Your Bed

Chapter 5

Your Pov

*Buzz* I rolled over in my bed and opened my eyes, my phone was going off but it was Saturday and I was tired, so I chose to ignore it.

*Buzz* I groaned and rolled further from the phone. As I was fixing to fall back asleep I was jolted awake by the front door being slammed shut. 'Okay okay I'm up' I thought to myself getting up out of bed and making my way down the stairs. "Mom?" "Hey sweetie." She responded to me. "When did you get back in?" "Early this morning." She said while putting up her things. "What has been up with you since I've been gone?" She questioned me? "Well I kinda have this thing with a guy going on, but nothing has been official yet." "Ohhh is it Alex?" she asked. I rolled my eyes, she always thought Lex and I had something going on. "No mom, it's Jack." I told her. "The tall lanky one with shaggy hair?" She looked at me questionably. I giggled "Yes that one." I told her with a smile. *buzz* *buzz* I looked at my phone and smiled, speaking of the devil.

Jack's Pov

I was sitting on the couch watching tv while eating my cookie crisp cereal when my phone started going off. I flipped over my phone to see that Alex was the one calling. "Hey Lex what's up?" "Well I was wondering if after practice if you wanted to stick around to watch movies and talk about how we are going to sell tickets to play the venue?" "Yeah sounds good to me. Are the rest of the guys staying?" "Yeah they are." "Cool, can I invite Y/N" "Yeah sure." With that we hung up and I immediately called Y/n. "Hello?" she said to me. "Hey Y/n/n, I was wondering if you wanted to join me and the guys for band practice tonight?" "Sure! I would love to!" "Great, Alex also said that we would figure out how to sell tickets and watch a movie" I told her. "Sounds great! I'll see you then. Bye Jackie!" She hung up and I went to my room to get ready.

Your Pov

"Hey mom do you care if I take the car and go to Alex's house?" I asked "Yeah I don't care." she said. "Cool, I'm probably gonna stay over." I told her. "That's fine, tell Alex I say hi." "Okay I will." I told her heading upstairs to go get ready. I decided to wear a plain black shirt, with some joggers. I decided to pull my hair back in a bun and put on some light makeup. After I was done getting ready I went downstairs grabbed the keys and I was on my way. On my way I decided to call Alex. "Hey Lex." I said to him. "Hey Y/n, what's up?" "I was wondering what movie we were gonna watch tonight." "Well it's almost Christmas, and we are letting Jack pick. So what do you think?" He said. "Home alone." I said to him with a giggle. "Bingo." Alex said back while laughing. "Okay I'll see you in a little bit Lex." "Okay bye Y/n see you soon." After I hung up with Alex I put in a New Found Glory CD and the first song that came on was Head On Collision.

20 minutes later I arrived at Rians house, I parked my car and walked into the house. "Hey Ri guy." I said as I walked down into the basement. Rian waved as Jack walked up to me and put his arms around me. "Hey doll." "Hey Jackie." I said leaning into him. A moment later Lex walked down into the basement. "Hey guys! I have some songs that we could play. Even wrote a few." he said to us. "Cool let's get this going." Jack said. He gave me a quick kiss on the cheek and he went to join the other boys with their instruments. As they started playing I decided to sit down on the couch and watch them. "So I wrote this song I call 'Jasey Rae' and another one I already showed Jack and Y/n. I wrote it about my brother and I call it 'lullabies'." He said to the rest of the band. "Well how about you sing them then we can get a feel on how we want the music to go?" Rian said. "I've already got the guitar part down for the most part. It's just the rest we would have to figure out." He told them. "Sounds good." Zack said.

"So what did yall think?" Alex asked. "I think it sounded amazing Lex! I personally liked Jasey Rae the most." I told him. "Yeah dude that was great. We need to come up with some music for those and start recording." Jack said getting excited. "Slow down Jack, we still have to write enough for at least an ep, and that only has two songs." Rian said. "One." Alex piped up rubbing the back of his neck. Rian looked at him questionably. "One?" he said. "Yeah, uh, I don't really want to put lullabies out there. Not for our first demo at least. Maybe like on an album if we actually get to that point." Alex responded. I hugged Alex. "It's okay Lex. It's an emotional song, I understand not wanting to put that out there right away." "Yeah dude it's totally fine." Rian said patting his back. "Well I don't know about yall but I am starving! Plus it's movie time and I want to watch Home Alone." Jack said. Alex and I looked at each other and started laughing. "What?" Jack said looking at us. "Nothing." we replied at the same time. "Whatever losers." Jack said heading upstairs to see what Mrs. Dawson made that smelled good.

