Juliette - Melissa Amondo (the reading list .txt) 📗

and kissed me on the cheek. “Hope to see you around.” He said and walked away. I gushed more but then felt guilty because Sebastian was standing there looking at me. “Are you okay?” I asked Sebastian.  “Yeah, that’s my cousin’s best friend. Their so annoying.” He replied. Then I remembered the day I met him, when he was telling me about his cousin and talked about not being gay. These guys probably tease him a lot for being on the cheerleading squad. I wanted to detour the conversation. “So what brings you here Sebastian?”  I asked. Instantly I saw Sebastian get nervous. “I uh, I was walking around and saw this event. So I um, I um decided to stop by.” He said nervously. Why did he get so nervous? Do I make him nervous?  Without even saying anything else, he then said, “Hey, I got to go.” And just rushed into the crowd and out the door. That was weird. Fergalicious

 

I had a very eventful day, and I was exhausted, but I wouldn’t change a thing. It felt great to come in after Stacey. So after the weird encounter with Sebastian, I sat down at a table and ordered a soda and just browsed through my phone enjoying the great music. I saw Ana, she was really mingling with lots of people. She is very popular. I felt honored to be invited to her performance although I totally missed it. She said that there would be others, so I had to make sure I didn’t miss that. Anyway, I saw that Stacey was there with the head cheerleader Heather and Bianca. I was sitting by myself and thought about walking over there and joining them, since me and my roomie were on good terms. But I could not strike up the nerve to do it. I was still unsure about Stacey, and definitely wasn’t sure how Heather and Bianca felt about me. They were laughing a lot and seemed like they were having a great time, I didn’t want to intrude. At that point I started to feel like a loner. No one was sitting by themselves. As I browsed around the room, I spotted Jason standing with a few guys. I smiled replaying our previous conversation, and then he turned and looked right at me, which totally freaked me out. It was as if he heard my thoughts.  I quickly looked away. Has he been watching me the whole time? I smiled again. “Girl, what are you doing sitting by yourself?” Ana said as she approaching the table. How embarrassing? “Don’t really know anybody.” I shrugged. “Well you know me!” Ana shouted over the music. I smiled and before I could have another thought, Ana grabbed my arm and said “Let’s do Karaoke!”She yanked me out of my seat and I started to plead with her. “No no no! That’s ok Ana! Maybe some other time.” But she ignored my plea. Next thing I know is that we were on the stage. O..h my God. All eyes were on us. Including Stacey, Heather, and Bianca. Even Jason. Help! Now my palms were sweaty. I was extremely nervous. I didn’t want to embarrass myself. I was trying to redeem myself tonight. Not make myself look worse. Especially not in front of all these people! “Fergalicious or Genie in the bottle?” Ana asked. “Neither. I can’t do this Ana.” I replied. I felt so not cool. “Pick!” Ana replied. I panicked. “Genie in a bottle!” I quickly replied. Ana laughed. “Fergalicious it is!” Wait! What? No! I knew the song but couldn’t remember the words. I knew all the words to Genie in the bottle.  Next thing I know, Ana is telling the DJ that are about to kick off Karaoke singing Fergalicious. I felt like I was going to be sick, and heard the music cut off. The DJ got on the mic to introduce us. This was really happening. “So we going to kick off some Karaoke starting with some sexy mamacita’s Anastasia and Juliette and they going to sing FERGALICIOUS!” The crowd roared. My heart was racing. Ana handed me a mic and mouthed to me “Breathe”.  I took her advice and tried to breathe. “Just have fun.” She said and the music kicked on. The  DJ started rapping, “Listen up y’all, cause this is it. The beat that I’m banging is the next shit.” Then Ana took it away, “Fergalicious definition, make them boys go loco..”  I watched as she sang, danced and laughed and still couldn’t believe that this was happening.  She was having so much fun with it. I couldn’t help but to laugh and finally join in. I was in chorus before and I sang in the mirror all time, I could do this.

