Monroe is a little club where many local or nonlocal musicians perform all-ages shows. When Jean and his band aren’t playing at festivals or (luckily) opening up for more well-known bands at other gigs, they perform at Monroe.
Artemis Phantom is a three-piece band. Jean sings lead and plays bass, Ellisha Shapira’s on guitar and vocals, and Lewis Boyd does drums.
Jean’s mother will tell anyone that bothers to listen that he came out of her womb singing instead of screaming, which was for the best since she already had a migraine while in labour.
Singing is what Jean does best. The band thing wasn’t supposed to be too serious in the beginning. But when he met the other boys in his church’s youth group, they meshed together so well they decided they had to do it.
Jean wants to be a musician, have people listen to what he creates, and to be an inspiration. It’s such a cliché feeling, but any other reason will make him appear more big-headed than he already is. It’s become more of a lifeline, and it’s probably why Jean did poorly his sophomore year of school. Who cares about school when there’s songs to write, shows to book, and a fanbase to keep?
He knows better now. Junior year will be better. As long as he still gets to sing, everything’s cool.
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Psyche
Teen FictionJamie's other name might as well have been Silent. He went to school, visited his therapist, daydreamed about Jean Paul, and tried to never be alone when his aunt's boyfriend was in the house. He kept to himself. He was fine with that pattern till A...
