Limelight Boy's Broken Girl
Chapter Two: I Wanna Be Your Melody
Demi’s POV
I wake up once again but on a sunshiney day, the birds are chirping and the sounds of nothingness fill my broken, trainwreck home, which is unusually since Madison is screaming by this time but of course she wouldn’t, she’s six feet underground with the dead remains of my past.
I quickly find a Pokemon tee-shirt that I’ll be sure to get made fun of for but wear it anyway because it’s cute and the only clean thing in my wardrobe, gotta ask Miranda if
I can wash my clothing again at her place since we don’t even own a washer or dryer, not that dad would ever buy one, too selfish and too “expensive” as he would say.
“Demi!” The horrid man yells from below, voice making me wince at the sound.
I don’t respond, knowing he wouldn’t want to hear my voice, just making me come down.
Swiftly, I dash down the stairs to see him with a strange looking woman who I’ve never seen before but with a light toned but glowing face and a smile that could light up the sky. So strange for someone to go out with a monster like my father.
She’s too beautiful for him, so innocent looking, like she couldn’t hurt a single fly. A face that looks similar to my once living mother.
With brunette and blonde toned hair just like my mom’s, she could be an exact replica. Green eyes like that could never be forgotten, knowing they’ll be etched into my mind forever, eyes I wouldn’t mind.
But looks can be deceiving, so who is this strange looking, mom identical woman in my living room with the monster that holds her delicate hand?
“Demi, I know you have to go to school but I want you to meet my girlfriend, Cassadee.” He says with a true smile, happiness glowing within him but I’m cautious anyway.
“Hi Demi, I want to get to know you so how about I pick you up early from school today? We can do girl things, just us okay?” She says, joy with every single word she put into her sentence. I could like this girl, she already seems so kind and caring.
“Um, well okay? What time would you pick me up?” I ask her.
“I was thinking around eleven, and I already asked your father so you don’t have to worry about anything!” Cassadee tells me, pep in voice.
“Oh, okay. Thanks Cassadee!” I say, a small smile forming on my face for the first time in a long time.
“Don’t worry hun, oh and you can call me Cass if you like. Oh I need to stop holding you up, go to school!” She says, trying to be stern but laughing too much.
I walk out the door and then meet up with Miranda’s car and telling her what happened this morning.
“So wait, you wake up and your dad calls for you, then a girl is with him in the living room and says that you two will go shopping after she pulls you out of school today?” Miranda asks me.
“Yeah, I can’t wait actually!” I say, excitement in my voice.
“Looks like your life is turning for you, and remember, Alex is gonna ask a girl out today. Maybe it'll be you?”
“I don’t want to get my hopes up that high, I mean just because one thing good happened doesn’t mean it won’t be a lie. I just had to burry my sister in the backyard last night.” I tell my best friend.
“You never know, Dems. You just never know.” She says, pulling into the school parking lot and walking into the school, hearing all the rumors of who Mr. Popular, Alexander William Gaskarth will ask out.
“He’s going to ask me!” A blonde haired girl named Hilarette says with all of her clones around her as she is one of the popular girls of Dulaney.
“Of course he would Hilarette! You are the prettiest girl in the school!” Her clone,
Bridgette says to her, hot pink mini skirt moving as she shakes her butt while wearing sequined gold pumps and a white crop top so cropped that it shouldn’t even be called clothing.
“Ooh look, here he comes!” People whisper as I open my locker to put my stuff in.
I hear shocked gasps as the man himself comes walking by.
“Demi?” The voice says to what I think is me.
I turn around and there he is, the one and only Alex Gaskarth standing before me.
“Alex?” I say in shock, gazing into the caramel brown eyes he has.
“I-” He says but gets cut off by the sounds of the bell ringing for homeroom.
Before I can speak, Miranda grabs my hand and yanks me away from my crush, not knowing what the boy wanted to tell me.
“I’ll ask you in Math!” He yells as Jack Barakat does what Miranda does to me.
