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Princess Love - Chapter 6
 
        Valerie filmed the video and started the long process of editing it.  The guys had been good sports but had left for Florida.
         "How is it going?" Kim asked.  The two had become good friends even after the video was done.
         "I think it is going good, I just hope I can finish it soon." She said and smiled, sitting at her chair trying to fix something with a scene of the video.
         The video had the five guys having their own separate stories. AJ was missing his girl friend, lying on his bed and thinking about her.  Howie was jogging along a road and kept thinking he saw her.  Nick was at the beach and had flashbacks of the the good times they had at the beach.  Kevin was in the pool, having a confused look on his face like he was wondering where she went.  Brian was at the gym and was looking all over for her.  By the end of the video they meet up with the girls that they had missed so much.  Valerie and Kim had to call in some friends to play the girlfriends and they were more than happy to help out.
         "Howie likes you..." Kim said out of the blue.
         "What?!" Valerie asked, turning her chair to face her friend.
         "He does, Kevin told me." She said and smiled and Valerie just rolled her eyes.
         "Whatever." She didn't have time for a boyfriend anyway, or the patience.
         "He does!" Kim said, not getting the point that Valerie really didn't care.
         "Ok, let me work now." She said and Kim left her to be by herself.
 
         Jen had made it.  After her escape from the hospital she had waited until her 18th birthday.  When it finally arrived she went to the lawyer and waited for the reading of the will, her mother had left her almost all of the money, leaving close to nothing to her father.  Jen took the money and bought a ticket to Florida.  She was home free now.  The only problem was that she had no one to talk to and no where to go.  She rented a little apartment and sat there, looking around, not knowing what to do with herself.
         She looked around and had an idea, it would be a last hope to find something to do, but she was going to do it anyway.
         She sat down at the little desk that served as her kitchen table.  She pulled out a piece of paper and stared at the wall directly in front of her.  She hummed to herself and then sang, she knew that she sounded horrible, but she didn't care, she was looking for the words.
         "The... The words... damn!" She muttered to herself, not knowing how to start it.  She looked at a picture of her father that she had brought of him and began to write as fast as she could, making a mess all over the paper, singing the words as she wrote them.
 
"The words that you told me
 You thought they could mold me into something I am not
 You are the one
 The only one who said that I could be the one
 The dreams that I follow will lead the path
 
 You spend your everlasting moments with her
 What did you think
 The result was that my light dimed
 
 The words that y ou told me
 You were the only one who thought they would mold me
 You are the only one
 The only one who knows
 
 You are the only one who could lighten
 The only one who could brighten
 The fire within me
 
 Spending the blissful moments within
 Brighten the light
 And sure as night
 The hope would come out
 I knew you never could doubt
 The power within me." She sang and smiled, "Perfect." She said as she stood up and folded the piece of paper and put it in her pocket.
         She grabbed her jacket and walked downtown.  The one think that she had noticed when she had arrived in Florida was that there were many jazz and blues singers that were on the streets, singing.  They had their instrument cases open and countless coins and bills were thrown in there.  Once in awhile a huge crowd would gather to admire the music, but usually the passerby didn't even notice the wonderful music around them.
         Jen didn't want money, she wanted to hear her song become a reality.  She had always dreamed as a little girl that she could sing in huge concert halls, the closest thing to that was to have her songs performed by other people.
         She made her way to a corner where a group of people were standing.
         "Can you sing my song?" She asked and took out the piece of paper. The tallest member looked down at her and smiled.
         "HELL NO!" He yelled in her face and she looked at him for a minute
and turned on her heel and went to another corner.
         "I wrote a song, could you sing it?" She asked another group.  They were on another corner.  There was a saxaphonist and a guitarist.  The saxaphonist looked at her and took the piece of paper that she held in her hands.  He looked at it and nodded.
         "Do you want to be paid?" He asked.
         "No." She said politely.
         "What is your name?" He asked.
         "Jen."
         "I am Harry." He said and shook her hand.  "Now, how do you want this played? Like, is it fast or slow?"
         "Slow and I want the words at the end of each verse to be held for a long time." She said and he nodded.
         "So, you want it to be played with soul?" He said and smiled and the other guys laughed. They all introduced themselves and began to play, slowly.
         Harry was the lead singer and he did a wonderful job with his voice.  She smiled and within a minute a huge crowd had gathered and were listening to the song. Jen looked around and off in the distance she saw a long black limosine pass.  A minute later it turned around and the members of the car came out.  Jen raised her eyebrows in surprise as the group stood nearby and listened to the song, they were the first to clap their hands.
         "That was great! I could hear it in the car!" AJ said and smiled.
         "Yeah, who wrote it?" Brian asked Harry.
         "She did," he said and turned around but Jen was no where to be found.
 
