Talking Eyes by Mia Lafreve Pedretti (bill gates books to read txt) 📖

"Ya! How you just called me? Come back here!" She run after me and tried to catch me. I ran around the saloon and room, but she catched me in the end. She blocked me on the bed and pinched me a few times. I begged her to stop and she did, not before had gave me a last one squeeze.

"Come one, get ready, we have to go to gym. The coach is waiting." Damn! I forgot that we had gym. Like every morning.

Gym went well, even if I didn't want to do it. It’s like school, you don’t want go, but you have to go if you don’t to be an ignorant for your entire life. The same applies to gym, you have to go to not get fat. Simple. As we were walking in the corridors directed to our dorm, the other girls kept chatting about how the coach has been hard on us today, but my mind was somewhere else. My head was full of thoughts about a certain person. A person I should have punched right in the face, but then I thought that it wouldn't be nice of me to do such thing. Because deep inside, I knew I enjoyed the kiss more than I showed. He was still a prick, but I could understand why he did that. Aish! I really have to talk and solve this problem with him.

"Right Yumi?" I heard someone asking me.

"Eh..?" I was so zoned out that I had to ask twice like a dumb head.

Yang Suk Ki, probably the one that asked me the question, glared at me. "You were not listening, weren't you?"

"Ehm..No. Mian." I apologized.

"What's on your mind eoni?" Kim Min Hae asked me.

"It's..It's just that I want to go practice quickly for the new album." I ably avoided her question, but caused a bad reaction instead.

"What? A new album?" Yun Baek Ki and Kim Min Hae exclaimed in sync. Oh crap! I totally forgot to tell them about it.

"Ehm..Yes." I mumbled embarrassed.

"But..But.But.." Only mumbled Yun Baek Ki, while Kim Min Hae knew exactly what she wanted to say.

"We've just debuted eoni, we need a break." She complained.

"Well..We debuted 3 weeks and a half ago, to be exact." I mumbled.

"But.." Kept saying Yun Baek Ki.

"We need some more time to compose songs again. We don't have the gift of songwriters like you. It's too stressful for us." I knew she was right, but in the other hand I didn't want to spend our time doing nothing. In fact the promotion of our mini album was at his ending and people could have easily forgot us, if we wouldn’t have done something about it. I looked at Yang Suk Ki and begged her with my eyes to help me. She rolled up her eyes, but came to my rescue anyway.

"Ya! The break's time is over. No more complains allowed." She stated with her firm voice.

"But.." This time it was Kim Min Hae turn to stutter.

"No Buts! It's time to get back to work. And plus Aren’t you guys tired to do nothing either?" They remained silent, but kept complaining at low voice. I didn't want them to be upset with us and creat tension in the band, so I made a deal with them.

"Listen girls, I don't say that we have to write the whole album today, it’s impossible to even think about it.” I begun. “I just want to write two or three songs and guides, nothing else. We'll write whatever run through minds without get too stressed out. And when we’re done with them, we'll go to Spa. Okay?" I asked waiting for their reply, but inside I knew that they were weak to the Spa.

"Okay." They said together after a while. I smiled and hugged both of them.

"Good job." Yang Suk Ki whispered in my ear when I let them go.

When we finally arrived, we took a shower and changed clothes. Then we went to the Rehearsal room and got started. But it hasn't been so easy like it sounded. Because first of all, we had to create a base for each song, think of each story behind it and then write the catchy or deep memorale lyrics.We firstly created the bases and guidelines, Kim Min Hae and Yun Baek Ki did the most of them, then we all  wrote randomly. Mostly catchy lyrics, because they were the easy ones. We wrote three song of that type, all with different themes obviously. One was about partying to get rid of the stress of life. The second one was about people not giving up on their dreams no matter what; it had also some discutable words in it, but I didn't really care about what people would have thought about it. I mean, they were just two words. Sh*t and hell. Not some exagerated curse. Anyway, the third one was about friends with two faces, better known as Volta Gabbana from where I came from. But I casted it aside right away with another one, Let's Party, because they didn't convince me much. Seeing that one song was definitely not enough to fill an album, I wrote other two songs by myself when the other girls took a break. One was related to my pals and the other one talked about first love. Practically a song about a girl that never experienced the first real love, but just crushes, and she she kept asking herself how it felt like and how she was supposed to act, was it real or was it another stupid crush. Am I too obvious? Sorry I couldn't stop myself.

Anyway... I showed to the girl the songs and they really liked them. Yang Suk Ki sent me some glances, knowing exactly who the love song talked about. I pretended to know nothing. In the end we had three songs, but her and I weren't still satisfied. "Aish! I'm going crazy!" I whined stroking my hair. “I know that I said that we would have wrote just two or three songs, but I don’t have the confidence to go to the president and show him just three songs. That I’m not sure about too.”

