⤷ the one in which the quiet girl and the dorky new guy fall for each other and sing more than a few times along the way.
♫ [s2-s6] [sam evans] ♫
published: 09.18.2020
completed: 05.21.2023
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Her house was bursting with fifth graders, and while Keilani normally had pretty good amount of patience, she was starting to feel it starting to wear away. It wasn't like they weren't all nice kids. In fact, Keilani actually really liked Naia's friends.
It's just that they were loud.
Keanu and her mom were helping serve lunch to all the girls while Keilani was making the final touches on the birthday cake in the kitchen. There was pink frosting smeared all over her face, but considering how beautiful the cake turned out, she didn't mind in the slightest.
'"Goodness, I forgot how nuts ten-year-old girls are," Keilani's mom told her as she came bustling into the kitchen. "The entertainment should be here soon though so hopefully they'll focus all their crazy onto him."
Head snapping up, Keilani looked at her mom confused because she hadn't mentioned anything about there being entertainment for the party. "Who did you hire?"
"You know how Naia's been obsessed with Justin Bieber? Since I obviously can't hire the real star, I got a Justin Bieber cover artist for an hour to perform for the girls! Naia saw him perform at another one of her friend's parties and absolutely loved him. I talked with him over the phone, and he seemed like a really sweet kid, so I hired him!"
A knock on the door interrupted their conversation and kept Keilani from asking anymore questions. Keilani assumed that would be the Justin Bieber artist, and instead of going over to see him, she decided to continue finishing up the cake. As she tried using the frosting funnel, the frosting accidentally came out the wrong end and got all through her hair. Cursing, Keilani frantically tried to wash the frosting out of her hair before it started to cake together too much.
"Lani?"
Shit.
Keilani turned on her heel, wet dishcloth in hand, to see Sam staring at her with a wide grin, clearly amused at Keilani's cake situation. With the guitar case and lilac hoodie, it didn't take Keilani long to realize why Sam was in her home.
"Sam!" She exclaimed in a surprised voice, frantically scrubbing her face to rid it of frosting. "Are you the Bieber cover band?"
Nodding, Sam placed his guitar case down on the empty table after getting her mom' permission and began to tune it. "On the clock, I'm technically called the Justin Bieber Experience," He grinned. "But yeah, I'm in a Justin Bieber cover band. I figured I'd get some extra money and it might be nice getting some use out of this killer singing voice I apparently have."
Sam didn't want to let Keilani know about the real reason he was going around and performing as Justin Bieber, which was that he was trying his best to win back Quinn. While Sam believed Quinn's story about how she contracted mono from Finn and the couple was still together, he could feel her slipping away from him. Quinn had become more and more distant by the day, and Sam really had no idea what to do.
