Chapter 2

Finally it's breaktime, I should probably go to the cafeteria to get some sandwiches since I only ate a slice of bread earlier this morning. I saw Seth sitting at a table near the exit of the cafeteria, I nudged him and he looked up at me.

"Have you seen the set list Lev?" he asked me. "Yep! Felix handed it over earlier before our English Literature class, we've got a few songs to practice tho. Last night was really tiring, imagine we had to play 15 songs then people started requesting for more. I actually thought they won't stop asking after the 5th one." I complained to him.

"I guess that's how it is bro, we need to get as much supporters as we can and you know that." Seth replied back, and I just shrugged. I'm about to finish my sandwich and head back to my next class so I told him I got to go. "See you at lunch break so we can discuss for the gig later."

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Seth has been one of my closest friends ever since high school, we have been covering a few songs from different bands mostly pop rock in genre. While he plays the piano I do the guitars and after a few covers we got discovered by a talent agency to which we have been working for up to this day. The two of us can both sing, same as with Felix and Dylan whom we both met when we were in 2nd year at the local high school where we have been studying. I got along with both of them really well and that's when we started to form this band called "Au Revoir".

Felix plays the drums while Dylan plays the bass guitar, Seth still plays the piano while I play the lead guitar, I mostly do the vocals along with Seth while Felix and Dylan does the back up vocals for the band. We have also been busking along the streets of Rivendell for a few years now. I really do love performing and making music, I enjoy it a lot. It's just that sometimes I can't avoid complaining because of the hectic schedule the agency gives us every week. They might have forgotten that we are still studying, and that we also want to finish our courses on time.

I went to my next class which is Sociology, I found Felix already seated on his desk when I entered the room. The professor hasn't arrived yet so I just decided to listen to the songs for the set list later, after a few minutes our professor came running through the door since he's already late by 10 minutes. He asked us to introduce ourselves in front of the class, I didn't notice that I was the next one and so I almost tripped since I was rushing to get this introduction thing done.

"My name is Lev Aiken, 17 years old, I am from a band called "Au Revoir", pleased to meet you all." I quickly went back to my seat, catching a glance from Felix. He was the next one after me, he stood up and went in front of the class. "Hi my name is Felix and I am 17 years old, I play the drums for the band "Au Revoir" along with Lev as our lead guitarist, hope you can come to our gigs and support us!" He was smiling enthusiastically at our classmates, I could hear a lot of whispering from the girls inside our classroom.

One girl says "he's cute", the other one says "look at his dimples" and can't stop giggling, well what can I say Felix is really good looking just like me. As I was daydreaming a bit, I realized that all of my classmates are done introducing their selves. The professor started to discuss about the introduction to Sociology, beginning with its definition. He called us one by one and asked us to give some of the characteristics of one of our closest friends. When the activity was done, he gave us some homework to research about.

The next class would be College Algebra and I'm going to see that Nayi girl again. If you'll ask me what I think about her, well she's pretty simple, "plain" I guess and she actually looks so fragile, she'll look better if only she'll try to fix her hair and also fix her composure everytime someone is talking to her since it seems like she always gets lost in her train of thoughts.

The bell started ringing for the last class before lunch. The professor walked in and she looks really strict while wearing this thick glasses. She started to talk about the grading system for the subject then asked us to introduce ourselves. Here we go again I thought to myself, I don't really like telling people things about me and I prefer to be alone. After all this introduction, she gave us a simple activity to work on and since I finished it early she told me that I can already leave the class.

I got out of the door, went straight to the cafeteria where I'll be waiting for Seth, Dylan and Felix. After a few minutes, I saw them walk through the door and waved at me. I got up and ordered some food for myself which I then paid for at the cashier, I went back to our table and decided to wait for them so we can start eating.

When they got back, Felix was already red as a tomato while Seth was also laughing at whatever joke Dylan said to them. We started eating after the laughter died down and finished after about 30 minutes. That's when we started talking about the set list and decided to listen to some of the songs that we are unfamiliar with.

Me and Seth would split up the song and sing alternately, usually Felix and Dylan would do the back up vocals. After arranging our parts for the songs, we would think of ways to add our own style to it so that those who are listening would be able to hear a distinct or unique approach to the song. After lunch break has ended, we decided to proceed to our next class and reminded each other about our practice after class which is 3pm.