Chapter 3
Lunch Time Performance.
Thank you again for all the positive reviews. Don't be afraid to PM me about anything, at anytime for your characters. Again, if your characters aren't in this chapter, they'll show up at auditions.
Also, for those in Coombs Academy, you'll be appearing in chapter six I think. Somewhere around there.
Ryley headed towards the music room, knowing that a student or two would have left a guitar behind. That' what the music room was for, now wasn't it? At Coombs it had been. He smiled when he saw he was right. He even smiled when he saw the Team Tyrion sticker on the guitar, as well as a sticker of the TARDIS. He ran his fingers through his mocha brown hair, and played a few chords. He hoped that the owner of the guitar wouldn't kill him for this.
He hadn't found Wes yet, but hey, whatever, if he had to do this by himself, so be it. He was the only one in William McKinley High that knew what this glee club was up against. Coombs Academy who was being coached by Jesse Saint James, and Shelby Cochran. Together, those two would take the Whistling Robots to Nationals, and he was sure that whoever had posted this flier, had no idea how powerful the Whistling Robots really were.
As he approached the courtyard, that was were he slammed into a boy wearing a number sixty four Titans jersey. He has light brown hair, which, was cut short on both sides, and that he has deep green eyes, in which, Ryley automatically assumed the girls loved, and the athlete was also naturally tanned.
"Watch it Justin Beiber," the athlete spoke up, breaking his observation of the boy. Ryley also figured that he hadn't been in any of his classes.
"Don't ever call me Justin Beiber again. I may be wearing a Coombs Academy jacket, I may be carrying this guitar, which, doesn't belong to me, and yes, I can sing, but I am nowhere near as low as Justin Beiber," Ryley stated to the athlete. That was when a cheerleader came up to him.
"Ty, the boys want to see you on the field for a lunch practice," she had told the athlete. Okay, his name was Ty. Ryley would have to remember that.
Eventually moving on, he headed to the steps, which led to where the lunch tables were, and so other students could see what he was about to do. Wes still hadn't shown up. At this point, Ryley didn't care. He would still perform anyway. With or without him.
Ryley strummed the first notes to one of his favorite songs, and then he began to sing.
Cut my tongue out
I've been caught out
Like a giant juggernaut
Happy hours
Golden showers
On a cruise to freak you out
We could fly a helicopter
Nothing left to talk about
Entertain you
Celebrate you
I'll be back to frame you
When I grow up
I'll be stable
When I grow up
I'll turn the tables
Don't take offense
Better make amends
Rip it all to shreds and let it go
I rip it all to shreds and let it go
I rip it all to shreds and let it go
I rip it all to shreds and let it go.
"You sound great. Hey sorry, I didn't show up on time, I had to go a what I want to do after I graduate thingee," Wes told him, as he sat down beside me.
"What were you singing, anyways?" Wes asked Ryley, as started a drum beat on his legs, just above his knees, and Ryley realized that the beat sounded familiar, and decided to strum along with the beat of his "drumming".
"One of my favorite songs," Ryley tells him, and smiles, as Wes begins to sing with the beat, and they saw that a couple of students were watching them.
Can we pretend that airplanes
In the night sky
Are like shooting stars
I could really use a wish right now (wish right now, wish right now)
Can we pretend that airplanes
In the night sky
Are like shooting stars
I could really use a wish right now (wish right now, wish right now)
That was when Ryley joined in. He knew the words, so why not. He just hoped that Wes wouldn't try to punch him, or something.
I could use a wish or a genie or a tinkerbell
To find my never ever land to save me from this hell
Can't go back to the that one room shack
Where the floor met the mattress, or the door with the latches
Before all the actors, the models and stuffs,
Before all the clubs, the bottles, the cups,
We swore we would practice, and ignore all the sadness
Hold onto our wish, even when if they think it is madness
Whatcha gonna do when your wish shows up
So many saw their chance & they just froze up
So Airlane airplane, don't leave that runway
I got my ticket, and I swear it's a one way.
Can we pretend that airplanes
In the night sky
Are like shooting stars (shooting stars)
I could really use a wish right now (wish right now, wish right now)
Can we pretend that airplanes
In the night sky
Are like shooting stars (shooting stars)
I could really use a wish right now (wish right now, wish right now)
Then, as Ryley started to do his rap again, a girl came over, and interrupted, and rolled her eyes.
"Wow. I didn't know we had boys in this school who could rap. I guess, you're better than, most of the boring football players around here who think that they can win a game, just because they can throw a football in the air," she tells them, as she tosses some of her loose brown hair behind her.
"Well good afternoon to you as well, Bex," Wes greets sarcastically, as he looks up at her, and then decides to stand up.
"You wouldn't want to join in as well?" Wes adds, as he looks her in the eyes, and smiles quickly when he saw one of the girls wearing a gray United States Army t-shirt walk by. Ryley had secretly guessed that Wes had a crush on her. Ryley wouldn't have blamed him. If only Ryley weren't gay, he would have wanted to talk to her. Then again, he hadn't even told his family that he was gay, and everyday made a mental note to do that. Then Ryley turned his attention back to Wes, and Bex.
"Oh for crying out loud, Wes, just go and talk to her. She won't bite," Bex happily told Wes, though, it seemed that she wasn't sure about it.
"Yeah, Wes, go talk to her. We won't be singing that stupid song from the Little Mermaid. I mean, that movie totally freaked me out when I was a kid, and I wondered why. Oh never mind. That's not the point," Ryley announced to Wes, as they both spotted the girl again.
"She could be a lesbian, if she is, I call dibs," Bex told Wes, as if it would help the situation further.
