Band One Shots

Hollywood Undead~Charlie & Aurora

This oneshot is for Maskyproxy57

Aurora strummed her guitar mindlessly as people passed by her, her brown hair was tied up in a ponytail exposing all of her tattoos. Every now and then some guy would stop and ask her about her ink, or some older women would glare at her and tell her she's going to hell for having done that to her body; it was the same old shit. She sighed and packed up her stuff and began to move closer to Sunset Boulevard where all the street performers would set up. She found out that it was pretty competitive being there, you kind of had to make yourself known by locals to be able to draw a crowd and keep the others from stealing the money you make. Of course she had earned her spot a few years back when she had first been kicked out of her home back when she was sixteen. One of the breakdancers had come to like her voice so he had let her occupy a space by him if she learned to beatbox for him. These days they worked together and would haul in more money than either of them had her made just by themselves.
"Hey Derek," she called as she made her way past and elderly group of tourists. He smiled back at her and helped her get set up for the day. "Anything so far?" He shook his head and unfolded the cardboard box that he carried with him.
"Just some of the kids from Inglewood, they always steal the spotlight." He said hotly.
"Oh relax they're just kids and trying to help their parents out."
"I know but they're gonna have o go to the beach or something cause this isn't working for me."
She rolled her eyes and shook her head at him, "Just cool it and help me okay? I need to swap out my old strings for the new ones."
Derek perked up and quickly set to helping her change and tune her guitar. He always enjoyed helping her with that stuff, mostly because each time she did that she would let him try tuning it by himself. "So you finally saved enough for the new ones huh?"
"Yeah and this time it was a lot more expensive than the last time too."
"The more you go to that store in sure they'll lower the price for you."
Aurora shrugged and sat down on one of the old crates that Derek had salvaged from the thrift store dumpster. He handed her the guitar and she began to play the first few chords of this new song called Gravity. She hummed the words at first just to get a feel for how everything flowed together, Derek watched her in amazement. He was always fascinated with how fast she could pick up a song, and from the sound of it, it was by that rap-rock band Hollywood Undead. The only reason he knew this was because he had met them when they were first starting out and were filming a music video for some song called No. 5. Over the years he had tried to follow the band's music and listen to it at the library. Derek was pulled away from his inner thoughts when he heard Aurora sing the chorus. All around them people were gathered listening to the beautiful sound of Aurora's voice. He smiled to himself as he pulled out the little jar that they shared for money and sat it out in front of them. It wasn't too long before she had drawn in the attention of a completely new group of people. Derek could see them lingering at the back of the crowd, wanting to see who was singing. Shortly a blonde male made his way through the crowd to listen, he had on a snapback, an LA Pride shirt and a pair of jeans. He kept his hat tilted low over his face until Aurora was done singing. After all the people had cleared the guy leaned down and dropped a twenty dollar bill into the jar.
Aurora's eyes stayed glued to the money that was just placed into the jar, "Thank you so much." She told the man gratefully. "You have an amazing voice, where'd you hear that song?" He asked still keeping his face hidden.
She shrugged and glanced at Derek, "He follows this band and it's one of their newest songs I guess..uhm Hollywood something. I don't know them that well."
The guy nodded his head slowly then pushed up from his knees to stand up. "The band is called Hollywood Undead by the way." He called to her over his shoulder as he walked away.
She glanced back at Derek who seemed just as confused as she was. They both shrugged and went back to performing.

That whole afternoon seemed to drag on and on, not many people showed up after that guy had left.  At around 5:30pm Aurora decided that she would head back to the shelter over in Inglewood before it got too dark. Derek offered to walk her halfway home, but like every other time she politely turned down his offer.
"I'll be okay Derek. It's not that long of a walk if I can at least catch one bus."
He sighed defeated and gave her and extra dollar so that she could take the bus all the way home.
"Be safe Aurora, have a good night." He murmured into her hair before she pulled away.
"I will Derek." She reassured him and turned to go.