Author: Vix
Email: Vix_Chic@hotmail.com
Rating: PG
Category: Future Children
Disclaimers: I own nothing but the kids.
“Cinderella said to snow white
How does love get so off course?
All I wanted was a white knight
With a good heart
Soft touch
Fast horse
Ride me off into the sun set, baby I’m forever…” Nicole sang as she set up her microphone.
“OK, the country thing isn’t going to work. You know that right?” Thomas asked tuning his guitar.
“Sorry it’s stuck in my head, Eddie was listening to it all the way over here.” Nicole explained glaring at her cousin, Eddie who had no doubt inherited the taste and CD from his father.
“Well if you wouldn’t have broken my Lee Ann Rhymes CD we could have listened to that.” Eddie said with a slight shrug of his broad shoulders.
Nicole let a slight shudder of nausea run through her before she turned back to her work.
“So we are schedule for nine, right?” Nicole asked Thomas who had moved on to the amps.
“On the dot. I can’t believe they gave us a gig without any references.” He said with his father’s silly grin playing at his face.
“He heard us practice, and our parents have very strong credibility with the owner. It’s not that surprising.” Josh said from the corner setting up the keyboard.
“Dude, you take all the fun out of it. With like… facts.” Eddie said leaning back in his chair.
“Are you going to help set up or what?” Nicole asked hooking up the main sound board.
“Fine.” Eddie said as he got up and went to set up his drums.
“So we are getting paid, right?” Eddie asked as he looked over at Thomas.
Thomas’ mother had done all the negotiating. She was an outstanding lawyer, and had been over come with joy to help her family with their first gig, especially since her baby boy, Thomas Whitman, was the guitarist.
“Yeah, cool huh?” Thomas asked the grin getting even wider.
“You’re not going to wear your…well, your not going to wear anything you own, are you?” Nicole asked directing the question to everyone around her.
“Yes, we are. Have a problem with that?” Thomas asked pointedly.
“It’s just you’ll look like High school rejects.” She said with a casual shrug of her shoulders.
“And we like it like that.” Josh said looking down at his clothes.
“I was just thinking something a little more stylish, something a little more…” Nicole began only to be cut off by Eddie.
“Ricky Martin?” He asked annoyed.
“Please, that old guy? Not even. I was just thinking you could wear something a little more showy.” She said looking up from the board.
“Oh, are we set on the first song?” She asked with a smile.
“Yes, since you insisted on singing it.” Thomas said thinking of the way that they always caved so easily with her.
“Who’s handling the lights?” Eddie asked.
“I thought Uncle Alex was.” Josh said looking over at Thomas.
“Yeah and my mom will handle the rest of the decorations and laser effects.” Nicole said pulling her blonde hair out of her eyes.
“So we have an hour and a half to get ready?” Nicole asked looking down at her watch seeing it was already 7:30.
“You actually need an hour and a half to get ready?” Thomas asked still amazed at how very long it could take a girl to get dressed.
“Well I better go start, don’t want me to be late now do we? I’ll meet you here, twenty minutes before nine, OK?” She asked the four guys rechecking their equipment for what seemed like the hundredth time.
A string of ‘laters’ and ‘yeahs’ followed her as she made her way to the front door and out to the parking lot.
She strolled to her car and jumped in before zooming across town to her house.
Once she was there she found her Aunt Tess, Aunt Isabel, Aunt Liz, and her mother going through her closet.
“Hello.” She said loudly breaking up the conversation amongst the old time friends.
“Hey honey. We’re sorry we snooped but we were just wondering what you were going to wear. So we decided to find you something.” Maria said taking out another dress.
“I’d appreciate the help. The concert starts in an hour and a half, and I still haven’t figured out what I want to wear.” Nicole said tossing her messenger bag towards the corner of her other wise neat room and plopping down on her bed next to her aunt Izzy.
Her mother took out another dress and smiled at her.
“No. There’s no way you’re getting me up there in a dress.” She said shaking her head firmly.
“What’d you wear your first concert?” Nicole asked her mother as she began to sort through the close her mom had dumped on her desk.
