“And yeah… she's back home…” Julia topped off her highly dramatic narration with the most unexpected ending. She had been narrating as though the situation had gotten even worse than it was.“Quite a narration you've got right there. You might want to go do a little broadcasting. I guess you were the brains behind the talkative that Tamika Fisher turned out to be.” I teased on the phone as I was comfortably seated in the back seat of my car, on a drive to the station to see the culprits. It was hard to get my mind off them at that point.“Yeah right… I'll try out someday.” Julia mused. “But then, no matter what you do, don't believe anything you see online about Tamika getting married to Randy. It's all a hoax by that bastard to confuse everyone.”“What'd he do? Hasn't he been humiliated enough?” I wondered into the phone's mouthpiece. “You haven't heard…?” Julia asked in surprise.“Well…” I said, peeking over the windshield to know how close I was to the station. “I haven't had the
“Alright…” I said stepping back from the mirror and then turning to Dolph who was sitting and watching carefully. “How do I look?”“You know, this isn't the actual TV appearance.” Dolph smiled a bit as he looked at me for a while before turning to his phone again. “You look good.”“Good? Just that?” I had been expecting a little bit of something like; ‘you take my breath away’, or ‘you look dazzling’, then a little bit of ‘you will make eyeballs pop’. But no, all he could say was ‘good’.“You look good, Tamika. That's the much I can say.” Dolph didn't lift his eyes from his phone's screen as he was busy with something he didn't care to share. “Seems like you're a lot busier online these days,” I remarked as I noticed how he had been so focused to the point he barely raised his head to look at me. “Well, I've just been keeping up with the flow of events online,” Dolph said as he was still looking through the screen. “I'm sure Randy would be rehearsing a victory dance right now, not k
“The plan is really simple, with very little complexities…” Dolph said, making me curious and confident with each word he said to me at that point. “And I'm sure you're going to easily cruise over this.”But then, I couldn't get my mind off what exactly I would be doing in my first appearance on TV in a while. Would I be acting in s movie or doing a reality show?“I know you might be wondering what your first appearance is going to be like,” he said, turning to me with an expressionless face that seemed to harbor a lot of excitement behind it. “Of course, I'm wondering. I know I won't be acting in a movie or something, so what are we going to be doing on the screen?” I waited for the answer to that question which he seemed to be holding back for some reasons unexplained.“You, Tamika, are going to be in an interview.” I paused for a couple of moments as it almost felt like he hadn't meant it. But he did mean it. I was beginning to imagine what that setting was going to be like. “You
It had been quite an easygoing day until I got that call from the last set of people I wanted to hear from. The buzzing of the phone made me feel an urgency that would die off immediately I saw the name ‘Tara’s mom’ written boldly on the screen of my phone.I didn't want to speak to them even for a single second as I was trying to gather enough confidence and momentum to make my comeback as glorious as I could make it.“You have a call…” Julia said as she noticed me continually ignoring the buzzing of my phone which had been trailing me like a stalker ever since we left for a lunch break. “Why don't you want to take it?”It was hard to imagine what exactly she had to say to me. I wouldn't want to take a chance with my mental health at that point as I was trying to resurface again to the public.“You're ignoring it…? That call sounds pretty urgent with the way the caller keeps calling again and again. Might be an SOS… who knows?”I wished it was, so I could turn on flight mode and igno
"What the…" I muttered as I tried my best to keep my language in check at the point that I was on the verge of losing it. The impatience that boiled in my blood along with the words from her secretary. "What do you mean she's not talking to anyone today?""I'm sorry sir, but you would have to wait for a couple of moments before you can meet Miss Duran." The secretary was bent on frustrating me that very day. "I apologize for whatever inconvenience this would cause you.""Don't apologize. Let me in to see Helen. She's aware of my coming. I booked an appointment with her, under the name Dolph Martin." I felt like I had said that a thousand times in those long minutes I had been waiting. "What other proof do you want me to give you?""You're making this harder than it's meant to be, Mr. Martin." Helen's secretary had some of the audacity that she had and she was putting it all on display at that point. "You would have to wait an hour more until she can decide whether she would have you o
My day went like milk going rancid as the thoughts of the call I had with Phil were still stuck in my head. I had shot myself up in my office without saying a word for the past couple of minutes as I wondered just how I was going to get myself out of that mess.As I cowered in my silent fear, my phone buzzed, causing me to nearly jump out of my skin. I was almost melting right there in my seat as I saw Phil's name written boldly on the screen. It was a text from him and I didn't want to open it at all.But then, I feared that he could be trying to do something drastic without me being aware of it. With my hands shaking with fright, I reached for the phone on the table and opened his text.“You bastard…” I was almost flinging the phone away the moment I saw it had been a video message of the both of us— the one he had threatened to send to Dolph. He was taking things far as that would ruin my entire modeling career. I was fuming in my seat as I wasn't sure just how I was going to surv
“So… how did it go with you and Helen? You look like you both ended up having a fistfight or something.” I noticed Dolph looking slightly demoralized as he walked in through the front door. “What happened?” He said nothing until he walked to the sofa where I had been sitting and contemplating what Tara and her mother had been up to. It was hard to imagine what part of my past they were going to dig up. But I forgot all about it as Dolph looked like he was about to give up on the whole thing and that looked like it was more of an issue to our cause.“Dolph…?” I asked, trying to pry his mouth open to tell me how bad it went. “What happened?”“She was one of my exes and it feels like our past is going to make her hate to be a part of your success,” Dolph said as he took off his Rolex. “For some reason, I saw this coming.”“The show has been booked already…” I felt my heart sink into my stomach as I imagined how cruel the interview was going to be at that point. She would bombard me wit
I had thought it over and I had decided I would agree to meet Phil at the place he had specified. I felt like I was playing right into his hands with every move I was making, but I had no option but to comply with every word of his warnings which was still ringing loud and clear in my ears at that point.“If you refuse to comply with any instruction I give you, then your career will come to a quite abrupt end like you never existed…” Those cold words kept me going against the way my ego wanted me to go and that made it hard for me to get myself together. I was a literal mess as I sat at the table in the café where he had asked me to wait.My phone buzzed and that had me almost falling off my seat. Phil knew just how to play those wicked mind games, that left me paralyzed with fear. But then, I looked at the screen of my phone to see that it had been Randy calling me. I breathed a sigh of relief and then some deep breaths afterward to regain my composure before speaking to him.“Hey…