(Jacob's p.o.v.)
2 years ago.
I wake up with the sound of my family singing happy birthday to me. I look around me and see my little sister standing at the end of my bed holding a cake wich says "happy 15th birthday Jacob" with under the letters a picture of a guitar and music notes. My mom gives me a big hug while my dad walked away to I think getting my presant.
"What is it?" I say to my mom sitting up in my bed still being tired since I couldn't exactly sleep last night. "You'll see that soon darling" she says with a smirk on her face. As soon as Lola sat down the cake on my bed and I blew out the birthday candles and made my wish what was ofcourse to get myself a cool microphone to record some stuff my dad came into my bedroom again with a huge presant. "Oh my god" I say while my mouth dropped open, "you guys didn't have to get me such a big gift I would've been happy with just a football" I say to my parents while grabbing the gift and trying to put it on my bed.
"We know, we know darling but we just wanted to give you something special" my mom says giving me the biggest smile she could possibly give me.
"NO WAY!!!!" I shout through my room as soon as I unpacked the presant and i see this HUGE microphone infront of me plus a standard for it and a recording box so everything you say or sing in it automatically gets recorded and put on your laptop. "Thank you so much oh my god you just made me the happiest kid in the world!" "With all our love" my dad smiles to me and they both start grouphugging me until Lola comes in and asks me what I got.
After showing Lola what I got and after testing my new microphone I walk through the bathroom so I can take a shower. I look in the mirror but once again I don't like much about what I see. I hate that i have so much acne on my face and the fact that I have braces doesn't make it any better. Stepping into the shower and letting the warm water run over my body I grab the shampoo and squeeze it until there's enough on my hand to wash my hair.
Seeing the water run over my face in the mirror I start thinking.., why are the kids at school always picking me to pull down, it's always been me who got bullied and it never stopped, the worst thing is that I started to believe what they're saying to me. I moved here since I was little and i've been in the same class with this girl named Hanna since I was 10 years old but she never even looked at me once. She's a girl that belongs to the polulair groups so why would she even recognize me, I wouldn't even be worth the time I guess..
Turning off the shower I hear my mom calling my name. "Jacob what would you like to get for breakfast" she asks with her always sweet voice. "I'm coming mom, i'll make something myself"
5 minutes later i'm sitting at the kitchen table waiting till my eggs are ready so I can put them on some bread.
"How are things going on school kid" my dad asks me looking up from the morningpaper. "Uhm good, I don't have a lot of friends but i'm doing great" "Glad to hear that" he says with a smiling face and turns back to reading the paper.
The thing I love about having your birthday at a sunday is that your whole family is home, no one has to go to work and you can just relax with all of them while celebrating. No stress for work or school just you and your family, I love that.
As soon as my whole family visitted me and we all had dinner together they asked me to sing a song for them with my new microphone.
"What song are you going to sing this time my son?" My grandmom asks me. "I think i'm picking The A Team from Ed sheeran today, nonna" I say to hear and she gives me a big smile. I love singing infront of my family they're always so loving about my singing and I like doing it.
Setting up everything so I can sing the song I put the song on on my laptop and start singing it.
White lips, pale face
Breathing in snowflakes
Burnt lungs, sour taste
Light's gone, day's end
Struggling to pay rent
Long nights, strange men
And they say
She's in the Class A Team
Stuck in her daydream
Been this way since eighteen
But lately her face seems
Slowly sinking, wasting
Crumbling like pastries
And they scream
The worst things in life come free to us
'Cause we're just under the upper hand
And go mad for a couple grams
And she don't want to go outside tonight
And in a pipe she flies to the Motherland
Or sells love to another man
It's too cold outside
For angels to fly
Angels to fly
Everyone is already clapping their hands and after I sing the rest of the song everyone is cheering for me and my grandma is looking so proud. It makes me so happy that I can make them happy by singing for them.
"You should make a youtube account Jacob!" my aunt suddenly speaks up. "You should make covers of you singing and put them on youtube so people can check it out"
I have to admit that I thought of that before but I never really had the guts to actually make one and put video's on it but I guess it's a good idea.
"Yeah I think i'm going to do that" I say to her with a smile on my face. "Sing that song again, I have my camera with me so I can record it if you want than we can put it on youtube" my aunt says already grabbing her camera making me become shy. "U-uhm yeah that's good i think"
After recording everything and making a youtube account we putted the video online so people could watch it.
"I hope everything will workout for you Jacob" my aunt says. Giving me one last hug before she went home i walked towards my laptop to see if anyone watched the video already. Hmm, 23 people have watched it, maybe I should tweet about it I think by myself.
" JacobWhitesides: Hey guys, I just made a cover of The A Team from Ed Sheeran, if you want you can check it out here. "
Putting the link of the video into the tweet and actually tweeting it I close my laptop and walk towards the living room where my parents are.
"Mom, Dad, i'm going to bed, goodnight" and I give them a big hug. "Goodnight Sweety" my mom says and my dad gives me a smile.
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Waking up by my alarm clock I grab my laptop to see if more people watched my video already. Logging in on youtube I totally freeze when I see the number on my screen.
12584 vieuws WHAT
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