AN: This story is about our favourite twilight characters all competing in the reality show American Idol. Will Bella be the next American Idol or will someone else take the title? And what sort of adventures and trouble will her and the other competitors get into along the way. A story of friendship, determination and of course love.

I was inspired by the story So You Think You Can Dance Cullen by darkroselight and wanted to write one for American Idol. All characters are human in this story obviously.

Also I have never actually auditioned for American Idol so I'm doing the best I can to keep true to the process and researching as much as I can but some of the process may not be true to reality either from ignorance or to make the story fit. Also I think I should mention I will set it around season 6 and Paula will be the only female judge, partially because this was when I stopped following the show and part because I liked it better this way.

Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight in any way or anything with American Idol. Wish I did because that would be awesome.... and I would be rich....

Chapter 1 Auditions

Bella's POV

I was soooooo nervous I had never done anything like this my whole entire life. I mean I traveled all the way from Phoenix for this, and now I stand in a line of thousands of people in Los Angeles a bright pink wristband on my wrist. I had been waiting for this moment however for my entire life, I was finally going to audition for American Idol!!!!! I looked down at my shirt and looked at the number pinned to my shirt. I was number 543, there was 542 people ahead of me before I got my chance to be on the best show ever! I looked around at the others around me some were in big groups of people singing in groups or duets and others were quietly listening to their ipods and obviously singing to themselves. Grinning I looked beside me my mother, Renee had fallen asleep sitting leaning against the wall of the building. I was so happy she had come with me to support me. I had always been the one overseeing and supporting my mother's hair-brained ideas and hobbies and now I was finally getting to try my own. Renee had tried to put me in almost anything possible when I was a child, ballet and gymnastics did not turn out well since I'm pretty sure I am the most uncoordinated and clumsy person on the planet, and piano lessons had been boring and I had begged mom to let me stop. Finally, she had set me up for voice lessons when I was 5 and it had been love at first note! I had been singing ever since and have even learned to play the piano again so that I could start writing my own songs. I sat down beside mom and put in my ipod to go over the songs I had picked to audition with, music flowed into my ears calming my nerves at least for the moment. My eyes started to wander over the other hopefuls around me, there was so many of them. How could I ever expect to beat this many people onto the show let alone win? My eyes locked with a girl looking just as nervous as I was and she gave me a tentative smile which I returned. Her smile got wider and made her way over to me and I saw that her number was 547, that meant she was going to be in the initial audition group with me. I had done all sorts of research before coming here, I knew that this initial audition wasn't going to be in front of the fearsome 3 Simon, Paula and Randy, and that 10 of us would go in at the same time as well. Also out of the thousands of us here only 100- 200 of us were going to make it to the next set. The girl had made it over to me and I took out my earphones, she had brown hair and really pretty hazel eyes, she also looked a little bookwormish and shy.

"Hi. My name's Angela."

"Hey I'm Isabella, but call me Bella!" I motioned her to sit and she hesitantly did so. I liked her immediately she was quiet and seemed really nice.

"I'm so nervous I can't believe I'm doing this."

"I know exactly what you mean I get so embarrassed being in front of people." She looked at me a bit confused.

"You do know that thats what this show is all about right," she looked at me incredulously, "singing in front of millions of people."

I laughed at that waking Renee.

"Yeah I know, but once I start singing I forget about everyone else its just getting to there that's the hard part" She smiled back nodding that she understood.

"Oh Honey! What did I miss? I can't believe I fell asleep! Are you almost up? Oh who is this?" Mom was fully awake now jumping up frantically and spouting off questions a mile a minute.

"Whoa, slow down mom. You didn't miss anything, they just started bringing people in. This is Angela." Angela was giggling quietly and waved at Renee, "Angela this is my mother, Renee."

The three of us talked for hours while Angela and I waited for our turn to come, it was really easy to talk to Angela and we were quickly becoming friends and I was hoping we would both make it to the next round in front of the judges. Eventually there was only a few people left in front of us and I was starting to get really nervous, tugging on the hem of my dark red tank top. I had actually spent hours picking out this outfit, and I NEVER did that I HATED fashion, but I had finally settled on this silky tank top and pair of black cords. Angela and I had met a few of the other singers but most of their names had flown by me I knew that I'd never be able to remember anyone unless I made it further. We watched as another group exited the building none of them looking happy and I guessed that none of them had made it to perform in front of the judges, not many had in fact.

"So what are you planning on singing?" Angela looked like she was trying to distract herself.

"My song is going to be Foolish Games by Jewel, but I have a One Republic song as a backup. What about you."

"I'm gonna do Mariah Carey's Hero, but I have a couple Britney Spears songs just in case."

Then a man with a headset came out, "Okay numbers 540-549 please follow me inside, family and friends can follow up until we get outside the audition room." He turned and walked inside I grabbed Angela and mom's hands and we rushed inside. We entered into a huge lobby and this was were Renee was going to have to wait giving her a big hug as she wished me luck I followed Angela inside the smaller room. Sitting at a small table were sitting a redheaded woman and blond man with papers spread out in front of them.

"Okay if you could line up along the white line in order of your number please."

We did as the producers said and I was getting really nervous now.

"So just to run through it you will all get up to 30 seconds to sing your selection one after the other and we will then decide who we want if any of you to move on to the next round." With that the audition started and before I knew it I had sung my excerpt from Foolish Games and the round was over and all 10 of us had sung. As the two at the table talked to each other I stood there fidgeting and snuck a quick glance at Angela who gave me a nervous smile. After what seemed like forever the producers turned back to us and the blond man held my fate in his hands.

" Okay we have decided the ones to meet with the next producers will be, number 541 Matthew Carlin, number 543 Isabella Swan, number 547 Angela Weber, and number 548 Toni Matthews. The four of you will follow Max there to the next room and the rest of you may exit the same way you came. Thank you all for coming."

I couldn't believe it, I had made the first round and so had Angela. Before I could let it sink in though I was being herded into another room in front of another producer, a harsh looking brunette woman. The four of us that had survive stood the same as before and repeated the process over again in front of this woman. I was even more nervous now, my hopes had been shot up with getting through that first round.

"I have found that two of you are good enough to return in three days to perform infront of our three tv judges Randy, Paula and Simon. Those two are 543 Isabella Swan and number 547 Angela Weber. Thank you all for coming, if you could all leave through the door to your left and we will see you two girls in three days."

I walked out the door as directed in a daze and as soon as we exited into the large lobby from before I grabbed Angela and we did a happy dance as Renee ran over and I launched myself at her and gave her a huge hug. I HAD MADE IT! I was going to perform in front of the judges and was one step closer to my goal!

I know this chapter is on the shorter side but I wanted to see what you all thought of it. I know it may be obvious who is going to make it onto the show but hey what can you do eh :P. Hope you like this story please review, the longer the better, reviews make me want to continue. Also let me know if you think I should include lyrics in the story I'm not sure if I should.