Fanboy Introductions!

When the girl spoke up, he could hear a slight difference in her voice when she spoke from the Hayley in interviews. Now that he looked at her eyes they were shaped somewhat differently, and her ears were a bit different as well. But her smile was the exact same, the way it stretched across her lips and had her laugh accompany it. Zak felt himself beginning to blush – which always looked awful on his pale skin – and hugged himself with his hands.

”I – uh – “ Crap. Where to go from here? She must get that often. It must annoy her. At least, that was what he thought until she said she wished she was her. He chanced a look at her again, his eyes blue and wide. ”O—oh... sorry. I’m just... you look like... Hayley... so I...” He looked aside, at a bush not too far away. Her genuinely apologetic expression bore into Zak like a knife. ”I’m just a big fan. You probably get that a lot.”

Zak wasn’t surprised she was often mistaken for Hayley, but to hear she was actually an impersonator? He blinked at that fact. Roux was an interesting name. She did look like Roux fix her, just like Hayley did.

”Oh – uh – I don’t need to be creepy like that.” Zak said, worried that Roux was making fun of his obsession until she mentioned being a fan of Hayley Williams herself. He looked around – no one was really focused on them. Slowly, he took the seat across from her, wary she had friends who would come and kick him out. ”You... impersonate Hayley? When did you start doing that? Do you perform at open mics or something?”

Zak’s brows rose when she sat it had been three years. Three years... he had been 14. Two years before that was when he’d first gotten into Paramore. At 14 was the height of Zak’s interest in the band, and the height of his interest in scene style. It gave him a sense of himself, which had been missing from his childhood of being forced to do what he father wanted. He counted Paramore as one of the groups that helped give him the strength to change himself.

”Oh. When Paramore first came out, were you interested because you looked like Hayley? Or did you only realize the similarity after you got into the music?”

She performed her own music? Zak wondered if the style was similar to Paramore. Did she have a band? ”So you do your own music, too? Is it a different style than Hayley’s, or the same genre? Like...” He wondered if she’d take the comment as him implying she just tried to rip her off. That wasn’t how he’d meant it! ”I mean, like the same rock style. Or do you like acoustic things?”