Chapter 4

Chapter 4.

            “I’m sorry, but if you can’t get through this interview, how can you sing at all?” Mr. Jones said.

            “Exactly,” Mr. Abbott pitched in.

            “Hey, you guys are supposed to bring in people like her,” Ms. Parker said, trying to keep Ivy.

            “At least that kid with the messed-up genes can sing, let alone talk,” Mr. Jones said. He was referencing the kid named Dawson who had Down Syndrome.

            “The work of the world is common as mud,”[1] Mr. Jones said.

            “Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust,”[2] Mr. Abbot chimed in.

            Ivy was clearly distraught by those saying. Ms. Parker noticed this, so she took Ivy out of the room. Ivy went to sit down and swear under her breathe, as Ms. Parker talked to Ivy’s mom.

            “Apparently, Mr. Jones and Mr. Abbott don’t like Tourette’s,” Ms. Parker said to Ivy’s mom.

            “Yeah, I can tell,” Ivy’s mom said with an upset look on her face.

            “You see, they work with these types of kids, but all they want is for them to speak, that’s all. The talent doesn’t matter do them, they use these kids for the money.”

            Ivy’s mom began to tear up. “I’ll email you later, I need to take my daughter home,” Ivy’s mom said to Ms. Parker.

            Ivy and her mom walked out of the record company and drove home in silence.

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[1] Quote from To Be of Use

[2] Quote from To Be of Use

Author's Note

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