It was a long, hot day in early July and Busted had been out on their tour across British schools for three weeks. The tour bus was hot and sticky as James had packed in the air.con by stuffing it with Jaffa Cakes one drunken night the week before. Matt was asleep by a window downstairs, James was sitting with the driver playing daft songs on the cd player and Charlie was arguing with Fletch about a suggested costume he was to wear at their next show.
On the whole EVERYONE was fed up with the tour, every school was the same, the girls screamed as they preformed in a tiny hall, then queued for signatures on photos and c.ds, no effort was made to do something for Busted, except the odd teddy or box of jaffa cakes from caring fans.
They were five minutes away from their final destination Sawtry Community College when flecth gave in to charlie, woke matt up and told james off. No one was expecting anything different.
"Here we go again" muttered James to Charlie and Matt as they got off the bus,
and walked into the school hall.
"I would'nt be so sure" said Matt as a group of girls carrying a drum kit and
one girl, slightly smaller with a mini skirt on carried in a real Gibson Flying
V guitar, hooked it up to an amp and started jamming. Bobbing his head to the
music Matt noticed a really pretty girl picking up another guitar to tune it and
thought "god shes fit"
"Shes Awsome" said Fletch who appeared behind them after hearing the tunes. "sure is" said Charlie who had become so distracted that he tripped and knocked of the drum kit with a loud *CRASH*.
The girl looked up, saw them, smiled and gestured to the others to follow her over.
"Hey" she said "I'm Sheryl, but call me shezz. This is gemma, Lynsey, Emily and
Laura. We are tribute act to you guys but we're not that good yet."
Matt laughed asuming this was sarcasm but soon realised it wasnt and looked
embaressed.
The girl that Matt now knew as Gemma said "we are meant to perform to you later
if thats ok?"
"thats a great idea" said James. "And you fab at guitaring so I'm pretty sure
you'll sound the biz" he added. Charlie, having brushed himslef down winked at
shezz and asked to see her guitar.
Fletch hinted they needed to get a move on so he went to speak to Mr Stewart the principal while Shezz, Gemz and the others showed the guys round school and helped them set up. Leaving enough time to mess about before showtime.
Busted performed 3 songs off the album Busted and 2 from the new album to a crowd out on the school field before being shown back to the hall for their private showing of the girls band called Gotcha's songs.
After seeing them perform properly the guys were certain these girls were as good as they looked. And all of a sudden Matt had an idea, he ran over to Charlie and James to explain it and they agreed but didnt want the girls to know what they had planned so Matt suggested they invited them round to the flat a week later and tell them then.
"shezz can I have your mobile number?" asked charlie
"sure but why?" she replied as she wrote it down
"well we want you lot to come over to the flat next week so i can ring you later
on and check you coming"
shezz looked confuzzled
"Thats if you all want to come" charlie added feeling he was about to crash and
burn for the second time in his life.
She laughed and said that they would love to.
When shezz told the others everything turned to why the guys wanted to see them again, but no matter what they suggested they were no where near....