Shadows to Stages

16-17 January 2016

The weekend finally. I love the weekend, it's free time for me, I dance everyday of the weekend. My mam goes to work all day so I usually go out by myself to the park or I go downstairs to the basement. My mam and dad gave me a dance studio in our basement, I go down there all the time. 

Earlier in the day, I received a call from an unknown number. It said 'Hey Bella, it's me Scott.' I nearly dropped my phone. 'Hey Scott, how's life.' He replied 'Boring, I have nothing to do today. I'm home alone.' I said 'Same'. He seemed surprised. 'So em do you wanna em.....? He seemed nervous.  I said 'Do you wanna hang out again?' He quickly replied 'Yes I'd love to, I'll meet you in the park about 2:00pm. Is that okay?' 'Yeah that's perfect, see you soon.' I was so excited, that's even more time to spend with him.
It came to 2:00pm.My palms were sweaty, I was roasting and extremely nervous. I threw on my black ripped jeans, my orange,black and white turtle neck and my leather jacket. My hair was in a messy bun and I just slapped on some makeup, not over done.
I walked to the park and there I saw him, sitting on the bench,waiting. I walked over, he noticed me and stared in awe. 'Wow you look, you look beautiful! I never was told that. I was blushing so much. I said 'Thanks so do you. So where do we start.' 'Over here' he said pointing to a large domed stage with a whole meal put out. 'Sorry it's the only thing I know girls love. You do like it Bella?' 'Of course I do, it's amazing. You did this for me?' I never felt this before. The next thing he said blew me away. 'Well, you do this for the person you love. Right?' He looked like he said the wrong thing. I was speechless. 'Yeah, of course. He opened the gate and said 'Ladies first.' I laughed and he joined in. We sat down and we were joking around and laughing the whole time. As I was eating he said 'Can I ask you something?' 'Yeah sure. Ask away.' 'So have you ever dated a guy?' I felt confident to tell him. 'No'. He looked shocked. 'Really, but you're so pretty. I thought everyone would be into you?' I was blushing so much. 'No'. As I nodded my head.

We continued the day, he took me to a skate park and we hung out with loads of people from school. I had seen them but never met them in person. One guy named Jacob said 'Yo bro ,who is the hottie? I've never seen someone this fine looking.' I was laughing so hard. Scott replied 'Jacob, this is Bella from school.' 'Wait, the girl who fell on Thursday?' A girl named Mandy brought that up. 'Yeah that's her,but her falling doesn't matter anymore. That's all in the past.' He looked at me and winked. 'Dude! Long time no see.' It came from the back. I guy stepped forward and bro hugged him. Scott cried 'Hey Matt how you doing?' Matt replied 'I'm good, how's our song coming along? I butted in 'Song, you write songs? 'Yeah we're in a band. We're filming a video here next week.' I never knew that. You learn something new everyday. Jacob came back saying 'Hey Scott your hottie should be in the video.' Scott said 'Do you want to?' I was flattered. 'Yeah of course Scott.' 'Great, so we will be shooting here next Saturday. 'Perfect.' 'Here guys we gotta go.' See ya guys on Monday.' I said 'Bye', and waved to what I think we're friends. I'm so excited for the video. I never knew that he was in a band.

The day wasn't over. Scott said 'I have one more thing for you,but I'll need you to close your eyes.' It got me nervous, but for some odd reason I trusted him, I never trusted anyone more than him. 'Okay,you better not run me into a wall or something.' We both laughed and then he put his hands around my eyes. I felt safe. We were walking further down and I fell, but he grabbed my waist as I was falling and lifted me back up. I still had my eyes closed. 'Sorry', he whispered in my ear and said 'That won't happen again'. 'Thanks Scott.' He replied with the sweetest words 'I can't let a face that beautiful get ruined.' I was blushing. These past few days I've been blushing all the time. Oh well. We walked further and he said 'Okay here we are.' I could hear music, it was the song we danced to in the auditorium. I love that song. He took his hands away from my eyes and what I saw was heaven. It was a big boat. It had a massive platform at the front of the boat. I asked 'What's the platform for.' He looked at me and smiled 'We are going to dance on that platform.' I was shocked but I was screaming inside. We walked down the pier and onto the boat. It was lit up with paper lanterns around the rim of the boat. It was beautiful. We walked down on to the platform and we stared out into the water. He put his arm around me and I don't know what happened but I rested my head on his shoulder and everything stopped. It was just me and him in the moment.

He took my hand and lead me to the middle of the platform. He turned the music up and we waltzed into the night. People were passing by and saw us they all stopped where they were going and looked at us. I whispered to Scott 'Lets give them something to remember.' He went, started the song again and we did our routine we made in the auditorium. He spun, lifted and waltzed with me, all the people seemed to be enjoying it. It came to the end. He had just lifted me and he dipped me. I came back up slowly and we met eye to eye. Everyone was clapping and cheering for us. We were still looking at each other. We finally snapped, saw them all clapping and bowed.

It was getting dark and we both had to get home. 'This was fun.' I said. He replied 'Yeah it was a blast. Do you have a trip home?' 'No I'll walk home.' He said 'I'll walk with you'. He took my hand and we walked home. We were talking about his band, the video, Sasha and Amelia, we talked pretty much about school. I reached my house and said 'Well here's my stop.' 'Yeah I'll see ya Monday Bella.' Before he left some rush of confidence hit me like Miley Cyrus' wrecking ball. 'Wait Scott.' He turned around. I walked over, I don't even think I was controlling myself. We both knew what to do. He leaned in and I leaned in and BOOM. It happened. I had my first kiss with the school hottie. I didn't think of him as that, he's a gentleman with a big heart and he wants to share it with someone. I guess that's me.

17 January 2016
I couldn't stop thinking about what happened. I never expected it. I've been thinking are we in a relationship as of what happened. I was on YouTube when on FaceTime  Scott called me. We talked for hours and hours that day. 2 hours in he got called away. 'I've got to go, family meal. Ugh effort.' We both laughed. 'Ahh okay I'll see ya tomorrow.' He said 'Yeah see ya Bella.' I built up the courage to ask him this. 'Wait, Scott. Can I ask you something quickly before you go?' He replied 'Yeah sure.' I said 'Are we in a relationship?' I started to get nervous. 'I don't know, do you wanna be?' I felt a wave of confidence 'I wouldn't be asking if I didn't want to.' He gasped 'Is that a yes?' I nodded. He was so happy. He then had a genius idea. 'Why don't you and me tomorrow walk into school holding hands. Okay?' I nearly died inside. Is this real life. Am I alive? 'Sure I'd really like that. We smiled, waved goodbye and I turned out our call. I never felt this before. I blasted my music so hard and danced forever. My mam came in. She looked a lot better. All the pills and drink changed her, but I can see she's back. She came and joined me and we danced until our legs couldn't take it anymore. It was the most fun I've had with my mam. I really missed the time we spent together. I'm glad it's back.