We go to homeroom and all I can think is what Alex wanted to ask me, ignoring everything that was being done in homeroom.
Forever finally comes and that's when I sit in math class, staring at the door and waiting for Mr. Perfect to walk in.
He doesn’t come in by the time Mr. Butler starts the class but by mid lesson, a guitar playing Your Melody comes from outside the door and then my math teacher goes out to the guitarist outside the door, leaving the whole class and I to wonder what is going on.
Alex’s POV
“Mr. Butler, is it a go?” I ask Demi’s math teacher with my acoustic guitar strumming Your Melody by Dave Days as after school yesterday I asked her best friend Miranda Miller what her favorite love song was and getting her permission to ask the girl of my dreams out.
“Go get her limelight boy, she’s a broken girl who needs Prince Charming to save her from her evil step sisters. I did it when I was asking for Collette to go out with me, now it’s your turn.” He says, using references from Cinderella and his own marriage.
You may wonder how I know Mr. Butler’s wife, but we’re neighbors and my parents have been friends with him forever.
He tells me to call him Mr. Butler at school and anywhere else I can call him Uncle Shay, not wanting students to wonder anything.
Shay walks back into his classroom and talks to the class before I come in.
“Class, be quiet, we have a guest coming in right now.” He tells the students and gives me a thumbs up as a signal to come in, playing the notes Always as the bearded teacher opens the door for me.
‘She's got her headphones on, singing to every song.The boys in the band she likes Sing her sleep every night.” I sing to brunette girl in the Pokemon top, fitting in all the right ways on her small, fragile body that I’ll repair eventually.
“Who’s he singing to?” I hear a whisper from someone in the class but continue playing.
“Well, I've got my headphones on, I try to write the perfect song.With my words inside your head, I could sing you to sleep every night.” I continue singing, all the girls mesmerized by my voice.
“Every time she falls asleep. Every time she falls asleep, she'll hear. Every time she falls asleep. Every time she falls asleep, she'll hear.” My voice carries on with the song as play the chords of love.
“I wanna be your melody, I wanna be the song stuck in your head.I wanna be your melody, I wanna sing you to sleep.” She sings, making everyone look behind and glare at the innocent girl in the Pokemon shirt
“I wanna be your everything, I wanna be your melody. Looking all around, you were right in front of me. Baby, believe me I could sing you to sleep every night. Every time she falls asleep. Every time she falls asleep, she'll hear. Every time she falls asleep. Every time she falls asleep, she'll hear.
I wanna be your melody, I wanna be the song stuck in your head I wanna be your melody, I wanna sing you to sleep.” I continue to sing as she stops, glares more likely getting to her as she tells that no one wants her to keep on doing it.
“I wanna be, I, I wanna be, I wanna be your melody. I wanna be, I, I wanna be. I wanna be your melody.
Right before she falls asleep. Right before she falls asleep, she'll hear. Right before she falls asleep. Right before she falls asleep, she'll hear. I wanna be your melody,I wanna be the song, I wanna be your melody, I wanna be the song stuck in your head.I wanna be your melody, I wanna sing you to sleep” I finish up the song, girls all in whoa and one in particular walking up and pecking me on the cheek.
“Cute song babe, it was for me wasn’t it?” Seductive Arin says to me, but I shove her away to walk towards the broken girl who sits next to a pink and orange haired girl in the back of the room.
“Will you be my melody?” I ask Demi, hugging me tightly with arms wrapped around my neck.
“I’ve always dreamed of being your melody.” She whispers over my shoulder, then pulling away from the hug to look me in the eyes.
“Alex, why would you date Demi?” Katherine Stallone shrieks in her stilettos.
“Because she doesn’t want me for my body, she wants me for love and protection that I’ll always give her no matter what when ever she needs it.” I say honestly, then hearing the PA go off.
“Can I please have Demi Lovato? She’ll be leaving.” The office attendant calls over the speaker.
