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Blade awoke to Naboo shaking her.

"Blade? Are you ok?" She sat up slowly and nodded, she looked down. She was still in her casual clothing but Naboo was wearing a pair of dark purpley/red pajama trousers, And his Turban he never seemed to be without it. Blade coughed and Naboo handed her a glass of water. "What happened?" Naboo asked; Blade used the excuse she used with all mortals.

"I had a sensory overload. I was listening to loud music and watching things on my computer and reading my textbook and I suddenly became all dizzy. I must have just passed out." She said smiling, she stood up and walked over, shakily, to her make up table to straighten her hair and put gel on it. Naboo watched her as she did this. She turned around.

"I need to get changed so if you wouldn't mind..." She pointed to the door.

"Oh sorry." He said smiling, he walked out and closed the door. Blade changed into a tartan corset and the same baggy jeans but swapped her NBC jacket for a black mid thigh length jacket. She slipped on the same boots and did her make up. She fed Shadow and pulled out her spell book and looked through it. She looked at after effects of mide reading spell to check there was nothing serious. It wasn't the worst was being thirsty all day. So she'd just have to keep drinking lots of water throughout the day. She hid her spell book and any other charm or spell books or ingridients in a chest. She remembered telling them, but they didn't take any notice. She walked out of her room and poured herself some orange juice she drank it quickly and buttered some toast she made whilst drinking her orange juice. She heard voices coming from downstairs. She walked down and stood in the doorway.

"Bouncy Bouncy, white socks slippin down.
Bouncy Bouncy stiletos are a no no.
Bouncy Bouncy oh
Bouncy Bouncy oh
everytime I bounce I feel I touch the sky!" Blade stood in the shop entrance, Vince and Howard still hadn't noticed she was there. She cleared her throat and they jumped. Vince spoke first.

"How long were you there."

"Long enough to hear your song. I liked it."

"Thanks it's called crimping!" Vince said walking over to her. "Welcome to your first day at work at 'Nabootique'." Blade nodded and looked around, she didn't get a good look at the shop yesterday. It was nicely laid out and there was a piano. She walked over to it.

"Do you mind if I...?"

"Go ahead!" Vince said eager to see what she could do. She composed herself and started playing 'Fur Elsie'. Howard was impressed.

"Where did you learn to play that Blade?"

"I figured it out." She said without stopping. "I'm a multi- instrumenatlist. I play Drums, Guitar, Piano, Flute and I also sing." Vince jumped when she said that.

"Cool, I could use a backup singer! Are you any good at dancing?" She shrugged.

"Relativly."

"Good enough. We have gig at the Velvet Onion. It's kind of Goth/Rock alternative kinda thing. But we're borrowing the song from a band called 'Escape the Fate' and I could use someone to sing with me! We already have Howard on Guitar and we have a few other guys who play instruments."

"Cool, what's the song?"

"Situations. Have you heard of it?"

"I love it, it's on my iPod!" She said pulling it out. Vince jumped over next to her and looked down it. She had lots of heavy metal music and some elctro music. She even had 'Electro Boy' on her iPod.

"I sung that!" Vince said pointing it out, Blade turned around and looked at him quizzcly. "Yeah me and Howard were in Kraftwerk Orange but Neon and Ultra stabbed everyone up."

"I read about that. Nice work on coming out relativly unharmed. I heard people died." Vince shrugged and Howard broke in.

"Do you know Take Five on the piano?" Blade sighed, she wasn't a huge jazz fan but she may as well.

"What's the starting note base and treble cleft?" Howard shrugged and Blade started to tap on the piano. She soon found base cleft and continued trying to find treble. After about two minuets she found it. She took a deep breath and started playing. Howard started cliking his fingers to the beat and started to dance. Blade rolled her eyes and continued playing. She stopped after a while and walked behind the counter. As she did this the bell on the door rang. She turned around. It was a tall, fat, tanned, blind old man. Howard walked over to him.

"Hey Lester, how you doin?"

"I'm great Howard! How are things with you?"

"Pretty good, we have a new house mate who also works with us." He brought him over to Blade and he extened his arm to shake her hand.

