Love In The Backstage

Chapter 4

Ellie's POV
"Hello Ellie. I'll be your vocal assistant!" A young woman with short blonde hair extends her hand to me.

"Nice to meet you um-" I trail off waiting for her to tell me her name.

"Nina!" She says cheerfully with her squeaky voice hurting my eardrums and I nod offering her one of my brightest smiles.

"Do you want a tour? You know.. To become more familiar with the place that you'll be working at." She says glancing nervously at the clock on the wall.

"If you don't have anywhere else to go.." I say peaking a glance at the clock and then turn my attention back at her.

"Oh no. I don't. Let's go!" She says as she walks out of the door with me trailing right behind her. We walk down the large halls with rooms full of equipment where lots of others contestants are working with their vocal assistants. We walk past a big room and I hear a beautiful voice.

I look inside and there it is him playing his guitar and singing one of my favorite songs. Ed Sheeran - Give me Love. Even if I don't like the guy I have to admit his voice is just amazing.

I have been staring for awhile now because he must have noticed me. He turns to look at me but I look away before our eyes meet and start walking away.

Nina is nowhere to be found. Great. She probably thought I was following her so now I'm alone in the middle of this hall. I groan.

"Ellie?" Her voice yells from behind me and I jump. What the hell! She scared the living shit out of me.

"Oh god! You scared me!" I say and put my hand over my heart to emphasize my words in a dramatic way. Yeah that's me. Drama Queen.

"Sorry. Why are you still here? Come on!" She says and grabs my hand leading me to the elevator.

"Where are we going?" I ask bored and she rolls her eyes.

"Upstairs to meet your choreographer silly!" She says in a duh tone and now it's my turn to roll my eyes.

"Silly my ass.." I mutter to myself. Fortunately she didn't hear me because she's clearly preoccupied by picking up her perfectly round-shaped pink nails. The elevator's door opens and we enter. We wait for it to arrive in the 3rd floor and then head to a gym room.

We enter and I see Laura. She waves at me but I choose to ignore her. I follow Nina who's heading to a very muscled man probably in his late 20s and when she spots Nina a big smile forms on his lips. Hmm.. Interesting. I think to myself.

"Hey Laura" he says leaning into the wall behind him.

"Hey Greg. Here's Ellie. Ellie that's Greg" She introduces us and we shake hands.

"So tomorrow will be our first choreography so better don't be late. Be here at 9. Ok?" He asks still looking at Nina.

"Okay." I ask looking around feeling a bit uncomfortable.

"I should get going. See ya guys." I rush my words and make my way out of the room feeling unwanted.

"Ellie!" Laura calls from behind me and I turn to face her calmer this time.

"Hey.." I say pushing some hair out of my face in an attempt to make me seem cool but the ring in my right hand sticks in my hair. Shit. Shit.

"Ah!" I groan loudly and Laura chuckles.

"It's not funny" I say in a bitchy voice but when I see my reflection in the mirror behind her I can't help but join in and laugh. I look ridiculous with my hand stuck in my hair.