Beyond the Lights Page #5

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Come on, Liam, please.

- Mom...

- Congratulations.

You're a bloody clich.

Noni, Noni!

Hey! Stop, stop... stop.

Stop. Stop! Shh, shh.

Stop.

I feel like I'm suffocating

in the middle of the street

and no one can see me dying.

Let me see. Let me see.

Kaz, over here!

Where is she?

Where's Noni?

Kaz!

Where's Noni?

Come on!

Hey, Jesse, it's me.

I need a favor, man.

I need you to talk to Sarge,

tell him Vll be out a couple days.

And everything's cool, um...

I just need some time off.

All right? Thanks.

So now what?

Whatever you want.

Can I sleep?

Just for a little bit.

Hey, girl.

You're awake.

How long have I been out?

Well...

that was lunch, that was dinner,

and this... is breakfast.

Wow.

- Sorry.

- No, it's OK.

You hungry?

Starving.

So starving.

- Aah!

- Sorry, sorry.

- Geez, talons.

- Oh, my God.

All right, that's it.

- Nails be gone.

- Uh-oh.

Dam!

Hey.

Mmm.

Silver, silver,

silver, necklace.

Beautiful silver for your

beautiful senorita, senior.

Silver here, very cheap,

very cheap, mister.

No, no, we can't afford it.

We just bought these clothes and...

What? Give me the money.

No, it's like six meals.

- I'm good for it.

- Really?

- Yeah.

- Check your pockets, homie.

You are B-R-O-K-E, broke,

so come on, let's go.

Vamos.

Wait, what are you doing?

Gracias, senorita.

No, gracias, senior.

Are you for real?

This is worth way more

than the earrings.

Oh, they're fake.

What are you doing?

This is a merit badge.

You have to earn these.

For throwing me the middle finger

the night we first met.

For saying "I love you"

and meaning it,

even if it was just for a second.

For not caring about the fame.

And for standing here with me,

in this moment.

And for truth, justice,

and the American way.

Thank you.

Hey, I'm sorry to bother you,

but would you mind taking a picture?

- Sure.

- Thanks.

OK...

The two of us.

- Ready?

- Uh-huh.

Thanks again.

One, two, three, four

Come on, baby, say you love me

Five, six, seven times

Eight, nine, ten, once

Once is 11!

Until you are mine

- Whoo!

- Whoo-whoo-whoo!

Get up there.

What?

You wanted to know

what it feels like, remember?

I am not that drunk.

You telling me you're scared?

The flying thing

was bad enough.

It's like that?

OK, all right.

All right.

I'm dedicating this song to my lady

sitting right over there at the bar.

Aw!

You know who you are.

Ooh!

Ooh!

Come on, yeah

On a perfect day

I know that I can count on you

Ooh

When that's impossible

Tell me, can you weather the storm?

Sing it, bro!

And I need somebody

Who can stand by me

Through the good times

And bad times, you will always

Be right there for me

Eee-ee

Sunny days

Whoa, whoa, whoa

Tell me, baby

Can you stand the rain?

Can y'all...?

You can do better?

Let's see what you got.

Yeah!

Whoo! Come on!

- Hey.

Hola.

Whoo!

I'm gonna sing this song.

But I don't think

they have the music, so...

...I'm just gonna sing it a Capella.

Why you wanna fly

Blackbird?

You ain't never gonna fly

Why you wanna fly

Blackbird?

You ain't never gonna fly

No place big enough for holdin'

AH the tears you're gonna cry

'Cause your mama's name was lonely

'Cause your mama's name was lonely

And your daddy's name was pain

And they called you little sorrow

And they called you little sorrow

'Cause you'll never love again

You ain't got no one to hold you

You ain't got no one to care

if you'd only understand dear

Nobody

Wants you anywhere

So why you wanna fly

Blackbird?

You ain't never gonna fly

Why you wanna fly

Blackbird?

You ain't never

Gonna

#Fly

- Whoo!

- Bravo!

Oh.

That's the maid.

We need more bottled water.

All right.

You did this?

You brought them here?

They found you

the same way that I did.

Let me in.

You ain't never

Gonna

# Fly#

That was

the first song you ever sang.

I know.

My first talent contest.

No.

When you were seven months old,

we were living in this awful

council flat, had a hole in the door.

And I was making you Ready brek.

And you were lying on the floor

behind me, screaming.

And "Blackbird" came on the radio.

I turned it up.

I wasn't trying to drown you out.

The words were just...

how I felt.

I was 17 when I had you.

Black baby, that my morn and dad

wanted no part of,

by a guy who couldn't

give a sh*t about me.

And I was exactly

where they all said I'd be.

And then, all of a sudden,

you started singing.

Not the words... but the melody.

Clear as day.

And I was so shocked,

I started laughing.

And that made you laugh,

and then we're both there laughing.

And it felt like you and me

against the world.

It still feels like that.

You look happy.

You were right to get away.

Let's go back and finish it, Nones.

We can't give up.

Not after everything

we've been through.

I don't have a deal.

I'm a joke.

Well...

...that clip got 400,000 hits

since yesterday.

Are you serious?

And Liam called me this morning.

I needed a pause button.

That's what you did.

You put my life on pause.

But we can't hide out here forever.

I guess I was just drinking some

happily ever after bullshit, huh?

We can still have

happy ever after.

- Yeah?

- Yeah.

When?

'Cause obviously nothing's changed.

It's already different.

I feel like I can finally do it

the right way.

My way.

- What about your mom?

- She gets it now, too.

- Really?

- Yeah.

She know about

your box of lyrics?

Yeah... I give it a week.

You'll be back in a weave,

singing while sucking dick.

- I appreciate your honesty, Officer.

- Sh*t, Noni, I'm trying to help you!

Stop trying to be the bloody hero

all the time.

Look, Kaz...

...I've been working for this

my whole life.

I want you to be a part of it.

I need you.

And you need me.

You don't need me.

And I'm good.

Here she comes.

Noni!

Are you planning on

another suicide attempt?

I cleaned up.

Do you want a cup of tea?

Councilman Russell

is resigning tomorrow.

So we would need

to announce by Friday.

And what about the pastors?

You said before

we couldn't win without 'em.

The rapper called your girlfriend

a b*tch and you kicked his ass.

You lost the church,

but you gained the youth vote.

You're that candidate

with swagger.

I'm not so sure that's the angle

we wanna go with.

It's the only angle we have.

It's risky. Your call.

- I think...

- Let's run with it.

See what happens.

Pop.

The clip is so official, Noni.

Seven million hits in two days? What?

I need your album out,

like, yesterday, so...

...we got all hands on deck.

- It's not done.

- What's not done?

I wrote a song

and I want it on the album.

Why you playing with me?

Trey, everybody says I'm special

'cause I have this voice.

But I'm just saying what

everybody else wants me to say.

I need to say something.

Listen, I was an artist,

so I respect that, for real.

But... CD's been pressed,

artwork's finished.

It's done and done.

But you know what?

When the album blows up,

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