“This little halter top and pants, but I was thinking maybe you should wear something a little more stylish. Say how about this?” She asked holding up a silver metallic like top and a leather mini skirt she had never seen before.
“Since when do I have a leather mini skirt?” She asked suspiciously.
“Well you know your leather pants…” Tess began but was cut off by Nicole.
“Tell me you didn’t, I really liked my pants and if you did…” She looked at her and Tess quickly looked away.
“I’ll wear leather pants, but the skirt thing isn’t happening. Neither is that.” She said pointing to the top.
“OK, so we have leather pants and no top.” Isabel said wandering over to the closet where Maria was standing.
She took out a blue tie top dress that went to floor. It was dark sparkle blue and had a sparkle Chinese design on the front with a small two-sided dragon in the center.
“You people and your sparkles.” She mumbled under her breath as she waved a hand over it making it a very short top.
It tied around her neck and then linked right below her chest in the back.
“OK, so I’ll wear that.” She said with a grin. She was going to knock the socks off of everyone in there.
“Why don’t you where any of these thing we buy you?” Liz asked looking through there and finding several tops and skirts hung up that looked as though they were never touched.
“I like them but I’m more comfortable in my baggies.” She said roaming through her magazine looking for a hairstyle.
“Of course, your baggies.” Maria said shaking her head. “You’re so much like your father…”
“How about this?” She asked showing them a picture of a girl who had put all of her hair into mini buns leaving little bits sticking up.
“I like this one better.” Isabel said pointing to the cover of a different magazine all together.
“Yeah I definitely go with Isabel.” Maria said looking at the outrageous style her baby girl had chosen.
“She could always roll them in section all the way back you know, like this.” Tess said when she noticed no one was following her thoughts.
She walked over to her niece and ran her hands across her hair and showed them what she had been unable to explain.
“Cool.” Nicole said as she looked over into her vanity mirror.
She ran a hand over her hair undoing it before shooing her aunts and mother out so she could shower and change.
She let the water rush over her taking away her stress with the hot stream of flowing water.
She was more nervous then she’d like to believe. She had never really cared what others had thought of her she had no reason to. She had three wonderful best friends and a huge family that loved her unconditionally.
She always figured that it didn’t matter what she did or wore because her soul mate would love her for her not the person she pretended to be. She had seen her parents and Aunts and Uncles love each other through the rough and the smooth. Soul mate love was…. Something she had been wishing or since she had read her first love story. She couldn’t wait to fall in love and it scared her to death at the same time.
She turned off the water and made her way into her bedroom and over to her vanity to get ready.
As soon as she was done she raced down stairs to tell her family good-bye.
Her mother gave her a hug and squeezed her hands before letting her get to the door.
She opened it as soon as her father came in from out side.
“You’re not wearing that!” He said protectively.
“I wore stuff like that when I was sixteen.” Maria said coming to her daughter’s defense.
“Yeah and we were together when you were sixteen, and I remember me at sixteen.” He said trying to move both girls back into the living room entrance away from the door.
Maria leaned over to kiss her husband as her daughter ducked under his arms and ran out the door offering a ‘See you later’ before jumping into her Jetta and speeding off towards the club.
Once she arrived she walked into the club by the back door and found the guys sitting on the amps and Eddie on his drum seat.
She boldly walked up the stairs and towards the three guys who were oblivious to her entrance.
“Hey guys.” She said casually before walking in front of Josh to sit between him and Thomas on the large amps.
“Oh my God, your father let you out of the house like that?” Eddie was the first one to speak.
“Not exactly.” She said dipping her head slightly.
“The old tag team trick?” Josh asked looking his cousin over.
Nicole just smiled a little blush covering her cheeks as a small giggle escaped her lips.
“So we set up?” She asked the three boys who were still staring at her in disbelief.
“Yeah. You might want to double check your mike, I let Eddie set it up.” Thomas said smiling over at his cousin sitting in the chair across the stage.
“Shut up Whitman.” Eddie said with a glare.
“Make me Valenti.” He said good naturally.
“When do we start?” She asked double checking her mike.
