Fame

Chapter 5

I stared in disbelief. I had never imagined myself as a celebrity. Deep down within me I had some interest in being famous but I didn't think that I would ever make it. Now without me even doing anything an agent had found me. I looked at him and said " Yes I want you to be my agent." The man smiled and said " My name is Riley. I am from talents of America. I didn't expect you to respond so soon but if you did I got a driver." For some reason I was trusting of this man. I followed him to a nice car that seemed to be pretty normal with a sunroof and nice seats .He sat in the front and I sat in the back. Then the driver who was a short man who was bald and had a small beard and a round face started to drive. The ride was short and pretty quiet and when we arrived I was really nervous. I walked into the building following Riley we eventually went up the elevator and walked down a hall into a office. In the office was a woman who I recognized as the founder of talents of America. She looked at me unimpressed and said " Myra Riffens you have finally arrived." She waved me over to a seat at a desk near hers and she handed me some paper work. Riley sat down next to me and said " This is your contract you don't need to read over all of it but it says that we will sign you for a year and see how it goes." I wanted to read the contract to make sure I wasn't giving away my soul but I quickly grabbed a pen and signed my name. Riley looked at me and said" that was all that needed to be done. Now we should get to work on your career. I have contacted the police and you will be seeing your mom and sister in 2 days. They are fine and your mom is being examined right now."For some reason this didn't concern me, my mother would be fine. I got up and Riley said " to start your career you will he going to the recording room to make your first single." I was suddenly horrified I couldn't sing. But I still wanted to. As I thought this a young woman walked in and said" my name is Alicia and I will be assisting you. " Alicia was pretty and had light blonde hair and light skin. Her eyes were a unusual green and her smile seemed to sparkle. "So, where is the recording room?" Alicia took my hand and said " that is where I am about to take you." Alicia took me outside the building and we walked on the sidewalk which was empty. We walked into another building which was huge and seemed to glow in the night. I walked in through the doors and Alicia signed in. The clerk told her to take the stairs up and we would see where we wanted or go. We followed her instructions and walked into the stairway. The building wasn't well lit but there was enough lighting to see where you were going. I kept walking not really looking at my surroundings. I wondered if there was anyone here. When we reached the right floor and I saw a few rooms and one of them had a man standing at a bunch of boards. Then in another room was a bunch of people who seemed to be waiting for me. Alicia lead me to them and stood next to me as a man started to talk " This is Myra Riffens the girl from the video." The people all looked at me and some people smiled while others seemed surprised. I decided to ask " So what am I going to be singing?" One of the woman said " we will get to that soon." I instantly knew I had to get this right. So I had to wait as the people in the room started to explain things " I would walk into the recording room and someone in there would help me with my singing. Then when I was ready I would start to do several takes and the person at the boards would help put it all together. I wasn't told much more than that and then someone said " The single you will be singing is " My Path." I walked into the recording room nervous about what would happen when a man walked in and said " First you will be practicing some lyrics and then you will do the warm ups. Then you will read the lyrics to the song and you will listen to it's demo. "The man was friendly and began to sing some lyrics and I repeated after him. I was really off key and sounded horrible for the first few then I began to sound better and better. Then the man taught me to how breath and sing certain notes. Then he said " You seem to be ready Myra for the single." I was super worried. I couldn't sing. But for some reason my sense of worthlessness made me want to do this. I stood up and walked into a small room. There was some a microphone and a bunch of other things I couldn't recognize. The room was dark but light came from a window where a few people sat next to a bunch of boards. Then suddenly someone said" Ok Myra we are going to do sound check and then you will sing." I stood at the microphone as the man had told me and started to say " Testing, testing, testing." The man on the other side of the window signaled that I was ready to sing. I heard no music then suddenly the music began to play and I waited. I waited for my chance to shine.