Orphanage

12

We all went back to the orphanage, we won a new car which was a 2014 Red Ford. We figured we'll share the car until we get our own separately. I took a shower and put on my black leggings and my blue crewneck. I put on my brown moccasins and I straightened my hair with a bang. Bahja had on some grey sweats, pink shirt, and pink Uggs, her hair was still curly.

The dinner started at 10, but we have to be fashionably late.

"I'm going to Bre's room." She said.

"I'm going to Rayan's room." I replied.

I walked to room 3 and knocked slowly, Rayan soon opened the door with headphones on. He took them off, "Wassup?"

"Hey." I smiled. "Coming to our dinner?"

He shrugged.

"I want you to come." I whispered.

He smirked. "I'll go get dressed."

"Great! See you there." I winked.

I walked to Bre's room and Bee opened it. "Star joined us!" She giggled.

Bre clapped. "Good, you girls ready to go?" She asked. She had on a purple jersey, black pants, and purple Gucci shoes. Her hair was curly as well.

"Yeah it's 10:15 and the drive is like 30 minutes long." Bee signed.

We nodded. "Okay good."

We went in the car, I wanted to drive so I did.

"Wanna play our demo?" Bee asked.

"We have a demo?" I asked confused.

Bre nodded. "Rich gave us one when you were in the booth, it's just our songs on it." She explained.

I smiled. "Play it!" I yelled.

Ridin Slow began to fill the air as we all sang along. We got there at 11:00 because of the horrible traffic.

We went inside. "Reserved for the OMG Girlz." Bre smiled.

The lady at the counter nodded. "Who are you?"

Bee laughed. "The OMG Girlz."

She looked at us. "Right this way." We followed her to the back, "You girls might as well have rented this place out, it's packed full of people for you." She laughed.

"Rent it out them." I shrugged. "Here's 100 bucks." I gave her 100 dollars and whoever wasn't here for us had to leave.

"You just blew our money!" Bee whined.

"Relax." Bre said. "We have 400 more, we all get a 100 apiece and the other hundred for emergencies." She explained.

"Can I have everyone's attention please!" The lady yelled. "Your all here for the OMG Girlz. They are here, now. There is a table with 8 chairs. 3 for the ladies, and I'll let them decide who would sit next to them. The rest of you go find somewhere else to sit."

There were about 50 people here, I felt famous. Like a celebrity.

"I pick Rayan and Mattie." I smiled.

Rayan and Mattie sat at the table with us. I hugged Mattie tight, "I've missed you Zonnie." She cried.

"I missed you more Mat!"

"You were great, along with your sidekicks." She smiled.

I chuckled. "There's no sidekicks. Were all in this together."

"I choose Craig!" Bee said happily.

Bre looked around. "Come on India, you to Jacob."

Chresanto didn't come, he's so rude.

Everyone else had to find a seat somewhere else. We ordered our drinks and food.

"How do you girls feel?" Jacob smiled.

"I feel great!" Bre said.

"Me to." Bee agreed. "I feel like a superstar."

We all laughed. We talked, ate, and enjoyed ourselves. Me, Bee, and Bre went to the bar and got a drink. We sat in the stools because we couldn't go back to our table with alcohol. So if you drink you have to stay at the bar. A man came up to us.

"Iovine, Jimmy Iovine. Pleasure to meet you girls." He said with his French accent. He was an older white male with a suit on.

"Hi I'm Zonnique." I said.

"Who's the leader of this group?" He asked.

Bee shrugged. "We don't really have a leader." She chucked.

"I can change that." He sat in a stool. "I manage Intersope Records. I saw your show tonight and I thought you were great."

I gasped. "Really? Sir were flattered."

He pulled out a business card. "Give me a call, my number is on this card. I really would like to work with you."

He got up and sat at a table. Bee put the card in her wallet. "He was a manager of a record label!" She said happily.

"I know, what did he want?" Bre asked.

"Us duh!" I laughed. "Don't tell anyone though, keep this a secret."

Room

Bre slept in our room again, we all took a shower and got in our pajamas. Tonight was great, the greatest night of my life.

"So, should we call the guy?" Bre asked.

I put down my cup of champagne. "Oh yeah, get the card Bee."

She got the card out of her wallet and dialed the number. I snatched her phone.

"Interscope records, Malaya speaking." A high pitch voice spoke.

