Cleo was sat with Tara and Rob at the Slam FM centre waiting for him to show them where they would be "I want The Radio Rebels add's in every social network just blast the internet, updates every hour we wanna blanket the market, good alright bye" Rob said,
during that sentence both Tara's and Cleo's eyes had gone wide "So I was talking to your mom about keeping the whole Radio Rebels thing on the QT and I think it's a good idea, you know I don't want you to talk to anybody about it, Radio Rebels is the shot in the arm that Slam FM needs, since the last show producer Snazzy Dog crashed and burnt we've got a lot hinging on this, inculding my job no pressure okay?"
Rob asked as they walked, the weight of it all finally came down on Cleo and she started to panick, her hands started to shake and she felt really thirsty "So your shows gonna run 7pm Mondays to Fridays because that was the time you girls would blast from your room, and you'll be taking over from Dj Fluffy Mac who is now moving to Sunday night, right so let's show you the booth" Rob said turning around, he stayed quiet when he noticed that neither girls were there.
After hearing enough to make them panick both girls had run into the break room "Hey Tara, Cleo you girls remember me? I'm Tammi Q we met at the Slam christmas party" the girl said filling her mug "Girls, when Rob told me you two were The Radio Rebels, this was my face..."
Tammi said giving them a strange disbelieving look, Cleo took a deep breath while Tara looked horrified "Cuz I thought you were both just these little shy things, but you are all kinds of amazing, you are fierce, I just can't wait to see what you got going for the..." Tammi stopped talking once she noticed Tara had gone missing, Cleo slowly pulled herself away from the door and stood next to Tara,
only within Tammi's view "Tara, are you okay?" she asked "I can't even speak to Gavin without freezing, how am I supposed to speak to all of Seattle?" Tara asked nervously, Cleo sighed and leaned agains't the vending machine "It's no different than recording in your bedroom" Tammi said "In our bedroom we can pretend that no one's listening but now we know everyone's listening and Rob's putting all this pressure on it and mom's wants us to have our Shartruse moment I mean I don't even like Shartruse I don't even know what it is"
Tara said quickly, Cleo chuckled and so did Tammi "Tara come out where I can see you" Tammi said "It's okay Tara" Cleo said moving out of the way, Tara poked her head out from behind the machine "Look girls everybody gets nervous, it's totally normal. Just consider me as your best friend here at Slam FM, just catch your breath and then we'll walk out together" Tammi said,
Tara glanced back nervously at the door and Cleo sighed "Look sis, I'm as nervous as you right now, but this is the best thing ever Tara, what we've always wanted is to be heard right? Well now everyone's waiting to listen, and I'll be there with you every step of the way just like I always have been. C'mon sis" Cleo said holding out her hand, Tara glanced down at her hand before taking it.
Tammi led the girls to the recording booth and their eyes widened in awe "Oh my god" Cleo exclaimed walking further into the room "Is this whole room for us?" Tara asked in shock "We call this the live room cuz when that red light is on, your live" Tammi said sitting in one of the swirly chairs, Cleo spun around slowly to look at everything "If you girls wanna move around then use these headsets so we don't miss anything"
Tammi said motioning to the two black headsets on the table "There's your vocal masking button but you girls already know about that" she said "And the song selections are up to you" she finished, she got out of the chair and motioned the girls to sit in them,
Cleo sat down in front of the computer and Tara sat right next to her "My god, there's like 20,000 songs on here" Cleo said scrolling down through them all "We got some times before you go on if you wanna practice, yah know get comfortable" Tammi said putting the main mic in front of them "Practice, okay maybe I should play a song just to get the hang of it" Tara said, she clicked on a song and panicked when a faster chipmunk version played "Okay that was bad practice"
she said jumping out of the chair, Cleo stopped the chipmunk song and sighed "Don't worry about it, you girls will be fine. And I'm right next door if you need me, just pretend it's your bedroom" Tammi said, she walked into the other room and picked up her own headset "Your on in 15..." as she started counting down Tara closed the window shutters so no one could see her or Cleo
"Oh my god" Cleo said panicking for a split second, Tara sat down on the opposite side and took a deep breath "Your listening to Slam FM and this is The Radio Rebels show" the man on the radio said "These are your Radio Rebels live from Slam FM" Tara said, Cleo giggled quietly and pulled her own mic down "You know it, listen guys we gotta confess, moving the show from the bedroom to Slam FM studios was so scary, but hey life's all about change right?"
