ChapterThree-Ethan OverLooked

March 12th, 2008

  It's a few days later, and former UTurn member Ethan Jackson was working at a posh coffee-shop near Harvard. He has graduated Beacon Hill High School, and is now majoring in law, with a minor in theatre. His parents are supporting him financially, but not for everything. He had to foot half of the bill for tuition, fees, and room and board. On top of that, he couldn't join the frat clubs. He had to focus on his studies and work. He's doing both work-study and an off-campus job.

   Ever since he got Libby in UTurn, he thought she would destroy the band. She apparently didn't, so he had to control the band by paying Maurice to amp up the band's two images: Extra kiddy UTurn, and porno UTurn. When he saw that the band had supposedly "split up," he felt satisfied.

   He was at the counter when he was getting the order from a certain costumer. He saw that it was ex-UTurn Riley Brown and her boyfriend Marcus. They both saw Ethan, but they only gave him their orders, and went to a table.

   Soon Ethan was on break. He sat at a table near Marley (Marcus/Riley). As he drank his second black coffee, he listened in on the couple.

  They were talking about how a band named "7th Anthem" was going to Manchester, UK to audition for a show called The X Factor. Ethan wondered who this band was, and how this couple knew about them. This must've been a local band, but why would they go to England to audition for a TV show?

   Feeling restless, Ethan got up from his table, and walked over to the couple. He asked them, "So, who is this 7th Anthem band? Do I know them?"

 With that, Riley and Marcus gave him a dirty look. Riley asked him, "What were you doing, eavesdropping on us?"

   Ethan asked nicely, "What, I can't find out who this mysterious band is?"

  Then the couple got up from their table, and walked out of the coffee-shop. Ethan, on the other hand, was determined to find out who this band was.

   Later that night, Ethan was in his dorm room with his roommate. Ethan was on his laptop, trying to research 7th Anthem. He found their MySpace page, and realized who this band was: UTurn!

   He started to burn with anger. He thought they had split up, but it turned out that they were still together. They only changes they made was the name, their look, and that there were seven people in the group.

  Then he looked up the British TV show, The X Factor. He found out that the show was like American Idol, but it allowed groups. He put the two together: UTurn-now-7th Anthem are hoping to catch a break in the UK by going on The X Factor.

   Ethan then looked up from his laptop, and faced his roommate, Kevin. He asked Kevin, who was a computer administrator major, "Kev, do you know how to hack into computers and cell phones?"

   Kevin looked up from his own laptop, and asked him suspiciously, "Why are you asking me that?"

  Ethan then took out his wallet, and showed Kevin one of his numerous credit cards. He said to him, "I'm willing to pay you to hack into the phones and computers of my old band."

  Ethan turned his laptop towards Kevin, and showed a picture of 7th Anthem. Kevin asked him, "Okay, why do you want me to hack into their phones and computers? Besides, if you want to know what they're doing, you just call them or something."

    "Yeah, that's the thing," Ethan said. "They all hate me, including that Hawthorne."

    "Who?"

    "You don't know who Andrew Hawthorne is?"

    "Kind of. I'm not really a fan of UTurn, so I don't pay attention to them. Why, do you know him?"

    Ethan grumbled, "Yeah, I went to school with him."

    "So, what happened? You two had some falling out or something?"

    Then Ethan said hastily, "Just hack into their damn phones and computers!"

   Kevin was taken back by this reaction, but he agreed to this plot. Then Ethan went back to his laptop, and started looking for hotels and airfare.