Chapter 4!

I have a special thanks to DJ AmberWitch and friends/family! Just when I thought I was going to have to put a story on hold I got a great idea from them for this chapter! The OC's in this chap all belong to her (Rachel), her friend (Nikki), her cousin (Jodi) and whoever else helped out that I was not informed about or if there was any…Oh well thanks once again and here we goooo!

~X~

Laney

Bleeugh, I'm tired of sitting around. I hopped off the bed and decided to go to a small café, which serves all kinds of hot drinks, donuts and chocolate dipped fruits. It's called ChocoDevil's Café. (I created this, I think… If it is a real place I do not own it.)

I shrug on my converse and hop out the door. As soon as I arrive a bell chimes a greeting when I enter. Inside it smells heavily of deep chocolate. Mmmm, comforting. I order a small double chocolate fudge latte with whipped cream and hot fudge drizzle, with a small plate of chocolate dipped strawberries. One of the workers hands me what I order and I walk outside to the seating area. Sitting down at an empty table I only notice one other girl, with this outrageous scarlet hair sipping the same drink as I am.

But, wait, the only other person I know who can stand the amount of chocolate in this drink is…Ruby?!

"Ruby?" I look at the girl whose eyes widen as I say her name

"Laney?...Laney Penn?" Ruby gets up and walks toward my table.

I stand up to look her in the eyes, yup the same ruby colored eyes.

"Ruby, it's been so long!" I hug her and we both start to giggle

"I know, it's been weird without you."

Ruby was pretty much the only friend I had that was a girl, until she moved away in 8th grade to New York after the whole McKenzie issue.

"How's New York?" I ask her

"Meh, it was pretty cool the first few days but then it got boring, so my parents let me finish out high school here in Peaceville at my band's mansion. My band's called Secret Notes." Ruby shrugged

"M-mansion!?" My jaw dropped open.

"Yeah, I started a band in New York and apparently we're kinda famous, mansion money famous…" Ruby smiled and said, "If you want you can come over and meet the band."

"YES!"

Later at the mansion…

Ruby brings me through the giant house and into the backyard where we hear a lot of commotion.

"Hey Ruby! Look I put this taco in a bikini!" A girl with dark brown hair with the left side dyed a vibrant green said, she giggled as she dove in the indoor pool

"Chloe! Don't waste the taco! The meat is gonna get stuck in the filter! AGAIN" The girl with the orangey-blond hair glares at Chloe.

"Hey, Eve. This is my friend Laney. Eve's our drummer"

Eve or Evelyn waves and then continues to glare at the girl named Chloe

"This is Chloe, our lead guitarist. She also writes our songs and stuff. As you know I play the keyboard and when I have to the bass guitar."

"Well you already know I play bass."

"Speaking of which, how's the band?" Ruby unknowingly strikes that nerve

"Oh, uh I quit it." I look down, appearing crestfallen from the outside

"Well, we could always use a bass?" Ruby offers

"Really? I'd love to!" I smile and hug them

"But on one condition! You have to stay here with us in the mansion."

"OF course! Who would turn down a friggin' mansion!" I laugh

We drive her car back to my dad's house where he just got home from work. It was about 4:00 so Angel was just about to start her always huge feast dinner. When we hop out of the car Angel is standing in the front door frame.

"Hey hon! Who's your friend?" She smiles

"This is Ruby; we were friends when I was younger." I smile and walk past her to my dad sitting on the couch.

"Hey dad? Remember Ruby?"

"Ruby from when you were younger? The flaming red hair?" He looks up from his newspaper and sees us.

"Do you think I could live with her? They have a band and they live in a mansion! Please?" I plead at him skeptical of his answer

Apparently my begging was good because he agreed and let me go upstairs to get my stuff. I packed all my clothes and items in 3 suitcases and a backpack. Ruby assured me of there being extra room for all my stuff.

I packed all of it in her trunk and said goodbye.

When we got back to the mansion, Ruby escorted me to the extra room. It was a large room with the front wall having a large window to look out at the now setting sun. There was a canopy king bed, a walk in closet, a bathroom a flat screen TV, computer and various shelves. I took my books and family stuff onto one of the shelves and put everything of mine away. I put up a few posters and pictures of my family and old pictures of my ex-band. Ruby's room was left of mine, Chloe's across and Evelyn's diagonal to the left of mine.

"We're going to play at a club tonight, you wanna come with us?" Chloe asks me as I walk down stairs.

"Uh sure? What songs are we gonna play?" I question them

"Starstrukk by 3OH!3, Pumped Up Kicks by Foster the People, Pop Princess by The Click Five, and Lying is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have without Taking Her Clothes Off by Panic! At the Disco." Evelyn lists them ticking each one off her fingers

"Oh cool. When are we going?" I plop down on the couch

"We have an hour to get ready," Ruby said getting up from her spot and heading up stairs

I go up stair s and put on a pair of black ripped shorts with unused suspender hanging off around my thighs. I have a black tube top with a vertical stripe going down the middle. I put earrings and a choker necklace on. I brush my hair back and put on a pair of industrial goggles resting on my head. I had thigh high black and white striped knee socks and my combat boots. I put my black eyeliner and lipstick on, also I add two stripes going vertically down each cheek. Since we were going to a club I thought I'd add a little something.

Cloe was wearing black shorts, a black tank top with Secret Notes written in white and ends a little before her belly button and black converse, she has black marks on her face like a foot baller. Evelyn had black jeans and convers and a white V-neck shirt with a black spray painted on effect of drum sticks. She had her hair up and black lines like whiskers on her cheeks. Ruby wore a white tank top with a black leather jacket over it, she also had black jeans and combat boots, she had her hair tied up with a giant bow and she had a black star on her cheek.

Just as we were heading out, Chloe mentioned, "Oh yeah, and I forgot another band called Grojband I think is gonna be there."

Oh no!

~X~

Finally another chapter! Byee!

-asweetmonster