Four am

chapter ten

It's audition day.

I glance over to my clock, 5am. I could have slept another hour but I'm too nervous to. I get out of bed and head to my bathroom. I do my morning routine and pull my hair back into a low sleek bun. I pull up my tights and put on my light pink leotard and pull some black joggers. I look at myself in my bathroom mirror and grip the counter in front of me, bending over slightly. I was trying to give myself a pep talk which wasn't really working out since I started spiralling and freaked myself out even more.

I opened the door to my bathroom to see Maddie laying in my bed. "Mads what are you doing here?"

"My sister instinct told me that you were going to freak yourself out for the auditions so I thought I would come in here and calm you down." She patted for me to lay down beside her. "I got you twizzlers!" She threw them at me.

"Mads!" I ripped open the bag and took a bite out of two at the same time. "Thank you." I hugged her and ruffled her hair a bit. "You know sometimes you're a good sister right?"

"What? I am always the best sister ever." She defends herself.

"Sure you are." Honestly I have to hand it to her. She is very mature for her age sometimes. Even though she is very loud and goofy all the time, if she needs to be serious she will be. If you ask her to do something consider it done. She doesn't give herself enough credit sometimes. Now I'm not saying she is not annoying, she is. But I still love her more than she will ever know.

Coles Pov

I heard the front door close, I looked over to my phone to see it was 7. Oh shoot. Zoe is leaving for her audition, I need to tell her to crush it. I didn't even bother to put a shirt on and I ran downstairs in only grey sweatpants. I opened the door to see Zoe getting into her car.

"Going to leave without saying bye first, Peanut?" She doesn't answer me, only looks at me in awe. "Like what you see?" I wink at her.

"No Cole." That's all she says and rolls her eyes. She looks like a goddess with her hair like that and with makeup on. "Were you going to tell me something or?" She asks me not realizing I was the only one staring now.

"Yeah I wanted to say good luck and crush it. You should have woken me up to let me know you were going."

"I tried to wake you, but you didn't budge, you were also snoring." She lets out a tiny giggle that sounds mischievous. She's adorable.

"Wait Zoe what did you do?" I ask, closing the distance between us.

"Nothing.." She drawled out the word. Now I know she's done something. "Okay so I have to go If I don't want to be late, see ya!" She climbed into her car and rolled down her window. I walked towards the car. "Hey C?"

"Yes Z?"

"Make sure Maddie doesn't do something stupid at school ok?"

"You got it." I winked and kissed her on the forehead before heading back inside.

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Cole's Pov

I walked into school, I turned right and I started walking up to the second floor. Walking towards my locker where I saw Callum and Nate. I walked up behind Callum and smacked him upside the head and punched Nate in the shoulder.

"Ow."

"Man what the hell."

"Why did you tell Zoe's friends that I don't 'date'?" I made air quotations with my fingers.

"You don't seem to have a problem telling other people that like Heather or Nicole or the brunette that." Nate said.

"Or any of the chicks you hook up with." Callum chimes in.