The Broken Condoms

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I didn't proofread this. Yolo. We're all gunna die anyways

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Kellins point of view.

The morning following our deep talk felt different than any of the others. I don't know what it was or how to explain it but the air around of was different, like we understood one another on a new level. Emily spoke more, Jared made even more jokes, lynn didn't give Vic a dirty look or shoot down an idea of his once.

As Vic cut his pancake in half he said, "ya know, what if we did a second song." We all looked at him alarmed. "Were on our nineteenth day, it took us about dieter to get that song down and that's songs long and hard-"

"Like my dick." Jared interjected.

I snorted and Vic rolled his eyes with a smile before continuing."- so i think we can totally do another one. I think we should do one more close to us. One that's touching and represents this summer and this camps and us." He said.

"The other ones funny and stuff and showcases all of us so I think this one, if we do it, should be just a regular three minute song, with Kellin and Emily being our main singers, and it could be kind of pop punk ya know? I want it to be upbeat and happy and- and I making sense?"

I nod, swallowing the bite of food I had in my mouth. "Yeah yeah, but like give us an example."

He looked up, thinking for a moment before saying, "like New Found Glory" I nodded and hummed.

"Okay I get you, I think that's a cool idea." I say, I pulled up a new found glory song and showed it to them all and Vic picked up a napkin from his try and we all started jotting down lyric ideas and by the end of breakfast we had a verse and a chorus done with a general music idea.

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It was a couple days later. Yesterday the instructors had cut out group activities so we would all have more time to practice and get our songs together which was a blessing. We were allowed to go outside and just chill though. They had a volleyball court set up and a dodgeball court and some footballs to throw around if we wanted to go and have some fun. But it was after lunch and we hadn't fucked with any of that yet. We had the lyrics and most of the music for our second song done. Currently we were going through our first song as an after lunch warm up to get us back in music mode. Lynn and Vic were stopping us anytime something went minorly wrong. It was aggravating as hell but I understood they both wanted it to be perfect. Vic was for the moment back in his serious mindset but he wasn't being an ass about it, I guess because he knew he didn't have to be.

"Okay, let's work on the second song!" Lynn said and we all reassembled to where we needed to be. I had all of the vocals for this song, Emily doing some vocal backing. Everyone else was just sticking to their instrument. Our other song was a bunch of genres and types of music and keys but this song was one key, one genre, only one lead vocalist. We planned to start with this one and then finish with the other one, even though we call this song the second song.

Once we got to the part where Vic, Lynn, and Emily hadn't quite perfected the guitar part, they got in a circle and started fucking around while I took a water break with Jared. "So," he said. "How are you and vic gunna work it out once camp ends?" He asked. I looked down at my hands.

"I don't kno, meet up everyonce in a while I guess. I mean, my parents know I'm gay and hey don't care so I don't think they'll have a problem with me driving there and spending a weekend. But Vic's jobs kind of conflict that. I think I could just hang out with him at his jobs, he works a record store and a library I think so it's not like he'll be super busy. I think we'll figure it out."