Beat To My Drums | C. Delgado

Band Names

(Y/N) POV

I was walking over to the elevator to head down to the music room whenever I ran into Charlie "Hey Charlie"

Charlie looks over at me with a nervous smile coming across his face "H-hey Y/n" Once the elevator opened we walked inside silence coming over us until Charlie began to speak "Are you excited for the bash"

I shake my head "Honestly no"

"Why?"

I press a button that leads us to the basement "Because my brother isn't too happy with me being apart of the reason his set got cut. My parents are even upset with me cause i'm taking away opportunities from my brother" I look over at Charlie who was listening to my every word "I hate living in my brothers shadow so maybe by cutting his set a bit it leads to people actually calling me by my name and not just Scotts sister"

Charlie nods his head "Yeah I get what you mean, my parents pressure me into getting into soccer so I could be like my brother. Then even the couch couldn't believe I was related to my brother because I have zero soccer skills"

"Yeah I heard about how you kicked the ball and hit the couch" I laugh a bit causing Charlie to smile at me nervously as we walled out the elevator and down towards the music room "Do they know your not in soccer?"

Charlie shakes his head "Absolutely not, they could give me the lecture of my lifetime if they knew"

"Won't they find out though whenever they go to soccer games" I commented

"Not if I can help it" Charlie and I come to a stop at the Mels Lemonade Machine. After getting some lemonade from the machine Me and Charlie walk into the room to find everyone waiting for us. Charlie then holds up a can of lemonade "I see everyone brought their official underworld badges."

"Yeah." We all say and hold up our lemonade before taking a drink

Stella walks in front of everybody who remains seated "Yeah! We're subterranean and we're proud!"

We all once again hold up our drinks and take a sip only to hear the toilets flush we all groan while Stella starts to speak "All right, first order of business, a band name. We need one for the fliers."

"Okay, okay. What about Soul Groove?" Charlie ask everyone

We all groan and shake our heads "Um...The Anarchists?" I ask

Wen shakes his head "Nah.

Olivia looks up "Well, that's not so bad."

Stella nods her head and raises her hands "The Anarchists!"

Mo quickly shakes her head "No. No, I don't like..."

Olivia nods her head in agreement "Oh, no. You're right, it's terrible." Olivia then sets down her lemonade while Wen goes through his notebook "I'm gonna go get another lemonade."

Olivia head out the door while we turn to Wen "All right, look, guys, uh, I got one. Um, let me, let me just find it..." Wen takes his time to exaggeratedly go through his notebook "Wen!"

"Wen?" Charlie repeats

Stella turns to me "He's kidding, right?"

I shrug my shoulders and look back at Wen "I don't think so"

Wen sighs and turns to us all "Come on, it's the whole one name thing, you know like, um...Like Bon Jovi"

"Or Cher." Mo sarcastically says only for Wen to nod his head in agreement not understanding what Mo just did.

Olivia then rushes into the room "Back off the Bash!"

Stella clicks her tongue "What kind of band name is that?"

Wen looks at Olivia "I love it."

Olivia shakes her head and shows us a piece of paper "No, this was on the door."

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Stella and I walk into the cafeteria only to see Ray messing around with Charlie and the rest of the group. Stella walks over to Ray and taps his shoulder "I have a better idea."

Ray turns around quickly "What?"

Stella holds up a finger "One second." She takes a sip of her lemonadethen Stella turns around and spits all over Ray.

Everyone starts laughing only to have Ray turn over and push Charlie "You think it's funny?"

Charlie quickly holds up his hands while I continue to laugh "Oh, no. It's not funny."

Stella quickly takes some more lemonade in her mouth and walks over to the blonde girl while the boys mess around with Ray only to have Principle Brenigan come over and breaking us up "Break it up, here break it up, Step away from the puddle, people!" everyone pulls away "What is going on here?"

Ray puts on his best innocent face "Principal Brenigan, I went to go get a Turbo Blast and they just start threatening..." everyone starts to once again argue including me while Ray holds up Stella hand that was holding her drink "Next thing you know it, lemonade mouth over here spits all over me." We all argue again while Principle Brenigan hands us detention slips.

THIRD (POV)

And that is how we got our band name.

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