Chapter 4
Princess Consuela Bananahammock
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Serena's P.O.V
'Don't wanna grow up I wanna get out,
Hey, take me away.
I wanna shout out,
Take me away, away, away, away, awaaay…'
I was finally playing guitar again.
I was also singing back up, which by the way sounded amazing.
Not that I was showing off or anything… hehe.
Suddenly Carla was there, with her black guitar, black hair, black clothes, black everything.
That girl needed to learn some new colours.
"You aint got what it takes girl.
Take a look at me, this is what you need.
You're such a wannabee, stop pretending and get out of here.
You aint worth us. Loser.
That's the only word that describes you Serena."
Everything went black.
I felt my guitar drop form my hands as it smashed to pieces on the floor. I
stood in shock as Carla laughed in my face.
Her laugh echoed through my mind.
I covered my ears with my hands.
I could feel tears forming in the corner of my eyes.
"How could you do this to us?"
They were all there. Alicia, Lola, Charlie and Aaron.
But their normal happy, smiling faces were replaced with sad ones.
Disappointed ones.
They were angry. Angry at me.
"Why?"
"You guys I'm sorry. I'm really sorry." I cried as I fell to the floor.
The whole room was spinning at that point.
"You're a bitch Serena, you're a BITCH!"
I sat up in bed.
Breathing heavily.
Drenched with sweat.
'Okay Meatball head, no need to worry so much it was just a dream.'
I got up, clumbered over the stacks of rock cd's I had piled up all over my room, and climed out onto my balcony.
The wind whistled through my hair as I looked up at the full moon above me.
Gees. Who would have thought that a dream could mess someone up so much.
Ever since I'd sent Alicia that email I had been shitting myself with fear.
Excuse my language, but it was DESPERATLY needed.
I mean, say she totally rejects me, say she says that she hates my guts and that they all feel the same way.
Say… say they actually say to my faces what they thought when I quit on them and totally messed up their lives.
I was a bitch, a messed up physco bitch.
I remember the day I had to quit, the looks on their faces.
My god what did I do to those poor people?
Suddenly my cell phone started to ring.
'Who the hell is calling me at…
Damn where's my clock gone…
nope not there…
aha…
2 am?
Do they not realise it's a time of rest…
even though I'm awake…
okay enough I need to answer it.'
"Hello?" I answered.
"Serena?"
"Er…yes?"
Okay, I didn't recognise their voice.
But they obviously knew me.
Oh my god, say it was a stalker.
That's the only explanation.
I mean I don't know them and they know me,
OHMYGODwhatdoIdonow?
Okay, be calm; give them some time to explain.
Gees, I'm becoming a worrier.
"You don't recognise me huh?"
"How did you guess?" I replied, a nervous giggle escaping my lips.
"It's Alicia."
WOAH! Rewind.
Did she just say what I thought she said?
Oh my god, yey!
"Alicia, Hi. I'm so sorry I didn't recognise you." I apologised.
"Yeah, well what can you do people change."
"Hehe, yeah you're right there."
"So…"
"So what?"
"So why did you want to talk to us after all these years."
Okay, here it goes.
The big apology I'd been planning for like a gazillion days… okay more like three but whatever.
"Look, Alicia.
First I want to say how sorry I am that I walked out on you guys.
As I said in that email I was forced to and well, I'm just sorry okay, I should have expl…"
She cut me off.
"Yada yada yada, I know about all that.
You said it all in the email.
But seriously why now? Why this month? Why this year?"
"Because I miss us.
I miss all those late night rehearsals we used to have.
All the fun.
Come on you gotta remember that time Aaron swallowed my guitar pick and almost chocked to death!"
"HA, yeah, stupid jerk thought he could actually swallow it whole.
Ahh, good times."
"You see! That's what I miss.
Just being able to phone each other whenever we want and talk about what a spastic Aaron is, bless him.
Hmm, you know what? I thought this was going to be really awkward."
"Me too Serena, me too.
I mean, I'm okay with the whole meeting up.
I just gotta persuade the others. I tell you what.
You doing anything tomorrow?"
"Err……"
"Okay Serena, no worries, I got all year."
"Sorry, erm… No I'm not anything tomorrow."
"Okay, meet me at TPA, 3pm sharp.
