Michaël grew up in a stressful environment, that's the little he can say. His father, a successful businessman, had married a young actress who was making her debut but whose talent was already recognized on the national film scene. Carmen, a young redhead with green eyes and milky soft skin. She was not only an actress because in her debut, that is to say when she was 14, she had been in a girl band which had many fairly popular songs to its credit. She then wanted to embark on a solo career but in vain because she unfortunately did not have the 'trick' to make her voice resonate and heard. Her manager had therefore decided to enroll her in a casting for a minor role in a film and despite her protests wanting at all costs to be a famous singer, she had finally accepted and passed the audition.
The producer had found her a rather explosive talent, he said, for the cinema, deciding to give her another role than the one for which she had auditioned; he had decided to bet that she would be perfect as a supporting actress in a family series.
The birth of a star.
Carmen had exploded on the small screen almost eclipsing the female lead who was a confirmed actress. Viewers were so taken by her charm that they even voted her best sitcom actress.
It was the first time a rookie was nominated for Best Actress Ever, although she didn't win the award in the end. But her performance had so seduced that she had started to be asked in many sitcoms at the start to then be acclaimed in the biggest projects including her biggest role and also the most striking because he will make her discover in the eyes of the heir to a large family that had sponsored the production of the film.
John Keller, who will later be her husband with whom they will have a long and painful marriage, a man who is particularly fond of conquests.
Carmen Keller will now play a few more films during the five years following her marriage before becoming pregnant and giving birth to Michaël, which marked the end of her career, her husband forbidding her to leave the Keller's heir to go play comedy.
She who had finally had the recognition she had always wanted had to drop her career and her dreams at the height of her glory not wanting to challenge her husband who had quite authoritarian tendencies that could go to physical violence. But she also wanted to protect her son because she knew that if she got kicked out of the Keller family, he would suffer the consequences. So for her boy she had given up everything and devoted herself to her marriage becoming a rag wife but despite everything a loving and devoted mother.
Two years after the birth of her son, she gave birth again but this time to a girl who had a rare disease. John immediately accused his wife of neglecting her visits and giving him an insignificant child deciding he didn't want to have this weird child by his side. Carmen had therefore endured her husband's abuse and humiliation for more than ten years, her only source of comfort being the piano because she could remember her past dreams.
Her husband's beatings, his insults, the pressure of her status and also the fact that her husband had started using Michaël very early as a model had gotten the better of her mental health and she fell. But John was against telling the world that his own wife had been on the verge of madness so he kept her at home without really watching her and while he was in college Michael got the horrible call that his mother had committed suicide.
She had opened her veins in front of her little sister who had not supported this vision and had entered a state of mental defense fleeing reality, she who was already not in good health now had to be traumatized.
His father as usual had been cold and his mother's funeral had passed as normally as a simple day of the year. For his sister knowing that his father would never do anything for her, he made him a request more like a deal.
He would do anything to please him in exchange, his father will always have to ensure and promise to always take care of his sister's health. For two years now Michaël has been a model according to the whims of his father and takes care of his sister. He only comes to school for his father's image people shouldn't think that John Keller's son has no friends because still in their mansion, he lives like a teenager of his age and has great responsibilities like his father, a future and worthy heir.
Michaël had finished telling me this heartbreaking story and I could now understand why he had felt so much hatred when Charlotte had spoken to him about his mother in this way. For him certainly the cinema had ruined the life of his mother because it was there that she had met his father and that her life had been ruined.
It's so cruel I didn't know my parents but Jeanne loved me so much that I'm sure she would never have treated me like this if we had been in the same situation. I now understand the anger that exists in Michael's heart.
I stand up and hug him giving him the sweetest hug I can give. I feel him tense against me but eventually I hear him sigh and wrap his arms around my hips.
"Thanks for listening to me Emma"
I stroke his hair and I feel better to feel him calmer, my friend is sad I want so much to make him happier. If only I had a miracle method
We end up breaking up and we smile at each other as I take my place in front of him. When he reacted so badly to my sentence when I arrived, I thought he wouldn't want to talk to me anymore, but I was wrong and he had the courage to pour out his heart so freely. I hope to be a golden friend in the future in order to always relieve him in case of concern – in any case I will tackle it today, it is a promise.