Chapter 56: Day Two - Kit
Hey guys, thank you to everyone who reviewed yesterday's chapter. If you have anything you want to see in Simon or Clary's chapter, let me know and I'd be happy to write it. Anyway, hope you like this chapter :)
Kit's POV
"Kit get up - I've made breakfast and then we have to go in and rehearse," Clary says, turning on the lights in my room.
I wave her away, and turn onto my stomach to block out the light.
"I know you want to sleep in, but we really don't have the time - and you have to do your Instagram thing today, so up and at 'em."
I just grunt and squeeze my eyes shut tighter. Maybe if I wish it enough, she'll just go away. Amazingly, she doesn't say anything, and I hear her footsteps leaving my room. I sigh and snuggle into my blanket.
After a little while, I hear Clary again. "I'm really sorry to do this Kit, but if you don't get up I'll have no choice.
I open one eye and see that she's holding a glass of water. I know she'll do it - she's done it before. I sigh again, very loudly and dramatically and get out of bed.
"There's coffee and bacon downstairs," she tells me, leaving me to get up.
Eventually I come down stairs, and Clary and I eat our breakfast together in our pyjamas watching cartoons. This is what we've done pretty much every morning since she started staying with me. It was a good improvement on what I normally did, which is sleep through my alarm and quickly get dressed and show up late for rehearsals, without having had anything to eat or drink.
After breakfast, we get ready and then Clary drives us to rehearsals. We're starting to rehearse for new years eve now, so that when Simon and Alec get back it's just a matter of putting everything together, rather than having to quickly learn it.
We head home at around 5.00, and Clary tells me to wash up and then she'll help me with my video. I'd watched Alec's yesterday, and thought it was decidedly boring, and that I definitely wanted to spice it up a bit.
"Look if all the questions are bland like Alec's were yesterday, then I want you to make some up - make up some challenge type things as well," I tell Clary. "I want to entertain people here."
"Whatever you say boss. You good to go?" she asks.
I nod, and then she hold up her thumb to tell me she's started recording.
"Hey, what's up everyone! Kit here for the second, and I might add the best, day of Christmas. I'm sure you all watched Alec's yesterday, but to sum up I'm going to be spending the next little while with you all, so ask me any questions you have, or if there's something you want me to do, give me a shout. Clary, have any questions come in yet?"
"Ummm - oh that's a good one. What is your favourite Christmas memory?"
"Well this year has been pretty good. We're usually on the road around the Christmas time, so it's nice to get to spend this one at home," I say.
"And with your favourite person!" Clary chimes in.
"Well that's debatable," I tell her, "and this is my day - you'll get your turn later, Fray. Anyway, back to the question about me. I would say my favourite Christmas memory was from about five years ago. It was the first Christmas we spent as a band, and the first one most of us had spent away from home and family. Clary made this really good turkey, and Alec made all these sides. We had this massive feast, and Magnus had decorated the room, so you know it was over the top. We played all these games, and sang and watched a movie. Yeah, it was just a really nice, simple day. I guess you could say it was our first family Christmas."
"Okay," Clary says, reading the next question, "out of you, Simon, Alec and Clary, who do you think is the most likely to get arrested?"
"I guess it depends - like I can definitely see myself getting arrested for something stupid in the future, but we all seem to egg each other on, so I could also see us all getting arrested at once for the same stupid thing. But it would probably be me if I had to choose just one person."
"Who do you go to for advice?" Clary asks, wiggling her eyebrows at me.
"I mean first person is usually Clary. She just such an old person that you know she's going to give you the boring advice, but it usually does actually turn out pretty well. Otherwise probably Alec - another old person."
"Ohh okay - a challenge," Clary says. "We're going to have to move for this one." Clary leads me to my music room, and then hands me a notebook and some pens. "Okay, you've got one minute to draw each of us."
"Do you mean like one minute per person or everyone in one minute," I ask.
"They probably mean one person per minute, but now that you've brought it up, I think you should do everyone in a minute - nobody wants to watch you drawing for four minutes. How about you draw our last album cover?" Clary says, grabbing the record I have and handing it to me.
"You good to time?" I ask Clary, who nods.
"Ready, set, draw!" Clary says, and then holds the phone close to my face.
"Uhh… whatcha you doing there Clare?" I ask, looking at the record cover quickly and starting to draw Alec.
"Well I think it should be a big reveal, and this way they can't see the paper until you show it to them," she says as if it's obvious.
