Hahhaahahhhaiiiii! It really doesn't feel like the weekend to me. Haha [X that's just me, thoo lol! [X
As she stepped forward, she felt her stomach churn. She couldn't believe she was doing this. She felt the butterflies in her stomach making her want to hide behind the curtains of the particularly high raised stage that she stood on. She shyly crept up to the microphone and held it in her hand. Even if she wasn't alone on this stage, and she knew she isn't, she was still as nervous as ever. It was her first time on stage, and it was very important. It was her band's first gig. She had been up all night last night making a new song, and only one thing had kept her from drifting off to sleep for the whole time: her best friend, a boy she currently had fell in love with. He didn't know about her feelings, or his own, and she was too scared to tell him. Her heart ached for the day that she could finally tell him those three simple words. Longed so badly.
She gripped her guitar tighter and started strumming the notes of the song she had written on behalf of her secret crush. No one but herself knew that she had written it for him. She opened her mouth and started singing the words that she had spent the remainder of that night memorizing. She could feel the adrenaline pumping as she looked through the audience and saw him in the front row.
If only you knew
How my heart aches for you
When you look in my eyes,
You look in my soul.
How I dream,
Of being with you,
Of holding a promise of forever and always,
How I can just look at you,
And my world falls apart,
How it only takes a simple wink of your eye
To make my heart ache
Oh how my heart aches,
It only aches for you,
To be with you,
To hold you,
To love you,
To hear,
The words
That I want you to say
How I just look at you,
And my world falls apart,
How you save me when I fall,
When I have fallen,
You're there to save me,
You're my hero,
You're my whole world,
Forever and always;
You are my dream.
She stopped strumming notes on her guitar. The song was over. She played a few other songs, and then the real band came on. She and her band stepped off stage. As she sat at her makeup station, equipped with a huge mirror, she felt a warm hand on her shoulder. She turned to see her best friend and secret crush, backstage to congratulate her. She smiled.
"That was beautiful, Frida." The boy said with a light blush setting on his cheeks, which complimented his emerald green eyes.
Frida's eyes fluttered open. She sighed with joy as she realized it was just a dream. She looked over to Manny's bed to find that he was still sleeping. She looked at the time on the clock sitting atop the nightstand. It was only 8:34. She heard him sigh, followed by a yawn, and looked over to see if he was waking up. Turns out he was only rolling over. She climbed out of the bed sheets and went to the bathroom for a shower, bringing her clothes with her. She sang the same song she heard in her dream; which had really happened to her. That was the first time she ever stepped on stage. And Manny really did sit in the front row, like always. She softly sang it to herself as she washed her hair and cleaned herself up.
Once she got out, dressed herself and brushed her hair and teeth, she walked back into the room to find that Manny had woken up. She smiled at him and greeted him with a good morning. He muffled a good morning back to her and went to go shower and brush. After he finished, the two went downstairs for some breakfast. This time they pulled some cereal out of the pantry that Mr. Alicifi pointed out and told them to feel free to get what they wanted. Manny grabbed a box of chocolate rice krispies and Frida got herself a box of frosted cheerios. Pouring their own bowls, and milk, they ate breakfast in silence. Frida was a bit of a slower eater than Manny, so Manny patiently waited for her to finish before politely offering to take her bowl. Frida giggled.
"Look at you, being a proper little man!" She said, pinching his cheek. Manny smiled and placed the two bowls in the sink. He noticed that Mr. Alicifi wasn't at his workbench, so figured he must be in his basement. They had been carefully instructed not to go there. They decided to hang out downstairs until he came upstairs to start training.
Diego sat with Sergio at a lunch table, sloping miserably. Without Frida to watch from a distance, or admire from afar, they were lonely. They were enraged to know that she went off to leave town with that stupid Rivera. They thought she needed to stay in Miracle City, to go to school and be with them, but they didn't know. They didn't know how much she would die inside if she had stayed in town. They didn't understand.
In the shaded corner of the cafeteria of Leone Middle School, there sat a distraught Zoe with an aching heart. Manny Rivera had been kicked out of town. And that she-devil went with him. Manny Rivera, her obvious crush, leaving town, was bad enough. That stupid witch did not have to make it worse by going along with him. She left her dark corner and went to ditch school for some pillaging, so she could take her anger out on some store that was selling something she wanted. She figured that would take her mind off the heartache for a while.
Rodolfo was calmly and quietly reading a novel in the living room when he heard a loud crash coming from downtown. He put down his book and raced downtown to see what all the commotion is about. Turns out it was just the Flock of Fury, a team in which he defeated within a few minutes. All of which he did without a word. What words were there to be spoken? He missed his beloved son. Nothing was the same without him here to cause trouble or noise in the house. It was so empty now. Every time he had to pass Manny's door, he felt the hole in his heart grow larger. He feared that it would grow larger and larger until it finally reduced to nothing, and then he would be a bitter old heartless man. Old, bitter and heartless. And alone.
Manny heard footsteps coming from the basement door in the house they were spending their last day living in, and turned his attention to the approaching Mr. Alicifi. It had been about 10 minutes since they first came downstairs, and Mr. Alicifi motioned for them to step outside for the last day of training. Manny groaned at the thought of another exhausting day of training, and got up off the couch, Frida following, and walked out the door to the backyard.
Hahah, cool right? Well, now there's not many chapters to go. Just the last day of training, returning to Miracle City, all that good stuff. Anyways, review?