Sincerely, Yours. A Jackson Guthy Love Story

Chapter 3: Ain't No Calla Back Girl

Hannah: YOU WHAT?!?!?!? :D

Leah: Yeah, she was sooooo pissed!! I'll tell you more tomorrow I gotta get to bed

Hannah:Prude

Leah clicked off her phone after turning on her alarm, of course. She sighed in her plush sea blue bed, ravishing in the fact that she just won over Charlie. She closed her lids and slid into a perfectly great sl-

"YOU AND ME TOGETHER MAKE A NUMBER ONE RECORD"

Leah quickly slid the bar at the bottom of her phone screen and rose up joyously to face the day. Everything went as usual but when she walked through the door of the school, she noticed a collection of patterned looks and stares. Was this about the audition? Oh, wait, there's a call back list in the commons, I should go check that out....

She walked carefully and cautiously through the halls on the way to the commons. There was a crowd hanging around the white paper sheet hanging on the wall. She coughed to exemplify her presence and people gasped softly. And as if she were Moses, the students parted like the Red Sea. She walked up bravely to the sheet.

Callbacks- Please be prompt at 4:00 pm in two weeks

Male leads:

- Ryan Kurtiak

- Jackson Guthy

Leah's heart stopped at the sight of his name

Female Leads:

-Charlie O'hattan

-Leah Brown

Please be prepared to sing individually and as a duet (partnering appropriately as order on list)

She could barely hear anything other than her heart pulsing in her ears,it was by chance or miracle that she felt the arm on her shoulders.

"Well, hey! Partner" . She looked up and it was Jackson.

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"Oho...Yeah. That's super exciting...i"m so glad we get to work with each other"

"It's going to be a blast!"

"Yep" Leah laughed nervously and walked in unison with his arm still around her.

"Hey! how bout we meet up at our" he winked "special place"

Leah nodded wordlessly, soon Hannah walked up.

"I heard about the big news!! this is so exciting!!!" she screamed and the girls laughed elatedly.

"echemm" It was Charlie.

Leah rolled her eyes, and Hannah subsequently walked away.

"Listen, you may not know how this works, but I always get the lead role. Got it?" Charlie then pushed her to the ground and everyone had a real nice laugh.

"Uh...." said Leah, knocked out of breath.

"Charlie just leave her alone, we're going to win fair and square, and you can just deal with it"

Leah whipped around to see Jackson, as her one knight in armor coming to rescue her. She smiled at him and he held his hand out to help her up. They walked to English together silently, but before they walked in Leah stopped him.

"Jackson, you don't have to pretend to like me, I mean just because we're partners doesn't mean you have to be my best friend"

"Leah, I actually enjoy you. You're a cool girl"

She couldn't believe her ears, he called her cool?

"uh.. you really think so?"

"Of course! now lets get in here before Mr.Ball starts making jokes we both don't want started".

She laughed and they walked in to a sea of judgement. And it was like that for the rest of the day. At least for Leah, she was drowning helplessly. Jackson was most likely enjoying himself on a nice lifeboat. Whenever she saw him in the hall she got a quick rest on the boat as well but when they parted it was another round if treading water.

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After school Leah was glad to finally be resting on the shore when she met Jackson at the book store. They made themselves comfortable in the philosophical book section, since almost no one ever went back there. There they spent a whole two hours discussing life and interests, and possible song choices for the callback. They were stumped, but they had come to the conclusion that they should meet again, same place, same time tomorrow. It was not until the third day when they were in the commons after school that Jackson had come up with a fantastic idea.

"We should write our own song!"

"what?"

"yeah! I can provide the music and you can write the lyrics"

"I don't know...."

"youll do great, i see you write every day when we practice.There's gotta be something in that little notebook"

"no!" and she hugged her journal tight. Leah had been writing her letter whilst in practice with Jackson. It had a poetic style to it but if she showed him everything would be ruined.

"ill try my best..."

"there we go!" he smiled at her making her heart hit the floor.

" I need to go"

"are you sure?" he said. Leah couldn't tell if he was leaning in or not, but he was getting increasingly closer.

She pushed the hair falling in front of her left eye behind her ear, "no,not at all". They were growing closer just when-

"JACKIE!!! tiiime for chemistry!!!" it was Charlie, ruining everything as always. Leah and Jackson separated awkwardly and Leah frustratedly gathered her things not even bothering to look what was going in her bag. "I'll just go now".

"Leah-"

"run along now little-miss-perfect"

Charlie smiled disgustedly, and Leah turned to walk away. She turned to quickly to see Jackson wave to her in a hope to get her to come back, thus the tears rolling down her cheeks were flowing without any impediments.