?Pretty’s On The Inside?
[The World thinks She’s ugly but He sees her Beauty?]
By Authoress Kamara
Episode 23
?Xavier Marion
I scoffed. “A supernova singing contest for females around Florida?”.
“Yep”. Diamond said. “And anyone who wins gets signed to the industry and goes on a world tour with you”.
“Wait. You are joking, right? How can he hold a singing contest just like that? And for only females at that?”.
“Whats wrong with females?”. My sister asked.
I dropped the flyer. “Nothing. I just don’t trust any of them”.
“Why?”.
“Lets just say that a particular girl broke his heart”. Violet said butting in. “And since then, he’s cold-hearted towards females”.
What the he.ck?
Did she just almost spill out my secret?
How dare she?
Just because she knows doesn’t give her the right to just say it whenever she wants.
“What are you doing here anyways?”. I asked her with a glare. “Aren’t you suppose to be in school or something?”.
“Ouch! Really? Xavier! How can you be so cruel?”. She placed her hand on her heart dramatically. “I came here to see you and you are chasing me away?”.
“You’ve seen me already, you can make use of the door”.
She scoffed. “You are kidding, right? You can’t possibly just ask me to leave your house. Like, for real? I thought we were best friends”.
“We were not until you decided to act all btchy and then threatened me about … “. I trail off realizing I can’t say that out.
Violet smirked a little. “Threatened you about what, Xavier?”.
“Nothing. I’m going upstairs to enquire from my Dad about this contest thing and I do not want to see you here when I come back”.
Diamond watched us with confusion on her face as I left walking up the stairs.
I’m sure she probably has that confused expression on her face because of what happened.
She knows that I don’t talk to Violet that way.
Heck! The fuck! I’ve never addressed Violet like that.
But she caused it all herself.
Yes, she’s my best friend but there’s a limit to what I condone sometimes. She invades my personal space a lot and I don’t like it.
And to think that she also blackmailed me by threatening to tell my father about the relationship I have with Samuel.
Violet knows that if the public gets wind of that news then my career would be ruined.
She knows thats my weak spot. And it was so childish of her to use it against me.
Which is my friendship with all over these years is now useless with what she did.
I got back into my room and then went to the projector screen face timing Dad.
I went over to sit back on my bed as I sigh waiting for him to answer the video call.
“Marion”. His voice came up as he showed on the screen. “I have a meeting right now, what do you want to talk about?”.
Yeahh. Always having a meeting.
“Its something important, Dad”.
“I’m in a meeting, Marion. You can always call__”.
“What is this supernova contest that I’m hearing about?”. I ask interrupting him.
“Ohh”. He relaxed. “Thats the super new idea I came up with to divert the public away from what happened to you on that Saturday and surprisingly , its working”.
“What? How can you just decided to hold a contest without my permission?”.
“And why do I need your permission?”.
“You need it because it involves me, Dad and you know it. You know that I don’t want to take any female singer for a duet and thats why you are doing this”.
He frowned at me. “Thats where you are wrong, Marion. I’m doing this because of the 31+ million dollars that you caused me”.
“Oh and this all winds back to you of course”. I replied with an eye-roll.
“I’m also doing this for the promotion of the industry, do you know how many females applied for the competition already?”.
“I don’t want to know, Dad. ‘Cause at the end of this all, its always about you. This is your industry, whatever you are doing is for yourself not me”.
“In few years from now, that industry will be yours”.
“And I don’t want it”. I retorted.
“Marion!!”. He yelled. “Manners!!”.
I exhaled softly. “Sorry, Sir”.
“So the supernova contest, its like an artist competition between the selected fifty contestants from the age of seventeen to age nineteen. They all compete in singing and every other thing involved with that to get to the top twenty, then top ten before I select my top three”. He explained all to me throughly.
“And when you get that top three you want then what happens?”.
“Then the top three will get trained by the best of the best in the industry and when they are shown to the world, then public will then decide who their pick is”.
“Just like that?”.
“Of course, the three of them will be signed into the industry. But the top one picked by the audience will be the one__”.
“To go with me on the tour?”. I asked him surprised.
“No! The top one will contest against Violet Summers and Samyn”.
What the … ?
How is that even possible?
Violet is like the main best leading female teenage sensation singer in my Dad’s own industry.
And then Samyn. She’s the top lead female singer for AZ industries.