Cleo said into the mic "Maybe some people just wanna label you as one thing, analyze you then walk away, we don't have to let that stop us from becoming who we wanna be, like that kid with the remote control car..." Tara started "Yeah I mean maybe he's gonna grow up to invent an entire green rocket ship, or that girl who gives everyone carnations on valentines day just so no one feels left out, she could grow up to be president..."
Cleo added "Guys if we just drop the labels and clicks and just be ourself, we have no idea what were capable of. Look if your all with us on this, then wear red tomorrow, it'll be like saying despite our differences, were in this together. This song is from red letter day"
Tara said clicking on the song, the song started to play and both girls moved away from the mic a bit "Hey Tara" Cleo said, Tara smiled and looked at her sister "I like red" she said randomly while shrugging, Tara started to laugh and her sister soon joined her.
Next Day At School...
Cleo and Tara walked down the hallway in their own clothes which deffinatley had red in them and looked around in awe, they were both surprised at how many people took their advice "Ahem" Audrey said catching up to both girls "I thought you had freakishly good vision" Cleo said noticing that Audrey had red glasses on "Fashion shouldn't be functional"
Audrey said showing the girls that the glasses didn't have lenses "Do you girls know why I chose red rims? I assume you both do because of your red clothes" she said, Tara looked around "I can't believe all these people are wearing red just because the Radio Rebels said to" she said in surprise "So you girls did listen to Radio Rebels last night? What happend to your mystery plans?"
Audrey asked, Tara was about to reply when the lift opened revealing Barry and Larry in identical outfits "Can you guys tell us apart?" They asked in sync "You guys are fraternal not identical" Audrey said before storming into the lift, Tara and Cleo joined them.
The lift doors opened and they all walked out "We just ran a recording of the Radio Rebels show through a voice analysis app, were closer than ever to revealing their true identities" Barry said "Local twins crack the Radio Rebels ID's" Larry said with a dreamy look on his face "See then I'll be able to proffess my undying love" Barry said "We'll be famous, we could get a reward, or at least out own reality T.V show"
Larry said "Where she and I could be married on live T.V, either one of them I don't mind" Barry said dreamily, Cleo rolled her eyes "Girls since your step-dad runs Slam FM maybe you could help us out" the boys said turning to them "Actually were not allowed to go to Slam FM when the Radio Rebels girls are there, to keep the mystery mysterious" Tara said quietly
"The truth is, Cleo and Tara don't have time for friend related things" Audrey said before once again storming the other way "Excuse us for a minute" Cleo said to the boys before she and Tara caught up with Audrey "Audrey, Audrey, AUDREY!" Tara said louder "What?" she asked spinning around, Tara tried to say something but she couldn't find the words "Forget it I'm leaving"
Audrey said about to start walking again, Cleo and Tara stopped her and Tara closed a classroom door so no one would listen "I am about to tell you something so top secret but you cannot tell anyone" Tara said, Cleo's eyes widened a little "Tara she's my best friend too but are you sure?" she asked nervously "Look I won't tell anyone I swear, you can say it" Audrey said reasuringly,
Cleo sighed but agreed to tell her, Tara mumbled it and Cleo rolled her eyes "Tara you need to breath your words" Audrey said, Tara mumbled it again "Louder c'mon, breath the words" Audrey said "We're Radio Rebels" Cleo said quietly but loud enough for Audrey to hear "Oh...I don't believe you" she said, Cleo rolled her eyes.
After School...
"If your like us and believe music can change the world one track at a time, your gonna love this track one of my new favoruite bands" Tara said over the mic, Audrey had a headset and she had a shocked look "Oh my gosh I can't believe their you and your them, I mean your the last people I would expect to be the Radio Rebels" she said "It's been driving us crazy not telling you, and of course we wanna hang out but we've been doing the show"
Cleo explained quiet relieved she had told someone "Here's the thing though you can't tell anyone not even Larry and Barry because Slam wants to keep it a big secret and so do we" Tara said motioning to her and Cleo, Audrey started to squeal and she pulled both laughing girls into a large group hug.