huge. I don't mean fat, I just mean TALL.

"That's Aster, you know North, and you know I'm Tooth," She gestured to everyone in order.

"I'm Jack, and this is my brother, Jamie." I slung an arm around Jamie's shoulders, and stepped forward.

"Okay, so basically, you're our new lead guitarist and backup singer. North is our drummer, but he also publicizes, and I'm the manager and I play keys. Aster sings and plays guitar, but we need someone else as well." She explained.

"Brilliant. Now do you want to-" I was interrupted by Jamie.

"Wait. Aster, aren't you Sophie's foster brother?" Jamie blurted, then covered his mouth. I gasped, taken by surprise. Sophie was one of Jamie's best friends, and she had been like as sister to me.

"Yea, but I like to think of her as my real sister." He said, stone cold.

"Hey, just because you adopted her doesn't mean she's out of our lives." I said, irritated.

"Yea, it kinda is," He said, advancing towards me.

"You know what? I think you're-" Tooth shoved us both apart, looking at Aster like this was an ordinary occurence.

"Guys! Chill, Aster, don't beat someone up until you've seen what they can do! Jack, let's see you perform." She said, pushing me to the center of the room.

I got my guitar, and played a short song I had written. (A/N: Let's pretend it's Once And For All, by Disciple, from O God Save Us All)

"Not bad, probie." (I know, I stole that from NCIS)

"Yea. I have to get home, serve dinner, and put Jamie to bed by 8:00. I'll come in tomorrow if you want." I packed up my guitar, and started to head out.

"Yeah, can you come in? We'll be in the studio by 11:00, so you can come see us then." Tooth said. She seemed to be doing all the talking in the band.

I took the car back to the apartment, made dinner (Grilled cheese sandwiches) and put Jamie to bed. I then watched some of Aster's youtube videos, which were really good. I fell asleep with my head next to my laptop, dreaming about tomorrow.

And fin! Yess! Some of you have been asking for this chapter for a while, and i'm sorry it's so late. I've been on vaca a lot! Thank you for being patient! Mwa! Mwa!

-Fangirl