“And there’s a photo of you and American Idol winner David Cook, performing together at the Good Morning America fundraiser concert for cancer research that was held just last month in Central Park, New York,” said Regis Philbin, indicating the large flatscreen behind the interviewing stools.

David turned around and looked up at the picture ( Read more... )

David had submitted his university applications after a lot of thought and a lot of discussion with his mom and stepdad. First they had had to have the conversation about pursuing music versus tertiary education that might be more likely to get him a job, and his parents had won that one, even though his mom protested it hadn’t been an argument, so ( Read more... )

Disclaimer: None of it's real. Totally fictional.

David was so going to have a car accident at this rate. For the hundredth time in the last 20 minutes, he found his eyes treacherously straying from the road in front of him, over to the black-haired boy sitting at the other end of the bench seat, chatting away happily.

“So I really hope you like my ( Read more... )

David re-positioned his fingers on the guitar strings to play an F chord, and winced at the pain that shot through his wrist in response.

“Ow,” he muttered automatically.

Immediately, Archie stopped singing and looked up from his sheet music. The music rooms that had pianos in them were already occupied by after-school instrumental lessons, so ( Read more... )

It turned out there were three benefits to talking Johns into recruiting Archuleta for the school track team. Number one, Johns had been complaining about the lack of younger talent on the team this year, and David figured a year of bullying would have taught Archie all he needed to know about speed and endurance. Number two, getting Archie to join ( Read more... )

David’s not really sure how he ended up here, outside the principal’s office, letting this Archuleta kid pick chunks of coleslaw out of his hair while babbling apologies for something that was completely not his fault.

“-I’m so sorry those, those guys are the biggest jerks, and I shouldn’t have ducked, but um, I didn’t want to get food all over me ( Read more... )