I lifted all of the photos again, and put them back in the envelope. I was on my way over the living-room floor to go upstairs and put the envelope back on my desk, when there was a knock on the door, and I went to open it.
"Hi Tyler," I said. "Ehrm, come in… I guess."
"No, I just came to give you the money for those comics I sold. I know I should have done it ages ago, but I kind of always forgot about it." He gave me a bunch of folded money. I counted them.
"You got like, eighty seven dollars for those comics" I was amazed. "Thank you." I took five dollars and gave it to them. "You sold them, so at least take these." Tyler shook his head.
"No it´s your money," he said. "… what do you think you´ll use them for by the way?"
"Hmm, maybe I´ll use them for Christmas presents, there was one boy I was gonna buy a present for… some boy… what was his name? Something that began with a T… Tristan…Tucker…"
"…Taylor?"
"Yes, yes, Taylor was his name."
"Oh, must be a really special person that get´s a present from you."
"Yeah, yeah, very special person." I bit my lip not to laugh.
"Well, I promised mum I would baby- sit for James today, so I have to go now. But, bye, see you at school tomorrow."
"Yeah, see you." I closed the door, and walked into the house again.
"Who was it?" Carole asked.
"Tyler, he wanted to give me the money for those comics he sold."
"How much is it?"
"Eighty seven dollars." I said, and put it in my pocket. Then I walked up to my room, to put the photos and the money in a safe place.
Tuesday, glee- club.
"… and the winners are…" Mr. Schue began. "…. The boys."
"YES, Wooh." And other happy shouts came from all of the boys, we girls gave them a round of applause.
"Congratulations boys, you win the honor, but now, over to the next three weeks assignment. But first, time and date for sectionals." Mr. Schue lifted a paper from the piano. "We´ll be competing here at William McKinley, in the auditorium. We´ll be competing against the unitards, and Dalton academy warblers. It will be held, at six p.m. Friday, December the 16:th."
"Wait… what," I looked up.
"December the 16:th…. Is there anything special with that day?"
"No… no, nothing." I lied.
"Okay… well, now go home, tell your parents and friends about this, and I guess you all know what our theme for sectional´s is.
"Yes we know." Teeghan sighed. "Lex´s dad and uncle is coming to watch us, and we´re gonna sing songs that she could be singing to them, they are both drunks, they used to abuse her and her siblings, and they also murdered her sister."
"Yes." Mr. Schue said. "So, that´s it for today everyone. As long as you don´t have any suggestions already know, of course we have one, I made my version of Simple plan´s song perfect, but… maybe we could make a list of the suggestions we´ve got so far." He pulled up a notebook from his bag, and ripped out a paper, and laid it on the piano with a pen, he wrote "suggestions for sectional´s" on the top and then added perfect to it. Then he turned around towards us again.
"I and Liam have got one suggestion, of another simple- plan- song, we could perform it now if that´s okay." Tyler said. Mr. Schue nodded and sat down on one of the chairs, Tyler took the electric guitar, and Liam the drums, and then they started.
Ten minutes later
"So, do you think there might be use for any of the songs we´ve got so far." Tyler asked me when we were on our way home.
"I don´t know… They´re good songs, but… I just do not feel like we´ve found the right songs yet."
"Hmm. Have you got any suggestions yourself?"
"Not yet, but I´m sure I´ll figure something out."
"Bye,"
"Bye." I went towards my house. I knew Carole had had the night shift again, so I sneaked inside the house, in case she would still be asleep. And I almost jumped high, when I heard her voice from the living room.
"It´s all right Lex. You don´t need to be so quiet, I´m awake."
"Okay. Well…" I walked into the living room. "Now I know what´s the time and date for sectional´s. It will be held at my school, at six p.m. December the 16:th. That date sound familiar to you?"
"Not really… should it?" I sighed and sat down in one of the sofas.
"It´s Maddie´s birthday… was, I am gonna be there, sing my heart out, sing to dad and uncle Wyatt, on the day that should have been Maddie´s birthday."
Playlist
Tyler and Liam- Shut up- Simple Plan