“Soon. Have you seen the crowd out there?” Eddie asked as he got up and walked to the side of the stage where the edge of the curtain was.
“No. Why is it big?” She asked as she followed him, Thomas and Josh not far behind.
As he lifted the curtain back revealing a huge crowd that covered the club from side to side, and back to front. Nicole started to hyperventilate.
“I can’t go out there, wearing this.” She said as she backed up wrapped her arms around her bare midsection.
“Why not?” Josh asked confused, he wasn’t used to his cousin chickening out like that.
“Because I just can’t, OK? I’ve never stood let alone sung in a crowd that big before, and you expect me to go out there in… in this?” She asked her voice becoming higher and higher and her breathes shallower and shorter.
“Chill drama queen, you’ll be fine, if anyone can pull this off it’s you because you never back down from anything.” Josh said placing a comforting arm around her bare shoulders.
“Yeah, and besides you look great.” Thomas said placing an arm around her waist enter locking his hand with hers on the other side of her petite frame.
“Yeah way better than us high school rejects.” Eddie said gesturing to his own outfit.
“Well I have to, you forget I’m the cool cousin.” She said with a smile before taking a deep breath.
“What ever you say Nicki.” Eddie said raising his hands in defeat before turning around to find his soda and walking right into the manager of the club.
“Are you ready?” He asked not waiting for greetings.
“Yes sir.” Thomas said with his two thumbs up gesture, taking his had from around his cousin.
“Ready as we’ll ever be.” Nicole muttered as Thomas answered for them.
The quickly took their positions as the curtain began to rise.
Nicole took a deep breath as her cousins started the intro. to their first song, ‘Tragic’, She wrote it and Thomas had put music to it.
The music started of soft, as did her voice…
“I feel like jumping, isn’t it tragic?
I feel like over dosing, isn’t it tragic?
I feel like dying, isn’t it tragic?”
Her hips swung to the slow and steady beat.
“You make me feel like living, isn’t that romantic?
You make me feel like flying, isn’t that romantic?”
As she began the next part of the song she snapped her eyes open for the first time since she had taken her position. Her voice took on a harden edge as did the music.
“But you and me will never be, so I guess I’m back to my tragedy.”
They had finally completed their first session and went to take a small break.
They went out into the audience to find their parents.
“That was a nice opening song.” Liz had said as they reached their table.
“Hey don’t look at me I didn’t write it.” Josh said pointing towards his cousin, Nicole.
“What? I liked it.” Nicole said shrugging her shoulders before taking a sip of her father’s cherry cola.
“It had a nice beat.” Alex said from across the table looking at his son.
“Thanks.” Thomas said with a grin.
“You all did wonderful.” Isabel said in a motherly tone and a wide smile.
“Thanks.” The four said in unison.
“I’ll be right back I’m going to go get some water.” She said as she headed to the bar to buy something.
“Nice outfit, girlie.” A guy said walking up behind her leaning in slightly to whisper it into her ear.
She’d know that voice any where. She whipped her head around quickly not giving him a chance to back away.
“Well if it isn’t the Golden Toy himself. What brings you here?” She asked leaning in closer glaring at him.
“Well you of course.” He said with a mocking tilt of his head.
“What can I get you?” The worker asked before she could smack Randy.
“Water.” She said not looking away from Randy’s amused eyes.
“What are you really doing here?” She asked as the man went to fetch her order.
“Like I said,” He answered as the man came back, “I came to see you.” He finished getting up and throwing the man money for her water.
“Later, girlie.” He said as he walked off.
“Golden Toy strikes again?” Eddie asked amused as his cousin came back to the table looking slightly flustered.
“Shut up Valenti.” She answered glaring at him furiously.
“Oh, so what you want to play rough?” He asked even further reiterating her.
“Don’t make me hurt you.” She said with a soft terrifying smile.
“How about we go play before you two kill each other?” Josh asked as he got up and walked towards the stage not giving them a chance to protest.
The other three followed orders and followed him to the stage.
Nicole smiled as she found the pair of jade eyes she was looking for and started to sing, ‘Golden Touch.’
