Behind Stage Doors

Part 2

The taxi came to a sudden stop.

"Here we are Hayley, your new home" the taxi man said to me. A bit creepy how he knows my name but hey ho.

There stood an old Victorian building called 'jester house'. There was a few other houses like this but most of them were closer to the school.

"So you're the new girl then hey?!" I heard from behind me so I turned.

A tall boy stood in front of me. He had dark long ish hair, blue eyes, red Converse ( very worn in ), black skinny jeans and an Asking Alexandria T-Shirt so he wasn't the worst looking lad in the world!

"WOW and I thought I was tall!

"Hi I'm Hayley Jones" He smiled as I shook his hand.

"Do you want me to take your bags?" He said.

"Nah I'ts fine, but you know, its a bit weird to ask a girl if they want help carrying their bags when you haven't told them your name yet" I said with a smile.

He chuckled, I couldn't believe it, someone actually likes me!

"Ha ha, my name's Jerome Harris"

"Well Jerome Harris it's a pleasure meeting you!" I said trying to do a posh accent.

"It's a pleasure meeting you too Hayley Jones!" He said trying to imitate me, smiling and giggling. " I guess you're in Jester House then? What you here for? Singing, Dancing, Acting?"

"Would it be weird if I didn't know?" I said being quite shy.

"A little bit. How come you don't know?" He asked looking very confused.

"Well my Mum told me I was coming here and I never knew she applied for me to come" I replied.

"Well that... Isn't normal" He said with a smile. "Do you have your form sheet with all your info on it?". I handed him my form. He concentrated on it for a while then...

"Aha! Here it is you're here for Guitar skills and Singing skills. So your a musical girl then, nice. I'm here for Guitar skills too!" He said getting quite excited.

"Jezz, you coming to play footie or not? Me and Matly are sick of waiting for you!"

Me and Jerome both turned.

"Who's this, the newbie?".

Two tall boys ( All the boys seem to be really tall here! ) stood across from us.

"Guys this is Hayley Jones. She's gonna be staying here with us. Hayley this is Liam Chase and Matly Spencer A.K.A Dumb and Dumber!" Jerome said with a smile ( This guy is always smiling! )

Liam had blonde emo hair, Green eyes a plain dark red V neck shirt, grey and black checkered shorts and was wearing no shoes...OK then?

Matly had short ginger hair with brown eyes, a blue shirt, skinny jeans and green espadrilles.

"Cool are you coming to play or not?!" Liam said quite aggressively.

"Dude he's showing Hayley around, It's OK we can get Nathan to play. Jezz you go show Hayley around and we'll see you at the canteen for a snack yeah?" Said Matly pushing Liam to the Football pitch.

"Yeah I'll see you then!" replied Jerome "Right I'll show you to your room".

He led me into the boarding house.

"So to your left is the living room which leads into the kitchen, straight on is the wash room, and if you go up the stairs... and go through this door...on your left is the bathroom and next to it is the girl's toilet, I don't need to tell you were the boys toilet is...".

He led me down the landing and into a room.

"...And this is your room, got here in the end, I wouldn't blame you if you got lost, sometimes I do and I've been here 2 years!".

"So you've been here since you were...?". 

"12 so I'm 14 now, It's kinda obvious because people who are in the same year are put in the same houses, so I know your age!".

"Well in all fairness I've only just got here and I didn't know I was coming here until yesterday, so I'm not gonna know much am I?".

"Yeah I guess but still, they wouldn't put a year 5 in a house with a bunch of year 9's" He said whilst straightening a picture of an old guitar.

"It's great here you can join loads of clubs and start your own bands like we've done here. We are called 'The Creatures'. I'm the guitarist, Liam is our drummer, Matly is our bassist and your room mate, Harriet Suntay, she's really called Harrietia...".

Pronounced Harry - et - e - a from what I got.

"... but we just call her Harriet or Harri, is our singer and also Liam's girlfriend. We are OK, we play at school dances but not like, proms or anything Fancy because we are a rock band." He said quite enthusiastically.

OK, so Jerome plays in a band, a rock band for that matter, he's funny, always smiling and a gentleman...

DO YOU SEE WHERE I'M GOING WITH THIS?

He is awesome! And no I don't like him in a 'fancey' kinda way! I just think we will get along.

"Damn I've got to meet Liam and Matly now! Do you want to come? I'll introduce you to Harriet?" he asked me in a rushed voice.

"Yeah that would be great! Thanks Jerome".

"It's alright I can't exactly leave you here now can I?".

He looked at me for a while. Not just any old look though. I don't know how to explain it really. But it was no ordinary look!

We walked down to the canteen and got in line for our food.

"Well you must be the new girl of jester house!" The dinner lady said to me.

"Yeah I'm Hayley Jones".

"She only got told yesterday she was coming here!" Said Jerome

"Oh I see, well, Miss Jones, I hope you enjoy it here".

She gave me and Jerome a cheese toasted sarnie each and we sat down with Liam and Matly.

"Where's Harri? You fallen out?" Matly said to Liam.

"She's still in detention" Liam said whilst looking at the canteen door.

"SHE GOT A DETENTION!? SHE'S A RIGHT GOODIE-TWO-SHOES! what did she do?!" Matly shouted looking quite faint.

"She lobbed a pen to Crystal." answered Liam.

"That explains it then! She doesn't have the guts to do anything bad!" Jerome sternly said.

"Here she is..." Matly pointed to the door.

Now I was expecting to see girl like me, dark hair ( mine's dark red ), A band T-Shirt ( I'm wearing a Queen one ), Skinny jeans of any colour, Converse and maybe a beanie like mine.

But no...

What I saw walking towards us... was a Doll.

She had long Chestnut hair, Hazel eyes, Tanned of course, She was a twig, She wore a blue dress, black heels and was caked in make up.

AND I HAVE TO SHARE A ROOM WITH HER!

She's everything I hoped she wouldn't be!

"Hey guys!" Harriet said in a perky voice.

She took one look at me...

"Who's this? Your knew girlfriend Matly? Ha Ha!" .

Matly glared at her.

"No Harri, she isn't!" Matly said angrily.

"This is Hayley, your new room mate" Jerome told Miss America over here.

"Finally I'm not a loner! I can tell we're going to be best friends!".

I think not somehow!

So if she's a wanna be Barbie, why does she sing in a rock band? There is something not right here.