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Tatiana returned quickly after the boys finished singing the song they had just composed. She had a pack of cigarettes in her left hand, already open and with one missing, sign that she smoked the way back, and two diet bars in her right hand. When noticing her, Derek, Burger and Ash started chuckling thinking of the lyrics of the song they just played and Tripp kept nudging them with his elbow to make them stop.
"What…?" she asked with an annoyed look on her face and with a cocked eyebrow.
"Oh, nothing!" replied Tripp.
"Nothing to do with you!" added Derek still smirking.
"Not at all!" also said Burger.
"Nothing about you, Tat!" added Ash. The band gave him angry looks when he pronounced the word 'Tat', thinking that Tatiana might put questions about what they did in her absence.
"What did you just call me?" asked Tatiana furrowing her eyebrows and walking a few steps closer.
"Nothing, nothing…no" the band stammered while backing away from the woman.
"WHAT did you just call me?" she asked raising her voice and stopping in her tracks.
"…Tat…" said Tripp slowly.
"What?' she asked confused.
"Tat…it's from Tatiana" he continued.
"Oh…" she said "I think I like it!" she added smiling.
"Phew…" the band let out relieved.
"Honey, I'm leaving for my self-defense class…" said a blonde middle-aged woman, sticking her head through the door she had just opened, but stopped talking when noticing the new female figure "Hello there…" she said entering the garage and closing the door behind her.
"Hi!" Tatiana said, turning afterwards her gaze to Tripp like asking him who the woman was.
"Tatiana, this is my mum Beth! Mom, this is Tatiana, a girl who's auditioning to join the band!" said Tripp getting Tatiana closer to Beth.
Beth offered the young woman a friendly smile, but when noticing the raunchy, in her opinion, clothing she was wearing, her face turned into a more serious look while pushing her hand forward to shake Tatiana's.
"Well hello…Tatiana!" she said once again looking up and down the woman's appearance.
"Hey there, miss C.!" she said slapping away softly Beth's hand, embracing her and kissing her on the cheeks the same way she did to the band.
Beth was surprised by Tatiana's sudden action, but what she was even more surprised of was the strong smell of cigarettes the young woman had impregnated on her cloths and hair. When she backed away, Beth looked at her dumbstruck while she was chewing gum noisily, looking back at here. Beth then shook her head and turned to Tripp with a forced smile.
"Sweetheart, can I talk to you for a second?"
"Sure mom!" Tripp agreed, before his mother led him to a corner of the garage so they could talk.
"Tripp, what is a woman like that doing in my house?" she said a bit furious.
"What? What's wrong with Tatiana?" Tripp asked surprised.
"Just look at the way she's dressed, Tripp…she looks like you guys just gathered her from the highway" Beth said taking a small glance at the woman, who was lighting up a cigarette in her mouth "And did you feel that cigarettes smell on her clothes? It's disgusting and rude! I may have agreed with three stupid rockers living in my house, but there's no way I'll agree with a woman like that in my household!"
"C'mon mum! Relax, she won't be living in our house, she'll live in that house that the Johnson's have for rent just on the other side of the street. And besides, she's not even in the band yet! We didn't decide if to let her join Iron Weasel or not, we're still thinking of it!" Tripp explained.
"Well hopefully, she won't! I don't care if she won't live in my house; I just don't want people like her next to you!" Beth explained before turning to the door. On the way, she gave Tatiana, who had just stuck her bubble gum underneath the tool table, a really angry glare.
Tatiana just looked careless back at her, inhaling some more from the cigarette, as Beth exited the garage.
"She doesn't like me, does she?" Tatiana asked indifferently, blowing out the smoke from her lungs, looking at the door but referring to Tripp.
"Well…umm…you don't have to be upset, Tatiana! Mum doesn't like the boys either and…"
"Upset?" she laughed "Like I'd care what an old hag would care about me…No offense!"
"How dare you speak about Beth that way!" protested Burger, getting pretty mad that the woman he had a crush on was being insulted.
"This guy here has a crush on her?" asked Tatiana turning her gaze once again to Tripp.
"What? Me…? No!" said Burger panicked.
"Aha…" said Tatiana while finishing her cigarette, lighting it off and throwing the cigarette stump away "How you guys play a song?"
"What?" the band asked in unison.
"Yeah, I sang something for ya', how about you play something so I can know how you guys sound together!"
"Well that would be cool! Right guys?" said Tripp looking at his band.
"Aha…" they simply replied.
From what Tatiana had done and said throughout the day, Derek, Burger and Ash pretty much loathed Tatiana and couldn't stand the sight of her, especially Derek, because of his easily-hurt ego. His easily angered personality and nerves which were pulled maximally, made him feel nothing but hatred for the young woman. In his opinion, she was cocky, obnoxious, self-centered, attention-seeking and rude, and nothing in the world would have made him change his opinion about her.
