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Adrian's POV
"She can't just bail on rehearsal!" Ana shrieked dramatically, jumping up angrily.
Jake stood up also, but not as angrily, "I'll go get her."
"NO!" Vada and Ana yelled together.
Jake crossed his arms, "Well, why not?"
"You'll just make it all worse," Vada said hurriedly, "This is a girl's job."
"At the same time, she might need a guy's opinion as well, Adrian, come along," Ana mused.
She pulled Vada and I out of the treehouse.
Vada shot Ana the worst look, "What are you thinking? Are you stupid enough to actually think April needs a guy's opinion?"
"Puh-leese! I'm thinking Adrian needs a date!" Ana snapped.
A wave of understanding crashed over Vada's face, "You're clever… I mean, it's Hannah we're talking about! She wouldn't say no because…"
"It's highly unlikely there's anyone else in the picture!" Ana finished.
Vada gave her a hug, "Oh, you're brilliant girl! Let's not argue anymore!"
Ana hugged her back, "Okay!"
As we made our way in the house Vada found Hannah in the family room, her nose buried in a book.
"Go ask her!" Vada hissed, pushing me forward.
I stumbled my way over, sitting down quietly, but I knew she had heard me. She just didn't look up.
I looked at Hannah, normally I wouldn't give her a second glance. To most people, she was just, April's twin sister. Hannah was quiet and liked to stay in the shadows.
Her blonde hair was a few shades lighter than April's and she kept it straightened. She also cut it in choppy layers that were thicker around her face (though her hair went down about as far as April's) and had bangs that fell sideways across her left eye. She also had the under layer dyed black. According to April, it was inspired by an emo haircut she saw on TV once. This made everyone call Hannah an emo, but I knew she wasn't. Mostly because April informed us so, but she didn't seem like the emo type.
She did wear quite a bit of black eyeliner, but her eyes were almost always covered by her thick-rimmed geek glasses. She even put the little piece of tape in the middle.
Right now she was wearing a grey sweatshirt, jeans and a pair of fuzzy socks. She had her hood up.
"Watcha reading?" I asked awkwardly.
Hannah waited about another minute and placed her bookmark in, turning towards me and sitting cross legged. "Sense and Sensibility."
"You like Jane Austen?" I asked curiously.
"Love," Hannah corrected sweetly, "I love Jane Austen."
"Cool… So I was wondering… Do you have a date to the dance?" I asked, smiling up at her.
Hannah blushed faintly in her cheeks and put the hood to her jacket down, "No, I don't."
I nodded, "Well, would you like to go with me?"
Hannah looked away and then back up, pushing her glasses up on her nose, "I'd love to. Thanks Adrian. I'll text you later?"
"Of course."
Meanwhile…
Ana's POV
I led Vada up the stairs and to the room Hannah, April and I shared. I love this room. It has to be the coolest room ever. Judging by the look on Vada's face, she thought so also.
Mr. and Mrs. Dickson strongly believed in self-expression, so they allowed their children to decorate the area that was theirs however they wanted. So our HUGE room had three sections to it.
One section belonged to April. April's area was inspired by what Jasmine's room would look like in Aladdin, and it did. Her walls were painted deep red and orange and the canopy that covered her bed that rested on a platform was gold. Underneath the platform was a storage space where April put boxes full of pictures, and the area was covered with bead strands that draped over the storage space like a curtain.
April kept all her CDs tucked away in tall wood cases that looked like towers and the ground was covered in "magic carpets" she had found during a trip to Chinatown.
