The Actor Games

Singing Your Heart Away

Im still laying on my bed when I hear a knock on my door. "Alex, its Justin." He says. "What do you want?" I said.
"I just wanted to ask you something."
"Ask it through the door."
"If I don't win the Actor Games and I get punished and I can't go back to 12, can you tell my family I love them?"
"Why? You can tell them yourself."
"No I can't. You know what my mom said? She said we might win this year. By that she means you not me."
"I highly doubt that."
"No, its true your better than anyone of us."
"Again, I highly doubt that."
"Stop denyng it." He snaps. "Your good and you know it."
"You need to man up. You need to believe that you have as good as a chance as me to win.." I get off my bed and go to the door and open it. I pull him in. "What's your issue, telling me this. What is it?"
"What you don't accept compliments?" I stop arguing."Apparently, you don't like having people saying good things about you." This was the last straw. I punch him in the nose and he grabs it. He punches me and a dodge it and flip him. He gets up and sidekicks me. I punch him again and he flips me on to the bed and pins me down. "What are you, a freaking rapist?" I ask him.
"I don't want to mess up your pretty face Alex. I thought we were friends until you punched me."
"I'm teaching you to man up and believe." I punch him and push him off of me. He falls over the couch. I run and jump over the couch pinning him down. "Say your going to win Justin. To see your family again."
"No, because I'm not going to win!"
"Say it."
"NO!"
"YOU HAVE TO SAY IT JUSTIN!" He punches me and says "I'm not going to win. You are. You just don't realize it." I get up and I see that my hair is falling out. My poor hair. Choe will just have to redo it. "Come at me bro." I say. He runs and tackles me to the ground. "Look, Alex. Why are we doing this?"
"Because you need to man up." (Cough cough burn cough.) He's bleeding on his face. Its dripping onto my face. He leans in to kiss me. "ALEX!" We both turn and see Eleanor and Choe standing in my doorway."What is going on?" Choe asks. "I was teaching him how to fight, because he needs to man up, he doesn't think he's going to win." I say
"Alex, he might not win so you can't make him believe that." Choe says. "Now come on we have to fix your makeup and your hair. Justin go find Sader, he needs to fix your face to." Eleanor huffs and walks Justin out of the room. Choe begins to redo my hair. "I'm sorry." I say. "You don't have to be sorry, something just clicked inside of you and made you do all of that, but he does need to man up." I grin and he chuckles. "There your hair is done. Now it's time for makeup!" He reapplies all my makeup and washes blood off my face. He also does my nails. They are white. "Choe, thank you so much for fixing me again."
"It's my job." I get up and stare at myself in the mirrior. I'm different. I can tell, just something about me. "Alex, its time for the dinner!" Eleanor shouts from downstairs. Why does she only shout at me? I run down the stairs and make it into the elevator before it closes. "So Justin, Alex do you guys like karaoke?" Eleanor asks us. "I guess." I say. The elevator opens and Eleanor pushes Justin and I out. "Toodles!" She says. I walk  to the restaurant and immediately all conversation stops. At least six people run up to me." Oh my gosh! Alex, I'm like your biggest fan!" A young green haired girl practically screams. "Can I get your autograph?" A boy with blue hair asks. "Umm, sorry but no." A bunch of people say" Aww." And walk away. Justin and I quietly walk over and start helping ourselves to food. I get ham, potatoes, honeydew, cottage cheese, and some sort of soup. Its so good. "Hello everyone! I'm Scotts as you should know and that's start this karaoke machine up!" He laughs and so does everyone else. "First up is." He puts his hand in a bowl and pulls out two envelopes. "Taylor Marks and Romeo Hamlet!" Taylor was the girl I saw in the elevator a few days ago and Hamlet is the guy who asked for my autograph. They sing Happy By: Pharrel Williams. "Next is." He draws again. " Alex Shakespear and Travis Moore!" Travis has brown hair and blue eyes. He is really cute! A song pops up on the screen called The Heart Wants What It Wants. I start.