Music of the Sun

Chapter 5

YES, YES, YES,YES, YES. She said, yes. Well... Sort of. "BRUNO," I hear my sister, yell. Oopsy! I ran towards my record player, I lift the pin up and to the side of the record. "THANK YOU!" "WELCOME," I yell back to her. I walk out of my room. I walk downstairs and towards the kitchen, I see my sister cooking. I sit down on a stool, watching her cook. "Bruno, can you tell me? What is going on between you and Cassie?" she says. "I don't know... What your talking about?" I say, nodding my head. "Come on. You only play the Beach Boys when you're in love and Bruno, you're in love with Cassie." Shit. "Come on. Admit it. Admit that you're in love with Cassie." "Fine. You've caught me, sis. I love Cassie. I'm in love with her." She smiles at me. "I don't know, if I should tell her." "Then don't hide it from her. Tell her, how you feel." She walks towards the her cell phone and picks it up. "Don't you dare... Make me, tell her now." She starts to press things. "Don't..." She gives the phone to me. "Jaime, please," I mouth. "Hello, this is Cassie." I hear Cassie's voice. "Hello, who is this?" I start to freeze. "Hello. Jaime, don't play trick on me, girl." "Go on, Bruno," she mouths when I look, right at her. "Hey, Cassie. It's Bruno." Damn it... "Bruno?" "Yeah, I'm so sorry... If my sister woke you up." "It's OK. I was already awake." "So, about the movies on Sunday." "Are we still on with that?" "Yes, but I have something to tell you." "What is it, Bruno?" I hear Cassie's voice crack. "Well, I actually fell in love with you." I laugh. "Wow." "Yeah, I know..." I hear Cassie's phone go onto deaf tone. "Hello, Cassie. Are you still there?" I put the phone down. "What happened, Bruno?" she asks. "She hung up on me, sis," I say, looking at Jaime's picture with Cassie and Margaritte on her phone. "Hold on. Cassie, hung up on you. Bruno, that's good new. It means that she feel in love with you too." "I don't believe you," I say, getting off the stool and sitting on the coach. "You've got to believe me on this one. Cassie is not that kind of girl to fall in love with... boy's with an Afro." "You know... I actually think that siblings should be more friendly to siblings and they should tease him or her about their fucking hair." "I'm so sorry, Bruno. But Cassie?? How? And why?" "Hm... The airport. She picked up with Margaritte." "Wait. Marge, never told me that." "Well... Sis, Cassie was there. She look so damn hot with just a dress on." "Yeah. I can see that. She's always like that when Bueno, her boyfriend is not around." "She... She had a boyfriend." "Well, yeah." I turn my head, so I can see a little of her. "But there going to break up soon. Actually, Bueno called me, earlier. He told me that Cassie told him that she fell in love with you and that they had an argument about it." YES! Cassie is going to be single and all mine. "But she doesn't like boys, who use her for fame." "I'm not going to use her for fame. She got me to sing for Bueno and I sang-" "Billie Jean," she interrupts me. "How did you know?" "Marge told me." Marge! I'm starting to hate her for that. Yes, really? I'm starting too. "And damn that girl should really shut her mouth." I look at my sister's kid. He looks at me like I should really do something about my sideshow bob looking hair. I pick him up, looking at him not saying anything, but this kid really knows what I'm telling him without even saying a word. But I wonder. What he's telling me, now and what he's thinking about.

I hear the doorbell ring.