Finally! Bet you guys have been waiting for this chapter FOREVER. I apologize. Schoolwork gets the best of one. ^^" Not to mention drama. Oh glorious drama, why do you have to be such a pain in real life? Anywho, on with the story. This chapter's another long one with lyrics. The song's featured are "Stuck Like Glue" by Sugarland and "Like Whoa" by Aly & Aj. Please enjoy!
The team kept a close eye on things for the next few days during the lessons and mingling. Mr. Suspicious-Guitarist hadn't made any more suspicious moves other than the oddly secretive calls, no one had made any attempts to snatch up Julia, and there hadn't been any odd occurrences. The six of them had started to relax, including Ethan, surprisingly.
But that was never meant to last long.
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A week later, the bands had been narrowed down to ten and both Julia's band and the team's band had made it through.
"We're better than I thought we were!" Benji spoke with an impressed tone. "I wasn't sure we were gonna make it this far. Thought we'd have to go undercover some other way to stick around."
"Oh ye of little faith!" Addie teased, hitting his arm gently with a mock hurt expression. "I can't believe you had so much doubt!"
"Wha—I-! Can you blame me? We've practiced only so many times and we're not the most experienced of musicians!" He sipped his beer. "Don't tell me you didn't have any doubts at all!"
"Nope!"
"Absolutely none at all?"
"Uh-uh."
"…Seriously just, none?"
"Not a single doubt." Addie proclaimed proudly.
"… Huh."
Addie grinned. She was proud to have an attitude that left people bewildered. It made life more interesting. Not that her job wasn't interesting enough already. Turning in her seat at the hotel bar, she watched Ethan and Jane speak quietly at a table of their own. 'Must be discussing something awfully importantly to be sitting away from the rest of the team.' She pondered what exactly they could be speaking of.
A light giggling captured her ear and peering down around Benji, she discovered Sheri sitting with Brandt. By the looks of it, the third woman of the group was becoming slightly drunk and starting to get perhaps a bit flirty with the analyst. Ethan noticed and sent laser beams his way. Jane tried to get him to look away and listen to her reasoning.
'Oh… I see. This is about Sheri and Brandt… Ethan really does care. Now if only Sheri knew that.' With a great sigh, Addie turned back to her drink and downed the last of its contents.
"Hey! Hey Addie! Come on let's sing!" Sheri skipped up to her, seeming to be hyper as a 6-year-old on too much sugar. This was certainly a different side of Sheridan she'd never seen…
"Wha—All of us?" She inquired.
"Yes all of us silly! The four of us! The band!"
"Is that such a good idea…?" Addie spoke with a hesitant tone.
"Yessssss, Ethan and the others already okay-ed it! So come on!" Sheri pulled on her arm and dragged her towards the mini stage where Brandt and Benji were already getting set up.
"Gahhh… Alright alrighttttt." She groaned, following the absolutely chipper Hunt sister.
Sheri hopped onto the stage, grabbing the guitar and strumming. "Can we do 'Stuck Like Glue', guys? Please?" she begged in her best child voice.
Brandt just laughed at her adolescent tendencies and turned to the other two. "Well? What do you guys think?"
Benji was thinking of the implications this song would bring. His feelings towards Addie and even Brandt's feelings towards Sheri. It made him increasingly nervous.
"Let's do it." He said finally with his trademark grin. What better way to help with your profession of love than with a song?
"I'm game!" Addie gave her approval, hoping to possibly express her feelings to Benji.
"Then," Brandt turned to Sheri and gave a mock bow, grinning boyishly to match her current attitude. "May I have this duet miss?"
She giggled (an unnatural sound for her!) and replied, "Why of course dear sir!"
He turned to the microphone and she did the same with her guitar. Benji started off the beats with some miscellaneous instrument on his drums to get the song going smoothly.
MMMM better...MMMM better...
Sheri began singing first, looking at Brandt charmingly as she played her guitar.
Absolutely no one that knows me better
No one that can make me feel sooo goooood
How did we stay so long together?
When everybody, everybody said we never would
And just when I, I start to think they're right
That love has died...
Brandt and everyone else joined for the chorus, and the audience in the bar began to clap and sing along. The room began to fill with a warm atmosphere and even Ethan could feel a smile coming on.
[Chorus:]
There you go making my heart beat again,
Heart beat again,
Heart beat again
There you go making me feel like a kid
Won't you do it and do it one time?
