we got tonight [a.i]

chapter 2

I entered the bar, where the crowd was fairly big. I spotted India testing out her keyboard. I chucked her McDonalds bag towards her. She hadn't seen it coming at her, so it landed in front of her on top of her keyboard. She looked up with wide eyes. "Margo, Jesus you almost gave me a heart attack!" She gasped.

Chuckling, I told her to get over it. "Where are the boys?" I asked taking a bite of my burger. She rolled her eyes. "Getting drunk," she sighed, rolling her eyes.

India & I were only 16, meaning that we weren't the legal age to drink in Australia, which is 18. We still did of course, there was no way avoiding it these days, especially when your in a band. But we only drink on special occasions, an example of this would be, 1) a beer after an amazing show and 2) a couple of shots at parties we were invited to, ect.

Anyways, Chase and Adam were two years older than us, 18 and finishing high school this year. So they often used their age to their advantage. And by this, I mean they managed to get drunk almost every gig.

"Fuckin hell, we told them no drinking tonight!" I moaned. Tonight was our biggest gig yet, and here they were drinking themselves out.

I walked over to the bar, where I found the two of them giggling with a half a dozen empty shot glasses in front of them. I chucked the two Big Macs at them.

They looked quite pissed off when the mcdonalds landed on their laps, but they soon got over it and started eating. "No more drinking yous two," I said slowly. "We're on in 5."

They both nodded and continued eating. I sighed and walked over to the stage. I took off my jean jacket & red flannel, leaving me in all black. I started stretching my arms. Playing the drums for an hour is more of a workout then you think.

I began warming up my voice aswell, as I did a lot of the singing (along with chase)

With a couple minutes until show time, Chase & Adam took their places with their guitars. India stood in fount of her keyboard. I took my place at the drums. Previously, everyone had nominated me to introduce the show, as I had 'the nicest speaking voice.'

And so I did.

"Hey," I said into the mic, and the crowd quietened down. I spotted Ryan in the crowd and gave him a small smile, which he returned, before continuing.

"Hey," I said again. "Thanks for coming tonight, hope you enjoy the show. This is Paradoxa, and to start off with we're playing 'Never Coming Down' by Willamette Stone." The crowd clapped and cheered. We even got a couple whistles.

((A/N PLEASE LISTEN TO NEVER COMING DOWN by Willamette stone FOR NEXT BIT IT WILL MAKE IT 100000x better btw all )

So Chase, Adam and India all started playing. And about 5 seconds later, I started in with the drums.

Straight away the crowd was into it. I was into it. I was lost, in the music, in the beat, in the sound and life that was going on around me.

I sang the first verse, Chase sung the first chorus. He than sang the 2nd verse, which meant i was singing the chorus x2.

And while singing it, I looked up into the crowd, which was something I rarely did. As I was singing the bit that went "we got tonight, we got tonight," I looked at a boy with wavy dark blond hair that was held away from his face with a red bandana, and a smile that was wide and white.

His eyes were locked on my drumming hands, but as soon as I looked at him directly, his head darted up towards mine.

His smile grew even bigger, and I somehow smiled back while singing the lines "Forever yours, forever mine."

We held eye contact the whole time.

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