Guitar lessons (TFF)

Chapter 6

______=insert your name

When you and Roland arrive back at the studio everything is going horribly. You both watch in horror as Chris holds Ian back from pouncing on Nigel. Manny is screaming as he stares at his drumsticks which are snapped in half. Curt is arguing with a camera man, while the crew on set tries to calm everyone down. In the background 'Shout' is still playing and the people who were brought in to clap and sing along are nervously whispering to each other, wondering what they got themselves into.
Roland clears his throat. "Ahem. I don't know what's going on here, but I'm back so can we finish this damn scene already.", he says.
Everyone seems to calm down, but then once he finishes speaking, Curt walks back to his spot, but accidentally trips, knocking Ian's keyboard over.
Suddenly everyone is arguing again.

Roland watches sadly as a crew member grabs his broken guitar from the ground and tosses it into the trash. "I swear, this is the worst day ever!", he says.

You know this isn't your fault but you still feel guilty, and it makes you sad to see Roland so depressed looking.
Finally, Ian calms down and Manny looks around to find another pair of drumsticks. With everyone calmed down now, the music restarts and the band starts to play. The cameras film and finally the video is finished.
The band walks back to the original studio where Nicky and William are.

"That took long, how did it go guys?", Nicky asks with a smile.

Roland frowns. "Don't even get me started... That was the worst performance ever. EVER."

"So... guess I shouldn't ask why you have your blue guitar on instead of your favorite one that you wore there ...." Nicky asks.

Roland makes a face. "I don't wanna talk about it"

The good mood from earlier that day is crushed. Everyone is just sitting on the couch in the living room behind the stage.

Suddenly, Chris runs into the room. "We have a huge problem guys..."
Curt sits up, " What now, are you kidding us Chris!"
"Well, um, I accidentally booked you guys a gig tonight, I thought it was 2 weeks from now..."

Roland jumps up, "No. Not tonight. We aren't ready and my guitar isn't tuned correctly since that kid broke the other one. And Andy Sanders (acoustic guitar) isn't here, he's sick! There's no way we are doing this gig!"

Chris covers his forehead. "Guys I don't know what to say, 300 people will be there. Are you going to let them down? You'll have to find a way to do this. You are only doing the 'Working Hour'! That's it, can't you guys do one song?"

"We can't let our fans down...", Nicky says sadly.
"Well what time is it at?", William asks.

"Oh yeah...its in 1 hour", Chris says.

"PSSHHTTT", Manny spat out his drink. "You're joking right?"

Chris shook his head. "Afraid I'm not"
"How will we get all our stuff there in time?!", Ian asked.

"Well it's pretty close. You just better start loading everything into the tour bus right now!", replied Chris.

Everyone hurried to get their equipment and instruments into the bus. Then they loaded themselves into the seats.
You began to wave goodbye, you were sad to leave but knew you couldn't just follow the band around the whole day, when suddenly Roland took your wrist. "Come with us", he said.
"But why; I'm no help", you said, hiding your face. You were struggling to hide your excitement that he was holding your wrist.
"We need your help, trust me", he said.
"Okay then..."

You took a seat in the bus next to Nicky.
Across from you Roland was frantically tuning his guitar.
Curt, Manny, and Ian were joking about something while William shined his saxophone.

What a day!

The bus parked outside of the dark blue stadium.
Crew people rushed out to help the band with their instruments. Soon enough everything was set up. Roland quickly grabbed some water and started doing some voice exercises while the other band members nervously tried to prepare themselves.

Roland walked over to you. "_________, the reason we need you is because you're going to be the one playing the acoustic guitar. Since Andy isn't here, you're going to do it."

Your mouth dropped open. You could feel yourself starting to shake, your throat becoming dryer and dryer. No way this was happening....

To be continued very soon.

Next Chapter: Will you play the acoustic guitar for Tears for Fears or will you chicken out? Or will you do it and mess up horribly?