After we finished the song, we all heard people clapping from behind us. We turned to see my brothers, mum and dad all standing there looking extremely impressed. We all smiled and bowed. “Have you ever done this before?” my dad asked “no, I think we were only so good at that because we’ve all heard the song over a thousand times.” I answered “you make it look so easy.” My dad commented “I wish it was always that easy…” Keeley mumbled “you girls know any other songs really well?” my mum asked “yeah, I think… but we’ll leave them for another day, we need to get some other things done first.” I answered for everyone “can I play the drums?” my 9 year old brother, Ethan, asked my dad “sure, later” my dad answered. Then everyone walked out. “We are officially a band” Martha announced when they shut the door. “Not quite yet… we need to properly rehearse and do more than just play a song we all know really well each time. We need to practise every day.” Keeley explained “Keeley… we can worry about that later, but now, we are officially a band” I said slowly “we may not have much, but midnight neon is real, okay?” Shannon continued for me, getting the point I was making. “So… you guys wanna practise some more?” Ellie asked “yeah!” Kaya shouted. So we did…
It was almost 6pm. everyone had gone home and I was in my room, reading breaking dawn by Stephanie Meyer, when suddenly, I got a Skype call from Shannon. I got up off my bed and answered it. “Hey, Shan. What’s up?” I smiled “we have a huge problem!” she answered, her voice filled with worry. “What’s happened?” I asked, alarmed. “I was looking on the school website and apparently there is going to be a talent show! All students must participate! It’s on Friday! It can’t be something like jokes, it needs to be memorable! What are we going to do?” she panicked “shan, calm down, we have time to think about it…” I said calmly “why couldn’t they tell us earlier! This is bullshit!” she screamed “Shan… what did we create today?” I asked her, I knew the answer, but I wanted her to say it “a band” she answered slowly “yeah, that’s what we’re going to do!” I smiled “good idea. But we need to decide what song we’re going to perform, learn it off by heart, then figure out how we’re going to present it-“ “shan, just calm down, it won’t be that hard, okay. We can all be in charge of different things so we can get things done quicker.” I interrupted. She nodded “okay, I need to go for my dinner now, I’ll see you soon” I continued “bye” I hung up and sighed. This was going to be a long week.
Monday came and we were all going for lunch, then Shannon brought it up. “So, we need to decide what song we’re doing on Friday” she announced “um… taking over me by Lawson?” I suggested “na” Martha replied shaking her head. “We own the night by the wanted?” kaya suggested “YES” Keeley agreed. “Um… ok. When can we rehearse?” everyone turned to me “tonight? My house is free all week” I shrugged “perfect. We’ll be at yours at say 4ish?” Shannon asked “I’ll ask my mum if she can pick you all up as well as me today” I answered. Everyone just nodded and with that, we went to lunch.
The day went very quickly after that. Before I knew it, we were all in my garage practicing we own the night. “Ok, I already know this song on bass.” Kaya pointed out “we know the lyrics off by heart” I pointe to Ellie then me. “Drums are already covered too” Shannon said twirling a drum stick in between her fingers. “I already know the chorus. I just need to learn the verses, then I’m done” Keeley stated “same” Martha smiled. “Well, let’s practise the chorus then!” I laughed walking over to my microphone. “Let’s do this!” Kaya picked up her bass. Then I started to think how crazy this was, we had only just formed this band, and now we were going to perform in 4 days. That was quick.
