15 and Famous {Luke Hemmings}

Chapter 1

‘Victoria Addison Carter! Get up now. We are leaving in an hour.’ Jess called up the stairs. ‘Egh. Why do I have to go!’ I groaned into my pillow, trying to go back to sleep. I heard Jess’s loud footsteps coming into my room. ‘Because T, you need to show that you are working through everything.’ She sighed rubbing my leg. Today was the 2 year anniversary of my parents death. Jess and her family had taken me in when they found out. Jess’ parents, Anne and Frank were my parents best friends and they are my godparents. ‘Yeah, I guess you’re right.’ I sighed lifting the warm overs off me. ‘Good girl. Hurry and get ready ok. I need to leave earlier today.’ She smiled at me warmly before leaving the room. Today was going to be hard.

40 minutes later, I came down the stairs looking half decent. Jess looked up from her coffee and smiled at me. ‘Mum and Dad had to leave, but they will be home later.’ She smiled before grabbing her keys. ‘Leggo.’ I said grabbing my bag and following her behind.

We pulled up in front of the Shady Hills Performing Arts School, only to be mobbed by our regular followers. You see Jess and I were only popular because of a youtube account we made a few years ago. We had both done singing classes when we were younger and not to brag but we were pretty good. Since then everybody realised that we were the closest thing to famous the school had. Now I am definitely not one of those snobby queen bitch types you see in movies. I knew what pain felt like and wasn’t one to make people feel it. I shook it off as we walked to our lockers. I heard a couple of woof whistles as  Jess and I walked through the school. People would always say I’m pretty but Jess was the pretty one. Even my boyfriend said she was. I know he sounds like a jerk and that’s because he is. The only reason I haven’t broken up with him is because he scares me a little. ‘Hey babe.’ I felt an arm snake around my waist. I looked up into his cold hard eyes. ‘Oh… Hey Tyler.’ I tried to warmly smile. ‘How is my girlfriend this morning.’ He asked putting emphasis on the word girlfriend. I rolled my eyes a I pulled books out of my locker. ‘Peachy.’ I lied. A flood of relief washed over me as the warning bell signalled. I pulled away from Tyler, saying a quick goodbye and made my way to my first subject, Music. This was one of the two subjects were I could truly express my feelings. I walked into the nearly empty classroom and took a seat next to my other best friend, Noah. ‘Hello Tori-Bean. How is my favourite girl this morning.’ He smiled pulling me into a warm hug. ‘I’m doing better than I thought I would be. It’s still really hard though.’ I weakly smiled. Noah and Jess were my only friends that really knew what had happened. ‘It’s alright T-Bean. We are all here for you.’ He smiled again as the teacher came in. There were only 20 people in this class which was pretty good. ‘Good morning class. How is everyone going?’ Miss Miller asked cheerily. Miss Miller was good friends with my parents and was the teacher I turned to when I needed extra support. Everyone mumbled responses and let her continue. ‘today because I am feeling nice, I am going to let you choose a partner and you can rehearse and perform any song of your choice.’ She smiled before walking to her desk. With that the door slammed open and in came Dustin. Dustin was one of my other close friends. I became close with him after he started to date Noah.  He smiled at Miss Miller before making his way over to our table. Noah pulled him into a hug. They were really cute together. ‘So what did I miss?’ He asked sitting at the table. ‘We have to choose a song and can perform it if we want.’ I explained. ‘Ok well your definitely going to sing and Dusty and I will play guitar and sing back-up.’ Noah suggested. ‘Sounds like a plan.’ I smiled at the both of them before we walked to the corner to collect some guitars.

30 mins later we had picked a song and were ready to perform. We had chosen one of my favourite songs- Our Song by Taylor Swift. We made our way to the front of the classroom and sat on the stools. Noah and Dusty started strumming the first few chords as I let myself go in the music.