Rock 'n' Roll Rebel by Ginger Rue

Author:Ginger Rue
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781585369454
Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press

Chapter Twenty-Six

On the upside, people at school started talking to Tig again.

On the downside, all they wanted to talk about was the band. How long had they had a band? What kind of music did they play? Who was in it? And, of course, why had they canceled on Kyra’s party?

Tig realized that the idea of having a band was a lot easier than the reality. It seemed that everyone at school looked at her differently . . . sort of with admiration and interest.

But despite the temptation to exaggerate (how she wanted to say something like, Yeah, we’ve only got about twenty-nine songs on the set list so far or I’m working on some original music so we can lock up a recording contract), Tig downplayed the whole thing. Of course, she didn’t feel the need to overshare either. When asked why the gig had been canceled, she simply replied, “Our guitarist is going to be out of town.” Which, of course, was true. She just omitted And we know only one song, and sometimes Kyra and I even flub that one.

After all, some things were better left unsaid.

That was what Tig thought.

Haley did not, however, share that opinion.

Before the bell rang in math class and the teacher was out policing the halls, Justin Watkins, a second-stringer on the football team, started in on Tig. “Haley tells me your band stinks.”

Tig felt her face go red, but she tried to keep her cool. “Oh, she does, does she?”

“Yeah,” Justin continued. “She said y’all aren’t even a real band and that you don’t even have a lead singer because she quit.”

“Haley’s saying she quit our band?”

“Yeah. Said she quit because the band stinks so bad.”

“So last week the story was that I bullied her out of the band, and this week the story is that she quit. Do you see the inconsistency, Justin?”

Justin looked confused.

Tig continued. “How could I have kicked her out of the band if she quit?”

Logic, however, was lost on Justin and, apparently, the rest of the student body. It was like a bad soap opera where the writers forget the previous week’s storylines when they write new scripts. The fickle middle-school public didn’t care that Haley’s stories contradicted each other; the truth was much less intriguing than the stories the Bots told.

Tig cursed herself for forgetting to pack a drink that day. She had no choice but to get in the lunch line to buy a carton of milk. The Bots were way ahead of her, but upon seeing her, they ditched their spot to join her at the line’s end.

“How humiliating about your band,” Regan said.

“There’s nothing humiliating about my band,” Tig said. She looked at Haley. “At least not anymore.” There was a twitter of oohs from the audience.

“There must be,” Regan continued, “if you’re afraid to play Kyra’s party.”

“We’re not afraid of anything. Our guitarist is going to be out of town.”

“And I guess there’s only one person in town who knows how to play a guitar,” said Regan.

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