There you go pulling me right back in,
Right back in,
Right back in
And I know-oo I'm never letting this go-ooo
I'm stuck on you
Whutooo whutooo
Stuck like glue
You and me baby we're stuck like glue
Whutooo whutooo
Stuck like glue
You and me baby we're stuck like glue
Some days I don't feel like trying
Some days you know I wanna just give up
When it doesn't matter who's right, fight about it all night
Had enough
You give me that look
"I'm sorry baby let's make up"
You do that thing that makes me laugh
And just like that...
[Chorus:]
There you go making my heart beat again,
Heart beat again,
Heart beat again
There you go making me feel like a kid
Won't you do it and do it one time
There you go pulling me right back in,
Right back in,
Right back in
And I know-oo I'm never letting this go-ooo
I'm stuck on you
Whutooo whutooo
Stuck like glue
You and me baby we're stuck like glue
Whutooo whutooo
Stuck like glue
You and me baby were stuck like glue
Whutooo Whutoo
Sheri took over from there and jumped next to Addie. The two women grinned and sang the next bit with a hint of sass to their movements.
You almost stay out, too stuck together from the ATL
Whutooo Whutoo
Feeling kinda sick?
Just a spoon full of sugar make it better real quick
I say
Whutooo Whutoo
Whatcha gonna do with that?
Whutooo Whutoo
Come on over here with that
Sugar sticky sweet stuff
Come on give me that stuff
Everybody wants some
Melodies that get stuck
Up in your head
Whutooo whutooo
Up in your head
Whutooo whutooo
Up in your head
Whutooo whutooo
Up in your head
Whutooo whutooo
Whuthoo whutooo
Stuck like glue
You and me together, say, it's all I wanna do
I said
[Chorus:]
There you go making my heart beat again,
Heart beat again,
Heart beat again
There you go making me feel like a kid
Won't you do it and do it one time
There you go pulling me right back in,
Right back in,
Right back in
And I know-oo I'm never letting this go-ooo
There you go making my heart beat again,
Heart beat again,
Heart beat again
There you go making me feel like a kid
Won't you do it and do it one time
There you go pulling me right back in,
Right back in,
Right back in
And I know-oo I'm never letting this go-ooo
I'm stuck on you
Whutooo whutooo
Stuck like glue
You and me baby we're stuck like glue
Whutooo whutooo
Stuck like glue
You and me baby were stuck like glue
Whutooo whutooo
Stuck like glue
You and me baby we're stuck like glue
The crowd in the bar applauded loudly and began cheering for an encore. Jane laughed at the four's surprised expressions and gave them a "told-you-so!" sort of look.
"Hm, whatta ya say Addie? You and me? Duet?" Sheri asked.
"Duet? Sounds like fun." Addie's grin grew tenfold with excitement, an interested glint shining in her eyes.
The girls whispered to each other in hushed, sophomoric whispers. The two boys looked at each other and gave unsure shrugs, curious about the females' conniving plans.
"Sit down boys! Sheri and I got this one on our own~!" Addie shooed them off in a sing song voice, flashing a pearl white smile at Benji before he exited off the stage with a blush.
Addie took up what used to be Brandt's mic and bite her lip with a smile. This was going to be a lot of fun, no doubt about it! The guitars of the track came on first and she began to sing.
Life is good I can't complain
I mean I could but no one's listening
Your image overwhelms my brain
And it feels good, good, good
Sheri took control with the next half of the verse:
Now I'm rolling my window down
I love the wind but I hate the sound
You're like a tattoo that I can't remove
And it feels good, it feels good, it feels good
The two then sang in sync and harmony for the chorus and began to add small dance moves here and there.
[Chorus:]
Like a rollercoaster ride
Holdin' on white knuckles like
Whoa, whoa
Got me feeling like
Whoa, whoa
Everytime I'm like
Up and down and side to side
Every inch of me is like
Whoa, whoa
Got me feeling like
Whoa, whoa
Got me feeling like
In the morning it begins again
Feels like I'm falling better strap me in
I think I'm running out of oxygen
And it feels good, it feels good, it feels good
[Chorus]
My inhibitions are beginning to let go
This situation
I can't help but lose control
No inner friction that I cannot seem to break
It feels good, it feels good
I'm holding on, I'm holdin' on
Like a roller coaster ride
Like I'm running a red light
Like a rocket ship is like
Something else that makes me feel like WHOA!
Like a roller coaster whoa
Holding on my knuckles whoa
Every inch of me is like
Whoa, whoa
Got me feeling like
Whoa, whoa
Benji blinked, stunned by the performance and utterly bashful at the sight of Adelaide's brilliantly blinding smile at him. Brandt elbowed the technician slightly with a teasing smirk that pretty much said it all. He opened his mouth to speak.
Then, there was a resounding shriek.
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