"Okay," I say, taking the microphone off of Stacie. "This is the only exception by-"
Then I hear "oh, my God!" We all run to see what's happening. My blood ran cold. Jesse and Mary-Eloise. Together. I wish I could say they were just talking. Unless she was having a non verbal conversation with his dick, I don't think so. "Bastard." I ran out of the room. Then I realised where I had ended up.
I stood by the machine, waiting for everyone to come back in. Then I turn up the volume to maximum. When everybody is in, I speak. "I WAS going to sing The Only Exception by Paramore, but now?" I laugh. "Here's My Happy Ending by Avril Lavigne." The girls all cheer, and a few guys. The music plays. I start singing on cue.
(Oh, oh)
(Oh, oh)
So much for my happy ending
(Oh, oh, oh, oh)
(Oh, oh)
(Oh, oh)
So much for my happy ending
(Oh, oh, oh, oh)
(Oh, oh)
(Oh, oh)
(Oh, oh)
Lets talk this over
It's not like we're dead
Was it something I did?
Was it something you said?
Don't leave me hanging
In a city so dead
Held up so high
On such a breakable thread
You were all the things I thought I knew
And I thought we could be
You were everything, everything
That I wanted
We were meant to be, supposed to be
But we lost it
All of our memories so close to me
Just fade away
All this time you were pretending
So much for my happy ending
(Oh, oh)
(Oh, oh)
So much
for my happy ending
(Oh, oh, oh, oh)
(Oh, oh)
(Oh, oh)
You've got your dumb friends
I know what they say
They tell you I'm difficult
But so are they
But they don't know me
Do they even know you?
All the things you hide from me
All the shit that you do?
You were all the things I thought I knew
And I thought we could be
You were everything, everything
That I wanted
We were meant to be, supposed to be
But we lost it
All of our memories so close to me
Just fade away
All this time you were pretending
So much for my happy ending
It's nice to know that you were there
Thanks for acting like you cared
And making me feel like I was the only one
It's nice to know we had it all
Thanks for watching as I fall
And letting me know we were done
He was everything, everything
That I wanted
We were meant to be, supposed to be
But we lost it
All of the memories so close to me
Just fade away
All this time you were pretending
So much for my happy ending
You were everything, everything
That I wanted
We were meant to be, supposed to be
But we lost it
All of the memories so close to me
Just fade away
All this time you were pretending
So much for my happy ending
(Oh, oh)
(Oh, oh)
So much for my happy ending
(Oh, oh, oh, oh)
(Oh, oh)
(Oh, oh)
So much for my happy ending
(Oh, oh, oh, oh)
I realise I have started crying. Jesse is waiting for me, looking upset. I knee him in the balls. More cheering. I walk off, trying to calm myself down. Chloe follows me out of the room. "You okay?" She asks me, giving me a hug. I lean into her until the tears stop. Then we go back in.