Webs of the Heart

chapter one

Some songs I use in this will admittedly belong to other characters in the story, please just pretend.

THIRD PERSON POV

Crystal Harland was 5'3, 17 years old, had vivid purple eyes that were consistently covered by blue contacts, none had seen her purple eyes but her parents, she was slim, had long black curly hair that reached her thighs when curly, fair skin, freckles on her small Irish nose and on her cheekbones, and a shapely face. She was known for her clumsiness, but also for her beautiful voice, which she had been told resembled that of the mythical creature, the siren. Because of its singular beauty and silkiness, she was able to calm and soothe everyone, and make them happy.

Tom Holland was 5'8, slim, 17 years old, brown eyes, dark brown curly hair, fair skin, and had a natural talent for acting.

The year was 2014, and Crystal was in London, writing her first album in complete secrecy, while Tom was in some other part of the world. The month was October, and the day was the fourth, where our story begins.

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Crystal POV

"You search the world to find something else to make you feel like what we had, and in the end in Wonderland, we both went mad." I sang into the recording mic, stepping back and taking the headphones off my ears as Marian, my studio person who helped me record and write my songs, spoke to me.

"I really liked how smoothly your voice went into being deep on 'mad'. Get ready for the high note, then we're done for the day." I nodded and did some vocal warm ups, then recorded a few takes of a specific high note in my song, Wonderland, before getting of the booth and hugging Marian goodbye, and I headed out, walking back to my apartment. When I got home, I changed into yoga pants with a long t shirt, pulling my hair up into a ponytail before I exercised in the downstairs gym.

After working out, I took a shower and made myself dinner, then I went to bed.

Such had been my days for the past two months, but I made myself go to bed extra early because the next day, I was flying to Nashville Tennessee, the day after to launch my album at a concert Taylor Swift was hosting, featuring myself, Ellie Goulding, Hailee Steinfeld and Selena Gomez, to promote our albums. Taylor Swift had heard of me and had asked me to sign to her record label and let her be my sponsor. I hadn't told any of my relatives this, (I didn't really have friends) so it was coming as a complete surprise to everyone I knew. My album was called In My Galactic Dreams, and it was unpreceded by an EP.

When I got to Tennessee, I went and got my hair changed, dyeing it a light brown with a few dark purple and dark blue streaks, as well as going to get a small tattoo on my ankle, a fancy scripted "Tennessee, October 5, 2014" on the side where it wouldn't often be seen. It was my first tattoo, and it did hurt, but not as much as when I had my nose pierced. I still had my nose piercing hole, but I rarely ever put anything in it.

I went to bed early after taking sleeping pills to overpower the jet lag, and I woke up at six thirty in the morning. I took a cold shower, then I changed into jeans and a t shirt, going to the stadium, just in time for my sound check. After, I changed into my outfit; a full black floor length dress with long sleeves that went down and wrapped around my hands. My hair was in a braided hairstyle that depended entirely on one bobby pin, and my black boots were hidden from sight by the skirt. I took a plain black microphone from a tech guy, putting my in-ears in before walking around and doing my warm ups, waiting for my turn to come.

It was an over 4 hour long concert, since we were each singing every song on our album, and I was second, after Ellie Goulding, whom I had made a good friend in.

When it was my turn at last, I took a deep breath and went up the steps to the giant stage, a light veil over my head, concealing my face. The beat for It Ain't Me, the first song on the album began, and I sang the song, before the next song, Wonderland came on, and on the beginning of the chorus, the strings attached to my dress pulled and took the dress off, revealing my knee length, flowing blue and white tye dye skirt, and my white, button up, long sleeved shirt. I pulled the veil off and took out the bobby pin, spinning around once for fun and singing the rest of the song.

The rest of my performance went smoothly and was a lot of fun, also very tiring. But after taking a shower, I did a short livestream, thanking everyone for coming, then I fell asleep.

Please take it easy on me, I'm not quite in shape again yet when it comes to writing so chapters may be a bit short for a while. I'll put the songs that make up Crystal's album up before the next chapter which is going to be in Tom's POV.