Tales from a Not-So-Glam TV Star

Band practice

 

TBD

 

 

 

 

 

I STILL can’t believe I’m actually going to be recording my song AND filming a TV show! ALL at the same time! And on Monday, my first day back at school, I start practice sessions with my voice coach.

 

I just hope I’m not too busy to spend time with Brandon. I felt a little weird seeing him at Trevor Chase’s pizza party. It was the first time we’d seen each other since the Sweetheart Dance AND . . . well, you know!

 

We both couldn’t stop blushing, and I had a terminal case of the giggles. But I really wanted to know how he felt about . . . um, the whole thing.

 

So I took a deep breath and just kind of blurted out my question while we were eating pizza. . . .

 

 

 

But, unfortunately, things suddenly got SUPER awkward. . . .

 

 

 

I felt too embarrassed to ask him with that TV camera around, so I totally chickened out.

 

I guess you’re supposed to discuss really personal stuff like that in private. NOT at a pizza party with Trevor Chase, your FIVE best friends, AND a TV crew.

 

On TELEVISION!!!!

 

OMG! How EMBARRASSING would THAT be?!

 

I just hope none of the crazy stuff that’s happened lately will change our friendship.

 

Because I think I might like him even MORE!

 

But get THIS. . . .

 

Before we left, he told me he had something really important he wanted to ask me. But he’d wanted to wait until we had a little more privacy.

 

I was really surprised to hear THAT news!

 

And now my curiosity is KILLING me.

 

I don’t have the slightest idea what it could be.

 

Unless he wants to ask ME exactly what I was going to ask HIM.

 

SQUEEEEE!!

 

This GUY STUFF is so complicated.

 

And FUN!!

 

!!

 

 

 

 

 

SUNDAY, MARCH 9

 

 

JUST GREAT !!

 

I think my mom is downstairs fixing a fancy Sunday dinner. Lately she’s been watching all of those Food Network cooking shows, and now she’s obsessed with the healthy cooking kick.

 

But the sad thing is that her cooking was never that good to begin with.

 

It’s gone from VERY BAD to HORRIBLE!

 

Sorry, Mom !

 

Probably the worst thing about her new meals is the very strong and pungent SMELL.

 

We had homemade pizza almost a week ago, and I STILL can’t get the stench out of my hair.

 

And I’ve washed it THREE times.

 

Come on! HOW do you screw up a PIZZA?!! All you have to do is call the pizza delivery service, place your order, open the front door when you hear the doorbell, and THEN open the pizza box and eat it!!

 

Well, Mom got really creative and made a black bean crust pizza with chicken gizzard, okra, and beet toppings! And NO CHEESE!!!

 

Like, WHO does that?!!

 

It looked like roadkill, and tasted like it too!! But the WORST part was that it SMELLED like roadkill!

 

We needed, like, seventeen of those air-freshener thingies that you see in those silly television commercials. You know, the ones where they take two people and blindfold them and place them in a really foul-smelling, nasty place.

 

However, because they have an air-freshener thingy in the room, the people always insist they smell a spring flower garden with a hint of lavender. . . .

 

 

 

UNSUSPECTING COUPLE, THINKING THEY’RE IN A CLEAN, NICE-SMELLING PLACE

 

But after they take off their blindfolds, they’re always SHOCKED and SURPRISED. . . .

 

 

 

UNSUSPECTING COUPLE, IN SHOCK AFTER THEY REALIZE THEY’RE SITTING ON A COUCH IN A PILE OF MANURE, IN A FLY-INFESTED BARN, NEXT TO TWO SMELLY COWS!!

 

ICK!!! !!

 

Now that I think about it, maybe I’ll just make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for dinner.

 

SORRY, MOM!

 

!!

 

 

 

 

 

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