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009: Duet

The four of us are at the music room, Zia and I are going to sing a duet with two songs conbined.

Chelsea- bold | Zia- ( )

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But I watch your eyes as she walks by, what a sight for sore eyes
(The sun is setting and you're right here by my side)

Brighter than the blue skies, and she's got you mesmerized while I die
(And the movie is playing but we won't be watching tonight)

Why would you ever kiss me? I'm not even half as pretty
(Every look, every touch makes me wanna give you my heart)

You gave me your sweater, it's just polyester but you like her better. I wish I were Heather
(I be crushin' on you, baby. Stay the way you are)
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Wahhh!!! That was so good, noonas. Ni-ki said while clapping.

You two seem in too much emotions, one is in love and one is in pain because of love. Hmm, that's exactly the situation now. Sunoo said

You're right, I'm in love while Chelsea here is in pain because of her fiancé. Right, Chels? Zia said, I just rolled my eyes playfully... but what they said is true. I don't know, I only met Jungwon a couple days ago but I already like him and my heart aches when I see him and Seri all sweet in front of me.

Sing one more song, Chelsea. I wanna hear your voice alone. Zia said

Uhm, okay. What song? I asked

I don't know anything, a song for Jungwon perhaps. Zia said teasingly

Stop it, I'll just sing a short line of the song. Can you pass me the ukulele, please. I said as she passed me the ukulele.

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Maybe, your heart still stops when you see me.

Maybe it's worth another try, better place better time~
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That's it. I said

Eyyy, that was way too short. Zia said

Fine, another one. I said

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Hooo oh oh oh woohoo~

And I miss the days when I was young and naive.

I thought the perfect guy would come and find me.

Now happy ever after it don't come so easily.

All I want is love that last, is all I want to much too ask?

Is there something wrong with me?

All I want is a good guy, are my expectations far too high?

Try my best but what can I say, all I have is myself at the end of the day.

And all I want is for that to be okay~
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Cut, done. That should be enough. I said

I think I'm in love with you, just kidding. But your voice is arghh... so angelic and pretty. Zia said

Enough with the compliments, I'm not used to it. Now let's go to our own classrooms, it's almost time. I said, we all left and we went to our own classrooms.

3rd person's POV

Mr. Principal, I think you should see this. The guard said to the principal as he showed the principal the cctv footage of Chelsea singing, and their duet.

Hmm, they're good. The talent competition is going to be held in 2 weeks, we can beat the other schools if we get them as the representative of our school. The principal said

Every year, there's this talent competition held. Every university has a representative for their school. There are 5 categories;
-Poetry competition
-Rap competition (solo)
-Drawing competition
-Dancing competition (solo, duo, and 2 groups)
-Singing competition (there's a solo and duet)

A high schooler can compete against a college student. Hybe University and Louis University attends this competition. There are 5 universities that competes;
-Hybe University (new school)
-Louis University (old school of Chelsea)
-Berkeley University
-Highmore University
-Brent University (the old school where Chelsea used to get bullied)

Get that two girls to be our representative for the duet. Let's keep Seri as the solo singer. The principal said

Got it. The guard said

Call all the representatives to have a meeting later in 30 minutes, they should start rehearsing now. Tell the two girls about this now, right now. The principal said, the guard nodded and left.

Chelsea's POV

Zia and I are at our classroom, most of our classmates are here. We were chatting when suddenly someone approached us. We looked up and we saw the guard in the cctv room standing in front of us. We just bowed our head while waiting for him to say something.

The principal wants to make you two as the representative for the duet team for the singing category this upcoming talent competition. He said, our eyes widened.

E-ehh?! H-how did this get to the principal? What made her want us to be the representative for the duet team? Zia asked

Through the cctv footage at the music room, this is the two of you right? He said as he showed us the footage of us singing together. What the fuck?! Does this mean the whole school will find out about my voice? I've been hiding this for a long time but now it's going to be shown in front of 5 universities? My old school is one of the universities and the guy that I confessed to before is a dance representative. I can't do this, what if I embarrass myself?

Yes, that's us. Zia said

What do you say? The guard asked

I'm fine with that, but I don't know to Chelsea. Zia said

Uhm, can I think about it first? I said

Yeah sure, if you want to do it there's going to be a meeting at the gymnasium later. The guard said and I just nodded.

To all the representative for the talent competition in this room, there's going to be a meeting at the gymnasium in 20 minutes. The representatives are excused from the classes. The guard said, wait in 20 minutes? I need more time to think. The students nodded and bowed before the guard left.

What do you say? Zia asked

I-I don't know, I've been hiding my voice for a long time I just can't let it go and everyone will hear it. I said

It's time to let it go, be confident. You have a really beautiful voice. Zia said

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I have quite a lot of drafts in this story, not that much tho.