I Hope It Gives You Hell ~ Rodrick Heffley x reader

Maybe I'm Not Totally Screwed?

"You're still probably working at a 9 to 5 pace, and I wonder how bad that tastes."

God what was I thinking.

I put the strap of my guitar over my head and prepare to make a complete and utter fool of myself. Just don't overthink it. Opportunity of a lifetime, really hot drummer. You'll be fine. So I start to play like I have practiced a million times. And I play good. I mean Jimmy Hendrix levels of guitar playing. (okay so obviously not that good, but I was in the zone yk?) I have completely forgotten I'm in a dingy garage with sweaty teenage boys. In my head, I'm in an outdoor arena and I'm the only one playing. Everyone's cheering and I'm doing a solo. Only the solo part was a little too real. So I may have gotten carried away and played louder and longer than anyone else.

"Dude...dude..DUDE!" The singer yelled trying to get my attention. At the final "dude" I finally stopped.

"Oh my God I'm so sorry, I just, I wasn't, I didn't mean to-" I started getting cut off by the bassist,

"That was AWESOME, when can you start?"

I was completely in disbelief. I thought I blew it. Everyone seemed so excited to have me in the band. Except the drummer, he hadn't moved from his spot. They handed me a schedule for practices and I entered it in my phone calendar while they were going over other songs they play.

"So this is Drew, he plays bass, I'm Stanley, lead singer, and this is Rodrick, the drummer." He says introducing me to my new bandmates. That's when the drummer, Rodrick, finally makes his way over. He looks at me and then I remember I hadn't told them my name yet.

"Oh uh Veronica, I'm Veronica" I said looking around at everyone. That's when I noticed Rodrick glaring at me.

"That was quite a solo." He said, sarcastically.

"Oh ya I didn't mean to overstep-"

"I was supposed to have a solo at the end. Did you not practice at all?" He said cutting me off.

"No I did, a lot actually, it's just-"

"What you think you're better than us?"
He said cutting me off once again. What an asshole, Jesus.

"Rodrick, chill out. It was amazing, shes the best guitarist we had all day. So what she got caught up in the music? It happens to the best of us." Stanley said, hitting me on the back. At least not all of them suck massive ass.

"First practice is tomorrow after school until 6. Don't be late new girl." Rodrick says, turning back around to keep practicing.

"Thanks so much, I won't miss it I swear!"

Holy shit. I just made lead guitarist. I JUST MADE LEAD GUITARIST IN AN ACTUAL BAND. I need to get home and practice chords.

Rodricks POV :
"Shes not that good." I said under my breath. She was just loud. There was no talent.

"You're joking right? Shes better than anyone else we could find in this tiny ass town." Drew finally piped up.

"That's not much of an accomplishment." I retorted.

"No dude she's actually insanely good, we had plenty of back ups we would have told her to beat it if she choked but she didn't." Stanley said. Cool now all my band members are turning against me over some girl.

"You guys are only dick riding her so much because you think shes hot." I said.

"Uhm no dude 1. You were checking her out the whole time and 2. You said it first." Drew said, matter-of-factly. Fuck him I do not. I mean maybe. I mean she is objectively attractive. But anyone could see that.

"Shut up dude, I was making an observation. I'm going back inside, you guys should leave before Susan gets home." I say not wanting the assholes in my house anymore. I mean it's my band why do they get to pick the guitarist. I storm back up to my room and crank up my blink-182 CD.

"Let's go, don't wait, this nights almost over."

I sat in bed thinking about the auditions. Why couldn't they just pick the punk guy. Sure he's an ass, but he makes us look legit. I guess this Veronica girl is good too. Shes got an attention problem. I heard my mom pull in the drive.

"RODRICK, COME HELP ME WITH GROCERIES." She shouted.

"ILL BE DOWN IN A MINUTE, SUSAN." I shouted back. I was not in the mood to deal with her right now. I had a different obnoxious girl to worry about.

A.N. : should we make a playlist for songs we use in the fic? If I use a song I'll put the name and the lyrics but idk.