Drive // Mitchel Cave

Chapter Three ~ Music Class

My, or should I say, our, next class was advanced guitar.

I figured out the schedule and found out that on Thursdays we skip fourth period. What a weird schedule, am I right? Oh well, that is the schools decision and I am not even close to complaining because they put Mitch and I in all the same classes.

I just love how he said "One in a million", like, we were meant to be together or something. Maybe fate brought us together. We were meant to be friends. It's just so crazy and I cannot believe that this happened to the new girl. Just thinking about this made me smile all goofy; I couldn't help myself.

We finally got to class and once again, him being a gentleman, opened the door for me.

We walked in and I greeted the teacher, not catching her name. Once the bell rang for class to start, She asked me if I had my guitar but I didn't bring it cause it's my first day.

She let me borrow one of hers and I thanked her for it. I sat down and she introduced me to the class,

"Hi everyone. This is Hazel Carter and she's a new student from New York."

Everyone in this class seemed so chill because I waved and they all greeted me back.

"Can you play us anything Mrs. Carter?" she asked, super politely.

"Well... I've been working on something original lately and I guess I can play it." I said back hesitantly.

I do get anxiety but when I'm playing guitar, I'm my calmets.

"Damn, She makes music?" I heard someone say behind me.

I turned around and saw that it was Mitchel and he made me smile.

I took a deep breath and put my hands on the strings. I started playing with no hesitation. The only thing I could hear was me playing. I payed attention to the strings and kept eye contact with the neck of my guitar.

I've been working on this piece for awhile and wrote lyrics for it too. I'm not that bad at singing either because I always participated in every talent show since fifth grade to sort of boost my confidence. It somewhat worked I guess. I had this one part in the song and finally got to it. I mess up on that part every time but for the first time actually ever, I didn't mess up. It was a part with a bunch of stringing and picking. Even my dad couldn't do it and he's really good at guitar.

I finally got finished playing and looked up at my teacher. She had quite the smile on her face. I looked around the room and everyone was in utter silence. I couldn't believe that I pulled that off; neither could the rest of the class. Out of nowhere, they started clapping and cheering for me.

'Wow,' I thought to myself.

'They're cheering for me.'

I got really happy because everyone seemed to like me already and I only said like, 10 words.

The lady came over to me with a grand smile on her face.

"Even though this is an advanced class, you are greater than advanced." She said.

I felt so proud of myself because of what she had just said.

'You owe yourself some ice cream after school.' I thought excitedly to myself.

'When I tell dad when he comes to pick me up, he's gonna be so extremely proud of me. Now I'm excited to go home.'

Mitch came up and pulled me to the back of the class where he was sitting with these two other very good looking boys.

One of them looked like an older version of Mitch. He had a small bit of facial hair and a messy man bun. He was definitely more muscular than Mitchel though. The other boy was just about the same size as the other boy. He had blonde, shoulder length hair but, it was perfectly straight. He would mess it up sometimes but it would fall right back into place.

"Hey." the blonde boy said.

I said hi back to him and introduced myself to both the good looking strangers.

"Hey. So I'm Ha-" I start before I get cut off by the blonde one.

"I know who you are." The blonde one started.

"Yah. Mitchel has been texting us about you all morning." The other boy says.

I blush at the fact that Mitch was talking about me like he's known me longer than the 3 hours I've been here. I look over to Mitchel, slightly blushing because he was called out on something I knew he wanted to keep secretive.

"Anyways..." Mitchel starts,

"Haze, this is Christian Anthony. He does vocals and guitar." He says pointing to the blonde one.

"This is Clinton, my older brother. He does bass guitar, backup vocals, and saxophone." He says pointing to the guy with the man bun.

I was quite puzzled as to why he was telling me what they do and apparently, I showed it on my face.

"Oh, yeah I never told you." Mitchel says with a slightly nervous chuckle in his sentence.

"We've created a band called Chase Atlantic. We started it back in Australia."

'No wonder he has that cute little accent.' I thought to myself.

"It was just Clinton and I until we met Christian, who admittedly, completed and made us better." Mitchel says with a small smile creeping onto his face.

"Hey," Clinton says before Mitchel could continue his life story.

"I give you props for that guitar solo. That's not the easiest thing to do."

"Yeah, that was pretty dope." Christian says, giving me a fist bump.

For the rest of class we just talked about their band and Mitch showed me some of their songs.

Honestly, I really vibed with them and they were pretty cool songs. I don't understand how I didn't know of these guys sooner or why they hadn't blown up yet. Their music was pretty main-stream sounding but it had that edge of rock that made it so much better than the songs on the charts right now.

It made so much sense to me on why Mitchel looked like that. He dressed quite popular yet different. It only made sense because that's the way I imagine their music looking like.

For instance; If their first part EP, 'Part One', looked like a person, they would look just like Mitchel. He had his own way of things, his own confidence in himself, that I've never seen in someone else before in my entire life. It intrigued me how he had that confidence.

He must have a soft core hidden under all of that somewhere.

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Hello Loves,

Next chapter is going to be very interesting so stay tooned!

~ xoxo Lilac <3