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Hope (Kangaroo) band is gone though.

But their influence on the Planetary Band is still continuing and fermenting.

Lance recognized what Josh said before leaving.

A real band has to be original, and without originality, it's like a dead fire that burns out quickly.

But whether it is Baldwin, Theo, or James, they haven't lighted up their talents in this area for the time being.

Even Lance's own acclaimed talent is nothing more than coming up with a few small melody fragments. In fact, it is not so easy to smoothly combine these scattered melody fragments into a beautiful song with a unified style. .

Lance has entered a difficult creative bottleneck period.

One day, in the hut that Baldwin was renting, he sat solemnly on the only single bed, commanding everyone condescendingly like a tyrant to shut up and not to be disturbed.

Because, he will write a classic song comparable to the Beatles masterpiece Yesterday!

After he finished speaking, he opened a notebook with a solemn expression, put a pen next to it, and began to sit there, hugging the guitar, quietly waiting for the inspiration to come.

Because of his bad temper internally.

Baldwin, who was afraid of disturbing him, went out to smoke; Theo didn't want to sit still, and followed him to the street.

In the end, only James, out of curiosity about creating songs, volunteered to help and stayed.

He sat on the carpet beside the bed, raised his head, smiled excitedly, looked at Lance with admiration, and waited for him to have a sudden flash of inspiration, write quickly, and create some kind of shocking divine comedy!

But an hour later, the notebook was still empty, and Lance looked at the ceiling with a demented expression.

James' adoring gaze disappeared little by little, his expression gradually turned into suspicion, and his smile gradually disappeared.

When Baldwin and Theo were laughing and holding beers, they pushed the door in...

The two people in the room still maintained their previous postures, not changing at all.

Baldwin has always been kind: "Uh, why don't you drink a beer first and think about it?"

Theo laughed directly: "It seems that the goddess of inspiration doesn't like you two bad guys."

Lance jumped to his feet immediately, beating him on the head with his blank notebook in a huff.

Baldwin put down the beer in a hurry and ran over to fight. James ran over and drank the beer he just bought.

As for writing songs...

Forget it, let's make an appointment when the goddess of inspiration is free.

Everyone messed around and quickly got this matter over.

Neither Baldwin, Theo, nor James took this matter seriously, and even comforted Lance with understanding, "It's nothing, not everyone can write songs and compose, let's think of other ways" Similar words .

But their words of comfort may have been in vain.

Because in Lance's mind, there should be such a logic: what is meant by 'not everyone can write songs and compose'?Do I count everyone?Shouldn't I be a fucking genius?

Sometimes people can't be persuaded when they are stubborn.

Especially when this stubborn person is called Lance Winfield...

For several months thereafter, he was obsessed with writing songs and composing music, but he just didn't get the hang of it.

Because he was too obsessed with it, the former top student even did something that was completely unlike him, drawing music scores and writing lyrics on the final exam paper...

As for why it is broken?

You know, in James' heart, Lance is a super top student.

But that's definitely an over-beautification of a scumbag by a scumbag.

In fact, Lance is just smarter than the average kid, better at studying, and knows how to please the teacher.

But now, the band's affairs take up most of his time and energy.Long-term performances and day and night work and rest made him often find various excuses to ask for leave from school and skip classes, which naturally led to a gradual collapse of his academic performance.

It's just that he didn't take it too seriously.

In other words, performance regression is often an unconscious process, and I may not even notice it.

Wait until the day of the exam - oops!

That's right, this time - all subjects are passed.

After Lance got off the examination room, he already knew it.

But he didn't want to tell his parents, so he came up with a daring operation, asking Baldwin to pretend to be his parents and simply come to the school to give him a temporary suspension.

Just what did Baldwin do wrong again?

The poor drummer kept repeating: "I'm only 25, not 35! It's really not 35, do I need to go back to my hometown to get a birth certificate now? Besides, why do you suddenly want to drop out of school? Although I will be very happy if I say this, because you Can focus more on the band, but bro, I don't want you to regret it in the future."

Lance may have been a little moved.

But he still insisted on the idea of ​​dropping out of school.

At this stage, he experienced nearly a hundred performances, felt the joy of performing on stage, and saw the kangaroo band that can tour all over the world. He has gradually lost the boring curriculum and standardized education model in school. Interested.

It's like a baby eagle can soar in the sky and never want to go back to live in the chicken coop.

Although it is warm under the hen's wings.

So, this failed exam was just a fuse.

