Noah, Adam, Peter and Chris
Noah knocked on Adam's door and his mum answered. "Hey Mrs Hunter."
"They're downstairs. I'll go tell them to open the garage."
"Thanks."
Mrs Hunter disappeared and Noah went back to the car to pull his amp and guitar out, just as the garage door opened, and Peter Stewart's face greeting him.
"Hey Pete."
"Yo ass. Hi Noah. Hi girl with Noah."
"This is AJ." Noah handed Peter his amp and threw his music book to Chris Smithson. "Hey Smitty, hey Adz."
Adam looked up from adjusting his bass strap. "Hi."
Chris flipped his drumsticks around his fingers. "You go to Alli's last night?"
"They had another party?"
"Yeah. Was pretty poor, I heard."
"Didn't you go either?"
"Nah, went out with Lyns."
Peter cheered and strummed his guitar. "They made sweet love."
That comment prompted Chris to throw his drumstick at Peter.
"Ow. But it's true. And he sang her the dedication song."
Noah raised his eyebrows as if to say 'dedication song?' and continued to connect his amp to his guitar.
"You know." Peter produced a few chords and began to half sing, half yell "I LOVE YOU, WILL YOU DO ME?!"
Noah nodded. "Ahh, the 'Peter gets right to the point' song." He paused. "Guys, this is AJ, she's here to learn stuff off Chris."
Chris snorted. "I don't know how much I can teach ya."
AJ
AJ shrugged.
"It'll be more than I know, I can tell ya that," she said shyly.
Chris... Pete, and Adz. Ok.
"Dont think I'm gonna cramp your style guys, I'm eclectic so it'll do me good to hear some new stuff."
She looked around for somewhere to sit.
Noah, Chris, Adam and Peter
Chris, having the brain of a very small creature, of course said the obvious. "Hey, you're Australian."
Noah laughed. "Ah, Smitdog, you're the smartest kid I know."
Chris bowed. "Thanks."
"Alright, well now that Chris has made an arse of himself, shall we start?" Adam jumped off his makeshift seat, his amp, and stood up.
"Guess so. What are we doing?" Peter asked. "And good to meet ya AJ. Not everyday we meet an Australian girl. Wait... no, it's really not everyday."
Noah rolled his eyes and turned to AJ. "Sorry about them. If ya wanna just drag a seat over or something, we'll get to Chris in a sec."
AJ
AJ grabbed a stool and dragged it outward from the wall to sit on.
"I don't care, take as long as ya want. I wanna hear some stuff," she grinned, "I'm going through a music drought. I have over 150 CDs and they're all... well, most of em are at home."
She glanced at Peter.
"It's getting to be every day I meet a yankie guy," she grinned.
Noah, Chris, Peter and Adam
Adam coughed and spoke. "Ahem, wankie guy, ahem."
Pete mock glared at Adam. "I'd argue... but it's true."
Noah shrugged, ignoring them. "So Hard To Get?"
Chris tapped his drumsticks together and they began to play. Noah was strumming his guitar softly, then he moved to his mike and began to sing.
"She's got issues, yes she does
She doesn't see the way that she
Places all this pain
Deep inside of me
She doesn't listen to me say
She is selfish, she is lame
Until that day we meet again
I'll keep you in my heart my friend..."
AJ
AJ closed her eyes, swaying slightly, getting a feel for their style.
They were definately good, no doubt about that.
When the song was over she grinned.
"Cool. You guys are good," she nodded, swaying her legs.
Then she grinned.
"Another one?" she looked at Noah.
Noah, Chris and Peter
Noah frowned. "Um... Nothings Gonna Change?"
Chris nodded. And they started to play, Peter managing to drop his pick in the first 30 seconds. Noah ignored it and started to sing.
"Right now, she would just be sleeping
Not caring what I'm thinking
All about the world
The special things it held
She could couldn't care less
About her happiness..."
They finished 4 minutes later, Noah creating himself a bottle of water. "Anyone want anything?"
"Water!" Chris yelled. Noah threw him one.
AJ
AJ squinted when she saw Noah using his power.
"You guys are aliens too?" she shifted in her seat, "yeesh, meeting a lot of them."
She chuckled.
"I know a whole... seven now, I think."
Noah, Chris, Peter and Adam
Noah laughed. "Yeah, it's kinda even, we have two aliens and two hybrids."
