Take Care 1.3: The Auditions

Theme Song: Sugarcult "Memory"







It was lunchtime at school as Jenny sat with the band in the back of the school auditorium hosting auditions. Mimi and Asia sat in the front row seats just watching who had true potential at this school.

Anthony had put up flyers around school and even told a couple people about the auditions. He wasn't sure though of how many people were guaranteed to show, but he hoped his idea wouldn't let Dylan start bashing him later with all the "I told you so's".

But luckily, someone showed up.



Their first audition began and Dylan was anxious to see what this guy Aj had in him. Dylan wanted so badly for Aj to be better than Kyle. He didn't want to ever keep thinking about Kyle's voice. But he couldn't help but think about Kyle's voice when Aj began to sing Justin Timberlake's "Cry Me a River".

"Your bridges were burned, and now it's turn
To cry, cry me a river
Cry me a river
Cry me a river
Cry me a river, yea yea".

Dylan got up out of his seat and said, " Get out".
Aj left in a hurry, he didn't know what he did wrong but he sure didn't want to get rumbled.



"That was awful!" said Jenny looking to Anthony as she uncovered her ears.

"Well that was just the first one, not everyone can be good", said Anthony trying to reassure everyone.

"I hope your right Ant or I'll be needing earmuffs soon", Dylan said sitting back down in his seat.

Another student walked inside the auditorium. And this one Jenny knew from the cheer squad.



Jenny didn't take Kimberly as the punk/rock sort of girl. In fact, most people knew her as a very religious person around school who did tons of community service whenever she could. She went to church every week and wore long skirts all the time to match her perfect blonde hair.

Kimberly seemed a bit nervous picking up the microphone. She began singing Taylor Swift's "Love Story".

"We were both young when I first saw you
I close my eyes
And the flashback starts
I'm standing there
On a balcony in summer air".

Her voice was a tad sketchy, but it wasn't awful compared to their first audition.



But Flint had his own opinions, "There is no way I am drumming to Taylor Swift", Flint said to Jenny.

Jenny was on Flint's side with this one. She was too bright and perfect for the band as their vocalist, "I see what you are saying", Jenny replied.

Dylan let her off nicer than he did Aj, "Thanks Kimberly for coming out, you did pretty good but we'll keep you posted", Dylan said to Kimberly.

Kimberly left the auditorium peacefully as the next person went in right after her.



Cory ran on stage with his freakishly long black matrix coat on his back, with combat boots, and some extremely black "guy-liner" smudged on his lids . The band knew they were looking for pretty much a rock star but not Neo from the Matrix. Cory had a tendency to like dress up every occasion, maybe that's why he was in theater every year.

"Hi everyone I'm Cory Drews and I'll be singing "I Don't Want To Miss A Thing" by Aerosmith", Cory said into the mic. He was the first to actually make an introduction so far and seemed most confident in himself.

"I could stay awake just to hear you breathing
Watch you smile while you are sleeping
While you're far away and dreaming."

When Cory had finished the song, the band sat in their chairs so quiet he could probably hear crickets chirping.

He took that sign as a "No, you are so not joining this band", and left the auditorium with his head down.



Once the door shut behind Cory, everyone finally began to speak again.

"Why god? Why?" Jenny threw hands up hopelessly.

"What was that? What was that Anthony?! I told you this would happen," said Dylan just throwing his arms across the table.

"Guys, calm down we have another guy coming though right now!" said Anthony trying to calm everyone down before they chase off the next singer.



But wait, that next singer happened to be someone familiar, very familiar.



Kyle stood tall facing his friends that were in the back. They were quite shocked to even know Kyle could sing, well at least Dylan wasn't for the matter but the others weren't so sure, "Can Kyle even sing?" most of them thought to themselves.

"Woo! Go Kyle! You can do it!" said Flint in his Rob Schneider impression as he sat in the back raising his arms.

Kyle picked up the mic and began to sing.



He started the song very softly as if he was too shy to sing in front of everyone, though he had never sang in front of a real crowd before, he continued.

"This may never start.
We could fall apart.
And I'd be your memory.
Lost your sense of fear.
Feelings insincere.
Can I be your memory?"



As Kyle continued auditioning, Anthony asked Dylan, "Is he?"

"Yah he is", said Dylan smiling. Kyle was performing the band's new song. And Dylan felt accomplished that Kyle actually came and auditioned. Dylan had made a copy of the band's new song and slipped it through Kyle's locker yesterday but he wasn't sure if Kyle was actually going to read it. Kyle's audition was topping every single one they just went through, there was no way Kyle would not make this band.

They continued to watch as Kyle got more in depth with their song.



He continued to sing the band's new song and raised his voice as he got halfway through it.

"So get back, back, back to where we lasted.
Just like I imagine.
I could never feel this way.
So get back, back, back to the disaster.
My heart's beating faster.
Holding on to feel the same."



After Kyle finished performing, Dylan waved for him to walk to the back of the auditorium. As Kyle was walking up, he ran into Mimi along one of the aisles and couldn't help but say something to her again, for some reason he liked talking to her.

"So what did you think of my performance?" Kyle asked Mimi. He truly did wonder how he had done up there on the stage. He felt nervous as he waited for to her to respond to him.

"Your a very good singer-" said Mimi but then Kyle decided to cut her off quickly.

"Really? I thought I kind of sounded a little bit bad... so want to go on a date?" asked Kyle toying with her again.



Mimi fell short as she heard him say the same words to her...again. "What's up with this guy? Why is he so determined to date me? I can never tell if he is kidding either." she thought to herself.

"Just when I thought we were getting somewhere," Mimi said hopelessly weighing down her arms.

"Calm down, I tend to mess around a lot Mimi", said Kyle as he tried to make Mimi feel less uncomfortable. He wasn't trying to be "the pervert" she thought he was. He was just trying to be friendly, sort of.

"Kyle! Over here!" Dylan shouted and waved for Kyle to walk more back.



"Kyle where did you learn to sing like that?" Anthony asked leaning over a tad.

"Yah dude, I truly though you were going to make a fool of yourself or you were joking when you walked up on stage", said Flint.

"Wow, thanks a lot Flint", Kyle said laughing.

"Welcome to the band buddy!" said Dylan going in for a hug.

"He better be in the band, cause I don't think my ears can take it anymore", said Jenny who was finally relieved that she didn't have to sit through anymore horrifying performances.



"Sorry to cut your guy's celebrations short but school is almost over and I need to really get you guys out of here before Mr. Scrubs comes back to lock up", said Asia. Asia had the master key for all the doors in the school since she was student council president. She had let the band use the auditorium but she never let anyone know they were in here, which could get her in serious trouble.

"Yah Asia, I'll get these knuckleheads out of your hair, thanks for letting us use the space", said Jenny as she started pulling and pushing the guys toward the exit.