HARMONY : CHAPTER 1

Harmony ~ Written by Kaelin

It was midnight, and I was still finishing my homework for math class. Yes, it has taken me this long. “Finally finished and ready for bed.” I say, sleepily.  Five hours later, I wake up to shouting. Loud, loud shouting. “Destiny, wake up sis!” shouted my sister Crystal. “You’re going to be late for band practice!” I looked at the time. “Ah geez, band practice starts in an hour!” It takes 30 minutes to drive there, and now came what I call “The morning rush.” I barely made it to band, and luckily, nobody stared. This time, that is. I take my seat next to my best friend Noelle. “Barely made it Desti,” she says in a sarcastic tone. “You aren’t perfect with timing either,” I say. “Okay then missy.” Again, she says sarcastically. At this point class has started and along with ignoring Noelle, I’m feeling like I’m forgetting something. It’s probably nothing. Anyways back to Noelle, she’s my best friend because I’ve been defending her from hate for as long as I can remember. Why? Because she gets bullied for being albino, for her snowy white hair, and the way she pronounces things. Yeah, I don’t understand why she isn’t accepted by others either, but she’s showing more of a “I don’t really care about what others think” vibe now. After band my second class is ...oh no. Math, the class I least enjoy going to every single day. I just can’t seem to comprehend anything, to be honest. Not sure why, but it also feels like the time goes extremely slow just to make the class i’m the worst in last so much longer than it should. Well, it feels like it. After the dreadful time in math, it’s time for.. Foreign Language class. My school has a Foreign Language class, the teachers say it’s because our school has well behaved students, but I’m not so sure about that. I chose to learn French, and for  this class, we use several language learning sites so we get the best experience, as the teachers would say. After school today, I begin wondering what it’s gonna be like in High School, since I’m in 8th grade, but my thoughts are quickly stopped when I see Noelle in front of my house. “Hey Noelle, what are you doing here?” I asked, very confused. “Waiting to show you these!” Noelle pulls out a flyer out of her pocket, it must have been something for the Drama club, something she does after school on Thursdays and Fridays. “What’s it about?” I ask Noelle. “Drama club sign-ups!” she says, excitedly. “Wow, maybe I can join the club this year!” I say, bursting with joy. “Yeah I feel the same way!” Noelle says, handing me the flyer. I walk into my house and without thinking, I step on a rope. Oh no. A bucket of caramel falls onto my head and I know exactly who’s behind this. My twin sister Crystal. See, Crystal and I started a prank wars competition about two or three weeks ago because neither of us wanted to take the blame for breaking the mouse to the computer. Prank wars are what me and my twin sister do whenever we can’t agree on something, won’t take the blame for something, things like that. “If I’m going down I’m taking you down with me!” I say, drenched in caramel. “No way, that’s against prank war rules!” shouts my sister. We’re both 12 by the way. I go upstairs to take a shower and wash off this caramel, luckily I took my bag off before this happened. After the shower I check for homework. “No homework today!” I say as I turn off the television, getting ready to decide what to watch. I decided to watch Riverdale, one of my favorites. I switch to “The CW,” and start watching. I started watching the show about a week ago and immediately, I loved it. Two hours later I hear my mom calling us for dinner. “Girls, dinner’s ready!” I put on my slippers and went downstairs, and saw that my mom made our favorite food, Shrimp Sandwiches, yes! “Thanks for dinner mom, I’m gonna go continue watching Riverdale.” “Can I join?” says my sister. I didn’t really want to let her watch TV with me, since she doesn’t like Riverdale, but I know why she wants to watch TV with me. To prank me. “Sure Crystal!” Good thing I set up a prank in my room just for this moment. Me and my sister walk into the room, she sits on the bed and switches the TV on and puts it on Riverdale. “Hey Crystal, can you grab my 3ds for me?’’ ‘’Sure Sis, where’s it at?“ “Over there“ I say, pointing to the 3ds box.  Crystal walks over to the box and picks it up. Perfect! Crystal falls down and now is soaking wet, covered in water….., at least she was supposed to. “Too slow sis!“ she shouts, dodging the water. Nothing really interesting happened the rest of the day, so let’s just go to tomorrow. Hopefully then there’ll be something to talk about.

