The bell rang and Taylor and I walked to our next class. Luckily it was just maths so I didn't need to concentrate. Maths has always been extremely easy for me and most of the time I just sat in that class helping Taylor or drawing cartoons.
As I walked in I noticed we had a substitute teacher. If I were in a better mood I might have done my little happy dance with Taylor. But instead I just sat down in my usual seat and got out my drawing book. After a while Taylor managed to cheer me up and I was feeling a bit better, I heard someone say my name and saw a guy, Sam I realised, at the back of the class. He flicked his long black hair back, and tried to get his side fringe to sit right as he spoke.
"Hey Lucinda, do you know a guy named Josh?"
"Josh Who?" I replied.
"Lanis" I shook my head and he smiled. "He saw you walking with someone and said you were the 'hot one'... So yeah you're the hot one" He laughed.
"He must have seen me when I was walking with Quasimodo" I smiled. He looked confused. I sighed and shook my head.
The teacher who was taking our class was the music teacher Mr. H. He asked me to speak to him outside a moment later so I followed him with Taylor watching me leave. She mouthed the words "What's happening?" I just shrugged and went out into the hall. Mr H had on his usual large navy blue jacket and his glasses on top of his balding head.
"I've heard on the grapevine that you are a singer. Dylan and Harry have told me they want you to be their singer for the end of year production." He said.
My eyes widened and I started to panic. My dream in life is to be a singer, but there was one big problem. I had a massive case of stage fright. Just thinking about performing made me tense and get sweaty palms.
"Um... Well... I'm not so good at the whole... Performing thing" I spoke very softly.
"Well, during lunch next week, come into the music room. Just so I can hear this amazing voice I've heard so much about. Is that okay?"
I nodded. I had to get over this fear. If I was going to be someone in the music business I had to stand up and fight for it. We walked back in and I filled Taylor in on everything.
"Mr H?" Taylor looked over at the teacher using his laptop.
"Yes?"
"Lucy is amazing and you have to get her to do the end of year performance."
I hit her arm telling her to be quiet as my face went bright red. After that, the class was getting boring so I got out my phone and decided go onto facebook. I logged in and saw that I had a notification from Christian. I hesitated for a moment then clicked it.
The night before, I had put up a status quoting lyrics from the Adam Lambert song. I saw that Christian had commented on it. The status read "Whataya want from me?" and Christian's reply was "Friendship :(" My face fell and I shut off my phone and tried to draw again but everything I drew reminded me of him somehow. My mood was back to being -100/10. At the end of the class I walked alone back to my locker. On my way I walked past Paige and Olivia walking with Christian's best friend, Jayden and a girl I sort of knew from my art class.
I heard them whispering something but I didn't care until I head "Should we tell her?" Paige asked.
"You tell her!" Olivia whispered back.
"No way! You do it!" Paige replied.
I turned around and, though I sensed that I really didn't want to know, I asked what they were talking about. Olivia grabbed my arm and pulled me over to my locker and away from everyone else.
