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Chapter 2

1 Week Later

Knock knock. I opened my eyes and heard the continuing knocking. What was it? It was definitely annoying. Oh, it was Ally. I sat up in my comfy bed and looked at my screen door. Ally was standing out there in her pajama pants and her Aeropostale sweatshirt. I could tell she was freezing. Well of course she was, it was December 21. Our first day of Winter Break, and the day of our party. I jumped out of bed and let her in.

"Finally. I've been freezing my butt off for about 5 minutes just waiting for you to finally wake up. You are one heavy sleeper you know that." I laughed. I definitely was a heavy sleeper.

"You know you could have just used my front door like a normal person." I told her. "Its not like you would have had to wait for my mom to answer the door, you always just walk in."

"Well, this way is funner." She told me.

"You know that's not a word right?" She was always doing that, using words that don't exist. She shrugged, she didn't care. I smiled. Now that's my best friend!

"Come on! Can we please stop talking about my grammar mistakes, and start decorating! I wasn't to get done early so we can have enough time to get ready!" I looked at my clock. It was 9:30, and our party started at 6. I guess we should start working.

My mom was already up, and so we got to work. My mom went out shopping for last minute supplies while Ally and I decorated. We started with our bonus room. We set up tables and hung up mistletoe. When we finished decorating the bonus room, my mom was home. She set up food in the kitchen, and up in the bonus room. Ally and I decorated my living room and my back yard. We had chairs everywhere, and Christmas colors were gleaming in every direction. Finally, it was 4:30 and we were finished.

"Come on lets go get ready!" I told Ally. We ran up the stairs and I grabbed my dress and my flats and brought them to my bathroom. I jumped into the shower, and Ally got into the shower in the guest bathroom. In about ten minutes I was out, and I knew it would be another 15 minutes till Ally was out. I slipped on my red dress, and my white flats. I then blow dried my hair, and straightened it. I didn't really use a lot of make-up, so I put on some lip gloss, and eyeliner, and I was ready.

I walked out of the bathroom, and surprisingly Ally was done, too. Well except for her hair because she always made me do her hair. I plugged my hair straightener in, and got to work. In about 30 minutes I was done, and it was quarter to six.

We walked into the bonus room and found my mom, and we there were microphones set up and speakers. "Bella, Ally, there you two are. Bella, you know how I said that I got a special guest to come to your party, well they won't be here until 6:30, so I was wondering, will you sing a few songs until they get here?"

Sing? In front of everyone? I can't do that. Only Ally and Bri had heard me sing before. Speaking of Bri, where is she? She was supposed to be here 15 minutes ago. Well back to the singing. What was I supposed to sing? The songs I've written? No, I couldn't do that. "Mom, I can't sing in front of everyone. And I don't have any songs prepared."

"Bella, you can do it. Just pick a song and sing it. Please. It'll be fun! I promise." Ding dong. My mom looked between me and Ally. "Ally, talk to her for me?" She left the room and went to answer the door.

"Come on Bell, it'll be fun! I've heard you sing before and you're amazing!" All of a sudden Bri came waltzing into the room. "Yeah Bella. You can do it. Just pick one of the songs you wrote and start playing it on your guitar. You'll do fine." I sighed. Bri and Ally always knew how to calm me down and convince me to do something. "Fine. I'll do it." They smiled, and Ally ran to my room, and came back with my guitar. Now all I had to do was pick a song. Great.

Ten minutes later everyone was here, and I was standing by the microphones with Ally and Bri. People we knew were coming up to us from left and right, complimenting the party, our dresses, and many other things. We'd see friends from school and we'd talk to them for a while, but nothing could distract my mind from the thought of me having to sing in front of all these people. After a while, my mom came up to the mic. "Everyone, please welcome my daughter Bella!"

Breathe in and out I thought to myself. "Hi everyone. Thanks for coming. Well we have a special guest musician coming, but until they get here I'm going to sing a few songs I wrote." Everyone smiled and cheered. I sat in the stool they had set up for me and got ready.

"This song is called Bigger Than Us. (A/N: I do not own this song and I didn't write it. Its Bigger Than Us by Hannah Montana.) Here you go!"

L.O.V.E love
L.O.V.E
L.O.V.E love
L.O.V.E


I see your face,
I look in your eyes
What you feel is no surprise
Everyone needs somethin' to believe in
Tell me your dreams, I'll tell you mine
In our hearts we'll look inside,
And see all the colors of the rainbow,
I know

We all want to believe in love
We all want to believe in something,
Bigger than just us
We all wanna be a part,
Of the greater picture,
That's hangin' in our heart(our heart)
Yeah, it's bigger than us

I want to see beyond my own little world,
Grab your hands so we can twirl around the galaxy(Galaxy)
See the world with clarity, oh oh,
Oh oh, we have such a long way, to go,
But I know, we're getting closer everyday(Everyday)

We all want to believe in love
We all want to believe in something,
Bigger than just us
We all wanna be a part,
Of the greater picture,
That's hangin' in our heart (our heart)
Yeah, it's bigger than us

It fills the universe,
And lights the skies above
It rescues our hearts, with love
(L-o-v-e, love)
With love,
(L-o-v-e, love)
That's what's bigger than us(bigger than us)

(c'mon)
It's love, it's love that's bigger than us
(c'mon)
It's love, it's love that's bigger than us (woo)
It's love, it's love (it's love, it's love, it's love, it's love)

We all want to believe in love,
We all want to believe in something,
Bigger than just us

I finished singing, and everyone was clapping and cheering. I smiled. They liked me. Bri and Ally ran over and hugged me, and my mom motioned me over to the door. I broke apart from Bri and Ally, and walked over to my mom.

"You did great honey, but I have some people that would like to meet you." My mom moved aside, and three very handsome boys came into view, and all of a sudden I was standing in front of The Jonas Brothers!