DISCLAIMER: I don't own Twilight or its characters...*tear*...I do own all the movies! Yay for Team Emmett! hehe


And I could tell you
His favorite color's green
He loves to argue
Born on the seventeenth
His sister's beautiful
He has his father's eyes
And if you ask me if I love him
I'd lie

I'd Lie, Taylor Swift

"So you are telling me he just ignored you through not only one but BOTH classes?" Tia growled from her perch on my kitchen island.

I rolled my eyes at her and jammed another Doritos in my mouth. I really didn't want to go over the whole story again.

I had to endure another hour alone with Jared the Jackass and he didn't even bother to look at me the entire class! And when your class has less than ten people in it; that is doing something.

"Yes T, he did." I sighed after chewing. She growled again and reduced the chip in her hand to dust. I had raced out of my History class to find Tia and Mia and then proceeded to summarize my class with Jared and the power slut. Needless to say when Tia found out she was livid. She was ready to go find him and kick his balls into his throat. Mia on the other hand gave me a sympathetic look and asked if I was alright. Where Tia likes to get involved and pushy; Mia is more of a silent supporter. She would be my right hand if it came down to it, but she just chooses to use logic and her brain before she rushes into something. She is silent but deadly; like Spock. Tia is a lot like Jim Kirk; hotheaded and quick to act and think later.

Wow I am comparing my friends to Star Trek characters; I am officially lame. And now that we were at my house after school Mia had changed into angry Spock and was demanding answers about how I was feeling and if I was going to be ok.

"And it didn't really bother me that much." The stupid voice in my head was shouting, Lies, all lies. "I am used to it by now." Tia gave me a look that said she clearly didn't believe me but she let it go.

"I don't want to talk about it; let's just play." I sighed taking a swig of my water.

"Oh we are gonna play but not before we find out if you are alright." I glowered at Mia. She was never this forceful; normally Tia was the pushy one. Maybe they had finally figured out how to change places.

I pushed off the island and started pacing around my kitchen. "God I am fine, ok? It isn't like he hasn't been pretending to be anything but an arrogant ass for a while now. The summer didn't make him grow a freakin brain and realize that he has been a butt munch to me. I am over him and whatever friendship we had died three frackin years ago! And if you would all be so kind, I would like to not talk about it anymore! I wrote a new song during his asshole-ishness in TV Studio and I would really like to have it worked up for the beach party." I took a deep breath and glared at the floor. I hated freaking out like that but all this talk of Jared made my heart hurt, and the faster I got my guitar in my hands the better I would feel.

I looked over to see Heidi with tears in her eyes. I hated that this wedge between Jared and I had put her smack dab in the middle. She was not only my friend I also considered her like little sister. It double-ly sucked that she was also his sister.

This damn conversation had crossed a freaking line and I was starting to get pissed. There was an unspoken rule that we didn't discuss Jared when we were together as a band; we didn't discuss the male gender in general.

Sure they were in our songs and in our music. They were forced to be in our lives but for a blissful couple of hours we could pretend like they didn't break our hearts or make us feel things we shouldn't. All of us have written songs and we all know who each and every one of them is directed towards. It is just not discussed. Our songs are personal and uniquely ours. So having this discussion was already breaching a wall that we didn't cross and I was uncomfortable and I could see that Heidi was. I looked over at Mia and Tia to see them looking embarrassed.

"Can we just play?" I said exhaustedly as I fell into one of the chairs around our breakfast table. I watched as Mia nodded her head, gave me a small apologetic smile from across the table and got her violin out to tune it.

Tia's face told me she was sorry but her eyes told me that this conversation wasn't over. I gave her a small nod to let her know we could talk later. That seemed to pacify her for the moment and she grabbed her drum sticks and twirled them through her fingers.

I grinned at her and she wiggled her eyes at me, "Did you really say 'butt munch' earlier?"

I rolled my eyes. "Out of that whole damn thing, all you took out was that I said butt munch?"

She laughed out loud, "Of course! Come on Kimmie, I think most eighteen year olds stop saying butt munch in like the fifth grade! Kim said butt munch, what is the world coming to? Next thing we know you're gonna be giggling when people talk about sex!" Mia snorted and shook her head but kept working on her violin. I glared at Tia.

"Oh wait, you already do that," she giggled and ducked; just narrowly missing the water bottle I threw at her head.

