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“Come on Lizzie we gotta at least try to look for one.” Josie struggles to keep up with her sister walking down the hall. A pile of books in her arms, because Lizzie refused to carry hers to her next class. God how she wished her sister would stop doing that. They’ve been trying to find a bass player for the longest time, but had no luck.
“Fine, But I’m not doing it.” The blonde was staring at her phone this whole time and suddenly turned a corner, causing Josie to slightly stumble at the sudden movement. Josie frowns and gets confused because they don’t usually go this way.
“Lizzie, you’re the manager of this band, and where are you going, class is the other way.” Josie whined.
Lizzie groaned and stopped before turning around facing her sister. She crossed her arms. “Well, now I’m giving you permission to find the new bass,” She took the books from Josie’s arm and Josie started smiling excitedly to find a new bass.
The last bass left, Jade, after she had to move out of Mystic Falls. Jade and Josie were together for most of the time Jade was in the band,but when she left she had to break up with Josie, and it left her completely heartbroken. Now she has healed, and is in a happy state, somewhat.
“Now, I promised I’d meet MG so, goodbye.”
Josie had been left standing in the middle of a hall confused but then came to a realization. Josie had noticed how close MG and Lizzie were getting. Her confused face left and all she had left was a small smirk. She turned around heading to her actual class.
She made it just on time to her class, it’s the last week of school before summer break. She quickly rushed to her seat and got her notebook out. It was her last class of the day, AP Chemistry, the only thing she looked forward to in the class was Hope, she had long straight auburn hair. They mostly only talk in this class, but Josie has liked the girl since they first started talking. She knew Hope was way out of her league. A little crush wouldn’t hurt….right?
Hope came in a couple seconds after Josie and sat next to her. As Hope got out her notes for the class she gave the brunette a sweet smile. Josie smiled shyly back and turned her head so the auburn haired girl wouldn’t see her slight blush.
“Hey,” Hope said softly, her voice sorta husky at the same time. “Do you have the notes for yesterday?”
Josie was confused, Hope almost had her notes every time. But yesterday was- she snapped out of her thoughts a remembered to respond. “Oh, uh yeah.” Josie snapped out of her gaze and handed her the notes.
“Thank you.” Hope goes to grab the notes and slightly grazes Josie’s hand with her finger. It was a slight touch but it sent shocks into both Hope and Josie.
They both sat in silence for the rest of the class since there was no time to talk, their teacher talked non stop. Before they knew it the bell rang, Josie hasn’t paid much attention today since she was stressing over finding her new bandmate.
Kaleb was already on the keyboard and made sure the computer that runs all their music worked. Landon plays guitar both acoustic and electric. Finally Rafael is on the drums. Lizzie is their manager, but doesn’t actually really do anything she usually gets MG to do the work for her.
“See you tomorrow.” Hope interrupted Josie’s thoughts as she put her stuff in her backpack and stood up.
“Uh, yeah, see ya.” Josie silently cursed herself for being so weird around the other girl. She shook it off and grabbed her stuff and left the class. She walked out into the parking lot where she sees her twin leaning on their car. This car was given to the twins as a 16th birthday present.
Josie walks up to the blonde and crosses her arms.
“Hello?” The blonde had been engulfed by her phone this whole time. Lizzie looked up and smiled at her twin.
“You ready?” Lizzie says enthusiastically. Josie feels confused, she hasn’t seen her this happy in a while.
“Um, yeah,” Before Josie got in she raised an eyebrow at Lizzie, her smile only got wider, Josie was now scared. “Are you okay?”
“I’ll tell you later.” Lizzie closed her sister’s door and ran to the driver’s side. She turned on the engine and pulled out the parking lot. It was a hot summer day and the sun was beaming, so Josie decided to roll her window down, Lizzie did the same. Josie had control of the AUX cord today so she decided to put on one her favorite songs, Electric Love by BORNS. Josie closes her eyes and lets the wind hit her face as the song overwhelms the sound of everything. Even Lizzie is moving her head to the song.
After 20 minutes of driving the twins finally arrived at their home.It was a fairly large house in the middle of a field, perfect for band practices, they can be as loud as they want. Their dad had to work extra late today so they had the house to themselves until midnight. They had about three band practices a week. Josie quickly rushed upstairs to her room and opened her laptop. Luckily today she didn’t have any homework. She logged on and went to a website and advertised her band and the need for a new bass.
Josie sat there for about five minutes, fidgeting with a pencil, and chewing on the ends of it, until a notification popped up.
Josie immediately propped herself up from her chair and opened the notification.It was a message about the wanted bass player.
Hey, I saw that you were looking for a bass player, and I wanted to apply for that. Reach me when you can.
Hey, I can send you details and an address, since we’re having band practice tonight.
That’d be perfect. Thank you.
Josie smiled, she got someone to play bass for them. She quickly sent them the details, like to bring their own instrument, and the address to their house also to be there at 5. It is currently 4 PM. She closed her laptop and ran downstairs to her sister.
“Lizzie I did it!.” Josie was basically squealing and jumping around the living room.
“Woah, calm down,” She placed her hands on the brunette's shoulders. “Did what?” Josie didn't seem to notice that MG was also there and standing in the kitchen.
“I got a bass player, they’re coming over tonight.” Josie was still smiling and saw MG. “Oh hey MG, when did you get here?”
“Like five minutes ago.” His mouth was stuffed with a sandwich he had just made. Josie just pressed her lips into a fine line and nodded.
“Cool, anyways the other’s should be here soon.” As soon as Lizzie said that the doorbell rang, she groaned and rolled her eyes then headed to the door and opened it. She opened the door wider and let everyone in. She saw that Landon was the last one, so she swiftly stuck her foot out to trip him. He lunged forward but managed to catch himself before he planted his face into the floor.
“Again?” He was still recovering from the scare. Lizzie only snickered and he scoffed. Everyone else couldn’t help but laugh a little. Kaleb brought Jed with him, they’ve been inseparable for the longest time.
“Alright so we might be getting a new bass today.” Josie smiled and bit down on her lip slightly.
Everyone seemed excited, it was time to set up everything in the garage. It took about 10 minutes to set up Kaleb’s little station, hook up Landon’s guitar and set up Rafael’s drums. During that Lizzie was zero help she had been talking to MG for the longest time. Josie is starting to think something is going on between them. It;s 4:47 pm so they should be here soon.
“Hey guys wanna start practicing the cover we’ve been trying to perfect?” Josie says as she sets up her mic, everyone nodded in agreement. Josie loved singing this song. “Ready?” She smiled and signaled them to start.
They started playing a cover of “Friends Go” by Maggie Lindemann Ft. Travis Barker
“Where did all my friends go?
I miss those late nights
Just you and I up in my bedroom 'til sunrise
Could spend the whole night talking to you”
MG and Lizzie got up and started dancing like crazy. A figure started walking up the driveway of the house, carrying a bass guitar on their back.
“White jacket, white pills
Told me I would feel better
But now, you ain't here
Will I ever feel better?“
Lizzie realized who the figure was and stopped dancing and nudged MG to look too. He looked too and was in shock. The figure was now standing outside the open garage door smiling at the band playing. Josie was so into the song she hadn’t realized the person had arrived.
“I'm all by myself (All by myself)
Where did all my friends go?“
Josie finally looked up and stopped singing, her throat immediately got stuck and the rest of the band stopped playing, she realized who it was.
“Hope?” Josie said through the mic.