Heartbreak Hotel: This Place Hotel

Chapter 6: Tug of War

"Promises made, now meant to be broken from a long time ago."

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"W-what?" I stammered.

"The company feels that...it will be best that you go on your own when entering into the 90s." Quincy explained. He was watching my expression carefully as he spoke, trying to be careful not to say the wrong thing.

I shook my head, not quite understanding. "But...why?"

"Liyah," Savannah sighed. "I'm just gonna be real with you here." She stood up from her chair and straightened her skirt that looked as though it was painted on her thin body. " I have been Promise's manager for four years now. I have been standing by and watching everything as it unfolds: from the time where y'all were on the verge of not having a third album, to Denise's death - the investigation, the rising success of Long Way To Happy... Everything. And I'm telling you right now, you guys aren't gonna do anything worth wild after this next album. I just know it."

"Excuse me?"

Her hands flew up above her shoulders in an act of surrender. "Liyah, you are the star here. The group may as well be named Liyah and Promise, because those girls just fades into the background."

"It's true, Li." David said, placing his and over my shoulder. "If it wasn't for you, the last album would've been a flop." He glanced at Quincy who was looking slightly uncomfortable as he sat in his chair. " Tell her, Quincy."

"Eh...I told you not to bring me into this." He said, dragging his voice. It was almost as if he was wining.

"Tell her...Quincy." David pressed. "Tell her how you said the album would've sounded like any other album they have done in the past, and that it wouldn't have even been as successful as the Rush album."

"Huh?" My eyebrows began to crease. That had been the exact same thing that I had been thinking about the album we were working on at that moment.

Quincy shook his head from side to side. " Liyah...Long Way To Happy was successful because the hard work that you put into to it."

"You basically wrote every song on that album. It shouldn't even have had the groups name on it." Savannah said from across the room.

"But... my voice is not the only voice on those songs."

"You're right, it's not. But those girls are practically living under your light and they don't even know it."

"The group is not what it used to be, Liyah." Quincy said.

"It's like y'all are in the news more than y'all are on the radio nowadays. The people are starting to notice and so are the fans." Savannah turned around and began walking towards the table again. Her heels clicking with each step she made. "If you were to ask any person who their favorite Promise member is, they would say you."

"The company doesn't want to the girls on the label anymore. It is not going to work out with them."David added.

"So you mean to tell me that when we are done touring they are gonna drop Promise from the label, but keep me?" I asked, to be sure I was getting a clear understanding of what was going on.

Savannah and David exchanged glances. "That's about right."

I stared at them in disbelief, because it all sounded like a bunch of bull crap to me. If they wanted to get rid of the group that bad, they would drop them right then and there. They wanted another chance to make money off of us before they got rid of us.

They were using us.

"Liyah, you have too much talent to be wasting it on a group that doesn't give a damn if you crash or fly."