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I wake up to millions of messages on my phone from Instagram. I look at them, a lot are nice but some are really mean. Flashbacks from before come so I stop looking and take some deep breaths. I used to have social media but I deleted it all because people bullied me a lot. It got too much for me. But I can handle it now, right?

All through the day I kept getting notifications I tried to stop them but I couldn't. They got really mean. The flashbacks keep coming back. I make it so I can't see the notifications anymore.

"Hey Amore." Daniel says.

"Hey Dani" I say.

"Wanna learn an instrument?"

"Sure."

"Haha good luck trying to teach her anything." My brother says looking up from his phone for a moment.

"Try being nice for once it might make you look less stupid." I say to him.

"You can't teach an old dog new tricks."

"You're just a few fries short of a happy meal."

Me and Daniel walk to the end of the bus, leaving my brother to get back to his phone.

"Oh what are you guys doing?" Zach asks as we sit down next to him. Daniel pulls out two guitars and hands one to me. He starts trying to teach me. He teaches me a few cords and I try to play them. I sounded so bad Zach left. He kept trying to teach me but after a while he saw that it was a lost cause. He settled that he would just play and I would watch. He is amazing at guitar. Then he started playing Free. Then like zombies they start singing, well amazing singing zombies.

Zach, Jack , and Corbyn start singing. As they sing they walk over to us.

"You should be flyin' with me

You could be smilin' with me

You wouldn't be cryin' with me

We could be wildin', we could be free,"

Daniel and Jack started singing. Jack sits next to me.

"And if the sky falls, I'll catch it

Just to steal you a star

I'll ride into battle for you

Just so we could,"

Then Jonah starts singing.

"We could be free, we could be free

We could be free, we could be free

We could be free, we could be free

We could be free, we could be free"

Zach, Jack, and Corbyn start singing. I don't understand how they're all this good at singing.

"You're so invitin' with me

Shotgun, you're ridin' with me

Your love collided with me

We could be wildin', we could be free,"

Daniel and Jack start singing.

"And if the sky falls, I'll catch it

Just to steal you a star

I'll ride into battle for you

Just so we could,"

Jonah sings. I wonder if it's insensitive for me to just start singing.

"We could be free, we could be free

We could be free, we could be free

We could be free, we could be free

We could be free, we could be free,"

Jack and Zach start singing. I shouldn't sing. I will ruin this amazing personal concert I'm getting. Plus they would probably throw me off the bus. You thought my guitar was bad, you haven't heard my voice.

"If the sky falls, I'll catch it

Just to steal you a star

I'll ride into battle for you

Just so we could,"

Jonah sings, finishing the song.

"We could be free, we could be free

We could be free, we could be free

We could be free, we could be free

We could be free, we could be free, "

I clap and they bow.

Eben runs down the hall and slides in singing a part of his song.

"I'd rather cry in a Lambo

Be depressed at the chateau

Live out my parents' back road

I'd rather cry, rather cry, rather cry, rather cry in a Lambo"

You just had to join in?" I ask and we all laugh.

"Yes yes I did." Eben says back. That was a lot of fun. I feel my phone vibrate so I check. It wasn't anything important but I saw more comments on Instagram. Most of them were really mean. I turned my phone off and focused back on what was happening in front of me.

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