Over It by Sarah Billington

Author:Sarah Billington
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Young Adult, Music, Contemporary
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2013-10-29T00:00:00+00:00

This trip was not going according to plan. It seemed like the second I had gotten to Tallulah Bay, everything had gone to shit. No, not then. It had started at my house when Nikki had first arrived. It was all my fault.

How was I supposed to write a demo for the Debutante Dolls with all this drama going on? And a girl power one, at that. It really was all my fault. What had I been thinking bringing the two of them here?

I sat on the dune in the dark with Hamish and silently watched the waves crash in to shore; the crests sparkled in the light of the moon. Further up the beach, gulls surrounded groups on the picnic benches. Someone threw some bread and the gulls flapped and squawked, all diving for it at once, smacking each other out of the way with their wings.

I closed my eyes and breathed in the cool, fresh breeze after a long, hot, exhausting and painful day.

I winced as I gingerly touched the back of my head where I’d clocked it good when Ty had dropped me. I ran my fingers carefully over the bump; I couldn’t believe he had dropped me, but then again, knowing the sort of luck I had these days, it also felt like just another day in the life of Poppy Douglas.

I squirted some more aloe into my palm and rubbed the cool gel over my shoulders and arms. I was going to be brown tomorrow. I was not going to be painfully burned. Blinking wearily, I pondered my song. What was it going to be about? They wanted girl power, huh? My stomach clenched with nerves; I had less than twenty–four hours to write and record a kick–ass song. To come up with something amazing. I took a few deep breaths and blew them out slowly. It was okay. That was a super–tight deadline but I’d done it before. Hell, I wrote, recorded and uploaded The Kiss Off in maybe two hours and we all know how that turned out.

But back then I didn’t have the pressure of a world famous girl band expecting great things from me. Or other distractions.

As my gaze wandered over the sand, from the bonfire to camping chairs set out facing the ocean, to people dancing to the beat of the bongos, I decided that Mads and Nikki and their competition over Hamish wasn’t very inspiring in regard to girl power.

Someone shrieked and laughed and a couple of girls split away from the dancing crowd. I watched them skip over to the bonfire and I smiled at the sheer freedom they seemed to be experiencing, full of joy and life as they danced and skipped around the fire. At the front of the group was Astrid. Orange light and shadow flickered over her body, lighting up her smiling face.

My pocket chirruped and I checked my cell. Three missed calls from Ty. Oops. There was a text too, which read, ‘Go directly to the jetty.

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