ARIA'S POV:

“Are you excited?” Nicolle talking to me like it was the best day of my life made me sick in the stomach. I forced myself to see her innocence, since no one else knew that everything that was supposed to happen today was for show.

“I would have been excited, if you were not waking me up at 7am to prepare for an event there until 5pm,” I grumbled.

“We need all the hours we can get if you're going to be ready by 5pm,” Nicolle sounded pretty serious.

“Why? Because I'm undergoing a full body surgery?” My questions were from nothing but a place of spite.

“We'd...