“Frank! I need you to tune up the guitars.” Mr. Armstrong said as he checks his list off.

“Yes sir.” I tell him and walk into one of the studios and grab a guitar and start tuning.

“I told you not to call me that. It makes me sound....old.” He said and walked out of the studio.

“Ray! Come tune up the basses.” “Coming.”

It made me laugh. I mean he was like 28 and Im so used to calling people Mr. or Ms. all the time. These guitars seem to be pretty stiff for some odd reason. Ray came stalking in and sat on the floor with me and started tuning as well. We only made eye contact briefly and went back to work.

“So Frank....How long have you been playing?...Guitar that is.” He said as he eyes the notches at the top of the bass.

I cleared my throat before speaking. “Since I was about 7 or 8. What about you and your basses?”

“9.”

“Cool.”

“Alright guys I wanna try something out with all of you. I wanna see how good your skills are incase one of the bands that come in here are missing a person for day or they wanna hire one of you.” Billy Joe said. He was waving his clipboard around and I see he brought in some sheet music.

“Here are some sheet music from one of the bands here. Ill let you figure out what band the song is from and I wanna hear you all practicing your parts and whatever. Dont worry its only a test.” Billy Joe said with a curled up smile and sat down and let us pick our songs.

I walked out of the studio to the table of sheet music. Hmm...Under Cover of Darkness..It looks pretty damn good. As I was reaching Ray's hand was already grabbing it. We both looked up and it seems like Billy Joe noticed.

“Yes, you two can both do this song. It better be good.”

“Well it seems like we both have good taste in sheet music.” Ray says as he picked it up and headed for the studio and I followed saying “Yeah I guess we do.”

-----------An hour later-----------

“I think were pretty good at this. Do you think we can perform it?” I ask Ray who's fumbling with his fingers.

“Yeah I think we can. I like this song. I think I know which band it is.”

“Me too.”

And at the same exact time we both said “Its The Strokes.” It was kinda strange how we both said it in unison I guess. We both looked at each other and smiled.

“Alright. Sadly I have to let you all go now. But you will perform this tomorrow first thing. See you guys later and thanks for the nice practice it was pretty good.” Billy slapped his hands together and I believe that last part was aimed towards us.

Kat was already waiting for Bob and I at the car. See she doesnt work in the recording studio she just mans the front desk and greets guest or bands and whatever front desk people do. Bob and I were taking our time talking about what songs were doing and how its coming along. Hes working with some guy named Zacky and their performing a song called 'Give me one good reason'.

“Hey Frank!” I turned and it was Ray how I know I spotted his fluffy hair over the roof of the cars in the car park. I walked over to him quickly to see what he needed.

“Yeah?”

“I was wondering if you wanted to come with me to The Grenador tonight.” I gave him a kind of weird look. Like the 'Im not into him in that way' look. I guess he caught on and explained some more. “No not as a date, I just have these extra tickets to get in and if you'd like you can invited your friend I have like 5 extra tickets.”

I looked over at Kat and Bob and they seemed to be listening so hell why not. “Yeah sure man. Ill me you there around 8 if thats cool?”

“Yeah Ill be outside the door.”

“Alright see you around dude.”

I stalked my way back over to the car and hopped in the passenger seat. “Bob call your shift off tonight and Kat I hope your not doing anything either. Were gonna kick it tonight with Ray at The Grenador.”

“I hope Im not doing anything I wanna go get drunk!” Kat screams in the backseat.

We all laughed at her comment. A couple minutes into having a deep conversation about how one of our professors might be a bit crazy we arrived at my flat.

“See you all tonight Ill probably drive my car there.” We exchanged goodbye's and Bob went to drop Kat off and I was climbing the stairs to my flat.

I pulled my keys out and unlocked the door and closing and locking it behind me. I dropped my bag on the bar table and took my shoes off by the door. I turned the lights on even though I dont think I really need them on right now but whatever. Im starting to feel kind of tired and then again I did have a few classes today and then work so yeah I deserve a nap before tonight. I headed to my room pulling my shirt off and jeans and slipping underneath the sheet for a bit. I turned to look at the clock and it read 4pm. Yeah Im sleeping now.

Notes

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!!