I get up and see Marissa and Emily. "Everything is about her! We have done nothing but tip-toe around her since this whole thing started!" Emily says and I nod. "She is homesick. This entire thing is freaking her out." I shrug and grab and apple from the kitchen. "And she played that trick on me last night with Cameron- I thought he was my friend." I stand behind Emily. "He is your friend. He just wanted some fun, you know the way you guys haven't had any of that since I got here?" I say with a smile. "You conniving little bitch." I smile. "I guess we didn't make up yesterday." I say and take a bite of my apple. She gets up and she gets in my face. "Believe me, that's the last thing I want." I nod. "Girls, come on." Marissa says. "Can't make everyone like you." I say and take another bite of my apple. "Oh please, you'd be lucky if anyone liked you." I nod. "That is enough." Marissa says to us. "Get over yourselves and face the facts, ok? Emily, you want to spend time with Samuel, and Nicola you spent a week with him and you were homesick. We are all doing this and some of us are just more public about our feelings than others, ok? No matter what, we are all doing ths together, and if Nicola wants to cry she can, and if you want to have fun, we can. It's not that she doesn't want to have fun, it's because she is in a completely different country and her family are about 50 countries away, not just 10 states." We both look at her and nod. She hugs me and I hug her back. "Fair enough." She says and I smile. We turn around to see everyone watching. "I'm going back to bed." Matheus and Damien say and we laugh.
"You need to get ready." I say to Matheus, looking at the clock. "Darren Criss is coming here at 11." He nods and goes to get ready. "I'm going to go out and buy breakfast, you want some?" Damien says to me and I nod. When he comes back, we sit around the table and sort out breakfast. "So, are we going out on friday?" Lindsay says and we nod. "Sure." Alex says and we nod. Matheus gets up first and goes to get ready.
10 minutes later:
Matheus walks back out. "How do I look?" I nod. "Great." MyKynleigh says and he walks off to the Choir room to meet Darren and shuts the door behind him. We get changed and sit in the kitchen, and practice the song. "And that's when Matheus comes in." Alex says and we nod. He walks off and goes to the choir room to meet Darren, he shuts the door behind him and we hang out in our dorm. "This place is really boring." The guys walk in and Cameron sits beside me. "Don't you want to sit beside Nicola?" Hannah asks Samuel. "Her boyfriend wants to sit beside her." We laugh and Cameron gets a text. "Who is that?" Lindsay asks him. "It's the girl he is leaving me for." I say with a fake tear and we laugh. He gets up. "Yeah, I'm gonna go talk to her." He says and we nod, he walks out and I look at the ceiling. "This place is a real buzz kill." Samuel says and we nod in agreement. The screen lights up and we look at it.
"You must all be ready for 2pm. A limo will lift you and bring you to a press interveiw. Every girl must have a guy." We read it and look at each other. "I call Cameron!" Marissa shouts. "I call Lindsay!" Damian shouts. "I call Nicola." Samuel shouts. "I call Bryce." MyKynleigh shouts and we all get a pair. "Purple." Samuel says to me and I nod. They guys walk out to get dressed and we start sorting out what to wear. I get my purple dress from the closet along with my black pumps and put Samuel's bracelet on my arm. "Where'd you get that?" Hannah says to me, pointing to my wrist. "Samuel and I swapped bracelets." I say and fix my hair with my curlers. When we are done we walk out to the guys and Matheus joins us. "How was your one-on-one?" Hannah asks him and he nods. "Great." He goes to get changed and I sit beside Samuel, wearing a purple shirt, dark jeans and black shoes, and my bracelet. "You look, nice." He says and I sit beside him in the choir room. "Thanks. So do you." I say with a smile and Matheus walks in and we walk out together, every couple wearing a matching colour. We get into the limo and are driven to a press interview.
"Let the games begin." Hannah says as we get out and walk into the meeting area. We all take our seats at the table and Samuel holds my hand for a brief second before we turn around and Robert Ulrich walks in and sits at the other side, beside Alex. "Hello." Robert Ulrich says and the press, and some fans clap and woo. "Introduce yourselves." Robert says to us and each in turn we nod, they get to Damian and he nods. "I am Damian McGinty, I am 18 years old from Northern Ireland." He says and I nod. "I am Nicola McDowney, I am 18 years old from Country Derry, Northern Ireland." I say, with a half smile and Samuel leans forward towards his microphone. "I am Samuel Larsen, I am 19 years old, from Los Angeles, California." He says with a smile and sits back in his seat. "These are our final twelve from The Glee Project, which premiere's next Sunday night at 9/8 Central on Oxygen." Robert Ulrich says and we all lean forward. "LIVE OUT LOUD" We shout and laugh.