While they all set up their instruments again, Derek couldn't decide which song they should play, but when taking a look at Tatiana, he made up his mind almost immediately and gave a sign to the others so they would understand what song they have to play. In the meantime, while the band was tuning up, Tatiana sat back on the couch and started eating one of the diet bars she had bought, for she was almost starving! When the boys finished the preparations, they started playing and Derek singing, while throwing glares to Tatiana from time to time.
"Goodbye, farewell,
I'm through with all your lying.
So hear me now,
An spare me all your crying.
Pretty bitter!
I wanna leave you everyday
Pretty bitter!
I wanna dump you anyway
Pretty bitter!"
Tatiana looked attentively at the four while they were playing, and if when she first met them earlier that day she wasn't sure if she wanted to join their band, after seeing this amazing performance, she knew she wanted to be a weasel…or a sheweasel. Tatiana knew from a mile away that Derek sang that while thinking of her, but she didn't care. Even though she figured it out easily that none of the guys liked her, except for Tripp of course, the only person in the band she could say she didn't like at all was Derek. She could tell from the moment she saw him, when he tried to flirt with her, that he was one arrogant, selfish and self-loving person, like many she met before, and made her totally sick. And even though she might have accepted his flaws only for the sake of being band-mates and friends, she couldn't and didn't, for she felt that he was really rude with her from the first moment.
"Wow, that was really cool!" she said after swallowing the last piece of diet bar and throwing the wrapper away.
"Yes, yes…of course it was!" Derek said indifferently, adjusting his microphone.
"Hey, why don't you sing a song with us so we can know if it sounds well Tat?" Tripp suggested "You don't mind if we call you Tat, do you?" he also added.
"No, not at all! But what song? I don't know any songs of yours" she answered.
"Well, how about…'Weasel Rock You'? It was a real hit at the time and every rocker knows it!" Tripp said
"'Weasel Rock You'? Hmm…I think I know it…Does it go like: 'Weasel rock you, on stage we're wild and crazy; Weasel shock you, back home we're wild and lazy'?"
"Yeah, exactly!" Tripp confirmed smiling.
"Cool!" Tatiana said getting up to her feet.
"Too bad we have only one microphone" Derek said arrogantly.
"Oh…well then, you guys wait a sec!" she said before exiting the garage quickly and returning after a few moments from the house with a pink microphone case which had her name written in white on it.
"This was the birthday present that I got from my dad when I turned sixteen…I liked pink at the time" she said opening the case and setting the mic stand "I guess we now have two microphones" she added plugging it in the amp and looking with a smirk at Derek.
"Oh…goody…" he said between his teeth, rolling his eyes at the idea that Tatiana will sing with them.
Derek then got a sudden idea.
"Hey guys, check that out!" Derek said looking through the window of the garage and making the others look in the same direction. While the others were busy looking at what Derek pointed at, the lead singer went and unplugged Tatiana's microphone from the amp.
"Nothing, I guess it was just my imagination!" he said after returning to his spot, in front of his microphone.
They all returned to their places, and because Tatiana set up her mic right next to Derek's, she went and stood right next to him. As Tripp began playing his guitar at the beginning of the song, Derek whispered to Tatiana that she can start by singing the first two lines. She agreed, thinking at the same time that it was pretty strange for him to allow her to sing first, but she didn't think much of it. When the singing part came, Tatiana tried to sing, but she was very surprised when noticing her mic didn't work. Derek looked at her, rolled his eyes like he didn't know what was happening, and began singing while Tatiana was trying to figure out why her mic didn't work by tapping it a little with her finger.
"Rocking out and hanging out
That's what I'm all about
I'm in the band and we demand
You hear the weasel shout!"
Tatiana then stopped checking her microphone and got closer to Derek with a pleading look which pretty much asked: "Could we share?". But he just looked at her in a mean way like saying: "No way sister!"
"We blow our amps 'cause we're the champs
At losing our control
We crack it loud when there's no crowd
Because that's how we roll"
He continued uncaring while Tatiana was shooting him some really nasty looks while tapping her foot.
"Can't stop rocking with my boys
Can't stop making some much noise"
Before he could finish his last sentence, Tatiana nudged her fist in Derek's arm, which made him almost jump of shock and convinced him to allow her sing a few lines. So, he moved the hand with the mic to Tatiana's mouth, uncaring, at the beginning of the chorus, letting her sing just one line:
"Weasel rock you!" Tatiana sang
"On stage we're wild and crazy" Derek continued moving the mic back to his mouth.
"Weasel shock you!" Tatiana was once again allowed to sing.
"Back home we're wild and lazy" Derek sang.
"Weasel rock you!" the woman sang trying also to sing the next words, like she would try every time, but was stopped by Derek taking away the mic from her.
