Stardom Logan Williams - Chapter 24 The Story Of The Bus Ride.

The ‘ Robbery thwarted by a school boy’ video was trending at number 3 in the trending list. It had almost 5 million views now. It had risen from rank 7 to rank 3 in a span of 24 hours. The number of comments were rising rapidly too.

Treadstone23- Wow he is amazing. A teenager showing such a presence of mind is really inspiring.

Jordan43- Wow, the girl looks really pretty. Is she his girlfriend?

Kaylasmith45- This is so sweet. The way he stands infront of her. I need a man like this.

Brandon66- I am joining a martial arts class too now. We need more responsible people like this hero.

Logan’s day was going as it usually went. He started his day with his everyday workout. 50 push ups then 50 pull ups. Then cardio for half an hour. After that he had to study computer science for 2 hrs followed by lunch. Mia would be home by then. He would spend time with her then. After that he would surf the Internet for any potential programming jobs to earn good money. His computer skill had already reached STUDENT grade which placed him at low level professionals. He still hadn’t told his parents about this part time job. Evening would begin with another round of workout followed by spending time on organising songs and scripts.

It had been a day since he had uploaded his 2nd song. He really hoped this song would take of. ‘Right beside you’ was the first ever song he ever wrote in his previous lifetime. He surfed into the comments. The views had already reached 300,000. That was already more than the previous song. People loved the song.

This song had appealed to the younger generation. Many comments were from high school and college going students.

Jared Smith was waiting for his bus. Everyday he would take the same bus at 7:30 a.m even though he reached quite early for his college. He had always been a brilliant student. He was a straight A student. Why would such a studious boy go early to his college and waste his time? The reason? A girl. He didn’t know what her name was? He only knew which bus stop she boarded and which she got off. Jared had a crush on her since a very long time. They rode the bus practically everyday but he hadn’t yet spoken anything substantial other than ‘Excuse me.’ or ‘Thanks’

Everyday, as her stop where she boarded the bus came closer, he would start to feel nervous thinking that may be today he would ask her out. But in the end he wouldn’t, in fear of being rejected.

Today was nothing special. He couldn’t help but feel distressed. Did she even know that he existed? He could see her being busy in her phone. He took out his and started to surf YouTube. He soon found that the channel he had subscribed had posted another video. He had loved the previous video of the song ‘Apologise’. He played the video and started listen to the song. Jared couldn’t help but feel emotional during the song. This song, ‘Right beside you’ felt like it had been written specifically for him. He felt his eyes getting warm.

The song finished playing. He turned to look at his crush, only to find an empty seat. She had already gotten off the bus at her stop. Jared was left depressed. He made a determination in his mind that he would definitely ask her out tomorrow.

The next day with the same routine he rode the bus only to feel very confused whether he should talk to her or not. At her stop he too got off the bus. With all the courage he could summon, Jared too got off the same stop and said,”Excuse me”.

The girl instinctively turned to face him and showed a surprised expression which was followed by her face slightly reddening. She said,”Yes?”

“I think you left this on the bus. Is this your’s?” Jared asked holding out a water bottle. Ofcourse this water bottle was his own. The girl looked amused. Jared felt very depressed when he thought that a straight ‘A’ student like him couldn’t come up with a better reason to talk to a girl. The girl said,”I think you’ve mistaken. This isn’t mine.”

The girl face had a pretty smile with a dimple on the left cheek. Jared was momentarily lost in it. He quickly registered what she had said and embarrassingly said,” Sorry. This is mine. It’s just…”

“Never mind.. sorry to bother you”, he turned back to leave.

“What were you going to say?”

Jared saw the bright smile on the girl’s face. He momentarily remember the song he had just watched and gather up all the courage he had and said,”Hi. I am Jared. We practically ride the same bus everyday. I think you are really pretty and really beautiful. Would you like to go out on a date with me?”

The girl giggled listen to his confession which came out like a well practiced speech and said,”Hi. I am Layla. I have been wondering when were you going to ask me out. Yes I would love to go on a date.”

[Ding]

[Mission completed]

[Mission- Change someone’s life with your song]

[ Reward obtained-1000 points.]

Logan read the notifications as he was reading the comments . He couldn’t help but feel really happy. He had changed someone’s life with his song. What more could a singer want from his song?

Also the more he read the comments the more happy he felt. Most of the comments were positive.

Even the adults had felt the song had renewed their highschool memories. Since this was an original by him he felt extra happy.

Logan’s Iphone gave a notification sound. He opened it, to see that he had received an e-mail. He opened the mail:

{Hello Mr.Logan. This is Starlight Fashion agency. We would like to discuss some prospects for collaboration with you. Kindly respond to this mail with your phone number so that our representative can speak with you. Thank you.}

Woah.. this was interesting thought Logan.