“Aww but I just got my little melody.” I say sadly as Demi grabs her bag to leave class.
“I bet Cassadee won’t mind if you come, sure it was going to be girl time, but let’s face it Gaskarth, you have some girl in you.” She says sarcastically and I wave Mr. Butler off, letting him know I’ll be going with Demi.
“Mr. Gaskarth, where do you think you’re going?” Shay tries to say sternly.
“With Demi. Where does it look like?” I say, going along with his plan.
“I’ll have to call your parents, you do know that.” He says, knowing he won’t actually tell them.
“Yeah, have fun with that. Have a good weekend!” I yell before slamming the door behind me.
“How the hell are you going to get away with that?” My brunette love asks me as we walk down the cleared hall.
“Easy, Mr. Butler is my Uncle.” I say like it’s no big deal.
“You know I’ve wanted you to ask me to go out with you for so long right?” She says,
changing the subject.
“And I finally did, now come on. Let’s go get mani-pedis and our hair done!” I say, skipping all the way to the office.
“Cass?” I ask as I get to the office before Demi.
“Lex?” Cassadee asks, looking at me.
“He’s gone right?”
“Locked in a jail cell and papers signed to me, yeah she’s good.” She tells me as Demi walks in.
“Ready to go darling?” The brunette-blonde asks my girlfriend.
“Yeah, oh Cass, this is Alex, my boyfriend.” Demi tells Cassadee.
“I know, let’s just say I have some good news for you in the car.” Cassadee says as we walk out the school doors and to her silver Honda Accord.
We get in and start driving, Cassadee in the drivers seat and Demi and I in the back, laced hands locked between each other.
“So you’re wondering how I know Alex don’t you?” Cass asks, eyeing at the perfect girl in the rearview mirror.
“Yeah, how?” She asks innocently.
“We met at a concert a few weeks ago. Ever heard of Hey Monday?”
“No, who’s in it?”
“Myself and my best friends, I was on stage and then I had a meet and greet afterwards. Alex asked me if I had a boyfriend, I told him no and hooked me up with just who happened to be your dad. He told me you were being abused from what he saw, then you met me this morning so that I could see you. I saw the carpet all covered with blood, though your dad said it was just red wine, I knew it wasn’t. The smell of wine doesn’t smell like blood that’s for sure. So then when you were at school I called the cops, got Patrick arrested and some papers signed to make you my daughter as Alex thought that I’d be a great mom for you as I’m just a bit older than you and here we are now!” Cass says to her, spunk within her voice.
“So I’m the daughter of a rockstar?” Demi asks in shock.
“You are Demi Pope now aren’t you?”
“I guess I am aren’t I?”
“And in a few years you can be Demi Gaskarth.” I whisper into her ear, making her giggle as we park in front of a huge white, non rundown house.
“This is where I’ll be living for now on?” The Pokemon shirt girl says in more of a statement and not a question.
“You see the balcony on the top floor?”
Demi nods.
“That’s your room when we’re not on tour and we live in bunks.”
“I can go on tour with you? Alex, pinch me and tell me this is a dream because dreams don’t come true like this!”
“Dreams do come true, you just need to make them happen, or sometimes you just need to wait my darling.” I tell her as we walk out to the huge house, Demi’s dreams coming true one by one, all because of me.
Demi’s POV
This can’t be happening, I’m actually happy and it’s all because of Mr. Alexander Gaskarth, maybe dreams do come true and maybe everything happens in time, you just need to wait.
I think everything is perfect right now, all I needed was hope and Alex is giving me
that, I guess you really have to fall before you can fly, crawl before you walk and be real before shoving yourself in a hopeless filled world.
I found the melody I belong to, it just so happens that I’m with the limelight boy and I’m his brok- correction, unbroken girl.
I wake up once again but on a sunshiney day, the birds are chirping and the sounds of nothingness fill my broken, trainwreck home, which is unusually since Madison is screaming by this time but of course she wouldn’t, she’s six feet underground with the dead remains of my past.
