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Realize (37)

WARNING: Barely edited chapter due to stress and tiredness. In my defense, I wrote this when I was fourteen. That's why I've been editing this before posting here. I'm sure you can see the difference if you've read the earlier chapters or if you've read my other works/stories. You can see how big of an improvement I've made. Hence, this chapter is hardly revised. So this is technically done by the 14-year-old me, who is not quite good at constructing sentences for a novel yet.

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January went uneventful at Sky.

The news that Karl and Jen were dating spread out fast. But what got everyone at Sky’s attention were rumors spreading like a bullet that Todd and Maxine were going out.

The rumors spread like wildfire because Maxine was having a ride home with Todd everyday. What the rumors didn't include was that Todd and Maxine lived in the same condominium and on the same floor.

Maxine thought at first that she was still going to ride the limousine. But Todd told her that she would have to go with him to and from Sky from now on, thinking that it was such a drag using different vehicles when they lived at the same building.

Some believed the rumors that they were going out. Some didn't, claiming that it was impossible for Todd to like a girl. Others, however, took the matter in their own hands. Like Michelle Jones; she came up to Maxine and directly asked her if she was going out with Todd.

“No I’m not, Michelle,” said Maxine, frustrated about being asked of the same question ever since they came back to school.

“Are you telling the truth?” asked Michelle suspiciously.

“Why would I lie?” Maxine frowned. “Ask him if you don’t believe me.”

With that, she left Michelle standing in the corridor. She was sick and tired of being asked about Todd. Although, she couldn't lie to herself that sometimes she wanted to say yes. Still, it wasn't in her nature to lie. That was exactly the reason why she was a bad liar.

Finally, after two weeks, everybody at Sky seemed to be quiet regarding Todd and Maxine. They finally believed that they were not dating. Though, they still wondered about the ride thing.

And that week, the gang were in the Sky Studio when Todd gave them news that made Maxine greatly anxious.

“I’m just gonna remind you that the Clash is coming up in March,” reminded Todd. There was this odd aura about him and with the way he talked. “I already wrote a song for this year’s Music Clash. We must be as extraordinary as always. The exact date of the event is on March twenty-five. You know who our biggest rival is, and I have no desire on letting their hands on the Clash Cup. We’ve been the title holder for two years in a row and —“

“Are we talking about the Battle of the Bands?” asked Maxine, who did not understand most of Todd’s talking. “We’re going to compete at a Battle of the Bands?” she added excitedly.

“What did you just call it?” asked Brian curiously.

“The Battle of the Bands,” answered Maxine in a questionable voice.

Brian, Karl, and Peter chuckled.

“What?” said Maxine with a raised eyebrow.

“We don’t call it ‘The Battle of the Bands.’” Peter explained, smiling at Maxine as if he was sorry that she didn't know.

“Here at Sky, we call it ‘Music Clash’,” informed Karl with style.

“Or simply ‘Clash’,” shrugged Brian.