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The Flight of the Raven

Chapter 1

Band practice

Raven’s POV

Another pointless rehearsal scheduled by our brainless manager Alan at his house. Every girl loves him, but he chooses to put all his time and effort to impress me knowing that I could careless to have him as my boyfriend and my nagging manager is too much for me to handle. Besides, he isn’t my type. Well, he use to be my type when he didn’t nag on us so much. I know I’m suppose to be listening to him blab on about how we are about to go on another tour and how we need to practice and get ready to make a new CD, blah, blah, blah.

“ Raven,” Alan said as he finally realized I was paying him no mind.

“ What?”

“ Are you even listening to me?”

“ Yes, you said that…that we are starting another tour and we need to practice more, and that we need to start on our new CD, which I’m writing down write now.”

“ Good, so you were listening.”

‘ In you’re dreams I was listening to you. You repeat yourself so much, it’s just plain wrong. I wish we could just take a break that didn’t last five minutes! I guess that is asking too much…huh?’

“ Raven?”

“ Yes, what is it now?”

“ Can we hear what you have come up with?”

“ Sure,” I said to him as I picked up my acoustic guitar,

I’m listening to Alan
His more like a fan
I try to ignore him
But, who gives a…

“ That’s nice Rae, but maybe you should think of better song lyrics. Now we need you three to start practicing for the tour,” Alan said cutting me off. I think Alan was mad at me, but I don’t think he’ll stay that way, he never can.

“ How long is the tour this time Al?”

“ It’s only through the summer break when all the teenagers are out of school and are ready to spend their money on concerts. What do you say guys?”

We all groaned he had been working us non-stop for seven years now. Garfield Logan is the group’s drummer. He pretends to be ‘the heartthrob’ of the group. All the girls that chase after him are pretty dim. Yeah right like he’s all that cute, and he’s only just turned twenty-two and has been trying to drink himself silly, if it wasn’t for me, Victor and Alan. Then there’s Victor Stone, he’s the oldest and is like my big brother. He’s twenty-four and he’s the group’s keyboard player. I know it seems kind of weird to see a guy his size playing a keyboard, but he’s really good. And then there is our up tight manager Alan. He’s such a pain and is twenty-four. He’s a great manager it’s just that he could at least give us a little more time to enjoy regular life problems, by sides the fact that we make billions when we go on tour or make a video and even on or CD’s. And then there is me. Raven Roth, the main guitarist and lead singer. I’m only twenty-three and I’m still single and I kind of like it that way. I’m always getting emails and numbers from boy fans. I never call or email them back. I sometimes write back some of the more desperate emails and tell them I’m not interested in them, but I’ll give them a photo while up tight isn’t looking. The only reason I don’t call the guys that give me their numbers after our concerts is because I can’t read the names that come with the number so I don’t call.

“ Rae?”

“ Yeah, what is it Vic?”

“ We need to ditch sir ‘I’m so perfect’ before he gets back.”

“ Where did he go off to now?”

“ I told him that you wanted him to buy you this really expensive necklace that he can only find in Paris, which gives us a few days to be normal,” Gar said as he entered the room.

“ All right Gar, Hi five,” Vic said to Gar.

“ I can’t believe you were able to think of a good plan to get Alan off our backs…I’m very impressed.”

“ Really, I knew you would come around sooner or later.”

“ I’m not that impressed. So, what are we going to do?”

“ I don’t know about y’all, but I’m going chick hunting. You coming Gar?”

“ Sure, but what about Rae?”

“ I’ll go and check out the book store and if I have time check out the music store, if I’m lucky they won’t recognize me.”

“ If you’re sure. But Rae don’t you want me or…”

“ I’ll be fine Vic, you know you worry too much. Now we better start now if we don’t want to waste our time who knows when he’ll come back.”

“ Okay. Let’s go Gar.”

“ Okay, so where should we go first?” They were talking about pointless stuff as they left me alone. I had decided to go to the music store to get some more CDs for inspiration.

At the music store (Author’s POV…Yeah!)

A young man around twenty-four was in the music store listening to an old song by Stevie Wonder. He was singing along with the song, he wasn’t all that bad. He had shoulder length jet-black hair. He had on some baggy denim jeans with the little chain on the side of his right pocket with a nice crimson shirt with a picture of Peter Griffin saying, ‘No Fat Chicks.’ He had the cutest pair of hazel eyes that would explain why all the girls in the place were staring at him. He paid the girls no mind and keep singing.

