Nothing Left To Fear (Book 1 of 2)

*Slap*

Brianna’s POV:

*Wednesday

Rehearsal was different today. We decided to trade partners so that we all felt comfortable together. The partners ended up being: Me-Siva, Jay-Jill, Max-Chloe, Tom-Tianna, and Nathan-Chelsea. To be honest, I was excited to be partnered with Siva because he was like a brother to me. “Bri, you ready?” Siva asked waving a hand in front of my face. “Oh, yeah. I just got lost in my thoughts.” I guess I zoned out for a while because everyone was staring at me. “So, we gonna rehearse or wait for her some more?” Jill said angrily. I don’t know what her problem is but she’s been like this ever since me and Nathan asked about us dating. I know she likes Nathan but she didn’t say anything the other night, so that’s on her now. I probably sound like a bitch but it’s the truth; if you like someone don’t let someone take them away from you without a fight. So, since she didn’t fight for him, I’m guessing she didn’t really want him. Luckily, she dropped the attitude long enough to rehearse the rest of the songs and then go on break.

Something told me that this break wasn’t gonna be like the rest. Unlike the other breaks, there was a lot of tension in the air. I assumed that not talking about it would make things easier.

I was horribly wrong.

I quickly went to the bathroom so I could you know and to splash some water on my face. “Holy shit!” was all I could say as I my heart began beating outta my chest. I didn’t even hear her come in. But more importantly, why was she being so quiet? I wanted to leave but I had a feeling that it was something important since she had a look of question in her eyes. “Hey Bri, can we talk?” Jill asked. I simply nodded since I was trying to get my breathing back to normal. She opened her mouth to speak and once she did, the look in her eye turned from questioning to anger. “Let’s just get something straight. You and Nathan will not be dating.” I just stared at her wondering who she thought she was telling me who I couldn’t, let alone wouldn’t, date. “I feel as though he can do so much better than you. You know? Like me. I’m so much better for him because well…I’m me.” She was really starting to piss me off but I let her finish before I told her my take on this. “So what’s gonna happen is, you’re gonna lay off Nathan or else. Ok? Good.” She was about to walk out until I decided to respond. “And what if I don’t back off. Then what?” I didn’t expect her to do anything but respond, but she did something I never would’ve expected.

She turned around and slapped me. Unfortunately, she had a ring on, so it cut me. I instantly fell to the floor and held my face. She slowly crouched down next to me and whispered, “Then…I’ll do more than slap you.” She smiled an innocent smile and then left. I wasn’t sure what to do with myself so I quickly got up and cleaned the cut on my face. I decided to let my hair out so I could cover the cut I had to come up with an excuse, just in case. I got myself together and then headed back to the studio just in time to finish rehearsal.

When I walked in, everybody just stopped and stared at me. My first concern was if they could see the cut. I automatically became self-conscious and worried. If they can see the cut, which means that I’ll have to make my excuse believable and sadly, I’m not the best liar. After a little too much staring, I quickly walked to Siva. “Hey, I thought you went home?” What the hell is he talking about? “Huh, why would I go home?” I asked him with confusion written on my face. “Jill said you weren’t feeling well so you went home.” Wow, she really wanted to get rid of me but I wasn’t giving up that easy. “Oh, uh I wasn’t but I’m ok now.” He knew I was lying but I couldn’t let him know what Jill said or did. Shortly after, he dropped it because he knew I didn’t wanna talk about it.

We began rehearsing again and just my luck, my hair moved from my face and Siva saw the cut. He immediately stopped singing and just stared at it. Siva’s curiosity got the best of him and he reached down and touched the cut, causing me to wince. “Explain.” He said sternly. “I tripped.” I really hoped he’d buy it, but by the way he was looking at me; he knew something else happened. I couldn’t look at him anymore, so I stared at the ground. “Seev, why’d you stop singing?” Max asked. I fixed my hair so that nobody else could see the cut. “Sorry, Bri kept poking me.” He smiled while nudging my side. Max and everybody else seemed to buy it. I thought that everybody would tell the situation slide but I was wrong because outta the corner of my eye, I saw Nathan staring at me with concern in his eyes. I didn’t want him to worry so I flashed him an ‘everything’s fine’ smile so that he would relax. I guess you could say that he relaxed because we went on with rehearsal as planned. However, Jill kept watching me. Probably making sure that I didn’t say anything to Siva. Little did she know that Siva was piecing things together.