"Right then," I say, moving onto Simon.
"I think you should talk us through what you're doing - oh and you've got twenty seconds left by the way," she says.
"okay, well I've drawn Alec and Simon, and am currently drawing Clary-" I begin.
"fifteen seconds," Clary interprets.
"Okay, and now I'll draw myself - it's difficult to capture all of this beauty on the page."
"five seconds!"
"And now just the scenery."
"Time's up! Pen down," Clary yells. I quickly throw my pen away and turn the book over. I then wipe my brow, pretending to wipe away sweat.
"I'm going to be honest with you all - it's a masterpiece. I'll probably have art dealers calling before this video ends asking if they can display it in their museum."
"Well then I think you should show it to the class, Kit," Clary says.
I nod, and take a deep breath before turning the book around to show everyone the genius of my work.
"Only because I've looked that that album cover a hundred times can I tell who is who. I mean that one's me because of the long hair - and I assume that one is you because your hair is longer than Si and Alec's… I hate to say it Kit, but this a mess," Clary says.
"You do better in a minute then!" I say, throwing the book onto the table. "I put my heart and soul - blood, sweat and tears into that."
"Well as you say - this is your day, so I'm not going to draw anything. And if it helps at all, everyone else likes your drawing - even if it is just a bunch of stick figures."
"That's because they know art when they see it! Next question," I say, dramatically falling onto the couch.
"Okay - what's your favourite instrument in this room?" Clary asks, quickly showing the phone the room.
"Well I have a few - if you mean my favourite to play, it would be between the drums and the guitar, but if it's my favourite that I own then it becomes a lot more difficult," quickly scanning the room.
"Okay, well this one is pretty cool. It's an electric multipad. Clary bought it for me for Christmas last year, it we used it for Ink on this album, so I like that a lot. But my favourite is probably this Gibson SG. It was used by George Harrison and John Lennon for a little while on Revolver and the White album. Yeah - this one was not easy to get and I love the Beatles so it's cool to get to own a little piece of that."
"okay - I think because you were talking about Ink," Clary says, "they're asking what is your favourite tattoo that you have?"
"Oh, again, I've got a few.I got some of my tattoo's just 'cause - I either thought they looked cool, or I was with someone getting a tattoo and felt left out so I'd get one too, so those ones don't have a lot of meaning behind them. But this one," I say, holding out my ring finger on my right hand, "we all got when we were filming the music video for Ink. I'm not really sure I'm meant to talk about that - but it's coming out soon, I think. Anyway, we all got a crown around our finger for the band - you know Royals and all that. Uhhh this one," I say, lifting up my shirt to show my rib cage, "it Earth with a little guy sitting on top of it. It's kind of meant to show how small we all are, and to put any issues I have into perspective. Plus I think it looks pretty cool."
"Show 'em your toe tattoo!" Clary says, and I shake my head, but take off my sock nonetheless. "This one Clary did - it's the word big on my big toe. I lost a bet, and this was the consequence."
"Anyway, I think it's time that we start to wrap this up, so maybe one more question?" I say, pulling my sock back on.
"What makes your heart beat the fastest?" she asks, and after seeing my smile, quickly adds, "and nothing dirty!"
"I was going to say performing, Clarissa. Get your mind out of the gutter!" I say, pretending to be deeply offended.
"What are you looking forward to in the upcoming tour?" she asks me.
"Uhh - we've got a lot of good stuff planned for this tour that we can't really talk about yet - we want it to be a surprise for everyone. But I can promise this tour is going to bigger and better than anything we've done before, so I'm excited to see how that all goes. I also love what we get to do every tour, which is travel and get to meet a heap of amazing people. I'm just going to really let it sink in this time - who knows the next time we're all going to tour together again, so I really want to appreciate this one, and make some great memories."
"Nicely put," Clary tells me.
"Thank you. Anyway, that's all the questions I;m going to answer today. You can go to Simon's account tomorrow to see his video - although I'm sure it won't be nearly as interesting as mine. And then come back to the band's account on Christmas day for a quick check in. Anyway, I hope you all have a fabulous night, or day depending on where you are!"
"That's a wrap!" Clary says.
Song Mention: Ink by Coldplay
Okay, I'm not sure if you like it, but I feel like that chapter kind of just turned into one massive conversation. Do you want as much of the video in Simon's, or do you want to see more of him interacting with his family and Izzy? I can try and do both if you would like that best. Same question for Clary's chapter. Let me know, and I'll see you tomorrow :)