Nicki&thePips

Chapter 69

"And then I enter center stage . . . with smoke and wind. It'll be really cool and the crowd shouting my name." Jade was saying. She was standing on the stage after sound check, imagining being a famous popstar.

"And I'd be right next to you Jade. We'd be superstars together!" Perrie squealed from beside her.

"Oh please Perrie. I'll be a solo artist." Jade said dismissively as she looked to the blond beside her.

"We could be a band." Perrie said.

"Nope. Besides we can't have just two people in a band. It looks dumb." Jade shook her head.

"What if we all were in a band?" Leigh-Anne came up to them. Jesy was next to her. Since Nicki was done with sound check the pips were roaming about the stage.

Jade groaned. "Whatever. We could be called 'Jade and the Jadettes'. I'd be the lead singer of course. You'd be me backups. Go ahead dance behind me." She faced the seats of the huge empty arena and started singing Whitney Houston's 'I Will Always Love You'.  She sounded pretty good for a seven year old kid.

"Uh uh uh." Roc Royal was coming up next to her with Prodigy beatboxing next to him. "They call me Roc, 'cause every time I talk, I spitting really hard and their faces looking shocked . . . ."

"Oh come on! There's no rapping in this song!" Jade screamed at them. "And if it did it wouldn't be about your stupid name."

"Jade relax we're just playing." Prodigy said. "You can't have the whole entire stage for yourself."

"I can rap too." Leigh-Anne said moving to center stage where Jade and the boys were.

"Okay guys I've got an announcement." Nicki called to them from the crowd area carrying Princeton. "Come here." She motioned to them.

The pips gathered and sat on the edge of the front of the stage. "What is it Mother?" Ray Ray asked.

"Garvin just called." This was met with a collective groan from the kids except for Princeton and Perrie. "Shush guys. Mommy's talking. He said that he has found the perfect tutor for you guys. He's interviewed her and everything. You guys are gonna meet her tomorrow and well if you like her she'll be the one conducting your school sessions. Garvin says she even knows how to tutor autistics and deslexics. Apparantly she's some sort of genius and she's only eighteen . . ."

"Is she pretty?" Roc Royal asked.

"Uh . . . Why does that matter Roc?" Nicki asked smirking.

He shrugged. "Even if she is pretty I'm sure that she's not as pretty as Jesy." He said this with a grin at Jesy while Prodigy winked at her.

Jesy scowled.

"Leave Jesy alone. She doesn't want you to be her boyfriend." Leigh-Anne said then stuck out her toungue.

"Mom!" Both Prod and Roc screamed.

"Oh God. I really don't wanna get in the middle of this." Nicki muttered.

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The next morning Nicki and the pips were sitting in their hotel room ready to meet the new tutor Garvin had picked out. Nicki had Garvin select the person because he said that a tutor for them would need some special qualities to be able to handle them.

There was a knock on the door to their suite and Nicki rose from where she was sitting to answer it.

"Good morning Nicki." Garvin said at the door. "This is Chloe Chance." He motioned to a pretty petite girl with blond hair and blue eyes. The first thing that came to Nicki's mind was that the girl reminded her of Perrie, the differences being that she was tanned and looked rather fit.