“They’re not here yet?” Mika asked. He went to the cafeteria to get water while Lemon waited for the rest of the group under the shade of the mango tree.
Today is Club day. This is the day for Marian’s to recruit members for their respective clubs.
Before they went to their hangout, Mika signed up for the Dance Club and he auditioned for the cheering squad. Kellen and Audrey, on the other hand, attended the meeting for Spark, the school’s paper, where both of them are editors.
Lemon wanted to sign up for the Dance Club too and audition for the cheering squad, but she’s a bit scared that she might get injured again. Just like what happened to her back in France.
While they were still waiting for their friends, Mika lay down on the bench, using his bag as a pillow. Lemon lifted both feet to the bench and leaned on the tree.
“Lem, play some music first, just to lessen the boredom,” he said as he fixed himself on the bench. She gladly obliged and took out her phone to open the music player.
Lemon started singing along to Britney Spears’ song. It was a bit old but this is how she and Mika pick their music.
They don’t always go for the new ones, they listen carefully to the lyrics first. Most of the time, they pick songs that gave them the last song syndrome for at least two weeks and add them to their playlist.
She continued singing along and Mika did too. They’ll sometimes stop and laugh at each other when he’s out of tune or she forgot the lyrics.
“Wow, Partner!” Kevz exclaimed. Lemon knew it was him though she hadn’t seen him yet, as he was the only one who’d call her ‘Partner’. “I didn’t know you were hiding something precious!” he added, and Lemon creased her forehead. She didn’t get what he was saying but then he smiled again, “You got a golden voice!”
Lemon laughed at his comment and lightly tapped his arm, “Silly! Leave us!”
“Seriously, Partner, I’m amazed by your voice,” he insisted.
“Seriously? Fine, fine! I’ll treat you to lunch!” then she pats his shoulder.
“No need! Instead of treating me to lunch, come with me now,” then he grabbed her bag and pulled her up from the bench and away from it.
“Hey, where are you going?” Mika called after them but when Kevz didn’t respond, he quickly gathered his things and stood up to follow the two.
Lemon had no idea where Kevz was taking her, so she had nothing to say to Mika either. He just kept dragging her until they were close to the booth of the Music Club.
Kevz left her somewhere close and headed straight to the booth, where Homme and Roj are busy entertaining a long line of auditionees. Kevz said something to them and they both looked up to wave at her.
“What’s going on girl?” Mika asked as he gasped for air. “You trashed my beauty,” he spat, still trying to catch her breath.
“I’ve no idea! Kevz just dragged me here,” she shrugged.
“Here, Partner, fill this up!”
Kevz handed her a pen and paper. When Lemon looked at it, the paper was a form for those who wanted to audition as the vocalist of O2Jam. She suddenly recalled that they needed two vocalists for the group, a boy and a girl.
‘Why is he giving me this?’
“Are you asking me to audition?” Kevz quickly nodded. “No way! No, no way!” she refused, but he was just pushing the form back to her.
“What’s that?” Kip asked after showing up out of nowhere. He pulled his cousin to where there was shade, and Kevz and Mika followed.
“Dude, why didn’t you tell me that your cousin has a golden voice? We shouldn’t be holding an audition now!” scolding Kip, who creased his forehead at her.
“You can sing?” Kip asked and Lemon slowly nodded.
“Gosh Kip! Are you really cousins? She’s been singing since birth and you didn’t know?” Mika mocked him.
“I swear I didn’t know. All I know is that she was part of the cheering squad back in France. She also did judo and swimming. But I never knew she could sing,” Kip even raised his hand as he defended himself. He then snatched the form from Kevz and passed it back to his cousin. “If that is the case, sign this up. You can skip the screening,” wriggling his brows at her.
“I can’t! I-I have stage fright! I’m not comfortable singing in front of a huge crowd,” coming up with a random excuse, Lemon refused to accept the form he was giving her. “I can’t cuz, sorry!”
In reality, all she’s avoiding is the limelight. She doesn’t want too much attention and that’s unavoidable, seeing how popular they are in school. Not just in their batch but in higher and lower batches as well. Even in college.
There are three bands in SMU, but O2Jam have the most fans, both male and female. They have tons of female fans because, aside from the fact that they’re all good with their respective instruments, they’re irresistibly handsome too. All of them.
But they got tons of male fans too because their former vocalist was a goddess. Unfortunately, the twins had to quit to migrate to the States with the entire family.
“Please cuz! You’re just auditioning anyway. Besides, it’s just us there that time,” clasping his hands, Kip knelt in front of her to beg.
“Please, Partner, at least give it a try,” Kevz urged.
“Please Lem, say yes or I’ll start melting any moment now because of the scorching sun!” Mika added, wiping the sweat off of his forehead.
Lemon looked at all three of them before letting out a long, frustrated sigh. “Fine! I’ll fill this out, when is the audition?” and both Kip and Kevz jumped in excitement.
“Cut off for the submission of forms and screening is at 2 PM, then the audition will start at three in the afternoon, at the auditorium,” Kevz explained.
She nodded at them before walking towards the nearest bench and sitting there. Then she started filling in the form and when she was done, she quickly returned it to Kevz.
While waiting, she tried to think of what song to sing for the audition. Unfortunately, she couldn’t think of anything.
Lemon decided to just play roulette with her playlist later. Whatever is the lucky song the ball will pick, she’ll sing it.
Hopefully, it’s a song she can actually sing, or else, the guys will surely wring her neck.