Band practice: Shane Hawkins x Reader

Part Two - The gig

We arrived in L.A. yesterday and immediately crashed. What can I say? we were very tired. But besides all that tonight is our first gig of L.A. we booked a gig two weeks before we came here and practiced the entire time we were waiting. I am really fucking pumped tho. God I hope it goes well.

"Alright so we need to be at the club at four p.m so that we can get set up and sound check before we're on at seven." Erin paced

"How longs the gig?" Kris replied.

"Around an hour and half to two hours," They said stopping

"Wait shit thats the longest Y/Ns ever played, you think they'll hold up?" Erin contiued starting to freak out

"I'll be fine I will pace myself," I interject

"Okay,"

This seemed to have calmed Erin down but not by a lot. I checked the time and it was exactly three p.m.

"Hey we have like an hour to kill how about we have some fun?"

"Okay but as long as we are there in time for the set up," Erin replied visibly relaxing as they realized they still had a while til the gig.

Taylor's POV:

"Hey T!" I heard Dave yell as he entered the home studio

"Whats up dude?"

"Theres this really cool underground punk club here in L.A. and I wanted to see if you maybe wanted to come with?" He smiled

He looked so excited for this like he'd been waiting for the 90's punk scene to return for years. Which in fairness, he has.

"Ah mam I'd love to but I promised I would hang out with Shane today,"

I felt genuinely bad I loved seeing Dave so excited about something he was really interested in.

"Oh that's okay but you know if he wants he can come with it's a kid friendly club I promise," He laughed

"I mean yeah if he's down I'm cool with it." I smiled

This was going to be fun... If Shane agrees to it. I didn't waste anymore time just sitting around, I got up from my stool and went straight to my sons room.

"Hey kid," I smiled as I saw him fidling with a pair of drumsticks and listening to a nirvana CD.

"Whats up?" He replied, putting everything down

"You wanna come to a club with me and Dave tonight?"

"Uh, I'm 15."

"Oh yeah, don't worry about it, it's 'kid friendly', and plus, it's an underground punk club." I said, lifting my eyebrow a little bit

"Okay, yeah, do you know who's playing?"

"No idea, but it's probably going to be a variety of punk and alternative rock bands."

"Yeah, sounds cool,"

"Okay, well, I'll come get you when it's time to go,"

"Alright," He responded, going back to his music.

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Dave, Shane, and I arrived at the club at 6:55pm. We had found out what the band was playing. The Runes. There was another band playing at the moment but it was mainly instrumental.

"They sound cool. I hope the drummers are good," Shane said as he sat down next to me.

"Hopefully, but you know, they're playing here, so they're obviously a small band. They might have a little improvement to make," I said, reminding him not every band he was going to see would be perfect.