The next day had come and I can’t believe Eli would mumble about us under his breath I wish he could just say anything he wants to me. I arrive at school and head to the choir room Adam meets at the music room door. I take a deep breath in and Adam nudges my arm and says “get in now Eli is coming this way.”
I turn to look but Adam opens the door and pushes me through and follows me in. I stand inside and everyone turns and looks at me. My heart is racing because I’m so nervous that they won’t like me, but instead of getting a normal hello everyone in the choir room including Adam all sing “Welcome new member.”
I smile and say thank you to everyone and I start to mingle with the other members. Suddenly we all turn and hear a big thud onto the piano. The music teacher came in and gave us all a sheet of paper with song lyrics. I read the paper and it was for the assemble he explained that there was going to be the whole group singing and one main solo singer and he said since it’s about the love for someone he needs a female member to sing for the solo part.
We all start singing the song. During singing the words were reminding me of Eli and I, and the great times we had being together.
Adam stood next to me when we were practicing and out of the blue the teacher yells to me “Becky, I want you to try the solo part that’s coming up and everyone just sings the harmonies!”
I prepare for my moment and with just one bar left until the solo part I zone in and concentrate on myself and only think about what the song means to me. I begin singing the solo part until the end of the song once we finish the teacher starts to clap and so everyone joins in. I smile to everyone around me and the teacher yells to the choir “I think we have our solo star!”
Once he says class is dismissed I head to my bag to collect get my stuff ready for class when I notice a crowd outside the music room window. We couldn’t go out the door because they were blocking it. But they all were chanting for the choir and chanting my name “Go Becky!”
I smile to them and Adam says to me “looks like you got fans.”
I smile to him and look out the window again and I notice Eli standing and watching me. He waves to me and puts thumbs up to me and so I smile back to him. I turn to Adam and squeal “Eli waved to me!”
Only 10 mins before the assemble starts and I read over the lyrics backstage and I have a practice of my solo part. When the principle announces “Give a round of applause for the choir for they are singing – Stay with me”
I shake my body and we all walk on together. We stand in our positions Adam and I right next to each other and in the front row right in the centre. We all start to sing together while we are singing the beginning part of the song my eyes are frantically looking for Eli. It had come down to one bar before my solo part again and so I zoned out, I held up the microphone to me and when I started to sing my solo part I noticed Eli he was looking straight at me. As I got to the chorus it started to remind me of us and my eyes started to go teary and I noticed Eli’s eyes going teary as well. Just as I sing the last line of the song “Stay with me….” I look into Eli’s eyes and we both catch a beautiful moment together but then we had to walk off to continue the assemble.
So the whole school assemble finishes the senior years are let out of the hall first and so I am waiting in the editing room for Eli because choir was already let out of the assemble early. So I start up the computer and as I wait for it to start up I get out our big printing paper to prepare to print out our article. As I smooth put the big paper Eli comes in and says to “well… that was a performance from you.”
I look up to him and smile he then comments “I never knew you sing?”
I answer him saying “well you never were able to find out everything about me.”
He smiles and laughs and I ask him “Well are you going to help me or just laugh the whole time.”
He comes over and opens the article on the computer and we prepare the printer for the article to print. Once the printing finish we read our article. In the bottom corner of the page Eli signs his name and I sign my name next to his. We high five each other and give each other a hug for success but when we’re hugging we realize what we were doing and so we stop and look and laugh at each other awkwardly. The bell had rung and it was lunch time as we both left the editing room we said good bye and we went to get our lunch.
Imogen and Adam met up with me halfway down the hallway to go outside to our eating area when Imogen yelled to “Adam has done something seriously wrong!”
I look confused to Adam and I say “Please no drugs again”
He answers me back “No way not that….it’s just….uhhh….it’s…..”
“It’s what?” I question.
And so Imogen blurts out quickly “Since Adam and Eli are friends Eli is going to sit with Adam at lunch and so Adam sits with us meaning that Eli is going to sit with us at lunch!”
I look at Adam and his head is down and he is sad. I give Adam a hug and said “don’t worry I’ll live through it anyway let’s eat lunch.”
Eli meets up with Adam and they approach us I don’t realize that they sat down because I’m looking at my phone and listening to the same music with Imogen while eating my pasta. Eli tugs out the headphones and says “hello ladies.”
I smile back and Imogen comments “Oh you don’t have call us ladies you gentleman haha!”
He smiles to us and giggles while under the table I kick Imogen and she looks at me and gets the message.
Eli asks me “What song you listening to?”
I answer back “a song that won’t interest you.”
“I was only wondering” Eli replies back to me.
I quickly snap inside its like when I’m not in love or with Eli I become a bitch and when I’m with him he controls me and makes me happy. I rudely answer him back and say “Well you don’t need to know everything about me anymore, so you shouldn’t think about me.”
After I said that the table was silent all I could hear was the crunching of Adam eating his apple. My inside felt sick and dead, I felt so bad for what I said. Eli then starts talking to Adam and halfway through lunch they both walk away somewhere together. Imogen then kicks me even harder than before and yells to me “what are you doing, your love for him is making you go mad literally!”
I look at her and say “well at least I know Eli and I will be loners at the snow carnival.”
“Maybe a chance to say sorry to everything rude you said to him and have a romantic ending” Imogen says.
“Yes I might say sorry but he has to say sorry for being a jackass behind my back and so then I know that he loves me again” I say looking at Imogen.
“Oh I’m sure he loves you but I bet he just can’t say it because he knows what he has done to you and feels guilty. Just wait and see what will happen at the carnival.” Imogen says to me while giving me a long hug to make me smile again.
