Hey guys! Starting the story as soon as possible! Here goes chapter one! BTW in my story Beck and Jade are still dating. And I decided to put the Introduction and Chapter One together.
Disclaimer: No. Just no.
PS: If you're confused in the introduction
This writing and this writing= Tori
This writing= Beck
This writing= Jade
This writing= Cat
This writing= Andre (Underlined. On here it only shows up bold, but for Andre it is Bold AND Underlined.)
Introduction:
To Whoever That Bothered To Read This,
We would like to tell a little story. The story of a Hollywood Art's mystery. We don't want to give away too much, as that can ruin this mystery before you start reading about it. This is the story of suspense, and maybe a little romance, and of course friendship. As you know Andre Harris, Jade West, Beck Oliver, Cat Valentine, Robbie Shapiro, Trina Vega, and me, Tori Vega where already best friends (Well most of us where, SOME PEOPLE acted very rude to you! Yeah I'm talking to you Jade!) But how did we ever meet, The Conceited Jock, The Punk, The Born Leader, The Problem Solver, The Rich Girl, The Humble Jock, The Dumb Blond, and The Outsider? (Do you have to be so dramatic? Say their real names! Shut it Jade!) If you where confused by that, I mean Jasper, Rain, Lyla, Alex, Tilly, Connor, Cherry, and Chuck. Anyway we'll be taking turns narrating the story from the beginning and-
Tori you're taking too long!
Cat! How did you get in my letter?
See! Cat agrees this was a dumb idea!
Jade! I told you to shut it!
Tori, just start to end the letter!
Andre? You're here too?
Sign it already!
There are more things I need to say!
Tori, I agree with Cat, you're taking too long.
Yay! Jade AND Beck agree with me!
Fine!
-Victoria Vega (And Friends)
Chapter One:
Lyla's POV
I had walked to Rain's locker, fast so I didn't miss third period. I saw her with her back against the lockers, slouching a bit with one of her feet resting on the lockers and the other one planted on the ground. She took a break from her "rest" position.
"Where the hell have you been? The one day I wait for you and you make us late for class." Rain said annoyed. Well it was hard to tell that she is using an annoyed voice, because that's usually how her voice always is. Anyway, I had stupidly agreed to help Sikowitz, by holding a ladder for him while he changed the lightbulb in the hallway. Well non surprisingly, he fell. I had to take him to the nurse's office which was all the way across school!
"Since when have you cared about being late to class?" I remember asking her sarcastically as we both pretty much ran to class.
"Point taken." She replied brushing a bit of her red hair away from her face. She had been exhausted from all the running. We both walked into vocal class awkwardly, seeing as they had already started doing warm ups. We sat in two chairs next to each other and started to join along with the warm ups. Nobody had really seemed to care that we had shown up ten minutes late. It wasn't until Lane interrupted class by walking in on us randomly. The teacher, who had let us call her by her first name, Emily, had stopped the lesson.
"What is it Lane?" She asked.
"From this class I need," Lane had trailed off as he had gotten that list out of his shirt pocket. "Jasper Wrelt, Raina Depelle, Tori Vega, Cat Valentine, Eliza Brown, and Connor Linwood to come outside with me, please." I stood up. Just so you don't get confused in the beginning of the tale, I'm Eliza, I just like to be called Lyla. Rain is obviously Raina, if you didn't catch that already. She stood up with me, and from the corner of my eye, I saw Jasper and Connor stand up as well. We all walked out the door with Lane together. When we had gotten out there, some other students where already there. Jade West and Beck Oliver where side by side holding hands. I saw Alex Stones leaning against the lockers, he looked up and smiled at me, and I couldn't help but smile back, but I quickly looked away...I didn't like him like that, and he didn't like me like that either, he was just being friendly.
