Help me polarize, help me polarize, help me down

Those stairs is where I'll be hiding all my problems

Help me polarize, help me polarize, help me out

My friends and I, we got a lot of problems


Chrissy's POV:

I was at school very early and I looked at the clock it was 7:30 I got here and 7 so I could finish the hallway when I saw the Simpson twins

"Hey Chris" Becky said

"Hey Little Longo" Brad said

"Haha, hey could one of you hold this ladder for me?" I asked holding the banner and Becky held it for me

"So how's it been going? You know the whole doing this by yourself thing?" Becky asked

"Uh it's been good, have you decided if you're going to put more stuff in the create festival or are you just singing?" I asked

"Yeah I have I was thinking of doing a portrait or taking a photo of Brad's motorbike" she said

"That's great!" I said as I pinned the banner up and started climbing down the ladder

"You own a bike?" I asked Brad once I was back on the ground.

"Yeah" he said

"What about you? Are you going to perform in the festival I only have one musical act that has auditioned at the moment which is Becky" I said

"Sure I made some friends my old school and we are thinking of doing something for the festival seeing as it's compulsory" Brad said

"Yeah well that's great" I said after half an hour a couple more people showed up and then as the time went on loads of people showed up and now it was time for school.


The next day dad made pancakes and cereal for breakfast, today is when tickets go on sale and they are being sold at the front office for $5 each ticket so if there are 3 members of the family coming it's $15 all up and it doesn't include the actual student, the principal and I decided to make it a price not too expensive so lots of people can come but anyway the next door neighbours parrot was quiet it is usually loud all the time!

"Hey that parrot's been pretty quiet all morning you didn't make parrot pancakes did you?" Mel asked

"No I'm listening to the insane Burke doctor and in total denial" dad said.

"Oh well in time you'll grow to appreciate it and that time is now" Mel said getting up and putting her bowl on the sink and so did I

"Dad I have to be at school early" I said

"Ok we'll go soon" Dad said

"Don't talk to the neighbours" Mel said

"He could be a very reasonable person" Dad said

"Dad come on" I said packing my bag

"See there's your first problem you can't think of a neighbour as a person" Mel said

"Where did you get that?" dad asked pouring Mel and himself coffee

"Silence Of The Lambs" Mel said

"Yeah there's a lot of valuable life lessons there" dad said sarcastically

"Hey don't laugh thanks to that movie I never go a day without moisturising" Mel said

"Oh yeah it rubs it's lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again" I quoted from the movie

"Now it places the lotion in the basket" Mel quoted another line from the movie

"Put the f ing lotion in the basket" we said at the same time than bursting out laughing and then high fived each other whereas my dad just looked at us weird.

"It's a great movie" I defended

"Can you do something about this, he is eating cereal with his mouth open" Lennox complained about Ryder

"It's disgusting" she added

"It's not about the cereal" Ryder said

"Never is" dad whispered in his ear

"All I did was ask her to be in my video project, it's a don't text and drive PSA" Ryder said

"And I said no like 75 times I even texted it to him while not driving, why didn't you ask Chrissy?" Lennox asked

"He did but I have the Create Festival to do" I said.

"Lennox it's for a good cause, help your brother out" Mel said

"Dad come on" I said

"Alright let me have my coffee first then we'll leave, why do you need to be early anyway I dropped you off early yesterday remember Lennox and Ryder stayed in bed while I was driving you to school at 7 in the freakin morning" dad said.

"Yeah but I have to give the office the tickets for the Create Festival, hang up more decorations, audition more musical and performance acts and talk to the creative subject teachers about where we will set up all the artwork and stuff with Miss Lunt" I said

"Wow busy girl, you know Lennox you don't seem like typical jock girlfriend material to me" dad said he must have been listening to both conversations

"Miller Collins?" I asked and she nodded

"I hate him" I said

"Miller think arty girls are easy" Lennox said

"He does and we're not" I said

"It's just a little video here's a chance to do your hotness for good and I don't like him either. He flirted and asked out Chrissy while I was next to her" Ryder said.

