Wen
I just stared at her while she sang. She looked beautiful today. Like always. Maybe I should have concentrated on our song. I was sure I had made a few mistakes but it seemed as if nobody had noticed. It was the last concert in Dante's. Tomorrow would be our first day of tour.
Flashback
"Stella Yamada, Charlie Delgado, Scott Pickett, Mohini Banjaree, Olivia White and Wendell Gifford to the principal, please." Said Brenigan's through a microphone.
Why did we have to go the principal? I couldn't remember doing something wrong. And then why should the whole band go the principal? Maybe Stella did something in the name of the band.
As I walked down the hallway, I saw Mo and Olivia and tried to catch up. "Hey. Do you know what's going on?" They just shrugged. "Do you think Stella had something to do with that?" Suddenly I heard a familiar voice behind me. "To do with what? Do you think I did something? Well, unfortunately not." Stella sighed.
We waited in front of the door for Charlie. Scott joined us a few minutes ago. "How long does this idiot need." Stella was always impatient. Then Charlie ran to us. "Sorry. I had sport." "Now come on. Brenigan is waiting for his angels." Stella grinned.
Brenigan sat in his big chair. Next to him stood Ms. Reznick our music teacher and manager. "Here you are, Lemonade Mouth." Mr. Brenigan said. Brenigan didn't stop talking about how we have to thank him for all this and finally Ms. Reznick spoke and said why we all were here. "You guys are going on tour!" I couldn't believe. I mean, we all couldn't believe. Did she just say that Lemonade Mouth is going on tour? Oh. My. God. That's awesome. Mo and Olivia jumped up and down and screamed. Even Stella joined them. We guys just man-hugged and grinned like idiots. "Can you believe this? We are going on a tour!" "Your first concert will be in Seattle so you first have to go there. And there is another surprise…" Brenigan started to say. "What is it?" "Calm down Stella, he is trying to tell you." I said to her laughing. "Well, if you want to see your surprise we have to go outside."
This day couldn't get any better. Stella was freaking out and I didn't blame her. We all hugged each other when we stood in front of our new tour bus. It had our band logo on it and pictures from all of us. Oh man. This was great. "When can we use this bus? I mean, when do we go on tour?" Mo asked Ms. Reznick and Mr. Brenigan. "We will meet here on Saturday morning." We were all a bit shocked. "That's the day after tomorrow!"
We just sat there, eating the pizza Dante had given us as a gift. We had thanked him for him letting us perform and giving us a second chance. "Well, what can I say? I mean this is crazy, right? We are going on tour. I still can't believe this." Stella shook her head. "Believe it or not. It will be hard. I mean we are going to be like really really famous." Mo said. "Oh, come on. It will be AWESOME!" Stella shouted and people started to stare at us. "Calm down or you will end up hurting someone." Charlie joked. Stella gave him her evil look and Charlie held up his hands in defense. "It's true. Remember the last time? You sent that poor guy to hospital because you got a good mark in maths." We all laughed a little at the memories that kept playing in our heads. "It was his own fault. Why did he have to stand so close to us?" "Stella. He just sat at the table next to us." "Ok, ok. Got it. I'm quiet." We all sighed. It's a wonder that Stella gave up this easily. Normally we would have a fight which would last maybe an hour or more. But we all were in a really good mood today. I think that has something to do with the upcoming tour.
"You know we should have new songs for the tour? Otherwise we'll be playing the old ones over and over again. That's boring." Stella explained. I looked over to Olivia, since we are the only one in the band that actually write songs. Ok, Mo wrote a song. She's so gone. It was a great song. I'm not lying. But that was the first and the last song she had written. So she is out. "I think we should start writing then?" I asked Olivia. She nodded. Not saying a word. Now that I mention she hasn't said a word since we started the whole conversation. "Everything ok?" I asked and everyone stopped talking and looked at her. With all the attention on her Olivia look down. "Yeah. I'm fine." "That's not true. Tell us. What's going on?" I asked again. She shook her head a little bit. "Just the tour and the stupid stage fright." "You know, we are all there for you. And we all are on stage with you. Together." Mo said softly. Like Olivia was a little kid. Well, sometimes when she is scared you have to talk to her in this way. Otherwise you can't calm her. "I know. Thank you." Olivia said.
