"Zac, you never do anything right." My older brother, Taylor, yelled across the garage. My brothers and I are working on a new song that has to be ready in a week for our demo recording. We just got off of tour and already we're starting this shit again. Taylor takes everything way to seriously. Me, on the other hand, I like to have fun. Which is kind of hard with Taylor and Isaac(My oldest brother) around.
"Come on, Tay. We have a whole week to work on this, and I want to go to that party tonight." I, as usual, whined, carefully setting my drumsticks down on my snare drum in hopes he would say enough for the day. This girl I used to hang out with a lot, Liza Hugeassnose, is having a big party tonight. Personally, I hate the bitch. But like I am going to pass up a party...
"Quit being a bitch. Just get the song right and we can be done or whatever. I don't want to look like a fool in front of Natasha again." I rolled my eyes. Natasha Willis is our hot producer that Taylor drools over nonstop. She thinks it's cute but I think its annoying as hell. He doesn't know how dumb he looks when he's around her.
"One more time and I'm done. That's it." I decided I wasn't going to take any more of his shit. His whole i'm-the-boss-and-you'll-do-what-I-say thing.
Taking a deep breath, I started playing my drum beat. I was doing fine until Ike fucked up the chorus. Being it was a new song and all, it got me really confused. Then low and behold, I mess up as well. Naturally, Taylor doesn't notice Ike's fuck up. Only mine.
"God. I could play this shit better than you." That remark really pissed me off. Now don't get me wrong. Taylors my brother and he's cool and all, but he can be such a bitch. He thinks he's God; master at everything. Just because all the girls drool and go retarded over him and attack him on stage and shit, he thinks he has some sort of authority over us. Bands can go on without keyboardists, but I have yet to find a band with no drummer. He needs to sit his ass down and shut his fucking mouth.
"That's it. I'm going to that party. See ya there." I said, throwing my drumsticks down and walking out. I faintly heard Taylor yell for me to come back, but of course I didn't listen. I had bigger concerns: The party.
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I, of course, had to make a fashionably late appearance to the party. I went dressed in my favorite pair of black pants and my ZZTop shirt. The moment I walked in I spotted Zhaina Parker and Laidie Xhavior, 2 of my really close friends who I haven't seen in a while, due to the tour and all.
I walked over to them and they both gave me a really big hug that I swear almost killed me. Zhaina has really whacked out hair that is different every time I see her. I swear that girl is crazy, but in a good way I suppose. I was surprised to see she had gotten her eyebrow re-peirced. Laidie and her are complete opposites, though, its unbelievable. Anyone who thinks that best friends are always two of the same person... well they should take a good long glance at Laidie and Zhaina and then they might think again. Laidie is about half a foot taller than Zhaina. She has a complete different style of clothes, hair, make-up... just about everything. Laidie has shoulder length dark blonde hair, big blue eyes, and an ass to kill. All the guys are always staring at that ass. Man, I'm telling ya, if I were her older brother or boyfriend or something, I would for sure have to kill about every single guy in the world for looking at her like that! Both girls always have guys all over them everywhere they go, it was rare that i found the two of them standing alone at the party. I took advantage of this time to catch up on what had been happening here in good ole' Tulsa, OK.
"So, what guys pants have you been in lately Laidie?" I asked with a smirk.
"Ha! So funny Zac!!! You are always implying that I am some sort of slut. I may have been on a few dates with Dugan Lewis lately, but it's not gonna last. As a matter of fact I have NOT been in his pants and I do not plan on it. I can't believe that's how you think of me! I'm so mad at you, but i guess i have to like forgive your little bastard ass because you just got home and all. But I do hope you know that if you got hit by a big bus right about now, well i wouldn't care all that much, in fact I would probably just point and laugh at your pathetic ass! HA! I can't believe it, first day back and already you are being a jerk-off as usual! Shit doesn't it usually take you at least a few days to get back into your old habits? Go Figure!" she replied just a bit pissed off. I love to get Laidie all riled up, it's just about the funniest thing you could ever witness. That girl is 2 steps away from being insane, I swear. I don't think she realizes that number one, it was a joke and two, I would never had asked her that question if she wasn't always calling me up and telling me about all the guys she got with!
"All right, all right, don't go ripping my balls off over an innocent little question Lai. No bad intentions were meant. I was just trying to catch up on what's new. I missed your nightly phone calls about your latest guy situations." There are just some things that you take for granted and would never believe that you could possibly miss once they were gone, but to your own surprise you do truly end up missing them. The laughs Laidie and I would have on the phone every night was definitely one of those things.
