im baaaaack!(: so ive had this idea for a while, and im pretty excited to write it. (: please review, and if you havent done so already, read my other story, A Big Time Love Story!(:
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-Haley Marie. xoxo
"SAGE! HURRY UP!" I roll my eyes as I hear my sisters voice float through the apartment.
"I'M ALMOST READY!" I shout back. I turn my head back to the mirror, and smile at the reflection. My hair is super straight, and that takes forever to do. To finish the look, I add a thin line of eye liner below my icy blue eyes. Finally happy with how it looks, I grab my ipod off the dock and walk into the living room.
In case youre wondering, my name is Sage. Im an actress, and I live in Los Angeles with my twin sister Ariana. We both have icy blue eyes, long, wavy blonde hair, and were about 5'2. don't let the appearances fool you though… we might live in LA, but we were raised in Georgia. Ill always be a country girl at heart, but since I can remember, ive wanted to be an actress. I went to an acting thingie, and I guess the director liked what he saw. He wanted me to come out to LA with him to be in his movie. And so, here I am.
So where does this involve Ariana? Well, my mom is a single mother. Ari and I have three younger siblings… Kaylie, who is 15, Max, who is 10, and Cassie, who is 7. Ari and I are 18 by the way. Anyway, our mom is just that… OUR mom. Kaylie, Jackson, and Cassie are only our half siblings. Mine and Ari's dad left when we were about a year old. We don't remember him at all, and mom doesn't like to talk about him. She got remarried, about 8 years later to Alec. Alec is nice, but we don't talk to him a lot. Its not that we don't like him, we just never got to be very close to him. Kaylie is his daughter with another lady. She is basically the opposite of us…. Tall, super tan, dark brown hair, and brown eyes. Jackson and cassie are a little bit of a mix, light hair with dark eyes, tan. Any way, they stayed in Georgia because my mom didn't want them in the big city. She also didn't want me here alone, so she wanted Ari to come with me so, here ari and I are, in the big city.
Tonight, theres a party. One of my co stars, Max Schneider, told me about it and said I was invited. Ari and I are going, and this is like, our first big party. Its not super fancy, but still.
"you ready?" I ask, walking past ari's room. She's lying down on her bed staring at the ceiling. When I ask, she tilts her head back and looks at me.
"are YOU ready? Ive been ready for about 20 minutes!" she says exasperatedly, rolling off the bed. Her outfit consists of a slightly poofy flowered skirt with a pink tank top. Her hair is curly, and the top layer is pulled back into a small ponytail.
"yes, im ready. Love your hair by the way." I say, putting my ipod in my room, and grabbing my cell phone. Before I walk out, I check my outfit one last time in my body length mirror. White skinny jeans, a black and pink one shoulder shirt with a big, silver flower graphic on the front, and silver platform shoes. Satisfied, I step back into the living room. Because its our first big party, we take a few pictures to send back to mom, and then walk out to our car.
When I said don't let the appearances fool you, I meant don't think were city girls. My favorite music is country, and im not afraid to get dirty. I plug Ari's ipod into the speakers, and suddenly Jason Aldean's My Kinda Party is blasting from the stereo. We sing every word, and then let the entire Jason Aldean CD play.
When we get to the place where the party is, we link arms and walk in together. There are about 50 people dancing and talking and a few that should really get a room.
I scan the room, looking for someone I know. I see max, but get distracted by a cute guy. Hes not super tall, has short, dark hair and looks like hes latino, and is standing by a taller guy. I shake my head, and start to walk over to max."-and then hes like 'Youre kidding right?' well, I wouldn't mind, but he was just being a… oh hey sage!" he says, stopping mid story. He smiles and gives me a hug.
"hey!" I reply, hugging him back.
"hey ari!" he adds, waving at my sister. Shes been down to set a couple times, so he knows who she is. Well, actually, hes one of the few people that can tell you apart. Ari and I are damn near identical. Only our personalities make it easy to tell us apart. Shes more the wild child, and im quieter. The only thing that makes it possible to tell us apart based on looks is that I have a small scar under my right eye from falling off a horse when I was 10. Well, and I have my cartilage pierced, but you cant see that because our hair is covering our ears right now.
"hey!" she smiles back.
We spend a while talking to max and then dancing for a bit, but after a while, I just want to sit down and chill. I start to walk off the dance floor and towards a small couch. When I get there, I sit and take out my iphone. I check my messages, and reply to the few I have. I feel someone sit down next to me, and look over to see the cute latino boy I saw earlier.
He notices me looking at him, and smiles.
"hi!" he says cheerfully.
