Orphanage

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Zonnique. ( 3 days later )

I was laying on my bed along with Bee and Bre, we were reading tweets that fans were sending us. Every since we were on 106 & Park we've been getting mad love.

"Someone said they love us." I said retweeting the tweet. "And someone else asked are we ever going to go back on 106."

"We love you to and hopefully." Bre said. She sat up. "We have a interview at the radio station in a couple hours, let's get ready."

"I'll call Dylan and Mandy." Bee said pulling out her phone.

They left out the room and I sat up, I put on my slippers and looked at the fishtank. I examined the fishtank closely for about 5 minutes, "Your dying Neema." I whispered to my clownfish. I fed her and went in my bathroom. I turned on the shower water and began taking off my clothes. I slowly got in and let the hot water drop down my body. I began to wash up with my strawberry scented body wash and began to wash my blue and black hair. 30 minutes later I got out the shower and put on some sweatpants and a sports bra. I let my wet, curly hair stay how it was. I went downstairs and saw Dylan doing Bre's makeup.

"I can take you here Star." Mandy said.

I nodded and sat in the chair, she began combing my hair. "Ready for tonight?"

Tonight we have a performance, were the opening act for Kendrick Lamar. I was pretty excited, "Yeah I'm ready." I replied.

"Thats good. Now I'm going to do you all some nice sew ins, that okay? But instead of wearing it as a sew in it's going to be pinned up in a ponytail." She explained.

I nodded. "That sounds cute, this time I want light blue and blonde weave though Mandy." I told her.

"Okay Star, I got you honey."

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We were at the radio station, in the bathroom. We all looked pretty so we decided to take selfies. We had on black leather pants, white crop top, and our Oreos. Our hair was in a long ponytail and our makeup was light and simple.

"OMG your on in 5!" The man yelled.

We left out the bathroom and went in the booth, we sat in the chairs and put the headphones on.

"Wassup everyone listening to KAAT radio station it's ya girl D-South in here kicking it with the OMG GIRLZ!" The lady said over the mic. "Introduce y'all selves."

"I'm Star."

"I'm Beauty."

"I'm Babydoll."

"& we are the OMG Girlz." We all said together.

"Okay I see y'all out here doing y'all thang In California can y'all tell us a little of y'all background , then what's coming up for us , then I'll let my callers ask a couple questions." D-South said.

Bee cleared her throat. "Well were all from Atlanta, Georgia. We all met at an orphanage there, then we just instantly became friends. Were all 19 and we absolutely love what we do. Singing, dancing, and rapping is our life." She explained.

D-South nodded. "Okay that's nice, now what's coming up for us?"

"Well were in the process of a single now, you'll have to wait on that. We have a video for our song Incredimazable and were doing a video to one of our old songs Baddie." Bre announced.

"That's good, now I saw that one video and I gotta admit I loved it, it was amazing. You all looked beautiful." She smiled. "By the way Beauty imma need that number bout time you get up outta here."

We all laughed. "Sorry but I'm hoeaphobic." Beauty said.

We all looked at D-South. "Very funny lil girl."

I think Bee just curved a lesbian....

"Anyway we got a couple callers calling." She answered one. "Your on the line!"

"Hello? OMG girlz?"

"It's us." We all said.

"Who's calling?" Bee asked .

"Chelsea..."

"Where you from Chelsea?" I asked.

"Oakhurst."

"Beautiful place! I love Oakhurst!" I gasped. "Do you have any questions for us?"

"Yes...Do you have a i********: Beauty?"

Bee laughed. "Yes I do. @Imightbee , I'll follow you back Chelsea."

"Okay thankyou."

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Rayan.

I checked my email once more, nothing. I paced back and forth in my room. I let out a deep sigh and laid in my bed.

"What's wrong bro?" Chres asked.

"Man I'm stressed out. Time is running out, I got two days to get up out of here. Stanford or UCLA hasn't even emailed or called me back!" I yelled.

He began taking his things out of his drawers, putting them in suitcases.

"Where you going?" I asked.

He looked at me. "You didn't hear? I got accepted into Florida State." He said.

I sat up. "FSU? You wanna go there?"

He shrugged. "Why not? It's a nice college."

"I thought you wanted to go to Duke." I said.

"Didn't get accepted, FSU was my second choice." He said packing again.

"How are you going to pay for college? For your scholarship and everything? I mean, it's like 22 thousand a year." I asked.

"Well I'm getting a loan from the government this year of 7 thousand, the rest I already paid off. So I don't have to worry about that until next year." He laughed. "Plus I'm getting a job down there at a bank, so I'll pay the government back in less that 6 months."

"Good for you man." I said. "I wish it was that easy for me."

"It could be." He said. "Just be patient, I waited 4 months for a call back and a letter."

"That's not the point bro, the point is Mrs.Pruitt is going to kick me out in 2 days if I don't find somewhere to go." I explained.

