A Summer Musical

🎶 Chapter 8 - Brainstorming 🎶

Big Red's POV

I went over to Ashlyn's house. She was trying to work on the musical, which she didn't want to do alone. I had no idea what me being there would do, but she asked me to be there. EJ was coming too. After we had cleared the air about if he would be overprotective, the three of us had hung out a lot. It was fun.

I knocked on the door, which Ashlyn answered. "Good morning." I smiled and kissed her cheek.

"Good morning." She kissed my cheek.

"Is EJ here?"

"Not yet. Come on in." She sat on the couch, picking up her notebook and pencil. I sat by her. "I just can't think of anything."

"We don't have a plot yet though." I furrowed my eyebrows.

"If you start with one great song, it's a great song. If you start with the plot, the songs could be average."

"I guess that makes sense?"

"I also really just wanna write, so... yeah." She smiled.

"Okay, well... I don't know how I'm supposed to help."

"I'm a big fan of moral support Biggie."

"That I can do." I put my arm around her.

"I'm just not feeling super inspired right now."

"Um... how do you get inspiration?"

"Just happens."

"So I can't really help?" I asked.

"Yeah... not really." She shrugged. "Oh, that's EJ." She went to answer the door. A minute later they were both back and sitting down.

"Hey." I smiled.

"Hey." EJ replied.

Nini's POV

Ashlyn came over to my house two days after we found out we were writing the musical to brainstorm. We had both tried to start, but it hadn't been going very well on our own.

"So I guess there's probably a romance plot line? I mean, most musicals have them, and tons of us would be fine playing opposite either our partners or other people." Ashlyn suggested.

"That would work."

"I was trying to work on something earlier, but I couldn't. I didn't expect them to, but Big Red and EJ didn't have any ideas. You?"

"Basically the same thing, minus the people." I told her with a sigh, playing with the end of my pencil.

"How are we gonna finish this before summer's over?"

"We'll figure it out. We don't have to have that many songs, and there's plenty of people to help." I said.

"Yeah." Ashlyn nodded. "Okay, if we're getting no where with this, can I ask you something?"

"Sure?"

"What do you do when something bad happens in your relationship?"

"What happened?" I asked.

"Nothing yet... kinda. Um, I don't wanna talk about it. But something happened, I know I should tell Big Red, but I'm scared."

"You might have to be more specific."

"I can't." She shook her head. "Let's just keep writing."

"What rhymes with miss?"

"Kiss."

"Anything else?" I asked.

"My relationship is falling apart but my boyfriend doesn't even know?"

"Okay, so you want to talk about it."

"I don't know." She sighed.

"Then let's get back to working?"

"Yeah. I'll manage to focus in a minute."

"Okay. So what rhymes with miss?"

"Um... bliss? This?" She suggested.

"Oh, I've got it." I nodded.