Fan Fiction ❯ Turn Table of Love ❯ The Band ( Chapter 8 )

Turn Table of Love

Written By: Cho Chang

Chapter 8: The Band

One night, after tutoring, Andrew had to go to band practice at Brian's house. So, after thinking about it, he decided to invite Cassy to come along with him.

"Sure! I'd love to see you guys practice!" she answered instantly.

"Well, c'mon then!"

On the way to Brian's house, Cassy kept asking him lots of different questions about "SoCo".

"Do you play piano? Like the lead singer and pianist, Andrew McMahon from Something Corporate, does?" she asked quickly. Wow! When this girl wants to talk, she can talk! Andrew thought.

"Well, we're still looking for a piano player-"

"You mean pianist?"

"Yeah…whatever…well, we're looking for a pianist who can sing as well," he stated, "You know what I mean? We're trying to get that Something Corporate touch."

"Oh…do you guys write your own songs too?"

"Yeah, and then we also do some of Something Corporate's songs too. If we had a pianist, we could do most of their songs. We really wanna try 'Konstantine' and 'When It Goes Down'," Andrew continued.

"Oh. Well…I kind of know someone who-"

"Really??!! You do??!!" Andrew interrupted excitedly at hearing that she knew someone who could play the piano and sing.

"Yeah…me…"

"Wow! You do everything don't you? It's like you're perfect!"

"What do you mean I'm perfect? Yeah, I do a lot of activities but that doesn't mean I'm perfect!"

"Well, you baby-sit, you paint, draw, dance, do well in school, play piano, and on top of all that you're really pr-" he quickly stopped in mid-sentence. Shit! I can't be falling for Cassy can I? She's just a friend! But she's really pretty. But she's just a friend! Andrew's mind argued over and over.

"Really what? Why are you looking at me like that? Do I have something on my face or what?"

"No you don't have something on your face."

"Well…then are you going to finish your sentence? To be honest you look like you've just seen a ghost."

"Well…what I was going to say was that you're…pretty…" Andrew quickly said as he turned his head the other way. Cassy just stared it him blankly and dumbfounded. All of a sudden, she burst into a fit of giggles!

"What?! I told you-" Andrew started out, surprised at what was happening.

"No!---It's not----t-that," she tried to say, but the laughter came over her, "Y-you---wish-I were p-pretty! Good---one---A-Andrew! Haha!" From all of her laughter, tears were starting to form in her eyes.

"But-"

"Yeah, whatever you say," Cassy said as she finally calmed down, "Now are you going to go practice or not?"

Wow! She doesn't even believe what I said! Andrew pondered, amazed at what had just happened. He must be joking…no boy has ever said that to me! Yeah, that's it…he's either joking or I'm just dreaming, Cassy thought to her own self as she and Andrew were walking to Brian's garage.

"So, Cass, Drew told us that you can play piano!" Josh exclaimed, with a happy grin on his face.

"Yeah…" Cassy answered, embarrassed.

"You do? That's awesome, Cassy!" Will said, high-fiving Andrew. Brian and Josh were jumping for joy. Kevin…well…he wasn't really paying attention like he usually does.

"Wait! I have a keyboard in the basement. Maybe we can see if she can play 'Konstantine'?" Brian said, almost skipping down the stairs to his basement quickly.

"Wow! This would be so cool if you become a member, Cass!" Josh said as he linked arms with Will and Andrew, who were skipping around in circles.

"Boy, you guys sure are pumped up about this aren't you?" Cassy asked, almost hopping as well. A few minutes later, Brian came back heaving a very large keyboard into the garage.

"Well, here we are. Cassy, do you need the sheet music?"

"Not really…but I'll just put them up just in case."

"You know it by heart?!"

"I guess…"

"Play, play, play!"

"Okay, okay! Keep your shirt on Josh! Please! For all of our sakes." Once she started playing, the band quickly knew that she was the one they were looking for.

"Wow! That…was totally awesome dude!"

"Hey, can you play it again so we can practice with you?"

"Sure! It's an easy enough song to play again and again…"

"Okay…one, two, three, four!" The band started in harmony. Andrew started to sing…

"I can't imagine all the people that you know,
and the places that you go
when the lights are turned down low .
And I don't understand all the things you've seen
but I'm slipping in between you and your big dreams…
It's always you and my big dreams

And you tell me that it's over.
Wake up lying in a patch of four leaf clover.
And you're restless and I'm naked.
You've got to get out,
you can't stand to see me shaking.
You let me go ... I didn't think so…

And you don't want to be here in the future,
so you say, "The present's just a pleasant interruption to the past".
And you don't want to look much closer,
because you're afraid to find out all this hope
you had sent into the sky by now had crashed.
And it did because of me…

And then you bring me home,
afraid to find out that you're alone.
And I'm sleeping in your living room,
but we don't have much room to live…

I had these dreams that I might learn to play guitar,
maybe across the country - become a rock star.
And there was hope in me that I could take you there,
but dammit you're so young…
well I don't think I care, and if I hurt you then I'm sorry.
Please don't think that this was easy...

And then you bring me home,
cause we both know what it's like to be alone.
And I'm dreaming in your living room,
but we don't have much room to live…

And Konstantine is walking down the stairs.
Doesn't she look good standing in her underwear?
And I was thinking, what I was thinking.
But we've been drinking, and it doesn't get me anywhere...

My Konstantine came walking down the stairs.
And all that I could do was touch her long blond hair.
And I've been thinking, and it hurts me thinking
that these nights when we were drinking.
No they never got us anywhere.

This is because I can spell konfusion with a K and I can like it.
It's to dying in another's arms and why I had to try it.
It's to Jimmy Eat World and those nights in my car:
"When the first star you see may not be a star"
I'm not your star…
Isn't that what you said what you thought this song meant?

And if this is what it takes just to live in my mistakes,
and live with what I did to you,
all the hell I put you through.
I always catch the clock, it's 11:11 and now you want to talk.
It's not hard to dream you'll always be my Konstantine…

My Konstantine…
They'll never hurt you like I do!
No, they'll never hurt you like I do!
No, No, No, No, No, No, No, No

This is to a girl who got into my head
with all these pretty things she did.
Hey, you know, you keep me up in bed.
This is to a girl who got into my head
with all these fucked up things I did.
Hey, maybe baby, you could keep me up in bed.
My Konstantine…

You spin around me like your dream
we played out on this movie screen.
And I said, "Did you know I miss you?
Did you know I miss you?
Did you know I miss you?
Did you know I miss you?
Did you know I miss you?
Did you know I miss you?
Did you know I miss you?
I miss you ..."

And then you bring me home
and we go to sleep but at least I'm not alone no, no.
And you'll kiss me in your living room, oh no
no, you miss me in your living room
cause these nights I think maybe that I miss you in my living room…
And we don't have much room…
I said, "Does anybody really need that room?"
Cause we all need a little more room… to live…

...my Konstantine"

"Ah…done!" Andrew said, after singing that 9:35 song, "Can you believe Andrew from Something Corporate wrote such a damn long song?"

"I can…he has the skills to do it…so he did," Cassy said while massaging her hands.

"That was great people!" Josh and Will said at the same time.

"So…Cassy…"

"Do you want to be in our band?" all of the guys said in unison and in excitement.

"Well…I guess if it makes you guys that happy-"

"YAY!" And all of them cheered and high-fived each other.

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Disclaimer: Yup, the song "Konstantine" belongs to Something Corporate as does the lead vocalist/pianist name Andrew McMahon (sigh…I love him so much).