Polar Opposites {l.h}

Chapter 4

As I entered my house, realization hit me.

I left my backpack in Mak's car. Oh my gosh!! What am I going to do? I started to freak out as I started pressing the numbers to her phone.

"Oh my gosh Lea!!" she answered. "I was just about to call you! I'm coming over don't worry! I have it!" then she hung up. I didn't even say anything and she already knew.

I have the bestest friend in the world man.

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The doorbell went off so, I went to the door to answer.

"Hey, thanks Ma...." I trailed off.

What the hell was he doing here?

"Ermm..Hey Lea?" Luke said. It came off more as a question. I was shocked.

"I'm not trying to be rude Luke, but why are you here? in my house?" I said to him.

"Uhh...I...I was..going to...uhhh" he stuttered. I gave him an impatient look.

He sighed. "I was going to ask if you wanted to see my band practice." he rushed through his words. I've never seen him so flustered before.

"What?!?" I said. "Do you want to see my band practice?" he repeated, slower than last time.

"I hardly even know you though." I contradicted him.

"Well, we can bond through this. Besides, we need someone to critique our music." he reasoned.

"well... no harm in it." I have him a smile but the one he gave to me was even bigger.

"okay. cool." he said and I followed him to his car.

"Ladies first." he said gesturing to the open door of the passenger seat. "Thank you sir!" I said in a British accent.

"We're on our way to Michael's house!!"

Michael?

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"Here we are!" Luke said as he parked in the driveway. I opened the door and could already hear some boy's screaming from the outside.

I was starting to regret going here.

"It's fine. They're probably playing FIFA." Luke said. It's like he read my mind.

As we entered the house, I saw 3 boys, two of them on the couch and the other one rolling around on the floor.

"Hey mates!" Luke yelled over the video game.

One of the boys, paused the game and turned around. He had curly dirty blonde hair and had such a big smile. "Hey look! Luke's back!" Then I saw another boy smirking. "And he brought a girl" the boy said.

"Shut up Calum!' Luke said. Was he blushing? I couldn't tell because he started walking toward the boys.

"Introduce yourselves idiots." Luke whispered loudly. I started to laugh.

"I'm Ashtoonnnn!!!" said the dirty blonde.

"I'm Cash Money" said the boy who was smirking earlier.

"No it's not. It's Calum!" said Ashton. "NO! IT'S CASH MONEY!!" Calum said as he tackled Ashton in a playful way.

"I don't know these people." said the last boy who had what looked like dyed blonde hair.

"That's Michael." said Luke. "Boys, this is our new critic, Azalea."

"Hi Azalea!" Michael said. "Hi." I answered quietly.

"Do you want to listen to us?" Ashton asked pulling himself off of Calum. "Yeah. It's kinda why I'm here." I told him. "Oooo! Sassy! You should be best friends with Michael."

"I'm only sassy when I'm a white girl." Michael said. "Whatever. Let's go downstairs. That's where the instruments are." Ashton said.

As I followed them downstairs, Calum started talking to me.

"So..How did you find out about our band?" he asked. "I didn't. Luke came over to my house and asked if I would listen to you guys play." I told him. "Oh. Well, to let you know we play punk-ish, rock-ish, pop-ish music." "Oh. Cool. I like -ish kind of music" I said and he started laughing.

When we got to the basement, I could see a whole bunch of instruments. There was a rad drum set in the middle of the room and several types of guitars strewn across the room. There was an electric keyboard in one corner, but it seemed to be collecting dust along with a saxophone and a trumpet.

"Can you guess which instrument we play? Ashton asked.

"Ummm...." I started looking at the boys and the instruments. Ashton probably played the drums because his arms were pretty muscular. Michael seemed kinda punk rock so I thought guitar.

"Ashton does the drums, Michael plays guitar....and I don't know about Luke amd Calum." I answered.

"So far, you got it right, Luke plays guitar and I play bass guitar" Calum said.

"Okay...cool" I replied with a smile. Then the boys grabbed their guitars and Ashton got behind the drum set.

"Ready to be blown away?" asked Michael. "This song is called Try Hard."

She dropped outta school cause she don't need the grades. The colors in her hair don't seem to fade...

They were really good. I had no idea Luke could sing. and he was really good at it like...wow. They really did blow me away.

Sitting here at home..It's obvious she's so out of reach and its getting me down that...

As  I listened to the lyrics, I realized that one of them seemed to be trying to impress a girl. Duh. But the question was who? When the song finished, I started applauding and they all took a bow which made me laugh.

"So....?" Luke asked.

"That was....AMAZING!!!!" I said and they all started getting hyped by my comment.

"YEAH!!" Calum shouted and then they all rushed forward all of a sudden. Next thing I knew I was surrounded by 4 giant teenage boys trying to give me a hug. It wasn't working that well because I was too small so they ended up hugging each other while I was in the middle.

When they finally let go, Michael asked if we wanted Chinese take-out and we all agreed.

Finally Michael came back with the food and we sat around the table. As I listened to them talking about how cool it would be to get famous, I sat there chewing on my noodles thinking one thing,

They were going to get famous.