He looked at me. "Keep ya head up bro, I'm going to go get some coffee." He left .

Chresanto got into Florida State,but he waited 4 months? I can't wait that long. I got and checked my email.

1 unread message from University of California Los Angeles. I quickly opened the UCLA email.

Dear Cassandra Ventrua,

You seem like you have great potential! We loved your letter and we want you apart of the us. Now since your in Georgia, we can't schedule a meeting, and since we trust your letter were going to automatically accept you. Were looking forward to your appearance Ms. Ventura.

Sincerely,

The UCLA Staff

I gasped, Cassie got accepted to UCLA? I'm so proud of her, I have to go tell her. I looked at the computer screen,

1 unread message from Stanford University. I opened it,

Dear Rayan Lopez ,

We love your letter, you seem really excited to be at SU because of the constant calls and emails, so we'll accept you. Have a safe flight, see you when you get here Mr. Lopez.

Sincerely ,

Stanford .

I stared at the screen, I got accepted to Stanford? I hurried and went on Delta.com and booked me and Cassie a flight to California for tomorrow morning. I ran out the room and knocked on Cassandra's room door. She's in the same room that Star and Bee was in, lord I miss them. She opened it quickly, when she saw me she scoffed.

"What Ray Ray?"

I hugged her tight. "Your going to love me! Your going to love me!"

"What is it!" She yelled.

"I sent a letter to UCLA and you got accepted!"

She gasped and screamed, she jumped up and down and bear hugged me. "Ray Ray, oh my goodness thank you!"

"That's what bestfriends do, I even got accepted to Stanford." I said.

"That's really great news. I'm super excited. When do we leave?" She asked.

"Tomorrow morning, get to packing!"

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Zonnique.

I laid on the couch, watching a Spanish show with Bre and Maria.

"What's this show called again?" I asked.

Bre shrugged. "guerra something."

I laughed and my phone rang. I took it out my back pocket, Cat was calling me.

"Catalina, hey!"

"Hey Zonnie. What you doing?"

"Watching a show with my maid and Bre."

"Hi Bre!"

"Cat said hi." I laughed to Bre.

She smiled. "Hey redhead."

"She said hey. What you doing?"

"Searching for a house, you know Mrs.Pruitt is kicking everyone out? Everyone has 2 days to find some place to go and I haven't found a place yet."

"Are you serious? Why is she kicking everyone out?"

"Because everyone is about to be 20 basically and she need new teens here."

"Well, did anyone find a place to go?"

"Chresanto got into Florida State. He's leaving tonight, and I heard that Rayan got accepted to Stanford."

"I thought he was going to UCLA."

"He didn't get accepted, Cassandra did though."

"What?! She's coming to California?"

"And Rayan."

"Cat come to California, find you a place here. Please?"

"If I can't afford Atlanta houses what makes you think I can afford a Cali house?"

"An apartment isn't even a lot, just search for one."

"I'll try, talk to you later. Love you."

"Love you more."

I hung up and sighed.

"What's wrong?" Bre asked.

"Shhh!" Maria said eating popcorn.

I ignored Maria. "Mrs.Pruitt is kicking everyone out of the orphanage. So they all are struggling, trying to find some place to go."

Bre stood up. "What the hell is wrong Mrs.Pruitt?!"

"Everyone is getting older!" I said. I stood up to, "Call Mandy and Dylan, we gotta her ready for this performance." I walked upstairs to Bee's room. She was on the phone.

"Bee , we gotta get ready for the performance." I said.

"Call you back Chad. Congratulations again." She hung up and looked at me. "Chad got accepted to Stanford, isn't that great?"

"So did Rayan." I nodded.

"Really?" She stood up. "I didn't know he wanted to go to college."

"Me either, but Dylan and Mandy are on their way." I said.

"Okay." She put on her slippers, "Thanks."

I walked out her room and into mine, I looked in the fishtank. "Oh Neema." I whispered. I kissed the fishtank and went in the bathroom, I took a shower and put on black sweats and Rayan's old red crewneck. It was big on me, but I liked it. I put on my red socks and put my hair in a ponytail. I went downstairs and saw Bee getting her hair done and Bre washing her hair.

"I can take you girl." Dylan said.

I sat in a chair. "What's your plan?"

"Light makeup, the lights are going to be shining all over you girls. I don't want the makeup to show as much." He explained.

performance.

The crowd clapped louder and louder. Me, Bee, and Bre was so hype and excited, they loved us.

"Thank you!" Bee said. "We love y'all!"

The cheered again. We got off the stage, Mr.Iovine ran up to us.

"Girls! Stall the crowd, Mr. Lamar isn't ready yet. One more song, please?"

I sighed. "Let's go." We walked back on the stage as the crowd cheered. "Were back." I said. "DJ play Partition!" I shouted. Guess we have to do this routine.