Prologue
Natalie Scatorccio (ex-Lead Guitar of Aurora): Nothing shaped my life more than my time in Aurora.
Travis Martinez (ex-Bassist of Aurora): When the band ended, everyone knew it had to happen.
Travis: …It didn’t hurt any less.
Misty Quigley (ex-Keyboardist of Aurora): Lottie—she was always something else. In those final days, she’d say, “You’re all fading away.” And she was right. We were almost ghosts.
Van Palmer(ex-Drummer of Aurora): We had our moment. It was good while it lasted. Good things never last.
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The Start.
Travis: Nat was this tiny thing in school, always carrying that beat-up Walkman, blasting dirty rock like it was the only thing keeping her alive. I asked if I could listen.
Natalie: I said no. I hated sharing my earphones.
Travis: From then on, I knew we’d get along.
Natalie : Travis became a familiar face after that. He’d sit with me at lunch, talking about some band I had to listen to. Then I shared my earphones with him, and he said the thing that would change our lives forever.
Travis : I said, “We should start a band.”
Van: Nat went to camp one summer. We bonded. Never really separated after that.
Natalie: I wasn’t supposed to be there. I didn’t have money for lunch, much less for summer camps.
Van: Somehow, she got a fake ID so she could work there.
Natalie: Caught Van smoking a cigarette in the middle of the night. We shared it and talked about music and how much we wanted out of Wiskayok.
Misty: They needed a keyboardist. That's where I came in.
Van: That’s where things get weird.
Misty: I prefer to say interesting.
Travis: Then we met Lottie.