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Gio directed us to a table, pulling out our chairs in the sareeted us I was pretty sure that his actions would come off as cheesy when done byHe had a way ofa wo hi delicious biscotti and sipping espresso Gio filled us in on the city of Parma and the history of Bellissiers he had recorded in the last few years I was impressed at the level of celebrity that he worked with, but it was eventhat Gio did not seem impressed

Eventually we made our way back into the studio and up to the second floor where ere introduced to the group that would be our recording tealish, even if it ith a heavy Italian accent Over the next six hours we s, ain When our voices began to show signs of strain, Gio said it was enough for the day and that we had to save our voices for our perfor

He made us both promise ould not speak until one hour before our show I tried to protest, to let him know that ould be okay, but the er on my lips

"You have a beautiful voice, bella You listen to Gio I take good care of er from my lips, so I opened er quickly returned

"No voice, yes?"

I nodded agreeo You co will be alels that make the beautiful music Yes?"

Sienna and I both smiled and were rewarded with kisses on both cheeks

Sienna was the first to speak as we got into our waiting car "So would you think I was crazy if I told you that Gio sorin

I didn’t respond I just smiled and shook my head, no

"I think it’s the Italian accent It’s sexy, don’t you think? I know he’s old enough to bethat just edto speak?"

I nodded oody-two-shoes" Sienna thought for a minute before she continued "Rerade? We were supposed to read Arte sci-fi crap book? But instead we decided to read Deenie by Judy Blulued the cover of Arteood pages We even underlined the really dirty parts"

I looked at Sienna and raisedfor her to continue I was curious how our reading a book was going to be related to

"Your book dropped out of your bag and the next day Mr Carlton questioned us with a few of the other girls He opened the da her "special place" Sienna added air quotes around the words for e back that’s probably why I have such a healthy sexual appetite That Deenie bitch touched herself every night in that book"

I looked over at Sienna, wide-eyed at her words, but she just ignoredus to find out as the dirty girl reading a book that had been banned from the library, and you broke down and cried and adot detention for a week too, because he said he knew if you were reading it that I was probably the one that had showed you the book to begin with!"

I looked over at my crazy best friend as she raoody-two-shoes" Sienna shook her head and I rolled my eyes at her

As we reached Milan, we had almost four hours to spare until the concert Sienna told the driver to take us to a mall that she had seen nearby where our tour busses were parked I wanted to object, preferring to go back to the bus and take a power nap, but since I still wasn’t speaking it was difficult to express my wishes with just squints and head nods And I kneere going shopping for me

When the AVN Awards were announced, I had been embarrassed when I realized that my family and friends would know about Jack’s production business I didn’t realize until after the dae was done that I had shown Jack that I was embarrassed of part of him I later realized, with Sienna’s help, that , but it was too late No ized to Jack, I couldn’t take away that I had made him feel badly

Sienna had devised a plan that she called "Operation Proud," where I would show, not tell, Jack that I was not embarrassed about any part of who he was Part of her plan entailedit to Jack e ht it for the awards It had sounded like a great plan at the tiht be a stupid idea since Jack still hadn’t invited h it was the weekend ere scheduled to be home for the tour’s planned hiatus

By the time we made our way into the third dress store, I was pretty sure the salespeople thought I was a mute and Sienna was my insane caretaker We entered the fourth store and the sales to our side

"Aren’t you Sydney and Sienna?" I was surprised to hear an American accent when theman, who looked oddly nervous "Yes Do we know you?"

"Oh My God I just have to text Sal and tell hi furiously

"We have tickets to the show tonight My boyfriend is a big Double Strife fan Me, not soman crinkled up his nose to accentuate his statement "But then I saw a video on YouTube from one of your recent concerts and I fell in love with you two!" He clapped his hands together and bounced up and down in a way that re at chocolate covered pretzels behind the glass when his mother tells hinized, and clearly a reat taste" She winked

The man lit up like a Christmas tree at her reaction "I’m American too!" The statement came out as alrafor dresses? I can’t wait to dress you up! It will be like playing real life Barbie!"

Sienna and I both laughed I couldn’t help but let a little bit ofof the rules couldn’t hurt "Syd is your Barbie today She needs soht out"

The excited sales around the store collecting a pile of dresses as he went Sienna and I also found a fee liked, and by the ti room we had collected more than a dozen dresses for me to try on

The first dress I tried on was pretty, but definitely not exciting I walked out to find Sienna and the sales rooin

"Pretty, but … I’m not sure," Sienna debated aloud

The sales Next"

I tried on four reed with their opinion Pretty, nice, but not the state red dress that startled even me as I looked atthat I would have picked out, way sexier than love and showed offroo their opinions freely, and waited Both had wide eyes andopen