Chapter 5: Paparazzi
Craig walks into band practice with a huge smile on his face. Marco, Ellie, and Jimmy all look at him with confused looks on their faces.
"Guess who I just got off the phone with," Craig says picking up his guitar to get ready to play.
"Who?" The other three asks trying to sound like they care.
"Adam from Maroon 5." Craig says and pauses for a reaction, but there isn't one. "Umm are you guys hearing what I'm saying?"
"Yeah, but what's so good about that?" Marco asks.
"HELLO…IT'S AN AWESOME OPPURTUNITY." Craig yells unable to believe they aren't happy about it.
"Ok calm down, what exactly did they say?" Ellie asks before Craig over reacts again.
"They want a local-ish band to open for them in Wasaga, and they found us on the net. We have an audition in a week." Craig says still smiling and as happy as ever.
"What?" That's crazy man," Jimmy says with a look on his face like are you kidding.
"Crazy good or crazy bad?" Craig says beginning to lose some of his pep realizing that the rest of the band isn't liking the idea.
"Crazy bad, we have a week to come up with something good and we have nothing to even start with." Jimmy says looking around at everyone.
"We can do it, come on we won Battle of the Bands with a song Craig wrote like fifteen minutes before hand." Marco says trying to reassure everyone with his always positive attitude.
"Ok now let's play." Craig says jumping into a song.
"Wait, shouldn't we begin writing a song for auditions?" Ellie says causing Craig to stop playing.
"Don't worry about it; I'll get on that tonight." Craig says.
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After band practice Jimmy and Ellie are at Jimmy's house.
"I don't think we have a shot at this at all." Jimmy says talking about the audition thing.
"I hope we don't get it, I mean it would be great, but I don't want to have to deal with Sean." Ellie says flipping the hot pink band around her wrist.
Jimmy rolls over to her and takes her hands in his.
"You'll be alright; I'm here for you no matter what." Jimmy says lightly kissing Ellie's hands.
"I know, it's just hard to have to deal with him. I really can't stand him these days." Ellie says flipping the band again.
"Relax," Jimmy says pulling Ellie into a hug and kissing her forehead lightly. "Everything is going to be fine."
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Marco and Dylan are in Marco's room where they usually are. Marco is telling Dylan about the band practice.
"…So, we have an audition with Maroon 5 in a week, and have nothing to play." Marco says as a finishing statement.
"Wow, that's awesome; that they want you to audition, but what are you guys going to play?" Dylan asks.
"My point exactly Craig told Ellie he'd work on something tonight, but we all know how Craig is." Marco says laying back on his bed.
"I'm sorry, I can't help with the gig thing, but I can…" Dylan starts then begins to tickle Marco.
Marco starts laughing and tries to get Dylan to stop, but Dylan won't back down. Marco is begging him to stop even.
"Nope, not until you tell me what I want to hear." Dylan teases.
Marco continues to fight back laughing.
"Come on let me go, " Marco says laughing so hard he has tears rolling down his face, "I love you, now will you let me go?" Marco finally gets out.
"Ok, I guess." Dylan says as he stops tickling Marco and begins to kiss him.
They are making out when Marco's mom walks into see what Marco was yelling about. She decides it wasn't important and leaves the room.
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Craig is sitting in his garage on the couch. Guitar in hand and a notebook and pen beside him. He is drawing a blank and can't seem to come up with anything.
"What am I going to do?" Craig asks himself out loud, and begins to strum his guitar slowly.
He likes that, but can't put words with it. He decides to call it quits for the night and begins playing a video game. His phone rings and its Manny. He ignores it and goes back to the video game. After awhile he checks his voicemail to see what she wanted.
"Hey Craig, it's Manny, I know we've been ignoring each other for awhile now, but can we forget about that, and maybe hang out sometime?" Manny says before hanging up.
Craig thinks about it, but decides against it. He knows what Manny wants and he isn't looking for that right now. He picks up his guitar and pen and paper again. Sitting on the couch he strums the guitar a little then begins putting words with it.
IYou shattered my dreams that day when you said you needed a break. I didn't think you meant what you actually did.
You've broken my heart, turned me away when you saw how much I cared./I
He draws a blank and decides to at least get that down on paper before he lost it. He couldn't really express what he wanted too.
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They are doing their audition in Wasaga. They decided to use the song that had won them Battle of the Bands. Later that night they are sitting in Craig's garage waiting to see if they got it or not. They were all lost in their own thoughtsthoughts are in italics or should be
Ellie i> I hope we make it, but then again I don't want to have to deal with Sean. Jimmy is right though, I just need to let it go. Sean is in my past and Jimmy is in my future. i>
Ellie looks at Jimmy
Jimmy i> we're all so happy, I've got El, She's got me, Marco has Dylan again. Craig, well I guess he isn't too happy, but he's improving and this would make him happy. I hope we get It. i>
Craig i>So much has happened to us. I've lost Ash forever this time. El and Jimmy finally got together. Marco kissed me and finally got his man back. I hope we get this so I can have something good in my life too. i>
Marco i>Life is great, I've finally got Dylan back. El is happy, Jimmy is happy, Craig is ok, but if we don't get this he'll be back down again. i>
Craig's phone rings and they all look at him he answers it, and then puts it on speaker phone.
"Are we in?" They all ask.
"You guys were awesome, and we're looking forward to hanging out with you in a couple of weeks. Congratulations." Adam says as they all smile and thank him the episode ends.