And the Stars up Above - Chapter 2

March 24th, 1986
Jason

“We’ve only just started this band and um… well, it’s just the two of us. And both of us play the guitar so we’re not much of a band. At least not yet; we’re looking for a drummer, a bassist and a singer. Without any luck though, everybody seems to be playing the guitar. We could have a band with like six guitar players now, but that wouldn’t be much of a band either, right?” Mike said to Jason who was walking beside him. They were on their way to Billie Joe’s place and Mike had been going on about Billie Joe and their band since they left the school. Things had gone great during lunch, or at least Jason thought they had. Mike was just as fun as he had thought, and Jason and Billie seemed to get along. Billie hadn’t seemed to mind that Mike had invited someone new to have lunch with them, something Jason had been a bit worried about.
Billie and Mike were supposed to have band practise after school and Mike had invited Jason to come and listen to them. Mike seemed to be very proud of their band, even though it was just him and Billie and the only thing they played so far was covers. Mike just went on and on about the band, failing to notice Jason’s lack of interest.
“Well, Billie has talked about me playing the bass, but I can’t! I mean, I don’t know how to and I don’t own a bass, so I just don’t see how he could even picture me as the bassist. I mean… can you?” Mike turned his head to Jason, waiting for his answer. Jason was looking up in the sky and hadn’t noticed that Mike had asked him a question. Jason felt Mike’s eyes on him so he turned his face to him to see what was up. It looked like Mike wanted him to say something.
“Umm, yeah sure, absolutely!” Jason said, hoping that what ever Mike had said was something he was supposed to agree to. Mike’s face broke into a huge smile.
“Really? You can?” Jason relaxed, he had said the right thing. No wait , Jason turned cold inside,'You can?’, did Mike just say ‘You can?’. Oh no! What if he had asked if I can play the guitar? What to do, what to do? Jason thought hard about how to get out of this mess and therefore missed the rest of what Mike had to say too.
“I would be cool to play the bass actually, a bit different, you know? Everybody plays the guitar but few plays the bass… Yeah, maybe I should switch... Maybe I should…” and Mike turned silent for the first time of the walk. While Mike stated this, Jason came to the conclusion that he should just pretend that he had never agreed to whatever it was he had agreed to.