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There will be some Bori moments! A gift to all my fans.
I don't think it is weird that she gets picked on. Anyone can get picked on whether they dress nice; It happens and I know from experience that it does.
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Tori walked into her class of the day which was English. She sighed as she entered the room and went to sit down at her seat. In this class instead of desks the teacher had tables so the students would sit in pairs and the two that sit at the desk are partners for class projects for the entire year. However, Tori was the only one who sat alone and the teacher had to place her in a group. It had been a long day and Tori nose was bruised from her "fall" earlier.
She laid her head on her arms waiting for class to begin when she heard a few girls start to giggle. She then felt someone sit beside her.
"Hey," the voice said and she lifted her head to see the cute boy from the mall.
"Hi," she said shyly. "I think you have the wrong seat," She told him.
"I do?" Beck asked. "Is it assigned to anyone?"
"No," Tori said shaking her head pushing her hair behind her ears.
"Then I think sitting here will be fine," Beck said sitting back.
"No one usually sits with me," Tori confessed to him.
"Why?" Beck asked turning his seat around him. A girl who was on the cheerleading squad came over to the table and placed her hand on Beck's shoulder.
"Hey cutie I'm Stacie," She said flirtatiously smiling big. "Come and sit with me," she suggested.
Beck looked at Tori and rolled his eyes before turning to deal with the girl. "I'm Beck," He said reaching up to lift her hand off his shoulder.
"Wanna go out this Friday?" Stacey asked.
"You are a bit forward aren't you," Beck said raising an eyebrow. "Thank, but I like to get to know the girls I date. I am a bit old fashioned if you would say."
"No one ever turns me down," She said in shocked.
"Well I'll be the first to say no," Beck said slowly.
"Ugh!" Stacey said stomping back to her seat sitting down with a scowl on her face and her arms crossed.
"I take it that happens often?" Tori asked.
"Only a lot," Beck said nodding.
"Good morning everyone," Mr. Travis said walking through the door. "I would like to welcome our new students from Hollywood Arts. However I would like to go over a few things about my class. The person you are sitting with is your partner for the term and also they can help you catch up to where we are in the class. Now I will continue from where we left of yesterday as well I am assigning a creative writing assignment. I will get to that later." Mr. Travis said as he started teaching the class.
After the teacher got through with the lesson he picked up a packet of his desk and held it up. "This is your assignment. You have to write a song and you'll present it to the class and yes I mean sing it in class. Points will not NOT I say deduct for someone not having a bad or good voice. The points are for creativity, subject, only one person has to sing it, but it could be sung as a duet. The project is due in the week before Christmas break. Which will be December 14th . Happy Writing and I will let you have the remainder of class to discuss your project and for once Tori will have her own partner."
Tori blushed with embarrassment and slouched low in her seat to hide from the gazes upon her.
"Alright get to work," Mr. Travis said clapping his hands before sitting down to grade some papers.
Beck turned to her. "So…" he said looking to Tori.
"I have never written a song before," Tor admitted truthfully.
"It is okay everyone can with practice. I had trouble writing songs for my classes too." Beck assured her and Tori felt her heart flip.
"Alright," Tori said nodded and got out a blank sheet of paper for brainstorming and ideas. "What should the song be about?"
"Love songs are popular," Beck suggested.
Tori wrote that down that down on the list. "So then let's write a song," Tori said. Beck nodded.
"How about first love?" Beck asked.
"That would be fine, but not everyone has had a first love," Tori pointed out to Beck.
"I am sure everyone will and I have had my first love," Beck said.
"Aww really? Who?" Tori asked.
"Jade West," Beck answered.
"Jade? How long have you two been dating?" Tori asked.
"We dated about two years, but we broke up about six months ago," Beck said.
"I'm sorry," Tori said comfortingly at him.
"Don't be sorry we are fine with it and we get along better now than when we were together," Beck explained.
"That's go," Tori turned to look outside and groaned. It was pouring down raining. That was great just great and now and Trina will be complaining all the way come because she hates when it rains and she hated driving in the rain. She turned back to Beck.
"We have time, but for now we will talk about topics," Tori said. "I can give you my number and you can text whenever you come up with an idea."
Beck nodded and got out his phone and the proceeded to exchange number. Tori smiled at him and Beck thought it was a gorgeous one and found himself smiling back.
The bell rang announcing the end of the school day and both were on their way. Tori hurried to her locker so she would not make Trina wait for her. Once Tori was finished she went to find Trina and could not find her. She looked all over the school and even texted her a few times, but never received an answer.
