Gold Rush

audition piece

͙⁺˚* ✫ Johnny ✫ ͙⁺˚*

February 27, 2005

"Wake up," A voice startled me out of my sleep, a pillow whacking me in the head.

"Jaysus," I groaned, "Fuck off, Gibs."

"Not Gibs," A feminine voice chuckled, "Guess again."

With a sigh, I muttered, "Gracie, what are you doing here at," I lifted my head to look at my alarm clock, "Half six in the morning?"

She rolled her eyes like I'd just asked the most obvious question in the world.

"I'm here because, I couldn't sleep," She shrugged, inviting herself onto my bed, "It's also Swan Lake auditions today and I'm freaking out, Johnny! Freaking out!"

Grace was always showing up unannounced. She was a lot like Gibsie in that way. Except, Gracelyn had a huge crush on me. It wasn't like she tried to hide it, in fact the whole world pretty much knew it.

Gibs was constantly telling me to give the girl a chance but I wasn't interested. It wasn't that Grace wasn't pretty, because the girl was fucking beautiful. She had dark hair and these amber colored eyes with pink pouty lips.

I just wasn't into her like that.
She was my little sister's best friend, which meant she was young.

"And that involves me how?" I groaned.

"I need someone to talk to," She sighed, "Addy is asleep and she needs that sleep so she can get the role of Odette."

"Well, can you talk to me at a more reasonable time? I was sleeping, Gracie."

"No, Jonathan! I can't talk to you at a more reasonable time because this is reasonable for me," She whacked me with the pillow again, "Get your fine ass out of bed."

One thing I had learned over the years, was that Gracelyn didn't take no for an answer. She was confident that she was always right and for the most part things always went her way.

"Are you deaf? I said get up," She snapped her fingers, standing up from my bed and placing a hand on her hip.

With a frustrated groan, I forced myself out of bed, immediately rushing to put on a pair of sweats because I knew Grace was going to say something about me being in just jocks.

"Well, damn," She smirked, "I would come back at a reasonable time if you let me kiss those abs."

Classic.

"I was waiting for your commentary," I chuckled, pulling the sweats up my thighs.

"You know me so well," She grinned, "Now go shower or something. I'm going to Addy's studio and you're going to come watch my audition piece."

"Okay," I nodded, "I'll be down in like fifteen."

"See you then, sexy," She winked, heading out of my room.

How the girl had so much energy at half six in the morning, I had no idea. In fact, I had no idea about most of Gracelyn's life. She never really talked about home unless it was negative and Addy had mentioned that Graces family was dysfunctional.