The Story So Far | Chapter One
Beca's POV
It was dark, the crowd was silent. My heart was racing so fast, I can't do this. I have to. This is it, it's now or never.
Graham hinted me a small nod as he started the intro to Hit or Miss. After two chord progressions, my part started while I hit E5 and made a pick slide. The crowd was liking it so far.. I think. After the pick slide, Hunter, Dylan joined along as we played the intro.
I started the lyrics, "The needle on my record player has been wearing thin, this record has been playing since the day you've been with him.
The crowd intensified, this is a good sign. A very good sign. At least, great. It made me smile and motivated me to feel the song we wrote.
The chorus went in, "Have I waited too long? Have I found that someone? Have I waited too long? To see you!"
After the song, the crowd rooted for us. They liked it. It increased our chance to win the Battle of the Bands this year, we've been trying since last year. I hope we win it now, it could be the best thing that has ever happened to us.
We left the stage as we were the last band to perform this night and then the emcee came in, mentally drum rolling as he started, "The winner of the Battle of the Bands, gets to get signed by any record label they want, also they win 25 thousand dollars! So the winner of this year' Battle of the Bands is..."
Crossing my fingers, and mentally praying that I would hear Turpitude with the emcee's voice and the audience will erupt with cheers and yells.
"Root Knot!" Damn.
The Root Knots shouted with euphoria as they went of the stage and accepted the prize from the judges. Half of the crowd seemed disappointed as some of them didn't clap or cheer. RK didn't even bother the crowd instead they just went out with the prize and they signed with Drive-Thru Records.
I sighed heavily as they left the stage with their prize. That should've been ours.
Graham sighed and nudged my shoulder motioning for us to get back to Baton Rouge. Hunter drives everytime, I got into the van whilst carrying my guitar.
Most the ride on the way back was pretty quite, except for the fact that Dylan was listening to blink-182 with his volume on max.
"How do you feel, Beca?" Graham started.
"I've known you for 3 years, Graham. How could you not know that I'm upset?" I retorted while my angry dark eyes met Graham's. How could he not know? He's been my best friend for 3 years..
"Of course, I know. Look, I know you're disappointed we didn't win it. I already told you not to expect much, we're gonna wi-"
"Expect? I wasn't expecting anything until the audience loved our song. They were cheering so much for us, Gray. Did you not notice that? And plus, I don't think we'll win someday," I turned away, not wanting to hear a reply from Graham.
"Sure, the crowd was intensifying.. And how could you say that? Rebecca Mitchell giving up that easily? No, that's not the badass Mitchell I befriended." I chuckled at that slightly. "We're joining again, okay? We have to write new songs. We have to find that song that will win us."
I nodded at that thought, "Fine. I know we shouldn't give up on our dreams. I'll try to find inspiration so I can write that song."
"That's the Mitchell I like," he beamed while I beamed back. "Ready for college?"
"Nah, I don't think so. I'm still working on some new songs though, but I can't finish a good one. I need to experience something." And with that the ride back to Baton Rouge was silent. Gray was already sleeping, Dylan was starting to drift off, Hunter kept his eyes on the road. While I was here, thinking. Thinking of new songs, thinking of that song that would help us win the BotB. I hoped that I would encounter something in college, and I kept praying.
Soon, we were back in Baton Rouge.
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A/N: Hey guys! Sorry if it's kinda short, I will upload longer in the next chapters though I can't promise it to be all long chapters! This is the first (kinda?) AU fan fiction I wrote since Beca isn't a DJ instead she is a rhythm guitarist and lead vocalist of the band Turpitude, as you can see I'm a huge fan of NFG so sorry if their songs are too much here you should listen to them though. So anyway, don't worry for pop fans out there, there's gonna be pop songs here too but of course, it's mostly pop punk right now! Yeah! Gonna upload the next chapter fast! Please review and let me know what you think so I should consider this first chapter as a pilot and I need everyone's opinion if I should continue this idea. I'm not considering to continue it first, I need opinions so reviewing would be great. Thanks! Follow my blog though! See ya in the next chapter! Also check out the song based on this story, The Story So Far - New Found Glory.
