"Serena's voice is full of acoustic paranormal energy, she's affecting people's brains" Ethan said staring at the sound wave monitor on his computer "Bailey" he said, I sighed and sat down on the wooden chair with the brain scanner around my head "Why me again?" I asked a little nervous "You're the calmest person I know and you haven't heard Serena's voice yet right?" he asked, I shook my head
"Then it's an' accurate test" he shrugged, I glanced back at Benny who was fiddling with the machine that my wires were attached to "Please tell me you know what you're doing" I begged "I won't hurt you Bailey" he reausured, I knew I could trust him so I nodded "Okay so this is Bailey's current brain wave pattern, pretty calm" Ethan said looking at the scan of my brain on the computer screen
"I'd be calmer if I wasn't attached to wires" I said a little irritated "Play a bit of classical music" Benny said, some slow music came through my heaphones and I struggled to keep my eyes open, it was quite soothing "But let's see what happens when I play some of Serena's song" Benny said, a pretty voice replaced the old song and I felt anger flood my emotions, I hissed and lunged for Rory,
the song instantly stopped and I felt more calm "And she tries to kill Rory" Sarah said pushing me back into the seat, I sighed "So Serena's a siren, how do we stop her?" I asked shrugging "Well according to greek mythology and wikipedia the sirens lost a singing conest to the muse's and were destroyed by their own jealousy" Ethan explained "Too bad we don't know the muse's agent" Rory said falling down onto Ethan's bed "What if we become the muse's?" Ethan suggested,
my head tilted in confusion "We get into that talent show, and when she turns on us we use her own song agains't her" he said nodding "How? I mean what if she likes her own 'Haaah' voice?" Benny asked doing a weird creepy noise "We could rig up a phase inverter and send a negative image of her own evil harmonics right back at her" Ethan exclaimed
"Yeah the old evil harmonic phase invertor trick. Good work" Benny said "Yeah we should totally invert her phase. But how do we get on the show and be good enough to make her jealous?" Rory asked "And we'd have to be really close for the phase inverter to work" Benny added "Simple. Music today is all done on computers, we just gotta figure out the perfect song" Ethan said casually
"O..kay, well just incase you guys don't became the hottest boyband of all time I'll go tell Erica we need some more kicks in our dance routine" Sarah said standing from her chair "Good idea" Ethan agreed as she left the room "Yeah I'm gonna go too" I said carefully pulling the head monitor off my head
"Where you goin'?" Benny asked curiously, I rolled my eyes "Next door, I'm tired but I'll probably be up for another hour. Maybe I'll see you guys later" I said hopefully while looking directly at Benny, he nodded smiling and I hugged them all "Night guys" I waved "Night Bailey" the said in sync, I chuckled and entered my room.
The Talent Show...
I was in the auditorium with Rory's mom and Benny's grandma...I felt a little awkward "Rory is just so talented, he can't stick with a single hobby for more than' a week because it doesnt challenge him anymore" his mom said excitedly, I nodded and Benny's grandma carried on with her knitting nodding occasionally "Recently he's very into volunteering at petting zoo's" she said
"That's great stuff Vivian" Benny's grandma said lowering the volume on her hearing aid, I wished I could do that right now, now I knew where Rory got his hyperactiveness from "He really likes the smaller animals. I bet you he's gonna be a vet when he grows up" she said turning to me, I nodded and shuffled in my seat, I always got fidgety when I was in the same place for a while
"So Bailey how long have you known Rory?" she asked cheerfully "About a year now" I replied in thought "I'm so glad he met you, he seems more energetic now" she exclaimed, I nodded again "That's good to know" I said resting my hands in my lap "You seem like a very nice girl, it's such a shame he couldn't find a girlfriend sooner" she said, my eyes widened and my head whipped in her direction
"Say what now?" I squeaked "He told us all about how he asked you on a date the other night and you said yes. I nearly killed him for coming home late but when he explained that he was going out with his girlfriend I let him off" she giggled, I nodded still a bit surprised and turned to face the stage, after Marty's magic show the boys ran on and I clapped with everyone else,
Ethan started singing while Benny was on drums and Rory was on keyboard, I shuffled down in my seat and covered my eyes, Rory started to rap and I shook my head "Yeah pop and lock honey!" Vivian shouted, Rory did the worm and I was actually quite surprised at the good attention they were getting from the rest of the audience, the music stopped suddenly and Serena walked onto the stage,
I put on a thick pair of head phones and yanked the music up on my I-pod, I ran around to get on the stage and Erica threw one of the speakers, I caught it before it hit Ethan's machine and I carefully lowered it, Sarah said something before dragging Erica backstage, soon enough the whole audience minus Benny's Grandma were throwing punches at each other
"Take your time guys" I exclaimed as they fiddled with the machine, Serena suddenly fell to her knees wincing, that could only mean the machine was working, the red stage curtains closed and Serena turned purple before exploding, I turned off my I-pod and took off the headphones "That was intense" Ethan said with wide eyes "Well guys, I think we just recorded our first number one" Benny exclaimed excitedly, I rolled my eyes and walked off the stage.