These are snippets from the story as I'm sort of stuck on writing the next chapter. Hope you like what I've got here, that will be removed from here and thrown into other parts of the story. If you don't want plotlines ruined, don't read the first one!
(((RON + DATES)))
"Hi Chris...." Juliana said glumly, walking into the common room. Sirius loked at her oddly.
"Hey, what's wrong?" Sirius didn't like to see his sister like this if he could help it. Juliana slumped into an poofy gold armchair near the table Sirius was writing at. Hermione came walking down the stair at that moment.
"Chris! You're actually doing your homework for once?!" Hermione said in pleasant surprise. "That's great!" Sirius grinned his widest grin at Hermione.
"Are you insane, Mya? I'm not working on my homework!" Hermione half-frowned, but then sat down in front of Chris. "I'm writing another song!" Hermione arched an eyebrow.
"Oh really? Well then, come one, let me see," Hermione didn't want to admit it but she actually liked some of their music.
"Well actually, this time it's sort of... a really Pop-ish song. Like, really," he shrugged. Besides, I prefer not to show them off 'till they're finished. "So Juliana- what's wrong?"
"What's wrong?! What's wrong?! I'll tell you what's wrong Chris. Ronald Weasley just asked me out and not I feel sick to my stomach!" Hermione frowned.
"He asked you out? What about Lavender?" she was feeling a bit confused.
"They broke up last week," Juliana grumbled, glaring at the carpeting in anger. Sirius set down his pen and pushed his papers aside. "But I mean... He thought I was playing hard-to-get with him!"
"Look Juli- I really hate to be all 'Mom' on you, but you do play hard-to-get with almost every guy and you should get a boyfriend. It's unhealthy to be single for so long." This, of course, caused Hermione to scowl at the boy. "What? It's true." Sirius shrugged again.
"I've had boyfriends...." Juliana rubbed her toe into the carpet.
"Yeah, right. Like who?" Sirius said in disbelief. Hermione leaned in; this was starting to get interesting. Juliana blushed slightly.
"Well there was Adam Woo-Woollens." She inwardly grimaced. She almost said 'Wood', forgetting that Hermione went to school with Adam's son. But of course, Sirius knew exactly who she was talking about.
"You dated a Seventh Year!?" Sirius shrieked. Hermione looked at Chris oddly.
"What's wrong Chris? I mean, that's only a year older." Hermione said.
"He was a Seventh Year when we were thirteen." Sirius glared. "When get back home I'm going to wring his neck!" Hermione grimaced. Chris didn't seem too happy.
"I also dated.... A boy. For five months.... In fifth year," Juliana couldn't mention who.
"Right, MysteryMan." Sirius rolled his eyes. "Why don't you just tell me who it was?" Sirius grinned at her genially, but Juliana just glared.
"No. Final answer. I refuse. Alls I'm saying is that he's in our year." Juli was feeling cross from the interrogation. "And the last guy I dated was... was... Luke." Sirius' jaw dropped to the floor, and he began moving his lips soundlessly in anger. "Bye Mya!" Juliana yelled out and scampered out of the Gryffindor Common Room.
"That Slyth is so dead."
((((BAND REHEARSAL))))
If anyone's insulted by the song "Boys in the Hood" screw you and don't flame me because I didn't write the damn thing. Personally, I think it's a spiffyriffic song.
If any lyrics are wrong it's my fault because I listened to them as I wrote the lyrics. Tell me if I'm wrong, 'kay? ^.^
"Chris! Rehearsal! Now!" Lucius demanded, having finally spotted Sirius, and headed towards the Great Hall. Sirius followed him a bit puzzled. Entering, he noticed all of the equipment had been hooked up. Juliana was sipping on water and stretching out her fingers as she usually did before playing any music. Gemini was bobbing her head up and down, twirling her drumsticks. James was still sulking about not having his guitar and having to borrow a Seventh Year Hufflepuff's.
"Rehearsal?" Sirius said in confusion. Gemini walked over to Sirius and kissed him lightly.
"Just because we aren't home doesn't mean we should shirk our band duties," she smiled at him coyly. Sirius kissed her quickly and headed over to the equipment and started adjusting microphones and the speakers. Lucius was busy preening.
"Lu-... Luke!" Juliana had almost called him 'Luci' out of habit. He looked at her with a bit of confusion. "Get on the stage already," she grumbled.
"So what song are we going to start with?" Gemini asked, getting seated behind her drums and pushing her blonde hair into a ponytail.
"Hmmm, let's try the 'Rock Show', and maybe work on that guitar riff in 'Everytime I Look for You', then maybe round it out with 'Shut Up'. Sound good?" Lucius said, tapping his foot impatiently, standing at his mike. James scowled.
"And how about also doing a song I actually sing in?" he grumbled. Lucius grinned slyly.
"That's right- I forgot how badly you sucked last time. You really do need the practice. Let's add 'Boys in the Hood' to it as well. Juliana- you should probably go work on-" Lucius started, but was cut off.
"Something else, right, right." she grumbled. That was the problem with most of the music they played. There was almost never a keyboard. Sometimes she thought they only kept her in the group at all because she and Gemini had been the ones to start it, and Juliana had done all of the planning in the beginning. With a sigh, she put a sound bubble around herself and her keyboard so that she wouldn't hear them, and they wouldn't hear her, and began working on 'Sweet Dreams'.
