Broken Wings

Meeting Coworkers??

Ben seemed to shake the entire way, which fortunately wasn't that far.

We eventually, awkwardly, but eventually made it to a little house on a road that doesn't have much houses on it.

Ben parks the car and sighs a huge sigh of relief.

"Okay, I need to ask you one thing" Ben looks at me.

"Where did you find those albums?"

My eyes widened, I almost completely forgot.

I nervously laugh a little, "I kind of was curious and I found them in your room, but I didn't play them I swear, even though I was going to"

Ben raises an eyebrow, "Why were you in my room in the first place?"

I laugh.

"Because you don't have ANYTHING interesting anywhere else in your house!"

"Fine, whatever. Just don't do it again, ask me next time or Rhiannon will freak out on me." Ben smirks as he opens the car door and rips the keys out of the car engine.

I get out and Ben yells out, "HEY, SHAUN!!"

Someone comes out of the front door, "BEN'S BACK"

This Shaun dude gives an awkward glance at me, and looks at Ben with an even weirder look.

Ben gasps, "No! She's just a really close friend."

Shaun nods and looks at me normally, and goes inside the house.

Me and Ben go inside and there was three other people in there, and Ben tosses the keys at the oldest looking one.

The one with a huge beard looks at the youngest looking one.

"Holy shit.. Keith! She looks like your doppelganger or something!"

The youngest one looks at me and looks confused at first, but waves at me awkwardly.

I slowly step closer to Ben, being nervous, and Ben notices and places a hand on my back.

"Keith, this is Lara. Lara, this is Keith." Ben pointed at the youngest looking one, and I wave nervously.

Keith waves back carelessly, and sits down on the couch.

"Jasen, this is Lara."

The big bearded dude comes up to me and reaches a hand out for a handshake, and I take it awkwardly.

"And that's Shaun," Ben points at the one I first saw at the door, and he smiles at me and shakes my hand also.

"And this is Aaron." Ben goes over to Aaron and Aaron waves at me.

"Nice to meet you, Lara." Aaron smiles and goes back to whatever he was doing.

I didn't know what to do.

Ben looks at me, and pats on a spot on the couch next to him, and I rush over to him and sit down.

Keith sits next to me and has a hold of an electric guitar, and I looked at it, confused.

Ben picks up a notebook from the coffee table and sits back down.

I stayed as silent as possible.

"Did you guys get any chords down?" Shaun looked at Jasen and Keith.

"Actually, I think I got onto something that might be awesome" Keith picks up his guitar and quickly holds it on his knee.

"I was thinking this chord, then half a beat to this chord and then quickly to this chord all the way down here"

Ben looked at Keith's guitar cautiously as Keith pointed out his idea.

I was absolutely confused at first, and I nudged Ben, and he turns his attention towards me.

"Is this your job?"

Ben nods like it was obvious.

I looked back at Keith and Shaun, who was hitting the coffee table trying to find some kind of catchy rhythm.

"But what do you work as? A musician?"

Ben nods, and looks at me.

"We are a pretty hard-core group of musicians here," He dramatically points around the room in a showing gesture, "as you can tell."

I smiled and laughed.

I guess I will have to get used to being around these people.

And I guess I don't mind. They seem pretty cool.