Young Hearts Go BAM

Chapter 4 - Meeting Charlie

We were in the car for what felt like forever but it was really twenty minutes. I had to ask Leondre about Caitlin and Fern , who I now knew the names of. Caitlin was the one with auburn hair and Fern was the one with white hair.

"Leo , what do those girls have against me?" I asked quietly "Have I done something?"

"You've done nothing , up until last week there was a girl called Lauren who was like queen bee , Fern and Caitlin were her little followers. Everybody knows that Lauren got expelled but Fern and Caitlin like to pretend that she didn't so now that you've come along they think that you're the reason why Lauren had to leave school." he explained.

"That's pretty stupid if you ask me , how can I have replaced somebody that I don't even know? Also what are they talking about when they said that I've taken you away from Lauren?" I asked , it was really hard to talk about but it must have been harder for Leondre , at least I didn't know Lauren.

"Lauren liked me" Leondre started before being interupted by his Dad.

"She really did , she would text him none stop after school , talk to him all day in school and he didn't want to , somebody was in love with our little Leondre." he teased.

"Dad , anyway when you replaced her and started talking to me they thought that you were sort of trying to steal me away" he said quickly.

"What? No offence but that's not true. I've known you for two days and I don't love somebody after two days , you're an amazing friend and I wouldn't want to complicate that." I said and I tried to keep it sweet so that I didn't loose a friend.

"Ok" he said "Me either and also so that you know , I didn't like Lauren either."

"I actually wouldn't mind if you did because that's not my buisness" I said and I had no idea why he was trying to justify his feelings to me.

We pulled up to where the boys practice and we walked up to a small music room. This isn't where the boys usually practice but their show was in Neath so Charlie was staying in Wales for a while anyway. Charlie seemed shocked when I walked into the room half wet. I expected his first question to be who's this? Instead I got a what's happened?

"This is Sarah and she's going to watch us practice today" Leondre said "The answer to whats happened is that some girls in our school tipped water over her head"

"Well I just arrived here five minutes ago and my things haven't been taken to the hotel yet , I swear I have a hand towel in my suitcase that is brilliant if you're doing your hair , do you want to use it?" asked Charlie.

"Actually I'm ok , I wouldn't want to use your special hair towel" I replied quirkily.

"Wow , where are you from?" asked Charlie , he seemed impressed by my accent.

"I'm from Tennessee , I got here on Sunday" I replied.

"That's cool , are you the girl who woke me up at 5:30 this morning?" he asked cheekily.

"How could I have done that? That's not even possible" I said confused.

"Oh , you went out at 5:30 which caused Leo to wake up and then he text me which then woke me up , you owe me an hour sleep" he joked.

"Sorry" I said feeling guilty "I was going to check on my horse"

"I'm joking , I woke up at 5:25 to get a drink and I couldn't get back to sleep." said Charlie.

Then the boys started practicing and I heared what was Bars And Melody for the very first time , it was amazing. They performed three songs for me , they performed Hopeful , Shining Star and Missing You. My favourite was Shining Star because it reminded me of the night before. After practice Leo told Charlie about my song and Charlie asked me to sing it. I didn't though because it was a work in progress and wasn't very good but I promised to sing it when it was finished. I felt quite happy that they were taking an interest but I was nervous that they wouldn't like what I wrote , Leondre had already heared it but what if he was only sparing my feelings?