It's been a while since How To Rock A Playlist has been updated. And I definitely have song choices for the next 20 one shots. I still would love to see your ideas because I will use every single one of your choices since this is your story :)
Special thanks to BlueNinjaGirl! I freaking love you and you know that. Thanks for the support! The Little Mermaid has that special place in my heart and I'm glad I get to use this song. Much love Sam
Zander's P.O.V.
Life's just amazing for once in my life. Gravity 5 is competing in the L.A. High School Charity Contest, The Perfs have been staying out of everybody's way ever since we beat them in the latest Battle Of The Bands, and I'm dating the most beautiful girl in the school. That's right. Stevie Baskara. We've been dating for almost 7 months and I've never been happier.
"Zander, where is everybody? I specifically said we have to rehearse everyday after school if we're going to win the charity contest. And they know how much I need that money." Kacey said as she started to pace across the room.
"Kevin and Nelson are in the principal's office and Stevie should be here in three, two." I said.
"I'm here. Sorry I'm late, I ran into Andy in the hall. He was crying in his usual corner while farting to an Adele song." Stevie said as she fixed her beanie.
"He's still upset about Zevie?" Kacey asked as she sat down in a chair and started to file her nails.
"I told you not to call us that." Stevie said as she sat down on my lap.
"Sure sit on me, that's fine." I said.
She looked at me and kissed my cheek, "Sorry babe."
I heard some "fake vomiting" from Kevin and Nelson as they walked into the band room.
"Can you guys not be a mushy gushy couple in the band room." Nelson said.
"Yeah, I don't want any love cooties to rub off on me until I date Kacey." Kevin said as he put his arm around Kacey.
Kacey pushed Kevin off the chair, "But you guys are still seriously late. If we want to win the $500,000, then we have to work extra hard on this set list."
"Kacey's right. We need the money to replace all the stuff that Dumb and Dumber broke since they entered Brewster." Stevie said as she stood up and looked at Kevin and Nelson.
"I CALL BEING DUMB!" Kevin said.
"Can we all just practice? Nelly, tell us what our set list should be." Stevie said as she sat down next to me and held my hand.
"Well the set list is supposed to require at most three songs. I was thinking we should do one upbeat song, like Move With The Crowd, one acoustic song, which is probably going to be something Zander and Stevie will eventually write, and our obvious finale song, Only You Can Be You. And if we make it to the finals, we should perform something that can really show off Kacey's voice, like All About Tonight." Nelson said.
"That sounds about right." I said.
"Okay, then let's get to work. Nelson, I need you to help me with my vocals. Stevie and Zander, work on that acoustic song. Kevin, go buy food." Kacey said.
"Let's do it baby!" I said.
"Meet back here at 4:00." Kacey yelled as we all scattered.
I took Stevie into the courtyard, "So what amazing song shall we write this time?"
"Why are you asking me? You're the one who writes the lyrics and I do the music." Stevie said as she tuned her guitar.
I took out my songbook and opened to the page my pencil was placed in. It was a love song I started to write ever since Stevie became my girlfriend. "This is the only song I've been recently working on. I just need to finish some lyrics and add the music."
"And that's what I'm here for. Let me see what you got." she said as she sat close to me and held my hand. "These lyrics are amazing."
"Of course they are, they're about you." I said while poking her nose.
Stevie started strumming some chords while I continued writing the song. After about 30 minutes of work, the song was complete. (A/N okay so if you don't watch Glee, then you won't know what song this is. Check my bio for a link to the song!)
'Baby, I'm so into you. You got that something, what can I do? Baby, you spin me around. The Earth is moving, but I can't feel the ground.' Stevie started to sing.
'Oh, that kinda lovin' turns a man into a slave. Oh, that kinda lovin' sends a man to his grave.' I sang.
'You know I'm crazy, crazy. Crazy for you baby. Crazy, crazy. Crazy for you baby.' we both sang.
There was so much chemistry between us, I could feel it. When we sang the last lyric, Stevie just stared into my eyes. Her eyes were that really pretty, bubbly brown. She started to lean in.
