Can I Call You Mine? - chapters 1 & 2

"Take a deeper breath," Joe, my vocal coach, instructed.

"Okay" i said, and begun to sing my new song "Can I Call You Mine". It was my favorite song. I wrote it myself-with a little help from Joe.

I finished the first verse and looked at Joe.

"That was much better. You'll be ready for the demo soon," he replied to my questioning look.

"Really? Awesome!" my face lit up at the thought. I've sung since I was like 2, and I was getting ready to record a demo tape to be sent to some managers. Hopefully one of them would pick me up, and get me signed to a good record label.

"Yeah, you keep working on the pronunciation and breathing. I'll set up some studio time," Joe said, already picking up the phone to call one of the many recording studios in Boston.

I took that as a hint to leave so I grabbed my bag and waved bye to him. I walked up the stairs to the rest of Joe's house. He had a 2-story house and a small studio in his basement. Nothing special.

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I closed the front door after me and saw my sister's car in the driveway. I got in and she started the car without exchanging a word. I finally said hi after we had pulled out of the driveway and were driving down Joe's street.

My sister, Rachel, glanced over at me while merging on to the highway to go home and said, "How was the lesson?"

"Good. Joe said that he's gonna book some studio time." I replied.

"So my little sis is a recording artist?" she said laughing.

"Well not yet really," i shrugged and looked out the window. The rest of the 45 minute drive home was silent. Both of us thinking about whats happened and what's to come. Rachel is 17, in her last year of high school. Me, I'm 15. I turned on the radio to ease to silence and turned it to my favorite radio station.

"oh I love this song!" i exclaimed softly. It was my vocal coach's first solo release, Stay The Same.

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My sister turned off the highway and into the main street of our little town, and soon we were pulling into our driveway. I opened the car door and was instantly greeted by my dog, Sox. He was big, black, and had little white socks on his paws.

I walked in to the house and my mom looked up from making dinner. "Hi Becky! How was your lesson? Oh and Lili called, call her back."

"Hi mom. It was good, I'm gonna record soon," I said grabbing the phone, throwing down my bag, and running upstairs.

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I dialed Lili's number. She was one of my best friends. This beautiful, skinny, blonde girl with blue eyes. She was born in Hawaii

"Hello?"

"Hey Lili! its bec," i said

"Hey Becky alright, i got a question," lili said. she sounded kind of sad.

"Yeah?" i said. i started cleaning up my room. it was really messy...

"Okay, well... remember those tickets i won to go to Orlando? and to see all those bands?" she explained

"The radio station ones? yea i remember" i said. i sat down on my big green blow up chair.

"Well i can't go and i know its really short notice but do you want them? they're for June 25th, in 2 weeks. that's when the flight down to orlando is." she said

"Wait! Why cant you go?" "Long story. i cant. my mom wont let me go anymore. it'd be for you and 3 other people," lili said

"Come with me then! ill take you!" I said laughing

Lili started laughing too, "i cant! i wish i could! but do you want them? you deserve them i know you love 'N SYNC and LFO."

"Well ... if your sure ... then, god i'd love them! who am i supposed to take?" i said.

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**CHAPTER 2**

"Becky! Can you belive this! We're going to meet 'N SYNC! And everyone else! We're going to orlando!" One of my best friends, Rasin, screamed. Well her name isn't Rasin, its Razee, but we call her rasin.

"Yeah I know!" I yelled back.

We were in Logan Airport in Boston waiting to board our flight to Orlando. People were looking at us, but we didn't care. Four girls screaming in the middle of an airport. I had decided on taking Rasin, my other best friend Sarah, and my friend Colleen. We were all so excited. They called our flight to board and we got on the plane.

I got the window seat. It was dark outside already. I was watching at all the people loading things on to our plane. I reached into my coat pocket and pulled out a finished copy of my demo tape. I looked at it and just held it in my hands. I was going to Orlando. I was going to sing.

Colleen tapped me on the shoulder and asked me, "Hey bec, what's that?" pointing to the tape.

"0h nothing," i said shoving it back in my coat pocket. I had never told any of my friends about my singing. I guess I was kinda embarrassed...

"what was that?" Sarah whispered to colleen.

"nothing. she wont tell me what it is," colleen responded, and turned to me.

"please, bec? what is it? is it a tape?" she asked

"yeah its just a tape. its nothing really," i said and pulled out my CD player and stuck the new nsync CD in it. i loved this CD it was so good! i put on my headphones, pressed play, and nodded off to sleep.

"Becky! Becky! we're in Florida!" i heard raisin yelling at me. i had slept the entire flight and through the bumpy landing. people were already getting off. i shoved my jacket and CD player in my back pack and got off the plane. all 4 of us walked sleepily down the ramp into the gate area. i saw a sign that said KISS 108 contest winners- Rebecca Ostroff. i pulled everyone with me to the man with the sign.

"Rebecca?" he asked

"yeah I'm Rebecca." "welcome to Orlando! And congratulations! My name is Lonnie. Now lets go get your bags." He said

"hi Lonnie," we all said

"hi girls, what are your names?" he asked Raisin, Sarah and colleen.

"I'm Raisin, this colleen and that's Sarah," razee said

"raisin? That an interesting one..." Lonnie said laughing

"her real name's Razee, we call her raisin," Sarah explained "oh, I see," Lonnie continued to laugh.

we got our bags and followed Lonnie to a limo he told us he had a surprise for us and that I was to get in first. He opened the limo door and all we saw were some empty seats.

"huh.... Nice surprise!" colleen said and we all laughed.

"funny girls! The surprise is in the limo now come on get in!" he chuckled.

Lonnie was a huge black man but kind of like a friendly giant. he was a body guard. we all jumped in the limo, me first, and saw nothing. just black.

"hello, girls!" a voice said and the light was turned on. across from us were nsync!

"hey guys!" i said, trying to keep my cool. i looked over at my friends who just sat there staring. even Sarah, and she wasn't an nsync fan!

"you Rebecca?" Justin asked me

"yeah I am, you can call me Becky," i said "or bec"

"how do you spell that?" lance asked me, and we all laughed

"bec? b-e-c. no k" i said

Razee recovered from her state of shock and introduced herself.

"I'm raisin... well my real name is Razee, but people call me raisin," she said, "oh and Lance its R-a-z-e-e," she added.

Lance, obviously embarrassed, said, "Thanks R-a-z-e-e. I'll remember."

The other 2 introduced themselves and we pulled up to a hotel. Lonnie opened the door and motioned us to get out of the limo.