8 Chapter 8

Pov Jade

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I met a boy after my failure in the dance duel, Alexandre Lockhart, I was so frustrated that I just wanted someone to talk to,

It was a great choice, we talked for a long time, after talking about my problems, I felt relieved, we spent the afternoon together, he told me how he was trying to create a movie, I admit I was excited about the idea and ended up promising to help him with the songs.

When I went to his house, I was a bit surprised, Alex looks like an old man fiddling with holographic bracelets, he only knows the basics of AI, I had to teach him almost everything.

It's been two weeks since we started working on this project together, and it's been a lot of fun, kids my age are either too stupid and want to waste time or don't want to play with me because my great-great-grandfather is a retired 7-star general.

Let's just say that I don't have many options for friendships, anyway the last few days have been a lot of fun, and the fact that my coastguard has a strange relationship with Alex's mother, Monica, who always has a disinterested expression, gets frowns and a nasty face, for some reason I'm quite happy to see her like this.

Today I got up early, put on a black dress, tied my hair up with a red bow, put on my black sneakers, and after looking in the mirror and making sure everything was okay, I called Monica.

"Come on, it's Melissa's birthday today, I don't want to be late."

"Miss, it's still early, why don't you have breakfast and then we'll go?"

"No! I'll be there early to help set everything up, and Alex needs to put my name in the credits."

In these two weeks I've become very close to Melissa and Mrs. Cath, and as my older sister is always at school, I've enjoyed spending these days at Alex's house, but I can't let him know, I don't want to see that stupid smile.

After having breakfast, we arrived at Alex's house and before we even knocked on the door, Mrs. Cath opened it and smiled at us.

"Jade, Monica, I could really use some help packing up, come on in."

"Jade, Alex is in his room, he said he needed to finish some details of his present."

"Good, I'll go and help him."

Just as I turned to go find Alex, I could hear Mrs. Cath talking.

"So Monica, let's go to the kitchen, I'll teach you how to cook a bit, maybe you can use this to find a man or a woman, after all your older sister here is already married, hahaha

"Stop rubbing your marriage in my face, when I get married, my husband will be 10x better than yours."

".... Poor thing, she's been single for so long that she's starting to get delirious, hahaha."

"Your..."

It looks like they're both having a good time, so I went to Alex's room, walked straight in without knocking, he was drawing some things on the creative table, but as soon as he saw me, he turned everything off.

When I came to help on the first day, he said he'd show me the first few minutes of the movie, but I'd rather wait to watch it all at once, since he told me that this movie was going to be unlike anything I'd ever seen.

"Jade, it's about time, come here, you need to record some words."

"Record what?"

"Do you have a stage name or something?"

"Yes, I'm 'Heavenly Comet'!!!!"

Look at his face, he must be impressed by my name.

".... Really... (Sigh) It's your name, so it's fine."

"What's wrong with that annoying expression, my name is very good."

"Yeah, yeah, let's record this and go help mom."

"Rumm, right, what do you want me to say?"

"You can choose, it's just a phrase to appear at the end of the movie, you can say you had fun taking part or something like that"

"Ok... It was a lot of fun helping with the music for this movie, Melissa happy birthday, I hope you enjoyed it."

"Great, I'll put that at the end of the movie, and Jade, thanks for your help, if it hadn't been for you, I wouldn't have finished in time."

"Ehhh?! O... Oo... what are you talking about all of a sudden, I... I only did it because I was bored, I'm going to help Aunt Cath in the kitchen."

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( Rumm, idiot, talk about nonsense like that, hehe)

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Pov Alexandre Lockhart

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"Hahaha, these kids nowadays get embarrassed very easily, better finish it soon."

I took Jade's recording and put it into a scribbled character that looked just like her.

Looking at everything finished I was really happy, when I thanked Jade, it wasn't just to make a fuss with her, in fact I'm really grateful, after all she paid for all the dubbing of the movie, even though there were few lines, it still required a good performance from the voice actors.

I didn't ask about her family, but considering that she spent two whole weeks coming to my house in the morning and only leaving at night, I can imagine how things are.

As soon as I'd finished everything I needed, I went to help in the kitchen. It took us all morning to get everything ready, and Dad left early with Melissa so she wouldn't see the decorations.

In the afternoon, the guests started arriving, all of them friends of Mom and Dad, after all we don't go to school yet and don't have many friends.

It's a shame that there are few children, just a pair of twins and two toddlers.

Anyway, all the decorations are ready, it's a bit sad that the theme of the party is the divine soldier, not that it bothers me.

Mom texted Dad to come back with Melissa, I'm going up to my room to get her a stuffed animal, even though the movie is the present, a child is still a child, she can watch the movie, say she liked it and ask me for the present, it's better to avoid this situation.

It didn't take long for Dad to arrive, as soon as he opened the door, everyone started congratulating him, the women hugged Melissa as if she were a doll, I took advantage of a moment when she managed to touch the floor and congratulated her and gave her the present and said I would show her the movie later.

Melissa ran all over the house, it's nice to see her happy like that, the twins and Jade are playing with her, but they're not as wild as Melissa.

But there's something bothering me, this party seems dead, there's no music playing, there's nothing for the children to do but run around and invent some game to distract themselves, the adults are sitting around talking, even though there's a themed decoration, everything just seems boring, sometimes I forget that people here are totally militarized.

Come to think of it, the mother and father are also different outside the home, the mother especially, she hardly shows any great emotion, and always has a calm smile on her face, even at the dueling club, she tried to keep up appearances as much as she could.

Seeing things like this only makes me want to change that, maybe this movie is the first step towards changing entertainment, and the concept that people in this universe have of fun.

"Brother, when will I be able to see my movie?"

"Huh?! Do you want to see it already? You can play more with the girls if you want."

"No, they want to watch it too."

"All right, you can sit on the sofa and I'll put it on for you to watch."

The girls ran to the sofa, I told the mother I'd put the movie on, she said she wanted to see what I was working on, while the father just wanted to see it because he'd spent a lot of money on it.

The adults just sat there chatting quietly, since this was Melissa's present. Mom sat with the girls and put Melissa on her lap.

Once everyone was settled, I let the movie start.

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Note: I'm having a problem with Deepl, they've set a translation limit for free users, so it might take a while to post the chapters, I'm thinking about what to do, but I'll keep posting, maybe I'll find another translator who's good.