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Seventh Year

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Default With the Band; Second Song { Somebody to Love }
Who Am I? Ern's 2460FUN

SPOILER!!: friends and stuff
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The band had begun, which was kind of funny and cool at the same time. She liked Ascanius, Ves, and Nigel plenty - she didn't know West - but she got a kick out of them being in a band. Ascanius? She wasn't at all surprised about him, but the other two? Yeah, it made her laugh a little, but it was pretty cool of them nonetheless.
The sixth year took his place behind his drumset and started to tighten up the screws on his cymbals so that every hit would be nice and clean for today's gig. The Dead Kneazles gig. Their band's gig, which was surreal and awesome and he was all smirks in prep for it.

Finishing up testing his equipment, he looked out in the crowd and saw the onslaught of familiar faces that were now gathering to hear them perform. He threw a half-hazard smile at Sophie who was sitting next to that creepily fast keeper for the Puffs. Huh. What was his name again?


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She didn’t know why he was ignoring everyone aside from herself, as she had smiled again at Penelope as well as the few others who had shown up nearby. People were starting to gather, which made her think that maybe the show was going to start soon. Not to mention West had spoken as if it was going to happen soon. At least then she’d know for sure that she couldn’t try his guitar out, and she was even more sure that things were starting as Ascanius and Vesper had both arrived and joined West and Nigel on the stage. They’d both gotten smiles, in return for those that had probably just been given out generally to everyone gathered. At least she wasn’t going to be rude.[/COLOR]
He also noticed a familiar train of brown hair that was moving through the audience to get closer to the stage and, hopefully, toward him. But next to her was a girl Ascanius had definitely seen 'round before. In fact, didn't she come to their party last year? Lily was her name, yeah? Yeah. And, since he was in a generous mood 'cause of their gig and all, he sent a smirk her way as well.

Super generous.


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But Alice's submissiveness was also due to the fact that her eyes were glued to the stage. Why were Vesper and West MATCHING? Surely black and red attire wasn't band dress code, as Nigel was decked out in white and Ascanius was wearing Merlin knew what.

Maybe for the band a little, but mostly for their lead guitarist and stuff. He was pretty.
The next face that flashed in his vision was Alice's. And while he kind of knew she was here for their front man, he liked to think she was here for him. After all, he was super attractive, which Alice knew. Why wouldn't she be here for him?

Though, he hadn't really gotten the chance to talk to her alone since she had sent him those pictures with the apron.

He WAS a little curious if the ones she sent him were the only copies of that. 'Cause..........no one else needed to see those. Ahem.


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When she got to the stage she waved at EVERYONE up there.

Even Ascanius.

Hi friends. Hiiiiii.

They all got grins too.
And not surprisingly, Dora was standing right next to Alice near the stage. No doubt she was also here for the other people in the band. 'Cause Dora got on with them real well. What WAS surprising though was that Dora shot him a smile too.

He briefly turned 'round to see if anyone was behind him, but nope. That was for him. Hmm.

She got a smile back. Sup, Dora?


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As she walked on over to the refreshments tables, she smiled over at kneazle Nigel and kneazel West. Oh hiiiiiiiii, boys. Finger-waggling wave.

Were they all tuned up yet?
While Ascanius knew that Schuyler was smiling and waving at his other band mates, he nodded in her general direction.

We see you, Schuyler.


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What, no hi for her? Silly boyfriend. But at least there was a smile. She really liked his smile, y'know? So Penelope still smiled and moved to stand next to him, nudging him gently with her elbow. "Hey. You owe me a dance later." Whenever the band took a break from playing. She hadn't gotten to dance with him at the lesson, and she'd seen him dance with a first year. So no 'I don't dance in public' was gonna be accepted tonight. Heh.
FINALLY, he found the one face in the crowd that he was kind of sort of maybe- can't be proven- looking for. His girlfriend was standing tightly with a few other people, but he couldn't help but smile brightly at her for the briefest of moments before the smirk was situated right back in place.

He mouthed back to her, "Maybe later," and went back to working on his drum set for the show. But he was in high spirits today. She MIGHT just get that dance.


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Yes, Jeremiah, we know the band. Clearly.

