Untold Secrets

New Song

"Oh my god... You are not Liam."

Okay, so you ever have one of those moments where you are like "okay I am totally dreaming, but cool dream"? Yeah, that is what is happening to me here.

Now I am going to torture you by not telling you right away why I am all "OMG", but instead I'll start from how it happened.

I'm here I'm with you

I want you to know

That I'm here for you...

The lyrics of the song pour from my headphones into my ears, the beat pounding in my head. I walk through the school's front door and head toward my locker. As I turn the corner to the hallway mine is in, right on cue, my best friends Carlin and Rachel start squealing, as do I.

"Oh my god!" Carlin cries. "Cailey, have you heard it!"

"I'm listening to it right now for the, like, one hundredth time!" I respond.

They both quit down immediately, rip the ear buds from the audio jack on my iTouch so the music can play out loud. As soon as it ends we all start screaming again.

In case you're totally confused at this point we are talking about our favorite band, Untold Secrets. The three of us know EVERYTHING about them and we've been fans since practically the day they got signed. They started as a garage band in their hometown and about a year ago got signed by Zeus Records, the biggest record company in the country. They are now one of the top recording artists in the world.

Untold Secrets has four members: Shane Brady, Emmet Collins, Peter Hanson, and, my personal favorite, Jake Hunter. They are ALL amazingly gorgeous, but Jake, the lead singer, is by far the hottest. He's tall and fit without being overly muscular. His hair is a rusty light brown with a few blond flecks, and he has bright teal eyes that seem to sparkle as if he's always laughing.

So we're screaming because Untold Secrets just came out with a new song that was released to iTunes at midnight this morning. The three of us, of course, stayed up until then to buy it.

"So you guys are still coming over to my house before the party, right?" Carlin asks.

"Yeah," Rachel reassures her. "We need to make you look amazing for Jason!"

Carlin's crush, Jason Lopez, is hosting the annual Senior Party this year and it's tonight at some club downtown. Last week, when he asked us to come, Carlin practically fainted on the spot. I will admit that he is probably the hottest senior in our school, but Carlin saw him first, and anyways, my heart belongs to Jake.

Carlin answered the door with this grin on her face as if she was trying to hide something. As soon as we were upstairs, Rachel and I cornered her.

"What is it?" we asked in unison.

"We are going to see Untold Secrets!" she screamed excitedly.

We both just stare at her, shocked.

"How?" Rachel asked.

"I was just listening to the radio and they had this unannounced contest, where the 96th caller would win three tickets to their concert in Madison Square Garden a week from today!"

We all start dancing and cheering. We crank up the music. Carlin takes out her make-up, hair curler and straightner. We are having a blast getting ready when all of a sudden something occurs to me. I stop the music.

"When did you say the concert is?" I ask Carlin, urgently.

"A next Saturday, why?" she responds.

"Ugh! I can't go. My cousin is getting married next Saturday. We're leaving Friday."

"Cailey, don't weddings happen, like, during the day, and the reception is at night?" Rachel asks. "Just to the ceremony and skip the reception."

"The wedding is in Boston," I answer grimly. "There's no way I'd be able to make it in time, and my parents wouldn't let me drive all the way from Boston to New York by myself anyway."

They started to complain and say how they weren't going to go without me, but I cut them off.

"Go without me. Don't let my going away, keep from having fun." I faked a smile. "Why don't you take Alexa? She's a big fan of them and nobody ever invites her anywhere."

"Uh, Cailey, there's a reason for that. She's a big fan of everyone, and I mean EVERYONE," Carlin says. "Two weeks ago I was on eBay, and I found one of Kora's I'll-wear-it-once-then-throw-it-away shirts. Alexa was the seller."

She looks at me for second. "The girl has issues."

"Well, she's just a little... Yeah, don't take her," I laugh. "But you can't blame her. Kora's always saying how one day she'll be a famous supermodel, and Alexa believes anything she hears."

Kora Davison, as awarded by Rachel, Carlin, and me, is Miss OMG-I-Love-Myself of the Year. Correction: of Forever. She thinks she's so fabulous just because her dad is rich and she has a big house (ok mansion, but who cares). She walks around the school every day with a huge crowd of wannabes behind her, making everyone in her path feel like an insect.

"Whatever," I say. "Let's just focus on the party for now. We have all week to worry about it."