A Band Is Not A Sin #Wattys2016

Chapter 8 To Perform With the Band

I unfortunately do not own any of the "Seven Deadly Sins" characters, just the plot line and any original OC's that may appear.
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Hearing the crowd chanting loudly made Elizabeth's pulse quicken. The others noticed this and attempted to calm her down.

"It's really not a big deal," King explained twirling one of Diane's drumsticks around his fingers. "There are only 75-100 people out there,"

This made Elizabeth's pulse worse and Ban shook his head at King's words. Turning to her he said "It'll all be fine,". This helped but not a whole lot. She straightened her outfit and pulled her ponytail tighter.

She watched Diane calmly apply some last minute make up and smile at her reflection. God, I wish I had some of her calm right now. She thought to herself as she started to pace. Meliodas noticed her behavior and took her to a room just off to the dressing room's left.

It was mostly barren and probably just a janitors closet. He smiled at her and she felt her heart beat faster. "Don't worry about performing," she started taking her hand in his own. She had become extremely used to him touching her in somewhat odd places so the change of pace surprised her. "Your going to do great. I know it,"

She felt herself calm down a little and replied with a thankful "Thank you, Meliodas sir it truly means a lot to me," with this he smiled and leaned up, and well kissed her cheek. She felt her newly calmed heart start beating faster again and her hand went to her cheek.

"Now, let's get ready to have the best first performance ever!" He exclaimed happily, still in shock Elizabeth nodded her head and watched as he left the room. Her thoughts swirled around her like flies and she couldn't seem to swat them away for long.

She felt the excitement of the kiss in her stomach and wanted to squeal but refused. Biting her lip she headed towards the door and opened it up. Everyone else was right where they were before but everything seemed different. Ever since they had met Meliodas had a charm that drew in Elizabeth. It was wild and loving so it was really no surprise that she soon had a crush on him.

She was snapped out of her thoughts when Diane came up to her and told her they were on in about 2 minutes. Quickly checking her makeup and grabbing her microphone she went up besides the others as they headed to the stage. They arrived in the last minute or so of the other band's set.

Elizabeth squinted her eyes and squeaked with surprise as she saw Gilthunder out there with the band, along with a couple other employees from her father's store. While she had told her father about the band two weeks ago she hadn't supplied specifics. Did dad send another band out her to spy? She wondered, but quickly dismissed the idea as her father may have been protective but he wasn't crazy enough to do this.

As they finished up their set the band before them exited the stage in Elizabeth's direction. Panicking last minute she ducked behind Diane before any of them could notice her. Luckily no one questioned her weird behavior and just started out on stage.

Every thin happened in a blur. They were announced and performed their best songs. Elizabeth's nervousness turned into excitement and only seemed to encourage the crowd. Diane came up and performed a duet the two girls had been practicing while Ban worked the drums. Before she knew it they were done with their set and the audience was demanding an encore.

The group huddled together and decided on doing a well know pop song instead of one of their own. Quickly deciding on My Little Black Dress by Sara Bareilles. This was in honor of Elizabeth's outfit choice.

They started and the crowd cheered happily. But soon enough it was over and they had to leave the stage to let the next band come on. The entire band could feel the excitement still rushing through them. Ban and Meliodas started doing their weird high five thing that Elizabeth never really asked about. Diane kept hugging things and people, King conveniently kept getting in the way of her hugs. Elizabeth wasn't freaking out however, she just watched in amazement at her band mates reaction to playing a gig.

"You guys have never really performed in front of a lot of people have you?" She asked crossing her arms and smiling. Each member sheepishly tried to reply but failed at doing so. Elizabeth laughed and laughed until she doubled over. This started Diane laughing, which started King, until it went all the way back around to Elizabeth once more.

If this is how our first gig went she thought smiling to herself. I can't wait until the next one.

Okay so I know that the story might be a little everywhere right now but I swear in a few more chapters we will start to see where this is going. Probably. I really had no idea where I wanted this story to go when I first wrote it but I hope you all enjoy it! Also side note, I realize that not a whole lot of people read this so if you could just share it with people I would really appreciate it!