It was time.

Ashton sat at a table in a smallish room with a few other people. Auditions for a new lead singer were starting soon and he was honestly just waiting to see that one kid.

“Ashton, are you listening?” someone had asked as a hand waved in front of his face.

Ashton blinked and looked over to his manager, “what?”

“Ashton, you’re supposed to be listening to this conversation. You know we need your input the most.”

“That may be true, but the only thing my input really matters for is selecting the new singer.”

“Oh shut it ya elf.”

Ashton smirked and leaned into her face slowly, “we aren’t kids anymore Kimmy, that doesn’t work.”

She giggled and pushed his face away, “okay your gayness” which only made him chuckle in response.

Dan squeezed in between the two of them “I still doubt he’s gonna show up.”

“You tend to doubt me quite often.”

“Well he seemed shy. I don’t think he is the type to spontaneously show up at some random audition.”

“Don’t judge anyone by their appearance Daniel. If I was like that, you wouldn’t even be in this band.”

“Aw shit, um, I guess… You’re right.”

Ashton reached up and ruffled Dan’s hair with a chuckle as he looked over to the last member of the group, “playing big, strong, silent type again Derek?”

He looked at him and then proceeded to look at the profiles of the auditionees. “We need to get serious. We have several people to listen to today and we can’t slack off when choosing.”

Ashton, Dan, and Kimmy all pouted at him, “party pooper.”

Daniel went back to his seat on the other side of Derek and sat down, drumming a little on the table. Kimmy grabbed the signup sheet and stood up, going to call in the first auditionee.

Couple hours go by as they were finally getting down to the last of the auditions. Ashton wasn’t really interested in any of them. They were all okay, but they just didn’t have the spark that would fit into the band.

Kimmy comes and sits down after calling in the last auditionee. Ashton looked up to see a familiar tanned boy walk in as he smirked and shifted in his seat, watching him.

Daniel went silent for a moment as he noticed him, not expecting to be wrong. Kimmy looked at him and smiled.

“Hello handsome. What’s your name?”

“Hello, um... I’m Leon Cain.”

Leon made eye contact with Ashton as he blushed, getting a little more nervous than he already was. Ashton only smirked in response to him as he propped an elbow on the table and rested his chin in his palm.

“So, what song you gonna sing for us?”

“Oh, um, I was thinking of singing Sugar, We’re Going Down by Fall Out Boy.”

“Ooh, nice choice. Go ahead then.”

“Am I more than you bargained for yet? I've been dying to tell you anything you want to hear, 'cause that's just who I am this week. Lie in the grass next to the mausoleum. I'm just a notch in your bedpost, ut you're just a line in a song.”

Daniel was tapping his fingers along in beat as the kid was singing. Derek was even nodding along. Ashton smirked as he stood up as he walked up, grabbing a guitar from the wall. You think they would hold band auditions in a room with no instruments?

Daniel and Derek watched Ashton as they started to follow, no one sang like this kid, they liked his voice.

Daniel hurried over to the drums and Derek picked up a bass. Leon seemed confused but as soon as he hit the chorus, everyone began playing along.

“We’re going down, down in an earlier round and sugar we’re going down swinging. I’ll be your number one with a bullet, a loaded god complex, cock it and pull it…”

They continued on playing as they seemed like a total band for that song. Kimmy got excited as she was dancing around in her seat. Leon felt a rush that he never felt before, not knowing what to do with himself.

As the song finished, all the guys were sweating from the energy. Derek was pleased, but still staying silent. Daniel grinned and gave a thumbs up over to Ashton. Kimmy ran over and jumped onto Leon, hugging him.

“That was amazing!”

“Oh, thank you.”

Ashton looked to the other members as they nodded at him. He put the guitar away and walked over to Leon, Kimmy peeling away from him. Ashton extends a hand out to him.

“Welcome to the band handsome.”