The next while flies by, James gets moved to LA and him and Jamie are all back together, Jamie and I have been reunited with our band/rugby teammates, and the boys' record is closer to being released but that means a tour is in the near future. Christ a tour, no CC, Rikki, Bret, or Bobby for god knows how long. I don't know how I'll survive.
Anyways it's getting pretty close to the 14th of May, so CC and I are pretty close to being 24. The boys and my band and James all want to throw a party but CC and I are against it in the most extreme of ways.
For the right now I sit in Ashley's garage, my band is rehearsing with James sitting on the washing machine. Poison is at the studio and that's everyone. Jamie and I are trying to play, well not necessarily anything, we're screwing around with a couple acoustics. I can't play on acoustic while standing up because it feels awkwardly do Jamie is the same way, so Jamie and I crisscross applesauce on the cement floor.
"Hey so we need to come up with a new set." Jillian speaks up.
"I think we should keep Once Bitten Twice Shy though." Ash adds.
"But we need to add a couple new songs." Jillian sighs.
"What about Jukebox Hero?" James wonders. "Our old band used to play it, Bee and Jamie are real good at it to."
"Our old band used to play that to." Ashley points between her and Jillian.
"So there's one song!" James laughs.
"What are you? Lucifer's Elite's cheerleader, babe?" Jamie asks with a smile.
"No that's us!" Bret yells as Poison walks in the open garage door.
"What are we doing?" Bobby wonders.
"Trying to make a new set." I say.
"What do ya got now?" CC wonders.
"Once Bitten Twice Shy and Jukebox Hero." Jamie lists.
"What about Anyway You Want It?" Ashley speaks up. "By Journey, I think. Jilly and I used to play it with our old band."
"Do you two know it?" Jillian asks and I share a look with Jamie.
"Uh, maybe." Jamie says.
"I think." I rack my brain.
"Let's see." Jill motions to Jamie's and my electric instruments by our amps.
We replace our eclectic instruments with the acoustic on the stands. We plug into the amps and start to adjust the sound.
"Bee, Jam, not to loud." Ash warns. "My neighbours called the cops last time."
"Oh shit really?" I wonder.
We play the first verse of the song through. I guess we know the song pretty well. So there's three, just one more.
"What about something from The Stones?" Ash asks.
"Or AC/DC?" Jillian wonders.
"Or Mötley Crüe?" Jamie wonders.
"What about KISS?" CC asks.
"Or Zeppelin?" James smirks.
"Not gonna happen." Jamie and I say in unison.
"I thought only CC and Bee did that." Bret admits.
"Why so insanely against Zeppelin?" Rikki wonders. "Thought you loved them, Bee?"
"I do, I just can't play them to save my life." I admit.
"How many strings did you go through trying to learn Stairway To Heaven ?" CC wonders with a smirk and I flip him off.
I look down at my watch and see the time.
"Shit, I've gotta go to work." I say as I unplug my guitar.
I explain to everyone how my schedule got cluster-fucked and for tonight I work from 4pm until midnight. Rikki looks disappointed when I walk over and kiss him goodbye. I tell him I love him and I'll see him tomorrow.
"Tomorrow is your birthday." He remind me and I roll my eyes.
I open my eyes the next morning and bright early morning sunlight streams in the window. I pull a pillow over my head and try to go back to sleep. Within three minutes of me opening my eyes I hear an insane amount of racket coming from beyond my closed door. I groan and try to ignore it but it soon turns into people pounding in my door.
"Wake up, Bee!! You're twenty-four!!" Is screamed.
"I'll still be twenty-four in another couple of hours!" I yell. "Come back then."
I hear my door open and someone walks in. I don't pull my head out of the covers. I feel someone sit on the side of my bed beside my waist. I feel a hand land on my ass. Rikki. The hand slides up my back and to the end of the comforter. It gets yanked down and I roll over.
"I love you but it's too goddamn early for this." I say and he smiles.
"You and your brother were born at seven and shortly after. You are twenty-four right now." Rikki explains and I roll my eyes. "Come on babe, I know you worked last night and I promise you can go back to sleep after all of this."
"Fine." I mumble and Rikki grabs my hands pulling me out of bed.
"I love you." He says and kisses my forehead.
I'm pulled out into the main room of the apartment and there stands James and the bands. I mean I'm proud of Bret for waking up before 2:30 in the afternoon. I look over to my brother and see that CC looks half asleep as well. Ashley hugs her half asleep Poison guitar player boyfriend and Rikki's arm goes around me. James looks at me and laughs.
"Don't you look radiant at quarter past seven in the morning." He laughs and I yawn.
"I haven't been up this early since high school." I admit.
"Okay so Rikki and I got you two something." Ashley says rather cheerfully and loud for being seven in the god forsaken morning.
I look up and Rikki and he instantly starts to laugh.
"Even half asleep that look scares the hell out of me." He admits
They each hand us a box of condoms...In the eleventh grade I had English first thing in the morning and we couldn't talk about Shakespeare properly because it was too early to talk about all Shakespeare's sexual innuendos. It's definitely too early to be handing out a box of fucking condoms.
"I think I'm gonna use mine now." CC says and he loops an arm around Ashley's waist and she pulls away from him.
"It was a joke, CC." She states and Rikki's arm gets a little tighter around my shoulder.
"Mine wasn't." He admits with a smirk and I laugh.
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Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better
Hayran KurguBianca is a guitar play in New York, her twin brother is a guitar player in LA. After moving in with her brother to get away from her parents, she meet his band but recognizes them. What happens when the drummer is crushing on his guitarist's sister...
