 Hey you guys, so it's time for another story time and today the story is called the contract now I've thought of this story Once before I retold it twice out loud and twice in my head But I don't have the story completely thought out so I don't know how many parts this is going to be I'm trying to make these story times under three parts because I don't want it dragging out Okay, so it's called the contract it is set in 1987 the location is Los Angeles and Our main character our main. Well, yeah the main character. Her name is tiara. She is 23 years old She is originally from Florida She is Her parents are immigrants from Haiti. Oh, yes girl So tiara is the middle of three girls Her oldest sister is currently in pharmaceutical school and hers. She's a senior actually She's just about done a younger sister is actually graduating from high school soon And she's on her way to college now tiara is the black sheep. She did not go to college She had no desire to go to college her dreams was to always be a movie star So that's one of the reasons why she moved to Los Angeles Her parents were very upset especially her mother was very upset that they had came to this country They worked hard to put all their kids to school through school just for tiara to be like nope I'm not doing it. So let's just jump right into the story y'all. Okay, so here we go You know tiara gets up kind of strikes stretches her arms and she looks into the mirror herself tiara was all a five foot seven. She was Athletic build she pride herself in having a good shape. She made sure that she worked out She did yoga three times a week And so she turned trying to look herself to make sure that she was looking okay before she went Into the other room to knock on bring a store to see why she was playing their music so loud So she knocked in the door. She heard it in a brand. Yeah, come on in Walk in and there was Brianna laying on the couch Wrestling through a magazine. She's like, what are you listening to tiara still a wife into the sleep out of her eyes? Yeah, and she yells at Brianna. She's like, what are you listening listening to? Brianna puts a magazine. She's a girl that's they knew Jody Wiley tiara's like Jody Wiley You mean the girl used to sing with Shalimar Yeah, the girl just sing with Shalimar now. She's been trying on her own girl She is singing by herself and this song is hit a hit So she sees Brianna like bopping her head dancing into the mirror now Brianna honey Brianna and put put on a couple of pounds since tiara has known her She met her at their job. They both work at a local nightclub called the ozone. Okay, so Tiara rolls her eyes. She's like, all right thing girl I'm gonna go ahead and take a shower and start to get ready for the day and Brianna turns around She's like, all right then tea. She calls her tea is a nickname. So, you know tiara goes ahead and get ready for the day takes her shower She goes into the kitchen, you know fix herself some yogurt and she sits down That's when she sees Brianna comes in gets a big box of cereal starts pouring herself some cereal and she looks at her She's like, okay So they don't start work to later on. All right, like eight and nine o'clock, but it's like midday So they're working they waking up late because they get home later All right, it's midday girl like one o'clock in the afternoon So tiara scams the refrigerator in the cupboards and she's like, hmm. I may need to run to the grocery store Brianna, do you need anything? That's when Brianna puts her spoon down. She's like, oh, you know what? Yes, girl You know, go ahead and give me some of those Cheetos and tiara's looking at her and she's like, are you sure? Do you want Cheetos? She's like, what are you talking about? See I need so go ahead and give me the hot pockets and Know hot pockets. Give me those pop toys and give me the Cheetos Okay, now go ahead and you know take the cash at my purse So as she's heading out the phone ring so tiara turns around and answer the phone It's their manager from the club. What's her name? her manager from the club Sharon and so Sharon, you know is going on and on how the Other other waitress Melissa won't be able to come in She usually comes in a little bit early to help up and clean and all that But she won't be able to come in and she wants to know tiara and Brianna will come in She will pay them overtime and so she's listening. She's listening. She's like, okay. You know what? I'll be there about ask Brianna. She wants to tag along And so tiara hung up with her and went over to the table with Brianna and she's like, well, what's that? She's what that was Sharon. She's okay. What what did she want and so tiara It's like what she wants to know. We will come in a little bit early because Melissa didn't show up. She's like again. Listen, Brianna. Yes, she didn't show up again But she wants to know if we