"Hi. I'm Blade." She said when the two minute handshake had finished. Lester seemed to be American from his accent.

"Vince, Blade run shop. Me and Lester are going out. We'll see you later!" They nodded and the two Jazz freaks left. Vince giggled and walked back round to the counter.

"They're really strange aren't they!" He said laughing, he picked up an NME and started reading it. Blade looked at the cover, it had on something about The Enemy. She picked up a note book and a pencil and started drawing something. Vince noticed this and walked over to see what she was drawing. It was a gothic chapel or something old like that. There was also a figure in the shadows behind a collum. She finished it off and put it down. She saw Shadow had escaped from her room.

"Come here Shadow!" She said picking her up. She stroked her and put her down on the counter. "So when is this gig?"

"Tonight, do you think you could play guitar for me?" She nodded, she had tought herself how to play Situations a while ago.

"What do we wear?" Vince shrugged

"Anything comfortable to play a gig in." He said stroking Shadow, there was a crash upstairs and Blade ran upstairs. It wasn't anything serious, just some of her stuff fell off because her bo staff slipped. She walked back downstairs minus Shadow and sat on the counter. Someone new came into the shop. She slipped off the counter and stood behind it. Vince stood beside her. The customer was a woman looking at some gothic jewlery. Vince leant over to Blade.

"Do you want to take this one. You know the most about gothic stuff." He whispered in her ear. She nodded and walked over.

"Hi can I help you with anything?"

"Uh yeah. I'm going to a concert tonight and I want a choker or something to wear there. It's kind of punk/ goth stuff." Blade nodded and looked her up and down. She was slightly tanned and had a slim figure. Blade picked out a dog collar and handed it to her.

"Try this. They're a great punk accesorie." She said as the customer tried it on. Blade brought out a pair of handcuff earings. "Hold these up to your ears. Health and Saftey say I can't actually let you try them on." The woman looked realativly pleased with it and she nodded.

"I'll take them."

"Great if you can just come over here. I'll wrap them up for you." She took them over to the counter and wrapped them up. She put them in a little bag and handed it the the woman who gave her the money.

"Thank you bye." The woman said leaving the store. Vince looked at her.

"What?"

"How did you know what would suit her."

"It's easy, you just have to look at their body type and skin colour. She was tanned and thin so she'd suit the spiky dog collar and earings. Looking at you." She paused and looked him up and down. She got a head scarf with white skulls on it. She tied it around his head and stood back, she held out a mirror and he smiled. He obviously liked it. Naboo and Bollo came down. Blade and Vince waved at them.

"How are things here?" Naboo asked.

"Good, yeah thanks Naboo. Blade here is great at giving people accesories." Vince said and Blade blushed. Bollo walked over to her and handed her Shadow.

"He was outside in a tree." Bollo said and Shadow curled up in her arms. "I don't think he like being away from you." He said as Shadow ran up her arm and rested on her shoulder.

"Where's Howard?" Naboo asked.

"He and Lester went out." Vince said as he walked round to Naboo. "And we have a gig in an hour."

"Well get someone else to play."

"We can't. Blade already agreed and you two are busy. So we'll just have to hope the rest of the band show up." He said looking at his hair in the mirror. "Blade you wanna go and get changed?"

"Sure." She said running up stairs and into her room. She wore her same baggy jeans and kept the tartan corset but put on a pair of arm warmers that went up to her elbows, they were black and white striped with safety pins in them, she redid her make up and brushed and straightened her hair. She put in a black bow and grabbed her chest key. She didn't want anyone looking in it while she was busy with Vince. She came into the living room and Vince had a guitar with him. He passed it to her and she looked at it. It was black and had a white dragon painted on it. He had also supplied her with a strap with was black and had white skulls on it. Like the headband she said suited Vince earilier. She played with her choker, it was a black leather strap and had a cross and lots of chains hanging from it.

"Ready to go?" Vince asked and she nodded. They walked out the door.
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Vince and Blade arrived at the Velvet Onion half an hour before they were suppose to play and still no sign of Howard. Vince showed Blade round the back to the dressing rooms where a man wearing a light blue safari suit that didn't fit. He stopped her at the door way.

"Sorry no groupies." He said in a thick American accent. Vince stopped him.

