1999, Los Angeles, California.
“Come on, come on!!!” Alyssa shouted back into the house “Michelle!!!”
“Relax Lyss.. we still have an hour to get there!” Michelle shook her head at Alyssa’s nervousity.
“No, 15 minutes we still had an hour to get there, now it’s 45 minutes thanks to you Michelle!” “Yea, yea.. Mitch Tha Bitch did it again..”
“Are ya’ ready now?” “I’m as ready as I can be, but where’s Becka?” “SHIT!!!” Alyssa brushed past Michelle and into the house.
***
“BECKY!!!!” she heard Alyssa shouting at the bottom of the staircase, she sighed and switched the bathroom lights off.
You can do it Becky, this is what you always wanted, this is what you fought for,.. you can do it. she kept repeating those words in her mind, hoping it would make her less nervous.. it didn’t help that much..
“REBECKA MARIE MOORE!!” there was Alyssa’s demanding voice again “OK, OK, I’m coming already!!”
“Beck, you’re so talented, you will do fine..” “Thanks Lyss” Alyssa nodded “Now, let’s go!”
“Yea” Becky said, still a bit unsure..
***
“Damn, where are those stupid ditzes?!” Summer cursed “Relax Sum, Becky’s probably scared again” “I don’t understand her Morgan, how can she be so insecure, while she’s probably the most talented of all?” Summer shook her head, Morgan decided to give no response.
“HEY BECK!!! LYSSIE!! WE DON’T EXACTLY HAVE ALL DAY!!!” Michelle shouted.
“Finally!!” the 3 girls in the car sighed when they saw Alyssa and Becky coming out of the house.
“Sorry” Becky murmured when she sat down next to Michelle “It’s OK Beck” Morgan replied.
“OK, are we all in the car now?!” “Well, take a good look around stupid!” “Michelle, SHUT UP!” Michelle sweetly smiled at Summer.
“Girls, relax.. we’ll do fine” “Morgan, I really appreciate the pep-talk, but it’s not working sweets”
***
“Are we there yet??” “No, we’re not..” “Sorry, didn’t know you were in a bad mood Mimi”
“I’m not in a bad mood, I’m trying to sit comfortably in Summer’s truck, which is not exactly working since Becky and Alyssa are squeezing me” “you’re in a bad mood” Morgan laughed.
“Look, I know I’m the skinniest of you all, but there really is no need to squeeze me together like a bug!!” “Geez Michelle, I’m real sorry, but there’s not that much space in here”
Alyssa snappped sarcastically.
“OK, you girls, that’s enough, stop the childish behavior!”
They didn’t have time to answer to that as Summer suddenly yelled “WE’RE HERE!!”
“YAY!!!” Morgan jumped out.
“My God, seems like we’re not the only ones who read that ad” Becky said, as they walked in, there were at least a 100 more girls.
“Hello, we read an ad in the Saturday newspaper-“ “Right, names please?” the desk-attendant asked “Alyssa Farrow, Summer Cooper, Becky Moore, Morgan Sinclair, Michelle Evans”
“OK, here are some forms for you ladies to fill in, when you’re done, give them back to me and I’ll let you know when you’re up!” “Thanks”
“OK girls, let’s find ourselves a seat and fill in these questions” “Uhh, I think we might have some troubles with finding those seats Lyss..” Michelle looked around “looks pretty crowded by me” “Oh, well, we’ll sit down on the-“
“I found places!!” Summer shouted.
“Do you think we stand a chance?” “Of course!” “But there are so many girls here, and all so pretty..” “Beck, you’re pretty too” “Nah..” “Yea! Look, now is not the time to chicken out Becks, you have to look confident and strong-willed, if you want this to work” “You’re right”
Becky nodded.
“Wow, I can smell the competition in here!” Morgan gave Summer a warning look “But we’re gonna win of course!!” she added.
“OK, MISS FARROW, MOORE, SINCLAIR, EVANS AND COOPER!! YOU’RE UP!!”
“Here we go girls..” Summer laughed nervously. They laced arms and walked in..
“Good-day ladies! Have a seat, please!” they sat down “OK, my name is Ross Blythe, the lady next to me is Angela Beaudeen, we’re gonna take a look at the skills of each person, aswell as your group-skills, when we’re done you’ll get a phonecall somewhere next week to hear if you’re through the selection! Any questions?” ‘no’ they nodded.
“No? OK, Miss Summer Cooper.. let’s see what you’ve got!” Summer stood up “Start by singing a song?” “Yes, that’d be fine” “OK” she started singing a Gloria Estefan-song..
“That was marvelous!.. now.. Alyssa Farrow!” “I’ll do Dreaming of You by Selena”
“Morgan Sinclair?” “Uhmm.. I’ll do I love you always forever by Donna Lewis”
“Michelle Evans?” “Papa, don’t preach by Madonna!”
“Becky Moore?” “Sometimes Britney Spears”
“Wow, you girls are great!! Now can you sing a song all together?” “Yea, sure!”
they quarreled on which song for a few minutes, but then they chose to sing Never Ever by All Saints, but then with 5 instead of 4 girls.
“Well, I must say.. I’m pretty impressed.. this is all for now, but I think we might very well meet again!” “Really?!” Ross and Angela nodded “Wow, thanks!” “Thank you very much Mr. Blythe, Mrs. Beaudeen” Alyssa, being the polite one, said.
