Bea a Rock Star

By Lizzie Prosser

Click. Click. Tap. Tap.

Ooo it’s nine in the afternoon, your eyes are the size of the moon.

The sounds of true Rock Band heroes cut the tension on the action-packed July night. After a day of writing, researching and interviewing at the Flint Hills Publications Workshop and then chowing down on ice cream and cookies, everyone was anxiously awaiting the main event of the night. The event that would separate the amateurs from the professional performers. The Rock Band competition.

The rules were simple and straight forward: rock your hardest, don’t fail and don’t get booed off stage.

Bea Tretbar apprehensively paced across the room. She had agreed to sing with one of the bands at the last minute.

As the first band, “Tom Tom and the Navigators,” finished with a bang, Bea prepared to rock out with everything she had. The only way she agreed to sing was if the band played a song she already knew. The drummer, bassist and guitarist all took their places in front of the wide screen, and Bea took her position in the center of the floor. They settled on “Nine in the Afternoon” by one of Bea’s favorite bands “Panic! at the Disco.”

Awaiting her performance, her friends looked up in excitement from the front row. The song started. Turning away from the screen, Bea bashfully started the song with no help from the glowing words on the screen.

Smirking as she flawlessly recited the lines, she warned her friend Brooke Urzendowski not to make her laugh mid sentence while she jokingly serenaded her.

She finished the song with no mistakes while frolicking around the room. Everyone cheered and applauded, and Bea with an enormous smile turned to go join her friends turned groupies.

“I’m really glad I did it” Bea said. “It was a lot more fun getting out there and being a part of it instead of just sitting and watching with everyone else.”

Lizzie Prosser is a senior at Marian High School and a student in the advanced writing class at the Flint Hills Publications Workshop.