"Please just stay here." They nod and I half smile. I look back at each of them and open my door. I close it and walk towards the house. I knock the door and Mrs O'Driscoll answers. "Your just in time, he's leaving in 5 minutes." I nod and we walk into the kitchen. I lift my eyes from the wooden floor and look him in the eye. I swear my heart just split in two.
"Nicola." I nod at him and pass the papers over. "I need you to sign these." I whisper. He nods. He scribbles his name down and passes them back. I look at Mrs O'Driscoll and she nods. "I don't want you to ever get in contact with me, ever." He nods and walks out. He opens the door and I look at him. "Bye, Daddy." I say and blink back tears. He walks out and Mrs O'Driscoll hugs me.
I half smile and she points to the stairs. I nod and walk up. I knock on the door and hear footsteps. "WHAT DO YOU W-Nicola McDowney?" I nod. "Yeah." I say and she Looks at me. "Why are you h-" I stop her and see the picture in her room. I walk past her and hold it up. "So you know?" I ask and she shrugs then realises. "Yeah." I say and she half smiles-half nods. She hugs me and we sit talking.
"So what's the show like?" I smile. "Good. Really tiring. Amazing people. Really amazing people." She half smiles and I look at her t-shirt. "BLACK VEIL BRIDES?" I ask and she half smiles. "Yeah, I seen this girl on this american show who lives down the road from me and she was talking about them." I half smile. "What show?" I ask and she winks. "That would be telling." I laugh and my phone bleeps;
From Samuel:
Hey, is everything ok?
I smile and look out her window. She walks over to me and looks out. "What are you looking at?" I smile and point to my car, Samuel has the window down. "Can we open this?" She nods and we open it. "Ok, shout 'Larsen What's The Big Idea'?" She nods and I smile. "1, 2, 3... LARSEN WHATS THE BIG IDEA?" We shout and he almost hits his head off the roof of the car. The three of them look around and smile when they see us. "There's a door down there..." Rani says and points to the door. They get out and I smile. We close the window and hear a knock at the door. We walk down and Mrs O'Driscoll opens the door. "hey kids." She says and welcome's them in. Rani has a mini heart attack as they walk in and look at me. Samuel now has his hoodie on and his hair tied back. "Guys, this is my little half-sister Rani." I say and they smile at her. "Rani, this is Damian McGinty, Samuel Larsen and Lindsay Pearce." She awkwardly waves and her mum looks at the clock. "I'm going to leave you guys to it for a little while." She says and grabs her coat before walking out. I look at everyone. "I'll be two seconds." They nod and I follow her outside. I hug her and she smiles. "Thank you." I say and she nods. "Just don't lose contact with her." I smile. "Now that she knows who I am, I'm never going to leave her alone." I say with a smile and she nods before getting in her car.
I walk back in and Samuel is sitting looking at a CD and I sit beside Rani. "Usually. An older sister goes to college, comes back with a boyfriend, get pregnant, then has some kind of future. You come into my life when you are 18, you go to Los Angeles and come back with three other contestants from a show that is being broadcasted all over the world." I nod. "Just a typical days work." Lindsay says with a smile and I nod. "So, without being rude, does it run in the genes?" He asks and points to Rani's t-shirt. I look at her and she shakes her head. "Ugh, he hates rock music." I nod. "Good to know." I say and snatch the CD from Samuel's hand. "Oh, what's this?" I ask and she smiles. "It's the first Black Veil Brides album." I nod. "We Stitch These Wounds." I say with a smile. "Those were the days." I say and they nod. "What, before you had us to worry about?" Lindsay asks and I shrug. "No not worry about, just deal with." I say and pass Samuel back the CD.
"So, you want to do an interview for my website?" I nod. "Sure." I say and she walks upstairs to get a video camera. "So, at what point in the past seven weeks did I go deaf and miss the 'I have a half sister called Rani' story?" I smile and hit Sam. "I didn't want to tell anyone until I told her. She's really sweet." I say with a smile and she walks down. "Ok then." She says and sets the camera up in front of me and her.
"I am joined by Nicola McDowney of The Glee Project." She says and I smile. "And I am joined by my little sister, Rani O Driscoll." I say and hug her. "Yep, not awkward in here at all!" Damian shouts and I laugh. "And over there somewhere, Is Damian McGinty- "Halluh!" Samuel Larsen- "Hey Beautiful People." and Lindsay Pearce- "Hey Guys." she shouts and we get back to the video. "Ok, so guys, tell me, what has been your favourite performance so far?" We all look at each other and nod. "Rockability" We all shout at once and smile. "It was so fun." Lindsay says with a smile and I nod. "We performed one of my favourite mash ups from Glee ever." I say and Samuel nods. "I got 6 hot girls clawing all over me. Nothing wrong with that." Lindsay and I lean over and smack him. "Nicola, what are your favourite rock, screamo, electronica kind of bands?" She asks and Damian's raises his eyebrow. "Right, i'm irish and I have no clue what your on about!" I laugh. "It's different genres of rock. Anyway, I love Black Veil Brides, Falling In Reverse, Bullet For My Valentine, Alesana, The Pretty Reckless, VersaEmerge, Blood On The Dancefloor, Asking Alexandria, Guns N Roses, Metallica, I could go on..." I say and she smiles. "What about you guys? Do any of you like rock?" They nod. "Well, we all kind of like Black Veil Brides now." Sam says with a smile. "Oh My God Cameron is addicted!" Damian says and we all burst out laughing. "And it's just that one song to- Carolyn! He loves it." I smile. "What are your favourite Black Veil Brides songs?" I look at her. "Oh, tough, uhm, between The Morticians Daughter and Saviour." I say and she turns to Sam. "Somewhere between The Mortician's daughter and Beautiful Remains." Lindsay smiles. "Ritual." She says confidently and turns to Damian. "Awk, that one with the shit scary scream at the beginning!" We nod. "Perfect Weapon." I say and he nods. "Aye, I love it, but that scream gets me everytime." He says and I move slightly. "You ok?" She asks me and I nod. "Yeah, my back just a little sore." I say and she nods. "That's because she isn't lying on Samuel." I snap my head around to look at Lindsay. "yeah, by 9pm they have usually lay on each other for about an hour." I laugh and we move on to more questions.
"One last thing, are any of you guys dating? Honestly?" We laugh. "No, we're all single except for Cameron." Lindsay says with a smile. "Well, I think we'll leave it there." We smile. "Bye guys!" We shout and she turns it off. A car pulls up and she nods. "It's probably mum." I nod. "We better get going anyway." I say and hug her. "It was nice, finally meeting you." I nod. "And you Rani." I say and kiss her forehead. She hugs the three of them and Samuel holds up his phone to take a picture of me and Rani. We smile and he takes it and nods. I say goodbye again and we open the door to him. Samuel puts a protective arm around me and he looks at Samuel. "Good night, Mr O'Driscoll." I say and walk away. We get towards my car and Samuel kisses my hair. We get in and I nod. "Done." I say and smile at them. "He isn't part of me anymore." I say with a huge smile and Samuel is looking at the picture of me and Rani. "She is though. She's my little sis, and I love her." I say and start driving home.
