Hey guys!
I know it's been a little while but I came back from Italy very early yesterday and I've spent all day yesterday and today writing. I would have updated yesterday but I accidently fell asleep.
I had a great trip besides from accidently hitting (and killing) a firefly with my bat while playing badminton with my younger brother and feel so bad about it. I mean what if it had a family!? Lol, I'm being weird I know, but I'm dead serious.
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Anyways here's the chapter!
~Anna
Loren's POV:
I can't remember a time in my life where I've ever been so comfortable. I seriously don't want to move even an inch. I slowly open my eyes, expecting light to blind me, but it doesn't so it must be pretty early. I look down and see a heavy, muscular arm wrapped around my waist. I panic for a moment until the events of last night enter my mind. Eddie is behind me and I can feel his hot breath on the back of my neck. I can't help but chuckle and wiggle a little in his embrace. I can't help it I'm ticklish. Eddie seems to notice, or at least his body does, and he pulls me even closer snuggling his head into my neck.
"Eddie," I whisper, on one side trying to wake him up, but on the other not wanting to ruin the moment.
"Mmm." He starts moving and I can tell he's begging to wake up. He slowly open his eyes brown eyes meet mine equally brown ones. He seems lost for a moment, I know I am, but then it's like something snaps inside of him, and he almost flies to the other side of the bed, far away from me. I would lie if I said it didn't hurt a bit.
"It's already 6:30 am, we should get going," he says looking at his phone. His voice is lower than normal because of sleep, his hair was messed on one side and almost flat on the other side, indicating the side he slept on, and his eyes were lazily wondering around the room before landing on me. At least he's wearing a shirt otherwise I think I would have passed out.
I nod, get up and walk towards the bathroom. God I hope things don't get awkward after this.
I was just finishing packing all my stuff when Eddie emerges from the bathroom. His hair is perfectly styled in a messy look and he was wearing simple jeans and a black V-neck shirt.
"Hey Lo, you ready to go?" Lo? He has never called me Lo before. For some reason it makes me feel giddy inside.
"Y-yeah, I'm ready." He stops packing his things and turn around to look at me. He looks kind of… troubled. "What?" I ask him with a small smile, urging him to tell me. He sighs and scratches the back of his neck. "About this morning… I would appreciate if you didn't tell anyone. It's just so that the paparazzi's doesn't find out and make a huge deal out of it, I hope you understand," he says without looking me in the eyes. I wasn't going to tell anyone, and I understand why he doesn't want me to, but I can't help but feel just a little hurt. I don't know why though.
"It's fine, I wasn't going to anyway," I say. He lets out a shaky breath nodding his head slowly. "You're pretty cool Loren Tate. Pretty cool," he says dragging out the last sentence a little. "Come on, we better head out before my manager kills me. On second thought he's probably gonna kill me anyway."
The house, no wait mansion, was huge. Not just huge, like double huge. Do they really need such a big mansion to only seven contestants?
"Come on," Eddie says walking up the stairs in front of the mansion, "your room is upstairs your name is on the door. When you're done there's breakfast in the dining room. It's just down the hall." He points down a wide hallway. I mutter a quiet 'thank you' before he disappears. I drag my bags up the stairs, slowly. When I come to the top I look to both left and right, unsure of which way to go. I finally decide to go right.
The hall is pretty quiet; actually the whole house is quiet. Come to think of I haven't seen anyone since I stepped a foot in this mansion. I'm just about to give up when I don't see my name on any of these doors, when I finally see a person walking towards me. He's skin is dark, he's hair I short and black and he look's tired. He pauses for a second when I sees me and then quickens his pace walking directly towards me.
"You're Loren Tate right," he says when he's finally in earshot. "Umm, yeah who are you." It's a little strange that he knows my name, but I've never seen him before. "My name is Jake Madsen I'm Eddie's manager."
"Oh," I say but it actually just makes me sound dumb. "Nice to meet you. Hey, do you know where my room is, I can't find it?"
"It's down the hall, last door and the right side." I thank him, but just as I'm about to walk away he grips my arm, making me look at him. "Look I don't know you, but I'm not happy about you. Eddie needs to concentrate on his career and he can't do that with you around him. I don't know what you want from him, if it's money or fame, but you need to leave him alone." And with that said he walks away, leaving me stunned.
"Hey Mel, what's up?" I speak into my phone. After the somewhat scary encounter with Jake, Eddie's manager, I managed to find my room, all the way at the bottom of the hall. It was quite a big room with cream colored walls and a huge soft bed with red bedding, and I also had my own bathroom. Everything here was just so extravagant. I was hanging my clothes in the big closet when Mel had called me.
"What's up? What's up! I'm gonna tell you what's up. Why are you and Eddie all over the internet?" she asked, quite loud may I add. That's when what she said hit me.
"We are what? Mel what are you talking about?"
There are pictures all over the internet where you and Eddie are leaving some sloppy motel," she says. "Loren Tate you better start explaining right now!"
I sighed and explained everything to her, starting with my car broke down and finishing with this phone conversation we were having right now.
"Hey Mel, can you send me the link to that article about me and Eddie?" I ask.
"Sure thing. Hey I gotta go but god luck alright. Break a leg," she says before quickly adding, "not literally, but you know what I mean."
I chuckle and we say our goodbyes. Not even a minute later I get a text from her. It's the link I was asking for. I hesitantly click on it, not even sure if I wanna read it.
