September 2006

Chapter 1-

"This is NEVER gonna happen to us!" I look over to Alice who, as always is looking through a Rolling Stones magazine. This month's cover is Maroon 5. Bunch of damn hot guys if you ask me!

1..2..3.. "UGH! Why can't it just happen already?" Yeah it's never ending, everyday before we start practice in my garage, Alice feels the need to look through all the new magazines with a different new artist on it every time.

I look towards Rose who gives me the *leave me outta it* look and I just sigh. "Ali, you know no one was ever discovered over night and became a huge hit right?" She looks at me like I've lost my mind because we all know it's what we're shooting for.

I just sigh again, school's just started and we're in our final year at Forks High. If you saw the three of us walking down the halls of Forks, you wouldn't believe we were friends yet alone had a band together.

Alice the short pixie who is seriously the shortest girl I've ever known standing at almost 4'11" has the wildest wardrobe. She's always got her nose in magazines and wears the latest fashion but in a town as small as ours she sticks out like a sore thumb. Her hair is just as crazy, but no matter how much her fashion changes that's one thing that stays the same. It's short, jet black, and sticks out everywhere. She loves to keep it short cause as she says, "Why bother to grow it out when I rock the shit out of the drums and it would just get in the way!"

Rosalie is another story, head cheerleader, a body that models would die for and long blonde hair that always has a different shade of color it in. This week it's hot pink. Damn amazon.

Then next to the fashionista, and bomb shell, you've got plain old Bella, I tend to get lost in their shadow. These two are always driving me crazy trying to play dress up with me for every little occasion. I love my look thank you very much. Long brown hair, with a punk look as Alice calls it works fine for me. Of course I'm not all out with the heavy black eyeliner and black everything, I do have a splash of color in my wardrobe ya know? One thing for sure is I don't take no one's shit. If there's something going down I'm probably involved one way or another.

Rose starts messing around with her bass and I just hear Alice huff and go to sit behind her drums. I take that as the que that we're starting up for practice. Since we decided to form this band back in middle school, it's pretty much been our outlet in this small town. For our 16th birthday's we drove down to Seattle and got matching tattoos that signify our bond. Not that it was ever something that was in question but it also was a reminder to ourselves that one day we'll get that chance to get out of this town and prove what we're made of! Of course we're trying to live that dream that every little kid has to become a rock star but hey I'm pretty fucking sure we've got the talent! Although we don't write our own songs we cover a lot. Mostly after the most crazy movie that came out and started it all, Josie and The Pussycats. Not the cartoon, the one with fucking Rachael Leigh Cook, Rosario Dawson, and Tara Reid. Yeah so what if we were 12 years old when it came out but hey it's what we wanted! The music starts and I find my voice..

I'm a Punk Rock Prom Queen

Brown paper magazine

Hotter than you've ever seen

And everywhere and in between

I'm a ten-ticket thrill ride

Don't ya wanna come inside

A five-star triple-threat

Hardest of the hard to get

No one's little red Corvette

Ain't seen nothing like me yet

Once I start singing there's nothing that can stop me. I just have this feeling and I know that one day we're going to make it. Although it might not be today or tomorrow, it's gonna happen.

Six whole hours and five long days

For all your lies to come undone

And those three small words, were way too late

'Cause you can't see that I'm the one

Getting noticed isn't the only problem but our love lives as well. We've each got some guy but we still haven't found that one that rocks our world yet.

I'm your late-night head rush

Ace-high royal flush

Red velvet orange crush

You just don't impress me much

Rose has Royce, a fucking jerk if you ask me. Dude thinks he can fucking walk on water just cause his family has the most money in town, and he's the fucking captain of the football team. I still think Rose is with him just cause that's how high school is right? Head cheerleader with the head douche? I mean captain.. Nah fucking douche is what he is.

A glossy double-cover spread

Opened up inside your head

A black-cherry paradise

Half the sugar twice the spice

I don't wanna treat you nice

Come on baby, roll the dice

At least the guy Ali's with isn't all that bad, Jared may be some total res boy but at least he treats her well. Besides the fact that he fucking towers over her by nearly 2 feet! I seriously thank god that they haven't been together long and it's not that serious. Dude's gonna fucking break my pixie friend!

It took six whole hours and five long days

For all your lies to come undone

And those three small words, were way too late

'Cause you can't see that I'm the one

Then there's Jake, he's Jared's best friend. My dad's best friend's son. Yeah we've grown up together and we just kinda fell into it. I can tell he's totally got a thing for me but it's just not all there for me. I think it's more comfort for me than anything and not to be left out. I feel bad for stringing Jake along but it is what it is for now. As we slowly end the song that we live by, I let the girls know something I've been dying to tell them since we got to my house after school. "Hey bitches!" Alice's head looks up from her set and Rose comes over toward me. "We got a gig!"