Free Lovesessed by Pamela Diane King Page B

but I
closed my eyes.
    “ What do you think you’re
doing Chase Carson?” Alicia Spark demanded. I opened my eyes and
she was standing with her hands on her hips, looking dangerous. Her
pair of bodyguards stood behind her, looking even more
dangerous.
    “ Alicia, don’t cause a
scene. I was going to tell you. I’m breaking up with you because
I’m in love with Phoebe.” He put his arm around my waist like I was
his property.
    I gulped. She looked me up and down,
and I didn’t feel like a star anymore under her scrutiny. I felt
like an ordinary 14-year-old girl in her goddess
presence.
    I thought that she was going to slap
one of us, but her eyes filled with tears, and she turned and ran
to the ladies’ room.
    “ I’m glad she took it
well,” he said hugging me.
    I pulled away stunned. “How can you be
so casual? Can you please explain what just happened?”
    “ Alicia and I have been
dating for six months, but my manager makes me keep it a secret so
that my fans will still love me. You know, to keep the illusion
that I’m single, so my fans can dream about being with
me.”
    “ Alicia is your
girlfriend?”
    “ Ex-girlfriend,” He
corrected. “She can never compare to you. You make her look like a
Plain Jane.” He was referring to the most gorgeous girl in the
world as a “Plain Jane.” His zombie love had started to freak me
out.
    “ Chase, please excuse me
for a second, I’ll be right back.”
    “ I’ll miss you,” he said
in a baby voice.
    I frantically searched for Liz, but I
couldn’t find her. I eventually spotted her by the refreshments
table with Nathan and Ben. Nathan was feeding her chips. How
sweet.
    “ Liz, I need you,” I said,
grabbing her hand, and practically dragging her away.
    “ What is your problem?”
she asked, pulling up the straps of her dress that had come down by
my manhandling.
    I pulled her into the hallway where our
lockers were. It felt weird to be there at night.
    “ I have a big problem. Remember
how we were looking at Teen Idol magazine, and there was that picture of Chase and
Alicia Spark. It said they had been ‘frolicking’ on the beach, but
I didn’t think that it was true…”
    “ I get remember,” she
interrupted, putting up her hand. “Skip to the problem
part.”
    “ Well, Alicia Spark is
here at the dance, and she is very upset that her boyfriend of six
months has just dumped her for an ordinary school girl.”
    Liz’s eyes widened. “Wow, this night
just keeps getting crazier and crazier. It’s like there’s something
in the punch.”
    “ Hmm, a love potion
perhaps…So what should I do?” I asked helplessly.
    “ Where is she
now?”
    “ She ran to the ladies’
room.”
    “ Maybe you should go talk
to her, and see how she’s feeling.”
    I would rather have gone into the
ladies’ room and dunked my head in the toilet. But I knew that I
had to see if she was ok. Her two bodyguards stood on either side
of the ladies’ room door. There was a long line of girls, but the
bodyguards, or rather the bouncers, wouldn’t let anyone
in.
    “ Hello, I really need to
go in.” They shook their heads. Alicia had barricaded herself in
there, and the girls were getting desperate. “I’m Chase Carson’s
date,” I tried.
    They stepped aside.
    Alicia was in a stall with the door
locked. I could hear her crying loudly, and blowing her
nose.
    “ Umm, Alicia, it’s Phoebe,
Chase’s date.”
    “ What do you want? You’ve
already stolen the love of my life. Do you know that he gave me a
promise ring?” she said emotionally.
    “ I wanted to say that I’m
very sorry about what happened. I didn’t know that you two were
together.”
    “ That’s because of his
manager. We can’t be seen in public together because then his fans
will get upset. He has to maintain an aura of mystery, so that
every teen girl can carry on dreaming that they have a chance with
him. Why can’t they just enjoy his music?”
    I felt ashamed because I had been one
of