Who The Fxck Is Jack Barakat?!

Part 1

I'm waiting at Starbucks for my friend Kaitlyn. She called me earlier this day to tell me about some "good news" and that she doesn't want to reveal them on the phone so now I'm waiting for her here. And of course she's late. She's always late. I've already had a coffee and I'm getting really impatient.

I look at my phone. Almost 4pm. She promised to be there at 3. I sigh and decide to listen to some music. I put the songs on shuffle and the first song to come up is The Phoenix by Fall Out Boy. Damn, I just love this band. I wish I could go to one of their concerts but they aren't touring right now. They're even playing a set at a big festival near us in a week but I didn't get tickets. Some other cool bands will be there, too, so the tickets were sold out within a few minutes. I sigh again. "Maybe next time" I mumble quietly.

"Hey Liz! Talking to yourself again, aren't ya?" I turn around and see Kaitlyn smirking.

"I hope you know that I'll kill you the next time you're this late..." I try to look serious but of course I don't actually manage to do that.

"Yeah sure" She hugs me and sits down on the other side of the table. "So are you ready for the good news?"

"Um I guess so" I laugh. I wouldn't be waiting here if I didn't want to know what all of that fuss is about.

"Do you remember that festival on Saturday?"

"Are you kidding me? I thought about it only a few minutes ago." I exclaim and take a sip from my second coffee.

"And do you remember how we both didn't get tickets?"

I roll my eyes at her. "Just tell me!!!"

"Alright. So this morning on my way to work I listened to the radio and they were giving away tickets for the festival. And you know how much I love All Time Low and Fall Out Boy so I called them and - drum roll please - LIZ, I WON TICKETS FOR THE FESTIVAL AND YOU'RE COMING WITH ME!!!" She's screaming now.

"NO WAY!!!" And of course I have to join her. "WE WILL SEE FALL OUT BOY!!!"

"And don't forget about All Time Low!" She grins like a fool.

"Yeah I know, sorry" I smile. I remind myself to listen to some of their songs, Kaitlyn is probably their biggest fan ever but I always forget to listen to their music.

"I really hope I get to meet them. I just want to say thank you for their music and the normal fan stuff, you know?" She says dreamily, already figuring out what it would be like to meet the band.

"But you'll probably forget how to talk as soon as they're standing in front of you and be creepy as hell in their eyes" I tease her.

"Oh shut up!" We laugh again. "The good thing is that FOB and ATL aren't playing at the same time. ATL are playing around 4 and FOB probably at 6."

"Awesome! So first you can show me the loves of your life and after that we can sing along to one of the best bands ever."

My friend nods excitedly. "Sounds like a plan to me! But now I have to get a coffee, can you recommend me anything that's okay?"

After Starbucks we go to a shopping mall. Kaitlyn wants to look with me for a new ATL shirt because she lost hers somewhere and now she isn't able to find it anymore. And I thought that I could maybe look for a FOB shirt as well, my old one is almost falling apart. About an hour later we find some nice shirts and buy them. She got a simple black one that says All Time Low and I got a blue one with the FOB logo on it.

"Hey, it matches your hair!" Kaitlyn points out.

"Oh right, I didn't even notice that!"

My natural hair color is something that you could describe as some kind of brown I guess but I decided to dye the ends blue.

"Maybe you should dye your hair black so you could match your shirt, too" I wink.

"Are you sure that it would look good?" She asks me and raises her eyebrows. I start grinning. No, her blond hair would really look awful.

"Okay, so tell me something about this band called All Time Low."

She thinks for a moment about how to start. "Hm, let's see... They have four members, Alex, Jack, Rian and Zack. Alex is the singer, Jack the guitarist, Zack the bassist and Rian the drummer. And I think you'll like them. I mean, only if you have a great taste in music of course."

"Oh shit, this means I probably won't like them" I stick my tongue out.

Kaitlyn is acting like she has a heart attack now. "Why are you doing this to me?"

"Because I'm the devil and I can't accept people with a taste in music that's better than mine!"

We end up laughing again like 90% of the time we spend together. At 7pm I say bye to her and take the bus to go home. Kaitlyn is more than lucky to have an own car, she got it last year from her parents. Her parents aren't exactly the richest people on earth but they never had to complain about anything and of course their daughter is their little princess. But Kaitlyn doesn't take an advantage of it that often. Meanwhile, I still depend on the bus. It could be worse though, you only have to walk 50 metres from my flat to the next bus stop and that's actually pretty cool.

Back home I order a pizza because my fridge is empty (as always) and start watching some episodes of Friends. I get the pizza around 30 minutes later and I'm finally able to put on some comfy clothes. After finishing the pizza and almost eight episodes of my favourite show I go to bed. But prior to that I search for some ATL songs, I mean I'm seeing them this weekend so I should probably know some of their songs, right? I listen to the music and send Kaitlyn a message.

"Woah, those ATL songs are awesome! I guess you made me fan ;) See ya tomorrow, Liz xx"

As if she was waiting for me to contact her, she replies only a few seconds later. "Told ya! Good night :)"

I put my phone aside and fall asleep listening to the songs.