I quickly find a Pokemon tee-shirt that I’ll be sure to get made fun of for but wear it anyway because it’s cute and the only clean thing in my wardrobe, gotta ask Miranda if
I can wash my clothing again at her place since we don’t even own a washer or dryer, not that dad would ever buy one, too selfish and too “expensive” as he would say.
“Demi!” The horrid man yells from below, voice making me wince at the sound.
I don’t respond, knowing he wouldn’t want to hear my voice, just making me come down.
Swiftly, I dash down the stairs to see him with a strange looking woman who I’ve never seen before but with a light toned but glowing face and a smile that could light up the sky. So strange for someone to go out with a monster like my father.
She’s too beautiful for him, so innocent looking, like she couldn’t hurt a single fly. A face that looks similar to my once living mother.
With brunette and blonde toned hair just like my mom’s, she could be an exact replica. Green eyes like that could never be forgotten, knowing they’ll be etched into my mind forever, eyes I wouldn’t mind.
But looks can be deceiving, so who is this strange looking, mom identical woman in my living room with the monster that holds her delicate hand?
“Demi, I know you have to go to school but I want you to meet my girlfriend, Cassadee.” He says with a true smile, happiness glowing within him but I’m cautious anyway.
“Hi Demi, I want to get to know you so how about I pick you up early from school today? We can do girl things, just us okay?” She says, joy with every single word she put into her sentence. I could like this girl, she already seems so kind and caring.
“Um, well okay? What time would you pick me up?” I ask her.
“I was thinking around eleven, and I already asked your father so you don’t have to worry about anything!” Cassadee tells me, pep in voice.
“Oh, okay. Thanks Cassadee!” I say, a small smile forming on my face for the first time in a long time.
“Don’t worry hun, oh and you can call me Cass if you like. Oh I need to stop holding you up, go to school!” She says, trying to be stern but laughing too much.
I walk out the door and then meet up with Miranda’s car and telling her what happened this morning.
“So wait, you wake up and your dad calls for you, then a girl is with him in the living room and says that you two will go shopping after she pulls you out of school today?” Miranda asks me.
“Yeah, I can’t wait actually!” I say, excitement in my voice.
“Looks like your life is turning for you, and remember, Alex is gonna ask a girl out today. Maybe it'll be you?”
“I don’t want to get my hopes up that high, I mean just because one thing good happened doesn’t mean it won’t be a lie. I just had to burry my sister in the backyard last night.” I tell my best friend.
“You never know, Dems. You just never know.” She says, pulling into the school parking lot and walking into the school, hearing all the rumors of who Mr. Popular, Alexander William Gaskarth will ask out.
“He’s going to ask me!” A blonde haired girl named Hilarette says with all of her clones around her as she is one of the popular girls of Dulaney.
“Of course he would Hilarette! You are the prettiest girl in the school!” Her clone,
Bridgette says to her, hot pink mini skirt moving as she shakes her butt while wearing sequined gold pumps and a white crop top so cropped that it shouldn’t even be called clothing.
“Ooh look, here he comes!” People whisper as I open my locker to put my stuff in.
I hear shocked gasps as the man himself comes walking by.
“Demi?” The voice says to what I think is me.
I turn around and there he is, the one and only Alex Gaskarth standing before me.
“Alex?” I say in shock, gazing into the caramel brown eyes he has.
“I-” He says but gets cut off by the sounds of the bell ringing for homeroom.
Before I can speak, Miranda grabs my hand and yanks me away from my crush, not knowing what the boy wanted to tell me.
“I’ll ask you in Math!” He yells as Jack Barakat does what Miranda does to me.
We go to homeroom and all I can think is what Alex wanted to ask me, ignoring everything that was being done in homeroom.
Forever finally comes and that's when I sit in math class, staring at the door and waiting for Mr. Perfect to walk in.
