Chapter 2

Charlie was alone, in the choir room. She was reading a book she had started some days before, when suddenly she felt her mobile phone vibrate. She pulled it out of her pocket, to know who was calling her, but as she read the name on the screen, she rejected the call and put her phone back in her pocket. She didn't feel like answering. She had been doing that for weeks: she thought that ignoring someone would have led to forgetting him completely, but it wasn't working. She resumed reading her book, trying not to think about the person who had tried to call her, a few seconds before.
After a bunch of minutes, Brittany, a cheerleader member of the Glee club who should have had graduated the previous year, entered the choir room, and went to sit next to Charlie. She saw the girl was reading, and tried to get which book was that, bending to try and see its cover.
"'Useless'?" she said. "Isn't that a bit sad?"
Charlie looked at her, wondering what that girl wanted. She knew her by sight, but she had never spoken to her.
"I mean, I don't think it's appropriate for a girl like you!" Brittany continued.
"What do you mean?" asked Charlie.
"If you're reading that book, probably you feel useless, and I understand you, as I was told your story... I just think that reading that book will make you feel worse!"
"Really?"
"Yeah, although I've never read it..."
Charlie laughed and closed her book.
"Maybe you're right..." she said. "I said I would change, that I would stop thinking about falling in love with someone, or thinking too much about my flaws… I was even considering trying out falling in love with a girl instead of the usual wrong, impossible boys, but I don't think it would work… Anyway, I really want to be happy to have good qualities and friends... Maybe it's the moment to stop being stupid and start to change!"
Maybe that little moral boost was just what she needed to change, and to stop thinking about the past, thought Charlie.
"Gather the Glee club girls!" she told Brittany. "I'm thinking about a song, and you must help me singing it!"

A few lights started to illuminate the auditorium stage. Mr. Schuester and the Glee club boys were sitting in the audience, while the girls and Charlie were on the stage, waiting for the music to start. They were wearing black mini dressed and leggings and flat shoes of the same color.

"Bang, Boom, The beat…
My baby is the bang, the boom, the beat…

My boyfriend is music,
My boyfriend is music,
Yeah, music is my boyfriend.
He never takes the pressure off…

Hello,
The beat says hello.
He knows I'm gonna follow,
My headphones are on-a.
His low wind is thumpin',
Just me and him bumpin',
The walls they are watchin',
I'm turning red blushin'.
You know that…

I don't need no silly boys:
I just need my boyfriend!
I don't need no silly boys:
I just need my boyfriend!
Don't you know,
Don't you know that…

My boyfriend is bang, the boom, the beat,
He's beatin' down the door to get to me!
Yeah, music is the shock, the shake, the shake,
The needle in the groove, the grind, the grit!
My boyfriend is music!"

When the song ended, everyone applauded the girls. The teacher approached the stage.
"Interesting performance, Charlie..." he said. "Why did you choose this song?"
"I've had too many idiot boyfriends," Charlie explained. "And I really wish I could forget the last almost-boyfriend I had... Music, at least, causes fewer problems!"
"A very original idea, no doubt about it..." the teacher continued. "But what if, during the next few days, you could sing us a song about true love? You have just said you've been in love so many times..."
Charlie didn't know what to say. She had been in love too many times, and with too many people... Would have it been so difficult to remember a moment in which she had thought she had truly found the love of her life? Yes, if she absolutely wanted to forget him!

Hi readers!
This chapter means basically that right now Charlie has a lot of problems... Will she manage to solve them?
The song that appears there is called "Music Is My Boyfriend", by Skye Sweetnam, and I slightly censored the lyrics (I just changed a word, but nevermind).
Then, the novel Charlie is reading at the beginning of the chapter is not a real novel: it is actually a short story that I wrote a few years ago. I wanted it to be an actual novel, but it came out too short (and a bit depressing also, to be honest).
I hope you're liking this story! If so, I would be very happy if you left me a comment to let me know that you do! I would really appreciate it! :)