Music of the Heart

Chapter 5

Ding. Ding. Ding

I lifted my head up from my pillow and hit the off button on my alarm. I then look down at my pillow and see the huge puddle of slobber on it.

I wipe my mouth and pull the covers off and swing my legs out of bed and stand up to walk to the bathroom.

I turn on the light and look at myself in the mirror. I see eye boogers, slobber stains around my mouth, my lips are chapped, eyebrows are ruffled up and out of place.

Ew. Who is this person??

I shake my head to wake up. Then I turn on the focet to warm water.

I bend my head down and splash the water on my face and grab my face soap and rub it around in small circles.

I rinse my face and dab it with a towel. I strip out of my clothes and hop in the hot shower.

I personally like my shower really hot. It just gives me a sense of relief.

I get out of the shower and dry off. I walk out in my room with nothing on and I walk to my closet. I grab a white t-shirt and gray leggings.

I walk to my dwars and grab white socks and then I slip them on and grab my pink and white Nike slides.

I walk over to my night stand and grab my chapstick and put it on.

I hate having chapped lips and then when they're really chapped and you move lips the middle splits and it hurts like heck.

Then I walk to the refrigerator and take some of my medicine.

I walk out of the kitchen and grab my purse and keys.

I get in my car and turn on the ignition. I drive out of my driveway.

I drive to Wal-Mart. Because sometimes they have everything I swear to you.

I get their and walk in the store. I feel that cold air just hit me in the face. Sometimes I really hate that air. Especially when its cold and you just feel the air.

I look around and walk towards the clothing aisle. I scan the shelves and find a black medium sized leotard. I wal further down the aisle and grab a pair of white medium sized tights.

I walk around the store with a cart I found in the middle of the aisle and buy groceries and things to take care of me.

I walk to the self check out.

As I finish I turn around and bump into a hard chest. "Oh my gosh I'm so sorry" I apologize quickly. "Its fine" He speaks avoiding eye contact.

I study his face as he walks away with a quick pace.

He looks familiar. He was quite handsome too.

I walk out the same way the guy walked out and walked to my car then I opened the backseat door and put my things in the backseat.

I close the door and hop in the drivers seat and turn on the ignition.

I look at the time and its already

I drive towards the studio. I get to the studio and park where no one else is parked.

I strip out of my clothes but left my bra and panties on. I slip on the tights and leotard. I open my car door and slip on the black slippers and grab my purse and phone out of the passenger seat.

I close my door and take the piece of paper that explains my condition and I lock my doors and walk to the studio.

I walk to the door and pull it open but it doesn't budge. So I look inside and see that there are girls talking and eating and having fun. I knock on the door because it must be locked.

I wait for a few seconds and I hear keys and the door opens revealing a girl with curly hair that stops at her collar bone.

She greets me with a big smile that shows her pearly white teeth "Hi! Welcome" she hugs me and I hug back. She let's me in the door and speaks "My name is Shay nice to meet you...?" She looks at me expectantly "Valerie but you can call me Val" I smile. "It's so nice to meet you you're so pretty I love your eyes" She compliments my light brownish green eyes. "Oh thank you" I thank her.

But our conversation ended shortly by someone clapping their hands and getting the attention from everyone.

I tap Shay's shoulder and give her the paper "This is my doctors note that I have saved and I was wondering if I could still have a go at dancing since I have this condition" She nods understandably "Well I will have to ask Mrs. Clarke since she's the teacher I'm just the assistant" I smile "Thank you" She walks off and stands beside Mrs. Clarke.

I look at the benches at the back of the studio and find an empty space. I put my stuff down and faced Mrs. Rose.

"This is the first audition and I want you guys to put hard work into it" Mrs. Clarke spoke.

Mrs. Clarke looked like she was in her early 40s. She had light brown hair but it was pulled up in a tight bun. Her skin was an olive color.

"Lets begin stretching" She spoke snapping me out of my thoughts. All of the girls walked to the bars and stretched their legs. I walked over to the bar at the end and put my leg up on the bar and stretched.

I saw Shay showing the paper to Mrs. Clarke. Mrs. Clarke looked up and smiled at me and nodded while putting a thumbs up.

I nodded and smiling with excitement.

I put my hand on the bar as I stretched. A few moments later I felt a soft hand touch mine. I looked over and saw a lightskined girl. Her face was panicked. Her hair was put up into a messy afro bun. "I'm sorry I'm just very clumsy today and I wasn't paying attention" "It's totally fine" I smiled. And she smiled back timidly.

"Um.. I'm Glory" She says taking her foot down and gripping the bar.

I could tell she didn't know how or want to talk to people

"I'm Valerie, nice to meet you" I smiled "You don't have to talk to me if you don't want to" I spoke. She shook her head "I want to make new friends so I have to learn to talk, and my dad said I had to make new friends so I'm not lonely all the time"

"Well I'll be happy to talk to you Glory" She smiled happily.

I looked in the mirror at myself stretching and then I heard a door open.

I turned around and saw a man come in.

Oh my gosh its that man from the store!

"That's Aaron, he plays piano for the studio" Glory explains without me asking "There is a rumor about him that he was in a gang to protect himself from his stepdad because his step-dad was trying to kill him and that gang killed his whole family including his little sister for him to join, and some people say he watched them kill his family and there was no emotion on his face"

Wow. Thats pretty sad.

I watched as he chatted with Shay.

He just looked so familiar. Gosh I cant put my finger on it!

"Do you know him?" Glory asked.

"I think so"
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Hewo!! I know I have been gone for awhile. I'm sorry but you know... I'm back pitchesss!

Who is this guy? I wanna know

Next chapter will be soon so stay tuned.

Gooddangbye!💋