Hate Me, Love Me (Zak Bagans FanFic)

Meeting The Crews

Aaliyahs POV

I boarded my flight to Vegas. I was excited to embrace the opportunity to sing for a regular fan base. I've gained damn good friends, one of which is the owner of Zappos Theater in Vegas. They even rented out a bar space for me through DJ Pauly D and his friends. I have a practice bar and an actual stage to perform on with my friends.

I slept through most of my flight awaiting my ride to the bar. I texted V and Aaron, my long term friends, telling them I would see em shortly.

I arrived to the bar to see Jimmy, our electrical systems expert and drummer. I noticed everyone else was late.. as always. I removed my sweat pants and stood around in spandex and a sports bra.

"Oh my God! Aaliyah! You look amazing!" V yelled out. I hired her as a background singer and dancer. Her bubbly, nerdy personality was exactly what I needed to surround myself with.

As I turned around I saw Aaron and V approaching me with a few unknown people.

"Oh hey!" How are yall?" I asked as I went in for hugs and handshakes.

"I'm Billy" a middle aged dark haired guy with a dad bod said as he shook my hand.

"Jay. Nice to meet you!" A middle aged brunette male said as I nodded.

"Zak." Short and simple. How great.

"We're great. These are Aarons friends from his job!" V replied as I nodded. I watched as Sarah, my bassist and backup singer, and Jake, 2nd lead male vocal and guitarist walked in. My anger flowed through me seeing Jake walk in. Sarah smiled as they began immediately setting everything up.

I watched as Adam, lead male vocalist, dancer, and guitarist walked in with his sister, Miranda, guitarist and backup singer. They immediately began preparing as we finished setting up for practice. Aaron and his friends sat around waiting for us to begin. I grabbed a wireless mic from Jimmy and practiced signals between each other. I noticed the piano and violin in the background in case I needed vocal breaks I could practice my instruments. Spare guitars stood around for when I wanted solos while the boys sang some.

"Mic check 1,2,3!" I said as I heard my voice through all the speakers. I stood there a moment before deciding on a song to start practice off with.

"You know what lets just play some random music to get into the moment with. Better than to start off with just singing mindlessly." I said through the mic as Jimmy gave me a thumbs up and began playing some metal in my favor of course. I smiled as I heard Korn begin playing, setting the mood for the day. I fiddled around setting up my laptop searching through apartments as mine had cancelled our deal just before my flight.

"Whatcha looking up apartments for?" V asked as she came up behind me.

"Because the landlord I was speaking to is an absolute fucking dick. He totally backed out of our agreement this morning so I'm basically homeless as we speak." I said with a sarcastic positive tone in my voice.

"Are you for real?" V replied with a shocked expression on her face.

"Yeah unfortunately. I'm so pissed off right now. He completely fucked me over. I have absolutely no clue what I'm gonna do for the next few days." I replied.