Six years later: It's Christmas Eve, and Matt is embarrassingly stuck in the middle of his church's yearly Christmas pageant. Standing in front of his entire congregation was bad enough, but having to sing a solo was down right horrible. His Mom made him try out as a punishment for skipping a week of school, and he just happened to get the main solo. This was it. The spotlight moved onto his face and he reluctantly walked up to the microphone. He nervously tried to loosen his tight bowtie, and started sweating profusely.

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"Coming to a Christmas pageant is a good change in our traditions." Inez whispered to Jackie who nodded in agreement. Their families were both really close now, and pretty much did everything together. The two of them giggled for a bit and talked about the "cute boy" who got up to sing.

"He's really hot, but I bet his voice is horrible!" Jackie whispered in Inez's ear as she passed her a piece of bubble gum.

"I know! He looks so nervous that I think he might not even be able to get a sound out!" they both quietly giggled.

"Shh!" both of the girls' mothers turned around and held up their fingers to their lips.

The audience quieted down, and no one spoke or even coughed the next couple minutes as the boy gave his solo. After finishing his solo of "Oh Holy Night", the young man stepped down from the platform and back into the choir. The lights moved on to the nativity scene and his little moment of fame was over.

Being out of the spotlight, Matt whiped his face with his cuffs and took a good deep breath. That was one of the hardest moments of his life. He then took his first actual look at the audience and noticed two pretty girls pointing at him and whispering.

"Oh no…" he murmured and started blushing. He quickly looked away and ignored them the rest of the night, but he never got over the fact that there were actually pretty girls visiting the service and seeing his horrible show.

After the show, as the whole congregation greeted one another, Matt was congratulated by almost everyone who saw the play. He half-heartedly shook everyone's hand as the complimented him on his "amazingly talented voice".

"Thanks a lot mom!" he nudged her when she came up to give him a hug. She grinned and patted his cheek.

"I knew you would do wonderful! I'm almost glad you skipped school for so long!"

"Yeah, right… I should do it again sometime." He laughed. Just then, Jackie and Inez walked up. Matt nearly swallowed his tongue.

"You were amazing!" Jackie held her hand over her heart. "I think I cried!" she dramatically sniffed.

"Right…" Matt tried to keep his face its original color.

"You really were good." Inez, who wasn't as bold as Jackie, smiled and shook his hand.

"In the program it says your name is Matt, right?" Jackie pointed at her paper.

"Yeah, Matt." He smiled and looked side to side. "And you are…"

"Jackie! And this is Inez." She pointed to her friend.

"Jackie and Inez, huh?" he raised his eyebrows. "Are you guys new to this town?" he crossed his arms.

"Yeah! Actually, our families both just moved here! Do you go to the high school here?" "Mhm…" Matt nodded and smiled. Even though Jackie spoke the most, he still took several glances at Inez. "Do I know you guys?" he looked at back and forth at the two girls. They both paused; realizing that there was something familiar about him.

"Yeah, you know what? Maybe! Here's my number!" Jackie winked and gave Matt a piece of paper. Matt was a little annoyed because he really did recognize her and wasn't just hitting on her. Thankfully, Inez took him literally and nodded her head. "What's your number?" Jackie excitedly asked and got a pen and paper ready to write one. Matt looked at her blankly.

"I don't give out my number on first meet, sorry." He smiled politely. Inez started laughing really hard and dragged Jackie away who was a little embarrassed.

"Wait!" she called after. "At least let me get a picture with you! You are gonna be famous one day!"

"Maybe!" Matt winked at her as Inez dragged her into the girl's bathroom.

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"Jackie! You need to be serious! We are going to church with this guy, it's not like he is some person you can flirt with!" Inez pinched her. Jackie laughed.

"I know, but you have got to admit, he is amazing!" she clasped her hands together.

"Yeah, he's got some looks… and, boy…" she thought for a minute. "He doesn't seem like a jerk! I mean, he was even careful about giving his number away! It's rare to meet a guy like that!" the two of them both stood in the bathroom giggling and talking about him for at least 15 minutes until their mothers found them and made them go. On their way out, Jacky managed to get only three pictures of him with her camera cell phone, and only one of them actually turned out. But she was satisfied…

"For now!"

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Matt looked through the window and watched the two girls hop into their cars. There was something familiar about them, but he just couldn't place his finger on it! He figured the only reason he couldn't recall them from his past was how gorgeous that "Inez" girl was, and perhaps is she wasn't so dazzling, he might be able to remember her.

"Come on Matt, help with the chairs!"

"Okay…" Matt looked back at the pastor who was calling him to his work.

"Oh by the way!" his pastor put his hand over his shoulder. "I'm really proud of your performance." He smiled. "I'm so glad to see you are coming back to church."

Matt nodded with a smile. "I'm glad too." He wasn't really sure if he was, but he knew its always good to make a good impression on the pastor. He was always afraid of people at church gossiping about everything he did wrong. But thankfully people thought well of him now… even though it did take singing in front of the entire church. He groaned, remembering the spot light and finished putting away the chairs.

To be continued…

Disclaimer: I do not own these characters, they are from the kid's show: Cyberspace. It really is a dorky show, but at the same time, growing up watching it etc, you gotta love those kids. So yeah, 6 years later, Matt's about age 17… and good looking at that! Hehe,

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