all for one | book 1 [discontinued]

Thirteen: The Auditions... Again

ALL FOR ONE,
CHAPTER THIRTEEN:
THE AUDITIONS... AGAIN

a/n: please be sure to read my author's note at the end, i couldn't post it here without there being spoilers! also, a lot happens this chapter, so i hope you enjoy. i also hope you guys enjoy this opening scene, i was really excited to write it!

CALLA STONE WAS in distress. All night, Maddie had talked about ways to bring down the new theater students. Why? Because that was just the level of evil that Madilyn Kitridge was. She squashed everything that didn't benefit her just for the fun of it all. And Calla had never wanted to be like Maddie. She'd done what she needed to do to survive at school. But looking at her reflection, she was wondering if she had become exactly that which she despised.

"See, that's the thing with you Fab Four. You think everybody is in love with you, when, actually, everybody hates you." And you knew that the stress was getting to you when you began talking to your own relection. Or, in this case, her reflection had begun talking to her with a roll of its eyes.

"You made me like this! It was your idea for me to pretend to beee plastic!", Calla shot back, hands tightly gripping the edge of the sink. Years of insecurity and torment, of forever being the odd one out, had done this to her. The constant moving had driven her to this point.

The version of herself that stood in the mirror, pretty in red and carefully crafted, smiling and popular and perfect to all she met, scoffed immediately. "Buddy, it's not pretend. You are as plastic as they come. You think your shit don't stink. You think the rest of us are dumb! I hate Maddie's guts, but here's what you don't comprehend: at least she has the guts to not pretend to be someone she's not!", her reflection argued back with a scowl.

"I-"

"No, it's fiiiiiiine, really fiiiiiine. Go be fiiiiine!", the reflection grinned sarcastically, raising her hands in a 'shoo' motion.

"And I want myself back", Calla decided.

LET THE RECORD show that Elijah Sinclair absolutely hated getting up early in the morning, but this morning he had an agenda, so he was dressed and ready before everyone else in the villa and out the door already, all the way down to Village B6.

"Alessia, there's a cute guy here for you!", the dark skinned girl who opened the door shouted as she stepped away. "Wish cute boys were bringing me breakfast", she grumbled.

Alessia came skipping over not too long after, looking adorable in her red sweater and plaid skirt. "Hey, Eli! I figured that it must have been one of you, because there's no way that Ronnie would ever call TJ cute. She hates his guts", she chuckled before dropping her voice to a whisper. "He broke her ceramic unicorn, and she never got over it."