Rock That Frock! by Coleen McLoughlin

Author:Coleen McLoughlin [McLoughlin, Coleen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction
ISBN: 9780007363766
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Six

It was one o’clock on Monday afternoon, and we were sat in practice room three, watching the door like hawks.

“Ben definitely bought it?” Mel checked with Lucy for about the millionth time.

“Totally,” Lucy grinned. “He blew me off at first like we thought he would. And then when I mentioned Jasmine, he went all quiet for a minute before bombing me with loads of questions about her.”

“Don’t tell me,” I said with a sigh. “He asked what she’d said about him, right?”

“Yeah,” Lucy giggled. “So I laid it on a bit thick, saying that she really wanted to see him.”

“So,” said Mel briskly, “now all we have to do is wait for them to turn up.”

We watched the door for another five minutes. Then ten. Then…

“Hi,” Ben said, glancing around the room. He was obviously looking for Jasmine. “Am I late?”

“Hi!” I squeaked, jumping to my feet. Stay cool, Coleen…

“So,” Ben said, settling down at the drums and clattering his fingers against the cymbals. “Is Jasmine coming then, or what?”

“She said she might be a bit late,” Mel improvised desperately. The clock was creeping towards quarter past, and there was still no sign of Jasmine Harris.

We all sat there like lemons for another couple of minutes. Lucy kept smiling at Ben like a loon, desperate to keep him in the room for a little bit longer. Panicky thoughts ran through my head. Where was Jasmine? What if she wasn’t coming? She never said for certain that she’d do it. What if she hadn’t remembered which practice room or what time? What if…

Jasmine stood in the doorway, her guitar slung over her shoulder. Her hair gleamed like she’d polished it, and she’d lashed on a load of mascara. I braced myself for the ecstatic reunion of the star-crossed lovers. But as Ben started off his seat like a rabbit, Jasmine glared him down.

“You never said he’d be coming,” she said coldly, tossing her head in Ben’s direction as she put down her guitar and smoothed back her glossy ponytail. Like it needed smoothing – not!

Ben looked shocked as we all gaped at this outright lie. Wasn’t she here because Ben was?

“Let’s not worry about that,” Mel said, recovering first. “Great to see everyone. Now, as your band manager…”

Jasmine snorted and flipped open her guitar case. It looked like she was determined to make this difficult. I shot a sneaky glance at Ben to see how he was taking it. He was gazing over the cymbals at Jasmine like a whipped puppy.

“As your band manager,” Mel struggled on bravely, “I’d like to explain how we’re going to do this. We’ll rehearse twice a week for the next three weeks, Mondays and Fridays. We need to learn the song as soon as we can, yeah?” She looked at me. “Coleen? Sing it so Ben and Jasmine can hear it, will you? You too, Lucy.”

I felt a blush stealing over my cheeks as Ben and Jasmine both looked at me. Well, Jasmine looked at me while Ben looked at Jasmine.

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