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I kissed Micheal goodbye and was off to New York City.

After I recieved a letter from Liz at her new school, I decided to write to her.

"Dear Liz, You know, they say New York can be overwhelming at first, the crowds, the noise, the restless energy. It's suppose to be intimidating to first timers. Not me. I love it. I am never leaving unless I can't convince Micheal to move here. This is my kind of town. In fact, I feel like, I don't know, I feel like I've come home."

After my letter was written, I went for a cruise in my limo...That's right. My OWN limo!

I ran into Billy and invited him to my recording session.

"All right, well come on, this is so working," Dominique said as we walked in.

"Dominique, this is my very good friend Billy Darden. He's an excellent song writer," I introduced.

"Oh, great, well give me a demo. I'd love to hear it," she said as they shake hands.

"Sure, I mean, if you're really interested I can just play you something right now," Billy said grabbing his guitar.

"No, actually a demo is best," Dom said with disinterest.

"Right."

Yeah, thanks." She finished and then said to me, "Okay, sugar, this song is good. I mean, it's really good, you know? I'm just-- I'm not quite sure that it's a home run. Do you know what I mean?"

"So, you don't want to use this song anymore?" I said, slightly hurt.

"Okay, I love it. But the label, I think, might want to go with something just a little lighter."

"Okay, well if they want a different song, I mean, Billy and I--"

"Actually, I've got the song, honey, right here," Dom said handing me the lyrics.

"I don't understand, I thought you wanted me because I was a song writer," I said, clearly confused with the whole ordeal.

"Oh, well, baby, we want you, you know, for your voice, and your look, everything. Everything. The whole Deluca package."

"Yeah, but I didn't write this," I said holding up the lyrics.

"Yeah, but professionals did. I mean, no offense, my god, you're, you know, you're just new. You're raw."

"I mean, I don't even think like this."

"Okay. Please try it. All right? And trust me-- I tell you what, you record this song, okay, and if at the end of the day if you don't like it and you want to go with your song, then we will-- we will go with your song. All right?" I nodded. "Okay, cuz I just want us to have options."

"Okay."

"All right then."

"Okay."

"Perfect. Excellent."

Suddenly, I felt extremely ill and ran into the bathroom and threw up.

"Are you all right?" Dom asked when I came back

"Yeah, I'll be fine." I smiled it off and then started to sing. "Time to start a fire. I'm done with just desire. Come on and say it for me. Touch me the way I know you care. It's the only way I know to seeeee. Of me-- Okay, can we cut it? I'm sorry."

"Okay, darling, you don't say cut, I say cut. Okay? Okay, so we're gonna do it again, and now from the second verse. All right?"

"Okay. Wait. You know, I'm sorry this isn't working for me."

"What's wrong?"

"I don't know. It's just not me. I'm not feeling it or whatever."

"Okay, but honey, really, I know what these label boys want, so just trust me on this."

"No, but I do. It's just these aren't my lyrics. I feel really weird singing them."

"All right. Well, fight your way through it, cuz you sound great. Really."

"I know, but I mean, my songs are, you know, what I am."

"Well, this is business. This isn't personal."

"Well, yeah it's personal. It's personal to me. I mean, if it's not personal it's just karaoke. I can just do that back at home at the Pizza Pan."

"Are you going to sing the song or not?"

"No, I want to sing the other song. I want to sing my song."

"Yeah, well, Maria, sweetie, the other song isn't going to work, okay? So we're going to need this song."

"But we had a deal." I paused then realized that she wasn't going to cooporate with me, "You're not giving me a choice, are you?"

"Oh no. No, no, no, honey. You always have a choice. See you can finish recording this demo or you can head back to Roswell."

"Then I will head back home to Roswell." I said and walked out, not waiting for Billy, but heading to my hotel to start packing.

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