As I walked in the choir room, the temperature felt nice and I soon though of this as a great session of singing today. Yet, I soon remember about what happened yesterday. The thought of whether or not to be the lead singer for "We Are Young" in the choir. Ya. I honestly don't know how to respond to a thing like THAT. As I walk to my seat, I see the girls giggle at the sight of me.
One even asked, "So, you gonna do it?" I stutter, only to respond with just saying I didn't know or whatever. I honestly didn't know whether I should do it or not. People seem to enjoy my singing, in which I am very flattered, I don't feel like it's THAT great. Should I? Should I not? It seemed like everyone else wanted me to. Especially my friends, as they were clearly wanting me to do.
"Do it, man. Are ya scared?" said Rainbow Dash, bringing on a smirk. I start to blush a little.
"Darling, come on, I know it will be kinda, you know, hard to speak out as the center of attention in front of every single person that's there, but trust me, you'll do just fine." added Rarity.
"YA!" screamed Pinkie with ever so joy. "I mean, what's to really be scared about? People already LOVE your singing. It's pitch perfect! And trust me, you will walk up there, sing out loud, and won't even notice you are singing in front of everybody. You'll just be soooooo caught up into the song." She brought up a huge smile then.
Wow. They really seem to love having me as the hotspot, but I'm still not sure, nor convinced, just flattered. But suddenly, the group of friends had a wide face when they quickly noticed Sunset putting her hand on mine. I turn to her, worried. Is she going to tell me to do it? "Hey, Rayne," she started. "You know, it wasn't easy for me to say ya to my part of being lead singer for 'Blank Space', and you know what? I feel pretty confident and proud to have such a cool part. I thought maybe it would be cool for you to take that part, too. Just saying, man. If you don't wanna do it, then don't do it." She smiled afterwards. "We aren't forcing you. You have the right of choice." So, yeah, she wanted me to do the lead.
The teacher enters the room, preparing us for those warm-ups, but turns to me, remembering about yesterday's question that she gave me time to think about. She gives me the look, and tells me, "So, are you going to sing as the lead role for that song, Travis Rayne?" I looked up at her, and notice the entire class looking at me, waiting for either the 'yes' or 'no' from me. I had the nerves now, thanks for the convincing statement from Sunset. She convinced me just like that, and I soon answer.
"Yep." I answered. Soon, the class seemed to cheer now that I accepted the offer. And yet, Sunset was right. I do feel pretty good and confident for taking the lead role. Wow. She really is a nice human being. Soon, the class gladly does the warm-up singing for Ms. Filly, and soon prepare for the first song we will sing at the concert: We Are Young.
"Everybody ready?" Ms. Filly asked. I smiled and nodded my head, in which brings a happy smile to Ms. Filly. She then starts the class, and I start to sing the very lyrics. As I sang out loud, in the center of the room, I start to feel some sort of...pressure. It's probably just stage shock, but still, I kept singing on, mostly because of Shimmer smiling as she sang along, seeing how much I was actually enjoying this spot. And I couldn't believe it so myself! It was getting better and better by the seconds passing, and as the song finished, the class cheered me on, as I blushed and walked back to my seat, passing Sunset, who was going to lead the song, Blank Space.
She walked up, and soon started to sing. Once again, I got into a dream stance, feeling blown away by how beautiful her singing was. It felt ever so amazing to listen to such a voice, and sing along with it, of course! How perfect her pitch was with the song, how she looked while she was doing it, it was truly unlike any other girl I have ever seen in my life. Even seemed much better than the actual singer herself! Maybe it was just me? Probably, probably not.
Soon the song ends, in which took me some time to realize, believe it or not. But, as she walked on over, she gave me a comment on my performance earlier. "Yeah, I forgot," Sunset started. "I told you you'll do fine. Great singing out there, hawkeye." I smiled at her.
"Hey," I started to respond. "I think you did a good job on your half, too." I then added, "Sunny." She then chuckled. And the rest of the class flew by like the wind. Really great session today. And I really look forward to singing at the concert.
The bell rings after the afternoon announcements, and I head out of the room, and into the hallway, ready to get packing and get going. But then a sudden someone bumped into me. The same guy from yesterday: Bruin. On purpose again. He then gave me the look again. Man, what the hell was wrong with him? Why such an ass? I picked up my books and walked away yesterday, now I decide to take some sort of stand up to him. "Hey!" I shout to him. He turns around, taking notice. So do others. I continue on. "What's the matter with you, dude? Why you gotta act like this? I haven't really done nothing to you at all, and you are being a pretty big douche now. Honestly, what's the problem? If you think being the number one prick in this school will get you respect and have others be some sort of pupil to you, you really thought wrong. I don't respect you." He then brought an angry face, and walked up to me, with a big, meaty fist prepared to knock me out, but I finished, saying, "I will NEVER respect you ever." Then, the fist comes on by. I dodge quickly, and quickly kick his leg, karate style. But that doesn't stop him.
He throws a more menacing fist. And it connects.
As I fell, everything felt slow, and my hearing sounded like it was failing. Sounded like your hearing whenever something blew up next to you. Falling, I notice the flaming-haired girl dashing towards me, worried, trying to catch me from falling on the ground. I notice some blood in my field of view, probably from my nose. I notice my friends looking at me, scared. I notice everyone looking, shocked. The last words I heard were from Sunset. "Travis!" she yelled. And I made contact to the ground, blacking out. Am I dead? That's what I stupidly thought. But i wasn't. I was knocked out cold.