ELIZABETH
"Gotta jet, I promised Jameel I'd talk to him before next period, see ya," Bethel said, standing up from the lunch table and heading out of the cafeteria.
"So, what do you guys think of the War of the Bands thing?" Kristin asked.
"I don't want either band to win," Jessica said.
Anna, Kristin, and I stared at Jessica.
"What?" Anna asked.
"I just don't, I checked the sign up sheet, and only 2 bands are scheduled to compete, Breakaway and Big Noise,"
"So? That means one of them is bound to win," Kristin said.
"Not necessarily," Jessica said.
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"They just need one band to blow both bands away," Jessica said.
"And your point would be...?" Anna asked.
"I think that one band should be us," Jessica said.
"WHAT?" The three of us exclaimed.
"What? We could do it, Liz I know you can sing, I can to, I can play guitar, Damon taught back in grade 8 and I still remember how, he got me a guitar and a Guitars For Dummies book for Christmas, Kristin you can play bass and Anna I know you can play drums," I said.
"Well, he did get her that book, it's still on her book shelf and the guitar is propped in the corner," Liz said.
"So, if we match each of us up to the person we are closest to in the band, it would be awesome, I could do guitar, Liz could sing, Kristin could play bass and Anna could, play drums..."
"No I couldn't! Get Bianca, I know she can play, I've seen her play, she had to learn for a musical we were doing last year," Anna said.
"Fine, Bianca, she's Blue's girlfriend anyway, but Anna do you want to do anything in the band?" I asked.
"No, I'll go get Bianca," Anna said with a laugh and got up from the table to find where Bianca was sitting.
"It's a good thing that Brian dropped saxophone and picked up bass, or else I would never be able to play, I know how to play bass, but I suck at the sax," Kristin said.
"So you're in?" Jessica asked hopefully.
Kristin sighed, "Yeah, I'm in,"
"Yes!" Jessica squealed and ran around the table and gave Kristin a hug around the shoulders, "What about you Liz?" she asked coming back around the table to where I was sitting.
"Um, I can't sing all that well, how about I play piano or something, you can do guitar and sing, I've heard you before in your room,"
Jessica sighed, "Okay, you can play backup guitar,"
"How am I going to get a guitar?" I asked, "I could just play keyboard,"
"Is there a keyboard in The Donna's?"
"The Donna's?" I said, "You want us to do a song by The Donna's?"
"Why not?" Jessica asked.
"Because we can't learn one of their songs that fast," I said.
"How about we do that song I Want You To Want Me? Letters To Cleo remade it, why can't we? We could change some of the words, so that it would be more our style," Bianca, who had just sat down, suggested.
"Yeah, and I could do one of those synthesizers on my keyboard to make it sound like a different instrument or to give the song more beat and tempo," I said.
"Okay, we gotta get to work though, fast, we've got 2 days," Jessica said.
"Name first," I said.
"Hmm..." Kristin said jokingly.
"JKLB?" I suggested.
"Too original," Jessica said.
"Drop Dead Gorgeous!" Bianca blurted.
We all stared at her.
"What? It's my favorite movie," Bianca said.
"Tuesday Morning," I said.
"Tuesday Morning," Jessica repeated, "I like it,"
"Me too," Kristin and Bianca ended up saying in unison.
"Tuesday Morning it is," Jessica said.
"Okay, I'll go put our name on the list," Kristin said grabbing a pen off of her notebook and walking out of the cafeteria.
"This is going to be awesome," I said.
"Yep," Jessica said, "It sure is,"
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"Didn't I, Didn't I, Didn't I, See you crying? Oh, didn't I, didn't I, see you crying..." Jessica began singing out the words to the song. We were practicing in Bianca's basement.
"You're left all alone, feeling like your dying, didn't I see you crying?" The rest of us sang.
"This is going to be awesome," Jessica said, "Totally and complete-
"Totally and completely awesome," I finished.