8

Alexis Holster

"What the heck!". Alexis sat up in shock. What was that?, she thought. Hearing muffled voices from next door she lay back and tried to fall asleep.

"DO. NOT. CALL. ME. PRINCESS." Again Alexis awoke with a start. Sheesh, she thought, its so early. Turning her head she saw the clock. It read 7:55am. "Argh" Alexis moaned, rolling over. THUD. "Ouch" Alexis cried "stupid bed is to narrow." Gathering the fallen doona she chucked it on the bed and shuffled to the bathroom.

Not bothered to grab her brush, Alexis pulled her hair into a messy side braid. Grabbing her suit case she scrambled around inside to find something to wear. She settled on a pair of black denim shorts and a white tee with the words 'I honestly couldn't care less'. As she grabbed her black vans a note slipped out.

Alexis,

Here is your schedule.

Wednesday:

10 o'clock = meeting with carnival/ranch owner

12 o'clock = Tour of the carnival grounds

2 o'clock = Limo driver to take you shopping

Thursday:

11 o'clock = photo shoots

Friday:

CARNIVAL

Saturday:

CARNIVAL

Sunday:

CARNIVAL

Thats all.

Mum

Groaning she tucked the note into her pocket.

Creak.

Alexis slowly pushed open her door and quietly made her way down the halls toward the dining room. Glancing up every so often to check the signs directing her she started to jog.

"Um, can you please stop checking me out" The voice wafted through the pre opened door.

Alexis stopped in her tracks and pressed her ear gently against the door. She only caught snippets of the conversation, but was shaken when she heard the girl's loud high pitch squeal.

"OHMYGOSHOHMYGOSH" The excited squeals started to reduce as the girl started hyperventilating. "It's for Emerson Flipping Holster"

Alexis then heard a guy's voice that she hadn't heard before "Who is Emerson Holster?" She then peeks around the door and sees the girl giving the blonde guy with his back to her a major death glare.

"She is the best teen pop singer ever" The girls begins. 'yeah, and I cant even carry a tune' Alexis mumbles to herself before tuning bac into the conversation. "She is so pretty and talented" With that Alexis burst in the door.

"Speak of the devil" She said with a wink, confidently strutting over to the empty seat. "Well I guess you all know my name so you guys better introduce yourselves before im forced to call you AOE's"

The four boys looked at her with confused expressions on their faces as she spoke, clearly confused by what she had said.

"AOE's, you know. Acquaintances of Emerson. Duh" She said winking at the girl whos eyes hadn't strayed from Alexis the whole time she had been sitting there. "Are you guys all mute?" Alexis asked with a laugh as they all just kept staring.

"Oh right" The girl began "My name is Amity but you can call me Ami, and I'm your biggest fan. No joke. Oh and this is JerkFace" She points to the cute brunette guy with the goofy grin. Alexis begins to talk before being interrupted by the girl. "This is Jax" She says with a smile looking over to the same guy who she gave a lift to yesterday. Instead of meeting Alexis' gaze the guy looked casually over at Amity, his face reddening. "This butt head is Doof" she says gesturing to the blonde who looks like he is about to explode, his head swinging from me to her. "Nah, Ami your wrong. Your wayyyy prettier". Scoffing the girl leans across and punches his arm. "And last but not least is Eli" The red head gives Alexis a small smile.

"Right" Alexis says nodding her head at each in turn "Ami, JerkFace, Jax, Doof and Eli" Giving them a warm smile she says "Can someone please show me to my room, I don't want to get lost"

Amity pushes away her half eaten bowl of cheerios and leaps out of her chair, rushing around behind Alexis. "Oh, oh, oh I'll take you" she says hopping from foot to foot.

"What room colour are you?" Amity asks shyly once they are out of earshot of the guys, as she flipped her braids over her shoulders.

"Ah, the blue room" Alexis relies, walking briskly down the hall and then turns to face Amity, who had stopped and was staring at Alexis in shock.

"You are NOT Emerson Holster. Who are you?" Amity whispers.

"W...w...what do you mean?" Alexis stuttered in confusion.

Amity picked up her courage and said "Emerson has hazel eyes. NOT blue. Definitely not stormy blue"

Alexis stopped in fear "I, uh, well, you see, that's, ah, because, um, I wear contact lenses when performing." She looked away to hid her rapidly reddening face.

"You're a liar" Amity said, her eyes filling with tears. "Tell me who you are"

"Follow me" Alexis says opening the door of her room.

************ ***

"My name is Alexis Holster, Emerson is my twin. She is with my mom somewhere, I don't even know where. Anyway yesterday was my birthday and my mom told me I had to come here and act as Emerson. I don't think I can do this anymore." Alexis blurted, tears threatening to flow down her face. Sniffing she lifted her hand to wipe away the little droplets.

"Oh. My. Cruddcakes." Amity whispered in shock. "I don't know what to do how can we fix this?"

Alexis looked at Amity in alarm "You must not tell anyone. Please. You have to keep this secret"

"Hmm, okay I guess. We have to think this through. What can we do? Should we just tell Fay? She'll know what to do. I bet"

"If that's the best thing to do. But no one else. Promise?"

"Promise"

The two girls moved closer to each other on the bed and Amity leant over and gave Alexis a hug. After their quick embrace they both heard a thud outside the door.

"What was that?" Alexis asked quietly.

"I don't know" Amity whispered "Let's go see"

Quickly and quietly the two girls crept over to the door and slowly creaked it open. Suddenly a flash of blonde and blue whipped past their faces. "Hey you!" Amity called at the same time Alexis said "Stop right there!"

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