“And then whoever wins between my top one, Violet and Samyn, gets to perform with you during your world tour”.
“How many people are registered already ?”.
“Thousands of female teenagers from age 17 to 19 sent their voice clips. And from there, we choose the top fifty to start with”.
I sighed watching him. “So when did you plan on this?”.
“Does it matter when I did?”.
“Yes it matters because it disturbs me that you never told me about it”.
“I never bothered to ‘Cause whenever I talk to you. You always make it seem like I’m not your father”.
I blew out a deep breath sharply as I kind of felt guilty about what he said but I shook it off.
“You hate me because of her, don’t you?”.
I clenched my fists. “My Mom died and it was all because of you”.
“I never wanted her death, Marion. I loved your mother so much”.
“Then why were you frolicking around those mistresses of yours instead of being at the burial service?”.
He remained silent and I shook my head sadly.
“I’ll keep the information about the contest in mind. Thank you for telling me”.
And with that, I clicked off the projector screen falling back on my bed tiredly.
He doesn’t even seem to feel guilty about it all.
Pretty sure he forgot all about her death and I only reminded him about it today.
I hate my life.
A knock sounded on the door repeatedly and I groan on hearing it.
“Not now, Diamond”. I said a little annoyed about remembering Mom’s death.
“Sir? There’s a person here to see you and Miss Diamond said I should refer him upstairs”.
I pause hearing a maid’s voice. “Who is that?”.
“Xav?”.
I immediately sit up on the bed realizing it was Sam. The door opened immediately and the young maid bowed before she then scurried off.
Sam chuckled walking in. “Is that how they all see you? Like a Greek god?”.
“Maybe”. I shrugged. “At least, they act like I am one anyways”.
“Greek god, my ass!”.
I watch as he close the door chuckling about the whole thing and it reminded me of when we were still just friends.
Yeah … Just friends.
Until a chemistry developed between us.
Well he was the one who made the first move and somehow, I just went along.
At least, he made me forget my pains.
And that was the best thing anyone could ever do for me.
“Are you okay?”. He asked as he dropped his backpack joining me to sit on the bed.
“If I say No, would you take away the pain”.
“I would try to but you know I can’t do that “.
I smiled a little. “At least you want to”.
He only nodded and then hopped further into the bed as he laid down beside me.
“Xavier?”.
I look at him. “Hm?”.
“Does your younger sister, like, know about us? I mean, like what we are doing what?”.
“You mean, Diamond?”.
“Yeah. Does she know? ‘Cause when I came in requesting to see you, she gave me this kind of look”.
“Was it creepy?”.
Sam shuddered. “Staring intently at me, it was like her jaws dropped, her green eyes sparkled a little bit”.
“She likes you”. I replied casually. “She does that a lot. Its just a mere liking, she just think of you as a hot guy and thats it”.
“And you don’t have a problem with it?”.
I snickered. “No! Why would I? I know my little sister, she just thinks you are a piece of hunk and thats it”.
“Ohh. Okay then”.
I paused realizing that some kind of friction just happened between us just now.
“Or do I need to have a problem with it?”. I asked immediately.
“I don’t know. Its just that, sometimes, I feel that you are not, you know, into boys, that you are just__”.
“I’m just what?”. I sat up asking him.
“That you think you like me and thats why you are doing this but No, thats not true, you are only doing this because you hate females”.
I grunt a little. “Samuel. Thats not true”.
“Your music buddy asked of you”. He said all of a sudden changing the subject abruptly.
“My music buddy?”.
“That girl who’s always with a purple hoodie on”.
“Wait. You mean, Paris?”.
“I know you’ll figure out her name eventually. Anyways, she wanted to see you but I refused”.
“Where’s this heading to?”. I asked him confusedly.
“She’s not just your music buddy, is she now? You hang out with her for different purposes, right? And she’a not like all the girls you’ve ever been with, huh?”.
“Sam … “.
“You know what, I’m really tired of al this stuffs”. He stood up from the bed.
“Tired of what?”.
“Its not working out. You feel an attraction towards that girl, don’t you?. Xavier, I don’t want this emotional heartache, its either you are into girls or boys, or both, just pick a side”.
“Samuel, you can’t just ask me to pick a side”.
He took his backpack slanging it over his shoulders heading towards the door.
“And where the h.eck are you going to?”.
“I’m out. This stuff isn’t working. I think we should just call it quits here”.
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