When I open it the first thing I'm met with are a picture of Eddie and I leaving to motel. This is quite creepy, I wasn't even aware that someone was taking pictures of us. I wonder if Eddie feels like this all the time. The picture wasn't romantic or anything, we weren't even holding hands or anything; we were just walking beside each other. Nothing else. It's impossible to get anything romantic out of that picture I think, but oh boy how was I wrong.
Major pop star Eddie Duran was early this morning seen leaving a motel with a girl. No one knows exactly who the girl is, but anonymous sources tell us that she may be one of the contestants on the popular TV-show The Talent Search, where Eddie Duran is a judge this year. Eddie Duran is rarely seen with girls and hasn't been dating since his mom, Katy Duran part of the famous duo MK, died 2 years ago. Who is the brunette beauty that maybe finally has captured the young pop star's heart?
What the heck?!
I am waiting outside a huge door made out of dark wood with the other 6 contestants on Eddie's team, minus the girl who was inside right now. I didn't know any of the other contestants but most of us was going home tomorrow anyway so I wasn't about to be overly social with them.
I haven't had the chance to talk to Eddie since this morning and tell him about the article. I don't know if he already knows, but by the dirty looks I receive from some of the contestants in the room I assume that they know. They probably think that I'm having sex with him and that's why I'm here, not because I can actually sing. Eddie doesn't even like me.
"Loren Tate you're next," a man in his mid-twenties say to me from the big wooden door. He's wearing a headset like almost everyone else whom works on the show, except the ones in the kitchen and the ones who clean. I thought a girl was in there but as I look around I seen her talking with another girl in the other end of the room. She must have gotten out without me noticing.
"Come on, we don't have all day," the man from the door says impatiently tapping his foot on the floor. I get up and the man holds the door open for me as I take a deep breath preparing for what's to come.
As I walk into the room I see Eddie and his manager Jake sitting at a table. Eddie smiles as he sees me but Jake just scowls at me.
"Hey Loren, how are you?" Eddie asks. It's probably just a routine question, but for some reason it makes me feel giddy inside like he actually wants to know how I'm feeling.
"I'm good thanks, how are you," I ask. "I'm good thanks. This is my manager Jake Madsen, he's helping me today because he has great judgment," Eddie says gesturing to Jake. My stomach drops when Eddie says that he has great judgment, because he has already made it quite clear that he doesn't like me.
"We already met," Jake says with a monotone voice, like he's bored out of his mind, "now could you please start we don't have all day." I'm taken aback by his hostility towards me but quickly recover.
"Can I use the piano?" I ask gesturing with one hand to the piano behind me. Eddie nods a silent yes. I sit down in front of the piano and take a deep breath before starting.
(Skyscraper by Demi Lovato. I do not own the lyrics; listen to it if you want to)
Skies are crying, I am watching
Catching tear drops in my hands
Only silence as it's ending
Like we never had a chance
Do you have to make me feel like
There's nothing left of me?
You can take everything I have
You can break everything I am
Like I'm made of glass
Like I'm made of paper
Go on and try to tear me down
I will be rising from the ground
Like a skyscraper
Like a skyscraper
As I finish the song I have a good feeling in my stomach. I didn't mess up any lyrics or anything and I really did the best I could. Looking at their faces Eddie seems happy and maybe, but I can be wrong, proud. As I turn to Jake his face is unreadable. I don't know what to think…
"Loren Tate," the man with the headset says from the door. He sighs when I frown at him, but I mean I've already been in the once.
"They want to see you again, now chop chop I don't have all day," he says both looking and sounding annoyed. I look around the room and see all the other contestants looking just as confused as me, but most of them also look relieved. I guess they're happy that they aren't me right now.
I slowly get up, much to the man's irritation, but walk a little faster when he shoots me a look. When I get inside I see Eddie sitting at the table but Jake is nowhere to be seen. I don't think Eddie has seen me so I clear my throat. He turns around and smiles big when he sees me. I try to return the smile but it comes off more nervous.
"Don't worry," he says obviously noticing my smile, "there's nothing wrong. It's just that Jake is not quite… convinced, if that makes any sense?"
"It doesn't"
"What I'm saying is-"
"Oh, hey Loren." Eddie is cut short when Jake comes into the room. He sits behind beside Eddie and smiles arrogant at me. I've never seen him this high up his horse before, granted I've only known him for one day but still. He seems like a pretty laidback person. It's almost as if he's sure that I'm gonna fail or something, and it kind of scares me to be honest.
"Listen Loren it's very simple. You have a great voice but you're only comfortable singing slow songs. So now I want to hear you sing something different," Jake says. "Do you know Voodoo Doll by 5 seconds of summer?"
I nod. I know that song inside out.
"Good, then sing," Jake says leaving no room for discussion.
(Voodoo Doll by 5 seconds of summer. I do not own the lyrics; listen to it if you want)
I don't even like you,
Why'd you want to go and make me feel this way?
And I don't understand what's happened,
I keep saying things I never say.
I can feel you watching even when you're nowhere to be seen,
I can feel you touching even when you're far away from me.
Tell me where you're hiding your voodoo doll 'cause I can't control myself,
I don't wanna stay, wanna run away but I'm trapped under your spell.
And it hurts in my head and my heart and my chest,
And I'm having trouble catching my breath.
I think I did okay. Even though I love this song and I know it so well, I just feel more comfortable singing the slower songs. Eddie looks impressed, but Jake's face is, again, unreadable. I still don't have any idea of what to think…
Okay so not the best chapter I know, but I promise next chapter are gonna be filled with a lot of Leddie.
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