A New Turn

Chapter 52

CAITLIN POV

"Any particular movie that you want to watch Caitlin?" Fizzy asked me as I entered their lounge room. Lottie, Daisy and Phoebe were lazily sitting on the couch along the back wall, while Fizzy was over at the television, flicking through movie options.

"I don't mind. Whatever you guys want." I replied as I felt my nerves returning to the surface. I really did need to stop with all the nerves, but I just couldn't control myself. I didn't want or need another family basically hating me for no apparent reason.

I went and sat down a little awkwardly in the single lounge chair in the farthest corner of the room. Even though I knew all of these girls were extremely kind, I felt pretty uncomfortable without Louis in the room. I barely knew these girls.

"So Caitlin, where are you from?" Lottie asked me with interest laced in her voice as Fizzy continued to shake her head at various DVDs.

"I'm from Melbourne in Australia. I moved here to dance at Pulse." Lottie leaned forward and give me an expression of shock.

"You dance at Pulse?"

"Um, yeah." I was utterly confused as to why she was having this much of a reaction. Yeah, Pulse was a brilliant school, but not an awful lot of people has heard of it.

"Oh my goodness! That is so cool! I'm so jealous! I hear it's amazing!" Was Lottie fangirling about the school that I attended?

"Do you do dancing?" I asked her, hoping that it would give me some explanation as to why she was so excited about Pulse.

"Yeah! But probably not as amazing as you are!" That sparked quite an interesting conversation between all of us. We spoke about what genres we did and how we'd been doing it for. We even showed each other a couple of our favourite moves, which I thought was a tad bit weird but I just went along with it anyway.

After dancing topic of conversation, we had realised that we still hadn't chosen a movie to watch.

"Hold on, I have the perfect idea." Fizzy dashed back over to the DVD selection and placed an unknown next into the player. I really just wanted to see what her perfect idea was.

That was when I saw the title screen of 'High School Musical' land on the television screen. The girls around me seemed pretty happy with the choice, which didn't surprise me after what Lou had told me back in Australia. I think I would always have a soft spot in my heart for High School Musical. And maybe Zac Efron...

The movie continued to play as I realised that I hadn't actually seen it in quite a while. However, I soon remembered every lyric to every song, and quietly sang along to myself. Soon enough though, the girls around me were belting out the lyrics, and I immediately felt a lot more comfortable around these them. I suddenly found myself giggling along, and eventfully standing up and singing along with them. Apparently, my inhibitions had been set free.

LOUIS POV

I heard some muffled singing, or something that sounded slightly like singing, but came out more like screaming or howling, coming from the lounge room where the girls were. I somehow managed to notice that they were singing songs from High School Musical. My sisters probably captivated Caitlin to watch it. And now my girlfriend is probably singing along as well.

"Hey mum." I spoke to her as I entered the kitchen. She was flicking through recipe books, a look of puzzlement across her face.

"Hey. Does Caitlin hate anything food wise?" Mum asked me, hoping that that would make her decision of what to cook a little bit easier.

"Um, I don't think so." I went over and gave her a little peck on her cheek. I really was a mummy's boy.

"What's been happening?" I asked her. She told me that it was pretty much just the usual. She had met a man though, who she seemed to be pretty happy about, and I was really glad for that.