The Kiss that Sparked it All

Haille stared at Ellinor, “Don’t you get it? I need you to step in for Patricia and finish the performance”

Ellinor frowned ‘Me, replace her on stage? What’s the point?”

Haillie confidently replied, “There’s a point, alright! We all have to slap on makeup for the stage anyway, and with all that gunk on your face, who can tell who are you? So you Just go on stage, finish Patricia’s bit, and we can pretend it was Patricia performing for the old man, no one will know!

Upon hearing Haillie’s suggestion, Patricia thought for a moment, quickly realizing her intentions.

This was just Haillie’s sneaky way of setting Ellinor up for an epic fail.

There was no way someone like Ellinor, with her background, could pull this off.

perform. Once on stage, she’d definitely

had put a lot of effort into this birthday gift for today, practicing for a long time just to get on old Mr. Bagley’s good side.

Bagley’s attitude towards her today, no matter how well she could sing, she wouldn’t win his approval. If she didn’t meet his standards,

on stage in the first place, instead, she wanted to use this opportunity to pin the blame on Ellinor for her absence, making Balfour

noticed that ever since old Mrs. Bagley mistook Ellinor for her daughter, old Mr. Bagley had been entertaining the

and butchered old Mr. Bagley’s cherished songs, he’d definitely be pissed and completely abandon

she couldn’t win old Mr. Bagley’s approval, then this bitch Ellinor sure

suggestion and just pretended to be worried, “Haillie, won’t this be

singing a song Patricia, your foot is all messed up; there’s no way you can perform, let Ellinor