would show up early and she will pay us double time That's when Brianna looks at her. She's like now T You know better than that that woman is not gonna pay us double time now How the club has been struggling and so tiara unfortunately can be a little bit a little gullible She you know, even though she's living LA for for a couple of years now She can still be a little bit trustworthy or people so and she's like, come on, Brianna Let's just go ahead and show up Sharon's good on her word. I'm pretty sure she'll pay her pay us Brianna she says she's like, well, you can go up there But I'm not gonna go ahead and finish up this bowl of cereal. Hell. I may have another bowl Child so Tiara's like whatever so she goes ahead about her day She goes down to the garage. They live in the An apartment complex with several several floors, okay So she goes down to the garage where her moped is parked and she proceeds to go to the grocery store as she's you know Flying about on the roads of LA. She's just daydreaming and reminiscing of what her life What finally finally look like once she becomes a big superstar, right honey? So she goes back to the she finally makes it back to the apartment puts up the groceries and for the rest of the Day until it's time for her to go in a little bit early and early for her will be six o'clock instead of eight She lounges around and she just looks at TV. Okay now finally it's time for her to go in She goes to work and she starts cleaning up and doing what she's supposed to do since Melissa's not there yet And she goes into the back into Sharon's office and she knocks on the door and Sharon has her head down and tiara knocks on the door a little bit louder That's when Sharon looks up. She's like, oh come on in tea So tiara goes into the office and she sits down. She's like, well, what's going on with Melissa? And she I'm just looking at her over her eyes. She's like, well, do you really want to know the truth or and so that's when tiara was like I don't know what's going on tell me what's going on. And so Miss Sharon was basically like, well, she apparently her Boyfriend has AIDS and so she's been really caring for him and Tara said, oh my god Are you serious? So y'all back then of those you don't know back then AIDS was basically a death sentence for a lot of people And unfortunately, we didn't have the medication of the drugs that we have now you can now live for a relatively normal life as long as you don't get really sick. So anyway T is like, oh my god. No, I didn't know that and Sharon's looking at her like She said well, yeah, that's the word on the street that she's been caring, you know, basically nursing her boyfriend And I'm pretty sure she's probably gonna quit here in a couple of more weeks. Well, this is here Well, anything that I can do to help Sharon, you know, I could really use his money Don't tell Brienne matter of fact, don't please don't tell anyone But I'm hoping to move out here in a couple more weeks I just need 500 more dollars and Sharon Sharon's now back to writing whatever she was working on once here I came in she just put her head down. She's like, okay. Yeah, I'll you know We could talk later on and so tears all excited cuz she's thinking great This is all the money I need to finally move out on her own. So she goes back in and to the Nightclub starts getting the chairs together and you know wiping off the tables and all that and eight o'clock rolls around Now the club really doesn't start bumming till 10 o'clock. Let's just be honest, okay So it starts to get a little bit more people coming in Brienne finally comes in girl roles in an hour late Chubby as ever And everything's mopping. So tiara goes on about the night, you know, you know Getting her tips a little bit here a little bit there and that's when Kim one of the waitress waitresses for the VIP section says hey tea Um, I just heard that a big shot movie producer is up there in the VIP section Why don't you go up there and take their order and terror tiara was like, are you serious? She's like, yeah, go ahead girl. This is you know, you've been working all this time Taking night classes acting classes at night. Why don't you go up there and introduce yourself? So tiara excuse me out here was a little nervous and but she's like, okay Um, okay. Okay. I'll do it. She looks around. I don't know what she was looking at child She looks around scanning the you know the audience and she goes up the stairs now This VIP section is up a flight of stairs So she you know gets the order gets their drinks from Brienne Brienne. So is the bartender, right? She goes up the stairs child the second step from the top she falls She falls the drinks spill the drinks actually spilled on Who appears to be one of the the movie producer? He spills on his shoes and tiara gets a fumbling around a fumbling around. She's like, oh my god I'm so