Heart Tending

1 - It's really not that hard

"And you're the reason I'm up at night, without you the stars aren't as bright."

The melody flows through my ears as Luke Fall sings the countries current number one hit, it's difficult to not sing along but being on a bus with a bunch of strangers gives me enough encouragement not to.

A lot of girls squeal over the hot guy in the band, usually the lead singer, and they gush about how attractive they are and if they met them they'd "just die!".

Well, I'm not one of those girls.

I'm into the band because of the music, the passion, the pain. Everything they feel, I want to feel with them.

One day I'll be able to express how I feel to the world, and people can relate to my music. But for now, I'll just have to settle with singing in the small restaurant three blocks from my house during family hour.

That's where I'm heading, Marino's recruited me four years ago when I was fifteen. Originally I had to dress up in a fish outfit and greet guests but after two weeks the manager decided that the fish was scaring all of the kids away.

That's when I piped up, Mark thought it was a great idea to hire someone to sing. In fact, he thought it was an even better idea when he realised that he had already hired someone.