"With heavy metal smack"
"Weasel shock you!" she continued getting annoyed already.
"Weasel's coming back!"
During the instrumental break, Tatiana decided that it was time she grabbed the microphone so she pointed something to Derek and snatched it from his hand when he wasn't paying attention.
"Oh yeah…" she sang while departing from Derek, for he got really upset when noticing his mic was missing, so Tatiana had to sing the next lines while running around the garage from the lead-singer, who was trying to retrieve his mic.
"When we get rough, we break some stuff
Like monkeys in a cage" Tatiana sang before Derek finally caught her, grabbed her by her back, by putting his left arm around her so she won't move, and moved her right hand with the mic to his mouth.
"We ain't too bright but that's alright
We never act our rage"
Tatiana struggled angrily to release herself, but she couldn't. She then tried to move her hand, which had Derek's fingers wrapped around, lower so she could be the one singing next, but she only managed to lower it enough for them to sing together.
"We won't give up on our dream
Weasel nation time to scream!" they sang together before Tatiana dived the heel of one of her shoes in Derek's foot, making him release her and start jumping around in pain holding his hurt foot.
The next chorus was spent with a fight between the two for the mic, fight which made both of them angrier and angrier. One would sing one or two lines before the other could snatch the microphone from them, so it was all nothing but a huge mess. After the last line of the chorus, sung by Derek, Tatiana snatched the mic forcefully and pushed Derek with her hand hardly…maybe a bit too hard, for he glared at her like he was ready to bite her head of afterwards.
"It's hard to make a comeback
When we get in our own way" she sang, also shooting him the same glare, before Derek took the microphone, not stopping from staring her in the eyes.
"But we'll keep pushing, trying, plugging
Cause we live to play" Tatiana then moved his hand closer to her mouth so they could both sing:
"Play, yay, aaayy!"
During the long instrumental break, the two started arguing furiously but the loud music covered them so nothing could be heard. They both kept gesticulating and pointing fingers at each other while arguing, till Tripp got between them, playing his guitar, in order for them to stop their fight. Derek and Tatiana stopped arguing, but kept their eyes locked on each other, with a angry and fiery glare.
The rest of the song they continued fighting over the mic, but this time not running around the garage, but simply standing in front of each other, very close, snatching the mic from each other and singing one line at the time while staring at the other with an icy glare.
"Wow, that sounded great!" said Tripp at the end of the song.
"Yeah, it was cool!" Ash and Burger agreed.
But the two were simply deaf from what the others were saying. They kept glaring in each others eyes with obvious fury, not moving a muscle. They both turned away from each other at the same time, each of them mouthing an insult.
"Witch!" Derek whispered.
"Numskull!" Tatiana let out.
While walking away from where she was standing, Tatiana noticed that the wire from her mic was unplugged from the amp, so she turned and lifted it up in her hand. After realizing who had done that, Tatiana turned to the person in question and began shouting:
"DEREK! Tu ai fost, nenorocitule! Om de nimic ce esti, sa te duci naibi de unde ai venit ca esti un increzut si un nesimtit si jumatate! Fir-ar al naibii sa fii tu astazi si maine, tu si cu tot neamul tau adunat de pe unde o fi el! Tatiana shouted quickly in extreme anger.
The band, and especially Derek, was staring completely dumbstruck and with open mouths, having no idea what the girl before them was saying. They figured out by themselves that she was speaking in Romanian and throwing insults at the lead singer, but the fact that they had no idea what she was actually saying was making them feel pretty weird.
Tatiana then threw the wire that she had in her hand and came closer to Derek. She then spit him with no regrets and continued to insult him:
"Esti un caine, asta esti! Un caine! Sau mai degraba un bou, ca vorba aia, cainele mai are ceva in cap, nu-i complet prost asa cum esti tu, dobitocule! Esti o rusine si ma faci sa…"
"Hey, hey, hey watch it!" also shouted Derek interrupting her, also very angry "I may have no idea what you're saying right now, but that doesn't mean you can say whatever you want! You are here to join my band, MY BAND, MY OWN! So you better show me some respect, got it you brat?"
Tatiana looked like she was ready to say something, but Ash interrupted by saying
"Oh…aren't those two just adorable! They're getting along so well!".
After the others gave a dumbstruck look at the drummer, Tripp got between Derek and Tatiana and said loudly:
"Ok you two, break it up now! There's no need to fight!" he said looking at the two with a scolding look which tamed their fiery glares at each other "Now shake your hands and say you're sorry!"
"No way!" the two said in unison.
"Guys…apologize!" Tripp insisted.
The two then shook their right hands and said in unison that they were sorry about what they said, even though they turned their heads away from each other uncaring while doing so.
"Now…" said Tripp after the two finished "apologizing" "we must decide if Tatiana joins the band or not!"
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