sorry, but the movie producer is really nice about it. He's like, are you okay? Are you hurt? She's gonna know I'm fine. I'm just so sorry you guys. Let me just go ahead and clean I'll have someone to come up here clean up this mess. I'll get your drinks ASAP. I'll be right back She's fumbling around for trade. She goes downstairs And for a minute or she stops for a minute and she runs into to the bathroom to check You know how she looks and she spilled drink all over the bottom of her dress So she tries to wipe it off as much as possible Throws the paper towels away run up to the bartender the bart excuse me. She throws the paper towels away runs up to the bar Brienne was like girl, are you okay? She's like, yes. I'm she's like, oh my god. Did you see this? She's like, yeah, girl. Everybody saw you. So here you go. I already made the drinks There you go. So Brienne had saw her Um follow upstairs unfortunately, but she'd already had the drinks prepared for her. She was there for her girl So tiara. It's like, oh, thank you so much Brienne. You a lifesaver. She grabs the drinks goes upstairs And she gives them their drinks and so she's standing around fumbling around. This is her Fumbling around with the tray, right? She's fumbling around with the tray because she's nervous all of a sudden, right? So finally she says, okay, um, my name is tiara If there's anything else you need, please let me know. Is there anything else that do you guys need anything? One of the girls sitting to the side was laughing. It was basically basically like no, we don't need need anything But it looks like you need another dress. So tiara laughed nervously and she walked downstairs And just continued her night and so kim came up to her. She's like, okay, so well. How did it go? She's like girl I fell up the stairs. I was so embarrassed when I brought them back their drinks again I didn't know what to say so I chickened out and so kim was like, it's okay girl That guy's up here every other month. I'm pretty sure you can talk to him then You know tiara kind of shrugged it off and went on about her way So as it's closing down it's about two o'clock and so tiara goes back into the office with sharon Knocks on the door. Sorry y'all knocks on the door. She's like, um, hey miss sharon. Can I speak to you for a second? sharon looks the first comes in she's like, okay, so about that Um payment, you know, is it possible for me to get it on this week's check? So that's when sharon looked at her. She takes off her glasses. She's like, look ti I know I was saying I know I said I would pay you. Um over time But we've been really struggling lately with the club and I have all these depths I need to pay and that's when tiara leans back in her chair. She's like sharon. Are you serious? You told me you would pay me over time She looked sweetheart Look There's a dozen there's dozens of girls that would take your job right now. So I told you I would pay you when I can but right now I just can't And she looks down at her paperwork and that's when tiara tiara. She's looking at her like And she slowly just gets up She walks back into the main area of the club and brian. She's looking at her like She's like, so what did she say tiara? So you already know what she said? She's like, look ti I tried to tell you sharon ain't gonna pay you that she is up to here in depth Trust me. I know she's not gonna pay you anything. I'm so sorry. You have to do all that work, but They go home right so a couple of weeks passed by You know brian gets up and she's up eating her bowl of cereal again And tiara's like hey brian. I'm gonna go ahead and go to the grocery store if there's anything else you need And so brian is looking at her like well This is apparently I don't need to be eating no chips and uh Some pop tart she's like bring it you can eat whatever you want. I'm just saying, you know, is there anything else you you she's like, no, I'm good So tiara went down to her scooter her moped or whatever and went to the grocery store, right? So as she's in the grocery store, she's in the fruit section You know, she's getting her veggies and her fruit together her salads, you know, she's healthy Hell look who she sees any um produce out. It's that famous movie producer And so she's like well god girl. I see a producer or director. He's a director. Yeah, I'm sorry the movie director So she mustered up the nerve to go and she taps him on the shoulder He turns around he's handsome honey. He's about six three broad shoulders. He has a nice beard Oh, yes, girl. He has a nice beard tiara gets him to be about 30s You know early early to man 30s, right? So he turns around when he sees her he smiles and so she's like, um I don't know if you remember me or not, but I served you some drinks at octane that night. He said, oh, yeah I'm tiffany to he's she said tiara. He's like, oh tiara. Yeah She's