Secrets - Wilbur Soot Fanfiction

Chapter 7

I was at band practice, Melissa was there too, and obviously so was Joe and Mark. We were just waiting for Ash. None of us knew where he was, but we assumed he was on his way, considering he literally doesn't talk in the groupchat. "Someone call him, for the love of god." Joe whined. Mark and I laughed. Melissa was helping me set up a few things. Then Ash finally walked through the door. We all looked at him. "Where on earth were you?" I asked him, chuckling. Ash shrugged. "May or may not have forgotten.." we all groaned. We spent a little bit more time setting up, before we started to play. We first played our song 'the fall'.

"Under the weight of a broken nose,"
"It's not that simple, but he won't seem to notice"
"There must be more to this"

"So leave those sink estates and,"
"Let's book a holiday"
"We're painting all the counties in blue"
"'Cause we're already boring,"
"And we're already hoarding,"
"What else have we got left to accrue?"

"And the ramblers will say,"
"It's got a marvellous view"
"But they don't know how many lives it took, no"
"They'll never know what you knew"

"And we're so calm but we're,"
"Fucking scared, fucking scared"
"And we're so calm but we're,"
"Fucking scared, fucking scared"
"And we're so calm but we're,"
"Fucking scared, fucking scared"
"And we're so calm but we're fucking scared of people like you"

"Under the weight of some Sertraline"
"A couple Prozacs, and now I'm pumping dopamine"
"There must be more to this"
"We've got a country house now"
"Old dog has been put down now"
"It's nice to be around trees"
"Custom license plate,"
"On our Audi R8"
"How many grocers does one county need?"

"And the ramblers will say,"
"It's still a marvelous view"
"That treadmill still looms,"
"Your hedonic misuse"

Out of the corner of my eye, I could see Melissa with a big smile on her face. That made me smile.

"So come on, one and all to see the apathy"
"The reams of gray stencils that fill the tapestry"
"I look to all of you and see a different fucking species"
"Aspiration for a different destination to me"
"Across the Pennines, there's a thin blue line, a knife and a mall"
"I would do something, if it wasn't all so effortful"
"'Cause I'm so high, my brain can't even look at the fall"
"And when you've reached the top there's nowhere else to go but-"

Then the song ended. I looked over at Melissa and she started to clap. "That was amazing!" She smiled. "What are you gonna play next?" She asked. We all looked at eachother. We honestly didn't know, I guess we probably should've planned first. "You choose." I told her. She giggled. "Oh, okay! Um.." she thought for a minute. "Perfume?" She suggested. We nodded and began playing.

"It's 3:45"
"AM"
"And I just bite my tongue,"
"Update me on your life"
"And now you've found the one"
"But I don't like his eyes,"
"And I distrust their name"
"And I hate their haircut"
"They look like a prick"
"a prick"

"But it's all the same"
"Would be daft of me to cry?"
"Your tongue is razor sharp"
"I miss when it would fight mine"
"Left your heart on standby"
"By the way he holds you"
"Bet he serenades you"
"I can't really blame you"

"And I can still smell her perfume,"
"Did it rub off on you?"
"And I can still smell her perfume,"
"Did it rub off on you?"

"You say your ex-boyfriend's a policeman"
"Well, I say you need better standards"
"You say your ex-boyfriend's a policeman"
"I say you need better standards"

"It seems like all our friends"
"Abruptly fell in love"
"And she was in the dust"
"Darling, life was streaming past"
"So she learnt to lie,"
"She learnt how to pretend"
"A drama in the futile,"
"A means to an end"

"Why can't you be a dick?"
"Why must you be so nice?"
"It's hard for me to move on,"
"When I don't really hate you"

"And I can still smell her perfume,"
"Did it rub off on you?"
"And I can still smell her perfume,"
"Did it rub off on you?"

"It's 3:45"
"Your taxi's not arrived"
"And I don't think that he's coming"

Band practice was longer than usual, but it was always something that I enjoyed no matter what. Melissa was coming back to mine for a little. "I am so unbelievably proud of you, by the way." She told me. I smiled at her. "Thank you," I giggled. She smiled at me and gave me a hug. I loved how kind she was.