Karkat: Host a Band Meeting

It took a lot of prodding and a lot of bullshit from everyone who I accepted as band members, but I finally got a meeting going. It was going to be at the music store at 3, in a private room that Hussie gave to them. Now it was time for an interesting debate between them all, deciding what they would do. Once everyone finally arrived, I sat on a table and looked over them all.

"Alright, now that everyone's here, we got a lot of shit to talk about. Our biggest one right now, is are we going to be a cover band, or we write our own songs band?" John was the first one to speak up, saying "Well, I've been writing my own music for a while, so we have a lot to go off of if we go that way!" Dave scoffed and crossed his arms. "Yeah, but all your shits classical powdered wig crap. We need something more modern, and I know just the thing." He then held up a CD labeled "Dave's Sick-Ass Beats". How classy.

I protested instantly "No, we are not doing the machine ear fuck you call music, Strider. I say we do rock music, you know, heavy shit. Not all this other garbage." "Oh, and who made you queen of music, shortstack?" Jade smacked Dave lightly for saying that, obviously not having any of that. She knew how I was about my height. "The same person that made ME leader of the band, ass wipe!" Jade stood up now, and yelled "Hey!" but she was quickly drowned out by Dave and I going at it.

"We haven't determined that yet, for all we know you could be the weakest link."

"Oh yeah? You didn't even get in by skill, you got in by default, fuck head, no one showed for that part."

"Why do you think no one showed up? Because everyone fucking despises you and your shit attitude!"

With each sentence, we were getting closer and closer until we were feet away from each other and then, out of nowhere "THAT IS ENOUGH!" Jade screamed, as a searing pain hit into my skull. I looked up and saw she hit both of us with her drum sticks, and she was seething. "Both of you stop! It's not even 5 minutes into our first meeting, and you two are at each other's throats! How about you stop fighting so we can get this sorted out?"

It was obviously rhetorical, but we both said whatever and went back to our respective spots. Mainly because that hurt, but still. I rubbed the spot where she hit me, and continued "So…cover band for now then?" It was a group consensus now, as if to avoid another fight between people. "We'll pick the songs later, I guess."

"What's gonna be our band name?" Jade asked, turning her head slightly. Then, John and Dave started throwing out names like crazy, all of them kind of sounding good, but my original idea was kind of my favorite. So I decided to speak my mind "What about Dead And Walking?"

Then, silence.

"What?" Dave asked, sticking his head out a little at me. I kinda shrugged into my sweater, trying to keep my confidence. "Dead And Walking." Everyone stopped and just stared at me "W-what? Am I growing another head or something?"

"Dude. That's actually not bad! I mean, it kinda sucks, but it's an ironic sucking, so it's fine." I groaned at his mention of irony, but took the complement as it was. John spoke up next "Yeah, Dave's kind of right, it's a really good idea!" Then, Jade "I agree!"

"Then I guess it's settled, that's our band name." I said, relieved it went that easily. "Yep! Dead And Walking, a new cover band" Jade said, clapping happily. "You mean, the *best* new cover band." I smirked slightly as everyone started talking about every little detail. It was a nice feeling, that I may have done something right. And I wanted to keep it like that. "Alright, everyone think of some songs you want the band to learn, and write them here."

Everyone agreed with the idea, and everyone put down 2-5 songs. Easy enough. I took the list and wrote it 3 more times, handing each out to every member of the band. "So just make sure you learn at least some of these songs, and we'll meet up in a few weeks." That seemed good with everyone, and we simply talked and talked about this band for hours. It was one of the first things I'd ever seen where I actually believed something good might come of this. Something that made me proud to be, well, me.

Author's Note: First try at this, I guess! I figured I'd put it here instead of at the beginning because I might take a little longer for the next few chapters. Yes, I know, this chapter absolutely sucked. And the one before it kind of. And especially the first one. This entire thing kind of blows so far, alright. But still, I plan on it getting better as time goes on, because I'm going to time skip now to after they learn a few songs and shiz, it'll be radical.

Basically, this story will pick up the pace fast. This was just exposition and a very small amount of character development, with a touch of foreshadowing. I plan on making this a very long fic, with many sequels to come in the future (like three). But I'm sorry for any slowness in updating, even though I doubt anyone's following this as of now, it'll get better! Just give this snowball some chance to gather it's girth

-themountainswan