I'm soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo sorry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can't believe I didn't update in so long! (slaps hand)
But, now it's the easter hols! So I'm attempting to update every couple of days.
And, on another note, the vote is over, and a HUGE THANK YOU to all who reviewed (41 reviews! I can't believe it!)
Now, onto the story. REMEMBER!!! This will be slightly shorter since it was cut in half, but I'll be updating with the next chapter quicker!
Harry was one of the first to reach Rob's. Rob was obviously there, as was Joe. The others hadn't arrived yet.
"Mike'll be the last one here. He always is." Joe said to Harry as he walked in. Rob turned to Joe and put a defense for Mike.
"Well he does live furthest away."
"How'd you know that?"
"He told me."
"Any proof?"
"Well, not really. But why would he lie?"
"... Good point."
Harry just stared at them. He had know idea how fragile Mike's secret was. Any little matter, such as being late could result in him being found out. And Harry too. His secret was as fragile as Mike's. Perhaps even more so. What if he just blew up and used accidental magic?! What if he just let it slip by accident?
No, he thought. He wouldn't let that happen. He'd just have to be extra careful. Have to lie to his newfound friends. He decided he would have to talk to Mike about it.
While he was thinking Brad had arrived and was currently waving a hand in front of his face.
"Yo! Anyone in there? Knock knock?" As he said this he knocked on Harry's head.
"Hey! Sod off! That hurt you know."
"Please it wasn't that hard." Harry started knocking on his head trying to prove how sore it could be. "All right! All right!" Brad shouted as Harry let up, "Geez, remind me never to get you angry again."
"Ok. I don't generally get angry though." Brad stared at him in a look that clearly said, 'Yeah, sure. Did you know pigs could fly?' "I don't!" Brad just continued giving the look. "Fine then. Don't believe me."
"Don't worry, I wasn't planning to." Phoenix, who had came in during the little feud, laughed a little at this. For some reason this set Harry into laughter, which in turn set off Brad then Rob. This meant when Mike came in he was the only one beside Joe, who was just glaring good-naturedly, who wasn't laughing and stood there looking very confused.
This just set Harry into another laughing fit just as he was calming down. "That look suits you Mike." In retaliation Mike just glared at him and muttered about hyper morning people.
"Come on people, we need to get a move on. Rob, your mum still able to run us down?" Harry noticed how easily Mike easily took charge and how everyone obeyed him, even if they didn't know it at the time. He was a good leader.
"Yeah, she was just finishing up her breakfast when I last checked to see if she was awake." Rob turned to the door leading to the main part of the house. "Mum! Are you ready? Are you still able to take us down?"
"Yes! Get my car keys and wait in the car. But don't put them in the ignition again! You remember what happened last time!" Apparently everyone else did too as they all chuckled while Rob blushed. Phoenix seeing Harry's confusion told him that last time he'd turned on the ignition and stepped on the accelerator or bumped the gear stick by accident, but whatever he had done the car had started moving bumping into the fence and hereby making it fall on top of their prize winning flowers.
"She went completely scatty." He completed.
"Rob's mum or the neighbour?"
Phoenix chuckled. "Both!"
It took a while to get into London, and longer to find the right street. By the time they arrived in the building they were five minutes late for their appointment.
Luckily they still managed to get in.
After all the pleasantries were done with they got onto serious matters
"So, do you have any recordings of any songs you've done with your new singer?" Mr Andrews, "Please, call me Jacob", asked
"Yes," Mike answered. "We just finished a new song, Numb. We also have a recording of Chester here singing one of our older songs, Crawling. And we've just completed some music we've been working on for the past few months and Chester and I will start putting lyrics to that later this week."
Jacob nodded, looking pretty impressed while still having a look on his face saying he'd heard better.
"Very well. If I could please get the recording of... Numb, was it?"
Mike handed it over looking very nervous as Jacob put the tape in the tape player on the other side of the office, pressed the play button and sat in his chair once again. Everyone tensed up as he shut his eyes as the music started and as his expression changed once the song was over.
"Well... well." Everyone held their breath. "I must say I'm surprised. I wasn't expecting this to be as impressive as it was. I'd also quite like to hear the other song as well..." he drifted off as Crawling started up. During certain parts of this song he looked skeptical. He stood up, walked over to the tape player and ejected the tape, passing it to Mike.
