Chapter 8 – Fame
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Serena's p.o.v
Dear Diary,
I have been at the academy for six months now! I've made lots of new friends that are in some of my classes! One of them, Reugina has also come from Tokyo!
I still live with Daniel and Rachel, but I think I'm gonna try and find a place of my own. After all, Aunt Rachel's having a baby, so they'll need the spare room, which I am currently using! I think I'll ask them if I can take the ballet bar though, because that could just get in the way, and I really use it... A lot!
Anyway, Enrique and I have been dating on and off for the past six months, it's great when we're going out, but after a while it gets dull and boring, so we take a break! I've had an amazing time with him, but I really can't see him being the love of my life... yet!! But we're dating other people at the moment, which is easy for him, seeing all the girls in the academy are in love with him, well hey, that used to be me!
My job's going great, my friends come and hang out at the coffee house now!! There are six of us including Enrique and me! There's Jessie who loves to sing and is always making up songs for us! Then there's Jake, a real ladies man! It's like he's got a new girlfriend everyday! There's also Michelle, she's obsessed with cleaning, I mean at her apartment you can't even put a cup down if there's not a poster, hehe! Finally we come to Charlie, the joker of the group! He's really funny, but it can get annoying when he jokes about really serious stuff... Oh well!! We all get on really well, and spend as much time together as we can, because Jessie and Jake are moving to L.A. next year, and starting careers in acting, so I guess we only got a year left together!!
Anyway I'd better go get ready for my audition!
And with that I closed my diary, and climbed off my king-sized bed!!
"Hmmm," I said to myself, "what should I wear, I think they said it was dancing, singing and acting..."
I looked through my closet trying to find the perfect outfit!
'I know,' I thought, 'I'll wear the new pineapple dance trousers and vest top I got for my birthday, then I can wear my dance trainers, so it fits in for everything!'
As soon as I had got dressed and put my hair in a high ponytail, I grabbed my bag and ran out the door! I only had twenty minutes to get there! I think old times are catching up on me!!
I walked into the audition hall feeling as nervous as hell! All the judges looked so strict and scary, they could at least smile every once in a while!!
"Okay, Miss Tsukino I presume?" Said the woman in the middle.
"Yes miss!" I replied, god I hope they couldn't tell I was nervous!
"Right Miss Tsukino I'd like you to start with the song please!"
"Yes miss," I replied as I gave my sheet music to the pianist!
"I'm gonna be singing My only love!"
"Okay, start then!" Said the judge strictly! Woah, who got out of the wrong side of bed this morning! Ooops, I was meant to be singing!
"Deep in my soul, Love so strong, It takes control.
Now we both know, The secrets bared, The feelings show.
Driven far apart, I make a wish, On a shooting star.
There will come a day, Somewhere far away, In your arms I'll stay, My only love.
Even though you're gone, Love will still live on, The feeling is so strong, My only love.
There will come a day, Somewhere far away, In your arms I'll stay, My only love. My only love.
You've reached the deepest part, Of the secret in my heart, I've known it from the start, My only love, My only love."
Phew that was finally over, I have to say, singing is usually my weakness but that actually went quite well!
"Thank you Miss Tsukino, now do you have a monologue prepared, I think we asked you to do a piece from the musical this audition is for?"
"Yes miss, I'm doing the monologue no room for a baby!"
"Okay please start!" Replied the judge, who was starting to become friendlier!
"You see, I was offered this place in the San Francisco Ballet. I haven't told anyone yet, but I'm gonna take it. I don't care what they think. I'm a good dancer. Better than good. Maybe even the best in the school. And that's not conceit, it's just simple honesty. If I stay in New York, everyone will think I bought my way into ABT. And I'm not starving myself for Balanchine's City Ballet. Not that I mind doing the corps de ballet bullshit. I'd sooner do it out of town. I'll pay my dues on the west coast, come back to New York a star. You see, I've always had this crazy dream of dancing all the classical roles before I'm twenty-one. I want Giselles and Coppélias coming out of my feet. And Sleeping Beauties, and the Swan. I want bravos in Stuttgart and Leningrad and Paris. Maybe even a ballet created especially for me. You see? There's no room for a baby."
