Chapter 51 - One Bus For Everyone

The next morning, Eliott woke up to a text message from his mother reminding him that the date was set for the meeting with the Porter family and that he had to be there to enjoy the show; also, another one of his sisters answered Ethan's phone telling him that he had to appear on a television show. When he saw the last message, he immediately called her sister.

"I am not going," he yelled into the phone, what was that about? He had made it clear before that he was not going to be on any show, he did not have enough patience for that.

"Really? Alright, I thought since Alex is one of the guests on this show you'd be interested, but if that's not the case... okay. Besides, I just found out that bastard Kylie is a guest too..."

"Okay, okay, I'll go, but sis, remember that I am going to get back at you for that little threat." Eliott sighed.

The day after the phone call with his sister, Eliott was officially a guest on the show, much to his dismay. When the show's producers got the news, they were delighted. They were able to gloat about the ratings, as they were sure that Ethan's participation on their show would bring them an audience like they never had before! It was the first time Ethan had been on a show since the debut of his acting career.

Previously, many TV channels or producers had contacted him, but he was always unavailable or not interested.

So they were very curious about the reason for his presence in their show. When they looked at the list of guests again, one of the producers could not help but say, "Could it really be that the new face of RoyalStar is really his girlfriend?". She will also be on the show. 

Soon after, it was the day before the show. Alex sat in her office with Fidelia, contemplating what she would or would not do or say on the show. She didn't really know how to behave, she never had participeted in this kind of show before but she was happy that playing the game required by the show was not a problem for her. What bothered her was the part where she had to show off a talent she had.

She was thinking of playing the guqin. So she put on a lot of effort to pick out the song to play, prepared her instrument and checked if everything was in order to play it well.

Not knowing why Fidelia was uncomfortable with it, she asked her to think of a plan B just to be on the safe side, everything could happened in those kind of environnement, plus knowing that Kylie would be there too, she wanted to be safe; so they decided to show off their traditional dance skills. 

Alex thought a little more about the dance, her thoughts slowly drifting also toward what Eliott would do as she was really curioous.

They had not had a chance to see each other since that day on their balcony. Before he returned, he had asked her to think again about his marriage proposal and gave him a definite answer when she would be ready. And since that day they could not see each other, so she could have time to really think about it and make her decision wisely. 

Soon enough the day of the show arrived and Eliott was not in a good mood that morning. Just the thought of wasting the whole day filming this show gave him a headache, thus he had a really dissatisfy look on her face.

After playing Ethan for two years now, one thing was for sure: show business was not for him at all. Being their following people order while filming could sometime become really annoying. Playing one scene many time because the scene should be filmed with many angles was even more tiring. 

He really didn't like being the center of attention, but being the star he was, he had the obligation to participate at many event the company had planned for him. The others things were all those actress lurking at him or strying to seduce him every time was really the worst for him. He really didn't like seeing his name associated with those women! Luckily it wasn't his real name.

When he decided to try his hand at acting, he did not think it would be such a big deal, that his name would be the most search everyday in his country or that he would be that talented. He just wanted to see how this industry worked so he would have a good understanding of things when he took over the company. And he could affirmed that his two years of acting carreer had thought him a lot about this industry.

That morning he was still thinking about how he could return the ball to his sister, How he would get his sweet revenge! immediatly he thought of phil. 

When he arrived at Royal Star, his agent, who was Leila by the way because of his special situation, gave him a briefing on the show and what was planned. She also told him that all the artists from Royal Star who were invited to the show should travel on the same bus as it was a bit far, and one more time it wasn't to Eliott liking! He was sulking when getting on the bus making Leila teasing him even more.

An hour later, everyone was on the bus. Good thing it was a really large bus, so even if they were four artists and their respective agents, they were really confortable. Behind them, was another car for the make-up artists and stylists. 

The first to get on the bus were Ethan and Leila, the second two were two young artists, one a singer and the other a new actress. As they boarded the bus, they were a little surprised to actually see Ethan sitting there. They had heard the new that Ethan was also a participant, but many of them couldn't beleive it, who could blame them? It had never happened.

Being such a rare opportunity for new commoners like them to be so close to him, they immediately blushed at the sight of him. He was indeed really handsome.

That day he was wearing casual black trousers and a white T-shirt, a black hat on his head and few very simple accessories on his hands, neck and fingers.

When they got into the car, the two girls did not know where to sit. There was a seat near Ethan, but they did not dare sit there. Besides Leila was also besides him. They sat living one seat between and and them on one side and one between Leila and them. Following behind were their respective agents. The two chose the seat near their artists, in response to their artists. Before they sat down, they greeted Leila and Ethan with a bow. 

Eliott, watching them discreetly, thought they should rethink the way they chose their artists, because he did not like the ones present today at all. First, they did not know how to respect a senior, they didn't greeted them, nor present themselves. And second, one of the two was so openly flirtatious it made him feel noseous.

As soon as she sat down, she took a position where you could see part of her body, to be more accurate, her chest.

She was wearing a short bodycon red dress with high heels and was heavily made up. Seeing this, he sighed, wondering what those clothes were, and what kind of heavy make up was up on her face. It was even more tink that the one he was wearing for his disguise. More importantly why the agents had her come dressed like that? It was a game show, what was the point of coming and showing their breasts? And those shoes? 

Soon he could see the agents whispering to the singers in question, whose name was Moly. 

"Why are you wearing such a sexy dress? I told you to change your clothes before getting into the car! That kind of clothing is not appropriate for the show! I mean what the point? You are going to be on track suit when playing! Beside this is not a sexy clips but a show every one would watch! What did you think wearing that really?" She started to had enough of this artist she need to manage. She had really not a good personality and never listen to what she told her! She had had enough and now she decided to let her burn her wings herself.

"Who cares about the show, I am wearing this for Ethan, I can't pass up the opportunity to show him how beautiful I am." She was really confident of her sexy shape and beauty, she had a mission that day: seduce Ethan!