DAISY JONES AND THE SIX
003. | "come and get it"

Chuck Loving made the decision to leave the Dunne Brothers in 1971, claiming that he needed a future, and he didn't believe the band would go anywhere where Billy and the boys did. Chuck left for college the next day, leaving the boys without a bass player.

BILLY: We were opening for The Winters that Thursday, and we were left without a bassist. I wouldn't cancel our first real show, not because Chuck gave us less than a week's notice. So Eddie offered to take over the bass.

EDDIE: I didn't offer. I didn't want to play bass. I was told, but I did it for the band. I assumed we'd get a new bassist, and I'd be back on rhythm in no time, but that's not what happened.

BILLY: With Eddie being on Bass, we were still missing a rhythm guitarist, so I had no choice.

GRAHAM: Jenny was finally allowed to join the band, only because Camila convinced him. So we asked her, Eddie wasn't too impressed with this decision, but like I've said. She's good, and she's really good.

JENNY: I didn't jump for joy when they asked me. They should have asked me from the beginning.

Jenny opened the door that led to her bedroom, and after it creaked open, she came face to face with 5 people sitting in her bedroom. She jumped back in surprise, not expecting to have such a crowd.

"What the fuck are you all doing in here?" Jenny asked, just wanting to take a nap before dinner and would like to do that without people watching her. "The boys have something to ask you." Camila smiled.

Looking at all the boys, she had no clue what they'd be asking for, Graham looked excited, Billy looked uneasy, Eddie looked slightly pissed, and Warren, well, Warren had the same expression he always had. "Can we hurry it up? I just wanted a nap." She groaned.

"Well, Jenny -" Bill began to speak before being quickly cut off by Graham. "We want you in the band!" Graham exclaimed.

JENNY: He was the most excited I was allowed in the band, couldn't tell you why, but he had been fighting for it for a while.

"Sorry, what? Doing what?" She asked, shocked by this news, but for all, she knew, she was going to be their roadie or something like that. "Rhythm guitar," Eddie mumbled.

Jenny looked at them as if they all had two heads. "Isn't that Eddie's role in the band?" She asked. The last thing she needed to do was add tension to this band. "Look, Jen, Chuck quit the band, and we have the biggest gig of our career in four days. Eddie swapped to bass, and we need you on Rhythm?" Billy explained the whole situation.

"And you're okay with this?" She looked at Eddie directly. Over the last year, she's realized there has always been a slight issue between the two boys, and she wasn't looking to get in the middle of it. "Sure." He sighed

EDDIE: It's not that I didn't want her in the band, okay, trust me, I did. Sh-she was so damn talented and gorgeous and nice, but as I said, I didn't wanna be on bass.

JENNY: I could see it on his face. He was upset, but I couldn't not take the opportunity. My dream was the same as all of theirs, so I said...

"Okay, I will join the band, under one circumstance" She slightly agreed. "Whatever you need, man," Warren responded with a joyful voice.

"I need a teacher, I've listened to the songs, and I've watched, but I don't know the chords. So for the next four days, you will be helping me perfect it." She pointed to Eddie.

JENNY: I knew the songs, I knew the chords, but Eddie looked like he needed something to take his mind off of it, so I made him my teacher.

And in 1971, Jenny Dunne joined the Dunne Brothers.

EDDIE: The next day, I went over to teach Jenny. Though I was absolutely pissed off about the whole guitar thing, I was slightly excited to go practice with Jen.

Eddie came to the house about 10 minutes after seven, his guitar was across his shoulder, and he had a small smile whipped across his lips. "You know the way to my room," Jenny smirked, recalling the incident of yesterday. "Right, the yellow comforter and those Beatles posters on the wall." He made fun of her.

"You can't say shit. You own Abbey Road now." She smiled at him as she made her way up the stairs and into her room. She sat down on her floor and motion downed for him to sit on the floor as well. "Really?" He asked.

"Sit your ass down, rockstar."

So he did as he was told and pulled a notebook out of his guitar case. "These are my notes, chords and all." He sighed, the energy shifting into the room "I'm sorry." Jenny whispered.

"It's not your fault, Jen, but since you are my replacement, let's make sure you nail it." He patted her on the shoulder, and they began. He would play it, and she would play it back for him. They played over and over and over again until her fingers were raw.

But there was one note she couldn't quite get. She tried again and again and again until Eddie placed his hand on the neck of the guitar. "I can't get it. I just, the transition is so fast." She groaned, hitting her head against her boxspring. "Come here, I'll show you." Jenny twisted her body, and her back faced to Eddie's front.

She stared down at her fingers so she could watch and studied the position of where he placed her fingers. Though it became harder and harder to focus when she could feel his warm chest against her back and his hands wrapped around hers. She couldn't focus on anything, especially when he started to talk, and his breath tickled her neck.

She looked up at him as she looked down at hers, and brown met blue. She never noticed the hints of gold in his eyes; they were so pretty.

He got a bit closer to her until Jenny cleared her throat. "I think I got it," Jen whispered and turned around to face him. Playing the chords back to him perfectly, and he just smiled at her.

They continued till midnight playing around with beats, rhythms and different chords. Eventually, it just became a game of questions. "What's your full name," Jenny asked him.

"Edward Dimitris Roundtree, what's yours?" He quickly responded, "Okay, Edward, it's Jennifer Reese Dunne."

"Favourite colour Jennifer?" He asked his question back, "Sunset Orange, not too bright, not too dull, just the perfect sunset colour. What's yours?"

"Like a burnt red."

JENNY: Eddie stayed until two in the morning before he decided to go home. It's one of my favourite memories from those days. Everything was just so simple.

1971 The Dunne Brothers performed with Jenny for the first time.

JENNY: What do I remember about that first performance? Well, I met the girl who would soon after become my best friend, and we decided to get the fuck out of Pittsburgh; I'd say a pretty monumental day.

Her hands were shaking profusely as she watched in awe from the audience. It wasn't the band that was that good. It was the keyboardist; as a girl in the 1970s, it was so rare to find a female musician in a male-dominated business.

The girl had a presence she had never seen before, so she just watched, more like studying the way she moved, and when they got off, she ran to the stairs realizing it would be time to go on soon.

But before she could get up to the stage, Jenny spotted her brother Graham talking to the same keyboardist she had been watching during The Winter's full set.

"Hey! You guys were amazing up there." Jenny told her, and a joyful smile appeared on the other girl's face.

"Oh, thanks. Are you up next?" The other girl asked, "Yeah, I'm Jenny, by the way." Jenny stuck her hand out for the other girl, and she grabbed it. "Karen."

KAREN: That's the day I met the girl who would change my life.
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authors note!
I actually quite like how this chapter came out so I hope you love it <3