Kellyn Ellis crept slowly down the stairs of her house. If she managed to get out without being seen then they might not notice she was gone, she hoped. The chances of this were very slim her mother and her stepfather would probably go out later leaving her to look after Ellette her six-year-old sister. By then she would be long gone though and she would be fine until she got back later that night. Anyway it would be worth it. The front door creaked open, she froze waiting to see if anyone ahs heard. If they had she'd had it how could she explain being half way out her front door with a guitar? Luckily all she could hear was the droning of the TV in the main room. She hopped out and managed to close the door almost silently behind her. She sighed with relief as she went round the corner onto the next street. She had made it and had a whole three hours until she had to face her step-dad when she got back. Why couldn't they understand? She had to go to practice her band had a huge gig on Friday and she was not only going to be there she and the rest of the band were going to rock, they couldn't stop her. The band practices were always held at Evans house. Her and Evan had been going out for the past two months but they had been good friends for years. Her family hated him. She was told see wasn't even allowed see to him anymore when her step-dad had fallen out with Evans parents. Not that that would ever stop her. She walked quickly down the street every two or three houses there was a window boarded up. Bags of rubbish sat our side people's gates and a lot of the walls were covered in graffiti. She hated the area she lived in, her step-dad didn't bother to work though and her mum had been in and out of jobs. They couldn't afford anything better just now. She missed her old house where she had lived with her mum and dad more than ever. They had split up eight years ago and she'd only saw her dad twice a month between all his business meetings. When she reached the part of town where Evan lived there was a dramatic difference in the tidiness of everything. There were beautiful big houses with perfect gardens and perfectly cut lawns and shiny expensive cars parked in huge drives. Perfect little families with their perfect well behaved kids everyone playing happy families. It was all so fake it made her sick. She really hated walking to Evan's people came out their houses and seemed to look at her like an alien. Or at least that's how it felt even though nobody here even knew who she was and for all they knew she could live here with a fake as plastic family. She came to Evans house, it was just like all the other houses in the area, it was huge and fancy with three garages and a massive drive way, like anyone needs that much space for cars. Evans parent had let him have one of the garages to use as a recording studio for the band. They even gave him money to buy loads of great equipment. She could see Evan through the open garage door setting things up. She tucked her long paper strait black hair behind her ears, it was naturally strait and black of course, she didn't have the money to spend on things like straitener's and hair dye. It was really unusual for someone with such pale skin to have hair as dark as that but she had almost black eyes as well.

"Evan!" She waved running up the drive.

"Kellyn, you made it." He grinned going over to hug her. He was perfect height to hug she thought, just a little taller than but not too much.

"Of course I did I promised didn't I?"

"I just thought that because of your step-dad…" he trailed off.

"Yeah he told me I wasn't allowed to come of course and my mum just sits and agrees with him because she has no mind of her own anymore, so I just sneaked out, no problem." Evan sighed leading her up to the garage.

"I don't know why you didn't just move in with you dad when you had the chance. He's just round the corner from here and he works with my dad so he wouldn't mind you coming round whenever you wanted and then you wouldn't have to take any crap from Dave." Kellyn had thought about this a lot but her dad never had time for her. He was never there, she would be alone in a huge house all the time and she could never leave Ellette with Dave. She was Dave's kid of course but he disliked her as much as he disliked Kellyn and if Kellyn wasn't there…

"I've told you before I can't leave Ellette with him. I'll be ok, he doesn't bother me that much." She lied. Evan looked extremely unconvinced but didn't press it. For that Kellyn was glad, she didn't like discussing Dave, not even with Evan who she told everything to.

"Well you're the first one here." He said as she took her guitar out of the case and plugged it in. It was a really cool guitar and she loved it to pieces it was the only decent thing she owned. Her dad had bought it for her birthday. Dave always threatened to sell it but she would never let him.

"I thought I would get away before they tell me I'm looking after Ellette again I couldn't sneak out and leave her."

"I really don't like you getting in trouble all the time just to come over for band practice."

"Its important were getting really good now and we need to keep up practising and anyway it's not just band practice it's you too, I couldn't live with out seeing you." Evan looked up and grinned.

"Don't think I would survive without you either." Evan did seem to rely on her as much as she relied on him. His parents were always busy and just ignored Evan. Their way of being there was by giving him as much money as he wanted anytime her wanted. He was an only child so it was just him on his own. That's why she sneaked out as much as she could no matter how much trouble she got in for it.

"Hey you guys!" Cira ran up the drive. Cira was their drummer; Kellyn had known her he whole life.

"Hey, you're early." Evan said.

"Oh, sorry if I've interrupted anything!" Cira raised her eyebrows suggestively at both of them. "I just thought since we have a gig on Friday it would be an idea to actually get here on time." Cira was never on time for anything. She had been known to run in second before they were supposed be on stage at gigs.

"You better be this early on Friday. There's supposed to be loads of people coming to this one. We should get some money out of it too they're charging £3.50 a ticket." Kellyn said.

"Wow are we loved that much?" Cira smiled. "I might have to practice writing autographs."

"Who's going to want them?" Kellyn asked amused.

"My adoring fans of course!"

"What adoring fans are these?"

"Well I could hire a few." Cira giggled and went over to the drum kit and started practising.

"So where are your parents? Isn't it about time they came out to hear us make lots of terrible sounding noise?" Cira asked.

"We so quickly go from being amazing with adoring fans to being terrible sounding noise." Evan laughed.

"The higher you go the further you fall dear Evan, the fates apparently can change in just three seconds." Cira tried her hardest to sound serious.

"Cira, you know I believe you at least will be famous." Kellyn said as Cira eyed her suspiciously. "Famous for talking complete crap."

"Hey! I don't speak crap, it's just to advanced for your earth intelligence." Cira said trying to look superior.

"Need I say more?" Kellyn laughed.

"Ah, here's Conner we can actually get some practising done." Cira waved as Conner ran up the drive with his guitar over his back.

"Or you know we could just sit and make wide comments at each other on Friday." Kellyn said.

"But then we might get tomato's thrown at us…wow do think people would ever actually do that bring tomato's to a gig to throw them at the band?" Cira said thoughtfully.

"As usual I manage to come as were having the really intelligent conversations." Conner said sarcastically as he got his guitar out.

"What else would they be having? I don't think I've heard anything but intelligence from those two." Evan said.

"Ok enough with the wide ass comments please." Kellyn was impatient to start the practice.

"Who said we were being wide?" Conner looked up innocently. Kellyn pretended to be appalled and playfully hit him in the arm.

"Right we ready? It would be good to get some actual practice done today." Evan said.

"Yeah, sorry I'll continue to kill Conner after Friday." Kellyn looked joke threateningly at Conner.