The Ravens

Chapter 1

"Raven!" Two voices call out to me from behind. I turned around to see three figures running towards me, Jake, Drew and Kylie.

"Yo, what's up?" I grinned at them and fist bumped the guys and hugged Kylie. Kylie had her acoustic guitar case on her back, like she always does, and Drew and Jake also sported their own guitar cases.

"Yo, not much," Jake joked, "No but really, we are 'bout to head to the music room... Wanna come and jam?"

"Um, I would love to but I actually have detention with Mr Stephens..." I bit my lip and then smirked, "Ah fuck it, lets go!"

We all headed towards the music room, joking and pushing eachother around. Kylie, Drew and I have been best friends ever since we were in primary school. We only met Jake in Year 8 and ever since we've all been best friends. We were like family honestly.

I grinned when Jake pushed the door to the music room open and I raced to the drum kit, pulling my wooden drum sticks from my bag and sat on the stool and just played randomly as everyone else set up their own instruments. Drew was setting up his bass guitar to the amp and tuning it a little, Kylie her keyboard and Jake set up his guitar and tuned it.

"Hey Raven, come help with the mikes and then I think we'll be set." Jake said and I joined in and helped set up the mic stands, one in front of my drums, one in front of Kylie's keyboard and one for Jake.

"So... what do you guys wanna play today, hm?" I asked them all as we were all done setting up. We all looked around at eachother, contemplating what to play. Kylie started to play her keyboard to the intro of Waldorf Worldwide by Good Charlotte. We all grinned and joined in.

"Everything's gonna be alright now, everything's gonna be alright," Kylie and I started together, "Get down stay up all night now, let's do this one more time, everything will be alright alright."

"Bring it in bring it in what? Bring in... the verse!" I sang solo, playing along with the drums.

" Listen up 'cause there ain't nothin' funny,
I wanna hot girl and a little bit of money,
I wanna little house where my band can live,
'Cause we're tired of movin' every other weekend
I wanna go to parties where they got no guns,
I wanna rock with my band, I wanna have a little fun
Where thugs and punks and any other type,
Can sing this song and we'll sing it all night," Jake sang and then both Kylie and I shouted, "Sing it!", going into the chorus.

When it got to the last line, I went solo on the drums and hit randomly, finishing it off with the symbol and grinned. Kylie jumped up all of a sudden and looked as if she just had the greatest idea as Drew, Jake and I just stared at her as she got excited, "Oh my gosh, guys! Why don't we start a band?!"

We all looked shocked at first, letting what she said sink in. Drew was first to break out of his trance and grinned, high fiving his twin and agreeing. Both Jake and I smirked at eachother and agreed with the older twin, "Kylie that's a great idea! Why didn't we think of this sooner!"

We all sat on our stools in the middle as we talked about it all. Drew started, "So like, what are even going to call ourselves...?"

"The Fuckbirds." I smirked, proud with the name I came up with. They all laughed at me and I pouted, "What? I'm serious man!"

"We know, we know," Drew chuckled, "I was thinking 'The Ravens'"

"I like it, it suits." Kylie smiled as we all shared a look and nodded. "Oh guys, by the way, I'm going to try get some gigs for us at the local pub in town and I was also thinking we should totally make a youtube and upload our covers."