CODE RED (Book 1)

Destraction

I dropped myself down onto the red recliner chair in the studio room. I felt slightly light headed, I sensed that the same things I had been experiencing from earlier that day were coming back. I hoped that this time they wouldn't be as bad such as the room spinning.

I pinched the bridge of my nose to calm the overwhelming events from that damn nightmare in my head, this only resulted in helping only a little bit, but enough to keep me focused on reality.

"Are you okay?" Alex asked me hopping down from the stage before walking over to me. He dropped the microphone on the black coffee table in the center of the room before looking at me.

Things weren't as awkward between us like it had been in his car considering that was hours ago and we had been rehearsing the song for the concert ever since. We were on better terms and I was glad, Even if I was mad at him I couldn't guarantee that it would last forever.

"I'm fine." I stood up shacking the thoughts from my head. My fingers still pinching the bridge of my nose with m eyes squinted.

He looked at me skeptically before replying quietly." look, Gareki if you're having issues with—"

"Drop the subject for now. . . okay." I interrupted, not wanting to be reminded of the argument we had hours prior." We agreed to act like it didn't happen, so let's not talk about it." I dropped my hand away from my nose and stopped myself from squinting.

His face looked reluctant but then it quickly switched back to concern. But despite this he agreed to keep quiet about it even though I knew he wanted to at least relieve the tension with that subject.

"Ahem, we're still in the room!" Came D.C's loud voice. She lifted her bass guitar strap from over her neck before hopping down the stage. " What are you guys talking about?"

"Nothing important." Alex answer casually as if nothing really was going on. But of course being D.C she didn't believe him. . . at all especially when it came to us speaking in private.

"Uh-huh, I'm sure it's completely nothing Alex" She smiled with a lifted eyebrow.

He smiled slightly and shook his head before changing the subject." Alright, I have an announcement."

Nai looked up from his drum set, the conversation now peeking his interests.

"From now on I'm calling this entire rehearsal over, Our rehearsal today went by amazingly, I honestly didn't have to stop you guys once for being off note or anything and all of your timings and cut offs were perfect ." He said proudly.

"Wait a second. Nai said standing up. Don't tell me. . . that we're not going to be rehearsing anymore."

"That's exactly what I'm saying, we've earned this, a break is what I mean. All of you are good enough for the performance on Friday there's no sense in us practicing when we're already as perfect as we can be. We've been doing this after school rehearsal for about a week and a half now, non-stop and we've worked hard."

D.C sat down in one of the recliner chairs before crossing her arms looking a bit unsettled." Aren't you taking this a bit lightly, Alex? I mean sure we are good, but should we really leave our practicing even if it is just three more days until the concert? We could forget a lot in just three days you know."

"Oh, but you won't, I know you won't." He shrugged confidently.

"Seriously?, and how do you know that?" Said Nai plainly.

"Because, I know that the two of you are loyal enough so that Gareki's reputation won't completely fall down the drain all over again in front of a large crowd performance. He looked at me, and the same to you Gareki, I'm sure that you don't want to look like a fool in front of an entire crowd either, right?"