Chapter 6

I woke up early. I think I got only four hours of sleep. I was still feeling tired. I rubbed my eyes once and sat on the bed while one of the maid brought me a glass of juice. I took a bath and decided to wear a skinny leather jeans and a purple shirt. I strolled down the stairs and found Tessa and Dean in the kitchen.

"Good morning Darling" Tessa said as she kissed my cheeks and Dean did the same as I walked to him. I sat next to him and began eating. I was feeling really at ease with them. I talked with Dean as if we knew each other for years. He was really funny. After some minutes we decided to leave for school.

"Alize's cool. Is she single or still going out with the other guy?" he said in an indifferent tone but I knew that he liked Alize. The way he looked at her or danced with her simply showed that there was something between them.

"She broke up with him" I said looking at the different houses and at the new faces I saw. After this, our conversation was mostly about dancing and singing.

We soon arrived school and yeah, I wasn't nervous. "See you later" I said to Dean as I walked to the main entrance. As I opened my locker, Alize walked to me tripping on her own foot several times. I couldn't stop myself from giggling.

"Hey" I smiled looking at her."So what's up with you and Dean?" I asked her. She flashed a smile with quickly touched her eyes as soon as she heard 'Dean'.

"Well,Yesterday he drove me back home" she tried to say without looking too enthusiastic."And he asked for my number!" she finally let that scream of happiness that I was waiting for. I looked at her, happy for her.

"By the way, he asked me if you were single" I said as I closed my locker after taking my books. Her eyes were shining with excitement. We had French class together and we were already late. We walked to the class talking mainly about in which club I wanted to go to We were soon joined by a jock.

"Hey! Alize!" he said as he stood next to her."What are doing after school?" he asked her. He had brown hair, had a really well built body and a cute smile. He was cute but simply not my type.

"Huhh, Lans, I will be busy..." she stared with a blank face. She hesitated to reply."with Shyne. I'll be helping her to audition for the music club,so..no I won't be free"She said with a sad face.

"No problem, maybe next time" he said clearly disappointed by the answer of Alize. He waved us goodbye and disappointed in the class just opposite ours.

"Who's he?" I asked Alize amused by the relief expression which happened to appear on her face just as Lans was no more in view.

"The best friend of Ethan" she said in a whisper.

"No, what I meant was who is he to you?" I asked,shaking her so that she was no longer looking in the direction in which Lans has gone.

"I had a crush on him" she said it as a whisper as if she did something wrong. She said finally looking at me."Can we talked about it later?" She said seeming tired of this conversation.

"Sure" I said with a reassuring smile as we walked in the class. We were a bit late due to the conversation with Lans. The teacher looked at Alize and myself with a smile. I thought she was going to scold us because of the lateness.

"Bonjour,mes demoiselles" she said with an evil smile."Comment-allez vous?" she said to us. I understood what she said whereas Alize looked at her as if the teacher was barking some unknown words. She was confused, probably trying to remember the meaning of the words. So I decided to reply.

"Bonjour Madame, Nous allons bien. Merci." I replied with a warming and evil smile. I knew that she wanted both of us to be speechless in front of her. Some of the students were left with opened mouth and widened eyes.

"Oh, Vous parlez le français?" she said astonished. She motioned Alize to go to her seat and asked me to come in front of the class."How did you learn French?" She asked me as she took her seat.

"I've lived Six years in France" I said to her with a grin.

"Oh, now I understand" she said with a warm smile."I don't want you two to be late again and you may take your seat next to Ethan Miller" she pointed her chin in the very middle of the class where I met his black eyes. I walked to my seat and I was welcomed with a glowing smile from Mr Asshole, oops, no, I meant Ethan.

Ethan Point Of View

Shyne sat next to me and I couldn't resist but to give her one of my girl-melting smile. She smiled back at me and put her bag on the floor next to mine. Something was disturbing me. She wasn't looking at me as if she was avoiding the eye contact. I don't know why but I wanted her to want me. But she didn't look at me once during the whole french class whereas I think that I was completely stalking at her. I never grew tired of staring at her. Her vanilla scents moved up in my nose and I forgot everything around us. Unfortunately, the bell rang and this broke me from looking at her. As she turned to take her bag, I met her gray eyes and she smiled at me but quickly looked away.