"No I'm not doing it" Lennox said

"Nex please do this for your brother" I said

"No Chris" she said to me

"You know Lennox if I recall someone has plans to drive you all the way to a party I would hate to see something happen to those lovely little arrangements" Dad said walking over to her.

"What is this blackmail?" she asked

"No just a regular threat" Dad said

"Come on dad I got to go" I said

"Do the kids movie" Dad said taking Ryder's bowl

"Fine, fine" Lennox said

"Look at that kids are working together, Chrissy is taken charge, not a peep out of your bird, my hair is bouncing and behaving this day is off to a great start" Mel said as Lennox, Ryder and I head out the door but she jinxed it cause the bird squawked.


I was in the front office as soon as dad dropped us off

"Hello" the lady said

"Uh hi I'm Chrissy Longo I have the tickets printed for the create festival I'm organising and I was wondering if Miss Lunt is available?" I asked holding the big box full of tickets

"I'll just let her know you're here please take a seat" she said as I sat down in the seat next to the desk and she went to see Miss Lunt, Miss Lunt came out

"Hello Chrissy, are these the tickets?" she asked

"Uh yeah they arrived yesterday so I thought I'd bring them here so we can figure where to put them" I said

"I was thinking we could sell them out front here in the foyer" Miss Lunt said as we walked to the foyer

"Yeah?" I said

"Maybe a table as well. Did we decided on the price?" Miss Lunt asked

"Yeah we did, we said $5 each ticket" I said

"Ok that's good now how are the auditions going?" She asked me

"I have only one person at the moment Becky Simpson and her brother said he and his band are going to as well but I was thinking of putting sign-up sheets up" I said

"That's a great idea" she said just as the bell went.

"Well good luck" she said and I walked to my locker, placed the tickets in there and started making a sign-up sheet to then photocopy them and pin them up.


Lennox and I walked home after school and when we walked in Miller Collins was there sitting at the table with Ryder

"Oh jeez him?" Lennox asked as we walked in and closed the door behind us

"I thought she had another day?" I asked Ryder

"I thought it would be nice for my cast to meet" Ryder said standing next to me

"And since we're gonna play a couple we should get know each other I'm more than my 4 varsity letters" Miller said

"I hope you learn the other 22 before you graduate" Lennox said and I high fived her

"Wow you guys have chemistry" Ryder said

"No I'm in Earth Science" Miller said

"Wow" I mouthed to Lennox who glared at Ryder.


The next day I was watching some of the audition tapes for some of the music acts like Alli, Jane and Brad's band yeah they called themselves The Vamps it includes Brad, James McVey, Tristan Evans and Connor Ball and they were amazing! Meanwhile Ryder was setting up the camera and the 'cars' that Lennox and Miller will sit and 'drive'

"Ok Miller here's your backstory, you're the team quarterback with only one thing on your mind; texting your girlfriend" Ryder said pointing to Lennox

"Got it coach" Miller said

"Can we just move this along" Lennox said

"And Lennox your typical ditzy giggling girl-" Ryder started.

"I don't do ditzy" Lennox said but I tuned them out to focus on the audition tapes and writing down the name of the band/artist to be shown in the festival but I was brought back by my boyfriend saying

"I don't want a badge of freakin honour, I want an easy a" so I put my stuff down and went over towards him as Lennox and Miller sat in the same car seat and started talking

"It'll be ok, you'll get it done babe" I said kissing his cheek which made him smile.


Ryder and I walked into the kitchen to see the neighbour's bird

"Hey Mr Jasper" Ryder said as we patted him still wrapped in each other's arms, we looked like parents looking at their newborn baby trying to make it smile.