"Come on." Lottie said, wrapping her hand on his forearm because that is oh-so-very-gentleman-like and suited him. Gryffindor and all. The Hogwartian pulled him along to Delilah and the stage.
After testing the very last tom-tom in front of him, Ascanius adjusted his seat and waited for their gig to start. He took a moment to gaze back out in the crowd when he saw Lottie yanking someone along...

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... And then the rest of the band were on the stage now. Vesper got a smile and a nod before she turned to look at the other band member. Ascanius.. he was so nice-looking. Goodness. He got a wink, though. A small wink.
Someone who shot him a nice little wink. Oh yeah, he was SO SMUG right about now. If this was what he could expect from groupies, he was looking forward to their band taking off. Which they would because they were awful talented.

Legit though.

Oh, and she got a wink back. Hey, gorgeous.


SPOILER!!: THE BAND

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Vesper was definitely taking her time in showing up to the party. It was Valentine's day; the most stoopid...POINTLESS DAY to ever exist...ever. Luckily for her, though...Ves didn't have to worry about couple-y activities like dancing...or snogging...or anything else they did. Nope, she'd be safely on stage, behind her keyboard, doing the music thing with her guys. Guys that annoyed her to no end, yes...but they were hers. So, what could she do?

BEAM.

...And no, despite how public this party was, the Ravenclaw wasn't nervous. In fact, she was probably the most peaceful she'd been since arriving at the school. There was something about losing herself in the music that caused an amazing adrenaline rush. She'd been anticipating it for weeks; inspiration (via anticipation) hitting her at odd times like quidditch practices and lessons. To quell the growing excitement, Ves had been back and forth with her mum about clothing and the gig...(which her parents were so proud about....shockingly.) Unlike the golden disaster from the Quidditch Awards banquet, this dress was plain black, simply cut...It showed more skin that she would have liked...but she was refusing to think about it. Also, heels...There were heels!...and no, she wasn't upset about them.

It'd taken hours to get ready, of course...a large portion of the time spent on the 'tattoos' littering her skin now. Up and down the outside of her left leg, red flower petals were carefully sketched in clusters, centered by silver gems; a sticking charm being awesomely useful for the occasion. It was so good that Vesper rocked the charms...as it was making this easier without a Dora's help this go 'round. The red flowers were also scattered sparsely on her right forearm and then her right shoulder, one on her collar bone...and then the cheek.

There were reasons for the effort, of course. The main one, though, was that all eyes would be on her...THEM soon...and she HAD to look like an awesomely bad-butt chick. There was no getting passed it. The boys would look awesome. She had to try. And if people DIDN'T know...It was NOT easy for any girl to stand next to them, gosh. Stoopid male models, they were. At least Vesper brought talent to the table.

...And with that singular thought in mind...HER TALENT...she stepped into the Great Hall, attempting to exude all the confidence. She was still peaceful...but the adrenaline was already started to wriggle its way into her veins. Could she just...get on stage already? She wanted to start yesterday. A Nigel and West were already there, of course...and fangirls...Vesper grinned, trying to hide it as she approached. "Seriously, the both of you should know better than to wear suits. These girls stand no chance." Yes, that was playful, wasn't it?

As she stepped up to the stage, she beamed at those assembled. There was a girl...who Vesper thought was named Delilah...Penelope...."Lottie!" She was so PLEASED to see the Hufflepuff girl here...Oh, and there was Ascanius coming in, too. Vesper gave him a rather BRIGHT beaming look...and she might have been bouncing in place...

EXCITEMENT, OKAY?!...but also, STARE. STARING AT BAND MEMBERS. Male models, you know? There was legit reasons for staring. Aheeeem. Charms must have been in place because they didn't look old and stuff.
Standing up from his drum set and making it over to the middle of the stage where the rest of his band was all gathered, he was met with an unfamiliar smile. Was Vesper SMILING at him? And was she bouncing? Jeez, she had to be in just as good as spirits as Ascanius was to not send something witty or snappy in his direction, yeah?

And he had to admit, to himself, in his head, not out loud because just because they were getting along now didn't mean that once this was over things wouldn't go back to the way they were, she looked pretty. He especially liked whatever she did to her legs. 'Course, it wouldn't have been REAL tattoos, but didn't matter. The audience didn't need to know that.

