(Jalex) The First Step Towards Repair

Chapter 29

Jack

Chapter 29

When classes finally ended, Alex and I went back to our houses and grabbed our guitars before meeting up and heading to Rian's house together. We knocked on his door, our bags slung behind our shoulder as we waited for someone to answer. There was a bit of shuffling of feet before the door was open and it revealed Rian and Zack. Rian beamed at us, his teeth shining as he grinned and he let Alex and I in.

"Hey, Zack," I said, waving at him and he gave a small smile in response.

The four of us headed down to Rian's basement with all of our instruments and when we stepped in, the first thing we saw was Rians' drumset. I jumped up and down excitedly. Holy shit, I can't believe this was happening! I scanned the area and noticed three amplifiers; one for me, one for Alex and the other for Zack. Holy. Fucking. Crap.

This was the best thing I've seen in my life.

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The four of us jammed out to other songs by all our favourite bands. We sounded damn good. Especially with Alex's voice. His angelic little voice echoing in my ears, playing over and over in my head. Goddamn. I'm the luckiest motherfucker alive to have him.

Alex caught me staring, because there was a smirk on his face as he winked at me. I felt a blush creep up to my cheeks. "What're you looking at, hmm?" He said, the grin on his face growing wider.

"You're the only thing I see, babe," I mumbled, walking over to kiss his cheek. Rian pretended to gag while Zack just smiled. I flipped Rian off with a laugh while Alex grinned.

"Cheesy."

I hummed, grinning as I kissed his cheek again, "Only for you."

Rian pretended to gag again before exclaiming loudly, "Get a room! But not mine, I don't want you to fuck on my sheets!"

Alex and I burst out laughing again. "Okay, fine. So... More Green Day?"

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During our practice, I came to the realisation that we could kickstart as a band. Hmm... Maybe...

"Hey, guys. Do you wanna participate in the Battle of the Bands this year? It's held like, 20 minutes away. We could get there easily. Maybe we could just, you know, give it a shot," I suggested. They looked at each other and nodded enthusiastically. 

I grinned widely. "Great! So... like, Alex has written a few songs. Do you guys want to, y'know, test it out so we can play that during the Battle of the Bands?"

"Hell yeah," Rian said.

Alex gently placed his guitar down and went to his bag, taking out a notebook - the notebook. His lyric book. I smiled to myself, going beside him as he flipped through the pages.

"Hey, maybe we could use this," I said, pointing to a song with the lines 'I painted a picture of the things I wanted most, to colour in the darker side of all my brightest hopes.'

The four of us spent the rest of our afternoon and evening composing the song, getting suitable chords and notes. We had each of us do our own parts first, then we tried to put it all together (excluding Alex's part, because he was still figuring out the notes). It went pretty well, in my opinion. 

When Alex figured out the notes that may fit the song, he wanted to begin on his part but he stopped, his breathing rate increasing. Frowning, I walked to Alex and rubbed his back comfortingly, "Hey... you alright?"

He tried to calm himself. "Y-yeah... I'm... can you... stay beside me?"

I nodded. "Anything for you," I mumbled and kissed his forehead.

He smiled before taking a deep breath and starting to sing his notes.

He'd glance at me occasionally and I'd just smile to comfort him. Soon he grew more and more confident with himself. Once he finished, he looked at the rest of us uneasily.

"So... how was it?" Alex asked.

"Awesome," Rian and Zack said in sync, giving each other a high-five.

Alex then turned to me nervously. I grinned,

"We're gonna rock Battle of the Bands."

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A/N: SORYR SORRY SORRY THIS IS A BAD CHAPTER BAD CHAPTER I LITERALLY RAN OUT OF IDEAs but i swear i swear on my life that i'm gonna make the next chapter the best ever

bc battle of the bands dUH there are certain bands that will be playing there so yay!!