"Stevie! You left your phone here! Your brother texted you about some bet and laundry." Kacey yelled.
"Man, I forgot about that! I'll see you tomorrow Z." she said as she kissed my cheek and left the courtyard.
Stevie and I walked up to the roof and did our normal "early morning" tradition.
"You ready?" I asked.
"More than ready." she said as she winked at me.
She took out the bucket of balloons, "Guess what I put it in this time."
I picked up a balloon and sniffed it, "Peanut butter, jelly, and... Pickle juice?"
She laughed, "You're good at this game, Robbins." Stevie picked up a balloon and we both held our hands over the roof.
"There's a group of people." I said pointing to two guys eating a sandwich.
"Okay drop on three." she said. "One, two, three."
We dropped the balloons and ran downstairs to the courtyard. We sat down casually at our lunch table as we saw the two guys walk inside drenched in pickle juice, peanut butter, and jelly.
"Who did this?!" they both yelled.
I looked over at Stevie, who tried holding in her laughter. When the two guys walked out of the courtyard, Stevie and I burst out laughing.
"This was way better than we dropped our tomato sauce balloon on The Perfs!" I yelled.
"I know right? But it'll never beat when we dropped ketchup and nacho cheese balloons on Kacey." Stevie said in between her laughs.
The bell began to ring and the courtyard began to empty out.
"Come on Z, we have to go to Mr. March's class." Stevie said as she finally started to calm down.
"Wait, before we go." I said as I grabbed her arm.
Stevie turned around and her lips were just a few inches away from mine. I started to move closer to her.
"Baskara, Robbins! Get to class now!" said Ms. Antariksa, the vice principal.
So close!
The day finally came. Contest day. Everybody was super nervous. Luckily we performed our setlist well enough to get into the finals. We were up against two bands, one from San Francisco and one from Malibu. Both were good, but there's a 50% of Gravity 5 winning against both of them.
"Up next, Gravity 5!" the announcer said.
"Okay guys, this is it. Let's do it." Kacey said.
"You know what, let's just go home. I mean, there's a big chance of me peeing my pants while we're performing." Kevin said.
"I agree with Kevin, let's just go home." Nelson said as he started to walk with Kevin.
Stevie grabbed them by the collar of their shirts, "You guys better not screw this up for us. Or else."
We all walked onto the stage. The bright lights were flashing and the crowd was just total madness. As I started playing the notes to All About Tonight, I looked over at Stevie. She smiled at me. I couldn't help it. I stopped playing, walked over to Stevie, and kissed her. I heard a lot of gasps in the audience, but I didn't care anymore. I had to kiss my lady. I felt Stevie's arms go around my neck. I stopped and looked over at Kacey.
"What now?" she mouthed.
I looked over into the audience and saw most of them whispering. I looked over at the audience who were expecting a performance. I walked backstage, took my guitar, and walked back on stage. I walked over to Kacey, "Just follow my lead."
I started to strum the chords to "Kiss The Girl". As I looked at every member of Gravity 5, they seemed to have caught on and they all started to play to the beat. (A/N obviously the original is really show, I'm imagining them playing the Ashley Tisdale version since it's more "pop-rock-ish")
"There, you see her. Sitting there across the way. She don't got a lot to say, but there's something about her." Kacey sang.
Every once in a while, I looked over at Stevie. She would wink and bite her lip at me, that's my girl.
"I can't believe we lost." Kevin said.
"Hey, at least we won second place. $100,000 is enough money to pay for everything." Stevie said.
"You're just saying that because you and Zander finally kissed." Nelson said.
"Yeah, if he didn't kiss you. You'd be yelling at everybody on how we screwed up." Kevin said.
"Guys! It doesn't matter if we won first or last. We should be thankful that we made it this far." Kacey said.
Everybody gave Kacey a weird look.
"Kacey are you okay? You usually never say things like that." I said.
"I'm just trying to hold in my anger of not winning first place." she said through her teeth.
So I finally finished this today! But I'm still sick :( but I'm trying to update as many fanfics as I can. Please review and tell me any more suggestions! :)
