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Chapter 1

"Shane, Are you sure it's here?" Alice asked as she looked around.

"That's what it says here, 2pm, The Planet."

"Let me see that." Alice ripped the paper out of Shane's hands to see what was on it herself. She saw that they were indeed at the right place. "This doesn't look much like a club, more like a lil café."

"Yeah, one filled with lots of hot girls." Shane replied grinning at a girl who obviously checked her out from by the counter.

Alice looked from Shane to the girl. "Ok, I'm gonna go look for the owner…Shane...? SHANE!"

"Huh? What?" Shane finally said as she looked back at Alice.

"I said I'm gonna look for the owner."

"Good, I'll order us something to drink; I'm thirsty all of a sudden." Shane said rushing to the counter were the girl still was.

Alice shook her head as she walked towards the back of the café. "Must be there." Alice thought as she looked at a small office in the corner. She knocked softly before opening the door. "Hello?" She said as she looked from behind the door to see that the room was empty.

"You're looking for Kit?"

Alice quickly turned around. "I don't know, is she the owner?"

"Yeah, that's Kit." The person replied. "She isn't here. She should be back any minute though. You wanna wait for her with me and my friend?"

"That's very nice of you, thank you erm…."

"Carmen."

"Thank you, Carmen."

"No problem, come on, we are sitting over there." Carmen said with a smile as she walked with Alice toward her table.

"Hey Dana, this is…" Carmen started as she walked past her to re-take her place.

"Carm, check this girl out, she's so ho…" Dana said, closing the magazine she had in her hands immediately when she saw that Carmen hadn't returned alone.

"Thank you, you are hot as well." Alice replied with a grin.

"S…so…sorry, I wasn't talking about you, I was talking about…erm… not that I mean that you are ugly or something cause you're not. You are very beautiful and…" Dana replied, looking extremely red.

Alice looked at her with an amused face. "Hi, I'm Alice." She said, not wanting the girl to embarrass herself even more.

"D…Dana."

"Alice's looking for Kit…" Carmen said as she pointed to a chair to motion for Alice to join them.

"Yeah I am, we are performing here tonight."

"Cool, so you are erm "Ultimate Solace"? Carmen said holding up the flyer.

"Yeah, me and my friend Shane."Alice replied turning around to look for Shane."I can't find her now…she was talking to some girl earlier. She must've gone outside for a smoke or something." She said looking from Carmen to Dana who still looked embarrassed.

"Th…that's a really cool band name." Dana stuttered out.

"Thanks. So you guys from around here?"

"Yeah we live next to each other, a few blocks from here. You?"

Alice was looking at Dana and didn't realize that Carmen asked her a question. "Hmm what?" she finally asked when she realized that she was been spoken to.

"Are you from around here?" Carmen asked with a smile.

"No, Shane and I just moved here, we haven't even seen our house. We stopped here first to check the place out."

The three of them talked a bit more about all kinds of stuff. Dana was finally feeling more relaxed and started joining in more on the conversation.

"Kit seems to be away longer then she planned. You wanna have something to drink while you wait?" Dana asked.

"Sure, I'll have lemonade."

"Okay…" Dana started to get up.

"Wait, I'll go get it." Carmen said.

"Carmen, you are off duty, I'll go get it myself."

"It's no problem. And besides, this way I can ask Sophie how Ellen is doing, cause she seems to be making quite a mess." Carmen said as she looked at the bar where she saw the new girl working.

"You work here?"Alice asked just as Carmen wanted to walk away.

"Yeah, only weekday afternoons though. I'll be right back."

Alice and Dana looked at each other. Both looking for something to say.

"How long have you been in a band?" Dana said.

"3 years now, Shane and I started it for fun at first. But we really liked it and continued. We never thought we would do it for this long, but as long as we like it and we get gigs, we'll keep doing it."

"So you are playing here tonight then huh?" Dana asked as she looked at the flyer that hang on each table.

"Yeah, although I thought this was more like a club."

