Dreams and Reality- Aqua's Version by Tammy (best novels for teenagers .txt) 📖

going to collect your lists and ideas and go through them. Once I make the final decisions, we can work on making this the best first dance of the year in history!” I said cheerily, and the girls shouted their agreement, and of course Matt did to, he just wanted to agree with Brooke. Everybody left, except for me, Elle and Jake. The karaoke was still plugged in and I smiled, Jake hadn’t heard me sing yet. So I ran over with Elle, and looked at the CD in the slot, it was Taylor Swift, so I plugged in the microphone.
“Tell Jake to wait at a table.” I said, she just shook her head and went to tell him, smiling, and he I saw him took a seat and so I spoke into the microphone.
“This one is for you guys.” I said, even though the shop was pretty much empty except for Elle and Jake. Then I drifted into song, singing Fearless. Once I was done, Jake got up and clapped truly astounded at my voice.
“That was amazing.” He complimented me as I got down off the stage, and hugged me tightly. “I love you.”
“I love you to.” I said back, kissing him and then pulling away, Elle was there and I didn’t want her to feel to awkward. When I got home, there was a new perfume on the doorstep, which I picked up before Elle saw me. What the? It’s addressed to me, but it says from anonymous and the note says This is my favorite scent on you, I hope you appreciate the extra perfume, wear it if you want. That’s not weird; it was the Beyoncé perfume I had only worn twice this year. Weird. I wondered who could have sent it to me as I went upstairs, but then I stopped to film an outfit of the day and a back to school haul video for my channel, even though it was almost half way into the school year. Once I had edited the stupid scenes and bloopers out, uploaded it and everything, I went to eat dinner, which was grilled chicken (because it’s more healthy). Then I sang and practiced some cheers, and then I took a shower and went to bed.
Chapter 8: An Interesting Day
When I woke up, I had a good feeling about the day. I curled my hair in soft curls, and then I got dressed in some jeans and a button up, plaid, white and black shirt. For breakfast I had some cereal again and then I slipped on some cute ankle boots, grabbed my stuff and headed for the bus stop with Elle. When I got to school, all my friends were waiting for me, and I mean everyone.
“Hey girls!” I said cheerily.
“Hey Aqua.” They smiled back, there were even guys there and they were all smiling at me.
“So, what’s up?” I asked, wondering what was up with everyone being there and smiling to.
“Well, we were just wondering…” Jenna started, then Brooke cut her off and finished.
“..If you would sing at the game, everyone wants you to. Before you ask, at the beginning you sing, and you sing the national anthem and a song of your choice, just to get everyone ready to go.” She finished, smiling, oh, I get it they’re all here to see if I will or not.
“Sure, that sounds really fun. I just need some dancers.” I said, and Brooke, Jenna, and two guys I didn’t know that well volunteered. “Ok then, we’re all set.” I agreed fully and then told them what dance we were doing.
“Ok, so the invites are perfect, I love the design, you guys will have to get them though, here’s the money for it, which should cover everything. The food was almost fine, but it was a little too fancy for a school dance, I mean I love the idea of caviar but most people won’t go for it. Everything else was fine, so here’s the money.” I said, surprised at how little planning the dance took, handing one person from each of the groups the wad of cash for it. The school hadn’t given us all that money but Sapphire had a lot of money, and she wanted the dance to truly be the best we had ever had besides prom so she got her Dad to donate like a thousand dollars. The day passed quickly and nothing really happened, until I got to the game. When I had changed into my performing dress, I went onto our tiny little stage they had set up for me and waited to be introduced.
“Ok tigers! Your intro act is truly going to be a perfect performance. We will have the national anthem, as it is traditional, and then Change by Taylor Swift. The performer is a wonderful girl, who is..” The freshman introducing me meant it as a dramatic pause, but I took it as an opportunity.
“Me.” I jumped out from behind her, and the whole crowd knew who I was and cheered. Then the band played the background music for the national anthem which I sang, getting much applause for, and then it was my time to really shine. I started to sing, just after my little introduction to the song, waiting for them to get it to the right track in the giant boom box.
“I find this song really important, and I hope that you guys like it. I’m going to sing my best and I hope that in turn you will cheer our players on as good as possible. Go tigers!” I said into the microphone, getting a huge roar from the crowd and smiles from some players, then I started singing and it was like I was at an actual Taylor Swift concert. When I finished, the crowd cheered like I had never heard anyone cheer, then they demanded an encore and so the principle nodded his agreement, and I took a risk and sang a song I had wrote.
