I AM SOOO SORRY! As I'm sure you noticed, I hadn't updated for a few weeks. Well, I had been under the impression that I would be losing internet for two weeks half way through July to some unknown time in August. Well, I ended up just losing it this past Saturday, so while I'm with Rush for a day, I'm doing a mass update to catch up. This chapter is the last one for that, and next weeks will be late (unless I go to Rush's again or I'm at my cousins. It depends) I am so damn sorry for not updating. I didn't want to be caught in the middle of updating on one site (since I update on AO3, , and WattPad) and not be able to update on the others. I hope you can all forgive me.
Sunday had Connie, Kritsa, and Petra come to Eren and Levi's dorm, all at different times. Petra came in the morning so that they could work on her dance a little more before Friday. Krista came in the afternoon to practice on the drums, and Connie came in the evening before supper to work on the bass and to learn the timing for when he'd help Bert with the rapping.
Monday came and Eren was sitting on the floor in his and Levi's studio, working with Krista and Connie with the instrumental part again.
"So Petra will be dancing for this part?" Connie asked, pointing out the measures on his sheet music. Eren looked at the spot he was pointing to and nodded.
"Yes. And you'll be video recorded here." Eren pointed to an earlier measure. "During the third and sixth repeats with Krista." Eren pointed it out on Krista's as well. "And you two will be recorded together again..." Eren looked through his notes, comparing them to his sheet music. "Here." Eren said, pointing a few measures later.
"Will we be recorded individually?" Krista asked as she just tapped the hi hat gently with one of Eren's drum sticks. They were black with red dripping down the tip and shoulder, looking like blood.
"Yes." Eren said, looking back through his notes. "Krista, you'll be recorded individually... three times. Here, here, and here during the second repeat." Eren said, pointing to here measures. "Connie, for you it's... three times, as well, being here, here, and here. As well with you being by Bert here and here. And you and I will be recorded together during these measures." Eren said.
"Wow. This is going to be fucking intense and fucking awesome!" Connie said, fist in the air before bringing it down and playing a few measures he'd be recorded playing, a wide smile on his face. Eren sighed and shook his head.
"Connie, we won't be smiling." Eren said, pointing to the lyrics that reference never smiling. "So just look focused on what you're doing." Connie nodded, looking to his hands, a sort of blank expression on his face as he played the part again. "Better." Eren said with a smile.
"Too bad Mikasa and Annie aren't musically inclined." Krista said, now spinning one of the drumsticks like a baton. "They would've been perfect."
"Well, we have Levi, so it's close enough." Eren said, chuckling lightly.
"But he's so expressive around you." Connie said. "Guy eye fucks you all the time."
"Levi fucks him all the time." Krista said, tapping her foot on the bass drum pedal, moving the beater, but not making contact with the drum head.
"Hey! He hasn't fucked me since-" Eren tried to defend himself.
"Friday." The other two vampires said in unison, completely blank faced. Eren just stared at them for a minute.
"If you could keep a look like that on your faces during recording, we'll be golden." Eren said, eyes flashing gold, causing Connie to laugh at the stupid display joke. Krista giggled lightly. "Now, let's get some of this over with. Connie, you're up." Eren said, setting up his camera to record Connie playing through.
Eren had time before Mythical studies to review at least one of the recordings. He decided to watch Connie's. The only thing Eren noticed that was wrong was one chord near the beginning, that Connie had owned up to at the beginning of the recording.
So Eren made it to Mythical Studies, a little miffed that Vix wasn't there yet. He sat next to Levi and smiled, giving him a small kiss on the cheek.
"So, how was practice with the bat brats?" Levi asked. Eren rolled his eyes slightly.
"It was fine. We made tons of progress today. I've already reviewed Connie's tape, and he did really well besides one spot near the beginning. I'll be checking Krista's and mine tonight after supper." Levi nodded as Vix then walked in. That day's lesson was more focused on reviewing the Aztec gods.
After class, Eren caught up with Vix.
"Vix, I have a request." He said as he stood in front of her desk, the room already void of students besides him, Vix, and Levi.
"What is it Eren?" She asked as she picked up a few of her things.
"I have a project in one of my major classes, it's a music video project, and I was wondering if we could use your classroom as one of the recording locations?" Eren was hoping that his sister-in-law would say yes, so damn hard.
"I don't know, what's in it for me?" She said with a smirk.
"Well, you're already coming to Thanksgiving..." Eren said, thinking over what else he could offer.
"I want to come to the wedding." She said. Eren stared at her for a minute before he smiled wide.
"Of course!" He said, grabbing her hands. "You have to come! Whenever the hell we find out the date. It won't be for a while, but yes, definitely." Eren said. Vix smiled as well.
"Good. I haven't seen a wedding in a long time. And I can't think of anything that would make me happier than seeing the werewolf and vampire feud permanently end."
"You'd probably like to fuck your mate." Levi said as he approached the two.
"True." Vix said with a shrug. "And I better get to see the finished project." She said. Eren smiled.
"Of course! Well.. we were going to view it in mine and Levi's dorm with all of our friends... it might be a little cramped." Eren said. Vix smiled then.
"We can watch it in here!" She said, spreading out her arms to the empty classroom. "Two to four to a table, over the projector. We could have snacks and blood and everything we need!"
"It'll only be about four minutes of video." Levi said, putting a possessive arm around Eren's waist.
"So what?" Vix said, puffing her cheek. "We could marathon all of Eren's videos. It'd be fun." She said with a smile. "I'd like to see what the Yeager heir's really interested in." So it was then settled. In exchange for using the Myth Studs room for a couple of scenes, Vix would be at Eren and Levi's wedding, and supplying a space for them and their friends to watch the finished product.
I'm, like, dying right now. I want to hurry up and actually WRITE OUT the damn project. Like as a chapter. BUT I CAN'T! I need to get through the rest of this week, then the NEXT week... and it's just KILLING me! Like just... I WANNA WRITE IT SO BAD! SO DAMN BAD! But I don't want to do it write now in case I decided to change a few things because of something that happens in the chapters between this one and whichever one that happens to be. It's a horrible problem and for once I just CAN'T consciously fucking rush it. Sad face.