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Part
Eight
When
i walk into the piano room I lean against the piano
and pull myself on top of it, dangling my legs and
tilt my head towards the piano bench to cue Nick to
take a seat. He walks over and sits down while
saying, "I'll play it once all the way
through so you can get a feel for it, okay?" I
agree and as he starts to play I watch him. Well
not really him; his hands and fingers and the way
his body leans forward ever so slightly when he
pushes a pedal. When he was done with the song he
slid over on the bench a little and started to play
a tune I didn't know. Hopping down off the
piano i took a sit next to him; well it was more
like on top of him because to bench was only made
for one person. Nick played to first few measures a
few times until I thought I remembered them. I
played them with only a few mess ups which he
corrected right away. When he were half way through
the song Kennedy walked in and said he was back
with Wendy's; which I think is weird because I
hadn't even realized he left. Taking a dinner
break we all sat at the island in my kitchen and
ate. I had a chicken salad and fries with cheese on
some and ketchup on the others, Kennedy had four of
the junior bacon cheeseburgers and five of those
spicy chicken nugget things off the value menu
thingy, Nick had a bunch of fries and a few
cheeseburgers. We were laughing about how much
Kennedy just ate and how he was looking through the
pantry for a pop tart when I turned back on my cell
phone which I had off since I got home from school.
16 messages. I read them all through and reply to
Effy, Sammi, Tony and my friend Rose who we all
call Roe. When I was texting back Roe about how
Tiffany Monahan looked extra chunky in her outfit
today-I know this sounds mean but trust me if you
knew the crap that went down with all of us you
would think 'fat' was the nicest thing to
call her-when Josh called me from Ross's phone
to tell me he left his phone somewhere at my house.
I told him I'll for it and for him to stop by
and just come right in. Nick said it was getting
late and he should get home soon, so Kennedy
offered him a ride. Nick accepted and we said good
bye and how we will pick this up again later in the
week. I head for my room to look for Josh’s
phone and while I was in there I heard the front
door slam shut. Just as I started to yell for him
to come up I heard another man’s voice, my
father's....
Hey guys
I really don’t like the title for this story
anymore because I changed my idea for how it's
going to go. So if you can suggest something new to
call it that would be
great!!
Part
Seven
Taking a deep breath I plaster on a smile and
say, “I told you already I'm not that
great at playing since I haven't really even
look at the thing in five years. So no making fun
of me if I don't pick it up that quickly
okay?" Totally ignoring what he just said.
"I'm going to go grab a coke. Do you want
anything?" I ask when Nick opens his mouth to
say something. He nods and says, "Thanks Ellie
Joan I'll take one but--" Cutting his off
I babble like an idiot, "Okay you want a coke
or water or what? We have orange soda, ginger ale,
some Dr. Pepper; but that stuff is uber nasty its
like legit vomit in my mouth worthy but yea; so you
can have that or oh! I think we have some peach ice
tea and we deff have some milk and orange juice;
the orange juice has no pulp because pulp is uber
gross; unless you like pulp...wait no regardless of
your feelings about pulp it is still gross; but so
yea I'm babbling and you didn't tell me
what you wanted so I'm going to stop now."
Laughing Nick rolls his eyes and says, "Damn
Ellie Joan you really just made like ten sentences
one big run-on. That takes some legit babbling
practice." I feel the red creep up my neck and
on my ears. Smiling big he walks over, puts his
hand on the small of my back and sorta pushes me
forward saying, "Don't worry it was cute.
And I didn't really catch everything you said
so I'll grab my own drink. Let's go."
Nodding I let him guide me to the kitchen even
though it is my house and I know exactly where to
go, but I really like how his hand on my back so I
don't move anyway. When we get to the kitchen I
grab a can of coke for me, stepping out of the way
I leave the door open for Nick to pick his drink.
But the way we were both standing I had to press my
up against the other fridge door, however I only
took a tiny step back. Nick had two options; 1)Walk
around me, or 2)Brush up against me to get a drink.
