SZNS SERIES 1: Summer by Maria Writes (book series for 10 year olds .TXT) 📕

saw him again after her mother's funeral. We thought he'll be back, but years had passed but we never saw him again until earlier. I was happy to see him with you and he's in good terms with her sister. You could have meet him soon if he didn't run away."

Chloe felt bad for her mom, she felt guilty because she never took care of Jesse. "Mom, it's not your fault, okay? Jesse chose to ran away and look for his father, and that's is much better right? Finally, after all these years of being alone, taking care of his sick mom, he finally found his father who cherished him and accepted him in his family."

Finally, her mom sobered up from her drama moment and stood up to leave the room. Then in goes Jesse.

"Hey, do you need help? With anything?" Jesse asked.

Chloe nodded and pointed on the bookshelf "You could stack up my books on the shelves, if that's okay."

They were just silent the whole time until she finished unpacking everything. She then went to the desk on the corner of the room to eat her dinner and fired up her laptop. She went to the bedside table to get her poetry books and started making a new one.

She was busy drinking her coffee, which is now cold because it was left sitting in the table for a few hours, when Jesse grabbed a chair and sat beside her.

"So, you write? You plan on pursuing that after college?"

Chloe saw Jesse holding one of her books. The one that is untitled. "I wanted to, before. But now, I want to be a film director. But if I have the time, maybe I'll write more books."

She was nervous when Jesse started reading one of her poems.

"Why do I suddenly hold my breathe. I like this poem. When did you made this?"

"Uhm, just a few days ago, I just finished that this week."

Jesse just hummed, still reading the book. So, she occupied herself by writing her more poems on her laptop. They spend the hour like that, then she told Jesse that she's already sleepy. So, she went to bed as the same time Jesse left her room. It has been an exhausting day, and good thing her parents are here to help her move in to her house.

As she lay on her so comfortable bed, she realized that she was fast asleep and now she's dreaming of Jesse, singing on stage.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CHAPTER 5:

Bound to You

Day five of the auditions and so far, the hall is not as crowded as yesterday. To her surprise, majority of the auditionees today are mostly male. She still can't see Jesse among the crowd, though she is sure that he will come today.

She is busy reading the audition forms when Caroline called the next auditionee.

"Hello everybody, my name is Jesse Graham-Reed."

At the mention of the name, Chloe immediately looked up to see if she heard right. And she did. Standing up the stage is Jesse who's looking intently at her. She gave him a smile and waited for him to start.

Jesse nodded at her and closed his eyes as the familiar music filled her ears. Bound to You by Christina Aguilera. That is the song I used for my audition. She looked at Jesse with shock on her face. Then his deep baritone voice haunted her ears.

Sweet love, sweet love.

Trapped in your love.

I've opened up, unsure I can trust.

My heart and I were buried in dust.

Free me, free us.

As Jesse go on with the song, Chloe can't help but close her eyes and let her mind lose at the voice she's hearing. She's forcing herself not to tear up because the song is very close to her heart.

Is this a coincidence or Jesse is doing this on purpose? Maybe he saw my audition tape on the Thespian hall? I must check it later. She is feeling uneasy. This can be done on purpose or Jesse just didn't know about it. Maybe he saw the movie that is why he had an idea about the song? Maybe. There are a lot of questions running on her head but she decided to shrug it off and pay full attention to the man singing on stage.

Suddenly the moment's here, I embrace my fears.

More than I have been carrying in all these years.

Should I risk it all?

Come this far just to fall, fall.

Chloe can feel every emotion Jesse is exerting as he hit every notes of the song. She just closed her eyes and sang with him silently. Suddenly, the song came to its end. She took a deep breath and just let Caroline do all the comments. Jesse then proceeds to his acting piece, but her thoughts are still on the song he did.

Her thoughts are all jumbled. She quickly excused herself, she rushed outside of the audition hall to breathe. She needs tons of air. She doesn't know why she's feeling like that over an audition song. Surely it was just a coincidence.

To clear her mind of any confusion, she ran toward the drama hall, to see if her audition tape is there on display. She was panting as she opens the door which was luckily unlocked. She rushed to her portrait and checked the small table below it.

Her first script was still there, together with her photographs. But the CD containing her audition clip is missing. I knew it. She checks Caroline's portrait to see if her audition tape was there and it is. So that means someone took her audition tape and showed it to Jesse, or maybe it was him who actually took it.

But why? Why does he have to sing the same song I did before? What is he trying to say?

She went out