call me back? •billie eilish book•

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•• Laila's pov ••

I pull out my phone and start to text Vanessa so we can meet up before class.

Vanessa and I have been best friends since kindergarten we have been through EVERYTHING together and tell each other EVERYTHING i'm so lucky to have her.

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my bitch💖

where are you Ness??

i'm almost there just wait at the door
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I did as she said waited at the door for her to come, around 2 minutes later she popped up behind me making me jump.

We walked into history together sitting at the very back of the class.

Class is actually going by pretty fast me and Nessa have just been talking about how our first classes went, then just about about random stuff. I brought up the fact I have Mrs.Hemgin for math, I also briefly brought up Billie. Class was very boring other than that, it's definitely going to be my least favourite class this semester.

** time skip **

The bell rung for lunch and we headed out to meet Lane and our other friends at the cafeteria. We have a pretty big friend group considering the size of our school.

We sat down at the table with, Lane, Maliha and her boyfriend Blake, Jordyn, Louis and his girlfriend Rachel, and Ruby. We have all been friends since grade 9, and I'm so lucky to have them. To be quite honest they are the only tolerable people at this school hence why we've all been friends for so long.

As were eating and talking I catch a glimpse of blue hair in my peripheral vision. I immediately thought of Billie..who else would have blue hair here? I turn my body and watched as she walked through the cafeteria heading outside. She walked in a fast pace, almost looking like she was going somewhere important maybe?

"Earth to Laila" Ruby said "Girl are you alive....y'all I think she might be dead"

"Laila you there?" everyone was now shouting but i couldn't hear all my focus was on Billie

I soon snapped back into reality because Billie had finally made it outside. Confused as to why my stomach was filled with butterflies but I pushed that out of my mind.

I very suddenly was bombarded with questions about what or who I was looking at but I just blew it off and so did everyone else. We went back to talking and eating, and by the time I knew it lunch was over and it was time for the last 2 classes of the day.

My last two classes are photography and vocals aka the most fun classes, I've always been really into photography and singing so why not take the classes.

My dream is to become a singer, ugh imagine, that would be beyond cool.

I walk joyfully through the halls on my way to photography, opening the door and to my surprise there is only 9 other students. At least so far, but a part of me is hoping that's all there is going to be because that means I'll get the opportunity to have 1 on 1 work with Mrs.Orphie. I've heard she's a great teacher so this class will hopefully definitely be one of my favourites.

As class started we went over what we will need to succeed in this class, she suggested we buy our own cameras if we didn't have one already because the schools cameras were getting kind of old. I assumed this was coming and I've already talked to my parents about buying a camera. They said it was no problem as long as I do my research on which one would be the best option for me.

We were then given our first task to take pictures of things that inspire us around the class. We had the option to just use our phones since not many people had their own camera today. Honestly I'm really excited for this it should be fun and easy.

I went straight to the window because I love photographing the outdoors, actually I just love the outdoors in general there's something so calming about being outside. As I brushed open the curtains I saw Billie. It looked to be a very odd scenario, I watched her as she handed something off to a kid and got something back in return. Well that's a bit strange I thought to myself, then the worst thing possible happened Billie and I made eye contact. Eye fucking contact.

I quickly ducked down and went somewhere else in the room. Dear lord I pray Billie did not just see me. Curious as to what was Billie doing and why was she outside..shouldn't she be in class? I don't know but unfortunately it's really none of my business, I hate the fact that I'm so nosy.

Continuing with the class we did more small around the class activities nothing huge. As much as I tried to forget about it my mind kept going back to Billie and whatever the fuck she was doing. This better just be a phase.

The bell rang, and its now time for vocals!

** time skip **

Finally making it to vocals I notice this class is also quite small but again it means more 1 on 1 work! My vocal teacher Mrs.Rain and I already know each other, she's really good friends with my mom. It's kind of weird but whatever.

"Alright hello everyone I'm Mrs.Rain if you weren't aware already. We're going to start off today with something simple yet very affective, I want you all to go off on your own and make a list off your strengths and weaknesses when it comes to vocals. A good artist needs to be able to determine what they need to work on. Go along get started." Mrs.Rain stated in a very happy tone

I sat in the corner of the room by myself facing the wall, doing as she said and making a list. It took me some thinking because I've never really thought about my strengths and weaknesses. As I'm writing my list someone taps me on the shoulder, I turn around just thinking it was the teacher but as soon as I saw who it actually was I tensed right up.

"Uh dude are you okay? You look like you need to shit" Billie said

"No hah I'm good,,you just scared me" I replied

"Ok" She huffed "Why were you staring earlier?" She asked

"What do you mean?" I replied trying to sound clueless, I really don't want her to bring up the whole window,eye contact,duck down situation because that'll just be awkward

"I saw you at the window, staring again?" She laughs "This time you were actually taking a picture, that shit was mad creepy so cut it out" She said as she walked away

Well that could have been worse right?
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this chapter is so short I'm sorry I just wanted to end it like that haha. I'm going to try to do a lot of updates today because I'm home sick andddd this is fun. xoxoxooxox <3

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