He gave her a warm smile and then turned his attention to Nigel.


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"Yeah. Just have to find her once this is over" Which will be a lot fun considering all the people she knows at each station. Nigel said hi to Delilah and Penelope.....And even Lottie was here. Which was probably for the other three in the band.

99.9 % for them.

Never be one hundred percent. But close enough. Finally they were all here. "Ready as a i will ever be. " Though surprisingly not that nervous. Really now Vesper teasing about suits. Suits were awesome. "I always wear suits to things like this."Nigel said grinning.They were just about done tuning and the only thing left to do was do on stage. Then the real fun starts.

No more practicing with a couple of people watching. Now a whole audience.

"I think we are about ready to start this"
"Nah, man," Ascanius said clasping Nigel on the back, "We got this. You make sure he keep that bass line moving and I'll keep the beat." 'Cause the two of them did do a lot of the actual driving of the music. West and Vesper were all about adding a lot of the emotion and feelings on top of what Ascanius and Nigel put down for them. Team work.

Peaking back at the audience, he nodded. Yeah, seemed like they were just about ready to start.


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And here was Ascanius.

"So ready." Seriously. West wasn't just ready, he was excited. Like this adrenaline that just.... well. Suffice it to say that he was definitely ready.

Then Vesper arrived and wow. West stared a bit, fascinated by the petals, and also by her confidence. "Ves... you look brilliant." Apt word because she kind of shone with it. Like she belonged right here. In her element. He was eager to see if it got even more so when they started.

He did manage to grin at her though and did a little spin to show off his own threads. "Hey, we match." And Nigel was right, it was time. Hopefully their set would go well.

West adjusted his grip on his guitar and moved in front of his microphone. The other one, of course, was set up at Vesper's keyboard in the centre, with West off to her left, and Nigel to her right. And Ascanius and his drumkit at the back.

The music on the soundsystem faded away and he switched the microphone on.

"First off, I wanna thank everyone for being here tonight -we're mostly gonna play a bunch of covers of classic Muggle bands... so obviously professor Hadley should give all of us extra credit for the research." Grin.

"And since this is the Half-Hearted ball... we're supposed to be playing love songs to get everyone in the mood, and well we figure this is close enough. Go Your Own Way, originally by Fleetwood Mac."

And West began to play, and shot Vesper a wink. All you, petal girl.
Ascanius grinned at West and moved toward the back of the band where his drum set was all nice and set up. As soon as he slipped into his seat and rolled the drumsticks between his fingers a few times for agility, he waited for West to start talking. To do the whole pump up the crowd business. West was good at that. Getting people to unify with him and get them all excited about anything he said.

Kind of an ideal person to be heading this right now, yeah?

Actually, now that he thought about it...West had put this whole band together. He had been perfectly content just jamming the two of them like they had all last year before he had the idea. Dead Kneazles. And, y'know, Ascanius was real glad that he was a part of it.

So, like the band always did, he followed West's lead into their first song.

And he slammed into the easy groove that their first song had.


Going off of Nigel's lead, Ascanius started to keep tempo with his bass player and jammed a little in the back. Don't mind the drummer, yeah? Throwing his head into each of his hits, Ascanius really started to sit back into the beat of the song. It had a nice little jive to it and when West got to his guitar solo toward the end of the song, Ascanius riffed a little on his cymbals to help him out. Y'know, before Vesper got all RIDICULOUS with her voice. Which she had always done in rehearsals, but never to the extent she was leaving out on the stage right now.

O___o

Yeah, she could sing.

Jeez, they were killin' it.

He was almost sorry when the first song ended, but then he remembered that they got to do a whole set of music. After all, they were playing for a while. Tons and tons of music to be had.

And Ascanius was bursting with excitement and adrenaline.

NOTHING was like playing live. Actually nothing. It was this insane rush.

So he had to actually put his drumsticks down while West announced their next song SOMEBODY TO LOVE BY QUEEN. Mostly because Queen was stuff that the audience could scream along to...as well as some solo stuff for all of them. Which musicians loved to do.

And with that, Vesper started them off strong. Voice and keys.

OOC. I've got permission for band-moding
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