Smile

Chapter 17

March 15th 1989 (8:45 am)
Michaels P.O.V

I stared down at Mariah as she lied they're on the bed sleeping so peacefully, her hair was scattered across the pillow and she was letting out soft snores. I didn't want to wake her up but she had to get up early to go to a meeting and I was supposed to go with her. God she was hard to wake up.

"Mariah?" I softly said as I gently shook her. She rolled over and adjusted herself to get comfortable however she didn't budge. "Come on Mariah it's time to wake up for your meeting." I whispered into her ear. One of her eyes opened and then the other one, she stretched her arms as she rose up from the bed and yawned. "What do I even do?" She asked me tiredly, struggling to keep her eyes open.

"Just listen to what the people in the meeting say, they'll probably critique your music and suggest what you need to change but remember only change it if you want to because these are your decisions... don't feel like you have to do what they say." I explained to her.

She nodded her head and then went into the bathroom and started putting on her outfit she was going to wear. She was going to wear the black dress my sister Janet had gotten her for Christmas.

Mariah came out of the bathroom in the dress and she looked absolutely beautiful. "You know you don't have to change in the bathroom?" I told her. She laughed as she put on her matching black heels. "I know what you're doing." She replied jokingly.

I laughed with her and then once she was ready we got into the limo and Eric drove us there. "Bye Eric!" I yelled and then waved goodbye to him as he drove off. Me and Mariah walked into the building and took our seats.

March 15th 1989 (9:00 pm)
Mariah's P.O.V

I sat down in the leather chair surrounded by a bunch of industry people, Michael was by my side and Tommy was across from me. Something about that man makes me feel uneasy and I don't know what it is.

I brush it off and wait for everyone to get situated. Once everyone was in they're places Tommy put the tape into the player and pressed play. Earlier that week I had recorded her song 'Vision Of Love' which was a favorite of Tommy's and was the song that was playing.

After the song ended one of the men decided to speak. "The sings great but are you sure we should have that as her debut single? In my personal opinion Mr. Mottola that sounds more like an album cut." The man explained. That's exactly what I was thinking.

"No it's going to be a single." Tommy insisted. I internally rolled my eyes and just listened to all the men give they're input. It wasn't that I didn't like the song Vision Of Love, in fact if was one of my favorites on the album but i just didn't see it as a single.

"Mariah?" Tommy asked.

I looked up at him which told him I was listening. "We are planning on releasing 4 singles from your album now it's established that Vision Of Love will be a single but what do you think the other singles should be?" He asked me.

I thought about it for a minute. There were only 3 songs that I had recorded but based on my demo tape I liked Someday and Vanishing. "I like Someday and Vanishing." I replied.

Tommy thought about it for a
minute. "I don't see Vanishing as a single because of the complex lyrics but I do like Someday however when we record the song I would like to make a few changes to it."

Why does he make all the decisions? I'm the artist goddammit.

"How about All In Your Mind?" Another man suggested.

I totally forgot about that song, it was the first song I recorded and I liked it though I could sense Tommy didn't like the song to well.

"No, definitely not that one." Tommy said.

Lord this shit is so boring... why do I even have to be here?

March 20th 1989 (11:30 am)
Mariah's P.O.V

"Love takes time to heal when your hurting so much couldn't see that I was blind to let you go I can't escape the pain inside oh cause love takes time." I sang to myself as i read the newly written lyrics off the notebook paper.

I closed the notebook and slid it under the nightstand. I got up and walked into the living room looking for Michael. To my surprise Janet was sitting next to Michael on the couch. "Oh hey Mariah." Janet said noticing me and then got off the couch to hug me.

I grinned at her and then hugged her back. "What have you been doing?cause every time I stop by your either asleep or gone." Janet said.

"Well I've been working on my album a lot." I replied and then walked into the kitchen to get some food out of the refrigerator. I grabbed an apple and bit into it. "Girl I still ain't heard you sing, can you sing for me?" Janet asked me.

"What do you want me to sing?"

"Sing me one of You're songs from the album your working on." She replied with a wide smile on her face.

I started singing the chorus of Vision Of Love all the way until the whistle note. Janet looked at me like I was crazy. "Holy Shit you can really sing." She said wide eyed.

I smiled. "Thank you,"

"I'm not gonna lie I thought you were going to sound like one of those generic white girl pop stars or like a classy version of Madonna but you're far from that." She commented with a laugh.

I laughed with her and the 3 of us chatted for a while longer.