Beat To My Drums | C. Delgado

Halloween Bash

(Y/N) POV

Walking into the basement I greet everyone before Stella turns to the rest of the band as we gathered "Well, this is it guys our last band rehearsal"

"Guys, I can't believe the Halloween Bash is tomorrow night," Wen says in wonder not believing were actually performing.

Charlie nods his head along "And Rising Star in a few weeks"

I smile as we start to turn down the corner of the steps only to realize Olivia stops walking "You okay?"

Olivia shakes her head "Fine, fine. I'm just totally fine"

We all shake our heads as Charlie walks back up the stairs to confront Olivia "We're all nervous, Olivia."

Mo scoffs as Olivia begins to walk again "Try terrified"

I nod my head in agreement as I walk back down the steps as Stella shouts "Hey, come on, you guys, we're gonna be great in fact, I think I know just the thing to make us feel better"

Stella turns around to everyone as we all shout "Lemonade" we all stop once we look to see the vending machine has a sign on it that says scheduled for removal.

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Wen and Stella went to the office earlier to talk about the machine just for us to find out the machine was supposed to gone long ago and turbo blast is just taking over. I sigh to myself and lean back into my chair as we wait around for Olivia to show up at the Halloween Bash. Stella sighed along with me "She promised she'd be here."

Charlie shrugs his shoulders "Maybe she just got held up."

"We're on in 10 minutes," Mo comments leaning over to speak to Charlie.

Wen rushes back over to us "I can't find her anywhere."

Some nerdy boy runs over with some wires speaking to us "I don't have time, those Mudslide jerks wrecked my setup before soundcheck, I'm telling you, it's sabotage."

I roll my eyes "Doesn't matter, we can't go on without a lead singer."

The boy looks at me "Who, Olivia? She ran through here a couple of minutes ago."

"What?" Stella and I stand up

The boy nods his head and point towards the bathrooms "That way, looked like she was gonna hurl."

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Walking into the girl bathroom as with Stella and Mo we shout "Are you in here, Olivia?"

Wen and Charlie stay at the corner of the bathroom listening as we look under the stalls for Olivia "Olivia?"

Some girl dressed like a chicken comes out of the Stalls and Mo moves away "Oh, sorry, Jenna."

I look under the stalls and spot Olivia's boots "Found her!"

"We're coming in!" Wen yells and walks in

Charlie sighs and yells out after Wen "Girls' bathroom!"

Wen walks over and leans against the door to talk to Olivia "How are you feeling, Olivia?"

"I'm great! Super!" Olivia nervously says

Stella sighs "That's my girl!"

I nod my head in relief "That's great."

"But, it's probably, it's probably...Not the best idea for me to actually go out there, you know, physically." Olivia breaths out.

I walk over to the stall "Olivia, we've rehearsed these songs a million times. We've put everything we have in these songs."