Be there or be square you hear me?"
"Yep. No worries, I'll be there."
"Great. I'll see you tomorrow."
"Thanks so much Alicia. I mean you didn't have to forgive me you know."
"Yeah I know, but you don't know how may people we auditioned.
No one can rock that guitar solo just like you."
"Thanks… hey wait a sec…"
"Night Serena." And with that she hung up.
Phew.
I let out a huge sigh of relief as I put my cell down.
I was speechless.
I mean, that was so, so, so, so,so…okay I gotta cut down on the so's.
Anyway, that was really easy to talk to her.
Not awkward at all.
Ha, and there was me worrying about some stalker.
How stupid am I! Hehe…. Hmmm.
Just realised what a dumbass I am.
I looked at the clock. 2:45 am.
I'd better get some beauty sleep.
Not that I need it!
I woke up the next morning with a smile on my face.
All was good in the world. And I was actually awake before noon, go me!
I practically skipped over to my mirror.
Grabbing items of clothing that were scattered all over the floor.
After trying on about 50 different outfits I…
What? I needed to make a good impression.
Anyway, after trying on about 50 different outfits I finally came to a conclusion.
Black denim short shorts with a hint of glitter on the front.
A white top with the words 'Do you know who I am?' Written across the front.
Big, chunky black and red necklace, you know the ones that look like massive pearls (they rock).
And finally my black stilettos that my Mom got me the other day.
I let my hair fall down my back in natural curls and applied some mascara and eyeliner, along, of course, with my new trademark
– Gwen Stefani style bright red lipstick. It totally suited me.
To cut a long story short. I looked H-O-T hot.
I glanced at my clock.
1pm.
GOD. It took me two hours to get ready.
Even for me that's a record.
Or is it? Hmm… I'll have to think about that one.
Okay, no time for this I need to get going.
If I leave now I can stop off at the Crown for a milkshake and see my muffin…
err Darien, okay rock chicks do NOT use the word muffin. Hehe.
After another hour or so of Darien staring at me again,
and uspractically spending the whole time making out (!)
I left the arcade and headed towards TPA.
You would have thought he would have gotten used to my new look now.
But then again, I did kiss him
(with tongue might I add) as soon as I'd walked through the door.
Whoever would have thought Darien was so easy to please!
I meanconsidering it'sMr 'I don't think we should display our relationship in piblic.'
and 'You're too young to be doing stuff like that.'
He adjusted to my new forwardness pretty quickly, hehe.
Anyway gotta go now.
I CAN NOT be late.
Before I knew it I was standing at the doors of TPA.
My heart was pounding as I slowly pushed one of the doors.
It opened with a loud creak and I strutted inside, praying I wouldn't bump into Carla again.
I looked around for about ten minutes.
You know, just seeing how much the place had changed and all.
So many memories.
"Yo Serena is that you?" I heard someone yell from the other side of the room.
I turned round and was suddenly face to face with Lola.
Alicia, Charlie and Aaron not far behind.
"Yep." I managed to get out. "It's me."
For a moment we all just stood in silence.
I glanced at each one of them. Noting how much they'd all changed.
Charlie and Aaron were now gorgeous young guys.
They both had their hair spiked up in the same way.
They were wearing their usual converse, jeans and whatever T-shirt was on their bedroom floor that morning.
Lola, was no longer the sweet blonde she used to be.
Her hair was black with red streaks.
Although she totally pulled It off.
She was also wearing jeans and converse and had on a plain black T-shirt.
It was Alicia that surprised me the most.
Although she sounded different on the phone she still looked exactly the same.
Her normally wavy brunette hair was straightened and reached her shoulders.
She had on a simple black dress which looked stunning on her and showed off her amazing figure.
"You've changed." Said Lola quietly.
The group nodded and the silence once again filled the room.
Right, I had to say something.
No one else was going to.
I smiled at them and sighed. "I'm sorry."
I looked the floor, I had to keep the tears form falling.
I almost had a heart attack when I was eloped in a pair of arms.
"Oh Serena, what are we going to do with you?" Sighed Lola.
"Group hug." Screamed Charlie as they all joined in.
I could fell tears falling from my eyes as I giggled happily and hugged them all back.
Hopefully this was the start of a new beginning,
and a great one!
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