"Come on Wes, we just performed B.O.B, until we didn't get thrown tomatoes, so the worse that she could say is no," Ryley chimed back in, as though, that was the real divine guidance that Wes had been going for.
"Fine, but if she laughs at me, I'm so never talking to you again," Wes told Bex, and Ryley, as he headed in the same direction Of course, as he was headed in the direction of the girl that he had wanted, okay, forced to talk to, Bex had failed to mention that she was one of the most popular girl in school, and on the Cheerios. Bex knew this, because, well she knew just about everyone, and she was also on the squad.
"So you attended Coombs Academy?" Bex asked, as she seemed to have nothing else to ask.
"Yep, all the way until this August," Ryley answered her with a smile, as he played with the guitar strings, as he thought of something to play. So far, he had thought of nothing.
"So CA how did you end up here? Coombs is ten times better than we are, and they have a cheering squad that doesn't suck," Bex wanted to know, as she watched a girl with dyed hair walk by with some of her friends.
"Long story short, I got suspended for something I didn't do," Ryley answered her question."For the record though, the cheering squad, actually isn't that great. The captain, was my best friends girlfriend, who was pregnant with his baby, and then slept with the captain of the football team," Ryley added, as though, it were something she needed to know.
"Sounds like some cheerios here. Trust me. I should know," Bex told Ryley, as though, she held a grudge against the pregnant teenagers from this year, and last year. He liked her. He also hoped that she wasn't getting the wrong idea.
"So CA, what were you, and National Guard, getting at?" Bex finally asked the question she had been holding back at.
"Glee Club. We're trying to get people to join. I mean, we'll be facing Coombs, if we make to Sectionals, and they're coached by two of the greatest show choir – glee club coaches, in Ohio," Ryley told her. "I want to go against the Whistling Robots," Ryley added, as he smiled, and finally had an idea to play in his head.
"Who the hell names their group the Whistling Robots, anyways?" Bex asks in her bitchy tone, which was now starting to show.
"Hey do you mind, helping me out with this song?" Ryley asks, as he tunes the chords to the measurements where they needed to be for the song.
"Eww. Singing," Bex stated, pretending to be offended, and made a fake mad face. Hey, if Boyce Avenue could do it, he could cover this song, even if he had to do it himself.
"Monster / Counting Stars?" Ryley asked, and smiled. "Everyone knows both of those songs, and all you have to do is cover Rihanna's part," Ryley added with a smile.
"Fine, but later, we pretend that this never happened, and we don't ever speak of it again," Bex told him, surrendering, which was something she often did.
"Deal," Ryley told her, as he smiled, as he secretly hoped that she didn't mean this.
"I mean, we ever talk about this again, I'll murder you so bad, that no one will know who were," Bex told him, as she made sure that it would never be brought up. Ryley didn't believe her, and instead just smiled.
I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed
Get along with the voices inside of my head
You're trying to save me, stop holding your breath
And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy
Very good. Ryley though to himself. If only he could convince her, they could definitely win against the Whistling Robots. St. James and Cochran wouldn't know what hit them.
I see this life
Like a swinging vine
Swing my heart across the line
In my face is flashing signs
Seek it out and ye shall find
Old, but I'm not that old
Young, but I'm not that bold
And I don't think the world is sold
I'm just doing what we're told
I feel something so right
By doing the wrong thing
I feel something so wrong
By doing the right thing
'Cause I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed
Get along with the voices inside of my head
You're trying to save me, stop holding your breath
And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy
In the next part, they joined voices together, so it would be a duet.
Well, that's nothing
Oooh, Oooh (Oh, Oh) [2x]
Well, that's nothing
Oooh, Oooh
I feel the love
And I feel it burn
Down this river every turn
Hope is our four letter word
Take that money
Watch it burn
Old, but I'm not that old
Young, but I'm not that bold
And I don't think the world is sold
I'm just doing what we're told
I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed
Get along with the voices inside of my head
You're trying to save me, stop holding your breath
And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy
Well, that's nothing
Oooh, Oooh [2x]
Well, that's nothing
Oooh, Oooh
Take that money
Watch it burn
Sink in the river
The lessons I learned
"You know, this glee club could use you, and Wes decided to bail for a girl," Ryley started, but stop mid-sentence, knowing that this was probably useless.
"Forget it CA. I meant what I said. Aside the few students who witnessed this, we'll never bring it, and I will murder you so hard, Manson will look like a novice," Bex told Ryley, this time, with a serious face.
"Fine, but if you change your mind," Ryley began, as one of the basketball players, who had been playing in the courtyard basketball court shot another hoop.
"Give it up CA," Bex told him again, as she pulled out her cell phone, and walked away.
Somewhere in the courtyard, Wes was talking to the girl. Ryley made a mental note to ask about that later. Instead of sticking around, Ryley decided to head to his locker, and get his materials for his next class with Mr. Hall.
Little had he known, Kendall Oliver had been wondering who he was, and was thinking that he, and the girl were exactly who he needed for the glee club. They were going to be key to Sectionals.
Meanwhile back in the hallway, Jace had been waiting for Ryley to show up by his locker, so he could talk to him about helping him with his homework.
Sorry for such a short chapter, which, probably was a tad bit confusing. I'm running on four hours of sleep, and had this idea in my head. Anyways, not everyone was in the chapter, but next chapter, more characters will be introduced (especially Tyler's twin sister, and the girl Wes was talking to.) Anyways, again, auditions part 1 is next, which will feature Blaine.
Reviews would be rad!
Songs used: When I Grow Up - Garbage / Airplanes - B.O.B (Boyce Avenue Cover) / Counting Stars / The Monster - (Boyce Avenue cover)