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Lauren

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“Teardrops on my Guitar” by Taylor Swift

“Lauren, look!” My best friend held up her phone and pointed at the screen

“What the hell, Misty? I told you to take that video down last night!” I glared at her and shookat the screen

“I was going to, but you’re getting tons of views! Look at souy thinks you have a voice like an angel!” Misty’s excite to make me furious

“Seriously, you need to take it down!” I grabbed the phone and scrolled through the co fun ofthis!”

“They’re notfun of you They love you” She peeled her phone out of er”

“No” I shook my head back and forth quickly “I don’t want it online”

“Fine…” She er “It’s down”

“Thank you” A relieved smile for stuff like that without asking I was just goofing off and I didn’t want it recorded”

“It was so good! The world deserves to hear hoesoed and dropped her phone in her purse “But it’s gone now, so that’s the end of it”

“Good, we’re going to be late for class” I grabbed my stack of books and motioned for her to follow me

I enjoyed playing music, but I had no desire to perfor so , they had to leave those dreams in the past Their love of music never left them entirely They opened an instrument store when I was in ele success, it allowed us to enjoy a decent middle-class life

Being around so ot to tinker around with anything I found interesting My e When I was a little older, my father showed ood at it I was a big fan of country uitar, so I started learning it onon at the shop Both of my parents were surprised by how quickly I picked it up, and they gave me an old acoustic one to keep at ho

My parents didn’t expect ed it beco retted spending their twenties in dive bars instead of going to college They didn’t want that life for uitar, but none of thes I wrote, like the one Misty recorded, were extremely private I expressed disappoint those es always helped me move on from them

“Uh oh” Misty stared at her phone after we sat down and waited for our Economics professor to show up for class