~ "So how do you guys know each other?" Rumor asked.

"Me and Spot have known each other for a long time. Sage and Spot have a band, Cold."

"That's your band? Cold?"

"Yeah," Sage said.

"Is it just you two?" She asked.

"Well no...There is Blink and Skittery. They play the bass for us." Jack answered.

"What do you guys do?" She referred to Spot and Sage.

"Sage is the drums. Spot's the guitar and vocals. Blink and Skittery do vocals too. And I bring them in guys for

the band, I also sing for them sometimes."

"Cold huh? Cool." She said.

"Yeah." Spot said.


After the movie...

"Ohh shoot we gotta go to school." Spot said. They stretched, got up from the couch and were out the door.

Jack drove them back to school. They made it just in time to hear the 'you can go home' bell ring.

"Hey guys." Blink met them outside. Skittery was walking behind him.

"Where were you? You were suppose to meet us out heah aftah fourth period." Jack claimed.

"I couldn't afford to miss my othah periods, Jack." Blink explained himself. Skittery shrugged.

"-Bye guys." Rumor left them.

"Bye." Some said.

"I want you guys to meet dis girl." Blink said to them.

"Where is she?" Spot said. They were standing in the parking lot.

"We have to wait fer her. She's finishing a test inside."

"She heard we had a band so she wanted to meet you guys?" Skittery said.

"How long is she gonna take?" Jack asked.

"She won't be long." Blink said.

They hung out there for a while. It started to get colder. And everyone that went to that school was mostly gone.

"C'mon let's just leave her kid." said Spot.

Finally she came out.
"Shh. That's her." Said Blink. She walked towards him. "Hey guys this is Ebony. Ebony dat's Jack, Spot, Sage

and ya know Skittery." He introduced them.

"Hi." She half grinned. It's hard to describe her.

"Ya want a ride home?" Jack offered.

"No. Thanks."

"We're rehearsing right now. You can hear our band play." He said.

"Okay, sure."

They got back in Jack's truck with a new person, Ebony.

That was just like Jack, he would invite a serial killer to a Halloween party.

They had their band practices in Sage's garage. "One...two...A-one-two-three-four." Sage called out and

started banging on the drums at four. Skittery had the first guitar solo, then Blink joined in with his guitar. Spot just sang this

time even though he had his electric guitar hanging from around a shoulder and under one, it was hooked up to the amp,

like Blink and Skittery's.

Jack sat in front of the band, tapping his foot, with Ebony. They were sitting on top of some boxes. "They're good huh?"

"Yeah." She answered back.

"You don't even know we've been through like a million singers and guitarists. Let's see..." He thought for a

moment, "Swifty, Dutchy, Snitch, Mush-Mush just left."

"Ohh." She pretended to be interested in what he said.

They started on another song and this time Spot played guitar and sang. Blink back-up sang, and also played

guitar. After going over that song twice, they took a break.

"Wanna get something to drink?" Sage put her drumsticks down on a drum.

"Sure." They went up the stairs and into her house. As she opened the door the first thing you would see is the

kitchen.

As they entered it, they saw a guy. 5"11, sitting in the kitchen, eating a frozen then macrowaved pizza. He

stopped stuffing the pizza in his mouth.

"Ebony dis is my brother Jimmy." Sage introduced him.

"Hi." He swallowed his pizza.

She half waved.

He pushed his blonde hair back after he scratched the side of his scalp.

The girls went to the fridge, grabbed enough soda for everybody, and went back into the garage. They handed

the guys their drinks.

"You guys look nothing alike." Ebony said.

"Yeah. Jimmy isn't my real brother."

"Ohh."

Sage finished swallowing her soda, she sorta kept it in her mouth there.

They were interrupted by Spot. "Did Race call?"

Sage shook her head.

"He said he booked us a show for next week." Spot wandered away to talk to the guys.

They got back to their conversation. "Yeah Jimmy used to play bass for the band." Sage commented.

"What happened?"

"He got a job."

"Yeah well, your brother's good looking."

"Many guys are."

"He is too, and him...and him." Ebony reffered to Spot, Skittery, and Blink signaling to them.

"So why are you interested in our band anyway?" Sage asked sipping her coke.

"Well because I used to play in a band and I...."

"-was hoping there was a spot open. Not today, toots." Sage said.

Ebony shrugged and looked down.

"Yer coming to our show next week aren't you?" Skittery asked her.

"Ohh Yeah. I'll be there."

Band practice ended late, that didn't mean they played the whole time or that she had to watch them play the whole time.


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