Make Him Understand
Chapter 7: Fights and Separations
A/N: Hey everybody. It seems like you guys are confused or that my last chapter didn't really meet your expectations. With this chapter I'll try to fix any of my mistakes and hopefully you'll like this chapter a lot better. Read on my fellow Grojbandians!
"Talking"
'Thinking'
"Singing/Rapping"
The hallway of the studio was graveyard quite. No single sound was made after Carrie's announcement until Corey decided to break it.
"Get off of me Carrie" Corey said softly as he looked down at his shoes, unable to even look his friends and family in the eye. Carrie on the other hand was feeling quiet comfortable on his back and refused to let go
"But dreamboat" Corey winced as she said that "You're so warm and huggable" Carries then brought herself closer to Corey, pressing her budding chest into his back "I can hang here all day" she said into Corey's ear. Corey's then forcefully removed himself from her grasp before backing away from her.
"What we had Carrie is something I don't want to repeat. You're nothing but the leader of the Newmans and a fellow music artist to me Carrie. Nothing more, nothing less" Corey said before leaving the building with his group and family. In the studio however, Carrie's eyes started to water a bit as she watched Corey leave the door. No matter how harsh she was to him and cold she acted, Corey would always be the one that got away. Concerned for their leader, Kim Konnie and Lenny gave her a large group hug to show that they were there for her making a small tear leak out of her left eye.
"Tell us whenever you're ready Carrie; we'll be here to listen." Lenny told her making Carrie lean her head onto his shoulder to release a small sob. She loved how her friends didn't rush the information out of her and how caring and sensitive to the situation they were. She knew in time, she would be ready to reveal their secret. Until then, she might as well enjoy the closeness of her friends while she could. In the van as Grojband and other's drove home, the van was filled with an awkward silence. Even Trina dared not to gloat at Corey's huge mess up seeing as how Duncan and her parents we're in the car. In her room with Mina however, she would give praise to anybody that listen to her prayers to end Grojband and celebrate the day her annoying brother got into trouble without her doing anything. Until then, she would have to endure the silence until everyone returned home.
*TO THE GARAGE TRANSITION!*
Soon the group returned home and everyone went their separate ways. Duncan and Cerberus went to go take a walk while Amethyst and Lucid went to the living room. Trina and Mina went upstairs right after Duncan and Cerberus left. The only people in the garage were Grojband as usual.
"Okay guys, you're all probably extremely pissed at me for not telling you about the Carrie situation but I can explain what happened and why I didn't tell you guys anything." Corey said to his friends who all sat on the couch.
*EPIC FLASHBACK TRANSITION*
It was fifth grade year and school has just begun. Corey had just transferred into another class and he noticed something that really caught his eye. It was a girl whose hair was blue just like his but only darker and curled back at the end and it stopped at her shoulders. She wore baggy blue shorts, a white tank-top and white sneaker. She was sitting in the back of the class and she looked pretty shy since she wasn't introducing herself to anybody. Deciding to be nice, Corey went over to her and introduced himself to her
"Hey miss blue, seems that you're pretty new! My name's Corey and who are you?" Corey said speaking in rhyme making the girl giggle at how goofy this boy was acting to her.
"My name's Carrie" she spoke in a soft tone making Corey grin as he sits down in the seat next to her.
"Well Carrie I would like to introduce to Elementary High and hope you're ready to spend the rest of your years here listening to the same teachers annoy the unholy crap out of your ears" Corey said making Carrie giggle again. Throughout the day the two were always seen together joking together and with Corey helping Carrie ease into the school a bit more. A few months into the school year, Carrie knew she had a crush on Corey and she just had to ask the question that has been burning inside of her for so long. One day after the two were walking down the hallway to the exit when Carrie slipped her right hand into Corey's left and directed him to an empty class room. Confused Corey raised an eyebrow when she stopped in front of the teacher's desk, sat down on it and then patting down next to her signaling that she wanted him to sit down with her. Soon they were on the desk together sitting in silence before Corey asked a quick question
"Carrie, what are we doing here?" Corey asked with a confused expression. Carrie only sighed and looked down at her lap before looking back at Corey.
"Corey, you're the greatest friend I've ever had. You listen when others didn't and you always made sure I was as happy as possible. I don't know what I would do without you. I know we're only friends but I want us to be so much more and-"Corey stopped her from talking by putting one finger to her lips
"Shhhh. You had me at "Corey, you're the greatest"" Corey said smoothly before kissing Carrie softly on the lips. Carrie could only squeal in her mind as she kissed her now boyfriend back while looping her arms around his neck. Form that day on, the two became close as possible. It seemed like the two would make their relationship last without any problems. However, a couple weeks later, things got a little weird. A couple weeks after dating, Carrie wanted to be as close to Corey as possible. She changed her clothes to match his but only in a more feminine way. Corey didn't really have a problem with it. He thought it was kind of cute the way she wanted to be just like him. Also, due to Carrie dating possibly the coolest kid in that grade, girls that were popular began to notice her and dragged her into their little groups. They convinced Carrie to talk like them, act like them and dress like them. Carrie resisted for a while but her resistance only held on for so long. She started to wear make-up more and sometimes acted like Trina did to others. Corey on the other hand didn't like that at all and made it very clear that he didn't act like that. Carrie however was too far deep into having power and standing in the school power ladder and didn't really care about what Corey said. The argument they had that broke them up wasn't pretty.
"Carrie what's going on? You never acted like this before so why are you doing this now?" Corey asked while Carrie just looked at her nails and paid him no mind.
"I have like, no idea what you're talking about Corey" Carrie said with disinterest while not even looking him in the eye. Corey could only sigh in aggravation and scratching his beanie covered head.