Pete nodded. "I'm full, so is Noah, as you probably know. And Chris and Fatam are hybrids."
"Wanna know our powers?" Chris asked. "I have talent, I can learn any instrument I want. Well, I guess it would apply to everything else, but I only really use it on instruments. Pete has charisma, which is lucky, coz if that wasn't his power, he'd be screwed. You know Noah's I guess. And Adz is a teleporter."
Adam stretched his arms out. "I guess you're one too? What's your power?"
AJ
"Wicked," she grinned.
Then she eyed Noah.
"Pete doesn't look that bad. But hey..."
She grinned, looking at Noah again.
"Should I tell them or show them?"
Noah and Peter
"If you're gonna use me to show them, can you not let me fall this time?" Noah grinned at AJ, pointing to the place he'd had a bruise from the last time she made him fly.
"Remember that bruise?"
Pete grinned. "Yeah, that's not the charisma that's charming you baby. That's all me. No... it's probably the charisma."
AJ
"Whatever made you think I was going to demonstrate on you?" she grinned suspiciously.
Suddenly, both Chris and the drum set had flipped over and 'fallen' to the roof.
She chuckled, looking up at him.
Chris and Peter
Chris started to cheer. "Whoa, that scared the hell out of me, but it really ain't that bad." He started to drum while up on the roof and everyone stared up at him.
Pete whistled. "That is hell cool."
AJ
AJ grinned.
"It's control over gravity. He can get up and walk around and everything, because I've reversed his. But watch the roof and going outside. If you fall out into the sky the only way I can stop you circling the Earth and suffocating is to let you fall back."
She glanced at Noah.
"Found that out the hard way of course."
Chris
Chris walked around for a bit then looked worriedly down. "Ok... freaking out. Can I come down now?"
AJ
Being used to changing her own gravity, AJ fell onto the ceiling landing on her feet. She grinned at Chris.
"It's not so bad, eh? The worst thing about being upside down is normally the blood rushing to your head, aint it? This way it don't happen."
Then she grinned down at Noah.
"How about an upside down band practice?" she chuckled, changing his and his guitar's gravity too.
Noah, Peter and Adam
"Why not?" Noah grinned.
Pete jumped around from his position on the floor. "Me, me!"
Adam laughed. "Maybe I should shut the garage doors. I don't think the neighbours would quite understand why we're on the roof."
AJ
AJ grinned.
"It was probably a good idea to do that before Noah started using his power," she pointed out.
She lifted her hand and Pete and his instrument came flying upwards.
Then she looked down at Adam.
"Your 'rents would understand, right?"
Adam and Noah
"True. Oh well." Adam closed the garage door. "Yeah, should be ok with it."
Noah started playing his guitar from the roof. "This is fun."
AJ
AJ held her breath for a moment, before lifting Adam to the roof. Then she grabbed her stool and brought it up with her to sit on.
Focusing on keeping five people, instruments and furniture on the roof for a band practice would obviously wear her out.
"C'mon guys, let's get going," she encouraged.
Chris
"Um... what about the 'Brown Eyed Girl' cover?"
Chris tapped his drumsticks and they all began to play.
"Hey where did we go,
Days when the rains came
Down in the hollow,
Playin' a new game,
Laughing and a running hey, hey
Skipping and a jumping
In the misty morning fog with
Our hearts a thumpin' and you
My brown eyed girl,
You my brown eyed girl."
AJ
AJ chuckled when they finished.
"What a shame I don't 'ave brown eyes, huh?" she eyed Noah.
She had a feeling she remembered part of that night... but just didn't know if he wanted to know. Ah who cared... they were there for the band right now.
Noah and Chris
Noah grinned at AJ. "Can't change a classic. I don't know how Blue/Green eyed Girl would sound."
Chris looked down. "You know what, I'm feeling a little sick. This is just weird. Can we come down now?"
AJ
"Awww, diddums," AJ tormented.
But she changed his gravity back to normal.
"How about you stay down there and we stay up here? Or anyone else that wants to go down can, I wanna stay here for a while."
She let the stool fall to the ground, then sat on the cieling.
She glanced at Adam.
"By the way, sorry if it's my fault you have a dirty roof by the end of this..."