Wow, that went really good too! I was on a roll... luckily!!
"Very nice Miss Tsukino, now, it's finally time for the dancing!"
That very word brought a huge smile to my face!
Suddenly music started playing, I recognised it instantly it had been my favourite song since I was ten years old!
'Baby look at me, and tell me what you see, You aint seen the best of me yet, Give me time, I'll make you forget the rest...'
Okay, I needed to really impress the judges, here I go. I started in a crouched position.
'I got all I need, but you can set it free, I can catch the moon in my hands, Don't you know who I am...'
This was it. I jumped up, Split leap, step ball change, split leap, step ball change, jump, jump, plies, box, jump, jump, plies, split!
'Remember my na-ame, Fame, I'm gonna live forever, I'm gonna learn how to fly (high) I feel it coming together, People will see me and cry, (fame) I'm gonna make it to heaven, Light up the sky like a flame. Oohh, I'm gonna live forever, Baby remember my name!'
Okay, freestyle, perform, back straight, stomach in!
Pirouette, pirouette, Split leap, Pirouette.
Hand, hand, head, head, pirouette, Box splits.
Up a bit, right leg splits, up a bit box splits, up again left leg splits!
'Fame!'
And crouch down into ending position!
"Well, that was quite a show Miss Tsukino, we'll be contacting you in the next few days?"
"You mean I got the part?"
"You'll see Miss Tsukino, you'll see!" Replied the judge as she dismissed me! Oh my god, was she really gonna keep me waiting?
Oh well I guess I'd better head home, I got a late shift at work today!
Tokyo
Darien's p.o.v
I still hadn't found her, or any trace of her! Her friends wouldn't tell me anything, and I didn't have the guts to face her father yet! I kept calling round to all the places in New York where she could have been!
Suddenly I remembered something...someone.
On the way out of my apartment Serena had dropped something, someone's phone number!
I picked up the phone and dialled.
"Hello?" Came the voice from the other end, boy this was going to be tough!
"Er, hi, is that Alex by any chance?" .....
Back In New York Serena's p.o.v
"Oh my god, when are they gonna call?" I moaned once again to Jessie. We were hanging out in my room!
"Serena relax would you! They're gonna call, and if you described your audition right, you're gonna get the part!" Jessie soothed, she was so good at calming people down, but I couldn't help worrying!
"But Jess, say they don't call, an they were just saying that to make people feel good?"
"Serena, honey. In this business, you don't just tell people you're gonna call to make em' feel good! If you think they're crap, you tell em! Now did they say you were crap?" Asked Jessie, she had a point!
"No.."
"Well there you go, I bet they're just trying to build up some excitement and suspense, and hey it's working!" Chuckled Jessie!
"I guess... But they sure have left it a long tim..."
The phone rang.
"Oh my god, oh my god, please be them, please be them!" I screamed as I ran to get the phone on my bedside table.
"Hello Serena speaking?" I said.
"Oh Miss Tsukino I presume?" YES!!!! It was the judges voice on the other end of the phone!!
"Yes that's me!" I replied, I was almost too relieved to speak!
"Well Miss Tsukino, I have some news!"
"Yes, what is it? What's the news?" I practically screamed down the phone!
"Well... I have to say..."
Oh my god, what was she trying to do? Kill me? This was way, way, way, way harsh!!
"... Congratulations Miss Tsukino, you got the part as Carmen in the musical Fame!"
"Ha...I...Oh...God...My...Oh...huh..." I was speechless.
Luckily Jessie was right behind me and heard the whole thing!
"Hello, yeah, Serena's speechless she's so happy, and she accepts the part! Okay, thanks very much bye!"
"AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH....."