"It's OK Fossil she's with me!" And Vince pulled Blade through, they came into a dressing room where there was a band of five men. They were all Goths and most of them had big hair. They looked at her funnily. "Hey guys." Vince said sitting down on a seat by the couch they were sitting on. "This Blade, she'll be playing with me and the rest of the band." He said gesturing for her to sit down. She sat on a crate by the make-up table. "Blade this is Farris, Josh, Rhys, Joe and Tom. Better known as the Black Tubes." She waved at them. The Fossil man poked his head round the door.

"Hey Vincey, Howard's here!"

"Great send him in." He said and the Fossil man nodded and opened the door. Howard walked in with a guitar. She heard voices in her head, everyones. The Black Tubes, Fossil, Howard and Vinces. Everyone's in the room. The strange thing was, she didn't feel dizzy or ill even with more than one person. So why had she felt dizzy when she read Naboo's mind. They were just mortals, they were below her. Right? The rest of the band came in. They were just a bass player and a drummer who were both punks. They wore tight tartan trousers and tight black t-shirts and they both had tattoos. More voices entered her head.

'Make it stop!' She thought, 'But I don't feel half as bad as I did yesterday.' She looked around at the various people. Josh was thinking things along the line of.

'I can't see. My fringe is too long.'

'Note to self: Find at least one human to like me every year.' She closed her eyes and took a deep breath. They stopped suddenly and a lone voice stood out.

'Bollo where's our seat, or are we standing?' Blade felt dizzy again.

"Blade are you ok?" Vince asked and she nodded.

"I just need a drink." She said grabbing a glass of water and drinking it down. Fossil poked his head through the door again.

"Vincey you're on!" Fossil said and the five of them stood up and left. They entered the stage and Blade stood next to Vince and waited. Howard counted them in and the curtian went up. Vince started to sing the fisrt few lines then Blade came in at 'I touched her..' She was enjoying herself it had to be said. She wondered if she could stay in this band she liked it and she had friends in it. Well she considered them as friends and she knew Vince considered her a friend, she wasn't sure about Howard. She also liked her new guitar that Vince found for her. She saw Naboo and Bollo in the crowd and smiled at them. 3 minutes and eight seconds flew by and the song soon ended. Fossil came out. "That was Vince and some of his friends with Situations!" They bowed and left the stage. Vince hugged Blade.

"Nice first gig!" He said as they entered. She smiled as the Black Tubes walked past them. Blade drank a glass of water, she was still feeling dizzy after the mind reading. She heard a knock at the door.

"Come in!" She yelled. It was Naboo and Bollo. She smiled at them and they sat next nest to her.

"Nice gig. It was awesome. I loved it." He said, looking over at Blade. Vince stepped in.

"Howard has already gone home, maybe we should go to." Blade nodded and they went out the back. There was a horde of screaming fans screaming Vince's name.

"We'll go on without you. We'll see you later." Blade said walking off with her guitar, Naboo and Bollo. Naboo leant over to her.

"Careful, these streets can get mean on a Friday night."

"That's ok Naboo, I'll protect you!" She said smiling. Bollo tapped Naboo on the shoulder.

"I've got a bad feeling about this!" He whispered

"About what?" Bollo shrugged.

"Yeah that's real helpful!" He said as they aproached the flat. They walked in to see Howard on the sofa watching a Jazz concert.

"Thanks for the late show Howard!" Blade said taking off her jacket. She walked into her room and scribbled down something in her diary. She opened her chest and placed it in. She locked it again and the door opened she spun round in a fighting stance.

"Relax it's me. You're cat came out of your room!" Naboo said coming in holding Shadow. She took her back and smiled.

"Thanks Naboo. Would it be ok if you woke me up again tomorrow?" He nodded and left the room. Blade changed into black shorts and tank top and went to bed.

25/4/09
Dear diary,
I played a gig with Vince and Howard and I had my first day of work which was cool.
Naboo and Bollo watched us play and seemed to like it. My fimiliar won't stay in my room though.
Also, I read lots of peoples minds today at once and didn't feel dizzy like when I did when I read Naboo's mind.
There may be something strange going on.
Blade x

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