2. SAVANNA
I grunted as I pushed my bed into place and rushed to my CD player. Lucas had just gotten home with his latest girlfriend. One…two…three I counted mentally before I cranked up the stereo.
“I’ve been missing your strawberry kisses!” Nikki Webster’s song blared out from the speakers. I leapt onto my bed and bounced in time to the music. Conveniently, my bedroom is right next to his. I began to sing.
“From the bottom of my heart…!”
“Turn the fucking radio off!” Luke cried from my bedroom door. I grinned from ear to ear and continued to bounce until Charlotte appeared beside him. I really liked Charlotte; the poor thing didn’t deserve a prick like Luke for a boyfriend. She smiled at me as Luke crossed the room and switched off the radio. I stopped bouncing and dropped to sit on the edge of my bed. I smiled p at him sweetly and he shook his head before ushering Charlotte out of the house.
The house that mum, my boof-head brother Luke and I rented was pretty small. The bedrooms were tiny and cramped. There was one bathroom and one lounge room so I spent most of my time in my bedroom or at Bailey’s. But Bailey was rarely home those days; she was always off on modeling jobs or something.
I slept pretty well that night. I had been working hard to finish up all my incomplete work before the end of the year. Just then I was finishing off a chem assignment. I was counting down the days until the end of the year, literally. The next day was a Friday and after that there were only seven weeks days left. The next day I crossed Friday off.
Bailey, Jesse and I have a kind of tradition; we do it on the last Saturday of every month, (24th November). Jesse picked us up in her white sedan and we cruised to the next big town, Elko Falls for the day. We went to the movies, ate out and shopped. It was great, a day to catch up.
Jesse picked me up at eight on Saturday morning; Bailey was already with her. It took about forty-five minutes to get to Elko Falls. It was about nine o’clock when we got there finally, so we stopped at “Auntie Marge’s” for breakfast. Jess and I ordered the hotcakes and coffee; Bailey went with bacon, eggs and hash browns (the skinny bitch could eat anything!). It was while we were eating that Bailey gave us the good news.
“Guys…” She began, Jesse and I stopped shoveling food down our gullets and stared up at her. She was grinning from ear to ear and obviously sitting on a secret too big for her to keep to herself.
“What?” I asked, Jesse leant forward and Bailey whispered to us.
“I got it!”
“What?” I asked again.
“The SONY contract! Chris called me the other day” I eased forward in my seat, as this was obviously big.
“At the risk of showing my ignorance…what exactly is the SONY contract?” I asked. Jesse and Bailey both stared at me like I was a moron.
“Duh! It’s the contract that I’ve been working towards….”
“I thought that the SKANDALOUS one was the big one” Bailey rolled her eyes and I poked my tongue out at her.
“Sav…” She began in a whingey, whiney voice, as though explaining something to a very small child “The SONY contract means that I’ll be appearing in the new Hanson video clip! And…I’ll be on a poster for the single and the album!” I became aware that my mouth was hanging open about half a minute later and promptly dropped my fork.
“You’re shitting me?” I asked wiping the fork clean on Jesse’s jumped. Jesse glared at me and swiped at her top with a napkin.
“Nope! It starts at the beginning of the holidays…you guys have got to come with me!” Jesse made a face.
“I dunno Bails…I’ve gotta be getting ready for Uni.”
“Oh you can do that anytime Jess, how often do you get to meet your favourite band?”
That was a good point. There was no way that I was going to let Bailey go alone. I was going with her!
One day to go and I walk out of those halls for six weeks! That’s what I told myself the morning of the last day at school. Jesse had already finished her exams and was driving us all up the walls whingeing about how nerve racking it was waiting for your results, to tell you the truth, I didn’t give a shit about my first round of Year 11 exams. I think I flunked PE, but nothing unusual there. I knew I’d scrape through the others.
I walked to school that morning, which is highly unusual and something that I had been dreading all year. The weeks that Jesse would not be at school and therefor could not drive me, and I knew that Luke would conveniently be too hung-over from the night before whenever I needed a lift.
So Bailey and I met up outside the bakery and I fished a smoke out of my satchel and we walked along the river up to the oval. I quickly stubbed out the butt and we made our way onto the field where all the jock losers were running around like wankers, using the last day as an excuse to take off their shirts so the fancy girls would ooh and ahh over their chests. Chests ha! Although…Luke did look kinda nice without his shirt on. I found myself smiling stupidly like a fancy girl and immediately kicked myself for it.
Bailey was nattering next to me about all the great things that were going to happen on the holiday. I nodded like I was listening then started making my own plans. I had told mum that I was going with Bailey and I could afford the time off work. Actually, when I’d asked my boss she pretty much gave me the ultimatum that if I took the time off, that was it. So I kind of told her to fuck herself and quit.
On the upside, now I could go with bailey and mum need never know. Of course, she could get a little suspicious when I don’t go to work…
“Sav are you listening to me?” Bailey asked. I turned to her and it happened again. I was stunned by how beautiful she was.
Bailey was super natural with her beauty. She’d always been gorgeous. Words never do her justice. I mean, most of the time she’s just regular Bails, my best mate and then one day I might look at her and she looks so beautiful that just catch my breath and she’s like a totally different person, someone surreal. And then that image is gone and she’s just regular Bailey.
I grinned at her.
“Of course Bailey”
“Oh yeah?”
“Yeah” I replied. She shrugged.
“Oh…ok...well anyway, our flights are booked to Sydney for the week after next. Chris took care of everything. Are you excited?” But I had faded out of the conversation again and my vision was transfixed on a shirtless Luke.
CHAPTER 3.
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