Hi everyone, fanx for more reviews, keep em' comin lol!!!!! Anyway here's chapter 8 of just put on your dancin' shoes!!
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Serena's p.o.v
Dear Diary,
I have been at the academy for six months now! I've made lots of new friends that are in some of my classes! One of them, Reugina has also come from Tokyo!
I still live with Daniel and Rachel, but I think I'm gonna try and find a place of my own. After all, Aunt Rachel's having a baby, so they'll need the spare room, which I am currently using! I think I'll ask them if I can take the ballet bar though, because that could just get in the way, and I really use it... A lot!
Anyway, Enrique and I have been dating on and off for the past six months, it's great when we're going out, but after a while it gets dull and boring, so we take a break! I've had an amazing time with him, but I really can't see him being the love of my life... yet!! But we're dating other people at the moment, which is easy for him, seeing all the girls in the academy are in love with him, well hey, that used to be me!
My job's going great, my friends come and hang out at the coffee house now!! There are six of us including Enrique and me! There's Jessie who loves to sing and is always making up songs for us! Then there's Jake, a real ladies man! It's like he's got a new girlfriend everyday! There's also Michelle, she's obsessed with cleaning, I mean at her apartment you can't even put a cup down if there's not a poster, hehe! Finally we come to Charlie, the joker of the group! He's really funny, but it can get annoying when he jokes about really serious stuff... Oh well!! We all get on really well, and spend as much time together as we can, because Jessie and Jake are moving to L.A. next year, and starting careers in acting, so I guess we only got a year left together!!
Anyway I'd better go get ready for my audition!
And with that I closed my diary, and climbed off my king-sized bed!!
"Hmmm," I said to myself, "what should I wear, I think they said it was dancing, singing and acting..."
I looked through my closet trying to find the perfect outfit!
'I know,' I thought, 'I'll wear the new pineapple dance trousers and vest top I got for my birthday, then I can wear my dance trainers, so it fits in for everything!'
As soon as I had got dressed and put my hair in a high ponytail, I grabbed my bag and ran out the door! I only had twenty minutes to get there! I think old times are catching up on me!!
I walked into the audition hall feeling as nervous as hell! All the judges looked so strict and scary, they could at least smile every once in a while!!
"Okay, Miss Tsukino I presume?" Said the woman in the middle.
"Yes miss!" I replied, god I hope they couldn't tell I was nervous!
"Right Miss Tsukino I'd like you to start with the song please!"
"Yes miss," I replied as I gave my sheet music to the pianist!
"I'm gonna be singing My only love!"
"Okay, start then!" Said the judge strictly! Woah, who got out of the wrong side of bed this morning! Ooops, I was meant to be singing!
"Deep in my soul, Love so strong, It takes control.
Now we both know, The secrets bared, The feelings show.
Driven far apart, I make a wish, On a shooting star.
There will come a day, Somewhere far away, In your arms I'll stay, My only love.
Even though you're gone, Love will still live on, The feeling is so strong, My only love.
There will come a day, Somewhere far away, In your arms I'll stay, My only love. My only love.
You've reached the deepest part, Of the secret in my heart, I've known it from the start, My only love, My only love."
Phew that was finally over, I have to say, singing is usually my weakness but that actually went quite well!
"Thank you Miss Tsukino, now do you have a monologue prepared, I think we asked you to do a piece from the musical this audition is for?"
"Yes miss, I'm doing the monologue no room for a baby!"
"Okay please start!" Replied the judge, who was starting to become friendlier!
"You see, I was offered this place in the San Francisco Ballet. I haven't told anyone yet, but I'm gonna take it. I don't care what they think. I'm a good dancer. Better than good. Maybe even the best in the school. And that's not conceit, it's just simple honesty. If I stay in New York, everyone will think I bought my way into ABT. And I'm not starving myself for Balanchine's City Ballet. Not that I mind doing the corps de ballet bullshit. I'd sooner do it out of town. I'll pay my dues on the west coast, come back to New York a star. You see, I've always had this crazy dream of dancing all the classical roles before I'm twenty-one. I want Giselles and Coppélias coming out of my feet. And Sleeping Beauties, and the Swan. I want bravos in Stuttgart and Leningrad and Paris. Maybe even a ballet created especially for me. You see? There's no room for a baby."
