Get it Right!

Prologue

"Goodmorning America!" the speaker shouts out loud from the radio station. "Today we wanna wish you a perfect day with an important host. I think that every one of you knows who I'm talking about, don't you?"

People in the room cheer and applause very enthusiastically. 

"Well, let me introduce the Grammy Award winner for the Album of the Year, Come with Me, where the Song of the Year with the same name has been extracted from. Come with Me has gone quadruple platinum til now! And now ladies and gentlemen, here at Wake Up World! for the first time ever, Jake Malcolm!"

An explosion of roars floods into the studio when I appear, covered by the scene smoke. the band is ready, I am ready. 

Let's shake this place! I think and I start singing my song.

It has been a worldwide success, and I couldn't be more grateful for this opportunity I am having. Of course, I've grown up a lot as an artist, comparing to the time I first started this job and I think that no one ever expected this, above all my family, no one but me and the light of my eyes. Stella...

As everytime that song began, my thoughts are totally for her, where she is, what she is doing, what happened in the last years...

She had supported me a lot. Because of her, I found the strength necessary to risk, even when no one would have bet a coin on me... She was there and even if our paths diverged at a certain point I really know from the bottom of my heart that she would never give me up.

I sing the song, the longest four minutes ever, and when I finish my eyes are literally watering.

"Thank you, everyone." I barely have the time to speak, my voice a little cracked.

"No, thank you, Jake for joining us, today. I know you're a little busy this last time, aren't you?"

"Yeah, actually I am... It is so strange." I say, sitting in the red swivel armchair.

"Well, welcome to this radio show. I have a lot question for you today." Woman's speaking is the most famous radio speaker in the U.S., Eileen Harleys. Everyone's famous needs to pass through her show. It is such a ritual.

"Perfect," she says, chuckling. "I'd like to know something more about you."

"Well, I'm Jake Malcolm, I'm twenty-four years old and I'm living the dream of my life, " I answer sincerely.

"Awe, how sweet!" she says "But that's what everyone already knows. I wanna know the real Jake. How a little boy from the suburbs found his own way in the spotlights?"

"But that's a long story..." I say, suddenly blushing. Daniel.

Another name, another face that comes to me from memories. I have to thank him if I'm here, in the top ten since two years. He encouraged me in doing better and better, working on myself and on my career. I saw him a few months ago, but as happened for the past year, he simply ignored me, and never looked at me...

I sigh at this thought, but Eileen doesn't miss it.

"Oh-oh something's happening, isn't it? We have so much time today, we don't care if your story is long. We wanna hear as much as we can. What do you think people?"

Everyone incites me to speak more and tell my story. What am I supposed to do? I don't know if I have the courage the reveal the lights and shadows of my past. Joys, sufferings, pains, delusions, regrets, friendships, love and lovers, friends who become lovers, lovers who become friends, friends and lovers who turn into enemies... My life's been such a mess, despite anyone can actually think. Other than peaches and dandelions. 

I had to cross a very hard path to really understand who I am and what I want, everything I've done was for that dream, this dream I'm still following and living with all myself. I had to face so many challenges and I accepted them all, even when they seemed to be over my true possibilities.

"How did I come here?" I hear me myself saying softly "I'm here to tell you!" I continue surer.

"C'mon Jake!" Eileen incites me to go on.

I take a deep breath and I don't how images start appearing before my eyes. School. a talent show, friends, family and more over.

"I really can't explain how all of this started and perhaps it is the reason I feel this strong desire to tell you, perfect strangers, what I hid in the darkest part of my heart, something that I wanted to forget. But I'm realizing that I need my memories to become clear, I wanna give them life because they are the reasons why I am this kind of man, they are the basements for the future I'm building day by day." I take a pause. everyone's eating out of my hand.

"You know, there are people who can basically be the greatest influence on your growth. Mines are two: Stella Whyatt and Daniel Adler."

"Daniel Adler, the singer and composer?" Eileen asks. I nod, letting everyone's astonished. The world thinks that I and he just hate each other. They can't figure out what really happened between the two of us. 

"The only thing I can state for sure is that my life started and ended with these two names: Daniel and Stella, Stella and Daniel. Two people, two souls, two destinies, two lives, that crossed mines, because Someone up above decided so..." I sigh again, I have to go on. The moment has finally arrived. "This is my story, this is me and this is the story of my journey, started exactly seven years ago, it was my last year in school ..."

Hello everybody, sorry for the shortness of this prologue, but it's just an introduction to the story. Feel free to suggest me everything. Please, be kind to me, cause It's my first time with this genre and the first time I try to write in English. Please, vote, follow, comment and tell me what you think.

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Francesco