Tainted

Chapter 45

"Aaron Langa you cannot just cancel an entire fucking tour!"

My road manager says after I've opened the door for him

"You look a fucking mess. What's going on with you?"

He asks

"I'm willing to pay whatever money you guys lost sponsoring the tour"

I say and he pinches his nose bridge

"I can't help you if you don't talk to me Aaron, Did you and your wife have an argument? Did someone close to you die?"

He asks with concern

"How much will the penalties cost?"

I ask unbothered walking away from him

"You can't just walk away from me Aaron. You went MIA for an entire week dammit."

He says grabbing my arm turning me to him

"Look, I'm not your enemy. I'd like to help because your fans are angry and they need answers and so does everyone else!"

He says and I let out a huff

"I read some disturbing things about my wife in a book written by my best friend and the book is supposed to be released this week or so"

I say and she lets out a sigh

"How bad?"

He asks, I look up at him

"Bad in such a way I'm willing to retire early and focus on my marriage and nothing more"

I say and he shakes his head no

"Aaron that's a little drastic don't you think? I mean surely it's not that bad that you would risk your career that you have spend so much trying to build"

He says and I shrug my shoulders

"You signed a freaking contract and if you quit now the label will sue you for everything that you have. You won't get to own your masters"

He says and honestly he has a point

"Look, finish your term with the label and don't renew your contract next year. The year is almost over, think of something for the press and I'll handle the rest"

He says

"Thank you"

I say and he nods

"Next time don't make such drastic decisions or else you on your own. Let me do some damage control"

He says and then walks out. I walk to my room to pack up my things and book a flight home. I take my cellphone and place it on a stand and then sit in front of it and press record.

"Hello. This is Aaron Langa, if you watching this then I'm assuming you know who I am and what I do. I'm supposed to be continuing with the tour but let me narrate to you a story, I'm not looking for sympathy or anything of that sort but I hope after hearing this you will come to understand why I cancelled the tour. Here goes.

When I was doing my final year in university I met a girl, most beautiful girl I had ever seen but beauty can only hide so much. She had this purity about her *chuckles* she was an angel, I remember thinking to myself how I needed to know her, cliché as it may sound I did everything in my power to try and know her while she did everything in her power not to let me in but eventually I won her over.

She and I were good until my graduation day, things between us changed drastically that day and I lost the girl I fell in love with. I didn't understand what I had done, she dumped me without any reason or whatsoever and hence I accepted the deal with Columbia Records without blinking or even thinking twice, I mean why would I stay when I had no reason to stay right?