Wow, that went really good too! I was on a roll... luckily!!
"Very nice Miss Tsukino, now, it's finally time for the dancing!"
That very word brought a huge smile to my face!
Suddenly music started playing, I recognised it instantly it had been my favourite song since I was ten years old!
'Baby look at me, and tell me what you see, You aint seen the best of me yet, Give me time, I'll make you forget the rest...'
Okay, I needed to really impress the judges, here I go. I started in a crouched position.
'I got all I need, but you can set it free, I can catch the moon in my hands, Don't you know who I am...'
This was it. I jumped up, Split leap, step ball change, split leap, step ball change, jump, jump, plies, box, jump, jump, plies, split!
'Remember my na-ame, Fame, I'm gonna live forever, I'm gonna learn how to fly (high) I feel it coming together, People will see me and cry, (fame) I'm gonna make it to heaven, Light up the sky like a flame. Oohh, I'm gonna live forever, Baby remember my name!'
Okay, freestyle, perform, back straight, stomach in!
Pirouette, pirouette, Split leap, Pirouette.
Hand, hand, head, head, pirouette, Box splits.
Up a bit, right leg splits, up a bit box splits, up again left leg splits!
'Fame!'
And crouch down into ending position!
"Well, that was quite a show Miss Tsukino, we'll be contacting you in the next few days?"
"You mean I got the part?"
"You'll see Miss Tsukino, you'll see!" Replied the judge as she dismissed me! Oh my god, was she really gonna keep me waiting?
Oh well I guess I'd better head home, I got a late shift at work today!
Tokyo
Darien's p.o.v
I still hadn't found her, or any trace of her! Her friends wouldn't tell me anything, and I didn't have the guts to face her father yet! I kept calling round to all the places in New York where she could have been!
Suddenly I remembered something...someone.
On the way out of my apartment Serena had dropped something, someone's phone number!
I picked up the phone and dialled.
"Hello?" Came the voice from the other end, boy this was going to be tough!
"Er, hi, is that Alex by any chance?" .....
Back In New York Serena's p.o.v
"Oh my god, when are they gonna call?" I moaned once again to Jessie. We were hanging out in my room!
"Serena relax would you! They're gonna call, and if you described your audition right, you're gonna get the part!" Jessie soothed, she was so good at calming people down, but I couldn't help worrying!
"But Jess, say they don't call, an they were just saying that to make people feel good?"
"Serena, honey. In this business, you don't just tell people you're gonna call to make em' feel good! If you think they're crap, you tell em! Now did they say you were crap?" Asked Jessie, she had a point!
"No.."
"Well there you go, I bet they're just trying to build up some excitement and suspense, and hey it's working!" Chuckled Jessie!
"I guess... But they sure have left it a long tim..."
The phone rang.
"Oh my god, oh my god, please be them, please be them!" I screamed as I ran to get the phone on my bedside table.
"Hello Serena speaking?" I said.
"Oh Miss Tsukino I presume?" YES!!!! It was the judges voice on the other end of the phone!!
"Yes that's me!" I replied, I was almost too relieved to speak!
"Well Miss Tsukino, I have some news!"
"Yes, what is it? What's the news?" I practically screamed down the phone!
"Well... I have to say..."
Oh my god, what was she trying to do? Kill me? This was way, way, way, way harsh!!
"... Congratulations Miss Tsukino, you got the part as Carmen in the musical Fame!"
"Ha...I...Oh...God...My...Oh...huh..." I was speechless.
Luckily Jessie was right behind me and heard the whole thing!
"Hello, yeah, Serena's speechless she's so happy, and she accepts the part! Okay, thanks very much bye!"
"AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH....."