Callie couldn't believe that Becky was doing this to her. Becky knew that Callie hated Good Charlotte and all those other poser bands, but she was still forcing Callie to go to this school-hall GC gig with her. Callie sighed loudly as she pulled on the first things within her reach and started to apply
her eyeliner, but she knew that friendship was more important than boycotting the
gig of some band who had helped to kill punk.

   Callie and Becky had known each other since their first day at high school, when Callie rescued Becky from a group of preps who were teasing her about her clothes. Since then, they'd been the best of friends, even though Callie's favourite bands were the Distillers and the Sex Pistols while Becky's favourite bands were Good Charlotte, Mest and Simple Plan. Nobody else in the entire school had remotely the same musical taste.

   And so Callie was going to this gig out of pure love for Becky. As far as she was concerned, Good Charlotte were just another poser band trying too hard to be punk. Callie was just going to stand at the back and then hang around to chat to the band with Becky before going home.