Trashed by Meredith Costain

Author:Meredith Costain
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hardie Grant Egmont
Published: 2011-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

tuesday lunchtime

Paige and I are just settling ourselves on our bench, hiking up our summer uniforms for a bit of a leg-tanning session, when Tai Sumner stops in front of us. Thinking it’s going to be Paige he wants to talk to, I prepare to look away. But his words make me jump.

‘Hey, Alysha, isn’t it? How’s it going?’

Huh? Tai Sumner just spoke to me. Me! Beside me, Paige stiffens. She must be wondering why Tai’s said hi to me and not her. And why he knows my name. How does he know my name?

I take a deep breath. Be cool, I tell myself. You can do this.

‘Umm … good?’

Was that the right answer?

Tai sticks his hands in his pockets. ‘I saw your name on the audition sheet for that play Mr C’s putting on. You know. Drac?’

‘Uh-huh,’ I say. ‘Yeah. I wrote it there yesterday.’ ‘And mine,’ Paige butts in. ‘My name was there too.’

Tai nods at her, then sits down on the bench beside me.

‘So,’ he continues. ‘You planning on going for a singing role? Cos I remember you from the Starsearch comp.’

‘You do?’ I say.

‘Sure. I was helping Mr C with it. Organising the order the acts went in. Letting people know when they were due on stage. That kind of stuff. What was the name of your band again? Pink Elf, or something?’

‘Pink Inc.,’ I correct him.

‘Oh yeah, that’s right,’ Tai says. ‘Sorry. I stuffed it up that day too, didn’t I? I remember you got really jacked off with me.’

I think back to that day in first term when the other Pink girls and I entered the Starsearch competition. A guy with a clipboard had come around to let us know our band was on next. I didn’t really take much notice of him at the time. There was major drama going on between Lexi and Mia, and everyone was sniping at each other. So Clipboard Guy was actually Tai Sumner, the guy we’ve all spent the last few weeks watching play soccer? The guy Paige has one of her ‘exclusive’ crushes on? That is so weird!

We sit there blinking at each other for a bit. Then Tai starts up again.

‘Anyway, you were all great. Are your friends trying out for this too?’

‘Sure are,’ Paige chimes in. ‘Me. And Jayde of course. And Bella.’

Tai looks at Paige like she’s an annoying mosquito he wants to swat, then turns back to me.

‘I meant your other friends,’ he says. ‘The ones who were in the band with you.’

‘Oh,’ I say, flustered. Paige is so not going to be happy with me. But what can I do? I can’t help it if he’d rather talk to me than her. ‘Um, Lexi is. I don’t know about the others.’

Paige moves along the bench towards us. ‘So how come you want to know? Does this mean you and Zac are going to be trying out too?’

Tai laughs. ‘Zac? I don’t think so. Musicals aren’t really his thing. And I’m not planning on actually being in the play.

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