Hey. I just want to thank all you guys who reviewed me yesterday. LOVED IT. Anyway, I especially wanted to thank MPHknows and Max () for their insight and compliments.
By the way, Dash, my cat, is super cute. He's getting fluffy.
Oh and another thing I wanted to address real quick. Angel. The book Angel was, to me at least, a HUGE letdown. I actually stopped reading at 60 pages. But I'm one of those people who flips through pages to find good parts. I'm also deathly afraid of unhappy endings. So I just didn't read it. Though when I first got the book (I got my friend to buy it for me and bring it to school so just pretend I'm surrounded by a group of people) I immediately looked at the ending. The whole 'fang left again, except with another girl, Maya, boo hoo, woe is me' so overdone. And then she flies into Dylan's arms? Oh and she thinks it's comfy and warm. Well I hope your happy James Patterson, you made me almost start crying at school. I was depressed for like a week.
Another thing all you need to know: JAMES PATTERSON CHEATED ON US! Yes. You see my aunt didn't know about Max ride so she looked it up. He wrote a series just like Maxride, but for adults. He barely changed anything. They still call it the school. Iggy's still blind. Max has her same name. I don't know about you but I hate James Patterson.
ONTO THE STORY!
~~~~~ This is where Max meets Katherine~~~~~chapter 10~~~~
"I won't even be 5 minutes." I said to Nudge and Angel as we left our dance class. We were almost to our Drama class when I remembered that I left my jacket back in dance class. I didn't want them to get chewed out by the teacher for being late so I sent them to class. I'd rather be late than them.
"Fine, but when Mr. Dalton finds out he's gonna give you detention," Angel said as they turned back to the sidewalk headed straight for the building where the vocal classrooms were.
"I can handle detention," I said, as I started jogging back towards the dance studio. As I left them I could hear Nudge yapping on about how she could never handle detention because they take away your purses and your iPods, and how she can't live without her one of a kind lip-gloss and Justin Bieber singing. God, there is really something wrong with her.
After getting my jacket, I started walking towards the vocals building, thinking as long as I'm going to be late I should take my time. Then after 5 minutes I knew Angel and Nudge were going to be worrying about me so I started running.
I was one minute away when I heard guitar playing. Wanting to know what some of the other people were like around here I ran/jogged to the noise and stopped to see a girl around Ella's age playing an awesome looking acoustic guitar.
She was playing on a piece of luscious green grass, under a tree, with light shinning down in pieces onto the patch of grass around her. I'll tell you in that moment she totally looked like one of those hippie activists. I mean she totally fit the description of it. She had brown hair that was sort of wavy, that was mid-back length, knee length jean shorts, and a peace sign shirt.
I think she was so into the music, because she seemed oblivious that people were crowding around her, and that some guys were setting up other instruments. Like an electric guitar, drums, base, and another acoustic.
Then she started singing in a very pretty soprano voice.
(A.N. Dare You To Move by Switchfoot. Very inspirational)
Welcome to the planet
Welcome to existence
everyone's here
everyone's here
The other acoustic started playing, but she didn't even notice him because she had finally looked up from her guitar and had barely noticed that people were here. She was smiling at everyone in a very happy mood.
Everybody's watching you now
everybody waits for you now
what happens next?
What happens next?
The guys behind her started playing, but instead of freaking out and yelling, "who the hell are you, and where did you come from?" she encouraged them to continue to keep playing and she continued to sing.
I dare you to move I dare you to move
I dare you to move
I dare you to lift
Yourself up off by the floor
I dare you to move
Like today never happened
Today never happened before
People started moving along to the song.
Welcome to the fallout Between who you are I dare you to move I dare you to move
Welcome to resistance
The tension is here
The tension is here
And who you could be
Between how it is
And how it should be yeah
I dare you to move
I dare you to lift
Yourself up off by the floor
I dare you to move
Like today never happened
Today never happened
The guy who was playing the other acoustic guitar started singing along for the verse.
Maybe redemption has stories to tell
Maybe forgiveness is right where you fell
where can you run to escape from yourself?
Where you gonna go? Where you gonna go?
Salvation is here
She stood up from her spot and starred up at the sky, and started playing the guitar really hard.
I dare you to move I dare you to move
I dare you to move
I dare you to lift yourself
To lift yourself up off by the floor
I dare you to move
Like today never happened
Today never happened
Today never happened
Today never happened before
And like that she ended that song. She bowed and said, "and a thanks to my friends, Jason (the acoustic dude came forward and waved), Adrian (the guy on the drums waved), and Taylor (the guy on the electric)." Taylor came up and said "we'll be here all semester." Everyone laughed and started going back to whatever they were doing. The girl started to walk away and toward the Drama building so I ran up to her to introduce myself.
"Hi, you were really good," I said once I caught up to her.
She stopped and turned and gave me a good look at her. She had contacts on, brown eyes behind the lenses, a couple of bracelets, and black converse on. She was about 5'6 and had one of those sash bags, which only added to the whole hippie look. "Hey, I'm Katherine, but you can call me K or Kat. And thanks. Are you headed to Mr. Dalton's class too?"
"Yeah," I replied. "Why were you playing music instead of getting to class?"
"Oh. Well you see I have been going to school here for like 4 years, and have know Mr. Dalton practically forever. He's pretty cool as long as you aren't late for his class. But he lets me off the hook for it because I bring him free coffee in the mornings." She said in a relaxed tone, not really fast like Nudge.
"So I'm pretty screwed, because I'm like 15 minutes late." I said in a semi-questioning tone.
"Usually, yeah you would be screwed, but today is your lucky day because I've got it covered," she said opening the door to our classroom. I hadn't noticed that we had gotten here really fast or that she was holding a cup of coffee. I walked in after Katherine and stood next to her as the class took in my looks. The guys smiled, while the girls scowled. I decided to listen to the teacher at that point.
"Hey, Mr. Dalton sorry we were late, but I got caught up in Switchfoot, and Max here reminded me that we were late and got me moving. So please don't blame my misfortunate timing fall onto Max's sparkling record of perfect attendance." Katherine said like a perfect student to Mr. Dalton.
I snorted, cause there is no way this girl is serious. I mean I'm almost never on time.
Katherine turned to face me and shot me a look that clearly said "you're not helping."
I cleared my throat and apologized saying "sorry, choked on the air."
Katherine backed me up by saying "well it's possible with the pollution in today's economy," while shrugging.
Mr. Dalton gave up saying "whatever just don't be late again." Then we took our seats, Angel and Nudge staring at me with looks saying "how did you get out of detention?"
I just pointed over to Katherine and said quietly "she gives him free coffee."
They nodded their heads and looked up towards the sky as if coffee was the answer for everything.
I just shook my head and smiled. Maybe today won't be so bad after all.