Noah and Adam
Adam shrugged. "Eh, it's a garage. But we better go down in case ma and pa come in and freak out a bit. Dad's not that keen on the alien stuff."
Noah rolled his eyes. "You should've seen my walla after we had a party there. It was unbelievable." He glanced at AJ and winked.
AJ
AJ giggled a little.
"Oh yeah... you did a good job of cleaning it though. Just before our Dad's came home... I mean, back there too."
She blushed a little. She hadn't been home in so long that almost anywhere seemed like it now.
With a sigh, she lowered the other three guys to the floor, then changed her gravity to the side wall.
"I'll come down slowly," she said, laying down and closing her eyes.
Noah and Adam
Noah saw her blush. Did she remember something about that night?
Adam caught his look and winked."Hey, you all wanna go to the movies tonight? Or, my parents are out, we could just hang out and do some drinking."
Noah shook his head quickly. "I don't know about the drinking."
AJ
AJ coughed a little and began whistling. She looked around the garage as if not knowing anything.
"I don't know about the drinking either," she said finally, "but I'll hang out. I'll do just about anythin'."
Noah, Chris and Peter
Noah nodded. "I won't drink as much."
Chris laughed. "I will be. I mean... yeahhhh."
"Hold on." Pete's phone rung and he picked it up. "Hey Bella. Not much. Yeah, we're hanging out at Fatam's tonight. You and Alli wanna come?"
Noah shook his head and groaned.
"Yeah, ok. See ya then." Pete hung up.
"What?"
"Nevermind."
AJ
AJ gave him a weird look. She hated secrets. Apart from the alien kind, you got used to that.
Wasn't 'Alli' and 'Bella' the girls who rang Noah before?
"Who are they? she questioned suddenly, "Alli and Bella. You talk about them a bit."
Chris, Adam, Peter and Noah
Adam, Pete and Chris all looked at each other. Noah just groaned again.
"I'll take it." Pete said, stepping forward and taking a deep breath. "You see, we all went to school together, us four and of course Bella and Alli. Bella and Noah had a sort of... whirlwind romance."
Noah put his hand up. "Can I object. There was no romance."
"Ok, she liked him... and they went out for a bit, then Noah realised he didn't really wanna be with her... mainly coz she's... well, she's a slut. So they broke up and Bella still kinda likes him. Alli's not too bad, she's just a bit trampy like Bella. But she's the better of the two, like you can put up with her." Pete finished and took another deep breath.
"Yeah, so thanks to Pete, you have to meet them tonight."
AJ
"Oh great," AJ moaned.
Just what she needed. Meeting sluts. The only sluts she knew she stayed clear of all too well.
"I don't care about the past relationship/still liking thing, I mean I still like guys from last year. It's a crush you can't help it," she paused to get her bearings.
"Sluts just aren't generally the kinda girls I hang out with. Not that I hang out with many girls anyway."
Adam, Noah and Chris
Adam nudged Noah and let out a chuckle. "You turning up with another chick is gonna make Belle feral."
Noah shrugged. "It's not really any of her business."
Chris broke the tension by farting suddenly, looked around, trying to pretend it wasn't him, but then gave up and collapsed onto the ground laughing.
AJ
"Chris? You're scaring me. You're reminding me of two other guys both named Chris at school."
She wagged a finger at him.
"Not a good idea. Maybe a talent you should pick up is holding it in."
Then she chuckled.
Noah, Chris and Adam
"Better... out... than... in..." Chris managed to get out before collapsing again with harder laughter.
Adam cracked up and fell onto the floor as he threw a sponge onto Chris's head and watched it bounce off.
Noah smiled apologetically at AJ. What could he say? Boys would be boys.
AJ
"Don't worry No'," AJ waved him off, a grin on her face.
"I have more guy friends than girl friends and every one of them is about as mature... or lack thereof, as that."
She slid from the wall to the floor, landing on her feet.
"So, when do we have to get going?"
Noah and Adam
Noah shrugged and looked at his watch. "I should get ya back to the hotel. Then come back and get ya later?"
"Yeah, just come round at 6:30. Don't have to bring anything coz Noah here can create it... right, bud?" Adam grinned.
"Sure. Come on, AJ."
AJ
AJ snapped her fingers.
"Damn. Ok. Back to the boring hotel."
She stood and gave the guys a wave.
"See yas tonight," she winked, following Noah out.