CHAPTER 4…
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO HOPE?
June 25th, 2010; 10:31 pm
Paris' POV
I wake to see Kathy looking around and staring at me. She seems surprised I'm there, to tell you the truth, I am too. I don't know what's going on.
"Paris!" She screams my name. "What happened, where are we?" I'm so confused myself, why does she expect me to know? I tell her that I didn't know, but I think we're in a hospital. Her head starts hurting. We keep talking until this male nurse guy come in and takes us away. What is he doing? Where are we going? I don't ask him, I just sit still and let Kathy do all the talking. We pass this room that looks familiar, but we don't know where. "Is it just I or-"
"That room looks familiar." I interrupt. Oops, she doesn't like people interrupting but I know that's what she was going to say. She stares at me. "Yeah, it does." We finally get to this room and we see a woman crying in the bed. She seems slightly familiar as well. "May I ask what's wrong miss?" She turns to us and to our surprise it's Diana. Kathy and I both gasp at this as she cries more and starts saying gibberish about her babies. She tells us to ask that male nurse so we do.
"The baby-" Kathy interrupts him saying his name. "Well, he's missing."
"MISSING?" Kathy exclaimed.
"BUT HOW?" I ask. That's a stupid question; some jerk kidnapped him of course. But now we're all freaking out, oh Francis. Gee, Francis Skylar, why you have gone missing I have no clue. I don't really pay much attention to the next thing he says, all I hear is the name Blanket then silence. Kathy's thinking real hard, I can tell, I'm worried now. Silence is always a bad sign after someone says a person's name. "What about my little brother?"
"What about Blanket?" The man doesn't answer. "WHAT HAPPENED?" Kathy and I are both getting anxious for him to tell us. Suddenly, my body goes limb when I hear Diana scream out,
"HE'S DEAD!" This can't be right. It can't be true! There has to be some mistake!
"What? Dead? DEAD? Blanket can't be dead! He's only 8! 8-year-olds don't die!" I yell.
"Billy died." Diana says harshly.
"HE'S DIFFERENT! BLANKET CAN'T BE DEAD! NO!" I must be going crazy. I've never acted this way. Not even when daddy was supposingly dead. What's wrong with me? I turn to Kathy, I can feel my face getting redder and hotter. What is going on? Kathy is just sitting there, all I heard her say was the word dead then she turns into some zombie. She's not moving or anything, she closes her eyes as I scream more. I don't know what the crap she's doing. "THERE'S A MISTAKE!"
"I'm sorry Paris but it is no mistake, not this time." That Tuvalu guy says.
"NO! NO, NO, NO, NO, NO! IT'S WRONG! WHERE'S MY BROTHER? WHERE'S MY DADDY?" They all just sigh as I cry. Why now? Why today? Why couldn't it be me?
June 25th, 2010; 1:15 pm
Every one clapped when Diana was finished.
"Amazing! Astonishing! Absolutely astonishing!" Mike said. "Why didn't you ever tell me you could play and sing?" Diana blushed and looked down.
"Well, I never really thought about it." Kathy and Prince smiled at each other again and looked down at Blanket. They took each other's hands and started walking around the place once more.
"You know," Kathy started. "It's something about seeing new life come into this world that makes me appreciate everything I have." She turned to Prince. "And the people I love." Prince smiled widely at her.
"Me too." They leaned towards each other and kissed. Prince pulled away then and gasped. "I got it!"
"What?"
"A new song. It's called, hold me in your arms."
"Sounds interesting."
"It'd talk about two lovers that people think shouldn't be together. And all these girls are always trying to rip the boy a part from the girl. But it doesn't work because they love each other way too much. And the chorus says, "just hold me in your arms, hold me real tight. Don't ever let go, I don't want to loose you. Hold me close to your heart, so we won't get ripped apart. I won't ever leave you, promise me the same. Hold me in your arms because I love you!" How about that?"
"Sounds great!"
"Great! We should get to working on it!" Kathy looked down and put her hands on her hips. "What?"
"Do we have to right now?" Prince smiled and kissed her again.
"Ok, ok, we can wait." Kathy smiled back at him. She thought for a minute then. "What now?"
"It seems like this has happened before, like, when we were real young."
"I don't remember meeting you until last year."
"I know, but something just feels like we have." She thought real hard. Suddenly, her mind triggered. She remembered last year, before she went on the stage of AGT, she tried pushing away the thoughts that made her performance mess up, it worked but Nick Cannon knew something was wrong. He was right, she never told him. But those thoughts, she remembered.
Year 2000…Month of July
A 4-year-old cry's on the corner of a store. Bright blonde hair and brown eyes. He sobs as another 4-year-old comes up to him and pecks him on the back.
"What's wrong with you?" This girl 4-year-old asks. The boy looks up to see a blonde haired girl with dark blue eyes, hair in a ponytail, staring back at him. "Hello?"
"Oh sorry, it's just that my daddy is missing." The girl smiled.
"I think you're missing from you're daddy." The boy giggled.
"You're funny."
"Thanks!" They stared at each other. "My name's Katherine Waxon, what's yours?"
"Prince Jackson." Kathy giggled.
"Cool!"
"You think my name's cool?"
"Well, sure. But let's find you're dad." He nodded. The 4-year-old Prince kept staring at this nice other 4-year-old girl who was trying to help him. Kathy glanced over his way and was confused as to why he was staring at her. "Why are you staring at me like that? You're creeping me out dude." Prince looked the other way.
"Oh sorry!" Kathy smiled.
"I like you!" Prince looked back at her. "You're different from other boys. You sure act different, and no guy ever stares at me."