“This is a song I wrote, and it’s called U and Me. I hope you guys enjoy it.” I smiled, and then I was handed a guitar, so I sang acoustic. I was even more surprised when the crowd cheered even more loudly then they had before and I felt like a celebrity. I was stunned when people threw flowers on the stage, when I got off the stage I thanked the crowd and then went into the locker room, put on a head microphone and changed into my cheer uniform.
“Are you ready?” I asked the crowd, skipping out of the locker room, the rest of the cheerleaders following. I cheered and did all my special flips. During half time, I took off the head set so I could go give the team a pep talk.
“Ok Tigers! We are winning, but does that mean we stop trying?”
“No!”
“Well then, I don’t see you sweating! We have to play these Hornets for all they’re worth.” I told them, putting on my best smile. “Who are we?”
“Tigers!”
“Who are we going to beat?”
“Hornets!”
“And who are we again?” I shouted.
“Tigers!” They shouted, then the coach called them back into the game and I smiled and shouted after them, “Positive outcomes only!” At the end of the game I flipped off our pyramid and then jogged to the dressing room. When I got out, I was stopped by a guy, and then I recognized him as the guy who introduced himself as Danny yesterday.
“Hey Aqua, I was wondering if you could go with me to the movies this Friday?” He asked me, smiling like he had a chance, some people still hadn’t heard that I was taken.
“Sorry, but I have a boyfriend so I can’t. Maybe when I’m single.” I told him, he looked disappointed but he just shook it off and walked away. I was going to congratulate the guys on winning by so much, but then I was stopped by a freshman that I didn’t know.
“Hi. First, I want to say that you were great on stage, but I was told to give you these.” He said, holding out a bouquet of a dozen red roses. “I was also told to tell you that the person who gave you these was the same one who gave you the perfume.” He said, as I took them.
“Thank you.” I said, bewildered at who gave them to me. Then I walked up to the guys reading the note on the roses, From someone closer than you think, because you’re as delicate and beautiful as a rose. How sweet. When I got to the guys, Jake was staring at the roses, but his close friends, including his brother were just smiling.
“Where did those come from?” He asked, looking around jealously for the culprit.
“I don’t know, it says anonymous, and a freshman, who didn’t even know who I was until tonight, delivered them. I like them though.” I said, wondering who delivered them, and why the guys were smiling, and the guys patted Josh on the shoulder, but I passed that off as them congratulating him for a good game.
“Oh, well that’s weird.” He said, looking confused on who could have sent them to me.
“I know right?” I agreed, but then I turned to the rest of the team. “Congrats, everyone! I hope the next game is as great as this one was.” I congratulated them, smiling at the remembrance of my performance.
“Well, we couldn’t have done it without our head cheerleader, writing our problems on our arms.” Josh said, his voice dripping with thanks. Jake’s eyes tightened, but he didn’t say anything.
“Well, you know it’s kind of my job, but you’re welcome.” I smiled, making the guys laugh at my fake modesty. “See you all.” I ended our little congrats party, and all the guys said bye back. Jake wanted to stay with the guys, so I walked to my car on my own. When I got home, I took a fast shower, careful not to wake Elle; it was around eleven at night.
Chapter 9: The day Rye comes back
When I woke up in the morning, after I got dressed and did everything I usually did, it was just in time for Elle to wake up. As I walked to her room, it dawned on me, Josh sent me that stuff, he was especially enthusiastic when I came over, and when he saw I liked them.
Good Morning, I love you! I texted Jake and he responded with the same. Another thing is Rye will be here! That’s cool, I mean for Elle and his, friends, I guess.
I opened the door waking her up.
“Yes?”, she asked, curious.
“It’s time to get up!” I squealed running to her closet.
“What’s going on?” She asked, trying to hide her curiousness with an attempted normal face.
“Nothing, why would you ask?” I said, smiling, and I knew it was a lame lie but I didn‘t care, Josh liked me, even if I couldn‘t do anything about it.
“Well, because you seem really happy for no apparent reason.” She said pointing out how bad my lie was.
“Nothing, I promise. I’m just in a good mood. Well also, Jake said I love you this morning which makes me smile.” I said sighing happily. I got her a peach, knee-high, neck tie dress, and a white, elbow length jacket. I was dressed in red, one-sleeved dress with another pair of red pumps, and a matching white shrug. I felt very loving that day, and wanted to show it with what I wore. I wanted everyone to look good, especially her; I mean she had her boyfriend coming back today, as I found out from the