Shyne Point Of View

I was feeling uncomfortable during the whole french class as I felt Ethan's eyes trying to get to me. I tried not to turn to look at him and I succeeded till the end of the class. As I took my bag, I met his absorbing black eyes and I smiled at him. Damn! My heart started beating quickly. I broke the eye contact and walked to the door. It was the first time I felt intimidated by a boy this way. I hated this effect he had on me. I felt weak and vulnerable. Alize quickly joined me outside. We walked towards the cafeteria and sat around a table. We were quickly joined by two boys and one girl.

"So,This is Daniel Parks,Danny if you wish" Alize said pointing to the guy who sat next to me. He had curly brown hair with a cute smile. "This is Luke Diyan" she said smiling to the boy. He was the total opposite of Daniel. He had black,long and straight hair: emo type. "And this is Britt Sanchez" she said as she looked at me. Britt was like living barbie doll except one thing, the pink of Barbie was replaced with black. I shook their hands in acknowledgement.

"Shyne Kathy Snow" I said as I shook their hands. Britt was already in the music club. In a few hours, I'll have to audition to become a member of the club and seriously, I was really nervous to sing in front of a bunch of people. We were then joined by Nora and Zack. They were really nice but Zack was kind of over confident of himself. Everybody was talking except me; probably because I was nervous. Every time I am nervous, I start to feel sick. I needed some moment alone. So I stood up and Alize rose her head to look at me.

"Going to make a phone call" I lied at her in order to be left alone. She simply smiled and nodded.

Ethan Point Of View

I was sitting in my car listening to the music when the bell rang. All students were supposed to go to their respective classes but I saw Shyne running outside. She ran towards the parking and sat on one of the benches. She was weird. She was paler than usual and breathing heavily as if she was trying to calm herself. Her hair was hiding her face. I decided to talk to her so I got out of the car and walked towards her.

"Hey" I whispered to her as I slide next to her. She flinched and quickly looked up. Obviously, she wasn't expecting company. She gave me a faint smile.

"Hey" she said so quietly that it was hard to hear.

"Any problem?" I asked her while she looked at me. She shook her head and sighed.

"No, I'm just dead nervous for the audition." she said to me.

"Audition for the clubs?" I asked her and tried to find why she was nervous of such a petty audition. She nodded in response."Which club?" I asked looking straight forward instead of her as I knew that if I caught her eyes, I would not be able to concentrate.

"Music" she said. I was in the music club. All the members are great except one: my brother, Avan. Even if we are brothers, I hated him.

"That's great, I'm in this club too" I said with a lack of enthusiasm. Whenever I think of Avan, everything good turn bad. She smiled.

"Really? which instrument do you play?" she asked now with a smile. Cool, I got her to forget about the audition. She was really beautiful and as soon as I met her eyes, I was lost again.

"Erm.. Guitar" I finally stuttered. Hell, it always happen when I'm nervous. Why is this girl making me nervous? My hands were sweating."And you?" I asked her with a smile.

"Guitar and piano" she said with an awesome smile."But I think I'm going to sing" she continued. Damn,she was just totally cute. Yeah,actually,this is what I said for my previous girlfriend but Shyne is different. I wasn't surprised when she told me that she sang too as a girl like her is surely so talented.

"Why are you nervous?" I asked her. I studied her face and she was like lost in her thoughts. After a few minutes she finally answered.

"I'm afraid of the crowd" she said as a whisper. She started playing with a fingers.

"Why?" I asked totally confused. She was perfect, well of course this is my opinion!

"I really don't know" she said with a weird smile."But I don't like to be judged. I hate it when people critic me" she said with sincerity that came from the tone she used.

"I'm going to tell you something...again.. Don't take care of what people think of you. It is what you think of yourself that matters" I told her and sincerely, I don't find anything to hate about her. Except she didn't trust herself enough. "You want me to come with you for your audition?" the words escape my mouth without I realized. I knew that I wanted to spend more time with her.