Chapter 13- Reflection

I slipped on my black stilettos with shaking hands.

Tonight was the night of the benefit concert. I wasn't looking forward to it. I was scared.

"You seriously need to calm down." Hunny murmured in my ear.

"Shut up." I muttered.

I stood up and smoothed out my dress. I was about an inch taller than Hunny in these shoes.

"How do I look?"

"Amazing." Hunny commented, getting off of my bed.

We began walking up stairs and out my room. Hunny followed. He was whereing a white dress shirt and black dress pants.

We walked out the front doors and to the black limo with Bret waiting in the front seat. Hunny opened the door and held it open for me. I slid in and then he did.

I twirled my thumbs nervously the whole ride there. The closer we got to the school, the more nervous I got. My breath came in shaky breaths.

"Good luck, Miss. Gage." Bert said as he stopped the limo.

"Why are you so jittery?" Hunny asked.

"Im nervous." I growled getting out of the limo.

My heels clicked on the ground as I walked up to the school. The rhythm of them had a strange calming sensation. The night air was chilling and made me shiver. Hunny wound his arm around my waist and nuzzled my neck.

There are hundreds of people here.

Hunny are I were going to get seats and after Kimmy performed we were to go back stage. I didn't know why Hunny was though.

We pushed past people in the halls and to the auditorium. People were in everyone's way. I wanted to hit everyone in my path.

We sat in the back row closest to the doors.

People apon people, filed in to the huge auditorium.

"Don't they ever stop?" I muttered.

"Well it is sold out, Im guessing the whole town will be here." He said, looking around.

"Well, that's just great." I groaned, sinking in to my seat.

"Don't worry! You'll do just fine." Hunny tried to reassure me.

It wasn't working.

More people.

Most of the auditorium was filled up now. I grabbed Hunny's wrist and pulled his sleeve up to reveal his watch. It was 6:55. That ment the concert started in five minutes.

I bounced my leg up and down and rubbed my hands to gather. My breathing was still shaky too.

Hunny hugged me around the shoulders and began humming in my ear. This relaxed me. I stopped rubbing my hands and bouncing my leg.

I rested my head on his shoulder and closed my eyes.

When I opened them the lights were dimming and someone walked out on stage. A single spot light lighted the stage. I recognized the person as the dean of students.

"Good evening every one and welcome to Oraun Academy. Firstly we would like to that you for coming and donating money. The people and Haiti ill greatly appreciate this. And with that lets get started. Firstly we have Violet And Kaoru doing a duet. Anything you can do (I can do better) with their on little twist on it." She smiled at the audience and left the stage.

The spot light that was above her went out completely. We were surrounded in darkness. Than a light hit Violet, who was sitting on a white grand piano.

She was in a pretty red strapless dress that hung well past her knees.

"Anything you can do I can do better!" Her voice rang.

"Ha!" Kaoru spat back as a new spot light lit him. He was sitting at the piano.

"I can do anything better that you!" Violet's voice was like honey.

The song was done amazingly well. When Violet's long note came I was stunned when she held it longer that she did while practicing.

When the song was over the audience roared with applause.

The dean came back out.

"Next up we have Yumi, singing, Where there was me and you from High school musical." I hated that movie.

I stuck out my tong and made a gagging noise much louder that I had planned.

Hunny clamped a hand over my mouth and a few people in the three rows in front of us turned their heads.

I started giggling under his hand and my cheeks turned red. Hunny kept his hand there when the song started. My tong snaked out of my mouth and slept across his palm.

He still didn't move his hand.

I started whipping my head around until he let go. I smiled in triumph.

There was another duet after Yumi, than a few more people. Finally Kimmy pranced out on stage and began singing Cool Rider from the 2nd Grease movie.

She was clearly enjoying herself.

While she wasn't the best at singing she put on a good show. Her purple dress hung just past her thighs.

"Come on." Hunny said, tugging my arm.

I sighed and stood up. We walked out of the auditorium as another girl walked out on stage.

The light hurt my eyes in the hallway.

We walked in the next door and down a dark hallway and than we were backstage. Girls were gossiping and some people were working the lights above us and others were rushing around trying to get people ready. Aimee was one of them.

"M-Mitsukuni…" I mumbled.

"Royal are you okay?" He said feeling my forehead.

My stomach turned the room spun.

"Garbage!" I yelled looking around frantically.

I found on by the wall behind me. I ran over to it and heaved in to it. Hunny rushed behind me and tried to hold my hair back.

Once I was done tossing my cookies a stage manager handed me a water bottle. I opened it quickly and drank all of it.

I strangely felt a lot better.

"Are you okay?" Hunny asked cradling my face.

"Yeah, I'm good. Don't worry." I assured him.

He raised one eyebrow.

"Seriously, I'm fine." I said.

"Okay…"

Aimee walked up to us. She had a head set on.

"Royal, you're up next. Your singing, Part of you world first that Reflection." She smiled at me. "Good luck."

"Thanks." I returned the smile.

The guy before me walked off stage. I turned and planted a kiss on Hunny's lips and took a deep breath. I heard the dean introduce me.

I walked out on the stage with my head held high. I walked to the middle of the stage and took the microphone off the stand.

I sighed and look over at the piano, Aimee had assured me someone would be playing. I was surprised to see it was Hunny sitting at the piano. I didn't even know he played. He looked at me and mouthed, "Ready?"

I nodded.

He fingers began to glide over the keys effortlessly. I had to admit, I was impressed.

I held to microphone up and sang.

"Look at this stuff isn't it neat? Wouldn't you think my collections complete?"

I tried to look into the audience, strangely all my nervousness, vanished. I recognized Mori and Hikaru and Madison to. Madison's hair was pretty, all pinned up on the top of her head, she was in a simple white dress.

Mori was in a gray button-up shirt that was slightly unbuttoned. Hikaru was in the same clothing that Kauro had been in.

"I wanna be where the people are. I wanna see, see em laughing, dancing."

It was than I realized there was actual music in the background. Not just the piano, but violin. I figured violet might had hooked up her Ipod to the sound system.

"Up where they stay al day in the sun..." I held the longest note and smiled. "Out of the sea. Wish I could be part of your would."

The audience clapped and I looked towards Hunny, he had a big grin plaster across his face. Once the audience's noise calmed down I looked back to Hunny. He held up one finger and mouthed, "Hold on."

He moved over to the end of the chair and I watched as Kauro walked out and sat next to him. I smiled as Violet too came out with a violin in her hands.

They must not be using the Ipod for this song.

Violet put the violin under her chin and nodded towards Hunny. Hunny nodded to me and than began playing once more.

"Look at me, I will never pass for a perfect bride, or a perfect daughter." I realized than I would never be anyone daughter again.

My parents were dead along with my brother.

I let the tear in my eye fall down my cheek.

"Now I see, that if I were truly to be myself I would break my family's heart, who is that girl I see, staring straight back at me. Why is my reflection someone I don't know? Somehow I can not hide who I am though I've tried."

I thought about it, I mean really thought about it and realized, if I were to let myself cry all the time that I sometime feel like doing my family, wherever they are would be sad for me. They wouldn't want me like that. And even if I try to hide my feelings of sorrow, sometimes I slip and cry my eyes out, missing my family.

"When will my reflection show who I am inside?! When will my reflection show who I am inside…" My voice rang.

Violet lowered her violin and the boys got up from the piano. Violet quickly went to Kauro's side and they bowed their heads and exited the stage. Hunny walked over to me and took my hand.

We bowed as the audience roared. I felt the remains off hot tears down my face. I guess I let a few more slip that I had thought. I smiled and walked off stage with the person that mattered most to me.

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