Ever After

Chapter Five

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                                                       Chapter Five

 

People in my school often asked me, "How do you even know the members of Ever After?"

I couldn't really blame them for their curiosity since they never saw me hang out with them during the time they went to high school. But because Vincent and I were still best friends at the time, we constantly hung out together. Most of the times, he would make me come with him to do one of his little pranks against the seniors. My peers understood that connection I had with Ever After but they could never really understand what connection I had with the other members, Erik, Jeremy, and Matt. After all, those three were part of completely different cliques at the time. Erik was the star soccer player, Jeremy was deemed as an "emo" , and Matt, well, he was just Matt.

Vincent introduced me them during their rehearsal for a gig that they had in the local cafe. And it sort of became a ritual of ours for me to come and hear them play in Vincent's garage every other Saturday.  They wanted to hear my opinions given the fact that I, myself, play the guitar and keyboard. As the weeks turned into months in that cramped garage, Erik, Matt, and Jeremy eventually became brothers to me.

That was my other connection I had with the famous band Ever After.

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"I'm hungry," Matt moaned.

Jeremy rolled his eyes while his hand went through his jet-black hair.   "We just ate Burger King, Matt," he stated. "What the heck is wrong with you?"

Matt stretched his arm while accidentally bumping his elbow onto Jeremy's cheek. "I'm hungry," he repeated.

I couldn't help but laugh as I watched Matt lean against the window of the limo, not realizing the dirty look he was receiving from Jeremy. From where I was seated, I could tell that Jeremy wanted to punch Matt out but I don't think he would do such a thing given the fact that there were two girls in the same vehicle as him.

In front of us sat Erik who was flirting with Gracie that sat beside him.

Gracie was never much of a flirt but the way she giggled at the right moments, it would make any guy assume that she was. I let out a soft chuckle recalling the moments when Gracie had recently moved to Toronto and tagged along with me to Ever After's band rehearsals. She was quiet back then so she didn't really say much but now that she was older and more confident, I think she's taking up probably the only opportunity she might have to flirt with Erik Jackson. 

"I like that blue streak in your hair," Jeremy said as he grabbed a lock of my hair. "Makes you look...rebellious."

I snorted. "Rebellious?" I gave Jeremy a meaningful look. "That's not me at all."

Jeremy smiled. "So how've you been?" He asked.

"I've been better." I looked at Jeremy who looked slightly concerned and I couldn't help but smile. During the time he was at high school, a lot of people made fun of him for wearing dark clothing and automatically assumed he was "heartless". But truth be told, that was the complete opposite of Jeremy. Out of the entire four members of the band Ever After, Jeremy was the sweetest one. And I must say, he's probably the one who was the least effected by the fame and fortune that came with being in a famous pop-rock band.