50 Reasons Why

50 Reasons Why Secrets are Hard to Keep

50 REASONS WHY

ARTHUR'S POV

Thursday morning, school band room.

"My Name is Arthur, My proper name is Arthur Ignatius Kirkland of Great Britain, and we are the Poisonous Sconers! This will be on the test!

Today it rained, Yesterday it rained, and I bet my hat tomorrow it will rain, yet again...But umbrellas aren't for me, as you can see, I am a gentleman, gentleman gentleman.

Pub-Pub-Pub and go! Fish and Chips--"

STRRRUMMMMMFFPPPP

"Mathias!"

"Sorry Arthur, haha, them bass drums right?"

Roderich let out a frustrated sigh. "We have a two concerts in two weeks, and that's excluding the band concert tonight! So far all we have is Pub and Go, Let's Enjoy Today, and La Pasion No Se Detiene. That is only three songs!"

"Well why don't you write one then?" Antonio spoke up.

I smirked. "Because Elizabeta said we have to write about love and Roderich has no heart."

"I do!" He argued. "It's just hidden and buried under my good looks and your bitchiness."

"Oh!" Mathias coughed into his hand and Elizabeta bit her lip.

Antonio smiled. "No that's not true. Arthur's not bitchy, he's just stuck up."

"Who's side are you on?!" I demanded.

"I am on the side of whoever feeds me."

I huffed and picked at the strings of my guitar, Queen Anne, and what a red beauty she was.

Eliza sighed and lectured us all on how we were supposed to write songs about love and sadness, not food. Mathias argued that a love for food counted as love, and that feeling when someone eats the last slice counted as a bitter betrayal. Elizabeta didn't bite it.

"Come on now guys! I know each one of you has a crush, if not a significant other! The food and happiness isn't selling anymore. Girls love a sensitive boy, and almost a great things that are made, were made about love."

"Fine." Mathias grumbled. "Sad songs? How about rejection? That's about the only love I can use."

Elizabeta rolled her eyes. "Mathias, we've gone over this, he didn't reject you, he said he just wanted time to think things over."

I paused. Lukas, one of my very best friends, had a crush on Mathias since they were kids, but never said anything because he never actually wanted a relationship. Apparently Mathias asked him out yesterday before school, and Lukas was all sorts of disoriented all day, rethinking his choices and such.

Mathias sighed and nodded. Antonio smirked, an idea forming in his mind. "Hey, why don't we all play truth or dare? Elizabeta's right, we all have crushes, we all have dirt. Think of it as a team building effort! We'll all bond, get to know one another, we'll stop fighting!"

Mathias capped. "We should have a sleepover! It'll be so awesome, I call being in charge!"

Antonio smiled. "Can we have it at my place? My Mama makes the best enchiladas!"

"Sure!"

"That sounds fun! Normally I don't go to sleepovers, it's so girly, but were practically all girls here!"

A chorus of "Heys!" sounded.

Roderich was hesitant. "I don't know if having a sleepover on a Thursday, and the Thursday we have a school band concert, is a good idea."