Good Girls & Bad Girls

The Bad Girl

Sara is a bad girl. She was raised to take care of herself first and everyone else second. And because of how she was raised. She was always told that helping anyone and everyone can put you at the disadvantage and so,she didn’t risk it. Her plans and goals were far too big and too important to risk just because someone couldn’t help themselves. But as she grew up Sara learned that helping the right people, the ones that could return the favor, she could give herself a better advantage so that’s what she did. And it worked. By the end of her freshman year in college she had become her music professor’s teachers assistant and was invited to meet guest speakers days or hours before anyone else. She always made sure to drop her name and give a copy of her older songs as a gift to anyone interested.

By her sophomore year she and her brother were invited to fly out to California to audition for a band that was looking to clean their image by discovering a diamond in the rough talent. When they arrived at the audition they immediately accepted Sean, it was something about his dark eyes, thick eyebrows and the scars he got from an old motorcycle accident that made him seem like a badass rock god and he was grateful for the spot. 

Sara on the other hand went through a week long audition session. 

The first day was early Friday morning and her first ‘challenge’ was to sing a few covers of songs she’d never heard before. They would give her the music for it and play a short clip of the instrumental then say, well get to it. She had learned and sang five songs over the course of six hours. They were impressed and put her name on a list of potential candidates.

On Saturday she had to perform some of the bands songs but since she didn’t know any they sent her back to the cheap motel she was staying in and bumped her name lower on the list. 

Sunday she had to play an original song so Sara decided to sing ‘The Moment’ a song that she and her brother wrote in the eighth grade. The song itself was beautiful and catchy and her performance matched perfectly. The original band members were ready to move her up on the list until Sean whispered that the song wasn’t hers and that she stole it from him. 

“Dude, that’s your sister. You shouldn’t rat her out like that man.” The lead singer of the band called Sean out after they dismissed Sara. 

“She’s a thief, if she can’t come up with her own original work she should own up to it.” Sean had always been intimidated by Sara’s talents but he never admitted to it, instead he relied on screwing her up in ways similar to this.

“Nah dude, if you’d rat out your own blood why would we trust you not to screw us over too?” Sean didn’t get a chance to respond. 

“We can’t. You and your sister go find someone else to put y’all in the spotlight ‘cause we dont help snitches.” That’s how the two ended up stuck in California. 

Sean and Sara argued the entire night. Sara was upset that her own brother would f*ck her over in such a way and Sean was desperately trying to make it her fault, You should’ve used your own god d*mned song, That’s all he could say and that’s all he repeated until Sara kicked him out of their motel room and told him to figure his own s**t out.