Swing Life Away

chapter 1- "Congratulations"

I went into my bedroom immediately when I heard there was a competition
that you can win a Sleeping with Sirens ft. Mgk concert tickets!

I got into their website and saw the competition's ad. That's when I got full of hope. Hope, that I could finally get my dream to come true.

My family and I live in a small country, so far away from anything we like, such as music and art.

When I say 'We' I mean my cousin, Ari and I. We are basically best friends, and not only cousins. We're also at the same age (alsmot 20) so it made it much easier for us to finally live together.

Though our apartment was so fucking tiny, we kinda liked it. I guess because it was the first place we had to ourselves, and we finally designed where we lived in the way we wanted:
With music albums everywhere, stereos in every room and our own paintings hanging on the hallway walls.

Our love for music was something indescribable. We loved the same kind of music, yet each one of us had her own idol.
Ari's idol was Kellin Quinn, the lead singer of the incredible band 'Sleeping With Sirens', which we both adored. And mine was 'Machine Gun Kelly', the greatest rapper I ever knew.

I phone-called Ari, who was in the other room, (yeah, we do that a lot...) to tell her about the competition I just found out about. She screamed out of excitement as she ran into my room, and went straight to my computer.

"Comm'on!! You need to continue with the registration!". She yelled at me.

"Is it working?!"

"I don't know yet, Ari! Stop yelling!"

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"Okay, so it says we need to cover one of their songs." I said to Ari, right after I read the terms of the competition.

"You know what we're gonna cover, right?"

"Of course!" I answered.

"Swing Life Away". We both said together.

We laughed because saying things together happens to us all the time, it's our 'thing'.

So, 'Swing Life Away' was our decision, as the cover for the competition. It was the favorite song of the both of us.

And so we did.

The cover got over 300,000 views in just few weeks, and it was going up! But, I was still so afraid of losing the one shot I have to properly meet Colson.

Suddenly, Ari yelled "Belle!! get your ass down here!!!"
I ran down the stairs and almost slipped. She turned her phone towards me so I could see who was calling.

I saw that an unknown source calling her "Pick up the fucking phone woman!" I screamed at her.

She pressed the 'answer' button and on the other side there was a young sounding woman:
"Congartulations, Belle and Ari!!! You won the Sleeping With Sirens ft. Mgk concert tickets competition!"

I think ,at this point, both of our hearts literally skipped a beat.

"Your cover was chosen by Kellin
Quinn and Machine Gun Kelly as the best cover video!"

Fuck! I had no idea they were the ones who chose the winning cover.

"You will get the concert tickets at the airport, where they will meet you both, have fun!"

We screamed our laungs out and jumped around the room, as we noticed that the lady is still on the line. We thanked her from the bottom of our hearts, and huged each other with tears of joy in our eyes, as we hang up the phone.