Tiger: Upset doesn't even describe my feelings for you.  And now that I've got a bit of celebrity and some money coming in it's time to play mommy dearest.  Where are you anyway?

Cindy: France.  You know Tiger you have a little brother or sister coming soon.

Tiger: Oh God your multiplying.  Who's the father or don't you know?

Cindy: I've been seeing him for about 7 months.  We met in Italy while I was working as a bar maid.  His name is Nick.  He's from England.  He's rich Tiger-Lily so I don't need your money.  He owns a house in England and will be there in about 2 weeks.  I was wondering if you would like to stay over.

Tiger: Mommy I'm touched really but unfortunately I will be in Chile at that time.  Thanks for putting a shitty start to my day.  I hope we can chat again like this in another 7 years.

Tiger hung up.  She was in shock.  She had not talked to her mother since she was 8 yrs old.  She had dreamed that some day her mother would come back and everything would go back to normal.  But then she faced reality after 2 yrs of waiting.

Tiger went to bed and then took a cab to 19 for her meeting.  It was to discuss their schedule, rehearsal time and studio time.  Tiger walked in to the conference room wearing a baseball cap and sunglasses.

Hannah: oh Tiger you look worse than the rest of us put together.  Did you get any sleep?

Tiger: About 45 minutes.  I had too much on my mind to sleep anymore.

Simon walks in and the meeting starts.

25 mins later

Simon: ok so tomorrow 7am we meet in Sheffield to go through the dance routines.  Tiger I figured 2 days would be good for now as long as you know the basics.  Then the day after tomorrow we meet in the recording studio.  Chile in 2 weeks.  It's our first stop of a publicity tour.  After that we do that here, Canada, Mexico, Spain, the netherlands and Sweden.  This should take us about 2 weeks.

Tiger: 2 weeks to do all that?

Simon: 2 days in Chile, 3 in Canada, 3 in Mexico, 2 in Spain, 2 in Netherlands, 2 in Sweden.

Tiger: Holy shit!

Jo: Be prepared for jet lag.
PART 10
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