If he wanted to make up for it, with his ingenuity, it would be easy to make up those missed courses, and then make up a lie so that the teacher who always believed in him would give him a chance to make up the exam.

But he can't figure out what's the point of doing it?

He wants to run a band well, wants to be a great rock guitarist, and wants to take his own band to tour everywhere in the future like the Kangaroo Band, and accept cheers from the audience instead of going to classes and exams. Then follow the wishes of the parents, become an accountant, a dentist, a lawyer and other boring and boring things, dawdling around until middle-aged and bald... Bah bah!

In short, he made up his mind to choose to leave school like his teammates.

It's just out of prudence considerations that he is more inclined to suspend school, which is why he asked Baldwin to pretend to be a parent.

But misfortunes never come singly.

Lance's good luck finally ran out.

One student recognized them performing on the club stage, then told the teacher that he had slipped up.

The principal and teachers of the school were shocked. They looked at him with disappointment, heartache and anger, as if they were looking at a juvenile delinquent who had gone astray and was about to embark on a criminal path.

As for Baldwin...

He was presumably taken as some kind of kidnapper, and the police were not called immediately, probably because there was no evidence.

Please parents, talk, all kinds of tossing.

Fortunately, Lance's mother, Mrs. Winfield, is sensible and open-minded.

Baldwin recounted the heartwarming mother-son conversation afterwards to James and Theo, who were not there.

"Have you made up your mind?"

"Yes."

"Can you make enough money to support yourself?"

"The club is paying me twenty pounds a week now, and it may increase in the future."

"Sounds good, okay then."

"What? You agreed? I thought you wanted me to be an accountant, a lawyer..."

"What are you talking about? Children are not born to please their parents."

The mother thought for a moment and said seriously: "Lance, you're 17, not seven. Now it's not about what we want you to be, it's about what you really want to be .I hope you can do what you like. The premise is that you really think clearly, not on impulse. If you really make up your mind and are determined not to change, then do it. Protect yourself and don't let us worry. Still Yes, I must tell you that life is not so easy, you have a great chance of failure, but don't be afraid. My dear, you are young enough, there are countless opportunities to regret it and do it all over again. As long as the time comes, remember Come back as proudly as today, your father and I are waiting for you to eat at home."

Lance told her solemnly: "I will not fail."

Then, the mother and son hugged, and warmly held hands to go to school.

Lance's mom is absolutely the best mom in the world!

When James heard this, his green eyes almost burst into tears.

He was very excited and asked Lance continuously: "Do you have any sisters in your family? Does your mother have nieces and nieces who are about the same age as me? If not, does your mother have a single sister?"

Lance: "Shut up, no one in my family will take a fancy to your cane!"

At that moment, James was quite lost.

But this has not yet reached its climax.

Baldwin went on to tell what happened next.

Finally, the parents did not object, but the diehard management of the school rejected the practice of retaining student status and suspending school.

Because they stubbornly believe that if Lance has to suspend school due to illness or family changes, the school can barely agree, but they come here to work in some dubious entertainment place and commit suicide. Applying for a leave of absence is simply unreasonable!There is no such precedent in the school!

Lance's parents argued with the school's diehards for two hours, but failed to win back the principal.

Either drop out of school directly; or change from evil to good, and make a clean break with some social idlers (Baldwin: I'm just a drummer), write an examination to admit the mistake, and come back to study and take the exam seriously.

Lance chose to drop out of school directly.

The decision made Lance's mother a little sad.

After all, before this, her son had always been a good student that made his mother proud, so there was a big gap.

Lance knew it himself, so he kept silent.

But at the moment when he walked out of the school, he took the initiative to hug his mother, and said ingeniously: "Don't feel sorry for me, mother. Trust your son, it's nothing that they don't want me. Because... In five years, maybe less than five years, I'm going to make enough money to buy this school with my band."

Baldwin repeated the latter sentence verbatim: "Lance says I'm going to make enough money to buy this school with my band."

He was very excited, as if he saw that the Planetary Band finally returned to space and began to travel the universe.

"Wow~!"

James and Theo also sighed in unison and applauded.

Excellent students drop out differently than poor students.

The plot is so ups and downs.

Lance was inspired by this, and began to write furiously in his notebook, as if his boring life finally had a purpose.

The goal is: to buy a school in five years.

At this moment, James finally realized that the superficially shrewd Lance might be a...

——Spending five years to make money just to buy a broken school?

——Can’t eat, drink, live, play, let alone makelove, why buy it?Purely for charity?

...is an idiot.

That's right!