Another brilliant piece from a GUNNAS WRITING MASTERCLASS WRITER
The first time she saw the PE Teacher at age 5, she knew she wanted a whistle around her neck.
Maddy loved the sound it made and the immediate control the PE teacher wielded with the students just by blowing that whistle.
She loved PE, she loved how great she felt running around and when that whistle blew she knew she was onto the next exercise. She loved it so much, she decided right there that she wanted to be a PE teacher or an Olympic gymnast; she’d seen that on TV.
Maddy joined the school gymnastics team at age 7 and quickly emerged as a real talent. She continued her training into high school and she was excellent at the floor routines, the parallel bars but the beam posed the greatest challenge.
During training one day she slipped down the side of the beam whilst attempting a difficult summersault. Rushing to her aid was Josh, a team member whom she’d known since the beginning of high school.
Josh was nursing his own foot injuries and now with Maddy having fractured her ankle they started to hang out together. Josh had been learning guitar whilst he recovered and he encouraged Maddy to learn too. Together they learnt guitar and started to write some songs.
They uploaded a song onto YouTube; they never expected the response they received. First it was 89 views, then within hours 100,000 by the next day they’d amassed over 1 million views. They were two young teenagers, still at school and now they had a smash hit.
Within the month their families had heard from the producers of Ellen in Los Angeles, wanting them to appear on the show. They had become household names with an international hit song and their parents were setting up trust funds in their children’s names.
Maddy thought, perhaps being a PE teacher was no longer her destiny and she came clean with Josh about her love at a very young age, to wear a whistle around her neck.
Josh laughed out loud and said to Maddy, ‘perhaps the whistle can make an appearance on our next hit single!