Your Tempo by Kat Tobin

Author:Kat Tobin [Tobin, Kat]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-06-09T23:00:00+00:00

We walked over to the PKD house, and I was quiet from how much nervous energy was thrumming in my veins. The show at The Flamingo had been one thing, but PKD’s Halloween party was different.

Raucous, huge, and totally legendary.

Resting Bitch Pace would be set up for the opener, playing our set before Mark and his band headlined. Tasha had spared no fury in complaining about that for the past week.

“Ready?” Theo said, winking at me before we turned to climb the steps up the frat house’s front stoop. Music was already thumping from inside, vibrating a light fixture above us. Although it was dark outside, enough lights were streaming outward from the windows to highlight Theo’s face.

His dark eyebrows were knitted together, a wordless concern playing across his eyes.

“You bet your ass,” I said, feeling none of the confidence I tried to show.

And we walked in.

I hadn’t been before, had only guessed what to expect based on rumors and party stories overheard in class. Nothing had prepared me for the throng inside, wild and raucous, lit with strobe lights in one corner and orange-toned party lanterns above the foyer. I took a deep breath.

“Let’s get some drinks,” I said. That way I could calm my nerves enough to give the show my best.

I wasn’t normally this nervous. Granted, our shows weren’t normally this big. Still, I suspected some of the anxiety was coming from the fact Theo was there, and not just to review. To listen. To watch me as I played. To support me, somehow.

Would he like it?

What his review had said and what he’d told me later were different things. Plus, I’d prepared something special.

Theo poured me a beer from the keg he found in the kitchen and got one for himself. He tapped our plastic cups together in a wordless cheers, then drank his in one gulp.

“That’ll help me weather this douche hurricane,” he said. I followed his eyes to the side of the room where a group of guys was playing beer pong, two of them dressed as ‘nerds’ in skin-tight button-up shirts with costume glasses, and the other two in indistinguishable costumes likely meant to be sports-related. They just looked like they’d come back from practice.

“Easy,” I said. “We don’t have to enjoy ourselves but it’d help.”

Theo just sighed.

“Ok, our set’s starting soon, so I should meet Summer and Tasha. You’ll be ok?”

He nodded. The last I saw of Theo before I went to my drum kit was him pouring himself another beer from the keg.

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