Turning Point (A Reaching Out Novel)

Chapter Seventeen

When we arrived at Ellen's set, everyone was waiting for us outside.

Ellen blue balloons were on the entrance.

When I opened Allana's door, and of course Allana came down, people clapped and cheered.

" Hello!" Allana and I said.

Ellen came to us and greeted us personally.

Well, by greeted, we mean, she curtsied.

" Welcome." Ellen said.

We smiled.

When we entered the set, well, the backstage,  everything looks clean! Neat clean.

" So, where do we settle down?" Allana asks.

Andy, I think he is the producer, stood near a door with the name ' Ellen DeGeneres' on it, and he threw the name plate.

" Right here." he opened the door.

" Where will Ellen stay?" I asked.

" Ah, she can manage." he replied.

" And 2 hours before showtime." he said.

Allana and I nodded.

Allana and I decided to do a matchy-matchy outfits, the same blue buttondown shirt, with white jeans we used for the engagement photo.

Waiting for our cue to come in, we were watching the show through a telly installed backstage.

" We have a special guests today." Ellen smiled. The crowd cheered.

" And as you know, they're British." the crowd cheered again.

" And they just got married recently." the crowd cheered again.

Maybe they know that we are the guests.

" Please welcome, the Duke and the Duchess of Sussex!" Ellen exclaimed.

The "DJ" played a sound of a trumpet, like the herald's style, Ellen stood up and the audience stood up too.

Allana and I walked hand in hand, waved to them with our free hands.

Because of my habits, I gestured the crowd and Ellen to take a seat.

" I have to admit, I am pretty much starstruck to see you two here." Ellen said.

" You were starstruck too? " Allana said.

Ellen laughed.

" Allana stays up at night watching your show. " I said.

" Yes, and I kept asking him if you are real. I really wanted to meet you. "

" Of course I'm real!" Ellen said.

" I know! I knew you were real when you welcomed us a while ago! I wanted to poke your cheek! " Allana said.

" She did that to me when we first met. And the time when I proposed to her."

Ellen laughed.

" Yes! He got down on one knee- " Ellen flashed a picture. " I was surprised, of course, then I poked his cheek. Twice."

" First on the cheek then on the eye."

" The eye?" Ellen asked.

" Yes, it was really dark. " Allana replied.

" Is it dark?" Ellen asked. " There are lights everywhere."

" Well, I was blinded by the shine of the ring." I said.