There were beautiful black and white framed prints of some of her favorite pictures that she had Picniked surrounding the round mirror by her bed. Most pictures had quotes and some even had song lyrics and she changed out the pictures often. Her favorite picture of us two was at a family trip to the beach and we were both in big sunglasses and hugging each other, the quote under it said "Take nothing but PHOTOS, Leave nothing but FOOTSTEPS, kill nothing but TIME." A picture of her and Hannah always made me smile, they were each holding a camera and facing each other, about to take a picture of the other but someone had snapped this picture of them before they had noticed. It's caption was "Never a Dull Moment." A picture of her and Kami hanging upside down and grinning at each other said "Best friends are like four leaf clovers… Hard to find and luck to have." A picture of her, Jake and Chad holding hands in a road when they were little kids, April in the middle. It said: "I smile because you're my brothers, I laugh because you don't have a choice." But the best picture was of April and Fernando running down a road together, one I knew Jake had taken. April's hair flew behind her and I knew she was laughing, Fernando ran next to but a little behind her, laughing as well and looking as if he was going to reach out and grab her. The quote was "If you're willing to chase after me, I promise I'll run slow."
The best part of April's area was the "reading nook", as each girl had one since their room was on the front side of the house and it was long, there were three windows and a pair of French doors that lead to our private balcony. April's "reading nook" was piled high with Moroccan pillows and cashmere blankets and was perfect for long phone calls.
My area was based off of my home country, Japan. My walls were painted teal, my favorite color of course, and matched the color of my bedspread perfectly, which was decorated with a pattern of cherry blossoms. My bed was low to the ground with a dark wood headrest.
There were multiple paper lanterns hanging down from the ceiling that illuminated the word アナ(Which was the Japanese spelling of Ana) that I had stenciled beautifully onto the wall.
I had two nightstands to match my bed and they were on either side of the queen sized bed and each one had picture frames on them.
On the right side, there was a big picture of Bleeding Hearts together in April's front yard, under the cherry tree. April and I were hugging each other and laughing, with Riley standing on the other side of me with a hand around my waist and Fernando on the other side of April, hugging her from behind. Jake and Vada were both sitting on the ground giving each other bunny ears. Adrian and Kami were both in the tree, laughing as well. I remember the day that picture was taken, probably one of my favorite days ever, and the picture was just as great. It was surrounded by little pictures of me with my other friends, more than one of April and I.
On the left side was a family picture in front of my old house from before my parents had died. I must have been 10 in the picture. I was sitting on my mother's lap, grinning, Justin was in my father's lap, looking like he was protesting, but about to laugh. Mary sat in the middle of both of my parents and I could tell she was laughing, and probably the reason Justin was about to laugh. My Aunt Ayame stood with her arms wrapped around Kyle's shoulders and Travis was standing beside my mother, and she had a hand wrapped around his waist. That picture was surrounded by little pictures of me and my family.
My reading nook had a soft white shag carpet in it and had a few cushions spread out for sitting. There was also a black trunk with kept many blankets neatly folded up inside.
Hannah's area was inspired by France, somewhere she's always wanted to go. Her part of the room was by far the girly-est and had a Victorian feel to it.
Her bed was a white wood bed with a tall headboard and footboard. Her bedding was a light pink with a rose patterned trim and had multiple pink throw pillows with gold fringe outlining them around the front of her bed. She also kept her teddy bear seated on her bed, the same teddy bear as April kept in her reading nook.
Hannah had sepia tinted pictures hung orderly on her pink walls with a word above each one, probably to describe the other person in the picture but Hannah had never actually explained. One picture was of her and April, the word above it was Strong. Another of her and Chad had the picture Mentor above it. A picture of her and Jake had Brave. A picture of her and I said Beautiful. A picture of her and the twins said Inspiring. A picture of her and Lucas said Loving. Each word was written in beautiful gold cursive.
Hannah kept a vase of white roses on her nightstand right now, but she changed them when the flowers began to look bad.
Above her bed hung a chandelier with little lights covered in lampshades with a few crystals hanging down from the middle.
Hannah's reading nook was probably the only one used for reading and had a cushioned window seat in it that she could stretch out in. She kept two small tables on either side of the window seat that were piled high with Jane Austen books. Her window seat had a long pink satin cushion and was covered in throw pillows similar to the ones on her bed and had beautiful gold satin curtains framing the reading nook.