 

We laughed and giggled. I stumbled through the words but I survived and had a great time at the same time. Just being up there with Ana made me feel at ease. Plus everyone’s face was still a little blurry since I didn’t bring my glasses. The crowd loved us though. I heard a few people singing along with us. They cheered and applauded when we were done. I can’t believe that I did that and couldn’t believe how much fun it was! I wanted to do it again. Ana and I got off the stage and I immediately hugged her. We both laughed. "That was so much fun! I can't believe I did that!" I shouted. Ana smiled, "I knew you could do it girl. It's all fun. Everyone is here having fun." She was right. Other people started looking up songs to participate in karoke. I could tell that Jazz Moon was the hangout spot. I still could not believe that I didn't fall on my face or did not get boo'd off the stage. I just couldn't stop smiling. I was knocked out of thoughts when Ana yanked my arm again. "Let's go chat with a couple of my buddies." When I realized she was dragging me towards Jason, my stomach dropped and he already made eye contact. I had no time to protest. He was standing there with another guy who didn't take his eyes off Ana for one second as we walked towards them. Was that her boyfriend? "Well well, if it's not delicious and ta-ta tasty tasty" he joked. "How about you get up there and show us what you got Shawn?"  Ana replied. Shawn grabbed his throat, "I dont want to outshine you guys with my vocals" he smiled and winked. "Whatever!" Ana blurted charging toward him as he laughed and tried to hide behind Jason. Shawn stopped her attacks and gave her a hug and kissed her on the forehead. I melted. That was the cutest thing. I stood there watching them in awe. I wanted that. You could feel the chemistry between them two. Ana and Shawn started chatting away, not paying attention to me and Jason standing there. Thats when I felt Jasosn staring at me. My stomach dropped again and I felt heat rush through my body. I was afraid to turn to look at him but I wanted to. I wanted him to see that I caught him staring. I wanted to connect to his gaze. I turned and looked at him. He was smiling. "You're full of surprises Ms. Jules." I smiled back, "Why do you say that?" Then he walked closer to me. My heart started speeding up. He was really close to me. "Thought you were a shy girl." I laughed. A nervous laugh. "I am. I am shy." I replied. He shook his head. "No, no your sexy." Someone catch me, I thought I was about to faint.

My Night

Stacey is passed out in bed. I think this is the first night we both will actually sleep in the same room. This feels nice. Couldn't believe that I was the one awake and she was sleeping though. I just had such a great night, I couldn't stop reminscing. I sat there on my bed fully clothed day dreaming. So after Jason told me that I was sexy, I blushed and became mute. I had nothing to say. My mind was going crazy, and waves of flutters were going through my body. I think he noticed because then he put his arm around me and asked Ana what we were planning to do after we leave Jazz Moon. Ana shrugged, " I don't know, what are you guys getting into?". Shawn chimmed in and said, "It's a nice night for the beach." Jason then looked down at me and said, "You want to go to the beach?". I was still mute. I was so nervous, I looked at Ana for the answer. I think she understood. "I'm down" Ana replied. That is when I finally said something "Okay." Jason smiled and said, "Let's go. I'll drive." He kept his arm around me as we walked out. I was so nervous. I felt like I was going to mess this up big time. I have never been ths close to any guy. I've never gone to beach at night with a guy. Was this a double date? What were we going to do at the beach? Oh my God, I'm a virgin. I've never kissed anyone. What time was it? I barely know these people. Well, I knew Ana. Well, I barely knew Ana. I trusted her. She seemed like a person I could trust. Does Jason like me? Why was his arm still around me? Jason is very cute. He is sexy too. What does he possibly see in me? Is he trying to get in my pants? Oh geez, my mind again. I had 1 million questions. He had a very nice car. A four door black dodge charger. He finally took his arm around me and pulled out his keys to unlock the car. "Shotgun!" Shawn shouted as he dashed to te passenger side. Oh good, I would sit in the back with Ana. Maybe I could get my nerves together. I sat behind Jason on the drivers side and Ana sat behind Shawn. I looked at Ana after we put our seatbelts on and nervously smiled at her. She grabbed my hand and smiled, "It's cool. Don't worry." Wow. This girl knows me already. I smiled back at her and took in a deep breath and tried to calm my thoughts. Shawn turned