Giving me a knowing look Nick brushed up against me
and reached into the fridge grabbing a water
bottle. Then he reaches for the fridge door with
water bottle in hand, takes a step back and he
leans towards me and bends down; pausing for less
than half a second in front of my face he moves his
mouth to my ear and whispers, "I know your
avoiding telling me what you and Ken where talking
about. And that's fine, you don't have to
tell me, but if you want to talk you can talk to
me. I'm already invested in you enough as it
is." Straightening up he gives me a timid
smile and I smile back and say, "Thanks but I
have a problem with you." Nick's face
drops just as fast as the smile and confusion is
all over his face. Looking down at me coke can I
pop the top and say, "Well you call me Ellie
Joan all the time but call Kennedy 'Ken'.
He gets a nickname but doesn't ask for it?
Kinda gets me upset." I look up tucking some
hair behind my ear and see a crooked smile appear
on Nick's face. He twists off the cap of his
water bottle while saying, "Well I apologize
profusely for that, but I hardly know you I
can't just jump right into nicknames with you.
That's something you have to earn kid. Once I
know you, I might be able to call you
EJ...maybe" He pours some water into his mouth
(yes pour not sip) and I once again notice how
amazingly good looking he is. Lifting my chin up I
say, "And who gave you the impression that I
want to get to know you?" He pours some more
water into his mouth, and replies with, "No
one. But I have a feeling you will
eventually." When I smile back like an idiot
he steps back towards the way we came in and says,
"Come on Ellie Joan you have some work to
do." Rolling my eyes I walk ahead of him
taking him through the house, past the basement
door, the sun room and the TV room to the mini room
we have set up with the piano in
it....
Hey guys
I really dont like the title for this story anymore
because I changed my idea for how it's going to
go. So if you can suggest something new to call it
that would be
great!!
Part
Six
When
I walked into my room Josh was sitting on my bed
with the text book open and a notebook on his lap.
I apologize for keeping him waiting and jump on the
bed grabbing the notebook and pen from him saying,
``I’ll write or else it will take us an extra
two from me trying to read your chicken scratch.``
Josh smiles and nudges me with his shoulder and
starts to point out all the fact we need to include
on the poster. About 50 minutes pass of us finding
facts, but mostly joking around before Kennedy is
at my bedroom door. He knocks on the door when I am
trying to draw on Josh’s face with a marker
and clears his throat because his knock
didn’t stop me from trying to pin Josh down
in another effort to draw on him. Giggling I look
up and ask if their done yet. ``Yep Nick’s
ready to teach you the notes and melodies and stuff
now.`` Kennedy answered. I look at Josh and tell
him I’ll call him when he can come back over.
But Kennedy said he could stay and watch if he
didn’t want to have to walk back and forth.
Me and Josh looked at each other and shrugged at
the same time and jumped off my bed. The three of
us walked through the house into the basement. In
order to get to the studio we got put into the
basement you have to pass the gym. I started to do
back hand springs until I ran out of mat, while
Josh did some tumble salutes. Kennedy rolled his
eyes but I know him and he knows me; he knows what
I am doing. I opened the door to the studio and
said in a chipper voice ``Party’s here!``
They all smirked and rolled their eyes at my Jersey
Shore reference but I could tell they knew I was
going to easy to get along with. Kennedy walked in
all ‘cool’ and stuff and ruffled my
hair; I punched him in the stomach. All the guys
started to laugh. I skipped over to the couch and
popped a squat telling Josh to join me. He did, he
just sat on my lap instead of the couch. ``Ouch!
Butt head!`` I yelled trying to push him off. Once
he finally got off of me I jumped up and asked,
``So what song are you guys covering that you need
my wonderful voice for?`` Nick, who was sitting on
the drum set was the one who answered, ``It’s
Mayday Parade’s Miserable At Best.`` He got
up and handed me the sheet music while saying,
``Instead of ‘Katie don’t cry’
it’s going to be ‘baby don’t
cry’. You know this song right?`` I nodded.
Nick smiled at me and said ``Okay let hear this
beautiful voice you keep bragging about.`` When I
smirked up at him he keeps on smiling and said
``Alright so you take the first verse and
I’ll sing the chorus. Got it? `` ``Yep sounds
easy.`` I responded and cleared my throat extra
loud and completely exaggerated. `` Baby, don't
cry, I know you’re trying you’re
hardest and the hardest part is letting
go….`` When I am done with the first verse I
look around the room everyone seemed impressed, so
did Nick. He continued with the chorus then I took
the next verse, we continued with the song. For
some reason these next few lines were very powerful
and meaningful when I am singing them. ``And the
hardest part of living is just taking breaths to
stay because I know I'm good for something I
just haven't found it yet.`` I looked around
again and everyone was staring. Josh spoke this
time. ``Oww oww yea EJ! I never knew you were this
good.`` After a few more times singing the song,
with Nick giving me a few pointers, the band
started to play while me and Nick sang. About three
hours passed by the time we were happy with the
outcome. All the guys in the band said I was what
they need for a few songs and that when I should
follow in my brothers footsteps and write a song or
two. Thanking them for being nice and telling them
I’ll get right on that I said my goodbyes.
