I put the mic down once the song ended. It was a Sunday but I was practicing for our next Dreamscape evening. Bex was somewhere filming the rehearsal so I waited for her to finish whatever she was doing with the video camera. Some guy stood up and said. "You don't have enough emotion." I'd seen him a lot lately in the restaurant. He was always listening to my rehearsals but he'd never actually said anything.
I raised my eyebrows at him. "Not enough emotion? With all due respect I don't know who you are and I really don't think I'm about to take advice from random strangers."
He walked up to the stage. "Random strangers? You don't know who I am?"
I crossed my arms. "Should I?"
He held out his hand. "I'm Seth Ross."
I ignored his hand. "That doesn't mean anything to me."
"Small town girl like you, of course it doesn't. I know your name though, Cameron Morgan." He said.
"It's Cammie." I corrected. "And how have you heard of me?" Once I said that I knew his answer and wished I could take the question back.
"Your name spread like fire because of the Death DIEmundz, it's shocking that there isn't paparazzi following your every movie." He answered.
"Yeah, well, in case you haven't heard, I'm done with the Death DIEmundz." I said.
He nodded. "The world knows that too."
"Look, I'm trying to practice here, can you leave?" I said.
He backed up. "Sure. But I assure you this isn't the last we'll be seeing of eachother."
Zach's POV
"Dude, Zach! Get over here!" I heard Grant call.
I got up off of the couch with a groan. We'd been rehearsing all day and I was beat. Plus I couldn't stop thinking about Cammie and how we'd ended things.
I walked into his bedroom and stopped. "What?"
He moved his laptop to show me the screen. "I found Bex's Youtube channel."
I rolled my eyes. "Wow, Grant, I'm impressed. So what?" The screen showed that the user name was Moraxttun. Morgan, Baxter, and Sutton combined. So it wasn't only Bex's channel.
"Watch these videos." He clicked on one and it started playing. Loud music blasted through the speakers and he turned the volume down. I didn't recognize where the video was being filmed but I knew what the song was. It was Bad Girlfriend by Theory of a Deadman.
"Here, Liz, take the camera." Bex's voice said from behind the camera. It shuffled over to Liz's hands and then Bex was in view. She smiled and waved then pranced off, disappearing from the screen. Liz followed and then we could see Bex dancing. She wasn't alone though. Another girl was with her dressed in a tight short black dress. Once she faced the camera I knew who it was. Cammie. She looked different though. Her hair was shorter and she had long bangs. Then the scene changed and they were outside.
Cammie giggled. "I love you guys, you are my bestest friends." She leaned on Bex and laughed. Her words were slurred and I knew she was drunk.
I thought Liz was holding the camera but then she appeared behind them.
Cammie gasped. "Mazey, I know something."
Macey was holding the camera. Since when did they hang out? "What do you know?"
"I know that men are dogs." She blew out a breath sending her bangs fluttering. "Dom was a total douche, Chuck forgot about me half of the time, Dean was," She gestured to the screen. "your boyfriend, so therefore a total ass, Josh was a manwhore, and Zach," She sighed then she tripped.
"Oh my gosh!" the screen tilted downward where Cammie was laying on the pavement giggling.
Liz turned to the camera. "Turn that thing off." And the video ended.
Grant scrolled through the videos. "Your girlfriend's weird." He said.
"Ex." I said.
He ignored me and turned on another video. It was called Zee Restaurant Stufff. Really random.
The video started in the kitchen where Macey was chopping radishes. She glanced up and said. "Bex, get that thing away from me."
A laugh. "Or what?"
Macey held up the knife. "Or else."
Another laugh and the camera moved out of the kitchen to the bar counters where Liz and some other guy were leaning over a laptop. If Jonas were here he'd probably be jealous. "Find any new songs?" Bex asked.
Liz shrugged. "Found a few. None of them are as good as Dreamscape though. I can't believe Wilbur's actually taking that Seth guy's advice. We don't need to change the song. And what I can't believe more than that is that Cammie can actually stand having conversations with him."
The camera swiveled up to where Cammie was talking to some guy on the stage. She looked at Liz. "Just because I'm over here doesn't mean I can't hear you." She said. In this video she looked more or less like herself. Her hair was in a messy bun though but she wasn't in her uniform.
"Baxter!" A voice yelled. "Put that thing down and go back to work!"
Liz turned and smirked at her. "Just put it down on the counter or something. I'll watch it."
The camera was set down but not turned off. It stayed focus on Cammie and the guy. Seth probably. He was demonstrating some moves to her and she was copying. Not so well though. He repeated the move and she screwed it up, laughing. She buried her face in her hands and he pulled her to him. That got my attention. She lifted her face, grinning, and stepped back. Then the video ended.
"Oh hey, here's one that was uploaded last night." Grant said. It was called When Stars Go Blue Part 1. It was pretty short.
It was taken in a dim hallway. A song that I recognized was playing in the background, but it wasn't Dreamscape. It was probably the song that Liz and that guy had been looking for. That Seth guy had wanted it changed. It was called Like a G6.
Cammie was dressed up in a shimmery blue dress. Her bangs were pinned to the side. She was talking to Seth who was also in a light blue shirt and jeans. "There are going to be some important people in the audience so don't screw it up."
She gave him a look. "Is that supposed to be reassuring?"
"Don't worry." He said. "You'll be fine."
She drew in a shaky breath. "Okay." She shook her arms out. "I can do this."
"Cammie, you've done this before, everything will be fine." He repeated.
"Okay. Let's do this." The video ended.
Grant clicked on When Stars Go Blue Part Two. A box popped up that said 'For HQ click here'. He clicked there.
It led to another video where there was a different user name. It said MikahStudios. I knew the name. They were a very widely known music company.
The video quality was a lot better and had some effects.
Cammie and Seth walked on stage. Seth sat down and pulled a guitar on his lap. He started strumming then she began to sing.
Dancin' where the stars go blue
Dancin' where the evening fell
Dancin' in my wooden shoes
In a wedding gown
She closed her eyes as she sang but then opened them when he started singing. Then they were singing together and she had the happiest expression on her face. She looked like she'd found somewhere where she belonged. Her singing was different from all the times I'd heard. It was passionate and full of emotion.
Where do you go when you're lonely
This Seth guy had changed her.
Where do you go when you're blue
I had nothing to do with her change, her happiness. I'd left her and Seth had swooped in to save the day. He'd made her forget about me, forget about sadness.
They looked at eachother as they sang the last line, their voices melding together perfectly.
When the stars go blue…
Sorry, this chapter sucks, but this is also a filler. So what do you think of Seth?
Songs:
When The Stars Go Blue- Bethany Joy Galeotti and Tyler Hilton
http:/www. youtube. com/watch?v=ik6o4NmpC84
Like A G6- Far East Movement
http:/www. youtube. com/watch?v=w4s6H4ku6ZY
