DANIELLA✔

Epilogue

14 YEARS LATER

"We'd be going live in two minutes." The director, a dark short man, announced.

I had been to several press conferences, on numerous media rounds and even been invited as a guest for talk shows time after time, but I still got the adrenaline rush when the announcement was made.

"Are you ready Daniella?" Nancy, the TV presenter, asked me. We were both seated opposite each other in the studio with the media team before us. Nancy and I were acquaintances, so before now, we had been chatting about... well ladies stuff.

I feigned a confidence demeanor and wore a smile on my face. "This isn't my first time doing something like this. So yeah, I'm ready."

"That's the spirit!" She flashed me a radiant smile.

"Are you set Nancy?" The director asked.

"Wait," She took a glass of water from the table placed between us, gulped a little and set the glass down on the table. She sat upright with a ready demeanor. "Let's do this!"

"We're live in one, two, three, action!"

"Hello people! Welcome to Wattv brought to you by Wattpad. My name is Nancy Avala and it's always a pleasure to have you join me on the show. My guest for today is the ever delectable and talented writer, Daniella Nwadinso."

"Hey!" I smiled and waved to the camera.

"How are you doing today?" Nancy asked for the second time today. Well it was obviously for the sake of the show.

"I'm very well, thank you. And yourself?"

"I'm good, can't complain." She replied. "You're looking so gorgeous and I'm not even flattering you."

"Thank you. You're not looking bad yourself." Nancy was wearing a black jumpsuit under and a turquoise leather jacket.

"Aww," She covered her face sheepishly. "Thanks. I'm blushing."

"Remember we're on TV Nancy. You can just act like an adult for the sake of the show."

We both burst out laughing.

"Don't mind me. So tell us, what are you wearing and what's the inspiration behind the outfit?"

"Oh well as you can already see, I'm putting on a blue peplum dress and a silver stiletto heels. I really don't have any inspiration behind this outfit. I just love to go out looking simple yet classy. That's my style."

"And you sure are looking classy!"

"Thank you."

"Let's talk about your book Daniella. So Daniella has amassed a lot of reads and has been sold in so many countries all over the world with different language translations. How does that make you feel?"

"Okay so amongst all my published works, Daniella happens to be the only one closest to me because it's based on my reality-"

"Oh that explains why the book character's name is Daniella." Nancy mumbled in between my statement.

"- a phase of my life that I felt I needed to let the whole world know about. The interesting thing is, Daniella happens to be my first ever drafted novel and it was actually rejected by eight publishers before it was eventually accepted by Lexicon and that was the breakthrough for Daniella. Believe me when I say I didn't think the book was going to be this big, if you know what I mean. I'm still in awe and I must say, I feel really blessed and fulfilled with the success of the novel."

"Hmm, it's good to know you find fulfillment in what you do because that's most important."

"Yeah it sure is."