"So how'd the shoot go?" Mel asked

"Lousy, I had to let go of my star" Ryder said

"You fired your sister! that's heartless" Mel said

"No he fired Miller" I said

"Oh who cares" Mel said

"And now he needs to find a self-obsessed jock and I'm going with him" I said

"Yeah I can't believe I have to football players again if we're not back by 6… Chris will have to get me out of my locker" he said as we left the kitchen

"My combo is my birthday" Ryder said as we walked out the door.


Ryder couldn't find any other football player so we had to go with dad but we didn't tell Lennox

"Ok now don't freak out but I had to replace Miller" Ryder said to Lennox

"It's ok, he kinda thought you were a tool anyway" Lennox said

"More like he is" I mumbled

"We're going out Saturday" Lennox said

"That's awesome" I said not interested, as Ryder just rubbed his face

"Uh who's my new co-star?" Lennox asked him

"Oh great guy you're going to love him, we're really lucky he was available, you ready?" Ryder said direction the 'you ready?' at dad as he came through the garage door in the football jersey and the wig from the 'Grease' musical the school did last year

"Alright let's get this over with" Dad said.

"Wow where did you get the awesome wig" Lennox asked sarcastically but I actually think she was trying not to laugh

"School, last year's production of 'Grease' and it was in the dumpster can you believe that?" Ryder asked and dad looked at him

"It was on top, mostly" Ryder said

"Just so we're clear this is for your class right? So if I see any of this on YouTube I'm going to choke you in your sleep" Dad said putting his arm on Ryder's shoulder

"I accept your terms" Ryder said and dad lightly pushed his head and sat in the seat.


We finished filming with dad and now Ryder was filming the crashing of the cars and having it lit on fire but it kinda got outta hand when Ryder used the blow torch to make the cars flame and it set fire so I had to go get dad

"Dad. Dad" I called out as I walked inside

"He's putting out a fire in your garage" Dad said

"That's what I had to tell you" I said and we went to the garage where the neighbour put out the flame, dad and Mel spoke to the neighbour while I was with Ryder

"Hey you ok?" I asked

"I should be saying that to you, you were in here too" Ryder said

"Yeah but you told me to go get dad so you were here smelling it for a while" I said and he just wrapped his arms around me and kissed my forehead

"Well it seems like someone was using a blowtorch here" the neighbour said.

"Sorry Aunt Mel guess I got a little carried away with the firey death crash thing" Ryder said holding his camera

"Good news is I got all my shots. But that's not good enough news is it?" Ryder said/asked so we just left and went into Ryder's room so he could edit his PSA.


A couple of days later Ryder was showing us his PSA so I sat next to Lennox who sat next to Dad who sat next to Mel who was holding a bowl of popcorn

"Alright I got my popcorn fire it up" Mel said as she handed some popcorn to Lennox and I

"I give you the director's cut" Ryder said pushing play and sitting next to me, wrapping his arm around me so I cuddled into him


'I'll see you at the big game/ poetry slam lol' dad said on the screen

'oh Brad I love you as much as I love poetry and spirited debate. OMG is that Brad's car heading towards me, I was too busy texting to notice' Lennox said on the screen

'Oh no is that Sally's car, cruel irony' then dad 'steered' away and then they both screamed bloody murder and then it showed the red and yellow cars crashing and exploding then dad's 'severed head' was shown and he said

'if only I hadn't been texting while driving I guess I learned my lesson but too late' he did a little sob then he 'died' and the words Text + Wheels = Death.


"That was pretty graphic" Mel said

"I know right" Ryder said hugging me closer to him if it were even possible

"Those weren't my best takes" Nex said

"I can assure you they were" Ryder said but Lennox elbowed me

"Ow" I said

"Sorry pass that to Ryder" she said

"So what did your teacher say about this?" Dad asked

"I got an A" Ryder said smiling a big gorgeous smile

"No way" Dad said giving him a high five

"Oh and I also have to meet with the school councillor once a week from now on" Ryder said

"Well I don't have to pay for that right? I love public schools" Mel said putting popcorn in her mouth.


Hope you like this chapter :)

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