Chapter 26:
Friday drug on by for both the unemployed Alternative and the other staffers of MyMusic. But when Friday night hit, it was going to be amazing for all of them. One night, beach party, live music and the best of friends. At least, everyone hoped so.
The night came and the beach was hopping with people. The stage was huge and had one of those jumbo-trons behind the stage for videos and pictures or just special effects. This was the type of thing the band was waiting for.
The band members stood side by side, arms around each other looking up at the stage as bookies that they rented from set up the stage for them. They all had smiles on their faces looking up at the stage. Then their band name flashed up on the big screen. Complication it read in a cool 80's-esk font.
"Well," the guitarist, Trevor, said, "This is it!"
"We finally did it!" the bassist, Juliet said.
"Dream come true!" Alt said.
"This is our chance to make it too the big times!" the drummer, Ryan said.
"Yeah," the rest said in awe and wonder.
"There's my little rockstar."
They all turned around in unison and Alt smiled. Intern 2 stood there with one of Alt's custom band tee shirts on. Alt let go of the group line and ran into his arms and gave him a kiss.
"You're really early," she said.
"Indie gave us the afternoon off. It was the least he could do from the little fiasco yesterday. The others will be coming later. I felt obligated to come early."
"You know you didn't have too," Alt said, "We still have our sound check and to set up our equipment and all that good stuff here and there. So it'll be awhile till we actually go on."
"Doesn't bother me," he shrugged with a smile, "I do have swim shorts on."
She looked at his black and white stripped swim trunks. Alt laughed.
"It looks good on you. I have the same design on my bikini I have on under these," she said with a wink.
"What are you doing to me?" he laughed, "It'll be hours till I can see it."
"Oh I know," she smiled.
Trevor cleared his throat to get Alt's attention. She turned and saw them waiting patiently for Alt to return back to the band. They gave her looks like 'hurry up already'.
"May I help you?" Alt asked.
"We have work to do before tonight's show Blair. So stop making kissy faces with your boy-toy and let's get to rehearsing and what not," Trevor said.
"I'll let you go then," Intern 2 said, giving her a peck on the cheek, "Break a leg tonight."
"Awe, thank you. I shall see you and hopefully the rest of the staffers later," she said.
"Yes you will," he said reassuringly.
"Love you," she said with a big smile.
"Love you too and break a leg tonight."
"Also," she said pulling away, "if you party like you said you will, I will make Dubstep stop you from doing so."
"Ha-ha, funny," he laughed, "See you later."
"Bye," she said.
He smiled and walked off to the ocean. Juliet broke away from the line next. She walked next to Alt.
"So," she began, "That's your boyfriend, eh Blair?"
"Yeah," she smiled, "he's the one from the video."
"He's cuter in person!" she exclaimed.
"Back off girl," Alt smiled, "He's mine."
The sun had set and people by the dozens pilled into the section of the beach for the concert. It was a better turn out than they all expected. Once the sun had finally set and the stars came out, the show would start. It hadn't quite come to that point yet.
Intern 2 was walking around the audience area just kinda scoping the crowed for any MyMusic staffer. He accidentally bumped into someone. He turned to apologize and saw it was Indie.
"Sorry, Indie," Intern 2 said.
"No harm done."
"When did you get here?"
"A few minutes ago," he said, "Just thought I'd come by. Never heard of them so it doesn't hurt to check them out. Besides," Indie went off with a small, what he called a smile, "I need to talk to Alt."
"Really?"
"MyMusic has an opening for a computer wizard," he said.
"Thanks, Indie."
He let out a sigh, "Well, I was in the wrong. I shouldn't've fired her. It was not one of the smartest moves I've made. I should've believed Alt and not so much Idol."
"We told you," he shrugged.
"Yes you did. So, I can hire her back. You all seemed to be in a funk in work today. I guess she does keep everything functioning."
"Yes she did."
"Well, I admitted I was wrong, what more do you want from me?"
Intern 2 held up his hands in defense, "I didn't say a thing."
"Keep it that way."
"Yes, Sir," he said.
Indie smiled for once and pushed his shoulder lightly, "I'm just kidding."
"Really?"
His face turned serious again, "No."
"Oh."
"Walk away from me now," Indie said.
"Yes, Sir."
"I'll see you around later then," Indie said.
Intern 2 nodded and turned around and walked away. He shook his head. Indie was such a strange, strange person. Indie was kinda bi-polar with him. One second he'd be all buddy-buddy with him then the next he was yelling "shut up, Intern 2"! After a while, the bi-polar boss comes with the job.
The sun had set even more and only Indie had showed up from the office so far. Which is really saying something about Indie. Intern 2 aimlessly walked around, saying 'hello' to anyone who smiled to him or something. He was a really nice guy, or a little too nice.
"Intern 2!" someone called.
Intern 2 turned around and saw Techno and Dubstep walking over to him. Alt would be so happy to know that they had come to support her.
"Hey, Techno!" Intern 2 smiled.
She attacked him in a hug. He laughed and hugged her back. Dubstep gave him a high five and Techno pulled away. Dubstep then put his arm around Techno. Techno smiled and hugged onto him tightly.
"Are you two-?" he asked with a smile.
"We're trying it out," Dubstep smiled.
