My body jolts as My alarm screams some heavy metal. Great Choice of songs for the morning I tell myself. just great. I rub my eyes and feel the cold air nip at my bare arms. sitting up I look at my clock.
6:30am
I hate waking up so early I'm so not a morning person. hopefully Jess is awake and isn't going to be late for work. Jess and I well we go way back. But what really brought us together was our love and passion for music. We both play Guitar and I'm not one to brag but our voices are pretty good too. But it was Jess' dad who got us a job together at Sun Record Company. And its the best job I've had since. I mean we work 7:30 till 3 and we don't actually record anything we just stack records and watch Mr Phillip as he picks out the new talent and what not. We've seen so many teenagers come and go. But we have never gotten a chance to preform for him.
I take a brisk shower and change into the usual working outfit. black tights, t-shirt and shoes. I look in the mirror and apply a little bit makeup and brush through my dark brown hair. Pushing my fringe out my face I grab my navy blue jean jacket and head for the door. its freezing for a start. I pull my jacket around me and walk through the cold breeze starting my 10 minute walk to work. The sky is light blue and my eyes watch as the dark sky disappears. very phew cars are out because its a Saturday morning.
I open the door to Sun Record Company and I'm just on time 7:24.
I hang my jacket up in the back room and see Mr Phillips come in and take his jacket off.
" Good Morning Mr Phillips" i smile
"Good Morning Maddi I'm excited to see what you have for me today" he walks into the main studio and turns on some light jazzy music.
um what is he talking about?
i turn around to a box of records that need stacking. ahh he probably means this. better get to work.
I walk around the shelfs and see Jess already stacking.
"Maddi! there you are. i have great news" she beams "oh my god what?" i laugh as see smiles from ear to ear.
" Mr Phillips is going to let us perform In Front of him today. this is our chance to show him what we can do" jess almost nocks over her box of records because she's so existed
"Jess, oh my god we haven't had enough practise what if I stuff up." my legs start to shake.
"Maddi Breathe we have been non stop practising. we are so ready and ill be just as nervous as you"
I hug Jess
"we better get this done then"
my face starts to cramp up from smiling. we have been waiting for this moment for so dam long.
I look over at the recording booth and look at the guitars and microphones. I hope he likes us.
Its 11:33 and the store is busy.
Jess and I have done our morning duties and now all we do is attend to costumers. They always come in buying the newest record. I notice Mr Phillips in his office looking around at the costumers.
"Maybe now is a good time to remind him?" i ask Jess
"You go ask him, go on" she smiles.
I walk up to his door and knock a bit to loud for my liking. " Mr Phillip. Ah sir" I mutter.
" Ah Maddi. don't you just love Saturdays. lots of costumers." he carries on looking around.
"um Yes I do sir" he smiles at me.
"What can I do for you Maddi" my heart is thudding and I turn to look at Jess and she just nods. Dam it. "um well Jess and I are free at the moment sir and we would like to preform for you" my hands and legs are about to give way at any second.
"ah yes. well we better do it now. I have a boy coming in today wanting to use the recording booth so you better make it quick" he walks to the recording booth and I call over Jess.
" what song?" jess whispers
" Blue shuade shoes" i reply.
Mr Phillips shuts the door behind us and turns on everything. me and Jess grab the guitars and stand next to each other. Jess and I both have to pull down the mic. we give each other a nod. and Mr Phillips leans against the door waiting for us.
"Ready when you are" he smiles
And we begin to sing.
" Wellll its one for the money...." I close my eyes remembering where to put my fingers and strum. "two for the show... three get ready now go can go but don't you, step on my blue shuade shoes. well you can do anything but lay of ma blue suede shoes." when i open my eyes customers are looking in through the glass and clapping. I turn my head to Jess and she smiles at me.
Mr Phillips starts tapping his foot on the floor and thats when it kicks in. I play my hardest and so does Jess.
