A/N-A Six of Crows drabble that I wrote while I was half asleep. The Six of Crows ships are so much fun to write. Please tell me if you guys want more of this type of thing! Enjoy!
Kaz tuned up his guitar. Students were slowly starting to walk into the gym. Kaz really hadn't wanted to have to play at a stupid high school dance, but Inej had convinced him that it would be fun. So here he was, waiting to play covers of pop songs for a bunch of high school idiots. He sighed.
"C'mon, Kaz. You have to be a little bit excited that the school let us play at the dance at all." Jesper was lounging at his drum set, lanky arms and legs stretched out, a tripping hazard for anyone who planned on walking past.
Kaz scowled. Nina saw his face and laughed.
"Oh Jes, you know Kaz never smiles unless Inej is around."
"That's not true," Kaz whined.
Inej crept up behind him, put her arms over his shoulders and tweaked his nose. "Yes it is, Brekker."
The door slammed and the four of them turned their heads. Matthias and Wylan had walked in. Matthias was carrying his and Wylan's guitars, and Wylan was carrying a twelve-pack of Mountain Dew. Needless to say, everyone rushed to grab a soda before they all had to settle down and make the final adjustments to their instruments.
"Oh, so Mountain Dew is more important than helping me out," Matthias grumbled. Nina took Wylan's guitar off his shoulder and kissed his cheek.
"Sorry, baby. You know none of us'll make it through the night without these." She held the bottle up and cracked it open.
Inej started to sing.
"If you wanna start a fight, you better throw the first punch, and make it a good one."
Nina's sweet alto joined Inej's warm voice, and both Kaz and Matthias smiled.
"And if you wanna make it through the night, you better say my name like, the good the bad and the dirty."
Wylan's soprano chimed in at the next line.
"Oh whoa oh whoa oh, oh whoa oh, the good, the bad, and the dirty."
They all bowed simultaneously while Jesper, Kaz, and Matthias applauded.
Wylan glanced at the clock.
"We should start, guys. It's eight o'clock."
Nina stepped up to the microphone, tapping it. It squealed for a second, causing everyone to wince.
"Okay guys," she raised her Mtn. Dew, "here's to a great night. Have fun!"
The approximately fifty kids raised their glasses and cheered. Then the music started.
Kaz grinned. The first song of the night had been his pick, so it'd been decent. One of the seniors, Jan, shouted a request at Jesper. Jesper said something to Wylan, and they both flipped Jan off. Jan walked back to his girlfriend, Alis, scowling. The Crows ignored Jan's request and played one that had been made by Genya Safin, another senior.
The night was still young, and the Crows were playing a fast song. It ended, and Jesper grabbed the mic.
"Is everyone having fun?"
A roar of approval from the group of kids, which had increased from about 50 to about 200 people.
Jesper smiled devilishly.
"And now, please welcome Wylan Van Eck with our first slow song of the night. Gentlemen, find yourselves girls to dance with or risk looking like losers. Let's give it up for Wylan, everybody!"
Kaz, Inej, Nina, and Matthias jumped off the stage to join the crowd of couples on the dance floor. Jesper stayed on the stage because the song had a drums part to it.
Wylan cleared his throat, stepped up to the mic, exhaled.
Jesper, always with that cocky grin on his face, said from behind him, "You should do Thinking Out Loud. You're really good at that one."
Wylan blushed and strummed his guitar.
"When your legs don't work like they used to before,"
Every single girl in the room screamed and started to clap.
"And I can't sweep you off of your feet."
Inej looked deep into Kaz's black-coffee eyes.
"Will your mouth still remember the taste of my love?"
Matthias put his hand on Nina's hip.
"Will your eyes still smile from your cheeks?"
Kaz squeezed Inej's hand.
"And darlin' I will be loving you till we're seventy,"
Nina whispered an apology as she bumped into Alina, one of the most popular cheerleaders in the entire school.
"And baby my heart will still fall as hard at twenty-three."
Inej tripped and Kaz caught her before she could fall into Zoya and Mal. Kaz remembered Inej's whisper tickling his ear two days earlier: "I just saw Alina and Mal. They got into a screaming match…" Kaz guessed Alina was dancing with Nikolai this time.
"And I'm thinking 'bout how people fall in love in mysterious ways, maybe just the touch of a hand."
Matthias bent his head so it came to rest against Nina's forehead.
"Well, me—I fall in love with you every single day, and I just wanna tell you I am."
Inej was mouthing along to the song. She knew these words by heart.
"So, honey, now, take me into your loving arms; kiss me under the light of a thousand stars; place your head on my beating heart. I'm thinking out loud: maybe we found love right where we are."
Nina stood on her tiptoes and Kaz bent his head, and they kissed their respective dance partners senseless.
Uncountable eskimo kisses later, the song ended, and the four dancing members of the Crows climbed back onto the stage, smiling like idiots.
Nina took her place at the mic again.
"Wylan Van Eck, everybody!"
There was screaming and clapping. Wylan flushed a pink that was visible even though the stage lighting washed him out. He took his place at the back of the stage by Jesper's drum set. Jesper managed to peck him on the lips before the next song started.
A/N-R&R?
Love,
Baz
