CHAPTER 4 - DEANNA
I wheeled my chair down the hall to Garth's door, still thinking about my run-in with Isaac Hanson. I couldn't even begin to imagine what Ana had done to tick him off. Let's just say that she can be a wee bit...promiscuous at times, well...alright, at all times. I knocked on the door and it was thrown open by Garth. He was a little, short guy and he was wearing black jeans, a navy blue shirt and a black, leather vest. He threw his hands up in the air.
"Thankyou god, D's here! Now we can return to normal working order!" He grabbed the handles of my wheelchair and pushed me into his office. Sitting on one of the sofa's was Lorry Love, the newest pop sensation. She was a young girl of fourteen and was gorgeous with her flaming red hair and huge blue eyes. She was there with her fussing mother, Jane Love. Lorry ran to me and squeezed me in a huge hug.
"Oh D!" She cried. I patted her on the back. I'd known her since she's signed on to Island Def Jam music. In fact, I'd been the one to discover her. A friend of mine in Oklahoma City invited me down for a weekend and we went to her sisiters school concert. Lorry was singing there, Daddy and Uncle Walter had just taken over Island and I told her to give me a call, and the rest is, as they say, history. She's a sweetheart and we spent alot of time with each other.
"What's wrong honey?" I asked softly. She flopped onto a different sofa and gestured to her mother.
"Please tell my mother that it's perfectly alright for me to do a topless scene in my first clip if my arms are strategically placed!" I smiled at her. I felt sorry for Mrs. Love. She was here in Tulsa with Lorry all alone, her husband was at home in Oklahoma City with the four other kids and she had a hard time dealing with the fame thing, which was totally understandable.
"Mrs. Love...Jane, it's perfectly alright for Lorry to do a topless scene in her first clip"
"But isn't...isn't that child pornography?" Lorry snorted and I shushed her.
"No it's not, but if you're not happy about it, then Lorry shouldn't do it. However, we do make a mockup of the clip and show it to you first and then we can edit. But perhaps, taking into consideration that this is Lorry's first video-clip, maybe we should just work on promoting her voice now and wow them later" Garth caught my eye and thanked me silently. Mrs. Love glanced at Lorry who smiled briefly.
"Thanks D, that sounds great" I smiled. Lorry was happy not to have her age brought up and Mrs. Love was happy that the nudity had been posponed for a while longer.
"So what have yo decded on so far for the clip?" Lorry's eyes shone as she described a midnight setting on a New York rooftop in front of a backdrop of the sky for her single "Starlight" with garth adding creative bit's and pieces along the way.
"My first shooting is next week, could you come D?" She asked. I nodded.
"Wouldn't miss it for the world kid" She grinned as there came a timid knocn at the door. I looked up as Isaac walked in. I gaped at him and he smiled back nervously. Lorry let out a low whimper and I groaned as I remembered that she was a fanatical Hanson fan.
"Oh...uh...sorry to intrude" He began "I was wondering if I could borrow you Deanna" I shrugged.
"Sure" I wheeled myself out into the corridor
"I'm really sorry. I uh...I had a run-in with Anastasia the other day and you look..."
"Exactly like her?" I finished for him. He grinned.
"Yeah, something like that" I smiled.
"You don't have to be sorry, I should be. I totally lost it up there and that's not like me. I don't know what came over me" He smiled and we shook hands in a truce.
"Look, I was wondering if there was anything I could do to make it up to you" He suggested. I thought for a while.
"Actually, there is...you know that girl in the room?"
"The pretty red-head?" He asked. I nodded.
"Yeah, Lorry Love, an up and coming starlet"
"Lorry Love? The Lorry Love? As in Starlight?" I nodded.
"Wow! She has an amazing voice!"
"I know, anyway, she's a huge fan of yours, of Hanson's and I was wondering if you could maybe arrange for the three of you two sign a poster for her or something" I looked up at him hopefully. He grinned..
"I can do better than that" He pulled out a cell phone and spoke bluntly to someone on the toehr end. He turned to me after he ended his conversation.
"Well, you go and get Lorry, we've got somewhere to be" I looked at him, confused. He just smiled at me and gestured to get Lorry.
