The song bird's flower 

Chapter 3 the wild flower guitar is definitely for a prince

{Sorry this is a long chapter}

Now I know it's a little bit dramatic to say this has been the most interesting week of my whole life but I feel like it's true. because in the past couple days I caught my boyfriend cheating on me and we broke up. I found out that I'm eligible for a historic version of the selection. I've gotten signed up for more gigs in one day than I think I've ever had. And that boyfriend, you know the one that cheated on me well, he called me three times. asked to get back with me and even try to sneak through my window. Yeah, interesting week if you ask me.

And because of all of that, I really, and I mean really don't wanna wake up Saturday at all but I have to wake up early because I am singing at a bunch of selection parties. all the rich people in town are doing these pageants of their teenage daughters and choosing outfits and with makeup looks they are going to do for the application. which isn't until two weeks and they haven't even mailed out the letters to tell you that their daughters are eligible. But it doesn't really matter. I get money and something to distract me from the fact that what I thought was the perfect boyfriend who is now the worst ex-boyfriend wants me back, and I kinda want to get back with him. My friend sneaks through the window and I almost start screaming and she gives me the most confused look because Taylor does this all the time. You see, Taylor plays piano and sings I do too, but I'm not as good as her when it comes to piano, and when I have a lot of shows and I don't want to exhaust my voice too much I bring her along and we split the profit in half. and the guests are just happy that they get two performances for the price of one. she gives me a strange look, when I nearly scream "it looks like you saw a ghost you know I'm not dead yet" that's when I tell her about how Jack tried to sneak through my window last night when I was playing guitar after the announcement trying to figure out what the hell just happened. "oh my God I knew it the minute he started showing interest in you that He was gonna be weird and creepy and here he is calling you sneaking through a window after cheating on you CHEATING! just because you may be picked by the prince," I roll my eyes and laugh a little horsley because of how early it is. "you know I'm not getting picked by the prince, look at me I'm not princess material" "you totally are" she tries to protest "name of princess that wears combat boots a leather jacket and rose colored sunglasses who has the underside of their hair dye indigo" she can't protest at that because they want a proper girl for a princess it's not like I would complain on wearing all the ball gowns. It could be fun, but I would probably wear gym shoes and combat boots under it with funky, tights and I would be dying my hair, a different color or every month, and although in schools, I'm the resident cool girl who has good taste in music and knows how to paint and draw I'm not the resident princess.
Getting ready for these parties where you are with the richer folk I have to dress a certain way specially, considering that I might be competition and being selected for the selection. so I decide to dress pretty Softly and Taylor does too. I wear a pale, yellow sundress with wild flower, print all over it that I made myself.I put on blue gingham tights and my usual white combat boots. simple makeup besides, my usual blue eyeliner instead of Black, and my hair is pulled down in a braid to the side of me because of this, I don't even straighten my hair so it's a bit wavy at the end. and I decided to use my favorite guitar for the shows there. I remember getting the guitar when I was 13. I saw it first when I was eight at the music store locked up behind glass when I was getting my first guitar. They said they had it for decades, but it was so much and no one could rationalize buying it. It was nearly 2000 bucks because they sold it in a set at the artist's request because they didn't want the beautiful instruments separated. It was two guitars and a ukulele, 12 string guitar a six string and a ukulele it was a beautiful wood, probably oak with wildflowers encased in resin over it, daisies, baby breaths, indigo, carnations, roses, flattened dried, and encased in clearly against the guitar. It was everyone's favorite specially can paired to my other guitars I had. The six string one I owned had clouds I painted on it. The 12 string had newspapers plastered on it, and the. other ukulele was covered in stickers but the back of it was painted like a sunset over the body of water I painted, but I felt like the wildflowers in the guitar matched the wildflowers plastered over my yellow dress, Taylor complimented me in a blue gingham dress with pale yellow lace, tights under it and white Mary Jane's her hair put into two braids, and she just used whatever piano they had at the venue.
In between some songs, we took a little bit of an intermission to drink water and go to the restroom. During this one of the mothers of a future daughter of Ilya, as they were called at the party came up to me to chat a bit. She pointed out at the guitar and said "well I see why you chose that guitar" I was ready for her to point out that I matched my dress to the guitar and was so happy that someone noticed when she said "because of the flower prince", I must've sent her a weird look because it's been a couple years since anyone has called Prince Ivan the flower prince probably not since I was in the middle school. "Remember the flower prince, he used to pick 4 flowers from the vase next to him; he gave one to the Queen, one for the king, one for his younger sister. When she was younger, she used to eat it, so they had to put non-toxic flowers in the vase. And then the prince would pick the petals off of his" right the Coakley name we gave based on a gesture he used to do but probably stopped because it's a bit embarrassing to do that. After you turn like 11. Everyone just thought he did it to flirt with the audience or something stupid like that but I don't know. I always thought he did it because of stress, when I get stressed out, in front of a group of people usually it's because I'm performing and I get to strum a guitar and it helps calm my nerves and well my guess it started something nice to do first also, it probably kept him still for the hour and a half program and then when he realized that the whole country was watching him through public access television there was a vase of flowers right next to him so he just started picking. And maybe it just calmed his anxiety it would be weird if he just had one so he gave one to each of his Family members and everyone thought it was just a cute thing the little kid did, and the press took it and made a cute little nickname. And probably if I asked him he would say he did it for stress. except that would never happen because I would never be picked for the selection. So I pretend that's totally the reason why I picked the wildflower guitar and not because it matches my dress and start strumming the first few chords of the next song.