Twisted Love

Ashton

I eyed all the different drumsticks in front of me. I was currently scouring for a new pair of drumsticks for tonight’s show. It was the bands biggest venue yet and I was extremely nervous. “Hey Ashton!”, I heard Jim shout across the aisle. Jim was the manager of this music store and was practically my best friend, I came here so much. “You didn’t break your drumsticks again did you?” He laughed to himself.

“No…” I looked down at my shoes, hoping he wouldn’t judge me.

“You really expect me to believe that? That’s like the third time this week; you’re a really aggressive drummer I see”

“Shut up Jim” I snickered at his comment.

“Hey, I’m not complaining! Just means I get more money in my pocket” He scratched his partially bald head. “Ash boy, come here. I think I can help you find a more ‘heavy-duty’ drumstick set.” He did as he said and followed him into the storage room behind the counter. He handed me a pair of black drumsticks with skulls designs on them. I raised an eyebrow at him. “Most of the drummers that need these ones are a bit more Goth than you.” He shrugged at me, leading the way back to the counter. “You want them?” He looked back at me from the cash register.

“Eh… Why not?” I walked over to him and took out my money to pay him.

“It’s free for you buddy” He patted my shoulder, handing me the drumsticks.

“Thanks man, I owe you one.” I took the drumsticks out of his hand.

“I’ll remember that” He smirked at me as I left the store. I looked at my watch, It was 12:34.

“Frickle Frack!!” I jumped into my car and drove over to the house rather fastly, knowing the boys were going to kill me if I was late to band practice again. I arrived at the house exactly 12:40 and rushed up the stairs to see Michael and Calum sitting on the couch playing with their guitars a bit. “Hey guys” I said to them. They didn’t reply. “Where’s Luke?” I realized that this time, the one who always on my ass about being on time, Luke wasn’t here. Calum looked up from his bass guitar and nodded towards his bedroom. I couldn’t make out what Luke was saying but I sure heard a lot of girly giggles. I burrowed my eyebrows at Calum in disbelief that a girl was in Luke’s room as I sat down.

“Calm down, It’s just Rachel” Michael was still tuning his guitar.

“I don’t know Michael, I mean it seems like something’s going on there” Calum smugly stared at Michael who was already setting his guitar down, looking straight at Calum.

“My sister will not, I repeat WILL NOT, fall for Luke. Why you ask? He can barely talk to girls and now you think he’s just going to sweep Rachel off her feet. I don’t think so.” He picked his guitar back up and continued tuning it.

“Ahem” Luke was now standing in front of Michael crossing his arms. “You don’t think I could score a girl like you sister. That’s really interesting, since you haven’t even been on a date since….” Luke put his hand on his chin. Calum and I tried our best to contain our laughter. “Since….. Hmmm… When was the last time you have been on a date?” Michael angrily picked at his guitar strings. “That’s what I thought.” Luke smirked and sat down next to me on the floor.

I elbowed him, “Nice”, We burst into laughter while feeling Michael’s death glares at us. Once we stopped laughing, we all moved downstairs and practiced our set list for a good 2 hours, before we heard knock on the basement door.

“Come in!” Calum yelled over my drumming. It was Rachel with a giant plate of ribs in her hand.

“Hey guys, I thought you would want some lunch?” She grinned when she saw all of our mouths watering. “Well, come upstairs then.” She said in a teasingly tone as she skipped back up the stairs. We all got up except for Luke, who was smiling at the direction she left in.

“Dork” Calum coughed at Luke before he raced up the stairs.

“Shut up Calum” Luke rolled his eyes and walked next to me up the stairs.

When I saw sure Michael couldn’t hear what we were saying I whispered over to Luke, “So, you’re really head over heels for this girl aren’t ya?” I winked at him; His face started going red.  

“Don’t tell Michael” He looked nervously at Michael who was running over to Rachel, hugging her.

“Don’t worry, you secrets safe with me” I laughed quietly at him as I sat down at the table. I tried my best not to notice how much Luke and Rachel were smiling at eachother but damn, they were just too cute not to notice. I smiled to myself as I ate my ribs.

“Hey guys I have to go pick some stuff off from my mom’s house, I’ll be back here in 20” I put my dishes away and headed over to my moms apartment building.