" I just want to say congratulations, you've made it this far." Mrs zilon said as she swiped through her tablet. "Like I mentioned yesterday you guys are going to have to work harder than before."
"Yes Mam!" The three of us replied in unison.
She looked up from her tablet and glanced at the three of them before returning to her tablet, "Since you guys are so energetic today I think we should get an early start." She waited for their reactions a groan or objection but there was nothing, not even the slightest movement or sound. She looked up from her tablet and scanned every single of their faces. " Something must be really wrong what did I miss? What haven't you told me? What the hell did you do? really."
-"Nothing!!," They all replied.
"Stop doing that its freaky go back to teasing each other." She said swatting her hand around trying to shoo away an imaginary fly.
"Oh are we scaring you" Prem teased, as he made himself comfortable on the couch.
"Be quiet. I asked you to tease them not me."She raised her hand.
"I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" Prem yelled while grabbing the pillow and covering himself.
"That's what I thought. Ahem." She cleared her throat, "Well anyway back to the discussion. First on the list today is an interview for a talk show."
....
When we got there We briefly introduced ourselves to stage crew and chatted with the host before stepping onto the lit set
"Hello everyone I'm Cathy Smith thank you for watching our program. Today we have very special guests who are just starting out in their career but are making quite a name for themselves. "Please welcome Black Lemonade"
"Hello" we all waved to the camera.
'I know I just introduced you guys but I would like it if you could individually introduce yourself just in case if we have any newcomers."
"Yeah sure we can do that ." I said as I exchanged glances with Prem and Blake. "Hi I'm Lemon" as I held up peace with my hands.
"I'm Char"
I'm Sugar"
They both waved at the camera.
"Okay to start were going to play a little game. Now for this game you can stay seated, all I'm going to do is individually ask each of you a series of questions that were actually chosen by your fans." Cathy said as she brushed a couple of brown stray hairs out of her dark brown eyes. "So are you guys ready."
"yeah" we all agreed as we stared at her waiting for her as she flipped through her cards.
"The first question is for Char." Cathy crossed her legs and rested her head on her hand which was propped on her arm chair as she read. "Why did you choose the name Char does it stand for anything because some people are confused by it so could you please clarify."
he nodded his head "The name Char is a shortened version of the word charcoal. which is supposed to represent the black part of black lemonade. Originally my name was just going to be black but we switched it because you know the word black is also referred as a race" He started to explain further "some people might say were being insensitive for even connecting it to that since the word black is a color but just trying to play it safe you know."
"Oh yes, yeah I totally understand what you're concerns are." Cathy nodded in agreement. "Yeah these days you have to be careful. " She continued "Lemon next question is for you. When did you first pick up the guitar?"
"Ah I first picked up the guitar when I was..."I started to chuckle "I can't remember." everyone burst out laughing. "Wait wait I think that I can figure this out. So Iv'e played for eight years now I think."
"You think." Char blurted.
"Oh be quiet," I turned to him and shoved him towards the edge of the couch. "Okay I'm twenty-two now." He started counting down on his fingers " Twenty-one, Twenty, nineteen, eighteen,"
-"You would be fourteen" Sugar interrupted.
I elbowed him in the ribs as he silently laughed hugging his stomach. "As I was saying I gave threatening looks to the both of them as they tried composing themselves. "I was fourteen when I first picked up a guitar."
"I guess this question was two for one, We now know that you were fourteen when you first learned guitar and you are bad at math." Cathy said trying to hold in his some of her laughter.
"Okay next question Oh this a question for Char again. Can you tell us about your family?
"Okay well my parents died when I was younger so I live with my Aunt and uncle who own a law firm. I was an only child until I moved in with my aunt and uncle where I met my now older " Brother " Sugar." He said gesturing towards him.
"Oh so you two are related." Cathy pointed back and forth at them.
"Yes" Char replied.
"So how old were you when you moved in?"
"twelve"
"So you guys have known each other for a long time." Cathy remarked.
"Mhm yes." Char said.
"Okay that's nice to know." then she turned to Sugar " And how old were you when he showed up at your house. "
"I was seventeen" He replied
"When he first appeared ." Sugar paused "Well it's an interesting story. I first met him on my seventeenth birthday. It was after school and I just came back home I walked upstairs and opened the door to my room and I could see a small little boy curled up in my bed with his bags on the floor. I silently closed the door and walked downstairs to find both of my parents back home early siting at the kitchen table. " he let out a small chuckle "Instead of explaining what was happening they just looked at me and said "happy birthday" I was super confused because I never met this kid in my life."
-"Hold on wait" Cathy interrupted "you guys are cousins how come you guys didn't meet until he was twelve?"
"Well it's a bit complicated. Um Char are you fine with telling them?"
Char nodded. "Okay so my mother was married to sugars uncle but he died two years into the marriage in a car accident leaving her as a widower. So after his death she decided to go back to her hometown and live with her parents, after four years of living in her hometown she met someone, my father. They later got married and had me. Since my mother and his uncle didn't have any kids together before he died there was really nothing that tied her to his family besides her last name so they lost touch over the years, and as you know my parents later died when I was twelve so we needed to find someone to take care of me. My mother parents were too old to care for me, and my father's family wanted nothing to do with me since I was the son of a woman who had been married twice. so we went to last resort." Char gestured towards Sugar who then grabbed his hand and shoved it away. "His parents agreed and I have been living with them since then."
"Mhm I'm so sorry to hear that your father's side of the family didn't want you. and I'm just going to say that they are total a** holes by the way." Cathy whispered covering the side of her face that was facing the camera with the cards and continued. "But I'm glad that everything ended up okay." She then looked right at the camera "ladies and gentlemen we will be right back so please stay tuned."