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Growing up Icarus Morningstar was always told that they would never make it in any other music than the violin lessons their father forced them into. This was something that was so engraved in their brain to the point that they followed it religiously. So they truly did wonder how they found themself in the situation they were in right now.
“Come on Icarus please!! Even Centross agreed to do it!” Athena pleaded. She had been begging for days now, he wanted Icarus to make a band with them, Easton and Centross so that the four of them could enter in a band contest. Icarus loved their cousin, really they did, but this just wasn’t their thing (it wasn’t their fathers thing). “Athena I-” They were cut off with a “Please! If you hate it you never have to do it again!” and then Icarus started thinking about it.
If they hated it they never had to do it again and they just wouldn’t tell their father that they were doing this. Plus they only really saw Fable every now and then when they were visiting from college. “I.. Alright, fine.” They reluctantly agreed. Athena jumped and hugged them tightly, spouting bits of thanks.
Now Icarus found themself as well as Athena, Centross and Easton crowded in their dorm, trying to figure out a band name. “Ominous Bane?” Easton suggested and it was the first good suggestion in the hour they’d spent on it, at least in Icarus’ opinion. “It’s not the worst” They shrugged. “Mhm! So we have a name?” Athena asked and everyone else nodded. “Now we need a song,” Centross stated.
Athena looked up from their notebook at that. “Well Because Icarus is our vocalist I was thinking if they wanted they could write it and we’d help?” She looked at Icarus for approval and when they nodded he grinned and looked to the others. “Yeah sure I don’t see why not” Easton agreed with Centross just humming in approval.
The next little bit was spent in mostly silence aside from occasional shifting and lyric ideas being thrown out. It was a few hours later when Icarus finally noticed how late it was actually getting “I suppose I should feed you three.” They sighed and grabbed their phone. “You guys good with pizza?” They asked and after getting muttered responses they ordered food.
“It’ll be here soon, if you want we can try to finish the first draft before it gets here and then you guys can stay over? It’s getting late," they offered and Athena nodded, “Yeah sure we can do that.” they replied, speaking for everyone.
The four continued to write until the pizza got there. “I can go grab it,” Centross offered as Icarus was trying to get up. They nodded and sat back down. A second or two after they heard the door close they thought of something. “Oh yeah, I was wondering if we could use a stage name for me? I uh, don’t want my father finding out..” The other two looked at them for a second before, “Sherbert!” Athena called out. another second before Easton burst out laughing and Icarus still sat there confused.
“Omg yes! Please can it be Sherbert? That’s so funny!” Icarus just looked at Athena, who was also laughing slightly. “Why Sherbert?” They asked. She grinned “I don’t know, first thing that came to mind.” He shrugged and Icarus figured that that was the best answer they were going to get before sighing and looking at Easton “Alright fine it can be Sherbert.” They said right as Centross walked in. “What can be Sherbert?” He asked, Placing the food on the counter and grabbed plates.
“Icarus’ stage name!” Easton laughed and sat on the counter. Centross looked at them curiously “Stupid name but alright.” He shrugged.
Icarus woke up the next morning, groaning and checking the time only to realize it was in fact not morning, instead late afternoon. Apparently their groaning had let the others know that they were awake as the next thing they heard was “Hey look at that, sleeping beauty is finally awake!” from Athena. They swatted their hand, clearly trying to hit where they had heard the voice come from but from the laughing and the distinct lack of their hand hitting anything, they clearly missed.
“Go eat something then we're going to work on the song a bit more.” Centross informed them. They nodded and went to the kitchen.
After the other three had left Icarus sighed and went to go make themself presentable to the human population, needing to run errands. Right as they were putting on their shoes they had gotten a text from their dad, asking them to come over as he had something to talk to them about.
Icarus sighed, really their father was unbearable to talk to sometimes but they didn’t want to fight, instead texting him back a quick ok.
They could always just get their errands done later, and what's the harm in going to visit their dad? Plus it was a long weekend so it's not like they had classes. So, now finally putting their shoes on, they grab their keys and head out the door.