Chapter 5:

Author's note:

Hi everyone! Chapter 5 is here. Hope it was worth the waiting….

Disclaimer: Just owning the OC's.

I was walking fast to the farthest end of the enormous room. Then I turned right, where a corridor leaded to a way smaller room. The corridor was made of bricks, illuminated with small candles high on the walls. On the farthest end stood a tall men, dressed completely black. He noticed my presence and walked towards me. As he came closer, I noticed that he wore glasses. It fitted him perfectly.

"Excuse me madam, are you part of the LUCIUS GRUDGE music group?" He looked at me through his glasses. His eyes were very small, even though the lenses should make the eyes bigger. I held my grip on the suitcase of my violin a little bit tighter and stood a bit taller.

"Yes I am. Do you know where I will be expected?"

"Certainly. If you would be so kind to tell me your name please. I'll escort you afterwards directly to the rest".

'Alice Churchhill sir.'

The man made a small notation and gestured to me to follow him. He leaded me for just a very short period (he escorted me for 30 seconds) because the room where I would be expected was just one staircase down and first right. The door was already open. The man who escorted me, made one final small gesture that it was indeed the room with the open door. I friendly nodded at him and opened the door just a little wider. I opened my mouth and stared with wide eyes at the scene in front of me.
I was shocked. In the room were 14 people present so it meant that 4 people had yet to come. But, that wasn't the thing I was confused about. It's was normal that 15 minutes before performing that we are not complete. Normally we are complete if it's 12 minutes before. It wasn't also the fact that everyone was dressed very neatly in dresses and suits. On my left I could see my two friends, Hailey Rhine and Thom Baker. Hailey wore a beautiful green dress in all different kind of shades and wore her hair sideways on her left shoulder. She is specialised in playing the transverse flute. Thom wore a traditional black suit (every other guy wore also a similair black suit) and played the piano very well. They were chatting with each other. They had a crush for each other since 4 years now and still they haven't said anything. But, what was the thing I thought What for heaven's sake is going on? Well...
Everyone was completely stressing about something I had missed. Some people were arguing. Others were pacing in the small room. Even mister Bennington sat defeated in a simple wooden chair in the right corner, what was something he would never do. He is the calmest person I have ever seen, had a great passion for music and was very obvious he became a conductor. He is our conductor.

What did I miss?

Unnoticed I made my way to Hailey and Thom. I almost tripped over some clothes that were laying on the floor, but thankfully my dad was right. Luck was indeed on my side for once.

'Alice! Good to see you!'

I turned my head and was greeted by a huge hug from Hailey. I grinned and returned the hug gently.

'Hi Hailey, good to see you too.' I stepped back for a moment. 'Do you know why everyone is so upset about?'

'It's because mister Edithon couldn't be here tonight. He has become ill, but now we have got a huge gap between our third song and the last one,' someone familiar explained. I saw that Thom has joined us. 'Good to see you Alice. I was wondering when you would show up.'

'Hi Thom,' I said and smiled. 'But, what now? What should we do? If even mister Bennington is this upset, how could we possibly find someone else?' Mister Edithon was a master in playing the violin. He knew every single masterpiece and knew every technique. He has travelled the world to perform his legendary talent. He remained quite mysterious because he once said "I do not play because people would like to see me, but I play because I simply want to."

'I have no idea,' Hailey said. 'No one in this room does. It has been this chaotic for...'

'Well Churchhill, why don't you fill the gap,' a sudden hateful, yet familiar voice interrupted our conversation. Only one person in the entire world could speak with earbleeding cracking voice as Jenny Sweril. She wore a deep red dress and knotted her half long blonde hair into a perfect knot. Her two "servants" stood protectively behind her. Their names were Lisbeth and Nadine Torch. They were twins and stuck to Jenny since they have become a member of LUCIUS GRUDGE. Jenny plays the violin like me, Lisbeth plays the clarinet and Nadine plays the cello. Lisbeth wore a a dark orange dress, just like her twin, but with different patterns. They both wore a long braid. Jenny stood three feet away from me with one hand on her hip to express her irritation.

'I hate to admit it, but you are the only one who could get as close as possible playing the violin like Edithon. You even know how to play his song he would have performed tonight!'

From the corner of my eye I saw a shadow approaching with loud footsteps. He grabbed my shoulders and said:

'IS THAT TRUE?! DO YOU REALLY KNOW HOW TO PLAY THAT?!'

I mentally whipped the little drops of salvia from my face.

'Mister Bennington, I…th-think this is all a…a misunderstanding. I just know wh-what song he was…going to play, nothing more. I-I-I even don't know how…that song sounds like…'

'That's not completely true, I saw you secretly practising just one month ago. You …'

'You're n-n-not h-helping Hailey…'

'Come on Alice! You're one hell of a violist and last month you could already play a quarter of the song mister Edithon would play tonight!'

Mister Bennington's eyes were sparkling right now.

'No, no. that was just trying out. A-a-and at th-the top of that…'

Mister Bennington was shaking lightly at my shoulders to draw my attention.

'Alice, would you please do this?'

I guess I have no choice then.

But

But

I'm so scared.

Author's note:

Let me know what you thought about this chapter! And the story itself, because I am a very curious and quite new to all of this so I don't know if I'm doing well so far. I do want to thank CaptainSwan197 for leaving a review. It really means a lot to me and I promice, I really really really promice to post more often. The next one will be posted next week.

Bye for now.

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