"While that one was good, it could have been better, more... fluent, well no, that was fine... but I think you should work on that one. But I can tell you this, I think your signed up." He paused as the band let out their breath and congratulated each other. "Right now, I think I'll have you work on your stuff a bit more, especially since you've just got a new member and don't have a lot of stuff yet. But there'll be small gigs in between. So you'll have to make sure you're available. It'll be after school hours of course, since you're all most likely still in education."
This alerted Harry at once. What would he do once school started back? How could he continue in the band and go to the gigs and get lyrics and such done? Apparently Jacob had noticed something was wrong due to his expression.
"Is something wrong? Do you have a job or something? Because if you do I'm afraid you'd have to work around it."
"No, no it's not that. I don't have a job, it's just... I go to a boarding school... and..."
"Well, if it's local I'll write and ask if they can let you out for work purposes, we've had to do that before and..."
"No, sir. That wouldn't work. You see the schools situated in Scotland. So..." he trailed off.
"Oh, bugger." This was Mike speaking. "Well, you could get here the way I get here. You'd have to speak to the head teacher though."
"That's probably the best idea." Harry muttered. Jacob looked kind of annoyed.
"Look, you lot are the best band I've heard all summer, and we get a lot of stuff sent in. I honestly think you lot could make it in the music industry. So you should talk to your head master or mistress and try to arrange it with them. At least once a week for you to get down for gigs and working would be good enough, I guess."
"I'll contact my headmaster and tell you what he says."
"Good, good. Just phone the company and leave a message for me with the person who answers the phone. Got it?"
"Yeah." With that they said their goodbyes and left, walking towards a local shop where they said they'd meet Rob's mum, but not before Rob, Phoenix, Brad and Joe stopped and crowded around Mike and Harry.
It was Brad who done the talking. "Look, we're all supposed to be friends right? What secret do you two have? You're always avoiding questions Mike, and that little thing in there about 'you can get here the same way I do' when he's all the way up in Scotland, what's this all about?"
"And we want the truth. Friends don't lie to each other." Joe looked pretty scary with a slight scowl on his face Harry thought. He and Mike looked at each other, trying to decide wordlessly how to tell them and, more importantly, what to tell them.
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I figured this was where I should leave this. Kind of a cliffie, isn't it? I'm usually no good at them.
Anyway, again I'm sorry! And here's responses to reviews for chapters 3:
Chapter 3:
Dra – It's a brill song, isn't it? Thanks for reviewing!
Mikito – Thank you!!!
Incoherentdozyprat – Thank you! Don't worry, Faint's coming up! Yeah, I know about the Hybrid Theory name, that's why I used it, I'm waaaaaay too thick
to come up with an original name! Though if I do I'll change it.
greasy sox - lol! I like the name. Thanks!
relative1983 – Yay! Thank you! I hope I explained in chapter 4 about Mike not recognizing the scar due to his (not so) slight ignorance of the wizarding
world.
Jericholic - Here it is! Please don't cry!
^_^ - Woo hoo! Thank you!!!!! If you want a really good LP/HP story that's only LP songs, go read Dark Hikari Kamiya's fic The Talent Show it's really good!
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TheSecretCharacter – Thanks! Glad you like the squib thing, and I'm afraid you seem to be one of the few people actually voting!
Ice Sphinx – You'll get yourself dizzy! Thank you for your review, I think it helped me.
Sammy – I'm continuing! I'm continuing!!!!!! Just don't hurt me!!!!!
Rukato86 – Glad you liked the chapter! I dunno whether or not I'll be putting romance in, but I've always liked H/Hr so it's always a possibility!
Dude – Thanks! So far I know I'll be using LP (duh), Evanescence, and Smile Empty Soul who I've never heard. So if you have any recommendations...
Nikki – Thank You!!!! Especially for referring it to others!!!! And thanks for reviewing! I'm glad you like it!
Helen – I bet I could give you a run for your money!!! I'm glad you like it. I hope the weather gets better!
kathy stgqvk – You'll find out what happens at school, I can't give it away now can I? If I think I can fit it in I might write an alternative version with slash.
Mike's parents will pop up, but at this point in time, even I'm unsure if they'll be crucial characters.
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I'll put chapter 4 and 5 reviews together since they're technically the same chapter.
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