"Hey! You made it!" Trent's sister, Jane grinned as she handed her friend, Daria the cup of black coffee that she had ordered for her.
"Wouldn't miss it for the World..." Daria replied sarcastically before taking a sip of her coffee.
"Ladies and gentlemen! Without further a-due; I give you, Mystick Spiral and their newest member!" The cafe's owner announced to the crowd as Trent and his band took the stage. Beavis kept his back turned to the crowd as he ran his fingers along Max's keyboard to create an eery, piano tone. The blond now sported a black, leather jacket that he wore over his Metalica shirt along with black, biker boots.
"Is that the newest member?" Daria asked with an amused smirk.
"I guess so; what a freak..." Jane snickered.
"I wonder what his name is..." Daria pondered as she joined in on Jane's snickering.
"Probably somethin' stupid like Beaver or Butthole..." Jane replied with a smirk as her brother interrupted their conversation by screaming into the microphone.
"Bum-bum-be-dum! Bum-bum-be-dum-dum! Bum-bum-be-dum! Bum-bum-be-dum-dum!" Nicholas, Max and Jessie all began to chant.
"What's wrong with me? Why do I feel like this?" Beavis began to mumble into the microphone that was strapped to the side of his face.
"I'm goin' crazy no-ow!" He suddenly sang beautifully as he finally turned around to face the crowd.
"Or Beavis..." Daria realized as her eyes widened in both surprise and fear.
"Yeah, somethin' stupid like that..." Jane snickered, oblivious to her friend's moment of realization.
"No more gas in the red!" Beavis sang with a sinister smirk as he confidently walked to the front of the stage to join Trent.
"Can't even get it started!" Trent joined in.
"Nothin' heard, nothin' said!" Beavis continued.
"Can't even speak about it!" Trent added once again.
"All my life on my head!" Beavis sang once again.
"Don't wanna think about it!" Trent continued.
"Feels like I'm goin' insane! Yeah! Yeah! It's a thief in the night to come and grab you! It can creep up inside you and consume you! A disease of the mind!
It can control you!" Beavis sang with a bit more feeling as Trent sang his backup.
"It's too close for comfort! Oh, put on your pretty lights! You're in the city of wonder; ain't gone play nice! Watch out; you might just go under! Better think twice; your train of thought will be altered so if you must falter be wi-ise!
Your mind's in..." Beavis and Trent sang together. Daria watched in amazement as Beavis' strong voice overpowered Trent's.
"Disturbia!" Trent's band shouted as their backup.
"It's like the darkness is alive!" Trent sang.
"Disturbia!" Trent's band shouted again.
"Am I scarin' you tonight?" Beavise sang with a sinister smirk.
"Disturbia!" Trent's band shouted once again.
"Ain't used to what you're like!" Trent added.
"Disturbia! Disturbia-a-a! Ah!" Trent and Beavis once again sang along with their band.
"Release me from these chains I'm in! Tryin' to escape but I'm strugglin'! If ya can't O-o-o-o-o-oh! I think I'm gonna O-o-oh!" Beavis sang passionately before he and Trent proceeded to repeat the same verse they were singing before. Daria admired Beavis' outer beauty along with the beauty of his voice as a blush crept across her countenance.
Much to Jane's shock, Daria had decided to run up to the stage once the band had finished their song, deciding that she needed to speak with Beavis once again.
"Beavis?! Hey, Beavis!" She called out to him, waving her arms to capture his attention but Beavis merely turned his nose up at her with a scoff before exiting the stage to reunite with Deidra.
"Beavis?!" Daria called out to him again, surprised by his sudden coldness toward her.
"You know that joker?" Jane asked with a cocked eyebrow as she approached her friend.
"We used to date..." Daria sighed as she watched her secret ex interact with his new girlfriend with a look of regret.
"You did great, babe but who was that girl?" Deidra asked in slight concern for her relationship.
"Just some chode I used to go to school with...Let's get outta here, babe heh-heh!" Beavis replied, provoking a heartbroken gasp from Daria as he placed his arm around Deidra to reassure her before leaving the building with her.
"Yeesh! What a jerk...You're better off without him..." Jane bitterly grumbled.
"He wasn't always that way...I think I might have done this to him..." Daria sighed as she sulked against the wall with a look of regret plastered across her countenance.
"Whata ya mean?" Jane questioned out of concern as she approached her friend.
"He wasn't the brightest kid in our school but he always used to be so happy and full of light...At least I thought he was until..." Daria began to recount her memories of her and Beavis to Jane.
"You, with your words like knives and swords and weapons that ya use against me, you, have knocked me on my feet again, got me feelin' like I'm nothin', you, with your voice like nails on a chalkboard, callin' me out when I'm wounded, you, pickin' on the weaker men..." He would always sing in a sad, somber tone as he hid in the Music Classroom, playing one of the class' banjos all the while and I knew exactly who he was talking about: Butthead, McVicker and Buzzcut.
"Well, you can take me dow-ow-own with just one, single blow but you don't know what you don't know...Someday, I'll be livin' in a big ol' city and all you're ever gonna be is mean...Someday, I'll be big enough so you can't hit me and all you're ever gonna be is mean...Why ya gotta be so mean?" I would hear him singing every day and find him in that same, abandoned, Music classroom, playing that same banjo every day.
"You with the sad eyes..." I decided to join in on his amazingly, beautiful singing one day. I knew that this probably was not the best discussion when he quickly turned to face him, dropping his banjo from shock and then giving me the most intimidating, death-glare I had ever seen from anyone in my entire life.
"Don't be discouraged...Oh, I realize it's hard to take courage in a World full of people. You can lose sight of it all and the darkness inside you can make you feel so small..." I decided to continue.
"But I see your true colors shining through, I see your true colors; that's why I love you..." Yes, I admitted to him just like I admit to you now that after hearing him sing his soul over the past few weeks, I had fallen for a boy that I used to view as a complete moron.
"So don't be afraid to let them sho-o-ow...Your true colors..." Much to my surprise, the blond joined in on the new song that I had brought to him as he slowly approached me with a small smile.
"True colors are beautiful..." We finished the song together and before either of us knew it, we had locked lips.
"Ew! Look at the two freaks making out!" It did not take long for Gina and her squad to find us and catch us in the act.
"Ew! Get away from me, you freak! You can't just go around kissing people!" I made a decision that I still regret to this day and roughly shoved him away from me.
"You suck, Daria Morgandorfer..." I will never forget those words he said to me before storming out of the classroom, near tears nor will I forget how he said them.
"He didn't even laugh...He didn't even call me, Diarrhea...I think I may have broken him, permanently that day..." Daria finished her story with an expression of complete and utter regret.
"I want him back..." Daria growled with narrowed eyes.
TO BE CONTINUED...