Forced Love

Chapter 32 Date

It's the day of the little pageant, everything was ready, we had practiced nearly every minute of the week getting ready for three tasks. "Moose, come help her eyes, it needs some special attention." I said through my mouth with tips of bobby pins just out of it. I was doing her hair for the date, I was curling her luscious hair but I needed bobby pins to hold it up until I was done.

"Mace, is the dress pressed?" I asked from afar.

"Yeah, nice and fluffy." he said. I nodded slightly and kept working on the hair, the twins came over with the accessories and stuff and put it on her while Moose did the makeup. John was doing her nails while Andrew took care of the accessories on the clothes. "How's Alex?"

"Holding up, the poor guy." Andrew grinned.

"He started panicking before Luke and Klaude could put him in his clothes." John laughed.

"Well, at least we've got Charlie." I grinned.

"And what's that supposed to mean?" she said, I could hear her chuckled when she tried to sound outraged.

"Don't move, we're almost done. How's Nick doing with the props?" I asked.

"Yeah, surprisingly the other twins wanted to help out." Andrew said.

"What other twins?"

"Dylan and Cole." So they were helping out, didn't expect that to happen. "I'll have to thank them later."

"Or you can thank us now." Cole said coming by. "Thanks you guys." I said as I kept concentrating on her hair. Her hair was thick and luxourious, I can't believe how healthy her hair was, it was hard to make the ends wavy.

"5 minutes to prep the contestants." the announcer had said. "Are they ready?" I asked Charlie.

"I don't know." Okay, this was one of those moments where you tell them that you believe in them, the cliche and cheesy stuff, I don't do that. So instead, I said the opposite, might have been mean but it would have been true. "If you lose, I will kill you." She chuckled, "Not before I kill myself." That cheered her spirits, good.

"Are you ready?" Alex said coming over. He was looking good, hat and everything. "Glasses?" I asked. He held them up high and I nodded, it was time to start. Alice was supposed to go first, we all had to see what we were up against before we could make assumptions, the first task was simply show up in your best outfit fit for a date but if you wanted you could put on a wonderful show which we were but I had a theory that Alice's ego would get to her and since her mother is a fashioin judge she would just be doing outfits. I was at the side of the stage waiting, leaning on the wall. They came out with the flashiest clothes ever, her blonde hair with the whitest dress ever and Carter, he just hung there but pretended, I could tell he was not enjoying any of this.

"Ah, look at my little brother." Adam said behind me. "I thought he was your older brother." I said.

"Nope, I'm actually older but we were born in the same year."

"How's that possible?"

"Believe it or not, I'm not blood related to him." That caught me there, I turned to him, "What?"

"It's not really a big deal, I'm glad I have another family."

"Do you know who your real parents are?"

"Yeah, there both in jail." I don't think it was my place to ask why, it wouldn't be right. I just looked at him for a brief moment and flashed back to the stage, lights were shining everywhere, they were soon done and I had to get Charlie ready, I passed by Adam and went to go check up on them. Charlie was hyperventilating which made me laugh a little, "This is no time to be laughing at me."

"Calm yourself, you are to be in acting mode."

"I can't, I'm scared that we're going to lose."

"We've worked to hard for this, we have to do it."

"2 minutes to get ready." Cole said. I grabbed Charlie's hand and made her look at me, "Look at me." I demanded, she slowly turned to face me. "We can't back down now, we're already in it, don't make me say anything cliche."

"You're terrible at these believing moments." She said letting out a sigh and a chuckle.

"I told you, I'm not going to say one of those cheesy sayings."

"Alright, I think I can do this now." She said standing up, but I knew she wasn't, someone slipped there hands into her and held it up, "We've got this." he smiled showing his big clean white teeth, just sitting there grinning with his ukele behind his back, sunglasses up on his hair and a hat just right over his curls. He fixed Charlie's black bow that carressed her soft hair, the petite dress fluffed up once she stood up still holding Alex's hand. Good luck, I thought, we practiced too much for this and we weren't going to let it all just collapse without a good fight.

They came out and Alex had his ukele in one hand, his hat on his curls and black specs covering his eyes, singing his little song that he found, he was going to play it on his little ukele, a playful little song that could cheer anyone up really. It was a scenery of a park and there was a bench, then Alex started playing his little song. Charlie was laughing showing off her dress but most of all showing a smile, Alex took her hand and twirled her around, she was laughing now while he was still singing his little words. Her dressed twirled around with her like a cloud floating off into the sun, well figuratively I mean. Charlie did exactly what we rehearsed, she took off Alex's glasses and put it on her eyes as Alex was chasing her around still singing and playing his ukele, it ended with them both sitting on the bench that was left there as instructed. Then Alex put his hat on her and held up the uklele high still playing the tuneful notes.

"Hmm, seems to be going well." Klaud said.

"Yeah, I can't believe we're actually doing it now."

"Well, we needed to end this feud." I nodded as I watched the two giggle and laugh as Alex ended his words and the lights shined on them. They quickly got off the stage once the lights blackened and the twins came out. Well, all four of them actually, "Great job." Andrew said patting Alex.

"Beautiful." John said patting Alex's back.

"Mademoisel." Cole said coming over to Charlie.

"You have never looked so beautiful like this." Dylan said giving her a hug and she gave one to him too. "I'll take that as a compliment." I stood there and watched as all of them happily crowded around each other, and here was I, admiring there big family. I felt someone's shoulder around me, I expected it to be the player but it wasn't.

"Why aren't you over there?"

"I don't belong there Jon, I don't belong to a family."

"Hey you'll always be a part of my family."

"No, Jon. I don't belong anywhere, I always knew that we weren't completely related. Violet despises me, your mother has never ever liked me and I don't know what to say about Dad. I want to find a family, a family of my own."

"Well why not them?" he asked. I looked over there and Adam was there, how can he waltz over there and suddenly be joined in a big family of friends?

"I don't belong."

"Who said that."

"Nobody, I did because I really don't belong." I sighed as I looked down. He picked my chin up, "I don't think so." They were all waving at me to come over, Adam was the one waving frantically, I knew he was just being the play boy he is, but I came over anyway. I think it was time to prepare the second task so we went over to touch up the things, we were going to use the same clothes. I saw Alice and her teeth were clenching, I noticed her skin.

"Your wrinkles are showing." I said. She hissed at me before she walked off. They were to go first so right after I fixed Charlie's hair from all the hugging and what not, I came over to the side to watch Alice. They came out in the same clothes and they were both smiling, Alice waved bye as if a date had finished, Alice purposely tripped, she was a bad faker. Carter had caught her and pulled her to his chest and looked into each others eyes intently and so they kissed. My eyes widened as I realized what had happen, I turned to Andrew and John that were right behind me. They had wide eyes too, they had stolen our sketch.

"They cheated."