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Chapter 11: Voices
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So there I was, sitting next to Connor, giving 'I'll kill you' looks to the girls, who kept laughing to the situation. The show hadn't begun yet.
"You want to drink something?", Connor asked me.
"No, I'm good."
"All right."
Mrs. Baker, the woman who sold the necklace stopped by our table. "There you go, honey. It has Connor written on the back, just like you asked.", she said giving me the idol.
"Thank you.", we both said and Connor paid it.
"Here.", he said, going behind me, "Lift your hair, I'll put it on.", awn, how sweet.
The girls were just laughing and making 'kiss gestures', which was annoying me… A lot.
"Thank you", I said when he sat back down and I looked at the back of the idol, seeing the name 'Connor' written in it with a very beautiful handwriting. "It's beautiful".
"In deed.", he answered me.
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All right: Showtime!
This show was very particular… It will be hard to describe it, but I'll try to do my best.
The first performers were this weird hornpipe 'band' who played some actually cool music. We were all shaking our heads to the music and everybody seemed to enjoy it. One of them was Mrs. Baker, which surprised me a lot. It was a very quick performance, though.
After them came a couple: the man played a sort of guitar (it was smaller and the shape was different, like the sound) and the woman singed. She was no Celine Dion, but was actually not bad.
Then came the disturbing woman… Oh my, it's hard to explain this. She came on stage, actually she was very pretty, though old, to sing… You can't imagine this… When she started singing, I had to try very hard not to laugh… She sounded like a cat being beaten to death. My ears… Must be bleeding, I thought as I bit my tongue so I wouldn't laugh.
She started going up and down with her voice and I had to cover my face. We could see her throat doing that movement (up and down) and I couldn't hold a giggle. Some people looked at me with the 'Shut up' expression, they seemed to enjoy that thing… I looked at Connor and he was looking at me very seriously, like I was crazy or something (yeah, he did that a lot) and I tried to control myself. Until the woman tried to reach a higher note, that is. Now she sounded like a baby being shaken and I just couldn't hold myself. Damn it!
I laughed a little loud and Connor got up, grabbed my hand and pulled me outside of the tavern, looking mad. When we got outside, he closed the door and I 'exploded'. I laughed so hard and so loud, people probably could hear me on the other side of the village. But not in there, because the woman was… uh, singing?
"What is the matter with you?", he asked, angry, as I laughed, and laughed, and laughed…
"I'm… I'm sorry", I tried to say between laughs. After God knows how long laughing, I was finally able to say something understandable. "I'm so sorry, but what was that?"
"What do you mean?"
(please notice that I was laughing the all-time)
"You people call that singing?"
"What?"
"It's… She sounded like a dying sheep giving birth…"
"What?"
(more laughing), at a certain point, even he started laughing a little.
"Is there something wrong with her?"
"Come on Hannah, it's not that bad."
"Are you kidding me? Even I sing better than her. You're lucky the glasses here aren't made of actual glass yet, otherwise they would all be broken."
"What does that even mean?"
"Just forget it."
"All right, let's go in.", he said.
"What? I can't! I'll laugh my head off."
"You have to control yourself."
All right, let's do this. When we got in and her voice hit my ears again, I tried to go outside again, holding the laughs, but Connor pulled me to the table. And I was at the starting point again, trying not to laugh… I turned to Connor and my lips said: 'Kill me' without making an actual sound and he laughed.
Great, now we were both trying not to laugh. Fighting my will to explode, I grabbed his hand really hard and practically crushed it in mine. He turned is face to the other way, so he wouldn't look at mine and laugh… Oh my.
The woman finally stopped screaming with pain… I mean, singing and we still couldn't look at each other. Then that girl, Dianna went on stage.
Suddenly I noticed that we were still holding hands and put mine on the table. Awkward…
"Hey, Dianna is going to sing.", he said.
She actually had a pretty nice voice, kind of like Avril Lavigne's… We paid attention, listening to her song…
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After two more people performed, this man came and gave a speech about the fair (that would open the next day), asking people to come and explaining how it would be better this year.
Everyone was leaving the place and we went outside. Connor and Kyle stayed inside saying goodbye to some people and me, the girls, Lola and her husband went outside. The girls immediately formed a circle around me: "So… How was it?"; "Did you have fun?", "What did you talk about?", they asked.
"What?", I couldn't understand when they were all talking the same time.
"What did Connor say?", Natalie asked.
"About what?", I asked.
"Come on, Hannah… What did you talk about?", Sophia, this time.
"About anything…", I said, rolling my eyes. Why did they kept doing that?, "By the way, why did you want us to sit together?"
"So we could make sure you guys like each other… I noticed you went outside in the middle of the show… What were you guys doing?", Tara said, making that 'provocative' voice.
"Nothing, I was just laughing about that woman's voice."
"Seriously?", Natalie asked.
"Yeah… It was funny."
"So you came outside to laugh?", Sophia asked.
"I couldn't hold it…"
"I saw you were holding hands…", Tara said.
How could I convince them I didn't like him?
I sighed, "It was because I couldn't stop laughing… Why are you being so 'addicted' to this?", (please notice that I made the quotation marks' gesture with my hands), "There is nothing going on, I don't like him and he doesn't like me!"
Kyle opened the tavern door, coming out with Connor, laughing.
"So… I'll take you guys to the inn.", he said. The inn?
"I'll go meet Dianna, Connor.", Kyle said hugging him, "I'll see you. Take care, all right?".
"I will.", he answered, "Oh, and say goodbye to your sister for me.".
"All right."
Connor came to our sides.
"All right, I will accompany you ladies to the inn, shall we?", he said.
"The inn?", I asked.
"Yes honey, you will have to sleep there, we don't have extra rooms in the house. But don't worry, the girls sleep there too, you will be fine.", Lola explained.
"Oh… Ok.", I said.
We walked to the inn, which wasn't very far away and it was huge!
End of Chapter 11. Hope you like it!
