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Eddie was doing good in getting rid of the songs he wasn't interested in. He quickly made his choices. Handing the paper over to Jake he felt like he could breathe again.
Kelly was standing there and couldn't wait to see the list. As she glanced over it she frowned.
"Um.. why aren't there any female artists on here?" she asked.
"I didn't want any." Eddie states.
"Yeah, that's not um.. a balanced contest." Kelly says immediately.
"Jake, it's my choice." Eddie immediately states.
"It is Eddie, but you didn't ask for just male contestants, you have to be fair to the females too."
"Why"? It's my contest and I should run it the way I want." he said sounding like a spoiled brat.
"Yeah, and that would be okay if you had stipulated no females but you didn't. You can't just do that." Kelly states back angrily.
Jake realizing why Eddie did this and knowing Kelly he knew he needed to control the tempers. "How about we just simmer down. I will go over them with Eddie and I promise you Kel that I will listen to the female ones okay?"
"Okay." Kelly says as she leaves.
"That's bullshit Jake." Eddie yells and leaves.
Nora and Adrian walk into the new nightclub hoping to find someone who could point them to Max Duran. Nora immediately saw where he was. She has always thought him to be the sexiest man alive and was starting get hot just looking at him with a hammer and nails and no shirt on.
Max could feel eyes on him and turned. "Hello ladies, how can I help you?"
Nora couldn't take her eyes off of Max's chest and when she finally looked up she saw Max staring at her with a smile. Nora immediately turned red all over.
"How far does it go?" Max asked.
"Does what go?" she asked when she could finally speak.
"The blush. I'm just curious to how far it goes." he said with a smile.
Nora turned even redder.
"Hey, we are trying to find a Max Duran." Aid says.
"He is." Nora immediately states.
"He is what?" Adrian asks.
"I am Max Duran." he says as he holds his hand out for a shake. Adrian quickly shakes his hand and then he takes Nora's hand and bring it to his lips for a kiss. "What can I do for two beautiful ladies?" he asks.
Nora finally got her equilibrium back and explained to Max about her daughter, Loren and the song writing contest and asked if he could help to make sure that with the many contestants they knew there would be that Loren's gets to be heard.
"Of course. I will indeed make sure it's heard. But you know I don't make any of the decisions so that's all I can promise."
"Of course. That's all we need. Loren has enough talent we are positive as long as it's heard it will be chosen."
"Okay then." he says with a smile and once again takes each hand and says goodbye to them.
"Oh my God." Adrian says.
"What?"
"That sweet hot man in there was practically devouring you." she said to Nora.
"Yeah right. That man right there could have any woman in the world what would he want with me?"
"You and Loren have the worse self confidence." Adrian says and turns and walks back to the car.
Jake knocked on the door. He knew he had to try to be delicate but he had to take care of this.
"Hey." Eddie said as he opened the door.
"How are you man?"
"I just don't understand how I didn't see this coming."
"Look Eddie, Chloe is a great actress. She played a part. I would have told you but I thought you knew."
"You know that's what makes this harder. Knowing that everyone knew but me. Before going over to her place I got into a horrendous argument with my dad. He told me he didn't trust her."
"I try to stay out of your personal life man, but maybe I should have told you."
"No, it wasn't your place to tell me. I wouldn't have believed you either."
"Okay, well about this contest Eddie, we need to re-listen to those songs."
Eddie knew he was right. "Yeah, I just couldn't fathom spending hours and hours with a female writer."
"I know man, but if one is deserving than that's what we have to go with. If it is a female just make sure you keep your walls up and make sure whoever it is keeps distant. "
"Yeah." he says. He gets up to get the songs and hears a knock on the door. He opens it to his pop.
"Eddie hey. Look I'm sorry. I will just keep my mouth shut okay?"
"It's okay, you were right."
"What do you mean?" Max asks.
"Um.. I'm gonna get us something to drink. Jake you tell him while I'm gone."
Eddie leaves the room and Jake tells Max what happened at Chloe's. "Aw man. I hate that I was right. How is he holding up?"
"Not real good." Jake says as he tells Max what was going on with the contest.
"Shit. Well look man. I had two beautiful women show up at my club today. They gave me a CD hoping I would give it to Eddie. I figure it won't hurt to do that, but what do you think?"
"How about we listen to it right now and if it's good he can decide." Jake says with a smile.
They put the CD in and the music begins to play. Both Max and Jake are in awe with what they hear not realizing that Eddie to was listening with a smile on his face.