"Hi I'm Zonnique Pullins, I met Mr.Iovine tonight and he told me to give him a call." I said.

"One second please."

A couple seconds later Mr.Iovine was on the phone.

"Iovine." He sighed.

I smiled. "Mr.Iovine! It's Zonnique."

"Good, you called."

"Yes I did."

"Shall we schedule a meeting? For tomorrow evening at 6:00 PM."

I nodded. "That'll be good."

I hung up. "We have a meeting." I yelled.

We all jumped up and down happily.

"Wait." Bre said. "We're not a group or a band, it was a one time thing."

"We can make this work Bre." I said.

"How? I can't be a 'rapper', I can't focus on that right now."

Bee smacked her teeth. "Bre what if Mr.Iovine really is serious, we could become famous."

"I'll think about it. Goodnight girls."

The Next Day

We all woke up from the alarm and did my hygiene . I put on my white and black "Bish Whet" sweatshirt and my black leggings. I put on my white nike high tops and straightened my hair. After that I put on my red lipstick.

Bahja had on a grey crop top, blue hammer pants, and her Powder Blue Jordan's. Her hair was in two long braids.

Breaunna had on a black Adidas hoodie, black leggings and black Uggs. Her hair was curled.

We went to breakfast, I got a breakfast burrito, a pear, and a apple juice carton. We sat at the table with everyone else.

"Goodmorning guys." I smiled.

"Good mood?" Rayan asked.

I nodded. "Yeah, I think so."

"Come by the studio tonight, around 8. I wanna show you something." He said.

I shrugged. "Okay I will."

"Congratulations girls. I'm sorry I didn't make your dinner I was a little upset." Chresanto admitted.

"It's fine Chres." Bee said. "We understand."

"You girls were great." Craig said. "I didn't know you all had talent."

We looked at eachother. "Boy please!" Bre said. "We all have talent at this table don't front."

We all laughed but agreed. At school we sat in our usual seats.

"Goodmorning Class!" Ms. Jones sang.

"Morning." We all yelled.

"Congratulations to you girls who won as well." She smiled.

Bee nodded. "Thank you Ms. Jones."

"Ready for some work?"

We all whined. "Not really." Lourdes laughed.

"Well, this next assignment isn't bad. We're taking the ACT again for Calculus in a couple weeks and you guys really need to practice. So for the next 2 weeks you have to study. Rent a laptop from the library and study! I have ACT prep textbooks that I'm going to pass out." She passed them out. "It's 200 pages, but I only expect you to know the first 50."

I got a book and looked inside. The questions wasn't even that bad. I put the book in bookbag and did the work that we had to do on the projector.

After Class

I didn't have any plans until 6 ; which was the meeting. I decided to go straight to the library after class and Jacob invited me. We went in the library and rented a laptop. After that we sat at a table and began to study. I typed a question on Microsoft word that I saw in the book.

What is the value of x when 2x + 3 = 3x - 4 ?

A. -7

B. 1/5

C. 1

D. - 1/5

E. 7

I thought for a moment and looked at Jacob. "You know this?"

He looked at it, "It's easy. It's obviously E because you have to think about PEMDAS. Then, 3=x-4 is automatically 4+3=x , which is 7."

I looked at the question once more. "Your right." I smiled.

"I know." He began searching for another problem.

"Your a smart kid."

He laughed. "I been smart Zo, you just ain't know."

I looked at him and smiled. "Now let me quiz you since you quizzed me." He said.

I signed. "It really wasn't a quiz, just one question."

"Whatever, answer this." He said . I looked at the book which read :

When x = 3 and y = 5, by how much does the value of 3x2 - 2y exceed the value of 2x2 - 3y ?

F. 4

G. 14

H. 16

J. 20

K. 50

I smirked. "Easy. First you will find the value for each expression then compare the results.The first expression is 3x^2 - 2y , which you have to substitute with x- 3 and y- 5. Then you calculate the second expression 2x^2 - 3y, Now the difference between the values is 17-3 = 14.Then finally conclude that the value of 3x^2 - 2y exceeds the value of 2x^2 - 3y by 14."

He looked shocked. "Your right as well."

"I know." I mocked.

We both laughed. "That was impressing." He admitted. "I would have did something totally different."

"Like what?" I asked.

"Determine by how much the value of 3x^2 - 2y exceeds that of 2x^2 - 3y." He said.

I shrugged. "Both ways are right."

"True."