When Benny and I go to class, it had already started. Benny knocks on the open door. "Mrs. Jackson?" She turns around and puts her hands on her hips. "Benny, you're late again." "Yeah I know. Sorry. I was helping a new student around." He explains and gestures me.

Mrs. Jackson's expression changes when she turns to me. "Hello dear! Welcome to White Chapel High." I smiled and shook her hand. "Thank you. My name's Jade Mitchell." "Well Jade, all new students have to share a musical talent if they have one." "I was a second soprano in choir. I also take private singing lessons." "Well, won't sing a little bit for us? Any song you want." I immediately got nervous. "Uh, ok…" I cleared my throat and started singing.

Don't let go of good times
And let the bad ones know you'll feel fine
And wear your heart out on your sleeve
Love is all you need

Feel with all your senses
Make sure to let down your defenses
There's just one way to make you see
Love is all, love is all you need

Take a chance now cause it's easy
Take a chance now for you and me
Take a chance now you can reach it
Take a chance for me

Don't let go of good times
And let the bad ones know you'll feel fine
And wear your heart out on your sleeve
Love is all, love is all you need

Feel with all your senses
Make sure to let down your defenses
There's just one way to make you see
Love is all, love is all you need!

The whole class clapped. I looked over at Benny. He was obviously amazed. "Wow…I-I mean…WOW!" I blushed. "Thanks." "Hey, everybody else in this class has a music partner. Wanna be mine?" "Sure."

Mrs. Jackson clapped her hands. "Wonderful! Now everybody has a partner! Now what I want you guys to do is work on a song that I will assign you. You can put your own 'flair' to it. In about 2 weeks, you will be told to perform it in front of the entire class." "This oughta be good…" I heard someone mutter.

Everybody grabbed their music from Mrs. Jackson, split up in two, and went different places. Some in the classroom, some in the hallway, some even went outside. It was a beautiful day out after all.

Benny and I went up and got our song. We were assigned 'Next to You'. We sat down and looked at it. "This is one of my favorite songs!" I said. "Really? I've never heard of it." "Hey, do you have a laptop." "Yeah, it's in my bag. I'll get it." He handed it to me. "Thanks." I opened it and searched the song. When I found it, Benny groaned. "Oh-no! Not a Justin Beiber song!" "Would you just listen? And besides, it's not all Justin. It's mostly Chris Brown. There's another version of it that I really like." I said.

I looked for the other version. When I found it we listened to it. "Yeah. This one's DEFFINATLY better than the original." Benny said when the song was over. I laughed. "I know. Wanna do this version?" "Yeah." "Ok…which are you better at; guitar or piano?" He thought about it for a bit. "I'm actually pretty good at both of them. Which one do YOU wanna do?" "I kinda wanna do the piano." Benny nodded. "Ok. Tomorrow I'll bring my keyboard and guitar." "Sounds like a plan." I said with a smile.

Author's Note: I kinda feel like this one kinda rambles on and on…if it does, then sorry about that. The song Jade sang in the beginning is called Advice by Christina Grimmie. Here's the link to that: .com/watch?v=LdI13Ze8PzM This is the version of 'Next to You' Benny and Jade chose to do: .com/watch?v=GvWHhIIrEFA