He doesn’t come in by the time Mr. Butler starts the class but by mid lesson, a guitar playing Your Melody comes from outside the door and then my math teacher goes out to the guitarist outside the door, leaving the whole class and I to wonder what is going on.
Alex’s POV
“Mr. Butler, is it a go?” I ask Demi’s math teacher with my acoustic guitar strumming Your Melody by Dave Days as after school yesterday I asked her best friend Miranda Miller what her favorite love song was and getting her permission to ask the girl of my dreams out.
“Go get her limelight boy, she’s a broken girl who needs Prince Charming to save her from her evil step sisters. I did it when I was asking for Collette to go out with me, now it’s your turn.” He says, using references from Cinderella and his own marriage.
You may wonder how I know Mr. Butler’s wife, but we’re neighbors and my parents have been friends with him forever.
He tells me to call him Mr. Butler at school and anywhere else I can call him Uncle Shay, not wanting students to wonder anything.
Shay walks back into his classroom and talks to the class before I come in.
“Class, be quiet, we have a guest coming in right now.” He tells the students and gives me a thumbs up as a signal to come in, playing the notes Always as the bearded teacher opens the door for me.
‘She's got her headphones on, singing to every song.The boys in the band she likes Sing her sleep every night.” I sing to brunette girl in the Pokemon top, fitting in all the right ways on her small, fragile body that I’ll repair eventually.
“Who’s he singing to?” I hear a whisper from someone in the class but continue playing.
“Well, I've got my headphones on, I try to write the perfect song.With my words inside your head, I could sing you to sleep every night.” I continue singing, all the girls mesmerized by my voice.
“Every time she falls asleep. Every time she falls asleep, she'll hear. Every time she falls asleep. Every time she falls asleep, she'll hear.” My voice carries on with the song as play the chords of love.
“I wanna be your melody, I wanna be the song stuck in your head.I wanna be your melody, I wanna sing you to sleep.” She sings, making everyone look behind and glare at the innocent girl in the Pokemon shirt
“I wanna be your everything, I wanna be your melody. Looking all around, you were right in front of me. Baby, believe me I could sing you to sleep every night. Every time she falls asleep. Every time she falls asleep, she'll hear. Every time she falls asleep. Every time she falls asleep, she'll hear.
I wanna be your melody, I wanna be the song stuck in your head I wanna be your melody, I wanna sing you to sleep.” I continue to sing as she stops, glares more likely getting to her as she tells that no one wants her to keep on doing it.
“I wanna be, I, I wanna be, I wanna be your melody. I wanna be, I, I wanna be. I wanna be your melody.
Right before she falls asleep. Right before she falls asleep, she'll hear. Right before she falls asleep. Right before she falls asleep, she'll hear. I wanna be your melody,I wanna be the song, I wanna be your melody, I wanna be the song stuck in your head.I wanna be your melody, I wanna sing you to sleep” I finish up the song, girls all in whoa and one in particular walking up and pecking me on the cheek.
“Cute song babe, it was for me wasn’t it?” Seductive Arin says to me, but I shove her away to walk towards the broken girl who sits next to a pink and orange haired girl in the back of the room.
“Will you be my melody?” I ask Demi, hugging me tightly with arms wrapped around my neck.
“I’ve always dreamed of being your melody.” She whispers over my shoulder, then pulling away from the hug to look me in the eyes.
“Alex, why would you date Demi?” Katherine Stallone shrieks in her stilettos.
“Because she doesn’t want me for my body, she wants me for love and protection that I’ll always give her no matter what when ever she needs it.” I say honestly, then hearing the PA go off.
“Can I please have Demi Lovato? She’ll be leaving.” The office attendant calls over the speaker.
“Aww but I just got my little melody.” I say sadly as Demi grabs her bag to leave class.
“I bet Cassadee won’t mind if you come, sure it was going to be girl time, but let’s face it Gaskarth, you have some girl in you.” She says sarcastically and I wave Mr. Butler off, letting him know I’ll be going with Demi.
