Nothin' But A Good Time (Amelia, Open)

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Brooke was feeling high and feeling good on life and no buzzing sound in the back of her mind was going to stop her from living free in the land of the free! At least as much as she was allowed to. The bars lately had been getting stricter about scrutinizing IDs and such, so guess she had to wait it out for the moment. At least there were a few select under 21 clubs around the small town of Pilot Ridge that could accommodate the manic girl her other needs. One was dancing, because dancing. The other was music, because MUSIC!! And not just any kind of music, Brooke was talking about the tried and true sex, drugs, and rock n' roll kind of music only without the drugs and probably not the sex because this was a "family place". Kinda.

The brunette was in a simple slinky white shirt and an equally slinky black skirt, beads hanging down on the fringe surrounding her knees. Beige and pink sandals adorned her feet with her toes painted a slightly different shade of pink. She leaned against the drink counter, with a smile on her lips and her heart beating to the bass of the music playing while some loudmouth who thought he could sing wailed into the microphone. Brooke tried to tune him out. If you're going to sing Journey, you gotta at least make sure you can hit them high notes with more than an off-key squeak.

She pasted the five dollar bill on the counter as the server brought her the drinks and she gave her a wink as she took them both in her hands and stepped over with a swag in her hips to the table where she'd left her friend. "You want some chips? They got pretzels too," she informed her friend. "But more importantly, what'd you put in?" Because Brooke had to interrogate anyone with her about the songs they were going to sing so she didn't accidentally pick the same one.

[Amelia Zhao]

Amelia drummed her fingers on the table to the beat patiently waiting for Brook to come back. She was actually feeling really good compare to her downward spiral she had yesterday and could not wait to go up on stage. Usually if she was going somewhere to sing she would get dressed all nice but today she wasn't dressed how she normally would be if she was going up on stage. Instead she just had on a simple superman muscle t-shirt and some black ripped jeans. To accompany her outfit she put on her black leather jacket and her favorite her comic printed chucks.

"You go man" Amelia yelled up to the guy gassing his head up. "You hit those notes boy". She smiled up at her friend as she reached the table. "I'll defiantly get some chips later" she said her attention turning back to the guy who seem to be getting more into the song. "It's not karaoke to the tone-death guy sings" she joked pointing towards him. "Anyway i'm thinking about singing this k-pop song beautiful strangers. Or maybe we should do a duet and sing something like good time by Carly Rae". She took the drink and drunk some of it. "If i'm being honest i'm second guessing if we should preform night though" she said with a playful smirk. "How can we follow an act as good as that one Brook"? She laughed. "I just don't know if it's possible".

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Brooke giggled to herself at hearing Amelia’s heckles to the poor tone-deaf guy on-stage. She liked to bitch about them herself, but it was supposed “courtesy” to boo people on the stage, ‘cause some of them had to get a lot of courage just to get that far….even if they did suck. “Sweet, mind sharing?” Brooke asked with a hint of tongue sticking from her lips.

“Dey always got at least one of ‘em,” she agreed. Though in more cases she’d seen, it was far and few that one found somebody who actually knew what they were doing and wasn’t just doing a foul impersonation of the next American Idol.

Brooke laughed as she slid into her seat. “Well…sombody’s gotta pick it up, right? What dif does it make if it’s you or me or Joe-shmoe over thar that follows that.” Yeah, Brooke just liked being a bitch and talking trash over the musically challenged was a favored pastime. “Wul, I dunno much’f the korean stuffs, so you go bust your pipes all ya want. I’m gonna go with da classics. Heart, Barracuda.” Which was probably the most hard-core “fuck you” girl-band song out there. “Tho maybe later we can spin out a good duet.” Brooke didn’t do much with the poppy stuff though. She liked belting it out with artists like Benatar, Bonnie, and Blondie.

[Amelia Zhao]

"What's minds is yours my lady. Especially because i'm to lazy to get up so i'm going to send you to get them anyway".

"They probably will think we sing like Mariah Carey after that performance". Amelia nodded her head . "Ooo the classics nice choice. I'm in a love song kind of mood. No maybe me and you are going to sing a duet later. You have no choice in the matter beside picking the song we sing". Amelia being the music lover she was pretty much had a taste for all genres. Even reggie and opera wasn't excluded from her list. So she probably knew whatever Brook was into.

