A New Chance at Life

The Night Before the Concert

I looked at her when she pulled me into the room with her and blushed before trying to release my wrist from her grasp. I coughed a bit and shyly said "H-hey.. y-you're s-still gripping my wrist.." I swore I saw her blush when she released my wrist as she pulled me into the room, I smiled and chuckled softly "S-so uhm..what band is u-uhm playing in the concert.." I blushed as I looked at a blushing Cynthia getting teased by Austin and decided to talk to Ross.

As I walked up to him he looked at me and plainly said "Why are you here?..did Cynthia just drag you here?..." I looked at him slightly shocked that he knew that I was dragged by Cynthia here "W-Well y-you u-uhm see.." I thought of a way I could bullshit my way out of this situation by running simulations rapidly through my head and just spoke whatever came first from the scenario that was having more success than the others, as I saw him raise an eyebrow I knew I was staring into space for too long.

He spoke up "You don't gotta bullshit your way out of this, not the first time she did this," he said while looking me dead in the eyes as I sighed in relief " Yeah, she dragged me here...b-but I-I don't mind! haha...I u-uhm..sorta..u-uhm y-y'know" I blushed and looked away before hearing him say "You got it bad for her huh?... that'll be fun to see, she can't really pick up romantic signals that good, she's as clueless as you are socially awkward." I turned to him and yelled at him "HEY! I'M NOT THAT AWKWARD OKAY!?" I sighed and turned away before blushing and walking away, sitting in one of the corners as I started to scribble in my Journal.

 'So, the first day of school was...interesting to say the least, a beautiful girl talked to me and dragged me to this empty room that they dubbed the 'arts club' and let me tell you about Cynthia, she's beautiful..her fiery orange hair that's smooth as silk, her milky white and soft skin that has these adorable freckles along with her mesmerizing emerald orbs..those eyes...I just can't look away from them and don't get me started on her cute a-' I blushed as I saw Austin standing over me curiously and blushed before hugging my journal tightly with one arm.

"W-what are you doing here!!?" I blushed madly as he smirked "Whatcha writing down there?" he smiled and chuckled before sighing softly "Don't worry, I'm not gonna pry Cynth told me about your secret journal" he winked at me, he...WINKED! AT ME! my heart was racing from being so nervous as my brain started to overthink the situation before feeling my body heat up as I stood up and power walked out of the club room to the bathroom.

I walked up to the sink below the mirror as I placed my journal back in my bag and splashed my face with the cold water and sighed softly before looking at my reflection on the mirror "Why are you like this Mel...ugh.." I sighed softly before grabbing a few towels and wiping my face with them and walked back out of the washroom to the clubroom, peeking in I saw Austin getting scolded by Cynthia and Ross recording the whole thing while chuckling softly.

 I decided to wait and eavesdrop on them I heard Cynthia yelling "Austin! I told you not to wink or flirt with anyone here anymore! jeez!!" I saw him smirk before hearing him say "Alright, alright I get it...she's yours, right?~" I saw Cynthia blush red as I slipped and fell into the room. all three pairs of eyes and a camera were pointing at me now, I blushed and looked at them before saying "H-heeeeey...." I looked at them, sweating bullets as my body shivered, my cheeks flushed red and my breath short.

Austin chuckled and I saw Ross behind there smirking, mouthing 'Good Luck' towards me as I saw Austin laugh before saying "Speak of the devil~" in a mischievous tone "Anywho I won't bring up that subject again if Cynthia doesn't want me too because we're gonna be talking about the concert later tonight!" he smiled and chuckled before looking at the three of us and sitting down "So I was thinking that we could meet up back here since it's close to the old mill and one of us could drive us there, or y'know we can walk" 

I looked at him and chuckled "I-I uhm..c-could use my mom's car to drive us there" I smiled nervously as I looked at them "So uhm...I guess I could drive.." I blushed, grabbing my forearm shyly and looking at them, they were smiling ecstatically and I chuckled nervously "No promises though...if I'm late just walk without me.."

They looked at me and pulled me into a group hug as we joked around and started to talk about the designs of the next school's play and talked about which props are we going to make for the play. "I was thinking that we should start doing the horns for this costume here" I heard Cynthia said I looked around and sighed softly before saying "I-I can't r-really do any of this stuff...I mostly doodle and just play music" I looked at Cynthia's face hoping that she won't be too upset

She sighed and looked at me before smiling "But the way you doodle is super cute, maybe you can do the little touch-ups here and there" she chuckled softly and looked around at the others "I think we can stop discussing this for now and we can finally talk about! drum rolls please Austin!" she looked over to him and banged lightly on the table he was sitting on "The fuckin concert tonight! I'm hella excited for it and like Mel said she'll be driving us there possibly and we can finally do something fun together! as a club!" she smiled and laughed.