- Austin Barlow -

               Being Austin Barlow had its perks. Millions of people waiting for hours to see me, for an autograph, girls drooling over me, earning millions for a movie, owning an apartment in LA, driving around Bugatti, staying in most expensive hotels, yeah so my life is perfect or at least that's what it looks like. But inside that shell of perfection, I'm broken, broken to a thousand pieces.

I covered myself with a tough and harsh layer, that was because I don't want to let people know the soft side of me.

Every time I let someone in, they trample my heart and shattered it to pieces like it was no big deal.

I was always the third wheel among my friends, they always made fun of me, I hated them. My parents never had time to think about me they spent time fighting each other. They always hurt and fight each other, basically a broken home. All these made me focus on my career and when I became an accomplished actor, I felt empty, I felt the need to be with someone whom I could share thoughts with, someone I can kiss, someone to walk down the aisle looking into my eyes, someone to have kids with, someone who's my forever.

I doubted my ability to fall in love with someone real rather than the fictional characters like Beatrice Prior or America Singer until I met her, Anastasia Reyes, the girl with sapphire eyes.

It broke me when I knew that she loved Dexter Estrada, my childhood friend, yeah, he was the one who treated me like trash. Maybe he has changed, who knows. But I was surprised and more broken when I heard that they were engaged. He might be so much in love with her.

Once again my feelings were hidden deep inside, it was okay. She was never gonna know about it, she was gonna be my foe forever, I guess.

Looking to her new Instagram post I thought about all these.

"Never got a message from her. Never had a pleasant talk. But how did I fell for you Ann. Ah city of love, tell me," I mumbled gazing at the Eiffel tower through my window.

Something inside us
Knows there's nothing guaranteed
Girl, I don't need you
To tell me that you'll never leave
When we've done all that we could
To turn darkness into light, turn evil to good
Even when we try so hard
For the perfect kinda love, it could all fall apart...

Radio 01 streamed the song Love me now.

I snapped my fingers and played with the flame. Yeah, you read it right, I've flame at the tip of my fingers. No one knew about it. Even I didn't know what to do with it, I just play with it when I'm bored. It never bothered me that much. But this time, it did bother me.

The flame portrayed a girl.

"Ann?"

It showed me something.

She jumped. She jumped off a stream. She drowned. She struggled but she was surrounded by snakes. The water turned red.

I snap my fingers in shock and jumped out of the bed.

"Was this supposed to be something?"

I could no longer sleep. I felt the adrenaline rush. What if something happened to her? I walked around the room trying to think about it. I decided to call her.

Yeah I know it was weird to call and ask if she jumped off a stream, but I want to make sure that she was okay.

I dialled her number.

"Hello, Anastasia Reyes. Who's this?"

"Um...hey... It's me Austin," I said stammering.

"Austin who?" she asked. I thought she might understand me by my voice.

"Barlow. Austin Barlow."

"Haha. I hate pranks okay? Who's this?"

"It's me Anastasia, Austin."

She replied with silence.

"Just checking in to know if you're okay."

"Um...me?...yeah!"

"Okay bye then."

I hung up.

Shit. Shit. Damn it Austin. How silly can you be?

                        To be continued...