"That's great to hear," Intern 2 said, "It really is."
"This turnout is killer!" Techno exclaimed.
"Where's Alt?" Dubstep asked.
He shrugged, "I saw her a few hours ago. She went off to help set up equipment and work with the lights and soundboard and other technologic things I don't understand."
"Sounds fun," Techno nodded.
"Anyone else here?" Dubstep asked.
"Indies' walking around somewhere. We were talking for a few minutes about a half hour ago."
"He came?" they asked in unison, both utterly shocked. Then Dubstep said, "Wait, he talked to you?"
"Yeah I know! Shocked me a bit too. Then he went on saying that he felt bad for firing Alt and wants to talk to her and hopefully he'll hire her back. He also never heard of the band, so he thought he'd give them a listen too."
"Hey guys," Metal said walking up to the small group.
"Surprised to see you here, Metal," Techno said.
He shrugged, "Rayna wanted to go so... Here I am."
They all exchanged looks, "sure it is, Metal."
"If she's the reason, where is Rayna?" Intern 2 asked crossing his arms.
"Up there," he pointed toward the stage, "she found a few of her friends."
"Ya know, we're not in the work place," Intern 2 began, "why don't we just call each other by our names?"
The all nodded in agreement. They then looked from staffer to staffer. No one really wanted to start or anything. It was the first time anyone said their actual names to the other staffers. It was a bit awkward since that Intern 2 mentioned they do that. Obligated to do so, Intern 2 cleared his throat.
"Jack," he said. He wasn't ashamed of his name. his middle name on the other hand, that was what he was ashamed of.
"Jarrett," Metal said next.
"Tania," Techno smiled.
"Chris," Dubstep said.
"What about Alt?" Metal asked.
"I'm not gonna say. I wanna have her say it," Intern 2 said with a smile, "It wouldn't be fair to her."
Metal shrugged, "none of us really look our actual names like our work names."
"Especially Dubstep," Techno teased.
"I get that a lot," he shrugged.
Alternative snuck up behind Intern2 and jumped on his back.
"Hello there," he smiled.
"Hi," she smiled then saw the rest of the staffers and her smile grew, "hey! Thanks for coming! This means a lot to my friend!" she exclaimed.
"What time does the show start?" Metal asked.
"Bout ten minutes," she smiled, "but I have to go in like two. I have to help out with the uh, sound board cues and what not."
"We were just sharing each others actual names," Intern 2 said.
"Damn, I missed it. Can we recap after the show? I'm on a schedule and I feel really bad that they dumped the whole soundboard crap on me like they did."
"Sure," they all said. They were so kind.
"That's great! Ok, I gotta find my friend and get back stage. I will see all of you after the show! Thanks again for showing up!"
She went around giving them all a hug to show her thanks. She gave an extra kiss to Intern 2 before she ran off. She took the dumb move and went through the audience to get to the stage. Once in the sea of people she was stopped again. She spun around and saw Indie.
"Hey, Indie," she smiled.
"Call me Adam outside of the workplace," he insisted.
"Hey, Adam," she said, "what's up?"
"MyMusic is looking for a technical wizard. Sound interested."
"Are you hiring me back?"
"Course. Everyone misses you and Idol feels bad about her bitch move. We all want you back. I shouldn't've fired you in the first place. You did nothing wrong, and Idol admitted what she did and was so wrong. Would you come back to MyMusic?"
"You got your Alternative back," she smiled.
He held his arms open.
"Holy… are you-" she smiled.
He nodded. She smiled and gave him a hug. To her surprise, he hugged back. Scene came up behind them and smiled brightly. She wanted to keep them having a small moment. She was so proud of her boyfriend.
"Oh wow!" she exclaimed pulling away, "well, Adam, I'm glad you could make it. I gotta go right now. I will catch up with you after the show."
"Sounds good," he said. Scene finally joined next to Indie and he put his arm around her.
Alt smiled to them. they were finally exclusive and that made Alt happy.
"If you're interested, the rest of the staff is in the back," she smiled as she pointed to the general direction of the other staffers.
"Good luck tonight, Blair."
"How'd you-"
"Wasn't hard. I'll keep it hush- hush, for now."
Alt looked at Scene who was trying not to make eye contact with her. She probably more than likely told him. Or Indies' just that much of a wizard and he just, knew. Who knew…
"Thanks! Enjoy the show!" she waved her goodbye and ran backstage.
Indie took up on her offer and walked to the back of the audience and met up with the others. Scene happily held his hand while they walked over to the group. They were all talking about who knows what.
The sun had finally set and the lights from the stage began to flash around. They all looked and went up to the front of the audience to get ready for the show. So far, only three people knew what was going on with the show. The others were in for a big surprise.
The whole band emerged onto the stage. Through all the cheering the staffers all's jaws dropped.
"Alt is Blair?!"
(A/N: so I just finished this chapter in a few hours while, outside *gasp*. I hate nature. Too many bugs and what not… I had a yard sale today and this was my activity for the day.
So I really don't know what to say about this chapter. It's kinda a filler but then again, it's not. Also, it's almost over :( so that really sucks. But remember, more are coming soon!
R and R please my little Kidlings! Question is… hmm… do you play any instruments? If so what?)
