Shine Chapter 14- Hold You In My Arms
For the duet, Danny is bold, Lila is italics, and both are bold-italics.
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I sighed as I looked at the huge mess that was my room. I really needed to clean everything up…I mean, there was no way I was going to make it past this week. Rock's not my best…I couldn't even pick a song. Adam had his picked out since the theme was announced.
I had an idea for what I wanted to do. I wanted to find a good song and do an acoustic version of it. Only problem was, I couldn't find a song I could do that for…
At the same time, Danny and I were looking for a song for our duet. We wanted to do a love song, except the closest we were finding so far was a song called Renegade…Not very lovey dovey…
We were sitting around looking though songs when we actually found something.
"Let's do this," Danny said, looking at the song.
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When you came to me with your bad dreams and your fears
It was easy to see that you'd been crying
Seems like everywhere you turn catastrophe it reigns
But who really profits from the dying
I could hold you in my arms
I could hold you forever
I could hold you in my arms
I could hold you in my arms forever
So now we see how it is
This fist begets the spear
Weapons of war
Symptoms of madness
Don't let your eyes refuse to see
Don't let your ears refuse to hear
Or you ain't never going to shake this sense of sadness
I could hold you in my arms
I could hold on forever
And I could hold you in my arms
I could hold forever
"Lila and Danny," Paula started. "I loved the duet! You two sound perfect together!"
Danny hugged me. Randy began to speak. "You to definitely can sing together. That was great."
"Your duet was great, but I have to say, Danny sounded better than Lila." To me, that was pretty obvious…
You two definitely have great chemistry! I loved the song choice too!" Kara added.
We hugged again, and I ran to the dressing room. I HAD to have my duet and solo back to back. I had to somehow be completely ready, with my guitar, by the end of the advertisement break…
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I am a man cut from the know
Rarely do friends come and then go
She was a girl, soft but estranged
We were the two, our lives rearranged
I don't know what, when or why
The twilight of love had arrived
Twisting and turning
Your feelings are burning
You're breaking the girl
She meant you no harm
Think you're so clever
But now you must sever
You're breaking the girl
He loves no one else
I don't know what, when or why
The twilight of love had arrived
Twisting and turning
Your feelings are burning
You're breaking the girl
She meant you no harm
Think you're so clever
But now you must sever
You're breaking the girl
He loves no one else
"Lila," Simon started. "That was okay. Probably not good enough at this stage of the competition, but definitely better than last week."
"I'm going to have to disagree with Simon," Paula stated. "You definitely did very well with that song! I love how you made it work for you."
"I agree with Paula. It was so original and I loved it," Kara commented.
Randy spoke last. "I'm going to agree with Paula and Kara. You made rock something you could do."
I was happy that most of the judges liked it. I wasn't sure about doing the song.
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Danny went on next.
"DDDDDRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
I looked around. Adam was still in here…OMG THAT WAS DANNY'S SCREAMING! Wow, it sounded worse than when Allison shoved cake in his face…It sounded more like a truck crashing into a train…And he thought he nailed it…
"How'd I do?" he asked when he got backstage.
"Um…it was…unique…" I said, trying not to laugh.
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"I'm SO worried about tomorrow…" Allison yelled as she sat on Alexis' old bed.
"Why? I'm the one who should be worried…" I muttered. I was running around the room, throwing the mess into bags.
"You did great! But really, I'm not sure if I was that good, and-"
"ALLI! First, you were AMAZING, second, you're a ROCKER. You can't kick a rocker off on ROCK WEEK! Adam's a rocker too, and Danny's Danny, and that scream was AWESOME! Besides, you did a duet with ADAM! I thought you liked him! Well, you also like my brother and Fred, and I doubt they'll be on Idol…Well, at least Fred won't, I mean I've heard him sing, and Kris…well I'll leave it at Fred singing about going to the doctor's office was better…"
She laughed. "Sure it was…What are you doing?"
"Packing."
"Why?"
"Haven't I made it clear?"
"Lila…"
"Whatever…"
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It was time for the eliminations. I was ready to hear my name called as the one with the least amount of votes…
"Allison Iraheta," Ryan announced. I almost walked over to him, until I realized Allison was walking over. How'd this happen? I sucked yesterday…She was awesome…I ran up and hugged her, crying.
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Well, I guess it wasn't a bad thing that I had started packing. Tomorrow I would be on a flight to Conway for the hometown visit. I really didn't want to go, but I had to so…
I sat on my bed with Danny, listening to him talk about Milwaukee. It sounded so nice. I wished I was going there instead of Conway. Danny and Adam's love for their hometowns made my cry for the one I really didn't have.
"Lila, what's wrong?" Danny asked comfortingly.
I told him my life story. I was completely honest with him, telling him how my family was scattered everywhere, my parents divorced and living far away, my mom leaving us with our dad for her new husband, and our dad not caring at all. How Kris and I had to both pitch in to afford a tiny apartment. How we took our brother Daniel with us. How there was no room in the apartment, and I ended up having Trevor move in with my mom's family for a while so we could find a new building after being evicted.
By this time, I was in his arms as tears streamed down my face. He kissed my forehead.
"It's okay Lila, I'm here," he whispered to me.
"Thanks Danny…" I cried. I leaned in to kiss him.
The door suddenly opened.
"Is everything okay?" Adam asked. "I thought I heard crying…" He sat down next to us.
"Everything's fine Adam," Danny said calmly.
"Oh…night…" Adam left the room quickly.
"I-I guess I should go to…" Danny stood up.
"Wait…Can you stay in here? You can have Alexis' old bed…"
"Okay," He sat on the bed, and we stayed up talking until 2AM, when we realized we had to leave for our flights in 5 hours…
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I REALLY hope this didn't suck! It took me forever to write this since I was having trouble thinking of things AND I had computer issues…Anyway, as much as I enjoyed writing this chapter, the next chapter contains the INSPIRATION for this fic! (It's weird so…)