And when I realized the time I told Josh wed finish
the project tomorrow no excuses. I walked him out
the door and gave him a hug goodbye. When I shut
the door I noticed Nick didn’t leave yet.
Pausing for a moment I just stare and then say
``When do you want to teach me the piano part?``
Smiling shyly he said, ``In a little bit I need to
know something first.`` Oh CRAP. He is going to
ask me what happened before with Kennedy and my
dad.
DANG
Part
Five
The
walk with Josh to my house was so much fun. We
joked around and threw all our books into his
backpack so we can give each other piggy back
rides. We pushed and shoved each other around like
we did when we were in 6th grade on the playground.
The walk ended up taking a hour instead of 45
minutes because we fooled around so much. {While
Savannah and Effy are probably my
two best
friends I still prefer to hang out with Josh. With
the girls we just joke around, shop, sing, and be
goofy all day. With Josh I am totally carefree and
we legit just act like we're 11. He tries to
teach me how to play COD and I try and teach him
how to do flips on the mats in the gym we have in
my basement. (I was a competitive cheerleader
when I lived in NY---and by competitive I mean as
competitive you can get
when your 9 years old. But hey I did learn some
pretty cool tricks.) And oh jeez when its all four
of us together I can't ask for a better time.}
When we finally make it to my house its 4
o'clock. We didn't realize this until I
opened the door and Josh and I ran screaming
through the foyer, family room, rec room and into
the kitchen to see all of Feedback in my
kitchen. Josh was ahead of me so when he stopped
short I bashed into his back and lost my balance. I
grabbed onto his arm to keep myself from falling on
the floor. The entire band saw this and started to
laugh. If it wasn't embarrassing I'd be
laughing too. Kennedy looked at me and gave me a
look that said 'If you weren't so
entertaining I'd be embarrassed to be related
to you'. I told Kennedy to call me down
later and that they should practice for a
while without me because as much as I didn't
want to do this project it really needs to be done.
I grab a bag of BBQ chips(my favorite) and some
ranch flavored rice cakes(Josh's favorite) from
the pantry and two cans of coke from the fridge and
make my way out of the kitchen. We walk back
through the foyer and front room to the
study/library. I turn to Josh and say, "Hey
grab the poster board and marker basket on the
table in the corner. We can work in my room and
then the sunroom in the back because we MUST put a
tiny bit of glitter on it." When Josh quickly
turns around and opens his mouth to object I
quickly say, "Just to make the planets
shinny." When he closed his mouth for a second
and opens it again I added, "You know Miss.
Kingston grades better if it looks cute." When
he realizes I'm right he just shrugs and grabs
the stuff. "To your room we go." Josh
says rolling his eyes because he knows my room is
like me; cute, bubbly, totally girly and kinda a
mess. As we get to the main stair case the band is
leaving the kitchen and walking down the hallway
which leads to the back of the house and the
basement door. Kennedy tells them all to meet him
down there and tells Josh to go wait in my room as
he pulls me aside almost making me drop a can of
soda. "Yo Ej," he starts,"We are
going to run through a few songs then Nick is going
to start to teach us the song he adjusted. After
that we are going to call you down to hear what we
have so far and Nick is going to teach you the song
first then some of the piano part." "Okie
dokes sounds good." I say and take a step
towards the stairs when Kennedy tugs at my arm a
little I look up at him with a question mark look
on my face. He sighs and leans down to whisper in
my ear, "Dad was home a half hour before you
got home to grab a over night bag. He said he's
going to be spending the night in the office
because theres new evidence in his case.--" I
roll my and cut him off asking, "Why are you
telling me this Kenny?" He sighs again and
continues, "He also said that this case is
going to court next Thursday and then he has four
days off." My heart stopped in shock. Like
complete mouth open, totally still, not even
breathing shock. "Bu-bu-bu-but his work
schedule said he wouldn't have off till next
month!" I said terrified sitting on the floor
and putting down the food in my hand to play with
the hair tie on my wrist. Kennedy sat down next to
me and pulled my chin up so I looked into his eyes
while he said,"It's going to be fine
I'll be here the whole time. Remember I got
you. I never left you alone before have I?"