And though you don't believe that they do
They do come true
For did my dreams
Come true when I looked at you
And maybe too, if you would believe
You too might be
Overjoyed, over loved, over me

While our dear cute singer was singing famous lead singer/lead guitarist came in as he was singing. She looked over at him and then walked over to him. She was wearing some knee high leather boots with three inch heels, dark blue boot cut jeans accompanied by her trade mark metal belt, with a spaghetti strapped black shirt and a pair of blue tinted glasses.

Raven’s POV (NO! I wasn’t done!)

As soon as I went into the music store I saw a bunch of hormone drive girls looking at this guy, who just happen to be singing. He was pretty good, and I could see why they were staring at him. He was…very cute. I decided since I was so into his singing of a great old song I would tell him how good he was, if I don’t clam up. As I was walking over to him I felt as if I had a fly lodged in my throat. All I was hoping was that he didn’t recognize me when I tapped him on the shoulder.

“ Yes?” is what he said to me as I started to clam up as I was looking into his handsome face and gorgeous hazel eyes, “ You did tap me didn’t you?”

‘ Rae say something!’ I yelled at myself.

“ You sounded really good.”

“ Thanks, I’m sort of new around here, but I just love to singing.”

“ Yeah me too,” I said to him as he smiled at me, which made my heart skip a beat.

“ Oh how rude of me…Hi, I’m Richard Grayson. I just moved here to Jump City from Gotham. It’s nice to meet a person who likes music as well.”

“ Yeah, I just love Stevie Wonder’s songs there so…”

“ Inspiring?”

“ Yeah, but I should tell you my name since I know yours…my name is…”

“ Oh my gosh look everyone, it’s Raven Roth!” One of the guys in the store shouted at the top of his lungs.

“ Ugh! I didn’t want this to…”

“ I can’t believe I couldn’t recognize you. You’re Raven from the band Flight of the Raven I just…”

“ No time. I got to run. Maybe I’ll see you at one of our concerts!” I yelled at him as I ran from the crowed of crazed fans. I wish I could have talked longer with him, but I guess I’ll have to lose this crowed first. It didn’t take long for me to lose them. As soon as the coast was clear I took my chance to see the boy again. When I got there he was about to leave.

“ Hey, where do you think you’re going?”

“ Raven?”

“ Shh!” I said to him as I put my index finger over his lips, which made us both blush, “ I just lost the first group of groupies I don’t need anymore, so you’re new? Nice…I can’t believe you didn’t recognize me as I was talking to you,” I said to him as I looked over the brim of my sunglasses.

“ Well, I thought you might be you, but I wasn’t sure.”

“ I guess I should have let you guess, so do you want to do something together?”

“ Sure, but shouldn’t you be doing…band stuff?”

“ Me and my band are suppose to be practicing right now.” This would have been the conversation between us if I hadn’t clam up again. He stared at me as I came to the entrance to the store. I had just saw him and he asked, “ Are you okay?” I didn’t answer him I just stared at him wishing I could say something to him, “ Well if you guys are having a concert I might just pop in since I love your band’s music.”

“ You do?”

“ Wow, you can speak. So I take it, as you’ll let me get a backstage pass if I show up?”

“ Sure, but you’ll have to buy your own tickets.”

“ So, that goes double for my friends?”

“ What friends?”

“ They’re right there. Hey guys!” He yelled as and tall slinky red head that looked to be his girlfriend wearing a short pink mini skirt, with a matching top and next to her was a half way decent looking guy with orange hair and was wearing some denim jeans with a bright red shirt.

“ Hey d**k,” the guy said.

“ Hey Roy, this is…”

“ Oh my gosh it’s…” was all the young bouncy woman, who looked to be the same age as Gar, was able to say as Richard covered her mouth.

“ Shh, Kori or do you want to be running for our lives?”

“ No, it’s just I have so many questions I wish to ask her.”

“ I don’t know I guess I could answer…”

“ Rae!”

I turned around to see who was calling me and it was Vic and Gar. They were running towards me with a mob of girls not too far behind.

“ Oh no.”

“ Isn’t that the other people in your band?” Richard asked me as he pointed to the two idiots heading our way. All I could do was nodded.

“ Rae, we have a little problem,” Vic said to me as he and Gar stopped in front of me.

“ I can see that,” I commented as I looked at all the girls that were following Vic and Gar.

“ Not them, Al’s back.”

“ What do you mean he’s back? There is no ways he could have gone to Paris and is now back.”

“ I think he figured out it was just a lie and he just called saying he’s on his way back and that we were going to pay with are lives once he got back mainly me,” Gar said as he started to panic, “ What are we going to do Rae? What are we…” I then slapped him back into reality.

“ Snap out of it. We should be able to get back before he does. Now let’s go, and leave your groupies here.”

“ All right. Bye girls.”

