Music Saves Lives

Chapter Eleven

A/N: This one is short also, but it  has a lot of information and I didn’t want to make it too much.

When I told my dad about what happened last night he was furious. He was mad at what Niall had said to me and he was mad that I just gave up my future to prove ‘some boy’ wrong. My dad really wanted me to be successful. I really loved that, but I don’t want help from Niall. I would forever be stuck in his debt and that’s the last thing I want.

At least now I won’t have to tell him about Kyle. Kyle was Ryan and Zack’s friend. I thought I loved him, well I did love him. I started dating him almost as soon as I started at the new school. He’s the reason I met Heather and Mira. Kyle was an amazing boyfriend, that’s why I did love him.

On our six month anniversary, I gave myself to him. He was the first boy I willingly let touch me. He was sweet and gentle. He did know about my pregnancy and everything that happened, that’s why he was so aware to what I was feeling. He actually cared. By our eight month anniversary, Kyle confessed he wanted to marry me and grow old together. Sure we were young, but very in love.

Neither of us knew Kyle had Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy. That’s when the muscles in the heart become thick. He was fine that day. He drove me to school; we went on with our day like it was just an ordinary day. He drove me home before football practice. He called me that night talking about how brutal practice was and that he had a headache. I thank god every day for letting “I love you” be the last thing I said to him, because that night he died in his sleep.

I woke up that morning without the usual morning text and I knew something was wrong. When I went down for breakfast my dad was crying at the kitchen table. As soon as he saw me, he ran over and hugged me muttering that he was sorry. I had no idea what was happening, until my stepmom told me Kyle had passed away.

I didn’t leave my room for weeks. I almost failed my senior year. If it wasn’t for Heather or any of them, I would have failed and I would have probably been in a much worse place. They encouraged me to sing again, because Kyle loved to watch me preform. He went to every gig and smiled at me throughout the whole thing.

When I did get back on stage again, I made sure I had a piece of him with me. I wore a small birdcage pendant on a silver chain around my neck. Kyle gave it to my for my birthday and said it was the awaiting home of love birds and that one day him and I will find a home and be together for the rest of our lives. I wore that necklace every day so I can be reminded of the happiest time of my life.

I loved that boy and he loved me. You just don’t forget your first love. It saddened me to think that I actually thought Niall would be someone just as amazing as Kyle was. I was so wrong.

I hadn’t talked to Niall in two months. I was almost completely over him. Simon was not happy with me about declining his offer, but he did appreciate why. I had to do it myself and luckily for me, and for Heather suggesting I make a Youtube channel, I got a call from LA Reid. He said he loved my passion and my original songs. He said he could feel the pain in my voice and wanted to meet me as soon as possible.

My dad was more than happy to come with me to the meeting. After I sang for LA in person he was even more blown away. He signed me and within the next two weeks I had a single just starting to get played on the radio.

The first time I heard it I was on my way to the diner with Heather, Mira, and the boys. We were in Zack’s car and I blushed as they all screamed. I couldn’t believe that it was me. It was almost like a dream. When we got to the diner, everyone inside must have heard the radio because they all cheered.

Now, my song is number three on the Billboard top 100. Life was almost perfect. I would like to say I didn’t think about Niall, but I did. I wondered if he had heard my song or if he knew of anything about me. Right now I knew he was in Australia. His tour was on its last leg. My friends started to slowly leave town to go to school and I was about to go off to travel the world and promote myself.

Heather was the last to leave for college and I promised to call her whenever I had the chance. I was supposed to be going with her, but now, that wasn’t an option. I was going to miss her, of course.

I was sitting on my back roof watching the neighbors behind me, play with their dog when my phone rang.

“How’s my darling?” My manager, Ariel asked.

“I’m great. So what’s the plan?”

“First off we are starting in Australia and doing many radio shows and small gigs just to get more than just your single out there.” I rolled my eyes.

“Sounds splendid.” I said sarcastically.

“Honey, I know it’s not the best time for you to be there, but that what works best with this year’s schedule. After Australia, you jet back to America to perform on XFactor.”

“Okay, I understand.”

“Okay, I’ll be at your house tomorrow morning at 6am.”

“Yikes.” I joked

“Hey, it could be earlier, you’re lucky.” She laughed.

“Okay, I’ll see you in the morning.”

I went back into my room and checked to make sure I had everything packed that Ariel said I needed packed, for the fifth time and washed up for bed. I couldn’t even sleep I was so excited. I guess it didn’t matter; I had a long plane ride ahead of me to sleep.

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-Em xx