Chapter 13: Alone in the Storm
Joan's POV
I smashed my alarm clock when it wouldn't stop ringing at 6 AM.
But it wasn't the alarm making noise. It was my phone buzzing so hard it was shaking the whole table. Calls, texts, emails - hundreds of them coming in every minute.
Something was very, very wrong.
I grabbed my phone and saw seventeen missed calls from Vanessa, twenty-three from my parents, and forty-one from numbers I didn't know. The text messages were even worse:
"Joan, call me NOW - Vanessa" "What have you done?? - Mom"
"The video is everywhere - Dad" "How could you be so cruel? - Serena"
Video? What video?
My hands shook as I opened my social media apps. The first thing I saw was my own face staring back at me from a film that had been shared millions of times. The description read: "Joan Robert DESTROYS Young Singer's Dreams."