On The Road To Lincoln

Chapter One - Moving In

I Walked In Through The Door With Earth, My Acoustic Guitar, and Blue,My Electric Guitar, In My Hands. I Put Them Down Next To The Door As I Made My Way Back Outside To Help Kalel With My Bags, She Was...Struggling With My Suitcase and I Didn't Want To Deal With A Frustated Kalel On My First Day In Los Angeles. I Hopped Down The Stairs, Taking Them Two at A Time and Grab My Suitcase From The Back Of The Car, Leaving An Annoyed Kalel To Swear At Me Under Her Breath. I Heaved The Bag Up The tairs and Left It By The Door To See That The Cab Was Driving Away. 

Once I Turned Around, I Finally Took In The Size Of Her House. The Main Hall Was Huge, It Had A Huge Doorway In The Centre and  Large Staircases Cascading Towards The Second Floor, There Were Huge Archways On Either Side Of The Room, The One On The Left Led To What Looked Like A Giant Kitchen and The Right Archway Led To A Living Room. It Was Stunning, The Room Looked Almost Too Posh With A Cream and Teal Pattern Spreading Accross The Room. How Can Kalel Afford This House?  It's Something You Would See Hollowood Stars Live In...

''My Mom Bought It For Me  Years Ago For My Seventeenth Birthday, My Brother Lives Here Too But I Doubt You'll See Him Much,'' Kalel's Voice Broke Me Out Of My Thoughts As She Read My Mind.

''Oh...And I'm Gonna Be Living Here Too Now, This Is Gonna Be My House,'' My Smile Grew From Ear To Ear As The Realisation Hit Me. This Huge Mansion Is Now My House For The Next Few Years.

''Now If You're Done With The Star Struck Stuff, I'll Show You You're Room,'' Trailed Off Kalel. I Grbbed My Suitcase Ready To Heave It Up The Stairs. It Took All My Strength Although I Finally Did It In A Heart Beat, Kidding I Buckled Over Four Times and May Of Accidently Hit Myself With The Wheels.

We Walked Down The Long Hallway Until We Reached A Room With A Pale Grey Door, Kalel Pushed It Opened The Door and Sat Down As I Took In the Room. The Walls Were Covered In A Pop Art Theme With Superheroes Flying Across, A Huge Glass Door Leading To A Balcony Is At The Other End Of the Room. A Huge Flatscreen Hangs From The Wall To My Right Whilst My Bed Faces It, A Mountain Of Pillows Heaved On Top. It Was Exactly To My Liking and My Favourite Part Of The Room Had To Be The Huge Desk Next To The Balcony, Which Was Surrounded By A Book Shelf That Covers The Walls Surrounding The Door. It Was PERFECT!

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Let Me Introduce Myself, The Name's Lincoln Merida Park, And Yeah I Know If You Take Oit My Middle Name I Sound Liek A Band, But 'm Not. I'm A College Student At UCLA- GO BRUINS- and I'm Having Fun As A Normal Nineteen Year Old, Although If Ya Knew Me, I'm Not Known For Normal. I Was Born and Brought Up In London But I'm Portuguese Orignally, Well Let's Start This Story Shall We...

That Was 6 Months Ago, The Day I Had Arrived To LA And After 3 Years Of Chatting and Skyping With Kalel, I Had Finally Moved To California To Go To College and Try and Reach Our Dream Of Becoming A Real Band Someday. That Was The Start Of The Rest Of My Life, That Room Was The Room I Found To Be My Serenity and My Break From Reality.

At The Moment I Was Lying By The Pool With Earth On My Lap and The Rest Of The Guys Dotted Around The Pool, I Was Looking At The Sun Beam Through The Woods That Stood Behind Our House, I Used To Like The Fact That You Would Sometimes See Weary Shapes In The Distance, Kalel Though Quite Differently Though Normally Screaming and Darting Back For The House Whenever I Mentioned It. Scaredy Cat...

