Just My Luck

The President nodded at Suoh and Suoh grabbed a guitar from behind the desk. The President smiled and said "to satisfy you, Kenzie Leota, we will have him play here. Now" Mick took the guitar Suoh had and plucked a few strings to check the tuning. When he was satisfied he started to play a simple rock ballad.

Kenzie nodded, with no sign she'd ever been angry. "He's good! I had a feeling. Now we should get to rehearsing." She grabbed Mick's arm. "If there's nothing else, I'll show him where we can practice." Diego shook his head at Kenzie's bipolar behavior.

Suoh run to catch up with Kenzie as he yelled "W-wait! Leota-San, go easy on him! He just got here!" The President laughed as Suoh left and said "My, he is quite the runner"

Kenzie led Mick to the room where their instruments were set up. "I guess we'll have to rerecord what we've already done for the album, but first we'd better get you ready for the debut." She dug through her bag in the corner and pulled out the sheet music. "This is the song we're performing."

"Spiffy song" Mick said as he looked over the sheet music. He got a guitar and said "I'll git right to it"

"Spiffy?" Kenzie looked at Diego. "He called it spiffy. In that hot Aussie way. I think I'm in love." Diego just raised an eyebrow at her, bemused. She turned back to Mick. "Will you learn it faster on your own, or do you want us to run through it with you?"

"I'd learn fasta if ya ran through it with me once" Mick replied with a smile.

Kenzie smiled back and took her place at the keyboard. She looked over the sheet music first, making some improvements now that they had two musicians, then handed it back. She played through the intro once so Mick could hear it, then they all started into it as a band.

Mick made a few mistakes the first run through, but was pretty fast at learning the song. When they were done he turned to Kenzie and... the skittish man called him 'Reyes-San' so... Mr. Reyes? Anyway, he turned to them, gave a thumbs up and said "Aces!"

Kenzie grinned. "You're good. We can practice some more, but we'd better see our costume guy first so he can put something together for you."

"Alright" Mick replied. When they got to the costume guy's room he was sewing away at a costume.

((Kenzie or Diego's gonna have to get Aldo's attention))

Diego strode over unnoticed. When he was right behind Aldo he put a hand on his shoulder and said his name.

((Suddenly, Diego!))

Without flinching, or even looking away from his task, he replied "Mm?"

Diego waited for Aldo to pause so he wouldn't mess up his work, then took both his shoulders and spun him to face Kenzie and Mick. Kenzie grinned. "We've got a new band-mate for you to dress."

Aldo circled Mick, getting a good look at him, and purred "Ooh, I like" He grabbed a measuring tape and took Mick's measurements. As he was being measured Mick introduced himself "My name's Mick Bowie" Aldo finished measuring and draped an arm around Mick's shoulders. He smiled and said "Aldo Wells"

Kenzie chuckled and pulled Aldo away. "I claim this one. You can have Diego," she muttered out of earshot of the others. She shot him a playful grin.

Aldo swallowed hard when he thought about Diego. And him. Together. He shook his head and shrugged, making it seem like it was part of his usual act, and said "I dunno. He's a looker, but does he have a specific flare... what do you two think?"

Kenzie gladly took the excuse to look Mick over more closely, but Diego went straight to the desk with pens and paper, trying to come up with something to go with the phoenix on his outfit. He held up a wolf design for the others to see.

Aldo's eyes lit up when he saw the design. He grabbed a piece of paper and drew a design for a shirt that mirrored the design for Diego's shirt, but this was for an open vest. The only alteration to the color was the black was changed to white and the vest was black. He showed Diego and asked "what do you think?"

Diego nodded thoughtfully. Kenzie came up and waved a hand in Aldo's face. "Hello. I know you only have eyes for him, but we'd like to see it too."

"Here it is" he showed the sketch to Kenzie and Mick. Mick looked it over and said "well... won't hafta worry 'bout the heat"

Kenzie whistled softly. "Nice." She looked at Aldo and Diego. "You guys make a good team."

Aldo smiled and went on to designing the pants.

Kenzie grabbed Mick and Diego and dragged them out of the room again. "We should practice the song for the rest of the day, but after that Diego, what say you invite me and Mick over for dinner?" Diego nodded, used to Kenzie inviting herself. She looked at Mick. "Sound good to you?"

Mick shrugged and said "so long as I ain't imposin'"