Secret Songs

By Jamie Campbell

Please note: This is a short story. Flash fiction is a fun and quick read to introduce you to the series, not a full length novel.

The songbook of secrets.

Sixteen year old Kaley Thorne is awkward, a little clumsy, and has a crazy mother. But nothing compares to the lengths she would go to in order to protect her secret songbook.

With the school talent show fast approaching, Kaley must decide what is more important: protecting her secret or winning the prize money?

In a high school that is full of song-worthy moments, can Kaley overcome her greatest fear? Or will she decide that her secrets are still worth protecting?

Also in the Secret Songbook Series:

Love Songs
Breakup Songs (Coming Soon)

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jamie Campbell
• Release date: Jul 26, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311411280

Jamie Campbell

Jamie was born into a big, crazy family of 6 children. Being the youngest, she always got away with anything and would never shut up. Constantly letting her imagination run wild, her teachers were often frustrated when her 'What I did on the weekend' stories contained bunyips and princesses.Growing up, Jamie did the sensible things and obtained a Bachelor of Business degree from Southern Cross University and worked hard to gain her membership with the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia.Yet nothing compared to writing. Quiting the rat race to spend quality time with her laptop named Lily, Jamie has written several novels and screenplays. Spanning a number of genres and mediums, Jamie writes whatever inspires her from ghost stories to teenage love stories to tantalising murder mysteries. Nothing is off limits.A self-confessed television addict, dog lover, Taylor Swift fan, and ghost hunter, Jamie loves nothing more than the thrill of sharing her stories.

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Secret Songs

Secret Songs

JAMIE CAMPBELL

Copyright © 2015 Jamie Campbell

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This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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Sing like no-one’s listening..

Chapter 1

Kaley was mesmerized as everyone in the school passed around her. There had to be dozens of broken hearts, hundreds of missed opportunities, and thousands of reasons to fall in and out of love.

Every person at that school had a story to tell. She could have written a song about any of them. Their feelings, their joy, their sorrow. As she tapped her fingers on the table to an unnamed tune, she could already see the words forming into song lyrics.

High school was just rampant for songwriting.

One person in particular stood out above all others: Eli Stone. He was the head of the football team. A tall, strong guy with messy hair and mischievously sparkling eyes. He seemed extraordinary in an ordinary world.

He was talking to his friends, his face animated while his hands gestured to emphasize whatever he was saying. Kaley sighed as she rested her chin on her hand and watched him.

If there was a song she could write about Eli, it would be the tale of the fact he didn’t even know she existed. How she felt her heart race whenever he was near but she may as well have been invisible to him.

That was her story.

There would be no love or heartbreak for Kaley Thorne. Just missed opportunities that never even presented themselves to her to begin with. She was invisible, completely under the radar of the vast majority of her peers.

She loved the way Eli’s face lit up when he spoke to people. He could have a whole conversation where he was completely present and in that moment. He didn’t just humor people, he really listened. If she could get him to look at her like that she knew she would be the luckiest girl alive.

Earth to Kaley. Come in, Kaley, Harper said as she waved her hand in front of her best friend’s face.

Kaley snapped back to reality, her cheeks reddening with a flush of embarrassment at getting caught staring. Again. Sorry. I was just thinking.

Daydreaming, more like it. Harper slid into the seat next to her. She was dressed in