Chapter 2 - Truth or... Truth
"Okay, Keely," Vanessa said about thirty minutes later. "We're gonna have you play a game kinda like truth or dare, except it's only truth. You have to pick one of those cards..." she said, gesturing to the giant flippable cards on the stand, "...And then I'm gonna flip it and you have to tell us the answer, okay?"
"Oh boy... okay, let's do this."
First, Keely picked the very top one in the left hand corner.
"Okay, your question is... how long have you wanted to be a singer?"
"Well, actually, up until I was fourteen I wanted to be a singer, but then I was anchorgal on my school's news team, and then after High School I decided to become a singer again... it was a little weird, it was like my dreams kinda flipped."
"Very cool, very cool," Vanessa said, nodding her head. "Okay, time to pick another one."
Keely picked the one in the very middle this time.
"Okay, your question is... how did you get started singing?"
"Well, obviously, all of you know that I've been doing this only a little over a year. That was because I went to a talent audition in my hometown which was Pickford, California, and I got a callback from the talent scout, so she brought me here, and I started my first album shortly after that."
"Okay, that's cool. Well, I was thinking that we forget this and let some people from the audience ask a few questions, what do you think?"
The crowd cheered, and Keely couldn't say no. Plus, she wanted to anyway.
"Okay, that sounds great."
The whole audience raised their hands. Vanessa picked a person at random.
"Okay, how about..." she skimmed her eyes across the audience. Her eyes landed on a little nine year old brunette girl. "You."
The girl's face lit up like a Christmas tree as Vanessa walked over to her and put the microphone up to her mouth.
The girl said, "Have you ever kissed anyone?"
Keely joked, "Only in my dreams, sweetie."
The whole audience laughed.
Vanessa then picked a teenager with blonde hair.
"Have you ever had a crush on your best guy friend?"
"Actually, yes, I have, but I won't say his name because he might be watching. But we used to go to High School together and I miss him a lot." To Phil, she seemed a bit teary-eyed.
"Maybe I'm seeing things," he thought. But he wasn't.
"Okay, we have time for one more question," Vanessa said, scanning her eyes over all of the people.
This time, they landed on a teenage boy about her age.
"What are you planning on doing for the Holiday season this year?" he asked.
"Well, I'm actually going to Pickford to shoot a music video, and I'll be staying there until Christmas is over."
At this, Phil's eyes grew wide.
"YES!" he yelled, alarming his family and causing them to rush upstairs.
"What's wrong?" his mother asked worriedly.
"Oh... did that come out?" he thought.
"Oh, nothing... nothing at all."
His family looked at him strangely and they all walked downstairs. Phil waited until they left to scream into his pillow.
"Oh, I can't believe this," he said quietly. "Keely is coming home for Christmas! I'll be able to see her!"
He watched the rest of TRL with no doubt and joy in his heart.
End of Chapter 2
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