New Life

Chapter 30

Finally last day of school and I was tuning my guitar while the other performances were going on, at the moment April Blakey and she played piano just like Brooklyn. And I was amazed at her voice because it was just beautiful, she soon started singing and her choice of song was 'Turning Tables' by Adele. The crowd was silent and I peeked out of the curtain wing to see Melody and her friends, I also caught the attention on Kayla and June who waved at me and I waved back. April soon began and he voice was really something too, her melody was on key and everything sounded perfect. She soon got to the end of the song and even then her voice was unbelievable to listen to, "I won't let you close enough to hurt me,No, I won't rescue you to just desert me.I can't give you the heart you think you gave me,It's time to say goodbye to turning tables.To turning tables,Turning tables, yeahTurning, oh." She sang ending the song.

She finished and everyone cheered, she was so good too. Mrs. Lin was hosting it too."okay next up is Elizabeth Thompson" she announced and I nervously got up on stage and sat on the stole resting my guitar on my lap. I began strumming the opening of the song before I started singing, "I've heard that you've been, self medicating in the quiet of your room. Your sweet suburban tomb, and if you need a friend I'll help you stick up your wounds, I've heard that you've been having some trouble finding your place in the world I know how much it hurts. But if you need a friend then please just say the word, you've come this far your all cleaned up you've made a mess again. There's no more trying time to sort yourself out" I sang before changing chords and continuing.

"So hold on tight this ride is a wild one, make no mistake the day will come when you can cover up what you've done. Now don't lose your fight kid it only takes a little push to pull on through. With so much left to do you'll be missing out and we'll be missing you" I sang and a few verses later I finished the song and everyone cheered. Sometime later after all the performances it was time to announce the winners, "in third place we have Alaina Henderson, in second place we have April Blakey and finally in first place Elizabeth Thompson" she announced and I was shocked. I looked out to Melody and her friends and they all seemed really happy and I was too. I looked over to see all my friends standing in front of them too, I accepted my award and that was it the show was over.

Later that day I was study block muck around with my friends again and it was almost time to leave school. We counted down until the final bell rang and then that was it freedom. And holidays now which was awesome and then that meant one more term left and then no more year 10. We walked to the bus and honestly it was noisy as hell but what could you do it was the last day of school.

I sat at the back of the bus and in the seats in front of me was Matt and Penelope, Joyce was sitting in the single seat across from Matt. "So you still coming to the beach?" Asked Penelope as she grabbed my shoulders and shaking me slightly. "Hell yea" I said enthusiastically, I turned around and I hadn't noticed James sitting by himself a few rows in front wit earphones in his ears and looking out the window.

I leaned forward and tapped Matt on the shoulder getting his attention, he turned around and looked at me before I pointed over to James. And Matt got the message, I turned around to talk to Joyce and Penelope while Matt talked to James. "What day we going to the beach again?" I asked and Joyce looked over at Penelope, "next Saturday" said Penelope as she pulled her phone out of her pocket. We soon got to my stop and Joyce got off with me along with Melody and then James following behind us, Joyce had a spare bag with her that had some spare clothes with her and that wasn't a problem really.

We got inside and went upstairs to get changed while Melody was downstairs taking out some afternoon snacks before going up to her room. And when she returned she had three quarter shorts and her one strap shoulder shirt that said 'Not Allie perfect' printed tee, her hair brown russet wavy hair that was falling over her shoulder. She had her floral strapless bikini underneath her clothes, and her blue sanders on her feet. She looked amazing if I must say. "Where are you off to?" I asked as I walked down the stairs, She looked towards me as she grabbed her bag and phone. "I'm going with Thomas down to the beach, Mum already knows so it's cool" she said and I nodded.

The noise of a car horn beeping from the drive way and it caused Joyce to come running down the stairs, "see ya later Joyce and Elizabeth" said Melody as she made her way out the door. Both Joyce and I raced towards the window to see what was going on. We peeked through the curtains to see Melody and Thomas getting all cosy before they drove off.

"That didn't look like going down to the beach for a day" said Joyce as she looked over at me and I agreed, we soon went up to my room and just hung out talking about the beach when I got a text from Mum. 'Melody is going off for the week with Thomas and you can still go to the beach with your friends on Saturday' the message read. I showed Joyce the message and she giggled, "well can't blame them they are in year 12 and honestly their hopelessly in love" said Joyce going into a fake dream like state. "Well I'll be happy if James doesn't show up at the beach" I said and the expression on Joyce's face looked as if she was guilty of something, "Joyce?" I asked and she bit her lip before answering me. "Matt might've invited James" she said playing with the light blue nail polish that was on her nails, "HE, YOU WHAT?!" I said in almost a panic, "What he said he'd be happy to tag along" she said and I death stared her. "What's wrong?" Asked Joyce and I just looked over at her with great worry and shook my head. I think Joyce got the idea about what I was thinking, "don't panic it's longer now and what I mean by that is you still have until the Saturday" she said and I smiled at her All time Low reference. "Come on let's do something to take your mind off it" she said and I nodded before Joyce got up and grabbed some quilts and tossed them over to me. "Come on let's go slid down the stairs and be idiots" she said giggling, "you always find the stupidest and fun things to do" I said and she jumped up and down on the spot almost like she was fan-girling. Almost like she had just met her favourite band and in her case her favourite band was All time Low.

"Okay come on let's go" I said pushing her along until we got to the end of the staircase setting the quilts and continuously going down the staircase. Some time later we were sitting on my bed eating popcorn when I heard a notification go off on my phone, I opened it up to see a pic with Cyrus and Leah and that was my final straw. "What's wrong?" Asked Joyce as she leaned over to see. "I'm done with Cyrus" I said and she gasped when she saw the photo. I called him up and waited till he answered, "yes" he answered and I tried keeping calm and it didn't work. "We're over, I trusted you and you went and cheated yet again with Leah!" I yelled, "I'm sorry" he said and I shook my head. "No we're done honestly I'm not putting up with this" I said and he sighed, "goodbye Cyrus" I said and his sighed again. "But can we still be friends" he said, "sure whatever" I said before hanging up. "So you guys are done" said Joyce and I nodded before we went back to eating popcorn.