"hi." I smile back. This guy is super cute… I mean, a killer smile, and gorgeous brown eyes.
"are you new around here? I usually know the teens around here, and this is kinda my party." he chuckles.
"is it really? Oh my god, sorry! I didn't crash, I swear! Max invited me. Yeah, im new… im in a movie, and its my first acting job. And sorry just showed up…" I say, feeling bad… I totally crashed this guys party…
"eh, no biggie." he tells me, smiling an adorable smile. "im carlos, by the way." he says, sticking out his hand.
I grab it and shake it. "Sage. Nice to meet you."
"back at you. You said youre in a movie? that's awesome! Whats it about?" he asks.
Damn, this guy is cute. "well, its kind of a Cinderella story, but instead it's a Cinderfella story. Its called rags."
"sounds interesting… whose in it with you?"
"max. and avan jogia, drake bell. it's a fun group of people." I smile. "and why are you having a party?"
"well, its not just mine…its my bands. We just felt like LA could use some fun. Havent had a party in a while." he chuckles.
"youre in a band? Cool! Whats your band called?"
"big time rush." he grins. "its me, and my three best friends. Kendall, logan, and james."
"awesome! So if its your party, does that mean some of these are your songs?" I ask, pausing and listening to the song that's blasting from the speakers. Ive never heard it, but its good.
"yeah! Well, this one is, but weve been playing just a ton of random stuff. This is actually…" he starts to say, but stops as a girl walks up and puts her hands on her hips. His smile changes to a grimace. "what?"
"who is she?" the girl asks. She has straight, long brown hair and green eyes.
"this is Sage… sage, this is my girlfriend Stephanie." carlos says, gesturing at Stephanie.
"mhmm. Well, say good bye to your friend, and lets go dance." Stephanie says, grabbing Carlos's arm and pulling him to the dance floor. He turns back and shrugs his shoulders apologetically as he disappears into the crowd. Huh. She seems like the type of girl I hate.
After a couple minutes of sitting, and watching some people dance around, another really cute guy walks up and sits next to me.
"hey, I saw you chatting it up with carlos… who are you?" he asks. "not trying to be rude or anything. Just curious. I usually know everyone at my party." he adds with a grin. Damn. Nice dimples!
"ahhh. Are you one of the guys in the band with him? And im Sage, one of max's friends. Well, co stars." I say, holding out my hand for him to shake.
He shakes it, and smiles again. "yep. Im logan. And co star? So youre an actress?"
I nod. "you bet. First movie. Im pretty excited." I smile.
"well." he says. "good luck. And just telling you right now, I saw steph get all defensive over carlos. Ignore her. She doesn't understand that carlos will talk to other girls. Hes really a nice guy and a great friend. Shes just kind of crazy." he shoots me a lopsided smile.
"thanks for the heads up." I tell him. Im about to say something else, but then a blonde guy walks up and starts to talk to logan.
"hey, logan, we need to go up on stage. I just told some chick…" he pauses as he looks at you. "I told YOU we would sing…." he raises his eyebrow at me. "you had curly hair."
"nope. Wrong." I say. I go to explain more and about ariana, but logan interrupts.
"bro, I think youre drunk." logan says, looking at me apologetically. "hes kinda weird sometimes. This is kendall by the way. Kendall, this is Sage."
"I swear to God, you said your name was Ariana." kendall says, looking at me suspiciously.
"well, maybe I did. I like to mess with people sometimes." I say, giggling. Okay, so maybe sometimes I like to be like ariana and mess with people… its just how we are. We switch places sometimes. Only a couple people ever notice anyways.
"well now im confused… is your name Ariana or Sage?" kendall asks.
"Sage." I reply.
Logan is looking at me funny now…. "whyd you tell him your name is Ariana?"
"like I said, I mess with people. I have a ten year old brother who is just getting into the pranking stage. So, I like to confuse people." I tell him. Not a lie.
"well, either way, I told you we would sing, so lets go sing! I have to go search for carlos… go find james." kendall tells logan, giving him orders.
Logan sighs, but agrees. "talk to you later, sage." he starts to walk away, but I grab his arm.
"wait… I like you. You should text me sometime." I say. He nods, and then digs in his pocket for a second before pulling out a sharpie and handing it to you.
I raise my eye brows. "why the hell do you have a sharpie in your pocket?" I ask.
Logan shrugs. "im in a band. I got sick of having to wait for girls to find pens or something so I could sign something for them. God… now I sound like a conceited jerk… but this way I can just have this and sign what ever for them." he says. I shrug, and write my number on his hand. He seems like the type of guy that I'll have fun talking to.
