CHAPTER THIRTEEN

ARIEL'S POV

I paused my movements and raised my head wondering which kind of asshole wanted to ruin my opportunity.

My hear rate increased seeing the man come to light, it is my child's freaking father, what the heck? How did they expect me to act well with this man here.

'Calm down Ariel, he doesn't know who you are, now you are Phoebe and no one else.' A little voice that sounded comforting said to me in my head, calming me down almost immediately, the voice is right, there is no possible way that Vincent could recognise me.

"Don't you think she looks a lot like the female lead." Vincent commented coldly directing his comment at the author who gulped showing clear signs of nervousness.

"She does but sir, isn't the female lead already arranged for Mirabel ma'am." The author said with grievance in his voice, as much as he didn't like it, he did not want to fight against power, since power wanted Mirabel, who was he to fight against power.

Vincent squinted his sharp eyes hearing that and pursed his lips, "Let this woman audition for it." He said with authority exuding from his voice.

I just stood there watching everything confused, how did I land the audition for a lead role when all I came for is the second lead.

"Sir Vincent are you sure? Mirabel is-" The director, Wallen finally decided to speak, "What's wrong with her? She won't complain for me choosing the right person, right?" Vincent immediately cut in dismissing any Idea that Wallen had, "Audition." He then turned to me sending out his order with a cold gaze.

When Vincent gaze landed at me I felt like they were looking through my soul, searching for something I never knew was missing, "Wait if she wants to steal my role I should at least test her out, shouldn't I? After all she's just a newbie." Mirabel walked into the platform sashaying.

'Oh God, Oh God, Oh God, why can't I just audition in peace.' I said in my head, but glanced once more at Vincent, the director knew what he was doing, this indeed the perfect opportunity to catch Vincent's eyes, I straightened my back like I was ready for war, which I am, as I watched Mirabel climbed the platform, God knew what gave her the effortentry to talk to a man like Vincent like that.

In the eyes of others, I bowed down and greeted Mirabel, like a senior would greet a junior pretending not to remember anything from the previous day, I did not want to get thrown out at this stage.

"Let's act out scene five." Mirabel said to everyone, to be honest the way they discussed about me like I was not even present makes me feel like a I was a minor character in my own movie.

"Do you thinking dressing the part will get you this job? you need talents too." Mirabel mouthed at me when nobody opposed her suggestion.

What the heck does she mean by dressing the part, but when I looked down and saw my dress I immediately understood what is going on, no wonder I have been getting all those looks, turns out I wore one of my dresses inside out making it look like it was patched, the Female lead in the play was a maid before her come back for revenge, so me dressing like this- What a twisted coincidence.

Wait, what the hell is scene Five, did I read that part? but before I could process my thoughts, Mirabel pushed me to the ground, "So what if I stole your man, he is never even your man to begin with, he belonged to me, he is engaged to me, before he laid his eyes on a filthy thing like you." Mirabel said with disgust then it clicked, I have read this part in the novel, so this is the scene she wants to act out huh? Typical Mirabel.

Within seconds tears filled my doey brown eyes, as I looked at Mirabel hurt and betrayed, "Sister, the child I had nothing to with this, why do you have to drag a child into the fight of adults, even if you had a grudge against me, that was my flesh and blood, a living soul." I cried out with pain, agony and hurt in my voice, this scene is actually very easy for me to do, I just needed imagine something happening to Jason and act it out, In this scene, the Fl found out that the one responsible for her miscarriage is actually her step sister, who is delusional about marrying the Ml, so when she found out about the FL pregnancy for the Ml, the stepsister lost it and put some pills in the FL drink causing the FL to lose her child, to be honest, I think the author made the FL retaliation too light, if it were me, by this scene, your hair is all gone.

Mirabel looked to stunned to speak staring at my face in utter shock, did I make a blunder? I wondered turning my head stylishly to where the director and author sat, they too had the same expression on their faces, only Vincent looked calm and collected.

"It's decided then-" Vincent said pausing the glancing at me as if asking for my name, "Phoebe." I responded with a hoarse voice from all that crying, goddamn it, actors were really trying, a lot.

"Phoebe is our new female lead." He said with a satisfied smile and walked off, he smiled, this is good at least he noticed me.

"That's it then I lost to you fair and square, please stand up." Mirabel said with a sweet smile that would have almost deceived me if I didn't know her well enough, well seems like my dear white lotus sister is back, I thought sarcastically just wanting to get away from there, but as I turned to move, Mirabel held my hand tightly refusing to let it go, "Do I happen to know you from somewhere? I'm not talking about the hotel incident yesterday, I feel like I know you." She said squinting her eyes at me trying to scrunitize me.

'Fuck.' I cursed in my head feeling like my heart would burst out from my chest, what if Mirabel already figured out it is me? This bad, very bad.