`` Saturday; January 12th, 2019``

Waking up again at 5:00. I turn on the TV before going to brush my teeth so I can see the weather. “School will be canceled today due to several thunderstorms in several counties here in Kentucky. “Now to Cocoa, with today’s traffic status,'' said meteorologist Adam. Then I heard something like 1000 chihuahua’s yipping. Then I knew who it was.“No school! No school! No school, yay!`` screeched my sister as she bursted into my room. “Crystal go back into your room, it’s still only 5:00.” Crystal walked into her room right after I told her to, but before she went into her room, she yelled: “You're no fun! You're no fun!” Finally she’s gone. Wait, the news man said no school? How can he be saying that when it’s Saturday. Nevermind that, I’m going back to bed.

`` 10:00 am``

Hold on, hold on, hold on. I go to check my calendar and see...the wrong day, of course. So it’s Tuesday and not Saturday, huh. Well, Imma go get ready for school today, I’ll tell you more about today when I get there.

``4th Period; Foreign Language class.``

“Miss Destiny, care to explain why you're late?”, said my teacher Mrs. Coral. “I thought it was Saturday..so I didn’t realize it was Tuesday until 10:00am.” “Go ahead and take your seat so we can start our lesson.” This is my Foreign Language class, where I told you I was learning French!” Mrs. Coral started today’s lesson with learning French. “Okay students, today we’re going to be learning idioms in French. Repeat after me.” Mrs. Coral wrote “Il pleut des seaux d'eau” on the board.

We had to repeat that phrase. “Okay students, repeat this phrase I’ve written on the board. Il pleut des seaux d'eau.” We all repeated after her. “Il pleut des seaux d'eau.” Mrs. Coral continued on with the lesson, “That was our first idiom. It means-” I already knew what it meant. “-It’s raining Cats and Dogs, which means that a storm is happening, and it’s a very heavy storm.” Knew it. So foreign language class continued on and we continued to learn idioms in French. Suddenly, I got a notification on my phone. I screamed. “Oh my god yes! I am so excited!” Oops, that was in front of the class. I’m so excited because I got into the Drama Club! I have to text Noelle right now!

``3:00 PM``

I decided I’ll tell Noelle on the bus, since we ride the same bus. I still text her before dismissal. After telling Noelle about the important news, somebody comes running up to me.  “Destiny you gotta run, she’s crazy!” What could that mean? The answer, comes running up to me and screams in my face. Rest in Peace my ears. “EEEEEEK! You finally got into the Drama club! I think, I think I’m gonna scream again.” I covered my ears, while the entire building shook. It sounded like a million chihuahuas yelling. “DESTINY GOT INTO THE DRAMA CLUB! COME SEE HER, COME SEE HER! EEEEEEEK!” I immediately start running to the buses and ride home, without Noelle even noticing. I then remember my parents told me we were going to the zoo to celebrate. Everybody is so shocked by this because I don’t sing, dance, or even act a lot. Not even in the shower.

Writers note: Yes, yes she does sing in the shower.

My family and I are now headed to the zoo, where I believe they’re gonna celebrate me, and getting into the Drama Club. Little did I know, a certain hyper-active sister of mine was going to ruin everything. I tried to ignore her the whole time we were at the zoo, and I mean every, little, thing. Her tugging on my clothes, screaming right in my ear, and being so close. It was the worst. Luckily, this all came to an end. “Crystal Luis Evergreen! We brought you here because we wanted to celebrate your sister getting into the Drama Club, and wanted to spend time with both of you! It seems you can’t handle that!”, said my mom, quietly but still mad. “I can handle it, I’m just happy to be here! Let me stay momma please! I-I can be quiet!”, argued my sister. The people at the zoo stared, and my friends said “I feel bad. Maybe y'all should’ve gone somewhere else beforehand.” I agreed. My mom was not happy, whatsoever. “Listen here, you’ve been causing a ruckus and screaming in everybodies ears. I am taking you home right now.”, said my mom. “Zero, honey, watch over Destiny and her friends while I take Crystal home.” My sister wasn’t having it. She screamed and threw a tantrum as my mom took her home. I couldn’t be happier, because now I can enjoy the rest of the day with my friends. My dad took us to the Aquarium, and I got a phone call. The number was 856-295-DRAMA. I picked it up. “Is this Destiny Evergreen?” I answered with yes, and couldn’t be more happier for what the lady said next. “Welcome to the Drama Club! Club meetings will be Wednesdays and Fridays, right after school!”, I replied. “Okay mi-” and she interrupted. “See you there, on the stage!” And she hung up. Noelle stared at me and got so close in my face, I couldn’t breathe. “Did I just hear what I think I heard? We get to go to meetings together now! How fun!” I wish I could say something, but I feel uncomfortable with her all in my face that I just say, “Y-Yeah. Tons of fun!”