The EndTitle: The First Gig (#2)
Author: Vix
Email: Vix_Chic@hotmail.com
Rating: PG
Category: Future Children
Disclaimers: I own nothing but the kids.
“Cinderella said to snow white
How does love get so off course?
All I wanted was a white knight
With a good heart
Soft touch
Fast horse
Ride me off into the sun set, baby I’m forever…” Nicole sang as she set up her microphone.
“OK, the country thing isn’t going to work. You know that right?” Thomas asked tuning his guitar.
“Sorry it’s stuck in my head, Eddie was listening to it all the way over here.” Nicole explained glaring at her cousin, Eddie who had no doubt inherited the taste and CD from his father.
“Well if you wouldn’t have broken my Lee Ann Rhymes CD we could have listened to that.” Eddie said with a slight shrug of his broad shoulders.
Nicole let a slight shudder of nausea run through her before she turned back to her work.
“So we are schedule for nine, right?” Nicole asked Thomas who had moved on to the amps.
“On the dot. I can’t believe they gave us a gig without any references.” He said with his father’s silly grin playing at his face.
“He heard us practice, and our parents have very strong credibility with the owner. It’s not that surprising.” Josh said from the corner setting up the keyboard.
“Dude, you take all the fun out of it. With like… facts.” Eddie said leaning back in his chair.
“Are you going to help set up or what?” Nicole asked hooking up the main sound board.
“Fine.” Eddie said as he got up and went to set up his drums.
“So we are getting paid, right?” Eddie asked as he looked over at Thomas.
Thomas’ mother had done all the negotiating. She was an outstanding lawyer, and had been over come with joy to help her family with their first gig, especially since her baby boy, Thomas Whitman, was the guitarist.
“Yeah, cool huh?” Thomas asked the grin getting even wider.
“You’re not going to wear your…well, your not going to wear anything you own, are you?” Nicole asked directing the question to everyone around her.
“Yes, we are. Have a problem with that?” Thomas asked pointedly.
“It’s just you’ll look like High school rejects.” She said with a casual shrug of her shoulders.
“And we like it like that.” Josh said looking down at his clothes.
“I was just thinking something a little more stylish, something a little more…” Nicole began only to be cut off by Eddie.
“Ricky Martin?” He asked annoyed.
“Please, that old guy? Not even. I was just thinking you could wear something a little more showy.” She said looking up from the board.
“Oh, are we set on the first song?” She asked with a smile.
“Yes, since you insisted on singing it.” Thomas said thinking of the way that they always caved so easily with her.
“Who’s handling the lights?” Eddie asked.
“I thought Uncle Alex was.” Josh said looking over at Thomas.
“Yeah and my mom will handle the rest of the decorations and laser effects.” Nicole said pulling her blonde hair out of her eyes.
“So we have an hour and a half to get ready?” Nicole asked looking down at her watch seeing it was already 7:30.
“You actually need an hour and a half to get ready?” Thomas asked still amazed at how very long it could take a girl to get dressed.
“Well I better go start, don’t want me to be late now do we? I’ll meet you here, twenty minutes before nine, OK?” She asked the four guys rechecking their equipment for what seemed like the hundredth time.
A string of ‘laters’ and ‘yeahs’ followed her as she made her way to the front door and out to the parking lot.
She strolled to her car and jumped in before zooming across town to her house.
Once she was there she found her Aunt Tess, Aunt Isabel, Aunt Liz, and her mother going through her closet.
“Hello.” She said loudly breaking up the conversation amongst the old time friends.
“Hey honey. We’re sorry we snooped but we were just wondering what you were going to wear. So we decided to find you something.” Maria said taking out another dress.
“I’d appreciate the help. The concert starts in an hour and a half, and I still haven’t figured out what I want to wear.” Nicole said tossing her messenger bag towards the corner of her other wise neat room and plopping down on her bed next to her aunt Izzy.
Her mother took out another dress and smiled at her.
“No. There’s no way you’re getting me up there in a dress.” She said shaking her head firmly.
“What’d you wear your first concert?” Nicole asked her mother as she began to sort through the close her mom had dumped on her desk.