" well its a blue blue blue shuade shoes, yea! blue blue blue shuade shoes baby. well you can do anything but lay off ma blue shuade shoes." When I strum the guitar one last time I feel my fingers throb and I can tell Jess and I are both out of breath. Customers are going back to shopping and I wait for Mr Phillips to say something.
"Well girls. I can tell you both have talent." i smile at Jess
"But you need more training"
"Mr Phillips we have trained ever Night for a year" my legs start to shake again i almost want to faint.
"I can tell. But you need to work on your style. You want people to remember you by something. Weather it's your style of clothing or beat. Because a lot of people will just see you as another singer. That's why I want to offer you a another job"
I look at Jess in shock.
"How would you girls like to start doing some gigs down at the local bar. And if people start to like you. Then we can talk about recording."
"Mr Phillips you dont know how much this means to us. Thank you so much" Jess hugs mr Phillips and I can't help but laugh a little.
"You two better start thinking about what songs your going to perform . Meet me out the back of Frankie's boys bar tomorrow night. Feel free to use the booth for practise"
"Thank you so much sir, we won't let you down"
Mr Phillips walks out the room and I can't move.
"Jess. Did that just happen"
"holy shit maddi that happened alright"
Jess and I both scream and hug each other.
"We gotta practise here this afternoon ok"
I nod at Jess and we walk out back into the busy mock of people.
Before i get to far from the booth i hear a voice a deep gentle voice. i stop in my tracks and i see a young guy with Mr Phillips in the other booth.
" Love me Tender." he sings. Mr Phillip sees me looking and users us to come over. I grab Jess' arm and drag her with me until where standing outside the glass door.
" ah jess" i whisper
"maddi" she laughs
The boy had his back to me. But I notice his clothes look to big for his body. He stops signing when Mr Phillips opens the door.
"girls come in"
we walk in when he turns around.
Oh Jesus
I make eye contact with a blue eyed slim boy around my age, maybe a bit older.
" Maddi, Jess this is Mr Elvis Presley." i cant take my eyes off him.
" nice to meet you" he nods i look at his tanned face and stare back at jess. " you too sin-sing real nice" he mumbles
" you don't sing to bad yourself" jess replies
"I've just offered Mr Presley the Same deal as you two and also he'll be working with you through out the day"
Mr Phillips looks from me to him.
"Maybe you and Jess can show him the ropes"
"Um I've Actually got some stuff I need to finish but Maddi is free"
I eyeball Jess and she walks out. I watch as Elvis puts the guitar down and turns off the mic.
"Well I'll leave you two to it" Mr Phillips walks out and im stuck in a small box with the beautiful boy.
" So um are you gonna come back here and practise this afternoon" elvis fiddles with his fingers.
"Ah yeah. Did you wanna join us?" I feel my heart thud in my chest.
"Sure sure. If you don't mind"
"Not at all" I smile and he smiles back
Woah.
He follows me out into the store and I show him the boxes of records we put away and where things are. It's almost 2 and I'm stuck shelving record after record with him.
"So what type of music do you like?" He asks as he flicks through the records in the box.
"Blues, rock, I don't really mind. You?"
He smiles and I tell he's looking at me. I reach up and sit up some records.
"Same. I prefer singing rock though"
Before I can reply Mr Phillips calls for us.
I walk around the Shelfs and nobody is here.
"I shut the store early today." He seems exsited.
Jess comes walking down with her empty box smiling at me. She gives a sneaky wink.
"There's someone I'd like you to meet."
Mr Phillips steps to the side and a blonde pale skinny boy stand there with a sig in his hand. He has an oversized leather jacket and he smiles at Jess.
"This is Mr David Bowie. David this is Elvis, Maddi and Jess"
"How are you guys" he smiles
"Good good" Jess mumbles
"Mr Bowie here is currently doing gigs at the bar. I thought it would be good if you all meet before tomorrow night. Well I'll leave you guys to talk while I finish shutting up shop."
"Well it was nice to meet you David. I'm sure Jess has a few questions for you."
Jess gives me the evils and I wink at her as elvis and I go help Mr Phillips.