"So… Are you up for a riding lesson?" I asked Olivia as we walked out of Dante's. "Yeah. That would be great." She smiled. I took the chance and grabbed her hand. She looked up to me since I was taller than her and I smiled. Well, maybe now would be the perfect time to tell you what happened after the interview at the Music Scene when Olivia said we were dating-ish on national TV.
Flashback
"And...we're out!" I heard someone shout and everyone sighed. What a special interview... I thought. I really wanted to talk to Olivia right now. But Ms. Reznick immediately sent us to our dressing rooms. "Hurry up!" She shouted after us. The girls and the boys had different dressing rooms so that wasn't an opportunity for me to talk to her. After we had changed into comfortable clothes we went into a taxi and drove to our hotel. Taxi wasn't an opportunity too. Everyone was there and I wanted to talk to her in private. Till then I had to face the stupid looks from my other bandmates. Good for me they didn't say anything. As I took a look at Olivia I saw her staring out of the window of the taxi. Deep in thoughts. The next time I dared to look at her was when we went into our hotel. As the door was opened by some bodyguard flashlights started to appear from paparazzi. How I hate them... I thought. They were asking all these stupid questions about the interview. Especially about Olivia and me. Although bodyguards were guiding us to the entrance of the hotel I could see the fear in Olivia's eyes. I immediately took her hand and pulled her with me. Maybe not so clever with all the paparazzi surrounding us. But I only thought about Olivia and her safety. And I didn't lie when I said that she is my girl. Ok. She wasn't my girl at that time but I like her. I really do. I hope she does too otherwise it could be awkward. Well she didn't mind the touch between us when I pulled her with me. And I didn't let go of her hand when we were in the elevator. "Can I talk to you later?" I leaned down to her and whispered so no one could her. She bit nervously on her lip but nodded. The next thing I noticed was that she let go of my hand and looked down. I was disappointed. Maybe she didn't like me. The elevator stopped and we walked to our rooms. The girls were sharing one and the boys were sharing one too. "Meet me at the elevator in ten minutes." I whispered to her again. She nodded and walked with the girls to their room.
Thirteen minutes later...
I walked nervously up and down in front of the elevator while I kept looking at my watch. She's never late... I thought. "Sorry. The girls wouldn't let me go." Olivia ran into my arms and I had to catch her so she wouldn't fall. "Why wouldn't they let you go?" She looked down. "They asked a lot." "I understand." I know how Stella and Mo can be. "So... what did you want to talk about?" She asked softly and still faced the ground. "You know about the interview. I don't know but I just wanted you to know that..." I stumbled over my words. "Wen. We don't have to do this. I understand." She was about to turn around but I grabbed her wrist. "No. You don't understand. I wanted to say that I like you. I am being honest right now. Completely honest. And if you don't want we don't have to rush things. And it's ok if you don't like me and you were just covering up Mo." "I like you too. But I don't know if I'm ready for this." "That's ok. We can just pretend that the interview never happened. No pressure." Even if this wasn't how I wanted it to go but this was better than a rejection. And I was happy. She said she liked me. That's all I wanted to hear from her. "Hey. The girls had the idea that we could all watch a movie together in our room." She asked as we walked back to our rooms. "I'll ask the boys." I gave her a smile and she smiled back. I took her hand again and intertwined our fingers. As we reached the girls room we stopped. I was surprised as she stood on her tiptoes and kissed me on the cheek. Even if it was just the cheek it was enough. My cheeks turned a deep red and I smiled from ear to ear. "See you later." She said and closed the door behind her. I touched the spot on my cheek where she had kissed me a few seconds ago.