Lucius hooked up his mike and nodded to Gemini, James and Sirius. Gemini hit her drumsticks together:
"One two, one two three four!" Sirius and James started up on their guitars, and Gemini began hitting on the drums. Sirius stopped playing, and pulled the mike up close to his mouth and belted out:
"Hanging out behind the club on the weekend
Acting stupid, getting drunk with my best friend," Sirius shot James an evil grin.
"I couldn't wait for the summer; at the Warp Tour.
I remember, it's the first time that I saw her there." Lucius started up there as Sirius picked back at his guitar.
"She's getting kicked out of school 'cause she's failing.
I'm kinda' nervous 'cause I think all her friends hate me." James snorted 'who doesn't?' under his breath.
"She's the One. She'll always be there.
She took my hand and that made it; I swear!" Sirius stepped up closer to his mike to play and sing at the same time along with Luci'.
"'Cause I fell in love with the girl at the rock show;
She said 'what!?' and I told her that I didn't know.
She's so cool- I'm gunna' sneak in through her window.
Everything's better when she's around
I can't wait 'till her parents go out of town!
I fell in love with the girl at the Rock Show!" James was really owning that guitar riff he was pulling during the instrumental bit that came up then, and Gemini was nothing to be laughed at either on her drum set. Sirius pulled his mike to his mouth and Luci dropped back.
"When we said we were gunna' move to Vegas
I remember the Look her mother gave us.
Seventeen without a purpose or direction!
We don't owe anyone a fucking explanation!" James half bleeped out the word "fuck" with an especially loud twang on his guitar to Lucius' amusement. Both Sirius and Lucius did the chorus once more, then Lucius got to:
"Black and white picture of her on my wall." Sirius took over then.
"I waited for her call," then the both of them joined with:
"She always kept. Me. Waiting." Sirius jumped in over Luci.
"And if I ever got another chance-" Lucius dove in now, this time over Siri.
"I'd still ask her to dance." Then both of them sang at once.
"Because she kept. Me. Waiting." The both of them jumped into the chorus once more, then got to Lucius.
"The Girl at the Rock Show.
The Girl at the Rock Show." Sirius came in the background with:
"I'll never. Forget Tonight."
"The Girl at the Rock Show!" Lucius continued to sing.
"I'll never! Forget tonight!" They went on like that five more times, finally ending out on a slower note. Gemini hugged Sirius afterwards, kissing him soundly.
"Feeling a bit possessive are we, Gem?" he asked her, amused. Gemini's eyes flared, remembering who that song was wrote for and pulled him in for another kiss, Sirius participating without any hesitation this time. Finally, they pulled apart, breathless and Sirius gave her a cheeky grin.
"Maybe we should play that song more often," he said with a grin, only to be slugged on the arm.
Juliana, after playing 'Sweet Dreams' had taken off the sound bubble to hear them and grinned.
"If we play that well with all our songs at our next concert we'll be rocking the crowd's socks off!" she said with a playful grin and twinkle in her eye. They broke for two more minutes, the guys getting their drinks, then after they played both "Everytime I Look For You" and "Shut Up", Juliana jumped in for the next song, playing the keyboard in the background, next to Gemini. James stepped up to the mike, flipping Lucius off for the remark her made earlier and cleared his throat, starting to sing.
"Woke up quick, at about noon.
Just thought that I had to be in Compton soon.
Gotta' get drunk before the day begins.
Before my mom starts bitchin' about my friends.
'Bout to go and damn near went blind
Young nigga's on the pad throwing up gang signs.
I went in the house to get the clip.
With my Mack10 on the side of my hip.
I bailed outside and I pointed my weapon
And just as I thought the fools kept steppin'.
I jumped in the fo'- hit the juice in my ride
I went front and back – side to side.
Then I let the alpine play!
I was pumpin' new shit by NWA.
It was "Gangsta' Gangsta'" at the top o' the list.
Then I played my own shit it went something like this:
Cruisin' down the street in my 6fo'.
Jockin' the bitches. Slapping the ho's.
I went to the park to get the scoop.
Knuckleheads out there cold shootin' some hoop.
Car pulls up- who can it be?
The fresh El Camino rolling KiloG.
He rolls down the window and he starts to say,
"It's all about making that GTA."
'Cause the boys in the hood are always hard
Come talkin' that trash and we'll pull your card.
Knowin' nothing in life but to be legit-
Don't quote me boy, I ain't said shit." James went on, full of gangster-like lyrics at a slow, nearly countryesque music and tempo playing. At the end of the song, Sirius couldn't contain himself and jumped in with a funky voice, saying:
"They rippin' off ev'rybody man!" causing Juliana to erupt in a burst of giggles.
Lucius and Gemini both spotted Harry and Hermione, who both stood wide-eyed by the doorway, having heard their horribly explicit and morally corrupt music. Or at least that's how Hermione described it. Harry was just a little more than shocked seeing Chris, Luke and the rest doing songs like that. Especially with Juliana and Gemini!
Squee. Review please?