band geeks ♫ jack anderson

eight

chapter 8: anxious

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"rude." jack says and looks up at mel who's on her phone on the couch sitting right next to him.

"shouldn't you be practicing for tonight?" mel turns off her phone.

"i already did so i could hang out with you."

"shut up." she giggles.

"i wasn't kidding."

mel isn't one to blush very easily but Oh BoI LeT mE TEll YoU she was tomato red by now.

"are you blushing?" jack smiles and mel mentally gushes over his dimples.

"uh no-i uh-i'm gonna go to the bathroom. yeah." she gets up and walks out the door. she sits on the walls by the closed door and slides down to the floor. she just sits there and smiles.

time skip*

they had picked up josh and lucas and macy from their hotels and all loaded the bus.

the eight were in the bus on their way to the venue. (btw i've only been to one concert that wasn't outside do imma just try and write from my experience and how overwhelming i think it might me for the band)

the bus slowly parks in front of the venue, also in front of the long line of crowd members.

"this can be the worst part." finn whispers into mel's ear. mel has always had horrible social anxiety. going out into crowds was something she never liked. that's why she loved acting, she wasn't in the audience, she was the one on stage. (this is me lmao)

"okay, there's a lot of people out there and the entrance isn't very big, lets take two people at s time." calpurnias manager said. the bands parents were already inside so it was only; ayla, malcom, finn, jack, josh, lucas, macy, and mel.

"i'll go with mel!" jack practically shouts pushing himself between macy and lucas. ayla lets out a short laugh at her best friends infatuation with her younger cousin.

mel curves her lips into a light smile, jack notices she doesn't give her full smile he likes so much. "you alright?" he says quieter.

"yeah," she nods, "just not the biggest fan of crowds." she chuckles nervously.

"i'm going with you, we can run." he smiles reassuringly.

"thank you jack." she puts her arm around his waist tightly and squeezed him closer to her as she puts her head on his chest. jacks eyes widened at the girls action.

"everyone ready?" their manager smiles. the bus driver opens the doors making the girly screams even louder than they already herd them. mel goes even closer to jack, if that's even possible and he wrapped his arm around mel's lower back.

jack smiles and puts his chin on mel's head, he was so zoned out int he moment, he swore the screams outside were quieter.

malcom looked over and smiled at jack, jacks eyes were wind and his eyebrows were up signaling he was both shocked and happy, malcom didn't need him to say anything to figure that out.

they went out in pairs:
malcom and ayla
finn and josh
jack and mel
macy and lucas (a fucking ship)

when jack and mel had to go out, the let go of each other incase pictures were taken for publicity purposes. the two teens still held hands though. little did they know that at the time that small gesture was a huge mistake.

with a bodyguard in front and a manager behind all the pairs of people made it safely into the building.

they went up a fancy looking elevator to the top floor out of five. the concert was in a ballroom hall on the third.

"hi, calpurnia and friends, my name is chad and i'm going to be helping you guys out here today." the man smiled, looking around joshes age. his voice sounded low with fake enthusiasm but

"i'm actually a huge fan of your guys band so this is pretty exciting for me." chad had black hair, bright green eyes and pale skin. he was giving me some corpse bride vibes.

mel looked down at her bright orange old skool vans, she noticed her and jack hadn't let go of each others hands the whole time. she blushed and bit her bottom lip to control her smile. she looked up at jack since he was obviously taller than her. (ik he's taller than finn, someone should find his height and tell me lmao) he was smiling too while looking around at the room.

chad led the group to the ballroom and stage, the curtain was closed but you could see the lights peaking from the bottom of the curtain, "k, so this is were the crowd is gonna be placed." the venue wasn't very big but still looked like it could fit about 2,000 at most.

chad led them behind the stage where they could sit between songs, change, store instruments, and hang out after words. it was a big room with two restrooms, a few couch's and some multi colored bean bags. the room was all brick was besides one dark blue wall that was scattered with band posters and vinyl covers.

"ayla, finn, malcom, jack, you guys can set up here and i'll lead your guest' to the vip area." chad says pointing over the the exit.

"alright thank you." ayla says smiling.

"yeah thanks." jack adds.

mel waves and lightly smiles at the four teens, leaving them behind and following chad out the door.

"i love your movies by the way." macy says, leaning over to mel. mel jumps a bit in surprise.

"oh my god, thanks! you're so pretty!" she says very awkwardly. macy laughs and smiles brightly. (i love macy oml)

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lol i said i'd update tomorrow but i'm still up hehe