When I don't answer right away he repeats
himself, "Have I?" I shake my head no.
"Okay good. Nothing is going to happen to you
okay?" again another nod, "Alright EJ the
guys are waiting for me and Josh is in your room.
You better get up there before he goes looking
through your draws." I half smiled and get up
off the floor then grabbed the food and started
walking up the stairs. "Hey EJ," Kennedy
said, I turned to look at him, "I'm sorry
for telling you now but I just really thought you
should know." Putting on a brave smile I said,
"I know. Love you Kennedy." He smiled and
said, "Love you too little sis." When I
turned to continue walking up the stairs I thought
I saw someone at the basement door. I do a double
take and see that I was right its Nick in the
doorway looking up at me totally confused. I turned
and ran up the stairs because I am sure
he heard the entire conversation between me
and my brother. When I get to the end of the
upstairs hall , the one before the hall that leads
to my room, I stop and take a few deep
breaths, shake my head, straighten
up, put on a big
smile and skip towards my room so that
Josh will think nothing was wrong. At
all....
Mistakes
Lead to the Best
Memories
Part
Two
Nick slammed his locker shut and started to walk
over to us. April let out a low whistle and I
couldn’t hold in a giggle. Maxxie rolled his
eyes and mutter “Girls.” Josh nodded
his head in agreement, I smacked him again. When
Nick walked up he asked, “Where are you
heading? I have gym now I can walk you to
class.” Feeling the pink creep up my neck and
on my ears, I un-tuck my hair from my ear to hide
it. Looking at my friends I reply with, “Uh
we all have math now so we walk together.”
Turning on the charm I ask, “What’s
with the sudden interest in walking me to class
Nick?” Throwing his head back laughing he
says, “Don’t be too flattered now,
Ellie Joan. I have a question for you” He
puts his hand on my lower back and half pushes me
forward to start walking. “Okay,” he
continued once we all started walking, “so
your bro told me you have a pretty decent voice and
that you have some knowledge of how to play the
piano. We cover this one song and I was thinking
that I could teach you the piano parts for it and
sing with us. I re wrote the song a little and it
would be great with a girls voice on it.”
Completely taken back by his request I sorta have a
shaky voice saying “Uh I don’t know. I
haven’t played the piano since I was
9.” Seeming shocked by that Nick says,
“But there’s a piano in your living
room? Kennedy doesn’t play so I assumed it
was yours. I mean didn’t you guys move here
five years ago?“ When we get to our math
room, I turn to my friends and tell them I’ll
go in at the bell so I can finish talking to Nick.
Looking down I say “Uhm yeah its my piano I
guess. My dad bought it for me two years ago to
apologize for…” pausing because I
didn’t want to say that, after a second I
shake my head ever so slightly and look up again
smiling saying, “I mean a present. He
remembered I use to play and wanted to surprise me
with it. I never jumped back into it though.”
Looking at Nick I know he knows I just covered up
something but I could tell he had no clue what I
was covering up. So I quickly added, “But I
mean if Kennedy is okay with it I could give it a
try. It might be hard for me to pick up but yeah
I’ll try it.” smiling big to change the
subject. He looked at me funny for a few seconds
but I just kept on smiling. The bell rings and as I
take a tiny step toward the door he says,
“Yeahhhh that would be great. I’ll
start to teach it to you later today” Nodding
towards my class he says, “Your late.”
“Okay sounds great!” I say extra peppy
as I turn and walk through the door. I feel his
eyes on me as I walk away…
Heyy
guys thanks for reading!!! this is actually suppose
to be longer but I thought it should be broken up
like this lol.....Once i type up the next part ill
post it so that should be soon! and okay I
kinda want to change the title so if you could
make some suggestions that would be
great!
Mistakes
Lead to the Best
Memories
Part
Two
At around six foot six, athletic build, dark
brown eyes, almost black shaggy hair, and a
amazingly white smile, he is defiantly the cutest
guy in the school. We all laughed when I smashed
into him, including Nick, however there was
something different about his laughter; sorta
nervous, identical to mine..."Fuckk."