I gave her a fake scowl. She was right of course. I was as virginal as a friggin Nun. In fact getting to second base is a goal of mine; I just haven't found the right hitter. I laughed at her and gave her a wink to thank her for breaking the tension. You could always count on Tia to get the attention back on her.

"And don't get me started about your use of every word starting with F that sounds like the F-bomb but isn't! Can you even say fuck?" I blushed red and picked up the pen next to the phone and threw it at her.

"No I can't! I hate that word and you know it!" I was unwaveringly against saying that dirty nasty word. Out of all the cuss words out there that four letter word was, in my opinion, the most vulgar. I cringe every time I hear it and the girls knew that it wasn't said in my presence.

Apparently my reaction to her choice of curse word was hilarious because Tia was practically falling off the counter with laughter. Mia was giggling and trying to concentrate on her violin. Some friends I have! I looked over at Heidi to see if she thought my hatred of a word was comic relief, but she was just grinning nervously from her perch on a bar stool. When I looked at her she started nervously playing with the hem of her shirt and avoiding eye contact with us. This was new. Heidi was everything except nervous and she was defiantly not quiet. Normally she was like a hyped up Chihuahua. What was going on with her?

"Hey Toots you ok?" Tia and Mia looked up at Heidi like those cliché twins from movies; they both looked at me and then back to Heidi and then back to me shrugging their shoulders. I rolled my eyes and looked back at Heidi.

"Well," she started in a small voice. Shit! I hope she isn't mad at me for what I said about Jared.

"Is this about what I said about your brother?" I asked leaning forward in my chair.

She shook her head violently, "NO! No, I know he is an ass. I don't care about that. I…well I have…I have kinda done something." She was biting her lip so hard it looked like she was going to puncture it.

Oh, well in that case I was intrigued as to what could make the energizer bunny of our little group so nervous. I was opening my mouth to ask her what she did when Tia opened her big one.

"Did you 'kinda' fall into bed with an artist type guy? Cause let me tell you from experience; just because they can do amazing things with their hands doesn't always translate to great sexual skills." Tia was cradling a bag of cheese puffs and jamming them into her mouth. "Trust me! I met this guy, Mike, over the summer and he could make a block of clay into a sculpture worthy of the Louvre but it was like making love to one of those CPR dummies! Not that I would know about that but he just laid…"

"T no one cares about your sordid sex life." Mia said interrupting her.

"Of course they do! I am the only one getting any. And if you and Miss Iron Undies over here don't get a move on your both gonna be old ladies who have to ask the nursing home director for batteries for their vibrators! I mean little Thail here is gonna lose her big V before either of you two freaks! And Mia don't even act like you are so innocent! I seem to recall a boy named…"

"DON'T YOU DARE FINISH THAT SENTENCE TIA MAY, I have so much dirt on you if I wanted to I could bury you ten feet under!" Mia was red faced and gripping her bow so tight I thought she was going to snap it. The twins were known for their brawls but it was a rarity to see Mia so worked up. I would have to find out what was so important about this mystery boy of hers.

Tia was giving Mia the evil eye when I heard a little voice say, "I invited someone to play with us."

Tia, Mia and I blinked and looked over at Heidi who was red faced and pleading with her eyes for us to listen to her. I don't think I could have spoken if I wanted to.

Our faces of shock must have said something because Heidi repeated herself, "I invited a friend to come play with us tonight."

I choked on some spit and tried to let her words sink in. Our band was my extended family; we were at ease with each other and able to express ourselves without judgment or ridicule. Our parents were the only ones allowed to hear us and that was after we had practiced enough to be confident in our music. It might sound stuck up but inviting someone else into our sanctum was shocking and to be honest I felt a little betrayed.

In the corner of my eye I could see Tia's face getting red and she was beginning to growl. And Mia was opening and closing her mouth like a fish and shaking her head back and forth. I shook my head to clear out the fuzziness and I raised an eyebrow and nodded for her to explain.

