N.E Heartbreak

Chapter 38

Chapter 38
Lucy

2015-16

"I can't believe it." JJ gasps as she, Kim, and I sit in a room with other actresses.

"Really? I don't find it that implausible," Kim says and we look at her. She shrugs. "Honestly, it's what he was trained to do. They set it up so at performances he was the "bad boy". When you play a bad boy it's hard to stop yourself from being one. Especially when you're getting attention and love for it."

"Yeah but none of us have ever had such bad press before. We've been as clean as SJC. All of us." I whisper. The other actresses were trying to listen in on our conversation.

"He'll be fine. Uncle B talked to him with Wal. He'll shape up. Especially if Alexus won't want to be with him anymore." JJ says and we nod.

"Jackson Bivins," A lady comes out with a clipboard. She looks up when Jackson stands. Her eyes get wide with awe. "Y-you're up."

JJ walks into the room with a big smile for me and Kim. "She'll kill it." Kim whispers to me.

"Of course she will," I nod. "She's a Bivins. She has no choice but to kill."

"If we get this, everyone will think we got these roles because of who our parents are." My little sister says.

"Duh. Everything we've been given has been because of our parents. But we've taken the simple foundations and made careers from it. It's our talent and hard work that got us this chance to audition— not our parents." I say. We sit in silence for another ten minutes before JJ comes out of the room.

"Whitley Gavin," The lady calls. Within 30 minutes, Kim is called as JJ and I talk amongst ourselves and a few other girls. "Lucile Wallace-Tresvant, you're up."

"I'll tell you more about what I do to my hair when you get out, girl." The girl I was talking to, Alicia Jenkins, says with a smile. I nod with a big grin before walking into the room.

"Lucile Wallace-Tresvant. Known better as Lucy Tresvant. Apart of the girl group JKL— Mommy's and Daddy's little creation that has traveled the world." The director of the New Edition and SJC movie, Chris Robinson, greets me as I walk into the room.

"To be quite honest, I don't want you or your sister or your cousin auditioning. Sure, you're all very talented, but it's almost not a challenge for you. To portray your mother and aunts is like being yourself." The casting director, Robi Reed, says.

"You obviously don't know my mother and aunts then," I laugh. "These ladies are some of the hardest working and most talented women to ever step into the music industry. They have many different facets to them that even my siblings, my cousins, and I don't know. If anything, this will be the most challenging thing I do, portraying my family."

Chris Robinson smiles. "Read from page fifteen. You can sing whatever song you like. We prefer a SJC or NE song but do as you please." He says.

I read from the requested page after doing a quick glance. I hardly need to look at the paper because it's a part from the time when we were all on Oprah. I know how it goes. Chris and Robi read the other parts as I give what I hope is a good performance.

"Sing." Robi orders and I smile.

I sing and dance to In My Feelings. It's a song that I love simply because SJC sampled New Edition and also did some of their choreography. It let me, JJ, and Kim feel like we were apart of the new New Edition whenever we got to perform it. Our brothers and cousins got to live out such great songs that we never get to perform because we're girls. With this song, we get to do the same.