“WOW!!!” Morgan yelled as soon as they stood outside again “Haha!!” she laughed and started doing some sort of victory dance “Morge, don’t get your hopes up too much, we don’t know anything yet” “But we will! Did you hear what he said?!” “Yes, there’s nothing wrong with my hearing, but we still don’t know anything.. we’ve been rejected lots of times.. Mr. Blythe wouldn’t be the first to tell us we’re great and then let us down” “Oh, Summer, don’t be so negative! Let’s just have fun now K?”
They decided to go to the mall to ‘celebrate’ how good the audition went .
“What’s wrong Beck?” Alyssa asked when they we’re in McDonalds and Becky was staring off into space “Oh, nothing.. I just.. I.. never mind” “Don’t give me that shit Becky, something’s bothering you, I wanna know what it is” “Well, I’m just wondering.. what if they pick.. let’s say.. Michelle and Summer and not the other 3? What would happen then? Can they even do that?”
“That’s stupid Becka”
“Hey! Stop it Mimi! Becky has a point here!”
“You think they would do that?” “No, if they would.. then we’re not gonna go along with them.. we promised to be a group.. we’re not gonna let some manager get in the way” “Yea” the others said to Morgan.
~~~Next week~~~
Michelle sat down at the kitchen table to get some cereal “Hey Becks” she said to Becky who already was eating “Hey Mimi”
“Hey you girls! What are you gonna do today?” “Work” Michelle rolled with her eyes
“If you hate it that much, why don’t you quit?” “Cuz we need the money doofus!”
“Well, Summer works at the diner” “Oh and you think that provides?” “Well, does your job provide that much?” “No, but we need all the money we can get”
Michelle and Alyssa proceeded to quarrel about the job-issue, when Morgan and Summer bursted in “AAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!” was all Morgan screamed.
“Yo Sum, what’s wrong with our Candy-girl?”
“OH!! You girls!! You ain’t gonna believe it!!!” “Believe what??”
“Omigod, omigod, omigod!!!!” “Summer!! Morgan!! What the fuck is going on?!”
“Did you hear the phone ring just a few minutes ago?” “Yea..” “Well.. it was Ross and Angela..” “Who?” Michelle had never been good with names.
“Ross Blythe and Angela Beaudeen.. from the audition we did last week”
“REALLY?!!” Alyssa yelled “Yes! Yes! Yes!”
“WE GOT ELECTED!!!!” Morgan shouted.
“AAAAHHHH!!!!” “omigod, omigod, omigod!!!” they all hugged and yelled and jumped around the kitchen.
“Hey, I can quit my job now!!”
“Not so fast Mimi! We’re still only beginning, it might take years before we break through!” “Yea, or just months!!”
“So, we have to be there at 3, to discuss everything, and he said we could take our lawyer with us to look over things and all” “Oh, then I’d better go call my dad” Alyssa said, as her dad was their lawyer.
~~~4.00 PM~~~
“Hey girls! Hello Alyssa!” “Hi dad”
“So..big break??” “Maybe..” her dad looked at her with that I-should-lecture-you-but-I-won’t
look.
“Well, 3 of you can drive along with me” “OK, I’ll go with you Mr. Farrow”
“OK Becky, anyone else?” “Yea, I’ll drive along too” Summer said.
“Hey! Can I drive your truck then Mad?” “Yea, sure Mimi”
They took their purses and left.
“Michelle, please, can you slow down a bit?” “Oh, you’re such a goody-goody Lyssie”
“Yea, well, that may very well be, but I happen to care about whether I live or not”
“All right, all right!” Michelle started driving a bit slower, totally against her will.
They practically ran inside the building.
“Hi.. we’re… here.. for.. Mr… Blythe.. and-“ “Yes, I know, you can walk right through”
the desk-attendant said to Alyssa who gasped for breath from running.
“Come in, come in! There are our lucky winners!” “Hello girls” Ross and Angela said.
“Hello Mr. Blythe, Mrs. Beaudeen” “Oh please, call us Ross and Angela!”
“OK” they nodded.
“Oh, sorry, this is my dad, he’s our lawyer” Alyssa said
“Hello, Randy Farrow” “Hello Mr. Farrow, I’m Ross Blythe and this is Angela Beaudeen”
“Nice to meet you”
“OK, girls, we have put together a contract for you and here’s some sort of schedule thing, it’s not completely sure yet, what we’re gonna do, except from signing you in, that is”
They looked through the papers they were handed, while Randy talked with Ross and Angela about the business-side.
“Well, it looks very professional girls, I think you should do it!” “Really dad?”
Alyssa looked at him with big eyes, amazed that he said that, since he and her mom were usually against it.
“Yes, really Alyssa, it looks very good, and although I might not have been the most supportive dad in this whole showbizz thing,.. I think you really should do it”
“THANK YOU SO MUCH!!” she screamed, hugging him.
“What if we meet again tomorrow? Then we can make a demo-tape!” “YEA!!”
“OK, tomorrow, same place, same time?” “OK”
Ross and Angela looked at the 5 girls leaving the room “They’re gonna be big Ang”
“No, they’re gonna be HUGE!” they laughed and did a high five.
