Laney's POV
Me and Lenny were in our room randomly playing our instruments. We've been hoping on writing a new song together today because the battle of the bands are on in two weeks and the bands allowed us to sign up as Toxic Sirens and just play as that for the night. "How's this sound?" I gave my brother the note book. "You're standing all alone, Short of breath and tired eyes. You're shaking to the bone, Overdressed and nowhere else to go. Oh girl, I need to know..." He ended. "Pretty cool Lanes. I had to add the girl part, but not that bad. How about this." He began singing again. "Let's get you from the cold, I'll help you with your overcoat. I'll never let you go, I need you more than I could ever show you. Tell me now, because I need to know...Everybody needs somebody sometimes. Everybody needs somebody on their mind. So tell me what you want, girl; I'll be there to hold you. 'Cause everybody needs somebody, sometimes." Right then our mom called us. "Leonardo Tyler Penn and Lanabeth Jude Penn! Come down here now!" She called us by our full names. "Bad sign." I nodded agreeing with him. We put our instruments down and ran down stairs to see Corey and Carrie standing behind our mom snickering. I felt my face heat up in embarrassment. I hated my real name and I known Lenny hated his too. "You two got company." Our mom then left. God I hated it when she did that. But, what can you do right?
Corey's POV
Me and Carrie agreed to see if Laney and Lenny were free today because we known how fast they were with lyrics and knowing how to perform quickly. I rang the door bell with Carrie behind me kicking a rock. A women that looked like an older version of Laney, long red hair in a ponytail, a white t-shirt, blue jeans, and combat boots. At least I know where they get the combat boots idea from now. "Hello. You two must be friends of Lenny and Laney." We both nodded. "Yes we are. Are they free?" The woman nodded. "Come right in. I'm Mrs. Penn by the way. But you two can call me Kendall." I smiled at the woman. She seemed like a cool mom from what I see. "You two want to see how I get them down stairs quickly?" I noticed Kendall had a sly smirk on her face. This HAS to be good. "Sure." "Why not?" smiled and then turned towards the stairs. "Leonardo Tyler Penn and Lanabeth Jude Penn! Come down here now!" Wait! Lenny and Laney's name's are really Leonardo and Lanabeth?! I couldn't help my self but laugh as they came running down the stair case in a hurry. I noticed both their faces were red with embarrassment. "You two have company." Mrs. Penn then just walked away like it was nothing. "Leonardo and Lanabeth huh?" Laney's face got redder as Lenny just put his hands in his pockets and looked down at the wooden floor. "Don't remind me." They both said in unison. Me and Carrie started laughing at them a little. "You two free right now? Kin, Kon, Konnie and Kim are sick so we were hoping you two would like to come with us to the park." Lenny lifted his head a little. "As long as you two don't tell a soul about our real names then we're good to go." Laney nodded in agreement. "Then come on." Lenny grabbed a black hood with red music notes on it as Laney grabbed a blue hood that said dare to dream on the back in black. "Let's go." I don't know why they grabbed hoods. I then looked up at the sky. Now I got it, there were black clouds floating around and it looked like it'll rain. "Wow. Nice idea with the hoods you two."
Carrie's POV
We walked and talked for pit till we got to the park. Corey and Laney started to walk around as me and Lens sat down at a bench. "There's still now way no how Red Jumpsuit Apparatus would lose to We Came As Romans. Red Jumpsuit is known more and have rocking songs like Your Guardian Angel." I nodded in agreement. "True, but We Came As Romans have rap,rock,metal, and punk all wrapped into one band. Making them able to reach to almost any age group. Also, there song Fade Away has a strong message." He nodded. "True. Let's just agree to disagree." I giggled at him. "Fine." I then heard him mumbled to himself. "Red Jumpsuit is still better." We started laughing at that. "At least we can agree rock's better then pop." I gave him a are-you-serious-look. "What did you just say?" He then started laughing at me. "Nice look." I punched him lightly in the arm. "Oh shut it Le-Nerd." He then gave me a fake hurt look. "Hurt full!" I started laughing loudly making the people around us look at us weird. We both stopped and noticed the looks. As everyone looked away we started laughing silently. "You think we creeped them out?" He nodded. "More then you think." We started laughing more. "So what now?" He looked up to the clouds to see that they were coming closer and started joining together. "I guess we should be start walking back before it rains." I nodded. "Hey Lane! Corey! We're heading-." Laney then ran right past us with a wet haired Corey casing her. "Alright! I'll see you at home bro!" Me and Lenny looked at each other worried and then he just shrugged. "Dang my sister is nuts." I giggled at that as we started walking and the rain startled to sprinkle. Lenny then unzipped his hood and put it on me. Pulling the hood over my head in the processes. I could feel my face heat up. "You'll need that more then me." He commented as he put the hood of his red long sleeved t-shirt over his head. As we walked we talked like we did before, set for the rain decided every time we laughed, it was going to rain down harder. He decided to walk with me home instead of going inside his house when he had the chance. "That's my house right ahead. I can walk the rest on my own." I was about to take off the hood till he stopped me. "Like I said, you need it more then I do. You can just give it back to me later." I smiled at him. "Thanks Lens." He smiled back. We just stood there for a bit. "Well, I'll see you later Lens." He smiled. "Yeah." He then out of no where kissed me on my cheek before running off down the street, leaving me in a heavy blush. I then turned still blushing and shocked and started walking to my house.
Lenny's POV
"I can't believe I just did that and left her there!" I kept running down the street as I yelled at my self. I was only a block away from my house when I stopped and took off my hood and allowed the rain to slip down my forehead. "What the hell is wrong with me?" I looked down allowing the rain to soak my hair and shirt. I put my hand over my heart as I remembered what happened. I felt like my heart was going to pop out, and no it wasn't thanks to the P.E like running I just did. "Damn it. I hate crushes... They always end bad. Even if it's on your best friend." I started jogging down to my house soaking wet. I'm going to hear a lecture about this.