“5:00, an hour later.”

Exactly 44 minutes after being at the aquarium, my dad is driving each of us to our houses. I shout ¨Goodbye!¨ to all my friends and when I finally reach my house, I´m greeted with an extremely angry sister. I could tell she was angry because she had tear marks on her face, her face was bright red like a tomato, and she kept mumbling ¨I hate you, ´cuz you didn't help me!¨. I walked to my bedroom to make sure Crystal didn't steal anything, and then went to take a shower. I then changed into my Boku No Hero Academia hoodie, which resembled Ochaco´s hero outfit, and joined my friends on Splatoon (The first one by the way), and made a chat party on my phone for them to join. After they joined that, we started our Club meeting. It went well, so I will see you tomorrow.

The next day, April 1st, but it's midnight.

(Editor's note: This part is told from Noelle´s point of view.)

A couple of hours later, I make it to school, only to have everybody standing right in front of me. I hear Destiny yell ¨1, 2, 3!!¨ I've never screamed louder in my life. ¨Happ-¨, goes the crowd. I stop them right there. ¨HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MEEE!¨

Everybody stares in silence. Best start to my birthday ever.  We all walk to the cafeteria, where my next big surprise is waiting for me. On one of the tables, Is a big strawberry sponge cake, with the words ¨Happy 12th birthday Noelle¨ written on it in sprinkles. The rainbow kind too. I also see the Drama Club Teacher standing next to it, so I walk up to her and ask ¨Miss Sky? What are you doing here? I thought you were planning for the next Drama Club meeting tomorrow?¨ She replies to my question with, ¨Well, I wouldn't miss the birthday of my favorite drama club member!¨ I can't express how happy I was to see her! She's like, the best teacher in the school! All my friends and I gather around the 4 layer cake, cut into it, and walk to our first classes eating cake. The rest of the day went by pretty quickly, but it had to be the best birthday I've had yet. While walking home, I could hear Destiny running behind me, obviously out of breath. ¨Noelle, how did you enjoy the party I threw for you?¨ I told her, ¨It was the best! Especially the part when I got to see Miss Sky. I´ll see you tomorrow Desi, bye!¨ ¨Bye Noelle!¨ We both part ways and continue to walk home. 

~The story is now back on Destiny´s point of view.~

Noelle´s birthday was fun, but today is my first Drama Club meeting. I didn't want to disturb my sleeping parents, or my sister, so I screamed at the top of my lungs in my pillow. ¨EEEEEEK!¨ My sister just so happened to hear this, and wasn't happy about it. She yelled at me through the walls ¨Destiny keep it down! Some of us are trying to sleep since they don't have to get up until an hour later!¨ I didn't respond, but got ready for my day, had breakfast, and got on the bus with Noelle. A couple minutes later we made it to school, and I was way too excited for our meeting after school that I wanted to  scream so badly! Noelle knows how loud I scream, so she kicked me in the shin before I screamed. She can fight, and it kinda hurts, but it was okay.  

[TIME SKIP]

After school, Noelle dragged me to the buses, and we got on our bus, and I still felt the pain of that kick in the shin. A few minutes later, Noelle gets off the bus, and so do I. We walk to our separate houses, and disaster strikes. You may be wondering, that after all the fun I had, that something this bad would happen. Lemme just tell you what happened.