My Life As A Superstar In Hiding

Chapter 2

"Um sweetie, you really should have stayed longer..." My aunt said over the phone.

"If I stayed any longer I would've been late." I said.

"Yeah, but you would know what's going on today at your school..."

"What's going on?" I asked.

"That room they were doing the interview in was the living room of Abigail's new house. It was the Lincoln's old house. I just saw them leave." The Lincolns were our next door neighbors. How did I miss that? "They were following the bus..."

I looked behind me and sure enough, there were six black SUVs trailing behind us. The one in front I recognized all too well. Annalise's car. I seemed to be the only one who noticed, then again, Jacy and I kind of own the back seats, and it is difficult to see behind you from any other place. I hung up on my aunt.

"Bails, what's going on? You look like you saw a ghost..." Jacy said from the seat across from me.

Let me tell you a few things. When I'm home I go by my real name, Addison, but when we are in public, I went by Bailey, a normal girl whose father left her when she was two.

Truth is, Aunt Ellen, wasn't my mom, duh, she's my mother's sister. When mom started to get fame crazy, the two of them got into a huge fight, and Ellen told all us girls if the ever needed anyone, to go to her. I was really little then, but I remembered. So after Annalise yelled at me that night, I ran away, straight to my aunt.

Now that I think of it, that was the perfect place. One, because she had lived really close to where we had been that night, I guess that was just luck. Two, mom hated her so much, she didn't even bother to ask her if she knew where I was. Three, no one knew I remembered Aunt Ellen telling us to come to her if we need her. Four, since no one in my family cares about Aunt Ellen, no one knew she had adopted a child. Of course, when the two of us moved from L.A. over to Litchfield, we changed our last names, so they wouldn't suspect anything.

We told no one about the secret, except Jacy, who had slowly pieced it together, but she was my best friend since forever, so it didn't matter.

"I did. I saw a ghost." I was breathless.

"Really what kind of ghost?" She asked.

I pointed to the cars behind us.  

"What six SUVs... Wait, six?" She lowered her voice, "as in six Cole sisters?" I nodded.

We turned into the school. We all piled off the bus and into the school. Jacy and I were teacher's pets, so we had gotten to choose everything, our lockers, our schedules, as long as they had the mandatory classes, and our dorm rooms (even though we're day students, we got a dorm incase we ever wanted to stay over). We practically ran to our dorm room, which we shared.

"You don't think they know, do you?" She asked.

"They can't. None of them were too bright, they wouldn't put it together. They hadn't seen Aunt El in sixteen years, they wouldn't think of her. Plus we both completely changed our names..." Aunt Ellen had originally been Aunt Sarah.

"Are you sure Dylan didn't mess up?" Dylan was my aunts husband, he had died overseas in war. But before that, he had been really high up in the government, and was able to add me to the system as Bailey Anderson and switch Aunt Sarah to Ellen Anderson. I'm not sure if he did anything for himself though...

"Positive. If he did, I would have had them on me a week after I disappeared..."

There was a knock on the door. I got up and answered it, "Mrs. Juniper." I greeted our dorm parent.

"Hello Bailey, Jacy." She said. She was one of the younger teachers here, probably early thirties maybe mid, she was pretty, with brown hair and green eyes.

"Hey, Mrs. J." Jacy called from our beanbag area. We were really casual with her, as she insisted.

"Can you do me a small favor?" She asked.

"Sure." I answered.

"How do you feel about having a girl sleep in your dorm for a week or so?"

"Why not?"

"Okay, then. Come meet her and her sisters, and remember they are just regular people." Uh-oh. This doesn't sound good.

We followed her to the main room. And sitting on the couches, were six girls, five blonde, two black haired, all blue eyes.

"Girls, these are the Cole sisters..." She said to us. "Annalise, Evelyn, Abigail, Emma, Annabelle and Ella, these girls will be your tour guides for the day. And Ella, you will be using their dorm until we can find you your own." We had a big room with a set of bunk beds as well as a single. Don't ask me why though since we don't board. Mrs. J left.

"Hey." I said, with a small wave, "I'm Bailey."

"Oh my god! You're the Cole sisters!" I looked over at Jacy who was having a moment.

"Excuse us." I pulled her out of the room. "Explain to me why you are freaking out over them. I was the songwriter. I was the most successful and at eight! You never freaked out with me..."

"Yeah, but I knew you as Bailey first, not Addison..." I gave her a look, "Fine, I'll be cool." She walked back into the room, I followed.

"Sorry about that. I was caught off guard." She apologized.

"Oh it's fine, we're used to it." Annalise laughed. I noticed that Annabelle staring at me, as though trying to put pieces together. 'Crap. I was always closer to Annabelle than any of the others. What if she figures it out?'

"Well let's get started on the tour." I said.

We showed them around our 827 acre campus. It wasn't until we got to the music department until they looked interested.

"Wow." Ella was the first to find her voice.

"This place is amazing." Annabelle said in the same tone.

"We just had it re-done this fall... all the latest equipment."

"It's almost time for the assembly." Jacy said quietly to me.

"Yeah. The woman told me to tell you to take us around to the stage..." Annalise said in her snooty voice, that I knew well.

"Okay." And we led them out of the room to the backstage door.

"...In other news, we have a few guests for you today... please give a warm welcome to...the Cole sisters!" Headmistress Gridding yelled out into the crowd.

The six girl walked out, all waving and working the crowd.

"Hey everyone!" Annalise had taken the mic as the Headmistress left the stage.

There were a bunch of screams. Everyone was a fan of at least one Cole sister. We had had such an age range, that we covered pretty much every age group, that's what made us superstars...

"So, we have a surprise for you!" Annalise yelled, "At the end of this week, we are going to have something like 'American Idol'. And you will be competing against us..." Everyone cheered, "If any one of you beat us out, we will donate five million dollars to the school. It was originally going to be used for the arts department, but then we saw it, and Damn it looks good. So I think it should be used for new and improved hang-out areas in the dorm." Everyone cheered even louder.

"Why this school you may ask? After all, it is pretty well set with the tuition that's being paid." She paused. "Well this school, was our sister Addison's favorite school. Ever since we had that concert up here and she saw the school, she loved it. So in memory of her, we will make this donation." Now some people may say 5 million dollars is a lot. Clearly you haven't seen my bank account...

"So, this week, sign up on the sheet posted beside the door to the music hallway..." Ella said.

"And if any of you beat us, then you get the money." Emma laughed. She was the most stuck up, besides Annalise, after all, Emma was the one showered in gifts since she was born...