Sing While You Can

Josh Secretly Loves Grease

When I woke up the next morning, I decided to make some pancakes before heading out somewhere.

I walked into the kitchen and found a note from Charlotte –

Eve,

I’ve gone to the record label to pitch the song I wrote! If you make food please leave mine in the fridge. I’ll be back around 12ish if they don’t like it, if they do it will be 5 or 6ish!

Charlotte x

I sighed as I plucked the note from the fridge and got the ingrediants out of it.

It was typical Charlotte. Taking all of the credit for the song which I wrote not her. I would bet anything that she would tell her manager that she wrote the song and it was filled with all of her emotions. I was growing tired of Charlotte and her ways, expecting but not receiving.

After breakfast, I decided to go and do some shopping and luckily, Charlotte had not took the car so I could drive to Westfield’s.

It only took around 20 minutes to drive to the shopping center, but I had to wait half and hour to get a parking space. I supposed that it was because it was December 1st- Christmas coming up soon so people would want to be buying presents which is what I decided to do.

I decided I would buy some sort of jewelry for Mum and a watch for Dad. Easy. I thought then that I should probably call them at some point today. See how His&Hers is doing.

Deciding a present for Charlotte was a whole other catastrophe. She had such high standards and would turn something down at Christmas. It has happened before.

One year when I was 16, I got Charlotte some perfume from Boots. I couldn’t get the one she wanted because it was far too expensive for my budget, so I got a cheaper one that smelt almost exactly the same. Then on Christmas she smashed the bottle on the floor and didn’t talk to me until the New Year – not that I was complaining of course. I should have been the one crying because she forgot about buying me anything so gave me a fiver and one of her old bracelets. Such a hypocrite.

After visiting almost every shop in the centre, I decided to buy her a pair of boots and a locket necklace which I found in an old antique store and I bought it for very little. Feeling tired and pleased, I decided to go and grab some food then head off home.

I walked into Starbucks and said to the cashier, “ Can I have a tall caramel hot choco…” I trailed off when I saw who the cashier was.

Josh.

He handed me my drink, but had wrote on the cup ‘Wait here for 15 minutes. My shift is almost over. We need to talk’.

I groaned, knowing no way out of this. I collapsed into an armchair and drank my drink angrily. It was typical that out of god knows how many Starbucks in here I chose this one and he had to work here. Just my bloody bad luck.

“So, your parents good?” I got the fright of my life when Josh came up to me and began talking.

“Jeez whiz! Please don’t do that again!” I said clutching my heart and trying to steady my breath.

“As long as you don’t lie to me anymore,”

“Ughh. What do you want to know?” I mumbled.

“Everything.”

After I had told Josh about the whole Tamara incident, it took time to swear him to secrecy.

“Josh, just leave it. If the others find out, Tamara will just become worse. As you tole me she needs to stay in the band or else god knows what she will make up to get Abi into trouble.”