“ Bye Victor and Garfield,” the girls said with hearts in their eyes.

Richard’s POV (NO! it’s my turn! Life’s just not fair)

As soon as Raven said that she and her band needed to leave I decided I wanted to drive them to their place.

“ Uhm…Raven, I can have Roy and myself give you a ride…if you want?”

“ YES! I mean if you want to?”

“ Sure, but I hope you don’t mind riding on a motorcycle?” she stared at me as if I was crazy. ‘I don’t ride on motorcycles’ is what she probable wanted to say, but what came out was a small yelp like a helpless puppy...it was kind of cute.

“ I’ll take that as a yes. Come on,” I said to her as the six of us made our way to Roy’s car and my motorcycle.

At the parking lot to Alan’s house Richard’s POV (For now)

As soon as I got on I could see that she didn’t want to get on.

“ Come on Raven. You don’t want your manager to be mad at you when he finds out…”

“ Oh shut up and give me a helmet.” I did as she requested and I hand her a nice black helmet with gold spider web pattern on the helmet. Roy had the guys and Kori in his car, which is a red Jaguar. As soon as Raven was on I speeded off leaving Roy eating my dust…literally. As we were speeding down the street trying to get her to where she had her practices when she wasn’t on tour.

“ We’re almost there. It’s right around this…corneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!” Is what I heard her say as I skid around the corner she was talking about.

“ Stop here! STOP HERE!” I heard her yell as we came to a sudden stop. She immediately jumped off my bike and threw my helmet at me and I think she started puking over by the gate of the house where we stopped at, and it didn’t look or sound pretty.

“ You okay?” I asked her as I took off my helmet and sat the two helmets back on my bike and walked over to her crouching form.

“ Do I look okay to you?”

“ I always thought you were…”

“ Hey guys!” Roy shouted at us as he interrupted me from getting anywhere with Raven.

“ Hey Roy,” I said to him through my gritted teeth. I then glared at him. I think he got the message because he didn’t come running up to us like the others.

“ Thanks for the ride guys,” the guys said as they ran inside.

“ Thanks… Rich, it’s been a real…slice,” she said to me as he was repeating a line from Meg from the movie ‘Hercules.’

“ I’m glad you like me. So, do you want to give me your number?”

“ Whoa, I never said I liked you, but you can give me your number.” I smiled at her and wrote my number in her hand.

“ See you later Rich,” she said to me as she gave blew me a kiss. She made me dumb struck, as I was only able to gawk at her as she left me to look dumb in front of Kori and Roy. I believe Kori closed my mouth and said, “ We should be going before their manager returns and sees that we were at his house.”

“ You’re right let’s go.”

“ Ooh d**k’s got a whittle celebrity crush.”

“ Shut it Roy,” I said to him as I put on my helmet and drove off.

Inside the Alan’s house (Raven’s POV Darn it!)

As soon as we got inside Alan wasn’t there thank goodness. We all were back in the room where we last were before Alan left. I picked up my guitar and the others were by theirs.

“ All right guys we have to start playing before uptight…”

“ Uh…Rae?”

“ He’s behind me isn’t he?” My two dumb founded friends nodded. I could feel Alan’s nasty hot breath going down my back, which made my skin crawl as I turned to look at him, “ Hey Alan, how was your trip?”

“ There were no flights to Paris today. How far did you three get this time?”

“ What are you talking about?”

“ You three left this house again didn’t you?”

“ Uh…Well…” Gar was about to kill us all if I didn’t say, “ We were here the whole time practicing. We were waiting for you.” I was lying through my teeth.

“ Why…I’m so proud of you three,” he said as he was getting a little to close to me for comfort.

“ Hold it right their happy boy. You know that in my contract it says that you can not at anytime touch and or show any affection to my delicate body,” Alan looked ticked off,
“ You have to read the fine print on these things Al. Now guys let’s started from the top.”

We then started practicing one of our old songs called, ‘Don’t wanna be your lover.’ After we practice the song Alan looked at us funny like he knew we left.

“ Are you three sure that you didn’t leave?”

“ I’m positive Alan. We didn’t leave this room,” I said to him with a very fake smile I could do towards him.

“ I don’t believe you.”

“ What could I do to prove that we didn’t leave this room?”

“ Well…”

“ Anything, but that.” Vic then pulled me to the side and whispered, “ Rae, I don’t want to die. I’m too young and handsome to die by the likes of him. Please Rae, it’s probable just a hug.”

“ I don’t know I have a feeling it’s more than just a hug.”

“ Ahem,” Alan sounded to be growing impatient.

“ Okay what is it Alan?”

“ I want a…”