"Don't be mad," Tia snorted and Heidi swallowed hard and rung her hands in her lap. "There was a new girl in my Chemistry class today. She is from Tennessee and you guys know that I don't have any friends in my grade because everyone thinks that I am crazy," she was waving her hands in the air, "anyway she looked really shy so I said hi to her and she sat next to me at my lab table and we got to talking and she told me that she played guitar and bass and banjo and mandolin and I told her that I was in a band and she told me that she had always wanted to be in a band and then I might have told her that we were going to play at the Halloween beach party and we were trying to figure out how to work a fiddle into one of the songs and she said that she could play bass while Mia played fiddle and then she could play whatever she needed to on the rest of the songs except she doesn't play drums she said she could never get past the head ache and I hope you guys aren't to mad at me but she was just so sweet and she doesn't have any friends and I know how she feels not that you guys aren't my friends you are just all seniors and I could use a friend my age and oh her name is Hailee by the way and I didn't think I was breaking the no outsiders rule because she is new to the school and she doesn't know anyone and I am really sorry I can tell her not to come although she should be here in about ten minutes so I would have to call now what…"

"HEIDI!" the rest of us yelled.

She cringed and Tia smiled at me and nodded. I looked over at Mia who looked excited and I knew that I was game if the girl was good. This was like an answer to prayers! I had wanted to find someone to add a little more body to our sound and having a jack of all trades was awesome! Just as I was opening my mouth to ask Heidi a question the doorbell rang.

Tia jumped off the counter, well more like fell off very ungracefully. She laughed and ran all the way to the door as Mia, Heidi and I chased after her.

Tia grabbed the door knob and flung the door open. I felt sorry for the girl behind the door. Tia and I were crammed in the door jam and Mia and Heidi were looking over our shoulders. Hailee stood on my porch with at least four different shaped guitar cases and a tiny mandolin case. I smiled at her and Tia reached out to help her with the instruments.

"Hi, is this the Connweller house?" she had a slight southern accent, and it was amazing. Our music was a pop country with a little rock in roll mixture and I think I remember hearing in Heidi's rant that she was from the south. This was going to be amazing!

"Yeppers it is!" I grinned at her. "I am Kim Connweller and this is Tia and Mia Browner, their twins. And you know Heidi." I pointed to all of my ragamuffin friends.

Hailee gave a small wave once Tia cleared her arms of two of the cases, "Thanks for the introductions; now when do we practice? I am dying to start playin' again."

"I like her!" exclaimed Mia. She was our slave driver. She would make us stay till we had a new song down pat.

"You have to answer a few questions before you can be trusted to keep our secrets," Tia told her with a smirk.

Hailee shifted one of the cases on her shoulder and she raised an eyebrow at Tia, "I am the daughter of a career Marine and a stay at home mom. I have lived all over the world and the US; mainly in the south thus the slight accent. I have two little brothers who are the demon seed of Chesty Puller. My dad retired in May and decided to move us all to a Native American reservation because Mom is a tree hugger and because she moved with him for so many years it was her turn to pick our home. My nutty mother is a vegan so we don't eat any of the good stuff but Dad sneaks us out twice a week to go eat a greasy burger and fries. My hair is blonde just not this blonde; I don't like cats they are evil. My last name is Ray and I love pizza. Like, I could eat it by the ton if I was allowed which is probably a good thing because I would be fat. I play just about every instrument known to man and I am new hear and know no one so who am I going to tell your secrets to. Also if what crazy over here told me about writing music is true I have a couple songs to add to the mix."

"Good god there is two of them…" Tia whispered.

I giggled and stepped out onto the porch. "Welcome to Pixie Dust Hailee; I think you are gonna fit in just fine!" Hailee grinned at me and I could hear Heidi clapping and shrieking behind me.

We walked over to my garage and Hailee proved herself when she plugged her electric in and started busting out the opening rifts of Thunderstruck. I think Tia might have wet herself with excitement and Mia looked like she was going to burst.

After we let Hailee show off for us the unexpected happened. Tia reached over and grabbed up Heidi in a hug. I don't know who was more shocked Tia or Heidi. Tia isn't a very affectionate person and Heidi has been trying to get a hug from her for a year.

After Tia realized what she was doing she jumped back like she on fire. "Um," she coughed, "Thanks for bringing Angus over there to us, we are gonna kill at the beach party."

"You're Welcome!" Heidi shrieked as she walked over to set up her keyboards.

"God in heaven Tiny save it for the stage!" Tia shouted as she got behind her drum set. I smiled as everyone got in their places for practice, and the sounds of warm ups started.

This is where I was comfortable. Here, in this two car garage with my friends, my band mates, my sisters; Jared didn't matter and our problems didn't matter. For a couple of glorious hours we could get lost in the music. And that is just what we did.


Sorry this is a little rough and short but I wanted to get it out there. Please review! I got over 300 hits but only 9 reviews...I suck at math but that doesn't add up! Thank you!