That was Sammi breaking up the laughter. When I
glanced at her she was looking at the car clock.
7:38. "Oh shiz seven minutes till the
bell" I said stepping off the curb, pulling
open the back down and pushing Josh over until I
could squeeze in. "Shiz?" Nick repeated
with an amused tone turning around in his seat to
meet my eyes while he pulled the door closed.
Savannah spoke up explaining "EJ only curses
when she is really mad. So she only says shiz,
crap, heck, dang, and fudge." Nick, still
stareing at me said, "But 'crap' is
still a curse word there Ellie Joan." I start
to turn pink now for two reasons. One he is
stareing at me! And two no one calls me Ellie Joan.
I mean no one, like the first day of school I am
sure to inform my teachers of calling me EJ. Still
half blushing I say," Well my five year old
cousin says it so it can't be that bad."
"I guess you have a point." he said
turning around in the seat as we pulled into the
school parking lot. "And uh you can call me EJ
by the way." I added as Kennedy pulled into a
spot fairly far from the door. When we all got out
of the car I started off with my friends when I
heard Kennedy yell "EJ you dumbasss you left
your books up front." When I turned around to
grab my books from Kennedy I was surprised to see
it was Nick who was holding out my books to me.
"Oh thanks Nick I completely forgot about
them." I said grabbing the books from him
while brushing my fingers against his in the
process. When I looked up at him he grinned, so I
smiled back and turned around to meet up
with my friends because they just yelled
that the bell rang. Nick shouted after
me,"Silly sophomores always got to be on time
huh Ellie Joan?" I yelled, "My apologizes
I didn't realize following the rules was
frowned upon," which earned me a grin,
"and its EJ" as I spun around and walked
backwards towards my friends. When I reached them
Josh grabbed my hand and pulled me through the
door. With a small smile I twisted my hand so I was
the one grabbing Josh's hand. Pulling Josh in
one direction I said "Josh, come on lets go to
our lockers. See you later girls. Mwah." I
blew them a kiss and they returned it. Thank
goodness my last name is Stonem and Josh's is
Stone so our lockers so close to each other.
"So," Josh began," we have that
science project due on Thursday. Can we work on it
at your house afterschool?" "Okie dokes
but we might have to do it in my room because
theres band practice at 4 today." I replied
while opening my locker, throwing my books in and
grabbing my spiral notebook."Great, something
else to distract you EJ" Josh said. I replied
with "Jerk." as I felt a tap on my
shoulder. When I turned around it was Josh's
twin brother Ross. "Move over EJ gots to gets
to me locker." he said while shoving me aside.
I noticed again just how similar they both look.
Brown shaggy hair, strong jaw line, six foot one,
and green eyes. Josh has a beauty mark on his left
ear lobe, and Ross's eyes have a bit of brown
in them you would never be able to tell them apart
otherwise. "So did you get a ride from
Vicky's parents today?" "Yeah I did.
Oh there she is, I'll see you two later."
Ross said and slamming his locker and walking
towards his girlfriend. "Aw super duper,"
I started,"Presh." me and Josh said
together. I glared at him and he laughed and nodded
towards the staircase down the hall. We walked to
our English class room. We got there as the first
bell rang. "Seats and Do Nows,"screamed
our teacher Mrs. Sparks as me and Josh made our way
to our seats. We read and discussed Of Mice and Men
and what we thought of George and Lenny's
relationship. When the second bell rang I had to
shake Josh who feel asleep during the lesson. We
waited by the door for our friends April and Maxxie
who sat at the other side of the room. We all have
math next down stairs so we walk together.
"Josh," April said,"I swear I heard
you snoring the second your head hit the
desk." Grinning he turned and said,
"Sorry but I didn't realize a hundred page
book could have suck a deep plot. I mean those guys
are so close! 20 bucks their gay!" April
laughed; a bit too loudly almost like a crush
laugh. Me and Josh thought the same thing because
he looked at me with raised eyebrows. When I
shrugged he winked at me and smiled at April who
blushed. As we turned the corner I heard my name
being called. Right away I knew who it was because
this person yelled, "Hey Ellie Joan! Wait
up!" I glanced over to where I heard that
being called and confirmed my guess. It was
Nick....