“This little halter top and pants, but I was thinking maybe you should wear something a little more stylish. Say how about this?” She asked holding up a silver metallic like top and a leather mini skirt she had never seen before.
“Since when do I have a leather mini skirt?” She asked suspiciously.
“Well you know your leather pants…” Tess began but was cut off by Nicole.
“Tell me you didn’t, I really liked my pants and if you did…” She looked at her and Tess quickly looked away.
“I’ll wear leather pants, but the skirt thing isn’t happening. Neither is that.” She said pointing to the top.
“OK, so we have leather pants and no top.” Isabel said wandering over to the closet where Maria was standing.
She took out a blue tie top dress that went to floor. It was dark sparkle blue and had a sparkle Chinese design on the front with a small two-sided dragon in the center.
“You people and your sparkles.” She mumbled under her breath as she waved a hand over it making it a very short top.
It tied around her neck and then linked right below her chest in the back.
“OK, so I’ll wear that.” She said with a grin. She was going to knock the socks off of everyone in there.
“Why don’t you where any of these thing we buy you?” Liz asked looking through there and finding several tops and skirts hung up that looked as though they were never touched.
“I like them but I’m more comfortable in my baggies.” She said roaming through her magazine looking for a hairstyle.
“Of course, your baggies.” Maria said shaking her head. “You’re so much like your father…”
“How about this?” She asked showing them a picture of a girl who had put all of her hair into mini buns leaving little bits sticking up.
“I like this one better.” Isabel said pointing to the cover of a different magazine all together.
“Yeah I definitely go with Isabel.” Maria said looking at the outrageous style her baby girl had chosen.
“She could always roll them in section all the way back you know, like this.” Tess said when she noticed no one was following her thoughts.
She walked over to her niece and ran her hands across her hair and showed them what she had been unable to explain.
“Cool.” Nicole said as she looked over into her vanity mirror.
She ran a hand over her hair undoing it before shooing her aunts and mother out so she could shower and change.
She let the water rush over her taking away her stress with the hot stream of flowing water.
She was more nervous then she’d like to believe. She had never really cared what others had thought of her she had no reason to. She had three wonderful best friends and a huge family that loved her unconditionally.
She always figured that it didn’t matter what she did or wore because her soul mate would love her for her not the person she pretended to be. She had seen her parents and Aunts and Uncles love each other through the rough and the smooth. Soul mate love was…. Something she had been wishing or since she had read her first love story. She couldn’t wait to fall in love and it scared her to death at the same time.
She turned off the water and made her way into her bedroom and over to her vanity to get ready.
As soon as she was done she raced down stairs to tell her family good-bye.
Her mother gave her a hug and squeezed her hands before letting her get to the door.
She opened it as soon as her father came in from out side.
“You’re not wearing that!” He said protectively.
“I wore stuff like that when I was sixteen.” Maria said coming to her daughter’s defense.
“Yeah and we were together when you were sixteen, and I remember me at sixteen.” He said trying to move both girls back into the living room entrance away from the door.
Maria leaned over to kiss her husband as her daughter ducked under his arms and ran out the door offering a ‘See you later’ before jumping into her Jetta and speeding off towards the club.
Once she arrived she walked into the club by the back door and found the guys sitting on the amps and Eddie on his drum seat.
She boldly walked up the stairs and towards the three guys who were oblivious to her entrance.
“Hey guys.” She said casually before walking in front of Josh to sit between him and Thomas on the large amps.
“Oh my God, your father let you out of the house like that?” Eddie was the first one to speak.
“Not exactly.” She said dipping her head slightly.
“The old tag team trick?” Josh asked looking his cousin over.
Nicole just smiled a little blush covering her cheeks as a small giggle escaped her lips.
“So we set up?” She asked the three boys who were still staring at her in disbelief.
“Yeah. You might want to double check your mike, I let Eddie set it up.” Thomas said smiling over at his cousin sitting in the chair across the stage.
“Shut up Whitman.” Eddie said with a glare.
“Make me Valenti.” He said good naturally.
“When do we start?” She asked double checking her mike.