"So, we will all take turns and take questions from you." Robert says and they fire questions at us. "MyKynleigh, what has been your favourite thing about the last few weeks?" She nods. "It has to be hanging out with everyone and just taking it in our strides I guess." She says and nods. "Samuel." He looks over at Jager Weatherby and we all laugh. "Yeah?" He says. "What is your current relationship status?" He nods. "Single." He says nodding, and raising his eyebrow at the same time. She nods. "Nicola." I nod. "Yes?" I say to her. "What is your, current relationship status?" I laugh. "Single." I say and Bryce cuts in. "I'm single too, if anyone cares." We laugh at him and move on to another question. "Lindsay, has there been any fights in the house?" Her eyes widen a little. "Nothing major." She says and brushes it off. "Nicola, Where did you get the bracelet you are wearing?" I look at it. "It's Mine." Samuel says and we both smile. "He has mine." I say and he rolls up his sleeves so that you can see it. "Alex, who do you think is the biggest competition?" He nods. "Other than me? It would have to be Marissa, Nicola, Samuel or Cameron." We nod at him and keep answering questions.
"Marissa, why do you think you are good enough for Glee?" She sits up straight in her chair. "I think, it's because I have came over things in my life, and I think that I am quirky enough to be on the show." She says and sits back. Damian leans up to my ear. "How hot does Lindsay look?" I look over at Lindsay, who is sitting beside him and look back at Damian, I go towards his ear. "I think you should talk about this with Samuel." I say and wink. He laughs. I lean back against his ear. "She looks good though." I say and sit back in my seat. Samuel looks at me. "You look, really pretty today." I smile. "You said that earlier." He nods. "Just reminding you." I smile and he nods. "You look great too." I say and we look over at Matheus who is answering a question along with Hannah.
We finish answering questions and walk to the door. Jager walks up to me and Samuel after we have a picture taken with Damian and Lindsay. "I am here with Sweethearts Samuel Larsen and Nicola McDowney From, The Glee Project, I am Jager Weatherby, and you are watching ." I look at Samuel. "I think I am going to be sick." I say to him. "Do I look that bad?" I laugh at him and he rubs my back. "We are not together." Samuel says to the camera and I nod. "But what about the videos? The pictures? The holding hands, hugging, having your arm wrapped around her?" She says to Samuel. "We are just really good friends." I say and he looks at me. "Are you ok, you don't look so good." I nod. "I'm fine." I say and Jager looks at the camera and back at us. "We aren't together, we are just friends." Samuel says again. "You care about her." He says to Samuel and I nod. "Yeah, I'm going to be sick." I say and walk away, "Nicola?" I nod. "I'm ok." I say back to him and Marissa runs over to me and we walk into the bathroom. I run into a stall and throw up.
I close the door and clean my face. No Crying, not today, not with Jager Weatherby outside quizzing Samuel. "Nicola?" Correction, Not with Samuel and Cameron in the girls bathroom with Marissa. "I'm fine." I say and open the stall door. I walk out and they all look at me. "Are you sure you're ok?" I nod and then shake my head and run back into the stall and be sick again. "Now i'm fine." I say and come back out. "I think there was something in that egg and bacon Damian gave me this morning." I say to Cameron. He nods and hands me a box of mints and a bottle of water. I laugh at him and take it. "You ok?" Marissa says to me and I nod. "Yeah, I'm fine." I say to her and check my dress. "Your fine." Samuel says and I smile. Marissa hands me a lipstick and I put it on, she smiles and I give it back to her. "What did you say to Jager?" I ask Samuel and he nods. "I just told her that nothing was going on." I nod. We go to walk out and see Lindsay with Damian.
"You ok?" I nod. "Yeah." I say and we all walk outside, past Jager Weatherby. "Are you ok?" She asks me and I nod. "Fine, thanks." She nods. "Do you care about Samuel?" I roll my eyes and nod. "Yeah, of course I do, he is my best friend. Of course I care about him." I say and walk away with them. We sign autograph's and I look at the Limo. "Do you want to go back?" Lindsay says to me. "I'm ok for another while yet." I say back and get a picture with Emily and Alex. "Nicola." I turn around and see Samuel. I nod and walk over to him. A girl holds up a camera and he puts his arm around me I smile at him and I put my hand on his shoulder. We smile and the flash goes off. We let go of each other and some people get into the limo. "I'm going to get in." I say to Samuel and he nods. "I'll be in soon." I nod. "Take your time." I say and wink a him.
I sit up in the seat and Alex nods at me. "Hi." I say to him and he nods. "Hey." Damian is texting and Hannah is googling stuff on her iphone.