         Valerie stood in the front of the class, not sure what to do or what to say.  The tape was in the projector and ready to be played, once Valerie said her introduction.
         "You may begin Valerie." The teacher said and she nodded.
         "For my project I did a music video called, 'Missing You', the cast is made up of my friends." She said and nodded to the teacher to press the play button and he did once she sat down.
         The completed video was three minutes long, but it taken nearly a month from start to finish to be completed.  Valerie was proud of it and she hoped that the teacher would like it.
         She watched along with the class and smiled when she heard a couple of female gasps.  It ended shortly after and the teacher stopped the tape and turned the lights back on.  He looked across the auditorium at Valerie and smiled, then began to clap and pretty soon the whole class had joined in.
 
         It was the night of the Royal Performance.  The Royals wore their best clothing and acted their best in front of the Queen Mother.  The groups were lined up on the stage and she would select would would go first.  She sat in the front row along with her children.  Behind them were her grandchildren, including Elizabeth and Sean.  They were in a huge auditorium and it was completely full.
         "First, Sir Paul McCartney." She said and he sang a song.  Everyone clapped and she called the next performers.
         "The Backstreet Boys." She said, nearly have difficulty pronouncing the words because she had never really heard them, all she knew was that her great grandchildren said they were good.
         They came out wearing formal black and white matching suits.  AJ restrained from tehe dye and Howie pulled his hair back.  Kevin was clean shaven and Nick had just gotten a new haircut.  They stood in front of her and began to sing "Just To Be Close To You." During the song Brian had
scanned the crowd to see if he knew anyones faces.  He stopped at the second row and looked at Elizabeth, keeping his eyes on her until the end of the song.  Sean didn't even notice and Elizabeth was enjoying it, Sean had never looked at her like that.  The song ended and they all walked off the stage and kissed the Queen, who was sitting directly in front of Elizabeth. When Brian kissed the Queen he looked back at Elizabeth and smiled.  She smiled back, once again Sean didn't notice.  She laughed to herself, "He really has no clue who I am." She thought to herself and tried not to laugh out loud.
         The guys all went backstage for the snacks that were being served until the Queen could come out and talk to them all privately.
         "Who was the blonde sitting behind the Queen?" Brian asked and AJ looked at him and shrugged his shoulders.
         "I didn't see her." He responded.
         "Come with me." He said and the group walked to the left wing of the stage and peeked out from the curtains.  Brian pointed her out and they backed away.  Kevin laughed.
         "That is Princess Elizabeth." He said and Brian looked at him in shock.
         "Oh god! I thought she was just a regular girl." He said and laughed, feeling very embarrassed.
         "No, she is Prince Sean's wife." Howie said and Brian nodded, he was quiet for the rest of the night.
         "I want to go home now." Elizabeth said after the last performer came out and Sean nodded.
         "Okay, I am tired anyway." He said and they both kissed the Queen and walked outside, their bodyguards surrounding them.  They walked to the car and the bodyguard in front of Sean stumbled, falling on the ground. Elizabeth laughed and then froze when she heard a sound and was thrown to the ground.  She looked up and saw Sean standing there, as frozen as a rock. Elizabeth screamed when she saw the bullet come closer to him and hit him square in the head.  Her eyes were showing everything in slow motion and she could see the blood gush from his head and then she fainted.

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