"Oh it is..." Dana said. "…at night." She quickly added when she saw Alice raise her eyebrows.

"Cool, so I …"

"Sorry to interrupt, but this is Kit. Kit this is Alice."Carmen said as she returned and handed the drink to Alice.

"Nice to meet you." Kit said shaking hands with Alice as she stood up.

"Likewise, you have a very cool place here. With really nice people…." Alice said looking to Dana who quickly looked down, feeling shy again.

"Thank you." She said looking at both Alice and Dana with a smile. "Why don't we step into my office and we'll discuss more about tonight."

"Sounds good, I'll go get Shane." Alice replied as she started to walk away. "Will I see you here tonight?" Alice asked turning around again slightly to look at Dana.

"Probably." She said with a shy smile.

"Cool!"Alice smiled happily. "Thanks for letting me wait here with you." She said to both Carmen and Dana.

"No problem, see you tonight." Carmen said.

"Bye."

"Thank god…we are finally here." Alice said as they finally got to their house.

"This place looks pretty cool." Shane said as she also started looking around.

"Of course it's cool, I chose it!" Alice said, actually feeling quite proud of herself.

Alice had always been in charge of choosing the houses her and Shane would be staying in when they moved to another state or city. This time was no different. When they decided they were bored of one place Alice suggested moving so their band could perform at new and better place.

"Yeah, you also said the house in Michigan would be cool and that place was a dump!"

"I was wrong one time…one time Shane! Tell you what, next time you can choose, okay?"

"I'm just messing with you Al. As long as I have a bed I'm okay." Shane replied looking in a few more rooms.

"You only want a bed cause otherwise you wouldn't be able to bring girls over…"Alice pointed out to Shane who grinned at her after hearing her comment. "We should probably unload the rest of our stuff first."

"Yeah, good thing we set up our stuff at The Planet already, that will save us time tonight."

"Yeah now we can just go in like an hour before we play and relax for a while." Alice said as she and Shane walked to their truck to unload their stuff.

Shane stopped when she heard her comment and looked at Alice who noticed her stare. "What?"

"We never do that."

"What we did it plenty of times."

"Al, we usually have to rush over to be on time!"

"Okay okay, but now I wanna go early, so we don't have to rush over." Alice said with a smile, thinking that she might see Dana again before their gig.

"What's her name?" Shane suddenly asked when she noticed Alice's face changed.

Alice's smile grew even wider. "Her name's Dana and she's sooooo cute Shane, you should've seen her." Alice quickly said. "And she is so shy it's makes her even cuter!"

"You have to do me a favor though."

"Okay, what?"

"Dana is probably coming over with her friend…so maybe you can keep her friend company and maybe ask her to dance so Dana and I can talk?" Alice asked with a pleading smile.

"No way." Shane said taking a box to carry inside from the car.

"What? Why not?"

"Al, I don't want to babysit her friend all night...just so that you and Dana can talk."

"I'm not asking you to babysit her! Besides she's really nice so maybe you can ask her to dance or something." Alice asked. She saw that Shane didn't like the idea at all though.

"I don't dance."

"Ooooh come on Shaaaaaaane! Please please pleaaaaase." Alice whined, grabbing Shane's arm and gripping it tightly.

"Alright alright! You don' have to pull my arm off you know, I'll do it, but if I get bored I'm ditching her!"

"Thank you, thank you, thank you." Alice said happily. "You won't ditch her though, Carmen's really hot."

"She is? Well maybe I can skip the dancing part and bring her over here to…"

"NO!" Alice quickly replied.

"Why not?"

"Because you would have sex with her and never give her a second glance after that!"

"So?" Shane replied as if it was the most normal thing on earth.

"So? Shane, Dana would never talk to me again either if you did that to her best friend, so no fucking tonight!"

"Alright fine! You owe me." Shane said looking at Alice and pushing a box in her hands.

Well, that's it. The first chapter of my story. Hope you all like it.

Please feel free to leave me a review and tell me what you think.

Thank you!

J.