"Da too. Da too!" Yang Suk Ki whined too. Yun Baek Ki and Kim Min Hae were absorbed, staring at the blank papers on the table, like if the words could magically appear.

"Let's write the other songs another day." I stated after had thinking about it. “It’s no use to stare at the paper if we don’t have a shred of idea.”

"Yes, you're right. We can't write the whole album in a day." She concorded.

"Ah batta!" Kim Min Hae exclaimed standing up suddenly from her chair. She was smiling like a fool and we all stared at her. "We could write a song dedicated to our fans!"

I was almost at tears. "Min Hae-ha! You're a genius!" I exclaimed happily. We all complimented to her.

"Oh well thank you." She blushed a little, then she sat down.

"And.. we could write other songs with other artists too. Like collaborations!" This time it has been Yun Baek Ki's turn to stood up from the chair.

"Yes. That would work too." I said smiling at her. "And I’ve just found another topic for a new song." I added grinning.

"Which one?" They asked me curious.

"Heroes."

"Heroes?" They said in sync.

"Yes, heroes. Not the classic and old ones, but moderns that help people in trouble."

"That sounds too simple and over used to me." Yang Suk Ki said unconvinced.

"I know that it sound simple, but if we deepen the lyrics, I'm sure people will love it." I replied. "Come on! Everybody loves heroes." I added because they looked still unconvinced.

"Okay. Let's give it a try." She said in the end. So after a few hours later, we finished. When we finally finished, I exulted. "Aah..We finally finished!"

"Yeah! Finally!" Yang Suk Ki agreed too, while stretching her neck and arms.

"Aah.. Appa!" Whimpered Kim Min Hae patting her shoulders.

"We have still more songs to write eonies" Yun Baek Ki reminded us.

"We still have plenty of time to write other songs." I replied tired. "Let's rest for now, we'll think about them later okay?" I asked, but it was more like a beg.

"Okay!" She responded and instantly laid her head on the table.

"Eoni, you said that when we finished, we could go to the Spa!" Kim Min Hae reminded me then.

"Oh. Right. Let's go." I said standing up, even if all I wanted to do was to lay my head down like Yun Baek Ki just did and sleep.

"WAIT!" Yang Suk Ki suddenly exclaimed out loud, freaking me out.

"What?" I asked her confused.

"Firstly we have to give the songs to the president."

"Ah..You're right." I sat down.

"You guys think that he's gonna like them?" Yun Baek Ki lifting her head up. She had a worried expression.

"I don't know, sincerely." Kim Min Hae admitted and I agreed with her. For how much I liked our songs, I didn't know if he would have liked them or not.

"You should give them you to him." Yang Suk Ki stated suddenly looking at me.

"EH? Diga Wae?" I winned.

"Because you’re the leader!" She replied simply.

"Shirò!" I said back.

"Yang Suk Ki eoni's right, you should go." Yun Baek Ki said.

"Yeah! Yumi eoni fighting!" Cheered for me Kim Min Hae.

"But.." I didn't want to go alone. And I had the feeling that they wanted me to go, to get their revenge for the idea of the album.

"You were not afraid of the bullies at your school, but you're afraid of him?" Yang Suk Ki challenged me, raising her eyebrows.

"Those bullies were nothing compared to him." I replied muttering.

"Oh please! We all know that you're his favorite. I'm sure he'll love them."

"I'm still not convinced."

"Eoni, are you so scared of him?" Yun Baek Ki asked me.

"I'm not afraid of him personally, I'm scared that he won't like the songs. That's all." I confessed.

"Our songs are fantastic, he'll love them!" Kim Min Hae said to me.

"Ya! Just a sec ago, you said you weren't sure if he would have liked them." I reminded her.

"Yeah, but I changed my mind." She simply replied raising her shoulders.

"So fast?"

"De!"

"Do you know you're a weirdo!" I said pointing at her, she just shrugged again and smiled.

"I think he's gonna like them too eoni." Yun Baek Ki cheered for me.

"They're right. Don't be afraid and go." Yang Suk Ki agreed with them.

I sighed."I wish I had your confidence." I said.

Yang Suk Ki stood up and pushed me towards door. "That's it! Stop talking, take the memory stick with the songs in it, the music-sheets and go to his office. Now!" She ordered me and her eyes showed no complains allowed.

"Ok Okay! Stop pushing me!" I whimpered. Before she closed the door, they shouted "FIGHTING!" Like those dolly-like cheerleaders. I deeply sighed and surrendered. I headed to the president office.

I arrived in front of his office in just three minutes. But I stared at the door like a dumb head for more than three minutes. Someone coughed behind me, and when I glanced behind my back I saw the two cameramen looking at me confused. Aish. I forgot that they followed me. So sighing, I had no other choices but to take a few breaths, and knock on the door. A voice inside invited me in and I did like