Bratz: The Last Summer
Chapter 1: She's Back
"I see her." Cloe said. The Bratz girls were waiting at the airport on June 28th, 2008. Yasmin was coming back from Canada because all that previous week, she had a gig every night. Yasmin looked up, noticed her friends, and hurried over to them. "Hi." she said. "Hey." the girls said. They quickly hugged their friend and waved at the band. "Alright Yas," Max, her keyboardist, said. "No more gigs for a while, right?" "Right." Yasmin said. "Come on Yas," Jade said. "We'll help you get settled at home." "Thanks." Yasmin said. The girls and the band left the airport.
That night, Yasmin was on the phone with Cameron. "It's just good that you're back," Cameron said. "I just saw the pics from some of the gigs that you uploaded in MySpace and Facebook. Awesome." "Thank you," Yasmin said. "What have you been up to?" "Nothing much," Cameron said. "I've been helping my dad fix houses and stuff, but nothing major." Yasmin suddenly had a thought of Cameron in his t-shirt, with his gorgeous muscles showing. She quickly pushed the thought out of her mind and said, "Awesome. Oh, guess what I got in the mail today?" "You got accepted into another college too?" Cameron guessed. "No," Yasmin said. "And even if I had, I was still going to Virginia State. Anyway, I got a letter from Red Girl Records, you know, Melanie C's record label. "Awesome," Cameron said. "Asking you to sign?" "No," Yasmin answered. "They want me to come and work with them over the summer. Them, and Mel, isn't that great?" "That's awesome," Cameron said. "What did the girls think?" "Haven't told them yet," Yasmin said. "And they might not want me to go anyway." "Why not?" Cameron asked, puzzled. "Because," Yasmin explained as she sent Cloe a message on MySpace. "This is our last summer together." "Oh yeah," Cameron said. "Well, I think you should go. You always said you wanted to own your own record label one day, didn't you? Mel C will give you some practice with it." "I guess so," Yasmin said. "Maybe I should talk to the girls first." "If you want to," Cameron said. "Okay, I'm tired now. Talk to you later." "Later." Yasmin said. She hung up the phone and read over the letter again. It read:
Dear Yasmin:
This is Melanie C's team at Red Girl Records in London, England. We would really love for you to come and work with us for the summer. Melanie would really appreceate it and she would love to hear your point of view on loads of things. Melanie also got your letter about owning a record label one day, so she suggested that we ask you to come along and help out around here, get a taste of owning a record label. Please reply by e-mail. My e-mail is below and so is Melanie's. We really hope you can come. If you can, we'll be sure to book the flight for you, and get you all settled and stuff. Thank you.
Sincerely:
Nancy Phillips, Melanie C's mangager/business partner
P.S. The e-mails are on the enclosed card.
Yasmin put the letter down and thought over it. What would her girls say? They would probably want her to stay so they could spend their last summer together. She thought back to Melanie's song, What If I Stay. And what if she did stay? She probably would never get a chance to work with Melanie ever again. So many questions were running through Yasmin's head, and they were giving her a major headache. She picked up the phone, dialed her dad's number, and waited a few seconds. Soon, his girlfriend, Lisa, answered, "Hello?" "Hey Lisa," Yasmin said. "It's Yasmin." "Hey sweetheart," Lisa said. "How are you?" "Great," Yasmin answered. "How are you and the twins doing?" "I'm great," Lisa answered. "I went to the doctor today and she said that the twins were very healthy." "That's good to hear," Yasmin said, excited by the fact that her father's girlfriend was pregnant with twins. "Is my dad there?" "He just sat down at the table," Lisa said. "Hold on." After a few seconds, her dad answered, "Hey babygirl." "Hey daddy," Yasmin said as she played with her phone cord. "Listen. I got a letter from Red Girl Records today, you know, Melanie C's record label." "Yeah," Enrique answered. "She wants you to sign?" "Cameron said that same thing," Yasmin said. "But no. Her and her team want me to work with them for the summer." "That's fantastic," Enrique said. "What's the problem?" "I don't know if I should go," Yasmin said. "I mean, it's me and the girls' last summer together before we go to college. I really wanna go but, I just don't know." "I think you should go," Enrique said. "One, you have always been the biggest fan of Melanie C, and two, you said you wanted to own your own record label one day." "That's true," Yasmin said. "Okay dad, tell Jesse I said hi and I'll talk to you later." "Okay baby," Enrique said. "Love you, bye." "Love you too," Yasmin said. "Bye." She hung up the phone and slumped down in her desk chair. She decided that she would tell the girls tomorrow, and see what they say. With that in mind, she changed into her PJ's and went to bed.
Chapter 1 done. Chapter 2 coming soon. Hope you liked. Read and Review. (The e-mails used in this chaper are fake. Hey, if I really did know Melanie C's e-mail, I fill her inbox with e-mails. LOL!)