“Mr. Gaskarth, where do you think you’re going?” Shay tries to say sternly.
“With Demi. Where does it look like?” I say, going along with his plan.
“I’ll have to call your parents, you do know that.” He says, knowing he won’t actually tell them.
“Yeah, have fun with that. Have a good weekend!” I yell before slamming the door behind me.
“How the hell are you going to get away with that?” My brunette love asks me as we walk down the cleared hall.
“Easy, Mr. Butler is my Uncle.” I say like it’s no big deal.
“You know I’ve wanted you to ask me to go out with you for so long right?” She says,
changing the subject.
“And I finally did, now come on. Let’s go get mani-pedis and our hair done!” I say, skipping all the way to the office.
“Cass?” I ask as I get to the office before Demi.
“Lex?” Cassadee asks, looking at me.
“He’s gone right?”
“Locked in a jail cell and papers signed to me, yeah she’s good.” She tells me as Demi walks in.
“Ready to go darling?” The brunette-blonde asks my girlfriend.
“Yeah, oh Cass, this is Alex, my boyfriend.” Demi tells Cassadee.
“I know, let’s just say I have some good news for you in the car.” Cassadee says as we walk out the school doors and to her silver Honda Accord.
We get in and start driving, Cassadee in the drivers seat and Demi and I in the back, laced hands locked between each other.
“So you’re wondering how I know Alex don’t you?” Cass asks, eyeing at the perfect girl in the rearview mirror.
“Yeah, how?” She asks innocently.
“We met at a concert a few weeks ago. Ever heard of Hey Monday?”
“No, who’s in it?”
“Myself and my best friends, I was on stage and then I had a meet and greet afterwards. Alex asked me if I had a boyfriend, I told him no and hooked me up with just who happened to be your dad. He told me you were being abused from what he saw, then you met me this morning so that I could see you. I saw the carpet all covered with blood, though your dad said it was just red wine, I knew it wasn’t. The smell of wine doesn’t smell like blood that’s for sure. So then when you were at school I called the cops, got Patrick arrested and some papers signed to make you my daughter as Alex thought that I’d be a great mom for you as I’m just a bit older than you and here we are now!” Cass says to her, spunk within her voice.
“So I’m the daughter of a rockstar?” Demi asks in shock.
“You are Demi Pope now aren’t you?”
“I guess I am aren’t I?”
“And in a few years you can be Demi Gaskarth.” I whisper into her ear, making her giggle as we park in front of a huge white, non rundown house.
“This is where I’ll be living for now on?” The Pokemon shirt girl says in more of a statement and not a question.
“You see the balcony on the top floor?”
Demi nods.
“That’s your room when we’re not on tour and we live in bunks.”
“I can go on tour with you? Alex, pinch me and tell me this is a dream because dreams don’t come true like this!”
“Dreams do come true, you just need to make them happen, or sometimes you just need to wait my darling.” I tell her as we walk out to the huge house, Demi’s dreams coming true one by one, all because of me.
Demi’s POV
This can’t be happening, I’m actually happy and it’s all because of Mr. Alexander Gaskarth, maybe dreams do come true and maybe everything happens in time, you just need to wait.
I think everything is perfect right now, all I needed was hope and Alex is giving me
that, I guess you really have to fall before you can fly, crawl before you walk and be real before shoving yourself in a hopeless filled world.
I found the melody I belong to, it just so happens that I’m with the limelight boy and I’m his brok- correction, unbroken girl.
Notes
Hey everyone, I'm back after a long hiatus, but I'm back!I'm sorry it took so long but writers block sucks ass at sometimes okay?
Yes this is the end but I didn't want to continue it any longer so why not end it happily?
The song Alex sings is called Your Melody by Dave Days feat Jake Broido which you can see HERE!
I recommend it, I'm hooked on the song now!
Till darkness completes us,
Sarah's Butterflies
Thanks!
I'll try to write again soon, life is being hectic for me at the moment with all of these things I need to do.
10/19/13