"April, you need to come back with us now," I said, crawling up onto her bed with her. She was flipping through a scrapbook that she kept other pictures in when they weren't on her wall. She was on the page of one of her and Fernando, from the back. They were standing on a beach and grasping hands as the waves crashed onto their feet. The quote said, "We might not have it all together, but together we have it all."
She closed the scrapbook and carried it over to her reading nook, placing it on a red satin pillow, "Okay."
Vada and I exchanged surprised looks, but April simply shrugged, "I won't lose this bet. Not a chance."
I laughed, so April.
"Did you come back here, just to look at that?" Vada asked, pointing to the scrapbook.
April nodded, "It reminds me of everything. I have pictures in there from forever and a half ago."
"I love your room, by the way," Vada grinned.
Jake's POV
The girls and Adrian came back into the treehouse about 10 minutes later, Adrian had a goofy smile on his face and Vada rolled her eyes, looking at me. April and Ana were chatting quietly about something, but that wasn't out of the norm.
"Date to the dance numero dos has been made!" Adrian said smugly.
"Who?" Riley asked incredulously.
"Hannah," Vada smiled.
April looked back over at Adrian and Vada with a dropped jaw, "My sister Hannah?"
I laughed, "So that's why you took Adrian…"
Ana nodded.
"Hannah said yes to going to the dance with Adrian?" April yelled.
"Clever," Riley noted and Ana took a fake bow.
"SOMEONE ANSWER ME!" April screeched.
"Obviously, she said yes, April," Ana explained slowly.
"B-b-b-b-but…" April stuttered, looking at us as if we were aliens.
"Is something wrong?" Fernando asked, coming over to April slowly, placing a hand on her shoulder.
April shook his hand off, "It's nothing. Just forget it. Ana, do you want to practice that song now?"
Ana nodded and they both grabbed a microphone.
Ana: No sir, well I don't wanna be the blame, not anymore.
It's your turn, so take a seat we're settling the final score.
And why do we like to hurt so much?
April: I can't decide
You have made it harder just to go on
And why, all the possibilities where I was wrong
Ana: That's what you get when you let your heart win, whoa.
That's what you get when you let your heart win, whoa.
April: I drowned out all my sense with the sound of its beating.
And that's what you get when you let your heart win, whoa.
Ana: I wonder, how am I supposed to feel when you're not here.
'Cause I burned every bridge I ever built when you were here.
I still try holding onto silly things, I never learn.
Oh why, all the possibilities I'm sure you've heard.
April: That's what you get when you let your heart win, whoa.
That's what you get when you let your heart win, whoa.
Ana: I drowned out all my sense with the sound of its beating (April: beating)
And that's what you get when you let your heart win, whoa.
April: Pain make your way to me, to me.
And I'll always be just so inviting.
If I ever start to think straight,
This heart will start a riot in me,
Let's start, start, hey!
Ana: Why do we like to hurt so much?
Oh why do we like to hurt so much?
April: That's what you get when you let your heart win!
Whoa.
Ana: That's what you get when you let your heart win, whoa.
That's what you get when you let your heart win, whoa.
April: Now I can't trust myself with anything but this,
Both: And that's what you get when you let your heart win, whoa
We all applauded, Riley and Fernando looked stung by their words though, as the songs meanings were obvious. So very obvious.
"What a way to end the practice…" Vada said, looking around at everyone else. Adrian still had that smile on his face, Fernando and Riley had their arms crossed and were averting their glances away from the girls on stage, April and Ana had both pulled smug smiles and hadn't move from their last positions and I just shrugged at Vada.
"I guess we're not done then… No one's moving!" I hissed and Vada shrugged.
"Who's next?"
Yay! Done with that chapter! I have a few questions for you too:
1. What girl's area of the room is your favorite?
2. Why was April so shocked about Hannah and Adrian?
3. What's in store for Aprando?
And of course, the couples so far:
Ana & Zakk
April & _
Fernando & _
Riley & _
Vada & _
Jake & _
Adrian & Hannah
Keep reading if you wanna figure it out!
-April