Today Was The Day Our Current Drummer Was Leaving Us, Franky Had Been With Us Since The Beginning Of The Band. He Was The Guy That Created Our Name, The Shuffle, And He Was Also the One Who Helped Me Overcome My Fear Of Stage Fright During The First Gig, He Also Happened To Be Kalel's Child Hood Sweetheart, That Meant Crying Today. I Don't Do Crying...

''Guys I Have To Go Now, Come Give Me My Goodbye Hugs,''Laughed Franky From The Door Of The Kitchen. AllAt Once All Of Us Scrambled To The Door To Be The First One To Hug Him, I WON. 

''Please Stay Frannie, Come On I Mean Seriously Do You Have To Go Home To Italy Now,'' I Pouted As I Stepped Back To Let The Other Guys Hug Him Goodbye.

''Ah, Well I Won't Miss That Name,'' Sarcasm Is Strong In This One, ''But Yeah You Know This Linc, I Have To Go Home To My Parents and I Will Always Remember That Accent Of Yours'' Laughed Franky, Though That Quickly Faded Once Kalel Walked In, Tears Clear In Her Eyes.

''I'm Gonna Miss You Frannie....Buuuut Touchy Stuff Is Not For Me'' and With That Me and The Guys Ran To The Pool and Shut The Door Leaving Them To Do What They Want.

I Grabbed Earth Again and Slowly Started Strumming My Guitar Whilst Sliding My Visors Down Into My Eyes. The Guys Just Sat Around Me. Oh I Nearly Forgot You Guys Haven't Met The Band Yet. 

Well There's Kieran, The Boy Who Is 6 Foot Tall and Is Proud About It, He's Lead Guitarist ,Along With Me Of Course, and Backing Vocals, He's Retarded But He's Always Smiling Which Makes It Easier To Understand Him. Then We Have Our Keyboarrd and Ketar Player, Mikey, Out Going, Loud and Can Be Your Best Friend Or Pillow When You Need It, Although Get On His Bad Side and Your Dead. Then We Got The Twins, Alfie and Archie, Alfie Plays The Bass and He Is My Best Mate, We Play Pranks Together, We Eat Together, We're Practicall The Same Person, Although I'm A Bit Rough and Alf Wouln't Hurt A Fly, Then We Have Archie,Alfie's Twin, He Drinks Like There's No Tomorrow, He Is More Of A Groupie, He Doesn't Play With Us Just Hangs Around, Oh And Unlike Alfie, He's An Athlete, A 'Jock' In Our Uni. Finally We Got The Big Guns, Daddy Louis, He's Our Designated Everything, He Keeps Tabs On Us and Even Though In LA He's The Only One Of Us Who Is Legally Allowed To Drink, He Doesn't..Oh and He Plays Everything, He's More Our Manger Though.

''Dude, Play Something'' Kieran's Voice Startled Me As I Sat Up Fixing Eath To Fit On To My Lap.

''What Do You Want Me To Bloody Play Then?'' I Watched As The Boys Fumbled In Thought.

''I Know'' Jumped Kalel ,'You and I, And You Have To Do It 'Cos My Boyfriend Just Left''

''Alright Hold On'' I Plucked On The Strings Of My Guitar and Started To Sing With The Other Guys. If I Do Say So Myself, When It Comes To Singing Me and Kieran Know How To Go, Our Harmony's Are Killer and When We're Into A Song We Put Our Hearts To It. I Wound Up Singing More One Direction Songs To Try and Keep Kalel Happy, She's Grown To Be More Over A Sister and I Loved Her For It...Although The Fact She Is Obsessed With Them Makes Me Want To Scream At Times, I Can't Handle It All The Time..

I Carried On Playin For A Bit Till I Decided To Take It Into My Owns To Forget About The Loss Of Frannie, I Gave Alfie My Guitar and Made My Way Into The Kitchen Pantry. I Reached In And Got The One Thing That Would Make Us Feel Better, Alcohol. I Grabbed A Couple Of Vodka Bottles and Shot Glasses and Dropped On The Counter, I Searched Our Fridge and Got Some Lemons, I Then Made My Way Into Tehe Garden, When The Guys They Saw Me They Smiled, It Went From There...