My first chapter to the Seven days of Victorious Challenge. The prompt, A few hours.
Beck watched the clock. In just a few hours, his life would change.
It was weird, his life had been all planned out, and it was nothing like this. Not the specifics, of course. No, those sorta need to be accepted as they show up. But the direction of his life, who he was going to marry, what he'd be doing. All of that was decided back in high school.
But there had been a couple of detours along the way.
Detours like in collage, discovering he loved his psychology and sociology classes. Or that acting was so hit and miss, he could well be the best actor struggling in the chorus line. 'Or the welfare line.' He reminded himself.
Or how Jade was more married to her work then she'd ever be to him. 'She's not with me, just her body.' He remembered thinking, the day he'd broken it off with her.
Then he'd gotten his big break. Another person in his psychology class had what they were calling a million dollar idea, but lacked the personality to pull it off. But they knew who did. Normally, the whole thing would have been just dropped, since it was so outside beck's personality, his comfort zone. 'But isn't acting about stepping outside your comfort zone?' He'd asked himself again.
It was the perfect thing for him. He could act, playing the part of a lifetime, and help people at the same time. Quiet Beck disappeared in favor of a loud, boisterous persona who could help others feel the excitement as he helped them change their lives. In one moment, he'd make his life happen, and lead the way for so many others who'\s lives were also waiting to be something.
There would be other benefits as well. Jade would stop playing at being his girlfriend after she accepted that he was as serious as she was, just he'd found a different way to lose himself in a character. Then maybe they could get back together. Once this character, this part he was going to play, for years if he was lucky, opened the doors to the whole new life. He could feel the excitement building in his body.
He needed it. In a few hours, they'd call his name, and for the first time he'd be in front of a packed house. Each person out there had payed, or had someone pay, big money to be there. 'Mostly sales people here because their companies believed it when I said I could help.' Beck reminded himself. He wasn't sure how. He wasn't going to tell them anything new, just, if he was really convincing in this roll, they'd believe it form him, and maybe they'd be able to use this knowlage.
He knew exactly what to say. They, him and his staff, had worked for days making sure it was exactly what they wanted to say,, and then he'd memorized every line. He'd wow them, change lives and make a difference.
'Next time, I'm doing it from Hawaii.' He joked with himself.
Yes, in a few hours, Beck Oliver, the motivational speaker, would make his in person debut to the world. The room was full, over five hundred people, and he'd earn his sixty thousand dollar speakers fee. Yes, in a few hours, it was on.
