Chapter 145 - Ch. 145 True Friend

Letti felt a strange feeling filled her heart when she heard the soft voice that came out of Jacob's mouth.

"That's right. How dare they bully our angelic singer! Tell us who corner you. We will pay back many times over."

"You guys. Replying multiple times won't solve the problem." Kaylee massaged her temple as if she was a mother who had to make sure her children behaved. "But what Jack said is true. You are our member now. We will not allow anyone to oppress our friends."

Letti smiled faintly, looking at Kaylee, but her mind was more focused on feeling the grip on her wrist. She glanced back at Jacob, but because she thought the young man's gaze was still lingering on her face, Letti decided to lower her sight.

"Uhm… when are you going to let go of my hand?" Letti whispered very quietly as she pulled her hand back.

Jacob realized his mistake and quickly opened his grip and withdrew his hand. "Oh, I'm sorry. Let's go," summoned Jacob while climbing the stage, which his friends immediately followed.

When Letti heard Nick's accurate guess about her being the target of Ayana's bullying, Letti felt her heart shattered. She no longer had the mood to sing on stage and wanted to lock herself in her cottage room quickly.

Fortunately, Ayana and her gang did not join this music camp program because she knew Ayana's family was on vacation in Asia. That's why Letti could be herself in this program with several friends like Selena and others. They could spend time together freely without worrying about Ayana's surveillance and threats.

Unfortunately, because the groupings were divided based on the music genre, Letti couldn't be with her friends as long as she wants and often spends time with her band.

Letti immensely enjoyed her time with Jacob, Nick, and others. Even though she was the only girl in the group, they didn't make fun of her and respected her. They even admired her voice when she sang and didn't criticize her harshly.

Plus, the boys seem to keep their attitude and tried their best not to make her feel uncomfortable. But, as a result, they couldn't be themselves, and Letti realized it.

But tonight… for the first time, she saw Jacob and Fritz acting like kids and bickered each other while Adam scolded them. Not to mention, they all still treat her the same even though they know she's not as popular as them and has almost no real friends.

On the contrary, they wanted to defend her, and for the first time, Letti felt she finally had a friend… a true friend.

She didn't regret accepting Nick's invitation to join their band as she had expected.

Letti knew Nick was a different person from the friends she had met so far. Nick was willing to hear her inner voice and accepted whatever decision she made.

So far, no one was willing to listen to what she wants. Even her brother doesn't want to listen to her and keeps setting a spy to watch her.

It feels very nice when someone is willing to listen to what you want to express and accept it well. And Letti believed she couldn't find anyone like that other than her new friends in the group.

Little did she know, Nick in front of her was Kaylee in disguise. Kaylee has been used to finding the people around her not willing to take the time to listen to what she wants.

Her parents have determined the future Kaylee would live, even though Kaylee had other dreams. As a result, Kaylee continued to rebel and made her father have a headache until he had to send people to catch Kaylee and lock her in the room.

Unfortunately, Kaylee had forgotten all about this because of the tragic incident eight years ago. And even though now her parents no longer control Kaylee's future and let Kaylee achieve her dreams, they still sometimes don't want to listen to her until the end.

That's why Kaylee understood how Letti feels, who can't fight people who force their will on her.

No wonder then, Kaylee said that she wanted to hear an answer straight from Letti's mouth. She didn't care about Letti's friend, who answered her invitation and kept waiting for Letti's response.

After Kaylee's team put themselves in their positions, Letti glanced at Kaylee as a sign that she was ready.

Kaylee pressed the keyboard keys to create melodious jazzy chords, followed by a heaven-like voice came from Letti's mouth.

There was no sound from the audience for a moment, and time seemed to have stopped. Most of them knew that Letti was the best singer in the singing class, but it was the first time they heard the girl sang a jazzy song.

The way Letti sings and every vibe of the girl's pitch controls was so melodious as if they were attending a solo concert of an International jazz singer.

Right now, it was only Kaylee playing her keyboard while her friends were silent. Once Letti ended the chorus, Jacob hit the drums and played a rhythmic groove for four bars.

Then Fritz and Adam strummed their strings and followed Jacob's jazz drumming rhythm, and they played the first intro.

As soon as Letti sings the first verse in the same melodious voice as when there was no music, the audience cheers and gets up from their seats.

They all shook their hips and danced casually in their respective places to the kind of music that Kaylee's band played.

Some couples got out of the row of chairs, then embrace each other and dance to the rhythm. Seeing that seniors were dancing in pairs, other couples also started to follow them.

Meanwhile, Mr. Smith, who had no idea that Kaylee's band had provided the fourth song without his knowledge, could only open his mouth wide.

Seeing how the audience, which some of them were Kaylee's rival, enjoyed their music so much, Mr. Smith had no other choice but to select them to appear at tomorrow's event.

He didn't even have to wait for his third coaching team to play because he knew the next jazz team wouldn't be able to beat Kaylee's music team.

'Then I will make you change your mind,'

Mr. Smith snorted at himself, remembering Nicholas Larson's declaration.

"That kid really knows how to change my mind."