Chapter 1
Yesterday I was walking down the road to my house from the park when I saw two extra cars in my driveway. I didn't take my car to the park because it was two blocks away and wanted fresh air. I walked into my house and yelled "I'm home." My mom heard me and called me into the kitchen. When I walked in I saw a woman about her age and a girl about my age and a boy that looks about a year older than me.
"Honey this is my friend Kathy." My mom said. I walked over to her and shook her hand. She was pretty with her green eyes and short brown hair. I looked over to the girl. She looked like she would be seventeen. She has long brown hair and caramel brown eyes. She looked like she is tall but I can't be sure because she's sitting.
"Hello Ryland, my name is Amber." The girl said as she stood up. She. Was. Tall. Well everyone is tall compared to me, but this girl was super model tall. She was at least 5' 10". I am only 5'5" I'm kind of jealous of this girl and her height.
I walked over to her ready for a hand shake but instead of shaking my hand she hugged me. We started to talk about random stuff and I knew for sure we would be great friends.
We started to walk to the living room when someone cleared their throat. I turned around and saw the boy. I think he's about 19 or so. He's tall. He has dirty blonde hair and the prettiest blue eyes I have ever seen on a boy.
"Oh my gosh! I am suck a horrible sister! I forgot to introduce my brother Ira." Amber sqeeled. Ira walked up to me and put his hand out for me to shake.
"Hello my name is Ira." He has such a sweet demeanor about him, I feel it. I want to know more. I want to known more about him and Amber.
"Hello I'm Ryland but you probably already knew that." He smiled at that. I looked over to the oven to check the time and saw that it was 4:00 p.m. I have to get ready for work.
I told everyone I would be right back. I walked onto my room and walked to my closet to grab my Starbucks shirt.
For those of you who haven't figured it put yet I work at Starbucks.
I walked to my dresser and pulled out a pair of white skinney jeans to match the T-shirt. I grabbed my light brown gladiator flats on my way to my bathroom.
I walked in and locked the door. I changed my clothes and took my hair out of its ponytail. I brushed out my wavey hair and touched up my makeup.
I walked back into my room and grabbed my phone and stuck it in my pocket along with some money. When I was ready I walked back downstairs to the living room to grab my keys.
" I'm off to work mom!" I yelled to my mom.
"Ryland! Come here really quick." I walked into the kitchen to see everyone was still here.
"Yes?" I asked.
"Can you take Amber and Ira with you?" My mom asked.
"Do they want to come?"
"Of course they would! Wouldn't you children." Kathy said for her children.
Amber shook her head yes and Ira said I guess.
"Okay well then who's car are we going to take?" Amber asked.
"We can take mine." I said. Amber and Ira said okay. Mom asked me if there was a performance tonight.
"What do you mean performance?" Ira asked.
"Oh you are going to love this!!" My mom screamed.
At the Starbucks I work at we do performances every week on Fridays. I sing lead but nobody knows that I'm the lead other than the people that work at Starbucks with me. Not Eben my mom knows.
It's our special thing. We all stand up on a platform in a line and then all the lights go off.
Tonight our song is " Love Life" by Natalie Taylor. I am nervous because it is the first time we are performing this song . I want it to be good but at the same time I wish that one day someone will know its me and would want to sing with me.
When we got in the car I asked if they were sure they wanted to stay until my shift was over. They said they didn't really care because they don't now their way around yet because they just moved here. Kathy was born here but when she got married she moved away with him.
When "Different Animal" by Nathalie Taylor came on the radio I tried my hardest not to sing. Natalie Taylor is my favorite singer.
I pulled into the parking lot of Starbucks right when " Love Life" began playing.
" Well guys I would live to stay and chat more but I have to get to work and then I can show you around if that's okay." They both said that it was fine with them as they looked around the café.
I walked in the back entrance and we all started to warm up our voices whole we waited for the orders we have put in to be ready.
When I was warmed up I walked over to the counter to give the people what they ordered.
There was fifteen minutes until we started the show of the week.
.........10 minutes later.......
The manager Rose, also my stepsister got up to the stage's platform and started to explain how everything is going to happen.
" So we are going to change it up a bit. I will give you one guess each to try and figure out who the lead singer is tonight." Rose said. She says this every time our regulars aren't here.
"Let's get started!"
We got on stage. The lights turned off. The music starts. I breathe and start to sing.
"When you love life
Its beautiful beautiful
When you love life
Its beautiful your beautiful......."
When the lights came back on I felt relieved. I got all the notes right and all the words right. Everyone was perfect we harmonized perfectly.
Rose wlkdd around and gave everyone a price of paper and a pencil. She told everyone to write the name of the girl they thought was the lead.
When she got all the results and she looked them over.
"And the results are in.......its sad to say that no one got the correct employee. Come again next week and try again guys hopefully then you would be able to get it!"
Rose is one of the most chipper. She doesn't live with me and our brother Oliver because she is in college, she is the oldest. Even though she isn't good we are still pretty close.
My shift ended two hours after the whole show was done.
I walked to the back of the shop and grabbed all of my stuff. When I got Amber and Ira in the car I asked them who they thought was the lead. Amber said the thought it was my best friend Cassi. She was close because Cassie stood next to me and Cassie is a really good singer. I asked Ira who he thought it was and he said......
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