“Soon. Have you seen the crowd out there?” Eddie asked as he got up and walked to the side of the stage where the edge of the curtain was.
“No. Why is it big?” She asked as she followed him, Thomas and Josh not far behind.
As he lifted the curtain back revealing a huge crowd that covered the club from side to side, and back to front. Nicole started to hyperventilate.
“I can’t go out there, wearing this.” She said as she backed up wrapped her arms around her bare midsection.
“Why not?” Josh asked confused, he wasn’t used to his cousin chickening out like that.
“Because I just can’t, OK? I’ve never stood let alone sung in a crowd that big before, and you expect me to go out there in… in this?” She asked her voice becoming higher and higher and her breathes shallower and shorter.
“Chill drama queen, you’ll be fine, if anyone can pull this off it’s you because you never back down from anything.” Josh said placing a comforting arm around her bare shoulders.
“Yeah, and besides you look great.” Thomas said placing an arm around her waist enter locking his hand with hers on the other side of her petite frame.
“Yeah way better than us high school rejects.” Eddie said gesturing to his own outfit.
“Well I have to, you forget I’m the cool cousin.” She said with a smile before taking a deep breath.
“What ever you say Nicki.” Eddie said raising his hands in defeat before turning around to find his soda and walking right into the manager of the club.
“Are you ready?” He asked not waiting for greetings.
“Yes sir.” Thomas said with his two thumbs up gesture, taking his had from around his cousin.
“Ready as we’ll ever be.” Nicole muttered as Thomas answered for them.
The quickly took their positions as the curtain began to rise.
Nicole took a deep breath as her cousins started the intro. to their first song, ‘Tragic’, She wrote it and Thomas had put music to it.
The music started of soft, as did her voice…
“I feel like jumping, isn’t it tragic?
I feel like over dosing, isn’t it tragic?
I feel like dying, isn’t it tragic?”
Her hips swung to the slow and steady beat.
“You make me feel like living, isn’t that romantic?
You make me feel like flying, isn’t that romantic?”
As she began the next part of the song she snapped her eyes open for the first time since she had taken her position. Her voice took on a harden edge as did the music.
“But you and me will never be, so I guess I’m back to my tragedy.”
They had finally completed their first session and went to take a small break.
They went out into the audience to find their parents.
“That was a nice opening song.” Liz had said as they reached their table.
“Hey don’t look at me I didn’t write it.” Josh said pointing towards his cousin, Nicole.
“What? I liked it.” Nicole said shrugging her shoulders before taking a sip of her father’s cherry cola.
“It had a nice beat.” Alex said from across the table looking at his son.
“Thanks.” Thomas said with a grin.
“You all did wonderful.” Isabel said in a motherly tone and a wide smile.
“Thanks.” The four said in unison.
“I’ll be right back I’m going to go get some water.” She said as she headed to the bar to buy something.
“Nice outfit, girlie.” A guy said walking up behind her leaning in slightly to whisper it into her ear.
She’d know that voice any where. She whipped her head around quickly not giving him a chance to back away.
“Well if it isn’t the Golden Toy himself. What brings you here?” She asked leaning in closer glaring at him.
“Well you of course.” He said with a mocking tilt of his head.
“What can I get you?” The worker asked before she could smack Randy.
“Water.” She said not looking away from Randy’s amused eyes.
“What are you really doing here?” She asked as the man went to fetch her order.
“Like I said,” He answered as the man came back, “I came to see you.” He finished getting up and throwing the man money for her water.
“Later, girlie.” He said as he walked off.
“Golden Toy strikes again?” Eddie asked amused as his cousin came back to the table looking slightly flustered.
“Shut up Valenti.” She answered glaring at him furiously.
“Oh, so what you want to play rough?” He asked even further reiterating her.
“Don’t make me hurt you.” She said with a soft terrifying smile.
“How about we go play before you two kill each other?” Josh asked as he got up and walked towards the stage not giving them a chance to protest.
The other three followed orders and followed him to the stage.
Nicole smiled as she found the pair of jade eyes she was looking for and started to sing, ‘Golden Touch.’
The End