"Well, if you want to hear some good guy stories, this time it's Zhaina that you'd better ask. She's the one who got all the action over the past few months!" I knew this was something I wanted to hear just because of Laidies voice. You see, Laidie has this same voice that she only uses when she's about to humiliate Zhaina.
"Oh yeah, Zhainie, I forgot to ask you what YOU had been up to while I was gone" It was a rare day when I got something potentially this good out of that girl. She had that kind of personality where she somehow was able to lock all of her secrets back in this chamber and never would speak of them unless someone found the right key to get her to talk. Sometimes it was the most fucking annoying trait ever, but other times it was the most admirable. With Laidie there, though, I knew that I would soon find out because Laidie is plain out a bitch, a nice bitch, but still a bitch nonetheless. She's always exaggerating poor Zhaina's stories whenever Zhaina won't tell me herself. I can never quite understand how the two of them became so close, let alone how Zhaina is able to tell Laidie anything!
"Well, I'm only telling you this due to pure peer pressure. It's kind of like that whole set list situation, remember?"
"Zhaina, just tell him now or I will! We are not wasting this whole party just standing around and talking, I have some major dancing, drinking and other extracurricular activities to attend to. After all what's a party without "the" Laidie??"
"The people seem to be having a great time without you actually, but whatever you say Laidie. Anyway here goes my story, well you know Angie Breakfast, right? She's Liza's best friend and all. Well anyway, her and I were just chillin since you were gone and everyone else had dates and I was stuck with her. It wasn't too bad, but whatever. So I suggest that we go to that new teen club in town, I heard it was the shit. So we drive up there and as soon as we walk inside and start dancing I have like 50 guys around me. 99% of them were nasty as shit. However, there was this one hot guy and he bought me a drink after a few dances. He sat down next to me to chill. We started talking and all. I found out he was 17 and extremely interested in me. His name is Jon Juhue... kind of a weird name, but whatever, it works, ya know? I gave him my number after a few subtle pleads for it from him. He called me the next day and the next thing I know I have this steady Boyfriend. Now, Liza Hugeassnose wants him and you see that tall dark haired kid with her over there,"she asked pointing obnoxiously "..... that's him. He's fucking gorgeous! Anyway, I think he's gonna go for her since I refuse to fuck him and all. God, guys suck, but yeah anyway I did almost everything you thought I would never do Zac. I decided not to have sex because I didn't want to give you a heart-attack when you came back. So that's my story and I don't want to give you all the details now. And I swear Laidie, if you tell him any bullshit lies like you usually do, your ass is grass for good this time! D'you guys know where Yakov Arney's at? He's my supplier for the evening." She walked away while I was still standing there with my jaw practically scraping the damn ground. I could not believe my ears. So much has fucking changed in that past few months, my God! Zhaina did everything except sex? She was always all talk and no play, but now, damn... she's gonna get even more guys after her. And I couldn't believe how easy it was for her to tell me that. She didn't even blush at all. She could lie her way through embarrassing stories without blushing, but when it came to the truth she was always blushing.
"Wow, Zhay sure has changed while I was gone huh? She's gone and fucking went crazy on me! Laidie your still my raging hormonal alcoholic right? Or have you decided to become a nun or something?" I was beginning to feel all out of my element, some things just shouldn't change so quickly.
"Yeah, I've decided to be a fucking nun you idiot," she laughed hysterically. "What is your problem? You seem super uptight tonight. Why don't you come over to the refreshment table with me and we will find something to loosen you up."
I followed her into the living room. I hadn't realized how huge this party was becoming. Laidie and I were bombarded with guys and chicks the minute we walked into the living room. The guys of course pretended to be greeting me and were actually just trying to get a good look at Laidies little outfit. Angie Breakfast kept asking me when Taylor was gonna get to the party. That girl was so freaking annoying I could probably rip her head off sometime. She's a total teenybopper in denial. She leaves Taylor jellybeans on every single holiday you could think of. Green ones for St. Patrick's Day, red ones for Valentine's Day, shit she even left him red, white, and blue stripped ones for Memorial Day! She thinks we don't know its her or something, but someone in our house always catches her putting them in our mailbox. God, how I hate that girl. We all do, Taylor just sucks up to her because he likes the jelly beans or some shit like that. If only Angie could hear the things he says about her when she isn't there. If she did those jellybeans might be poisonous by the time Martin Luther King, Jr. Day comes around.
All I knew is that I had to get the hell away from all of those phonies. I could smell the wonderful scent of weed in the distance and I spotted a beer on top of the TV that was somehow calling out my name. I pushed through the crowd to grab the cold, crisp beer and go see if Zhaina had found Yakov and the weed yet. The night was just about to begin.
