The End Of All Things // B.U

The time I auditioned for a band

When I went back in, I sat down and everyone smiled at me. "Okay so Brendon and Ava went to New York to talk to Mark about it and he said?" Pete asked.

"He said it was a great idea." Brendon replied.

"Cool. So is he gonna organise it or do we?"

"He didn't say."

"Should we FaceTime him? Does anyone have his number?"

"I have his but he doesn't have an iPhone."

"Oh."

"I could FaceTime Kayla. She has an apple laptop." I suggested. "Plus she might have some ideas too."

"Yeah good idea." Pete replied. I FaceTimed her and she and she answered straight away.

"Hey Kayla. Can you get your dad?"

"Yeah sure. Dad!" She exclaimed.

"Yeah?" Mike asked.

"Ava needs to talk to you."

"Actually we need to talk to both of you." I mentioned. She walked over to the table and they sat next to each other. I pushed my laptop the the end of the table so everyone was in frame.

"So. One question. How are we gonna organise the show thing and what's it being called?" Pete asked.

"I'll organise most of it. Have you got any ideas for sponsors?" Mike asked.

"Fender and Taco Bell." I suggested.

"We agree." Tyler said pointing to him and Josh.

"Just because you want burritos and a free guitar." Brendon added.

"I have two amazing, FENDER guitars already so I think I'm good. Wait Brendon why'd you buy me a guitar, I can hardly play."

"You play amazing. Don't listen to her she plays amazing. Probably better than all of you." Kayla mentioned. "No offence."

Time skip
We had been at the studio for hours and it was getting pretty late. I yawned and put my head on Brendon's shoulder. "Guys we should get doing. It's pretty late and Ava has school tomorrow." Brendon said helping me up.

"Yeah that's fine. Goodnight." Pete said hugging me.

"Goodnight." I yawned.

Time skip (two months)
I ran downstairs and stuffed my breakfast in my mouth as fast as I could. "Woah. Kid why are you in such a rush?" Brendon asked.

"Band auditions." I replied.

"I'll drop you." He grabbed his keys and we went to the high school. "So. Have fun and tell me how it goes. Also what are they doing auditions for?"

"Bass And lead singer."

"You going for lead or either?"

"Either. But I'd prefer lead."

"Cool. Have fun." I grabbed my bass and went into the school. There were only about twenty people there compared to the hundred at the one Jake went for.

"Ava Jay." The guy said. I walked on stage and plugged in my bass. "I'm Matt the lead guitarist, this is Luke he's the rhythm guitarist and then this is Noah the drummer. What are you going for?"

"I'm not fussed I sing and play bass." I replied.

"Cool. So take it away." I sang and played Zombie by The Cranberries. When I finished they clapped like they did for most of the other people. "That was great." I walked off and put my bass back in the case. I took some sheet music out of my bag just to brush up on some songs. "Naomi Jennings." She walked past me and knocked into me by accident causing me to drop my papers.

"I'm so sorry." She said helping me pick them up.

"It's fine." She ran on stage and sat on the edge of the stage. I went to leave the side stage when she started singing and playing. She has the voice of an angel. She sounded a lot like Brendon just a girl. Her bass playing was also almost perfect. Way better than me. "Well fuck."

"I'm sure most people thought that when you sang." Someone said hugging me from behind.

"Jake!" I exclaimed turning around and hugging him. "But I thought you were at an audition?"

"I went but I got the job and I had time so here I am."

"You got it! No way."

"Yeah. You're looking at the new guitarist for In The Deep."

"Congratulations!"

"Thanks. Hey good luck I'll be in the audience." He kissed my forehead and left the side stage.

"Will everyone come onto stage?" Noah asked. I walked on behind most of the people and stood at the back. "Okay so will everyone except Jay, Liam, Ava and Naomi please leave." I stood there awkwardly whilst everyone else left. "I've narrowed it down to two. Ava and Naomi. Please stay put. I'm sorry Liam and Jay." They walked off and I stood there.

"Good luck." Naomi and I said in unison. We laughed and she grabbed my hand.

"Congratulations Naomi. You're in the band." Luke announced.

"Yay! Thank you so much!" Naomi exclaimed. I gave her a hug and congratulated her before leaving going outside to wait for Brendon.

I was sat on the curb waiting for Brendon when someone sat next to me. "You know I said that it should've been you and Liam who joins us." Noah said sipping his water. "But the other guys were like 'no. Naomi's way better.' And I was like 'but we could have Ava as bassist', but they were like 'Naomi can play bass. It's a two for one and we can get a smaller bus.' So I tried."

"Well. Thanks anyway." I replied laughing at his impressions of Luke and Matt.

"I'm Noah Smith."

"Ava-Jay Urie. How ironic is it that your last name is Smith and you're a drummer."

"Ah. I see that you're referencing my uncle."

"Spencer's your uncle? Brendon's my dad!"

"Really? No."

"Yeah. I was adopted a few months ago."

"That's awesome."

"Let's get back on the Naomi thing. Why didn't you choose her?"

"I feel like Naomi's too nice. She's not cut out for tour life."

"She didn't hesitate to help me when I dropped my papers. I was kinda surprised."

"Yeah."

"Oh. Here's Beebo." Brendon's car pulled up and I picked up my bass.

"Sup forehead."

"Hey little drummer boy." Brendon replied. "Wait. This isn't your band is it?"

"No. It's Luke's band. I just happen to be the drummer." Noah replied.

"I'll see you later Noah." I said getting in the passenger seat.

"We're going over to Spencer's anyway since he wanted to meet Ava, so you want a ride?" Brendon asked.

"Sure." Noah replied.

"Ava why don't you sit in the back with him." I got out and sat next to Noah at the back. I stole Brendon's phone and played his death metal playlist.

"You have some good songs on here." I told Brendon. "You wanna choose?"

"Yeah." Noah added. I handed him the phone and he scrolled through it.