Oh gosh. I'm sorry. Mild technical difficulties! This took way longer than expected! I hope you forgive me by reading and (hopefully) enjoyig it! Sorry again, and enjoy!
I don't bother riding to the hotel on the skateboard.
I just get a taxi.
When I get back to the hotel, I throw open the door to my room and slam it shut. I am pretty sure I will get complaints from the people in the rooms around me, but I don't care.
Dylan's cartoons are still on, so I turn them off and plop on the couch. It is quiet except for the sound of my breathing.
What the hell just happened?
I kissed Kyoya Ootori.
Woah.
I don't know what to think. What I want to think is that he truly likes me and wants me to come back to Japan with him.
What my brain is telling me it is a scam. He doesn't really care. It's for his benefit.
Ugh. Love sucks.
I stand up and get my phone off the counter and message Dylan where I am. He responds that he is coming back to the hotel. I sigh loudly, as if someone will hear and ask, "What's wrong?"
I wish.
I check the clock and find that it's somehow only three o'clock. I have to be at Carnegie Hall by eight tomorrow, which is rather early for a lazy teenager like me. I get up off the couch and walk to the bedroom. I leap onto the warm comfortable bed…
To find it is not warm and comfortable, but wet and cold.
This day just keeps getting better.
I quickly get off the bed and return to the couch. I lay down and sleep.
"Hailey…Wake up!" Dylan's voice says quietly.
I am awake in under five seconds. I don't want any water on my face today. I look at the clock.
It is seven forty five.
"Shit! Why didn't you wake me up earlier!" I exclaim and run to my room, changing clothes. Jacket, shirt, pants. They match, kind of. Red shirt, black pants, and a purple jacket. "Because when you slept at my house and I tried to wake you up for breakfast, I ended up with a black eye." He mutters.
I don't comment.
Instead I grab my phone and skip breakfast, sprinting out the door and into the nearest elevator. I literally run from the hotel and into the street. I run through the streets and make it to the concert hall only a mere five minutes late.
I enter the door and make an attempt to slow my breathing. A woman about thirty with long blonde hair walks over to me and asks, "Are you Hailey Toro?" I nod. "Sorry I'm late. My roommate is an idiot."
She slowly nods her head at my explanation, then says, "My name is Sarah, and today I will be showing you around the hall." "Thanks." I says simply, still breathing a little heavy. "Well, lets get started."
We start walking and sarah says, "There has been a slight change in plans."
That is one of the worst things a musician can hear.
"Instead of the celebration of a classical musicial, we feel you should be more adequately placed in a jazz celebration in the Stern Hall."
"Ok, that's…amazing." I say. She smiles, and as we walk through the hallway, there are pictures from concerts performed at the hall. We enter a large door and into a massive room with what feels like a million red chairs and a huge stage ant the far end. We walk to the stage and I stand, gazing into the empty auditorium. I count five levels, and Sarah tells me there are two thousand seats.
Every one of them will be filled on the night of my performance.
"There have been many famous musicians standing where you are now." She says.
"Tony Bennett, Billy Holiday, Benny Goodman, and even The Beatles."
"I'm going to perform on the same stage the beatles did?" I ask quietly. She nods.
My legs suddenly want to collapse.
We continue our tour, going past the rose museum and ending with me getting a plain white knee-length dress and music. I almost groan when I see the dress, but kindly refrain. I look over the music, and Sarah says I will perform a solo of the star spangled banner at the beginning of the night. She thanks me for coming, and says she will see me at the end of the week.
I feel like crying, laughing, and screaming all at the same time.
It's short. I'm sorry. But...well, I can't think of an excuse right now. So, if you liked it, review for another chapter! I will try not to make the wait so long this time. haha, well, review! Bye-bye!