like, yeah, so I'm pretty sure you get people coming up to you all the time But I'm an aspiring actress and I was wanting wanting to know if you have any upcoming movie roles that I could addition for And he kind of looked at her Y'all, he looked at her up and down. He's like, well, I'll tell you what he would reach us into his wallet While it gets out his business card So I'll tell you what why don't you call first thing in the morning this number and speak to my receptionist rose She'll go ahead and schedule you for an upcoming audition and you know Tiara is ecstatic. She's like, are you serious? He's like, yeah, just go ahead and make sure you call first thing in the morning No, she's like, I will I will thank you so much. Thank you so much She looks down at the business card and it says Paul Winthrop Winthrop, you know, she's doing this with the business card. Y'all this is my earrings. She's like Winthrop That name sounds familiar. Paul Winthrop, but she doesn't know what she remembers it from right so She took some of her fanny pack This is the 80s girl. You gotta have a fanny pack. So she took some of her fanny pack right and gets on her scooter Childish, she's zooming through the scooter. She's thinking about what she's gonna wear to this audition what she's gonna say Oh my god, you know how she's gonna wear her makeup everything So finally mixes up to the appointment to the appointment. Excuse me puts away the grocery. See she shares the news with Brienne Brienne is Is um, truthfully excited for her. She's like, well, that's good. Ti, I really do hope you do good on your audition about time, right? She goes to bed early first thing in the morning She calls the receptionist rose rose who was a little bit rude But whatever she calls Scheduled an addition for that Thursday. This was Monday. Okay for that thirsty So breans Brienne is like, oh my god, that's pretty soon. So she's like, okay, whatever So she looks through her closet for something really cute to where she finds this neon green This neon green um Many dress and she has white hoop earrings to work with it, right Thursday is the morning of the audition. She gets there bright and early the receptionist hands her a package of paper Along with a clipboard. She says raise this over and sign the paperwork. Okay at the end. There's a page you sign it dated So Brienne's skipping through it. She's looking at it. It's 15 to 20 pages She's looking down on her at her watch five minutes There's no way she's gonna have time to re-auto all of this and sign it before the before the audition And so that's when she goes up to rose and says, what is this exactly? She's like, just sign it You know, if you really don't have to read it, just go ahead and sign it We always have people just sign it anyway. It's just a bunch of contract stuff. Go ahead and sign it Then tiara sits down and waits for her audition right on time. She's being called in into a small room There's three people sitting at a desk including paul A skinny um, rather skinny man that's in the middle and a plus size black woman, which who's wearing a blonde wig So paul there says it's nice to see you tiara and tiara just shook her head. She was so nervous So she asked me should I sit down? Should I stand up? And so that's when paul said go ahead and sit in the chair There was this chair sitting right in the front of them. So she sits down That's when the tall skinny man opened up a file folder and he starts handing pieces of paper to paul and the woman next to him and so the um The guy in the middle of them speaks and speaks directly to her and says Um, we just have a couple of questions. We want to ask you before we get started with the audition. She's like, okay That's fine So the first question he asked her was how many sexual partners have you had? And tiara was like, excuse me She wasn't sure if she had heard him correctly She said excuse me How many he's like, yes, how many sexual partners have you had? and she's like I don't understand what they have to do with this audition And so that's when paul The guy came the guy linked over to paul and whispered to his ear and that's when paul said look tiara Um, we're gonna be asking a certain number of questions We'll go ahead and skip to the next question But eventually eventually we're gonna go back to this question and you need to answer it And so tiara kind of shifted in her seat uncomfortably. So she's like, okay. So next the woman asked her a question And she looks at her. She's like, um Have you had any thoughts to ever harm someone? And tiara was like, what do you mean harm someone? And so the woman looked at her. She's like, well, have you had any thoughts ever had any thoughts of wanting to harm or kill someone? That's when tiara was looking around. She's like she's confused. She's like, what type of audition is this? That's it for part one y'all