Limelight

Alonzo: Zombie Mash

(This one has a bit of backstory:

Back when I was first collecting screenshots as references for the BG zombies I realised Alonzo wasn't part of the dance in BAMM so I had an idea that he could have been babysitting his sister and couldn't go to the zombie mash that night. But then I remembered Zach Burke (the dancer who I based Al on) is seen in the Behind The BAMM video in costume (he's behind Kylee) so he had to be in the scene somewhere. I started #FindAlonzoAtTheMash on Tumblr and eventually spotted (who I think is) him to the right in the background when Addison first joins in. I still wanted an explanation for why he wasn't in the main dance, and I liked the babysitting idea, so this covers both of those things

And since this is back during the movie, remember it's pre-Zephzo. There's also a reference to the We're In Zombieland one-shots from my Beyond The Barrier fic collection)

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"Tomorrow night?"

"Yes, tomorrow night," Hazel nodded, completely understanding why Al was upset.

"Ugh...!" he rolled his eyes and dropped onto the couch, "No, great, fine, I guess we'll just have to cancel the gig last minute and I miss the party of the year."

His mother sighed, "There'll be other parties."

"It's the integration, Mom!" Alonzo exclaimed, gesturing wildly, "There is never going to be another zombie mash like this! And if I'm not there, the band can't play," he huffed then fell silent for a few seconds before turning to her with a scowl, "He's doing this on purpose."

"I wouldn't be surprised if he was," Hazel said calmly, "But he's really not. He had to take on an extra shift at work and you know I have my band check tomorrow night. I could be in containment until morning."

He didn't need to be reminded. He had hoped being at the zombie mash would be a good distraction from worrying about his mom's Z-band maintenance check, especially since BFZ were supposed to be playing, but it turned out his dad was once again ruining things for him, and he had to babysit his little sister. After a few more minutes of sulking, he'd have to call the guys.

– LIMELIGHT –

He heard the sound and immediately grimaced. He didn't even want to look. He had told her not to touch it, multiple times.

"Tell me that wasn't what it sounded like."

"... Sorry..." Lindzey cringed and Alonzo turned around.

Yup. She had managed to snap one of the strings of his guitar.

"You haven't even been here half an hour...!" he muttered as he stood up and snatched it away from her to inspect it.

"Can you fix it?"

"I literally just used the only spare strings I had," he answered, "So, no. I mean, do you know how hard it is for a zombie to get any kind of music equipment, let alone decent equipment?"

Lindzey turned defensive, "Hey, that's not my fault!" but he was ignoring her, focusing on removing the broken string, "Doesn't Zephyr have any spare?"

"He's at the zombie mash! You know, the thing I'm not at right now 'cause I have to take care of you? Where I could've actually been playing this instead?"

If she didn't know any better, his sarcastic tone might have scared her, but this was Alonzo. She knew there were very few things in the world that could actually make him mad, and Lindzey was not one of them. At the most, he was mildly irritated by her. Messing with his music stuff was a pretty high offence, though, and as he went about zipping the guitar back up in its case, he shot her a brief glance and rolled his eyes at the smirk she was struggling to hide.