During dinner that night, Gail was telling us about how she got her "big break," a story we've heard at least 100 times in the last six months.

"Now look at me, two ungrateful kids, a harry, dwarfish, elf servant, and a random, table cloth wearin' Asian-"

"Indian." Ravi cut in.

"-who makes no sense at all. Ever."

While Gail was still rambling, Jerome shoved his face into his plate of macaroni and cheese.

"Mom, you're forgetting about the most important thing, me!" Joy whined. "Guy Morgan will give me a record deal as soon as he hears me sing!"

"Oh sweetie I highly doubt that." Gail replied.

"I've been practicing really hard though! Well, when my first single drops, I'll buy you that mansion in the Hollywood Hills, and you can lengthen your legs like you've always wanted."

"I wanna be 6'4", wow me Joy!"

"Do ray me fa so la ti do!" Joy sang.

"Stop stop stop the singing, stop the wowing. Somehow you've gotten worse. There's not enough auto tune in the world that's gonna fix you honey."

"Nina's bad playing threw me off! Again!" Joy demanded. I hit the one key I was supposed to and off she goes, singing like a dying whale.

"Ouch!" Gail says, holding her ears. "My ears are ringing!"

"I could burp the song better," Jerome said to Ravi. And on cue, he starts burping.

"Have you been drinking the floor wax?" Ravi asked him.

"Anything to forget I live here."

"God, meditate me Ravi!" Gail says and she leaves the room, Ravi following.

Later that night I was minding my own business scrubbing the pans and all the crap I do every night when Jerome, being his annoying self, comes in the room.

"Guess who's coming over," He says with a devious smile.

"Who?" I ask.

"Guess."

"God just tell me," I say getting agitated.

He didn't say anything. I just felt goey, disgusting ketchup and mustarding being squirted on me.

"Jerome!" I scream as he runs upstairs.

"I can Bless myself, there's no need for someone's help, there's no one to blame, there's no one to save you but yourself…I can justify, all the mistakes in my life, it's-"

I sang in the shower until I heard a devious, malicious laugh and the door click.

I looked out of the shower and saw that my clothes were gone. Why did he hate me so much?

I wrap my towel around my body and walk to the front door. Stupid move. The little brat shoves me out of the door, takes my towel, shuts and locks the door and closes the blinds. I'm gonna kill him.

"I control all the locks on this property! Good luck getting back in!" Jerome shouted through the window.

I grab a plant that was sitting on the porch, cover my backside, and run to the shed. As I try to open the door, I lose my grip on the plant and it falls to the ground with a thud, and the shattering sound of the plant holder.

"Crap," I breathe out. 'Think, Nina, think,' I said to myself. I run back to the house, hoping someone was downstairs, ok, hoping Ravi was downstairs since he's the only one who really cares about me, to open the door to me.

I pound on the door, waiting for someone to answer, the welcome mat irritating my feet. That's it. I grab the mat, and wrap it around me, so that whoever is coming over doesn't see me, well, naked.

"Nina?" I hear a think, sexy British accent behind me asks. I turn around, and before me, was Fabian Rutter. Awkward.

"Fabian!" I say, startled. He looks and me, pointing at the welcome mat and tilting his head.

"The truth, uh, my step brother locked me out of the house. Naked."

"Oh," He said, taking off his jacket and wrapping it around me.

"Oh, thanks," I smile. "Now that pants."

He looks down, then looks at me, and then starts to undo his belt.

"I'm kidding," I smile as he struggles to take off his belt. He smiles at me, and then going back to reality, rings the door bell.

Gail's POV

The doorbell kept ringing, interrupting my meditation.

"Ravi, I need you to pray to the gods,"

"The gods?"

"Yes, the gods. For fame, and fortune," I tell him. "You know, I wanna be 6'4", live in the Hollywood Hills-"

"Yes, yes, we got this earlier,"

Nina's POV

"So, you're dad, he was giving you a hard time at the meeting today," I say.

"Yeah, he doesn't really, get me, if you know what I mean."

I smile. "Trust me, I know."

Damn. My phone, I could hear it ringing inside the house. God, if Gail answers it…

Gail's POV

"Now, Miss Gail, breathe-"

"What is that?" I say, half way off the bed. "Angles, singing?"

I rush down stairs to see what it is, the door bell still ringing. "Nina! Somebody get that door!"

"Hello?"

"Gail? Can you hear that? That is the sound of the demo your girl Nina slipped into my bag today! I think a star has been born!"

"She gave you a CD? Hold on one second,"

"RAVI! WHAT FRIKKEN GOD DID YOU PRAY TO?"

"Guy, I think there has been a misunderstanding,"

Nina's POV

We were talking. It was pretty nice, he was sweet, and caring, not like most guys I've meet. But then Joy ruins the moment.

"Fabian! Nina? Uh, come on in, Fabes!"

As Joy and Fabian walk in, Joy mouths to me, "What the hell are you doing?" and then slams the door shut.

I walk back to the shed, now praying Jerome had unlocked the door. But right as I put my hand on the knob, Gail opens the door, and pulls me inside.

"You think you're so sly, like you can get away with anything,"

Crap.

"Guy called, and we had a very interesting conversation. You gave him your pretty little demo! If you're as amazing as Guy says, let's hear you sing."

Gail hands me my guitar, and I sit down on my bed, Fabian's jacket till wrapped around me.

"Like a malignant tumor,
She's got no sense of humor.
Just like a swollen blister,
It's best to just resist her,
She's not exactly a witch,
She's just a terrible bitc-"

"Well you're lyrics stink but Guy's right, you've got chops,"

"Thank you!" I say sarcastically, nodding my head and smiling.

"Now, this is what we're gonna do here. You are going to record all your little songs and what not, and then, during the showcase, Joy, will be lip syncing-"

"What? You can't do that!" I protest.

"Well, actually I can sweet cheeks! I don't like you. And if you don't do that, that little savings bond your daddy left for you will just, disappear." Gail smiles, turns around, about to leave.

"Oh, yeah, one more thing. As far as everyone knows, you can't sing.

This cannot be happening.

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Xx Emi