I saw Robbie Shapiro having some sort of argument with his puppet Rex. Yeah, I called him a puppet. Sue me. I saw Matilda- wait scratch that out, she hates her full name, I mean Tilly Andrews standing next to him, looking around casually. Next to her I saw Andre Harris one of the schools best musicians. Next to him I laid my eyes on Charlotte, or Cherry, as everyone called her, who was typing eagerly on her phone at the time, she reminded me a lot of Cat. And next to her there was Trina Vega, Tori's sister, and nobody knows how she got into this school, but apparently she did. Still in the group of people, but not as close as everyone else was Charlie Knight, but he was mostly called Chuck. Rain, Jasper, Tori, Cat, Connor and I went into that group of people and stood with them. Lane walked infront of us and looked ready to speak. Little did we know what he was about to say would start everything.
"So what's this about?" I had asked curiously.
"Well...might as well show you...follow me." Lane said and started to guide us down the hall and up the stairs. That lead us to a different hall, and Lane suddenly stopped at a room at the end of that hall. The door looked old and and a bit dusty, like they didn't wipe it for years. Lane opened the door, and signaled us to go inside, which we did. The room was dusty and old, it almost looked abandoned, but at the same time, it looked as if someone had been in it just a couple of days ago. Don't ask me how I can sense that, I just can. The room looked like it used to be some sort of hang out area. There where some couches, some tables, a fridge, and some other stuff that where under some sheets
"What's all this?" Robbie asked looking around in awe.
"This used to be the student lounge, students would come in here during their free periods, it was a real success." Lane said as he started dusting off some tables with his hands.
"So was there a point bringing us here, or what?" Jade asked impatiently, while Beck put his hands on her shoulders, which I guess is another way of telling her to calm down.
Without further question Lane took a sheet of a medium hight podium. It looked like a podium you would find in a museum. It had the glass case and the white decorative body, and everything. But inside, there they where, the thing that changed our lives. They where a pair of drumsticks. But no ordinary drumsticks. They where normal size, solid black with colorful paint splatters on it. They looked amazing, any drummers dream. We didn't understand at the time how important they where. If only we realized it then.
"Woah..." I heard Andre mumble under his breath.
"This is Hollywood Arts' most prized possession." Lane explained. At that time, we thought it was pretty dumb for only just two pairs of colorful sticks to mean so much to the school. How dumb we where. We looked at it in a confused silence, trying to find some sort of value to it.
"Why is it so special?" Cherry asked, giggling a bit and twirling her hair, breaking the silence. Before Jade or Rain could say anything sarcastic to that, I shot them both a look so they wouldn't hurt the girls feelings.
"I'm actually not sure...you should ask Sikowitz, I think he was here when it was placed in our school." Lane replied.
"So what was the point of showing us this? Or are you wasting our time?" Jasper said annoyed. Ugh, he was such a jerk. I don't know what the girls saw in him.
"Maybe if you shut your stupid mouth he could tell us." Rain sarcastically replied glaring at him. It seems that this rivalry never ends. In less then a minute they where in some sort of argument that I didn't bother pay attention to, I was so used to it. About thirty seconds into the argument Tori held Rain back and Connor held Jasper. They calmed down and Rain shoved Tori off. "Never touch me again." I heard her growl to Tori, and she backed up in surrender.
"So why did you bring us to see this?" Alex asked Lane changing the topic.
"Well, usually we have teachers guard this over the weekend, but they're all busy, so since we know that three or four students won't be enough responsible for this we asked you fifteen students to guard it on Friday, and stay till late Sunday until I show up." Lane said. Some of us groaned, some of us agreed, and some of us cheered and squealed (*Ahem* Cat and Cherry) "And this is not a request...this is an order." Lane said strictly. I agreed in the first place, having nothing better to do. I could see Chuck looked a bit out of place, I guess he feels a little weird. I have barley talked to him, except for acting exercises. He's a bit mysterious. "Great, be here Friday after school." Lane said. We walked out of the room.
"I wonder why that isn't a lounge anymore..." Tilly said to all of us.
"All we can do is wonder." Connor replied.
"Stupid Lane, I have to miss a party this weekend!" Trina yelled. I seriously wanted to scream at her that nobody cares. But I'm not Jade or Rain, I keep most mean things to myself. At that time I had no idea what Lane was getting us into.
I wish I realized this before someone got hurt.
Okay I was excited so I posted this today. It feels weird knowing that almost all of this audience is made of girls, and I'm a guy. Anyway hope you guys liked this! Review!
-FTGS