Tori went to sit on a bench to wait for her as the buses had already left to drop students off. She would wait for her and then finally felt her phone vibrated.
Trina: I had dentist appointment at 2:30 as soon as I am done I will come and pick you up.
Tori rolled her eyes at the text and grabbed her bag. She was going to have to wait for her sister as it was pouring down raining and there was no way she could walk.
'Why could you not tell me this morning?' Tori thought in her mind as an idea came to her mind. Tori looked around before leaving her spot. She was going to sneak in to the Music Room. During her stay at Sherwood High School Tori would sometimes sneak in there to play on the piano. She was pretty good, or so she thought she was good. One time the teacher caught her in there and after hearing her play and many begs from her not to tell that Mrs. Evans let her play on the piano whenever she wanted. Tori made her way to the room checking around her before entering the room that no one saw her.
Tori actually loved music and can get lost in it. It was her drug and her escape. Her heart began to beat as she placed her bag on the floor and walked to the piano. It was beautiful and Tori could not wait to play. After putting her hair up she sat down lifting up the key cover and glided her fingers over the black and white keys. Taking a deep breath she began playing the keys and found herself feeling free from the world.
Once Tori was surrounded by the beautiful note that was coming from the big instrument she started singing.
"Here I am, once again
Feeling lost but now and then
I breathe it in to let it go"
Tori let out a shaky breath as she thought her voice was horrible. She continued to play the tune and the lyrics as she heard it from her sister many times.
"You don't have to be afraid to
put your dream in action
your never gonna fade
you'll be the main attraction
not a fantasy
just remember me"
Tori stopped again afraid of someone hearing her and looked around before she continued to play on the keys to her heart's content.
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Andre Harris was so excited to finally leave walking to exit of the building. However, something caught his attention and he was immediately drawn to it. It was a voice and the voice was beautiful.
"when it turns out right
'cuz you know that
if you live in your imagination
tomorrow you'll be
everybody's fascination
in my victory
just remember me
when I make it SHINE!"
Andre almost passed the door if it wasn't for the last note. The voice was fresh and pure. It was one Andre could listen to over and over again. He looked inside the door's window and sighted the girl and decided to go inside.
The girl finished her song on a beautiful note and Andre did the only thing he could think of and that was to clap. So he did.
Tori turned around so abruptly that she almost fell off the piano stool and quickly got up grabbing her bag and ran clear out of the room leaving Andre standing there puzzled. Andre ran after her.
"Hey," Andre said catching up her grabbing her by the elbow.
"I'm sorry," Tori said tearfully.
"Why?" Andre asked.
"I don't know," Tori confessed.
"Your Tori aren't?" Andre asked.
"Yes, "She answered. "You're is Andre right?"
"Yeah, why are you running?" Andre asked.
"You startled me," Tori said.
"I'm sorry, but you're a wonderful singer." Andre told her honestly.
"No I am not," Tori said shaking her head.
"Girl, you are because you about knocked my socks off," Andre said.
"Trina says I suck," Tori told him.
"Trina sucks, but you are special," Andre said.
Tori felt her face become red. She never heard anyone say anything like that to her before.
"You should enter that contest," Andre suggested. "You could win," He said.
"No, I wouldn't win," Tori said.
"You have a good chance," Andre said. "Why don't you come with us tonight to Karaoke?"
"No," Tori said shaking her head. "Please don't tell anyone," She begged.
"Why not?" Andre asked and wondered why this girl wanted to keep her voice hidden.
"It might be more damage than it's worth," Tori confessed.
"Alright I will keep it a secret only for you," Andre said.
"Thank you," Tori smiled shy and solely grateful.
"How about you sit with us at lunch tomorrow?" Andre asked.
"I'll think about it," Tori said looking around nervously.
"At least that is not a no," Andre said. "Do you need a ride home?"
Tori thought about it for a few second and figured that Trina might be at the dentist office for a while. "Sure that would be wonderful," Tori nodded accepting the offer.
Tori and Andre walked out to his car and they hurried to get in as the rain started to come down harder and Andre drove off taking Tori home before he went home himself. As Andre drove home his mind was on Tori and he was trying to come with ideas on how to open up the shy girl. He knew that with a voice like Tori had that she could go places. Places just probably those Tori only saw in her dreams. She could be a star and Andre was going to help her find that inner stardom. Andre was beginning to think their days at Sherwood High were going become a lot more interesting. He only wish he could talk to his friend about her but a promise is a promise.
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Well Tori has another friend even if she doesn't want one. Also a Bori moment and Tandre friendship!
I hope you enjoy and thank you for staying with me throughout this story.
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