Lost Without You (A Team Starkid Fanfic)

Chapter 19

I don't own team starkid or their work

I started the year off sick. I mean not terminally ill, just a sore throat, cough and occasionally fever. On the bright side, Devin was my roommate again. It felt natural to once again be moving in tandem with my sister. Joey and Brian were situated next door to us but it was strange not to have our other friends nearby. I mean Jaime was still here; we met some of her friends like Clark Baxtresser from her year and caught up with our comrades like Lily and Arielle.

My professors were pretty tolerant of my sickness so instead of participating in our dialogues and songs, I enlisted Joey, Brian, and Dev to help me make a short film with only sound effects called "The Cycle of Sleep". (A/N: when I get to college I want to make a film like this.) It focuses on how there's two girls in one dorm and two guys beside them and the 'exchange' that happens.

In showing it to my classmates, it seemed they loved it. So I still got marks for classes, even if I felt so crappy. "Are you up for lunch, Char?" asked Devin one day as I was moping around on Facebook and Tumblr.

"Sure," I muttered, getting out of bed for the first time in what seemed like weeks. I put in contacts finally as Devin just laughed, watching. I tugged on short jean shorts, my Ravenclaw tee shirt with a black leather jacket paired with my trusty Converse. I smudge on some eyeliner as Dev fussed around with my hair, braiding it. As I slumped around, gathering my bag, there was a knock on the door and in burst Lily Marks and Arielle Goldman.

They ran at us, exchanging hugs. "How are you feeling?" Arielle asks sweetly, touching my arm.

"Better," I supply hoarsely but grinning. I clear my throat. "Excited to be out and about."

Dev laughed. "That's not what she was acting like ten minutes ago." Lily laughed.

Upon arriving at the diner, we were seated at a table and somehow I heard a familiar voice. "She's been so out of it lately and I just feel so bad."

"Joey?" I called out. I mean, he tried to stop by at least once a day, but I was not in my dorm now.

"Charlie?" He looked surprised but he and his crew pushed over a table and joined us. He was with Brian Rosenthal, A.J., Richard Campbell and another guy in our year named Nicholas Joseph Strauss Matathia or NJSM as I liked to call him. So the nine of us had a nice pleasant lunch.

The next day my phone rings and the caller I.D. reads 'Crisis'. "Hey dude!"

"How you doing, Bird Girl?"

"I feel slightly less crappy. You?"

My brother laughs. "I booked a T.V. show!"

"Oh my gosh that's amazing!" He went on to tell me the details about a show named Eastwick.

Later that night, a lot of us grouped up in Studio One. "Alright guys," Matt called for our attention. "We're gonna do another musical."

The bulk of us cheered, including me with a mostly healed voice. "It's called Me and My Dick."

Howling laughter erupted from most of them, but a few, mainly me, were confused. Devin quickly explains how some had performed this show for 24 Hour Theatre and wanted to refine it due to, in part, some of the original cast were not to participate.

"So auditions are next week and I believe some of our friends will be returning soon." That got a loud cheer from me, because I missed my friends.

Afterwards, I'm walking towards our dorm when I stumble into Jaime who was heading in the other direction. "Hey Charlotte are you auditioning?"

I shake my head. "I don't think so," I muttered as Jaime looked at me disappointedly. "I felt do terrible lately and I just wanna get back into the swing of things."