Records, Burgers, & Love

Carl

Sylvain has decided to think of a band name, so I'm just going to leave him in the living room. He seems to really like that room. I hear some guitar playing coming from Jackie's room upstairs. I bet it's Catherine. You know what? I'm gonna go see for myself!

I sneak into Jackie's room so that Catherine won't notice me. Man, that chick can really play the guitar! She is rocking Ray's solo from "Na Na Na" (My Chemical Romance)! It's insane!

At the very end of the solo, I think she finally noticed me, so she stopped playing the rest of the song. "Not bad!" I say. She looks up with wide eyes that are hiding behind her glasses. I never really noticed how cute she is until now.

"Thank you!" she says with a smile.

"I'm gonna tell Sylvain about you, you know? You're pretty dang good!" I say. Her face lights up when I say this.

"Thanks! I've been practicing for years," she says. That doesn't surprise me one bit.

"Geez, I am jealous, man! I tried that once and it didn't really work out for me."

"Oh, really?"

"Yeah. Well, and you know, Jackie didn't really help with my self-esteem problems, you know? She just made me feel even worse about myself."

"You shouldn't feel that way. You're a good person, uhh, you probably could be really good if you tried." I can tell she didn't mean to say that I was a good person because she avoided any eye contact.

"I think I'm better at drumming, you know?"

"Yeah, well, we need a drummer anyways."

"Yeah, well, I'm going to go tell Sylvain now."

"Oh, uhh, I'll keep playing..." She trails off. I take one last look at her almost red hair and her beautiful brown eyes. Ughh, stop staring! I'm gonna freak her out!!!

***

Sylvain and I are in the bathroom to discuss the band. We thought it would be best to have "guy talk" where the girls won't hear what we're saying.

"So, right now, I got Catherine in the band now," I say.

"Oh, really? What position or whatever...?" Sylvain says.

"She's gonna be the guitarist. You should have seen her, she was KILLING Ray's solo."

"Really?"

"Yeah, she was shredding it."

"That's awesome! I'm glad we got the band together!"

"YEAH!" I clap to emphasize my excitement. Those are big words for me!

"What should the name be?"

"The Dying Turtles." That name is definitely going to be the name. There is no doubt!

"That's a horrible name!" Well, there goes my hopes and dreams, right down the drain!

"What?! I worked so hard! I spent the last hour thinking of it!"

"Really...? We should run it by the ladies." Sylvain looks at me like I said the world's dumbest statement! He doesn't know a good band name when he hears one!

"I think the Dying Turtles should win."

"Yeah, I don't think that's going to happen."

"Or the Leaping Leopards."

"The Leaping Leopards?"

"Yeah!"

"What kind of name is that? That's not a name we want shouted out years from now!" This guy doesn't know anything at all! Why does Jackie like HIM of all people?!

"What about the Dragons... of Death?" Sylvain looks down at his Mortal Kombat shirt, and then looks at me with a judging look. (A.N. The Mortal Kombat logo is pictured above, just in case you didn't know what it looks like).

"That's so generic!"

"The Dragons of Death?!"

"So generic. It sounds like a metal group! That's not our whole goal here!" I am seriously wondering what's wrong with this guy!

"No, our goal is to have a cool name, so we can bring in hot chicks... and cool dudes that will be into us, you know?"

"It's not about just you and me. It's about Catherine and Jackie too!"

"Ugh, whatever. You just come up with the name if you don't like my ideas! This talk is over!" I try not to sound mad, I just try to get a point across. I'm gonna go play the drums or something.