"You don't talk to me anymore, you're always hanging out with the other girls and when we're together, it's like you just hate being around me. Whenever I try to find out what wrong you don't answer me, you just look at your nails and pretend you don't hear me" Corey explained to her making Carrie look up from playing with her nail before she started talking back
"Because Corey you're just so annoying sometimes. You always want to be near me and you like, never give me my space. You're so clingy it feels like you're trying to smother me!" Carrie said making Corey growl in his mind. Him being one trying to smother her?! She was the one who changed her clothes to match like him, taking guitar lessons and calling him ever night before he even sleep to say goodnight.
"Because you told me to! When I didn't do enough it was a problem and when I did too much it was problem with you! I'm trying to be your boyfriend but you're not even acting like you want to be my girlfriend!" Corey said back making Carries gasp.
"Well like whatever then! At least I can get anybody I want! You had to beg me to be your girlfriend!" Carrie lied as a crowd began to gather around them, Corey gasped before letting a scowl cover his face. So she was lying now? Fine, it looks like it's time to start raining down low blows and making her look bad.
"Really Carrie? Well who was the crying in the corner of the class on her first day because she didn't have any friends? Who was the one who called me every night begging for me to read her a bedtime story since she couldn't sleep? Who was the one who made a Corey doll and plays with it all the time?!" Corey said making Carrie gasp in shock and the crowd began to turn in Corey's favor. She knew none of that was true but what she said earlier wasn't either. There was no way she could turn the crowd back to her side and she needed to get out of there and fast.
"Whatever Riffin, we are SO over!" Carrie yelled before running away to go home and cry away the pain. Corey on the other had turned away and walked to the bus stop alone, for the first time in a long time.
*END FLASHBACK!*
"And that's how everything happened" Corey said finished his explaining his story. Kon was the first one to come to a realization
"So that's why you never liked to talk about your past when we met!" Kon said making Laney nod. Kin on the other hand wasn't okay with any of this
"So you guys are okay with this?! Corey has been keeping this a secret for so long and he should've at least told us!" Kin said making everyone look at him with a raised eyebrow?
"But dude, didn't I just tell you guys? Besides this is my secret! Why would I have to tell you anything? I don't bug you guys for yours so why do I have to automatically give out mine?" Corey explained poking holes in Kin's logic. Now normally, Kin would admit defeat and leave it alone but he was to hyped up by adrenaline and reacted rather rashly
"But you're our leader! What kind of leader would hold back a secret that endangers all of his subordinates under his command? You're no leader Corey, you're a fraud!" Kin said making Kon and Laney gasp while Corey's face hardened before he dropped a huge bomb on everybody.
"Fine Kin, since I'm no leader you take command. You book all the gigs then. You keep everybody in line and make sure nobody strays away. You give out everybody equals shares from every gig. You make the lyrics and you deal with the criticism of everybody who listens. Take my role Kin if you can easily dish out the words that you speak." Corey said before walking out the garage leaving it in silence.
"Corey wait!" Laney cried out to her boyfriend before she looked at Kin in rage. "Kin you freaking idiot, look at what you did! I swear if Corey doesn't come back to Grojband, I'll end you!" Laney said before running off to go find Corey.
"Wow bro, just wow. You claim to be a genius but you just made the dumbest mistake in your life. The friends that stuck with us through thick and thin just left us high and dry all because Corey proved you wrong. I don't even think I can be in the same room with you any more Kin" Kon said while shaking his head at his brother.
"Kon you're my brother! You're supposed be on my side!" Kin said with disbelief.
"Just because I'm your brother doesn't mean I'm always supposed to be on your side. What you just did was wrong and if it takes for everybody to turn their backs on you, so be it" Kon said as he too left the garage leaving Kin to himself and his thought. In Trina's room Trina began to cheer loudly at how this all played out.
"Like, OMG Mina! Can you believe how this played out? My stupid little brother's band is broken now and I can finally have the peace I deserve! The best part, I didn't have to do anything!" Trina gloated while she jumped on her bed. Mina on the other hand couldn't take it anymore. Corey's band would always make her smile seeing how nice everyone got along and how much fun everybody had. Seeing Trina disrespect the band time and time again and force her to be mean to them made Mina feel dirty inside. Mina was sick of Trina and decided to free herself from this mindless brace face's control.
"No" Mina said with a straight face making Trina stop her cheering to look at Mina.
"What did you say Mina?" Trina said with first disbelief and then anger.
"I said no Trina! I don't like how Corey's band broke up!" Mina said getting into Trina's face making Trina back up before Trina got an attitude.
"How dare you?! Corey's music was lame and annoying! Now you better apologize before I get angry" Trina said getting off her bed and standing directly in front of Mina.
"Make me metal mouth!" Mina said with a smirk as Trina screamed with rage and tackled mina to the ground. Mina however wasn't scared. She had taken ju-jitsu classes along with karate so beating up a teenage girl with an attitude problem wasn't a problem. Easily flipping her over, Mina began to rain down punches to Tina's face and stomach leaving ugly, nasty bruises. She soon had her up against the wall and began to deliver knee strike after knee strike to Trina's sides and gave her a wicked belly to belly suplex that left Trina knocked out on the floor of her room.
"You had an attitude that needed to be adjusted it, so I did it for you. I don't care for popularity anymore and I don't fear hurting anybody that pisses me off. You just unleashed a freak of nature Trina and this freak is not going back in her cage"
END CHAPTER!
A/N: And I am done! Mina is now a boss and Grojband is on the verge of breaking up! Hopefully I can put everything back to normal….if I feel like it! Give me five reviews and I'll update with another chapter. Thanks for rocking out everyone!