"Hey kiddos!" Rian's mom greeted us as we made our way up the stairs. We all greeted her with a string of hi's and hello's. "I made spaghetti and garlic bread for yall! Rian mentioned you all were coming over for practice and a movie!" She said cheerfully. "That sounds absolutely amazing Mrs. Dawson! I haven't had a home cooked meal in years probably." I said "Well hunny get your fix! I also baked some brownies and bought some yoohoos!" she replied. Rian groaned "Mom they are my yoohoos not theirs, you rarely buy them anyway." "Someone is stingy about their chocolate water." Alex mumbled taking a drink of the already opened yoohoo. I giggled as Rian started to protest to him drinking one already. "Alright alright you ladies quit. We still need to figure out a band name and how we are gonna sell 100 tickets by the end of the month." Zack said. We all nodded in agreement.

A little while later the five of us were sitting on the couch going over some band name ideas, and let me tell you they all sucked. But it wasn't my band and they could always change it later if they really hated it. I leaned my head on Jack's shoulder as I started humming Head on Collision by New Found Glory. As I was humming Jack started singing the actual song. "And it feels like I'm at an all-time low, slightly bruised and broken." Jack sang. All of a sudden Alex looked up. "Jack, sing what you just sang again!" "Slightly bruised and broken?" Jack said. "NO before that." Alex stressed. Me and Jack looked at each other confused, but Jack sang the line once more. "And it feels like I'm at an all-time low sli-" "THAT! THAT'S IT!" Alex shouted. "What's it?" Rian questioned. "All Time Low, that's the band name, All Time Low. I dunno why I just feel it." Lex said excitedly. "Better than playgroundx" I mumbled. "HEY" Lex shouted once more looking at me. "Just saying I agree with All Time Low" I say shrugging my shoulders. "All Time Low is good with me" Zack said. "And if we hate it we can always change it later." Jack stated. "That's what I've been thinking the whole time Lex listed off any kind of band name." I said and Alex threw his hands up as Jack laughed. "Why is she so mean to me!" Alex groaned as we all laughed.

"Okay, we have a band name, great. It means nothing if we can't sell these tickets though." Rian stated. "I mean I know my parents are for sure buying at least 10 for them and the family." Rian continued. "Obviously I'll be buying one." I said to them. "You don't need to buy one Y/N." Jack said. "Why not?" Alex asked. "Because obviously she will automatically get in, she's with us." Jack stated. "Yeah that's great and typically that would be the case, but we need to sell these tickets, and the faster we get that done the more time we have to practice and make a setlist for the show. So let Y/n buy a ticket and we will have one less ticket to worry about." Zack stated. I looked at Jack and nodded, and he just sighed. "I just feel weird making her buy a ticket to get into our show, I mean she's one of us ya know?" Jack said resting his head on top of mine. I wrapped my arm around him and kissed his chest. "I know Jackie boy but it will be one less ticket to worry about." "Okay so our parents and some family members are all buying tickets. That's maybe 30 max. We still have to sell around 70 tickets." Alex said. "How much are the tickets?" I question. "10 dollars." Jack said to me. "What if we stood outside the mall with a recorded cd of yall and the tickets and sold them both as people are coming in and out?" I asked. They all looked around at each other and nodded. "That's not a bad idea Y/n/n." Alex said. "We could also sell some at school." Jack said. "Yeah and I go to a totally different school so I could take about 15 tickets and try and sell them." Zack stated. "Then we could put our money together and buy the rest if we have any left." Rian said. We all nodded in agreement. "So when should we start." I questioned. "Well we will have to record us playing some covers of songs, and then get them on CDs." Alex said. "Yeah and we need to do that as soon as possible." Jack continued. "Okay well tomorrow is Sunday so we could start recording some songs then. And hopefully by the end of the week we will have them all done so we can burn them onto some CDs." Rian said. "We need at least 70 CDs." Alex said. "Yeah and once that's done we can start handing them out at the mall that weekend." I said. They all nodded in agreement and then Jack piped up, "Great... so can we watch Home alone now and have some brownies?" We all laughed. "I'll get the yoohoos." I stated looking directly at Rian as he got up to chase me down before I could get them.