Prologue

"Good Morning DC! Your listening to 104.3! Before we get kicked off today, we want to start off with a new hit song that will get your day running. Stay tuned for traffic details and celeberty gossip! Here is Taylor Swift, 'Ours'"

My mornings used to start this way every day. I would get out of bed and turn the radio on while I got ready. That was durring my high school days though, which are long gone.

I went to college for two years before getting kicked out because I couldn't pay anymore. I got away without it for about five months, but then I got a letter from the dean telling me that I was to gether my things and leave by Monday. It was Thursday. But hey, it's a character-building experience.

My feet hit the stone path as I walked towards the Lincoln Momorial that Sunday morning. My ear buds were in, the cherry blossums out. My thin cotton shirt blew this way and that in the wind, and bikers flew bast me with tour headsets in their ears. I brushed my brown hair back, thinking about what to do with my life now.

It was when I was about half a mile from the huge marble building in front of me when I came to a screeching hault.

"Big news today folks! 104.3 is hosting a competition where one lucky winner will get to host their own show. Only six will be able to enter, so call now. 412-6731."

Whipping out my phone from the back pocket of my jean shorts, I dialed the number.

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So this is where I'm supposed to tell all of you readers how I came across this idea, how I got my characters, and so on. Well, let me start then!

This story came to me, honestly, just a couple of days ago and I spent the day thinking of how it is going to start, and so on. It takes place in DC because I love it there. I don't live near it however, six hours away. But when I go there I love it, and I go there often when I go to my grandparent's house in Maryland.

I remember the last time I went my brother Aiden, my dad and I broke off from the rest of our family (my brother Cameron, my mom, my grandparent's, and two of my grandparent's friends- we just got a tour of the White House, which was amazing!) and we went and bought two huge things of french fries. We walked the mile or so to the Lincoln Memorial, which was so worth seeing. The DC Cherry Blossom trees are my favorite, a gift from Japan after the war.

I got the idea of a radio show contest from my own radio station in my area. they had one, where six people had their own show at night, picking their own radio names, and tried to win the people over. It was kinda cool, but that was awhile ago. I don't know why I was thinking about especially since I don't listen to the radio at night that much anymore because my radio in my room broke awhile ago. Which sucked, let me say.

The ideas for the characters just came naturally. I think one of my favorite things to do is create different characters.

Catherine, the main character in this story, is a very relaxed character, though when she is with her sister Maya, she lets everything go. She never had a lot of friends because she always followed her academic carreer. She was kicked out of the college she went to after two years because she could not pay the bills anymore, and she was raised by parent's who believed that their children should pay their own way, because it's good life skills. Ever since she was little, she has been listening to 104.3, a radio station highly known in DC for being a lot more than politics. Though she's always wanted to go far in life, be a lawyer or doctor or something of the sorts, she's always secretly had a dream to have her own radio show. Scarred by a past break-up with her ex-bestfriend, she has stayed clear of any kind of love life, much to her mother's disliking.

Nick Evens is just another boy-next door. He loves partying, girls, and loves to talk. He was the same way back in high school, where he tormented Catherine for a long time. Not that she minded. He soon learned that she could dish it back just as well. His family consists of his brother Jack and his big sister Lilly, though they don't talk much since she lives in Phenix. He gets lonely and sick of his play-boy life sometimes, but then he remembers what had happened to his parents, and he sucks it up. Relationships are for whimps.

Aria is a character that is going to play a semi-big roll, and you might be surprised to find out that she is not going to be the cold hearted witch she seems like. She is based off of a model that I am friends with, who is probably one of the nicest people ever.

There are a whole lot more characters in my story that have big backstories, but more will be exposed as the story goes on. Hope you enjoy reading it as much as I loved writing it.

~Anna Noel

updated Feb 5 by AnnaNoel