A/N: Hey guys, in this chapter three new characters are introduced! :) Enjoy
Everyone looked at Jake like he was an alien. Had he really just asked to turn on the jukebox? "Roustabout, that old thing hasn't worked in years!" Quinn said walking towards Jake and the jukebox. Jake looked shocked at the fact that they'd lived without music. You see, Jake could never live without music. It was the way he relaxed and was able to get his emotions out. Jeff was a bit scared of the fact that Quinn was getting closer to Jake. She told Jeff that her dad was like Jake. He loved music, rode a motorbike and moved from town to town as fast as he could.
"Jukebox not working! Folks I've seen this before… broken down jukes and broken down people…" Jake turned away from the jukebox, leant on it and looked at Quinn. "unsatisfied women" he said with a wink in her direction. She looked at him with a scolding look, that could have literally killed people. Jeff laughed behind her knowing what look she was giving him by his slightly scared facial expression. "Looks like I got here just in time" he said moving out of the way of Quinn deathly glare. "Just in time to make you people live a little" he said as he walked from the porch to in front of the crowd of people "Its not like there's a law against it!"
"Actually" Marley said as she stepped towards Jake. "In this town…there is" she said and peoples happy smiled dropped into sadness. They all knew about the law and they all hated it. "Our mayor recently passed the Mamie Eisenhower decency act" she sounded just as depressed as the people looked. Marley looked up at Jake who just looked slightly confused. "No public necking" she said walking towards the steps of the porch "No tight pants and no loud music!" she exclaimed sitting down oh the third step.
"Well I'm going to have to do something about this" Jake said pacing along the edge of the street. This was the most he'd thought in ages. "No public necking. Then what's the point in living?" He asked himself quietly. He paced for a minute before walking over to Natalie and Pulling her from the step and making her stand back over with the rest of the crowd.
"Come on everybody and snap your fingers now
Come on everybody and clap your hands real loud
Come on everybody take a real deep breath and repeat after me
Love-a my baby
Love-a my baby
Hey, hey, hey and my baby loves me!"
Jake began dancing some really simple steps and people were copying. They were better at this than he expected. He laughed as he saw all of there interesting takes on some of the moves. Jake was really surprised that they hadn't had music and dancing like this in years, although it was like this in some of the towns he had visited in the past.
"Come on everybody and whistle a tune right now
Come on everybody and stamp your feet real loud
Come on everybody take a real deep breath and repeat after me
Love-a my baby
Love-a my baby
Hey, hey, hey and my baby loves me"
Jake ran over to the jukebox and opened the back panel. All that was stopping it from working was a couple of loose wires. Jake fixed them and then kicked it a couple of times and then it booted up. He looked happy with himself so he picked a song and then went back to dancing with all the townsfolk. He began dancing with Marley and then forced Ryder to dance with her. Just as he turned away he heard Ryder and Marley singing
"Well there ain't nothing wrong with the long haired music like Brahms, Beethoven and Bach.
But he was raised with a guitar in his hand
And he was born to rock"
They danced for a while forgetting about the mayor. Her house was only down the street so she could probably hear everything that was going on but they were all having to much fun to care about anything. They were all dancing and singing and having the most fun they had in years. They were paying no attention to their surrounding at all, so much so that they didn't notice the mayor, the sheriff and her son walking up.
"Hey, hey, hey" Mayor Rachel yelled through a megaphone as her son and the sheriff stood behind her. "Hello citizens" she said once she had all of their attention "My gosh, there was just a whole lot of shaking going on" she said as the citizens backed away slowly. "Well, as your mayor, and the moral compass of this town, let me just say - you're all going to hell!" she laughed a bit and all the townsfolk walked away sheepishly. "Nicholas, stand close to mother" she said and her son moved slightly closer to her "This street is full of riff-raff. Oh, Finn" she said turning to the sheriff" did you see that? Be-bop has come to our town and it ain't staying" she said as she began to walk away. Nicholas dropped one of his gloves and Jeff noticed.
"Hey" he said walking up to the glove and picking it up "You dropped your glove" he said as Nicholas turned around to see a tall blonde boy holding out his glove "Gosh, I've never seen a boy in a uniform before" he said so quietly that he hoped no on would hear him. "You look like you just stepped out of a movie or something" he said smiling at Nicholas, who nervously smiled back. "Do you like movies? I do. What kind? I like musicals. I'm Jeff. What's your name?" he asked finally after rambling about nothing.
Rachel turned around to speak to her son. She noticed that he wasn't there so she scanned the clearing crowd for him and found him talking to the blonde boy from the honky-tonk bar. She didn't like her son speaking to people of a lower social class than them "Nicholas!" she yelled which got his attention. Nicholas ran towards his mother. Once he got there he turned back and waved at Jeff. Jeff waved back and watched him walk away. He thought that it would be the last time he saw him.