Sorry to keep you waiting
"So, glee- clubbers," Mr. Schue came walking into the choir room on Wednesday afternoon. "I have done some research, about Simple Plan," he jumped up to sit at the piano. "And I found a song, that´s actually written about the life of teenagers, And I figured out, that that´s the song we´re finishing this week with, as a group number, because I think it´s a song that everyone in here can relate to, one way or another. Does anyone have something to perform today?"
"I want"
"We want."
Hayley, and Tyler said it at exactly the same time," Tyler looked to Hayley.
"You go first," he said. Hayley nodded, took a deep breath, and walked down to the floor. Mr Schue came to sit in front of me, and then Hayley started.
"Pierre Bouvier, ´the singer of Simple Plan, he wrote this song, to his brother, who is a Cancer survivor. I would like to dedicate it to my dad." She turned her head towards Brad, and nodded slightly.
I swear that during the song we would all start crying, one after one. And if there was one person not crying with the feeling that Hayley was singing for her dad then that person probably did not have a heart- at all.
When the music had stopped, I was pretty sure there was not a dry eye in the choir room, Mr. Hayley looked down to the floor, but we could all see that tears were streaming down her face. I stood up, walked out to the floor and laid my arm around her shoulders then I lead her back to sit down.
"So," Mr. Schue began, he clapped Hayley´s shoulder, before standing out and walking out on the floor. "That was tough, Hayley, I can´t tell you how sorry I am for what you´re going through right now… But I can tell, that if you need someone to talk to, or anything, you know where I am, and you can call at two a.m. if you want to." Hayley nodded.
"Thanks," she whispered.
"So, Tyler, did you have something?" Mr. Schue turned his head to look at Tyler, who nodded.
"Yes, me Connor and Liam have put something together…. I think." The three boys stood up, Tyler took the guitar, and then, all three of them stood on a row, and they started singing.
When the music stopped by the end of the song, I was biting my lip not to laugh, not that it hadn´t been good… it was just that, these three boys together, it worked, but all three of them were jokers, Liam the biggest one, and for the ending, Connor had jumped up on the shoulders of Liam and Tyler and it ended up with all three of them on the floor.
"You´re all right?" Mr. Schue asked. But the boys laughed so much they couldn´t answer, then I heard some giggling next to me, and I turned my head, to see Hayley sitting there, though the last time I´d looked at her, she had been crying, now she was laughing.
"Hayley…are you crying and laughing at the same time?" I asked, she nodded and placed her face in her hands, shaking of laughter.
"You are weird," I sighed, and shook my head. But I couldn´t keep myself from laughing anymore, so I started to.
"It´s your birthday tomorrow, right?" Hayley said when we were on our way out of the choir room.
"Yes," I nodded. "But don´t mind about it. I don´t really like it."
"Why not?"
"When I lived with my dad, things like, my birthday, was just an excuse for him to drink more than usual. And that was a lot, and then… he used to beat me up, so that´s the only birthday presents I´ve got since mum left."
"When did she leave?"
"When I was eight… no, wait…" I counted on my fingers. "I had just turned nine."
"And you´re going on fifteen now huh?"
"Yes"
"So, getting beaten up is the only birthday- presents you´ve gotten in… six years."
"Yes. But can I ask you a question now?"
"Mhm,"
"How did you succeed to laugh and cry at the same time?"
"I don´t know." When we had gotten our stuff, we walked out of the school and out. "Seriously. There´s so much going on right now, so I don´t know really what to do."
"I get it," I nodded. "Bye," I waved to her when we had to go in different directions.
I walked towards Burt and Carole´s house, hang my jacket next to the door, and walked up to my room. Burt and Carole hadn´t arrived home yet. So I was home alone, I sat down on the bed, I took the notebook, I had my letters to Maddie in. I had read most letters the last few weeks, with company of Burt and Carole. And I had about ten letters that I hadn´t read. It had been tough to read them, and I had taken a walk, afterwards every time.
I was gonna read it again when Burt and Carole came home, but I didn´t wanna go out after this time, I was gonna stay inside. Because there was no way I could run away from my feelings.
I laid the book back at the bedside table, and took the envelope with pictures, I hadn´t had the courage to look at the pictures yet, and I didn´t knew when I would have.
Playlist
Hayley- Save you- Simple plan
The boys- Grow up- Simple plan