Three Little Words

Chapter 1

Nat and I were walking to our music room to play the song I had been working on. We were talking about what we needed to add and who was gonna sing where as well as the instruments we were going to play. Not paying attention to the world around us, purely focusing on the song and thinking of the ways to improve it, when all of a sudden I bump into a very hard chest. I look up and see Theo looking at me asking if I was alright. Did I forget to mention I had a huge crush on him. Him being Theodore Blake, the green eyed, brown haired American transfer who quickly became the popular guy at school. No! Well now you know. Anyway there I was looking stupid, with no words leaving my mouth and I'm pretty sure a blush was covering my face, when he looked down on the floor and handed me a piece of paper. My eyes followed his and I saw my song in his hands as well as the other sheets of paper filled with scribbles of future lyrics and notes for the music.
"I think you dropped-"he never got to finish his sentence as I took MY song out of his hands. Realising it had been quite harsh I felt another blush rise up my neck.
"Sorry. I just don't like it when people read the songs that I have only half written." I said smiling sheepishly at him. And he chuckled at me whilst I wanted to hide in shame at the thought of someone reading the song without it being finished, something I hated people doing as it felt like an invasion of privacy as my songs were a direct reflection of my feelings most I'd the time and if they weren't finished that means that it hadn't been filtered to not show every emotion in the original version.
"That's fine. Anyway I have to get to the drama room or I will get a detention." He said walking away. Finally I felt like I could breathe and I didn't want to die in a hole where no one could find me.

I turned back to see Nat grinning at me. "NATASHA ELLEN WEST WIPE THAT GRIN OFF YOUR FACE!" I yelled to her as she started to run away through the nearly empty corridor. I ran after her, getting strange looks from the younger years and having to be careful so I don't run into any of them.
"ASTRID ROSE ALLEN. I will not stop until you admit to him that you like him." I looked at her with the face that said 'that isn't going to happen' and with that I left her standing in the corridor as I opened the door to the music room.

We sat by the piano practising the song that I had half written, going over what else to write and where to add the harmonies. Nat was going to be the guitar in the back and I was going to sing as well as play the piano in some of it, probably the chorus. It was a song about being in love with someone even when you shouldn't be. Ok it was a bit cliqué but you know.
"Astrid who is this song about because it's really good?" Nat asked as we finished practicing what I had written.
"No one." I said defensively. To distract myself I picked up the pen and started to make changes to the lyrics as well as scribbling down notes about how I was going to edit it or add in harmonies or other bits to bring the song together.
"Ok. You said that way to quickly. Wait I think I actually know who it is about." She said as she got up. I glared at her as she started to move around the room, as it was only us two in the room due to the fact that we were technically in a free period but we both wanted to get this done soon.
"Really. Enlighten me because I don't even know who it is about." I said and got up as well after hearing the bell go, indicating the end of the period and the start of lunch.
"Well is it about a brown haired,green eyed American." She said getting way to happy about it, and she knows that she was correct even if I would never admit it.
"I don't know who you're talking about." I said trying to brush her off but she could easily see through me and my lies. We walked out the room together, dodging the year 7's rushing around to try and get to the canteen as quickly as they could. Walking to the common room we talked about how to improve the song what I was gonna do with it after school, even talking about what we were going to preform at the school concert, together and our solos.

Luckily Nat and I had gotten to the common room just as Lydia and Hope, who had just been in art, had meaning they saved our usual corner near the back of room next to the fire exit. We all took biology, Hope and I took psychology whereas Lydia and Nat took maths as well as Nat and I doing music and the other two doing art. We are all really close friends and they all know about my small, ok maybe huge, crush on Theo. So Nat and I walked over to the table where they were and took a seat, seeing that Hope and Lydia had already gone to the canteen but Nat and I went to Tesco at lunch meaning we already brought our lunch.
"Hey guys!" I said happily as I stole a chip from Hope's plate, putting down my bag and folders as well as getting out my food.
"Hey" Hope said and swatted my hand away, whilst laughing at my actions.
"Sorry. Anyway how was art?" I asked and sat next to Hope and opposite Lydia.
"It was good. How was music?" Lydia said and stole food from Hope as well, trying to annoy her. Just usual things in our friendship group.
"It was amazing. Astrid has written a song about someone who we just so happened to bump into on the way to the music room." Nat said and stole a grape from my pot, whilst I was once again glaring at her.
"I never said it was about someone, anyway it wouldn't be about him because I don't like him like that." I said as I undid the cap on my water bottle.
"Of course you don't like him. You LOVE him." Hope teased and I just sunk in my chair as my face burned red with embarrassment. As I saw the person we were talking about looking at me and smiling. Which could be a coincidence but you never know.