Cranberry Vodka (Billie Eilish)

-22-

I was nervous to sing in front of the whole class and cursed myself that I offered to sing with Billie. At least the alcohol helped a little bit. When I looked over to her, I was surprised to see her smile at me. She must have been nervous too, or drunk, or both.

"You ready?" Lauren asked me. because I probably looked terrified.

"Not at all, but let's do this," I said.

"Just pretend we're alone" Billie whispered.

We arranged ourselves in a semicircle. Billie and I at the ends, Lauren and Maddie in the middle. I tried not to look at the class and luckily Lauren spoke for us.

"We wrote a song, it's called Bellyache and it's about em-just listen"

"Okay, you can start now" Miss Cabello offered.

Maddie started with the rattle before the rest of us joined. I closely observed Billie as she sang. Her attitude mixed perfectly with the song. When it was my turn to sing, Billie looked up from her guitar and looked at me. I had the urge to quickly look away, but held the eye contact  instead, because it was easier to look at Billie than to look at my class. I 've always found it easy to look at her though. There was something magical about the way she caught people's gaze. It made them feel special. She sang again and it felt like she was singing the lyrics only to me.

As I sang, I was able to completely ignore the class for the whole song. I even felt comfortable singing while sinking into Billie's eyes, on second thought it was probably the alcohol though, right?

The class loudly applauded after we'd finished. I looked around and smiled satisfied like the rest of the group.

"Yo this was amazing, we're definitely gonna get an A," Maddie said as we went back to our seats.

"We better," I agreed.

"Thank you again, for real." Maddie said to the both of us.

"So, I heard we'll see you next Friday with Shawn?" Lauren interrupted.

Billie looked at me with a death glare. "Yeah, I guess you will" She said and left the classroom.

"She's acting kinda strange, don't you think?" Lauren asked me.

"I don't know, doesn't she always?"

"True," Lauren agreed.

"It's so hard to read her though. I wish I could"

"Maybe she doesn't want to be read," She suggested.

"Nah, every person wants to be seen somehow"

"Seen huh? The way you stared at each other during our performance,  I would have guessed you do see each other already," she hinted.

"What? That was only for distraction."

"Yeah," she said, clearly not believing me, as the bell rang.

"Yeah," I agreed.

"Hey baby, how was class?" Kacper asked and gave me a peck on the lips.

"Good actually, we finally had our music presentation. And yours?"

"The music presentation you have with Billie?

"Yeah, that one," I said and raised an eyebrow, wondering why that detail was that important.

"Good. That means that you don't have a reason to hang out with her anymore," he smiled satisfied.

"Well except for the fact that I like her, she's a good person you know, and if I decide that I wanna be friends with her, it's my decision."