"Why not? You're nice." Kathy shrugged.
"I guess being nice don't appeal to dudes where I come from."
"Where do you come from?" Kathy thought.
"I think my parents said that we live in Kentucky."
"Oh, cool." They kept walking around when Kathy stopped him.
"It would help if I knew what your dad looked like."
"You mean, you don't know?" Kathy stared at him.
"No, that's a silly question. I don't have super powers. Although that'd be cool. Well, I would actually not like super powers 'cause then I'd be like Batman and Robin. Well, more like Robin, that's a girl. And not the lame girl Robin either!" Prince laughed.
"I'd be Batman!" Kathy shrugged.
"Whatever! Robin is so much cooler! But so, what does your daddy look like?" Prince looked around.
"Well, he's tall, has black hair, it's kind of long, dark brown eyes, and is white."
"That describes every guy here! Well, almost every guy."
"He's skinny."
"I guess that helps, anything that is special about him?" Although Prince was 4 at this time, he liked not having someone freak out over his dad being famous. So what was he to say? Was he to lie to her?
"Um, a lot of people know him."
"How many?"
"A lot."
"Oh, my dad is like that. We can't go anywhere without someone saying hi to him and stopping him to talk. It's annoying." Prince looked up at her.
"Your dad's famous?" Kathy thought.
"I guess you could put it that way." He was amazed.
"Well, my dad's name is-"
"HEY! There he is!" A woman yelled. Suddenly, a man picked him up and ran with the woman as Kathy ran behind them.
"What's going on?" Kathy asked Prince.
"This happens all the time." He replied. The couple finally got to a stage area of the mall and yelled,
"Here he is!"
"We found him!" The man said.
"Oh thank goodness! Come with me!" Another man said. Kathy looked at him to realize he had black hair and dark brown eyes, was skinny, and white.
"That must be Prince's daddy." She said to herself. She climbed up on the stage. She was still mad that, that couple had just picked him up without giving a warning. She snuck behind the curtain as the couple received, it seemed to be, concert tickets. "Hey! Wait a minute! They get tickets and they were rude? That's no way to go!" The 4 looked back at Kathy to see her staring at all of them. Prince smiled as he walked over to her.
"They found me." He told her.
"They didn't find you, I found you. They just picked you up and ran. That wasn't nice at all." The man that gave the tickets looked at the couple.
"Is this true?" He asked. They nodded.
"We're sorry." They replied. Mike smiled and nodded as they went away. Kathy was baffled.
"They're getting away with bad behavior? My mommy and daddy would spank me." The man looked at her.
"Where are your parents?" Kathy shrugged.
"I don't know. I just saw Prince crying so I helped him first, besides I'm fine." The man smiled.
"What are they're names?"
"Francis Michael Waxon and Janet Skylar Waxon." The man was surprised then giggled. He grabbed a device and spoke into it, which triggered the intercoms.
"Would Francis and Janet Waxon please come to the auditorium? You're daughter is here looking for you. Francis and Janet Waxon to the auditorium." He hung it back up, as Kathy was astonished.
"Do you work here?" The man laughed.
"Oh no, far from that." Suddenly, yells were heard.
"We're Francis and Janet! Please! Where's my baby?" The mother said.
"Mommy!" Kathy yelled as she went to the other side of the curtain. "Hi mommy!"
"Baby girl! Come down here right now!"
"You're not gona spank me will you?"
"Listen to what your mother is saying!" The dad yelled.
"I don't wanna get spanked! I did a good deed!"
"Like what? Scaring your mother?"
"No! I helped a little boy find his daddy!" Prince and the man popped out from the other side as screams were heard. "What's there deal?" Kathy looked up at the man.
"They always do that." Prince replied. Kathy looked back at her mom and dad to find them astonished.
"What?" The mother picked Kathy off the stage and pulled her ear close to her mouth and said,
"Dear, remember our top 2 celebrities we like to talk about?"
"Elvis Presley and Madonna?"
"Ok, our top three." Kathy thought.
"Michael Jackson?" The mom nodded.
"That's who he is." Kathy's mouth dropped as she climbed back onstage and stared at Mike.
"COOL! YOU'RE MICHAEL JACKSON?" Mike smiled as Prince looked down. Kathy saw his face and smiled. "Cool." Prince looked up at her as she winked at him. They smiled at each other. Kathy looked back at her parents and got a big grin. "Can I please play with Prince some more?" They looked at each other.
"Honey, I don't know."
"We'll have her home!" Prince begged. The mom smiled.
"Well, by 2:00 I want her at this address." The dad wrote it down and handed it to Mike. He gave him an eye once he let go of the paper. Mike got the hint why.
"Make sure it's 2:00 sharp." He said.
"We will!" Prince said.
"Don't worry!" Kathy said. The dad still stared at Mike. "Quit starring dad! There's plenty of him to go around!" The dad looked back at Kathy and smiled.
"Of course honey." He replied. Kathy ran up to Prince and took his hand. Prince blushed as she smiled widely at him.
"Whatever happened to hope?" She asked. He was confused.
"Huh?" He replied.
"That'll be a song I'll make one day. It'll be big and huge, international huge! It'll say: Whatever happened to hope? Whatever happened in believing in yourself? Whatever happened to trust? Whatever happened to having faith? This word is coming a part, whatever happened to hope?" Prince smiled as they held hands and entered the limo.
AN: AWWWW! How cute right? Well, there'll be more on this in the next chappy! Tell me what you think! And be sure to red the spin off sequel to this called The smoothest criminals on earth by Sahary1 and the story Rose Garden by Jonasjacksonheart14!