Begin Again in a New Pack

Chapter 31

                               River's POV
                           *Trigger warning*

We've been home for a few days. Cody sadly had bad news for me Friday morning.

"Hey hun? I need you to wake up."

I sat up.

"Why?"

"Mitch pleaded "not guilty" we need to go back to Chicago."

"What? When?!"

"We have to be there by next Tuesday. After my interview tonight we'll leave. There's two other girls."

Cody set up what he needed for the interview.

"Why aren't you actually there?"

"I need to go to New York for a late night show."

"Where do I go?"

"If you don't want to be on camera then you can sit off to the side on the beanbag."

I walked over to the beanbag and sat down. The interview's going well. Half of this discussion is about me.

"Babe your foot's on camera."

I lifted my foot up and moved it around.

"Hello people."

"Is that her? Can we see her?"

"No you cannot see us."

"No they can't."

"You wanna come over here?"

"I dunno."

"If you're uncomfortable then you don't have to."

"C'mon we all wanna see her!"

"I don't want to right now."

"We wanna be the first to see her!"

"Please don't force her."

After that was over Cody and I packed our stuff. That night we put everything in the car. In the car I put the hood of my sweater up and pulled the strings.

"Do I have to be on camera for this?"

"I'll have you sit in the crowd. No one will know it's you."

"Are you singing tonight too?"

"Yeah. I'm basically promoting "Before You" Bruce thinks this one's the best to do the first performance of it on."

"Where are you going?"

"The Midnight Show."

"It's that with Lilian Dean?"

"Yep. That's the one. She also does that show I was on this morning."

"I don't remember is it live?"

"Yeah. No pressure."

"What if they want to see me?"

"That's up to you. If you want to show yourself that's fine. If you don't want to that's fine too."

We got there and we entered the building. Cody told them he had a guest and to put me in the crowd. We walked into a dressing room and waited for someone to do his hair and whatnot. I met his manager Bruce. He seems nice. I took my hood off.