chapter 4:
Hannah and Damian sat on the floor and Damian unintentionally told Hannah everything. she
was so easy to talk to and she seemed to understand completely.
"I don't know why, it's like an invisible rope is just pulling me towards her, and I don't want to
stop it" he said with his head in his hands. Hannah put an arm around the smaller boy and
nodded.
"We have to do a song that tells her how you feel" hannah said smiling, she felt like a
matchmaker.
"But I have no idea what to do or sing" he said playing with the buttons on his shirt
Hannah just put on a mischievous smile and handed him a piece of paper. Damian slowly
unfolded it and when he read it his eyes lit up. in hannah's scrawled handwriting it read
The only exception
"Hannah that's brilliant" Damian yelled attacking her in a hug. Hannah laughed and hugged
him back, but little did they know Lindsay was watching. She couldn't hear them but her heart
was slowly breaking watching them.
"I know what song we're doing" she said her eyes flaming in anger. Cameron slowly backed
away as Lindsay continued her plot to get both of them back.
"So Samuel, what song do you want to sing" Ellis asked for the fourth time, but his eyes were
plastered on Marissa,
"Sam! I'll tell her if you don't start working" Ellis huffed
Sam shot back around
"You wouldn't dare" He said, his mouth agape
"You know I would. So what song?" Ellis said impatiently tapping her foot.
Samuel thought a minute and then it hit him. He shook in excitement and whispered into
Ellis's ear and the both knew that was their song.
Alex and Matheus sat wondering what song they could do that fit both their voices. They both
were teased and picked on so they finally decided on Hate On Me by Jill Scott. Matheus
figured out the harmonies while Alex choreographed it and designed outfits. Matheus smiled
and thought
"this could work out after all"
Marissa and Emily chatted away about going to the mall and later realized they still had to
pick out a song, they traded ideas but none of them worked until Emily decided to offer up her
favorite song.
"Signed Sealed Delivered?" She said her eyes locked into marissa's
Marissa breathed a sigh of relief, the had found it
"Perfect" Marissa said nodding.
Emily squealed and flipped her hair.
The other groups didn't decide on songs before the period ended so they hung out after school
and decided. After school Marissa logged onto her computer and skyped Damian.
Damian's skype window popped up, he adjusted his web cam and accepted to Marissa's
video chat.
"Hey I have to ask..."
they surprisingly said in unison. they both continued to ramble on until it came out
"I love Lindsay" Damian said over Marissa's rambles
"Well I love Samuel so now were even." Marissa said after the initial shock
"Whoa! wasn't expecting that" Damian spoke his voice still a little shaky.
"Hey Marissa, could you come over, I don't have anyone else to talk to."
Marissa grabbed her stuff and exited skype. He was about to say something when his phone
alert went off
Be over in a few :)
Marissa walked to Damian's house which was actually only a couple blocks away from hers.
She knocked on the door and Coach Beiste answered.
"Hi Marissa, are you here to see Damian?" Marissa nodded and walked into the large brick
house.
"Make yourself at home, and mind yourself Rosie's home and our dog Charlotte is around
here somewhere. Just then a little girl who seemed about 4 ran up to her
"Ello! my name is Rosalind but you can call me Rosie" she said in an adorable high-pitched
irish accent. Marissa laughed as Damian grabbed Rosie around the waist and handed her to
coach Beiste
"Auntie Shannon can you take Rosie to get some ice cream?" Damian asked with pleading
eyes
"Sure thing Damo, call me if you need anything" She said
"Come on Rose, let's gets some ice cream"
"Ice cweam Yayayayay" Rose called skipping towards the door and pulling coach Beiste along
with her.
"Your sister is adorable" Marissa told him as the began the climb up the long winding
staircase.
"yeah, but she's a handful" He replied
as they reached the top of the staircase Damian turned the corner and entered the last room
in the long hallway. The walls were blue and covered in soccer posters, in the corner a bed
and his desk with an old PC computer on it flashed his skype window up and song lyrics.
"Is that for Lindsay?'' Marissa said pointing to the screen
Damian hastily nodded and waited for what she thought about it.
"She'll love it" she said proudly
"But I'm not all that confident" he said scratching his head.
"Here, I'll prove she loves you right now." Marissa said smugly pulling out her phone and
dialed Lindsay's number and put it on speaker.
"Mars, Wai-" Damian pleaded
"Hello?" Lindsay said with a tone of sadness in her voice.
"Hey Linds, it's Marissa, what's wrong? she spoke into the small speaker
"This duet project, I think Damian likes Hannah and I don't know, I think I'm starting to fall for
him." She began to cry and Damian opened his mouth to speak but Marissa shushed him.
"If you want I'll come over" Marissa told her friend trying to comfort her
"Please Mars, See you soon" and then the line went dead.
"Told ya" Marissa yelled.
"But Mars where are you going, don't you want help with Sam?" Damian said trying to help
but he was to overjoyed.
"I'll call you later" and with that she ran to Lindsay's house.
Damian sat back in his chair and realized Lindsay still thinks he loves Hannah.
"What am I gonna do?" he thought.
"Lindsay?" Marissa called in a singsong voice "are you there?"
A low sob came from upstairs. Marissa ran up there and was shocked, she had never seen
Lindsay like this before. Her hair was frazzled, she was covered in tissues and her eyes were
blood shot.
"Lindsay!, get a hold of yourself" Marissa said sternly.
"What's the point?" Lindsay sobbed
"He doesn't love me" she collapsed and put her head in the millions of blankets covering her
frail body. Marissa sighed and pulled out her phine a nd replayed her skype conversation with
Damian to Lindsay.
"Lindsay, he is madly, madly in love with you."
"The song Hannah picked out if for you!"
Lindsay got up and hugged Marissa tightly
"Thank you sooooooo much Mars!" she squealed
"Yeah sure, now go tak a shower, you look terrible" Marissa instructed with a smile.
Marissa then went back home and relaxed after the long day of helping. She had finally
gotten Lindsay and Damian "Together" now only if she could get Samuel.
Cameron knew he liked Hannah but he had no way to tell her. And he didn't know if it was
love or just a crush. His mind raced around trying to answer all these questions that
approached him. Cameron turned on the tv in effort to clear his mind, but just ended up falling
asleep.