Chapter 6

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"Yeah our moms are friends. They even went to school together. Her mom used to go to our house when we were younger." Zoey told Erwin.

Meanwhile, Logan and Chase caught enough fresh air and went back to sit on the bench. Logan looked at Rebecca curiously.

"Zoey, who's that?" Logan slightly embarrassed by Rebecca's beauty.

"Oh, this is Rebecca, Erwin's cousin." Zoey turns to Rebecca. "this is Logan, ..he claims to be a pretty boy" then laughs.

"I look like David Hasselhoff don't I?" Logan added. Rebecca forces a smile at Logan.

"Oh and how can I forget," Zoey points at Chase, "that's my best friend Chase"

Chase looks at her and smiles briefly "Hi", and waves his hand in a concise manner. Rebecca does the same thing and looks at Chase in a lovely way. Chase didn't notice it and faced Logan and resumed to talk with him while Rebecca continued to look and smile at Chase.

The guy in the blue asked Rebecca, "So where did you used to play?"

Rebecca looks at her, "Uhmm I played at Merix and Freedom Bar"

The guy in the red continued the talk, "By the way, Rebecca, our audition is coming up soon, it's going to be in Pathways"

The girl in the yellow talks, "in Sesame St."

The guy in the red speaks again, "it's coming soon but Zoey hasn't finished her original composition yet so we haven't really started"

"Why do you guys work hard for an original composition?" Rebecca asks.

Zoey is behind Rebecca and says, "Oh yea, cause I'm planning to—" Zoey was cut by Rebecca who totally ignored Zoey.

"People want to hear the popular songs right?" Rebecca trying to convince the band. "Why don't you guys just rearrange?" she says convincing the band. "What's your back up song?"

"In the meantime we're playing "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" by Aerosmith" one of them said.

"Oh great! I have arrangements for that" Rebecca responded. The band all of a sudden agreed to play it instead of waiting for Zoey's unfinished composition. 'Alright, let's do this" Rebecca added.

The band starts playing "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing". Two of the guys played the electronic guitar. The girl in the yellow played as the back up singer while Rebecca played the piano and the lead singer. Rebecca was without a doubt a good singer and a good pianist. The band looked impressed at how good Rebecca played. Zoey just stood there and looked at the band in disbelief thinking that they don't appreciate and understand her point in making an original composition. Meanwhile, Logan and Chase started to jam with the song. Zoey seems to be still upset but has eased her emotions after hearing how good the music sounded with Rebecca in the band and then sits next to Chase and Logan.

Back in Zoey's guest house, her dad is drinking alcohol with his newly acquainted friends. Zoey's dad, who was drunk, started to talk to his friends about how great his band was and that people in Japan went crazy over them. His friends didn't believe him at first but thought that he was telling the truth later and started praising him.

"Yeahh, those were the good times…what a waste. Now I sing in the coal mines" everybody laughed. He takes a bottle of alcohol and chucks it in his mouth, "but hey, at least someone got my talent"

Zoey enters the house.

Zoey's dad turns around, "Oh there she is, go sing over here…go play the piano… show these people our family is something" Zoey's dad didn't speak clearly and paused every four words. Zoey figured out that he was drunk.

Zoey ignores him and starts to climb the stairs till her dad spoke louder, "Zoey, wait!" and then stands up and goes towards Zoey. Her dad took her arm and showed it to his friends.

"Guys, look at these fingers". He compares his fingers to ZOey. "just like mine right?" His drunken friends agreed without even know what they were saying.

Zoey's dad puts his arm around Zoey's neck and dragged her towards the piano. Zoey reluctantly follows.

"Dad, I still have things to do" Zoey reasoned.

His drunken dad tells his friends, "She's good at piano" then talks to Zoey, "come now Zoey, we only do this occasionally" then talks to his friends again, "she's really a shy kid."

Zoey's dad opens the piano and pulls out the chair. He taps the chair and then goes back to wrap his arm on Zoey's neck. "just play the chorus"

Zoey turns her head away from his dad because one, she didn't want to play the piano and two, her dad's breath smelled like alcohol.

Zoey's dad talked, "just show my friends the talent you got from me" Zoey looks at him with a serious face

"Dad, I never got any talent from you". Her dad looked at her with sadness and slowly removed his arms from Zoey's neck.

Zoey wished she could take back what she just said. She proceeds to say "…I'm sorry dad"

"Nevermind..you still have something to do." Her dad said.

"No, I'm really sorry.." Zoey apologized.

"Just go" his dad answered abruptly and turned his face away from Zoey. Zoey realizes she could not undo what happened and slowly advanced to the stairs. Zoey's dad continued to stare into space. Zoey's mom witnesses the whole thing and goes after Zoey.