Bella's Adventure Series- Prologue

Part 1

Bella: Nap time! [pulls a blanket over the little girl] You want me to read Goldilocks and the Three Bears? [holds up a book]

Little girl: No book. Song.

Bella: Um...

Little girl: Lull-a-by!

Bella: Hmm. [puts the book down on the bed and clears her throat before singing] "Twinkle, twinkle little star. How I wonder what you are. Up above a world so high."

Little girl: [giggles] More!

Bella: "Like a diamond in the sky. Twinkle, twinkle little star. How I wonder what you are." [hears the front door slam shut and gasp]

Little girl's mother: [Hears the clattering sound and walks to her daughter's room]

Bella: [Giggles nervously]

Little girl's mother: Hmm.

Hunter: [places a tray of two macaroons and coffee on a table] Cheer up, losing a babysitting gig isn't the worst thing.

Bella: Easy for you to say. Plus, its' the third job I've been fired from! [stirs her coffee] And every time I open my mouth to sing, something weird happens...

(Bella remembers the times when she sang)

Hunter: [Laughing to himself while cleaning a blender] Remember that day last summer when a freak storm froze the lake? Wild!

Bella: Poor duckies. [sighs to herself] I don't think I was meant to be a singer.

Hunter: [places his right hand on top of hers] You kidding?

Bella: [looks up at Hunter] Huh?

Hunter: You have a beautiful voice. [gives her a flyer] Besides, I saw this on the cafe's bulletin board and thought of you.

Bella: [takes the flyer and reads it] "Wanted, lead singer for boys and girl band. Heroic Wielders. Auditions today." I do love singing... But I can't. Something weird would happen. [places the flyer aside on the table]

Hunter: So? There are two things I know about you. One, you're weird and two, you're happiest when you're singing. [puts his hand on her shoulder]

Bella: Thanks, Hunt, but I just can't. [stands up and begins to leave]

Hunter: Huh? [grabs her left wrist and hands back the flyer] Think about it. Promise me?

Bella: [takes the flyer and smiles] I promise. [Bella then leaves the Smoothie Bar]

Bella: [walks on the sidewalk deep in thought before stopping in front of a lamp post] No, I just can't. [Bella sighs and starts dashing across the crosswalk. As she pant down the street, her pendant starts glowing]

Bella: [stops in the middle of a dock and looks up in the sky gasping for breath] Oh!

Hunter's voice: Think about it. [Bella looks at the crumpled flyer] Promise me?

Bella: [smiles] Hmm.

Scene: Theater

Bella: [Groaning after hearing a lot of girls sing as they wait in a long line] Oh! Maybe I'm not the weirdest singer here.

Female contestant: [sings off-key on a microphone as she dances] "Oh, when I start the day I'm checking on my friends. To see if they're okay they can count on me. Yeah."

???: [groans at the contestant's singing]

Junior: [groans and covering his ears]

Female contestant: "And if I'm feeling down my friends will come around. We're going to make some noise we'll be laughin'."