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Brooke laughed. “Sweet,” she said, tilting her head playfully. Brooke didn’t mind being the gopher tonight. She was far too bouncy to stay in one place for long anyway.

“Mariah Carey? Sowwy, don’t think I can squeak in the stratosphere like that, chica. I’d probly break your eardrums.” Brooke had a pretty good belting range on her, but her strengths lied in the lower ranges. She was an alto. “Love songs….could always sing, Love Song. The kinda jazzy one by Sara Bareilles?” That one didn’t suck too bad. As for the duet, Brooke would have to think about that one. Maybe Lady Marmalade? Or something else from Moulin Rouge, they had a lot of duets. "How about a showtune? That makes it easy, right?"

[Mia Bell]

Mia walked into the all ages club, she didn’t know if she felt walking into a place where people left drunk. But she was captivated by the ‘open mic’ sign out front. When she had walked in she signed up to go next, then sat down by herself. She wasn’t there with anyone… Why was she out late at night? That was a good question really… She was suppose to have dinner with her Aunt, but the woman bailed on her yet again she really wasn’t sure what was up with that. Why was it that pieces of her family kept coming around into her life, but then deciding they didn’t want to put up with her anymore?

That was another reason why she was here in this club, instead of in her bed at Hammel. Knowing that if she had went back to Hammel she would just obsessively think about how much her family kind of sucked, and she didn’t want to think about that. She wanted to start having fun, and enjoying her life again. She kept going into these dark spirals, and she hated herself for it. She wished she was stronger than that. But she just had to keep pushing on.

Before she could think about it anymore the person who was announcing the next performer called her name. She looked up at the stage in shock, she hadn’t thought that she would go up so soon. She walked up onto the stage, and looked out into the crowd. She hadn’t had a song rehearsed, but had been listening to this certain love rock song for a bit now and it was stuck in her head as of recently. Her eyes fell upon Amelia, and Brooke, which made her gulp. She hadn’t expected them to be there, watching her, and all of a sudden she got butterflies…

Forcing herself to take a deep breath and shake the feeling off. She nodded to the person controlling the music, and smiled out into the audience as she began singing ‘my favorite thing’ by Tonight Alive.

[Amelia Zhao]

"Hey I think love song a good song". She thought for a second. "Show tones work perfectly fine. If your a fan of the classic movies I say we bust out something from grease. That movie has duets right"?

Mel clapped as the guy left the stage and they called a new name. When she looked up to see the who the person was she spotted the familiar pink-hared girl taking the stage. She only had talk to her a few times besides the interview. "Hey that's my new roommate I was telling you about Brook". She smiled as she listen to her sing. " You said you know her right"?

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Brooke nearly snorted her drink out her nose. “Grease? You serious? Have you even seen that movie?” It was a classic, but the movie itself was uber-messed up. Seriously, what kind of idiots rewards a guy for being an ass and forcing his girl to change everything she believes in just so they can “be” together? “Sandy should’ve bitten it off after all the crap Travolta put her through.” And because of that, Brooke was totes anti-Grease for life!

“Know any Cinderella?” ‘Sister’s Lament’ was ridiculously funny. If these bozos actually had the darned song.

A familiar song started playing as the next singer was called up, and her eyes fell upon that pretty rocker girl, Mia. “Hell, yeah. Mia’s moving in with you?” Lucky! “That’s a pretty tootsie-sweet arrangement, huh? I haven’t even started looking yet.” And graduation was a little over two months away. Brooke took another sip of her drink.

[Mia Bell]

Mia looked around after she finished, a bit embarrassed that a lot of people weren’t really paying attention to her. It was a bit weird being on stage with people in front of her but not watching. “uh.. Thanks” She got off the stage as quickly as she could and went over to the bar to order a club soda. She sighed, and rubbed her temples, she wasn’t sure how she was feeling at the moment, but it was neither good or bad… She guessed that was something.

Grabbing her drink, she turned around to look at Mel, and Brooke. Were they on a date? Why was it that, that was the first thing she wondered? It made her stomach feel like it was going to jump out of her body… Should she go up and say hi? She probably should, since they most likely saw her on stage.

She walked up behind them, and cleared her throat. “hey guys! Planning on doing a song yourselves? Or you just watching the other talents?”