10 Minutes Later.

Samuel gets in and sits beside Damian. "You ok?" I nod. "Yeah, I think Damian was trying to poison me this morning." I say and Damian looks up. "I wasn't. I guess food here just isn't as good as it is at home." He says with a wink and starts Samuel off. "Or maybe our food is just alot better than what you potato-eaters are used to." He says with a smile and I look at him. "At least I don't live on mcdonald's." I say and he nods. "Did you just go there?" Samuel says to me. "Well You called us 'Potato-Eaters'" I say and he nods. "Fine then." He goes off in a huff and I laugh.

After an hour, we are all in the limo and are on our way back to the house. "What is your favourite band?" I ask Hannah, in an effort to get to know her better. "I like Fleetwood Mac. Classics." I nod. "Cool." I say with a smile and my head feels a little light. I look up at the ceiling and someone puts a bottle of water in my hand. I look up and it's Cameron. I nod and he smiles.

~The Next Day~

I wake up, feeling alot better compared to yesterday. I put on my jeans, white t-shirt and red converse. We eat breakfast and walk out and get into the mini bus. We get to a studio about 10 minutes later and all walk in together. We go straight into choreography with Zach and Brooke. "Ok guys. It its; right left, right stomp, strike a pose, a pose, a pose. Left shoulder nudge, right shoulder nudge, left shoulder nudge, and then; right shoulder nudge, left shoulder nudge, right shoulder nudge. And-" He keeps going and we keep copying.

We practice it for about three hours and practice the song along with our moves. Zach nods. "Ok, we are going to go on to set and put you all into place." We

Nod and walk onto set, which looks just like the hallway on Gl- "This is the hallway that is seen on every episode of Glee." We smile in shock and they put us into place, i stand in line and when we get to lindsays part she gets up and I sit on the stool. I sing and pull poses. I get up and run straight to the bleachers to practice the last bit of the performance, I stand on the right of Samuel and we do the "Boom, Boom, Boom." When it finishes, we are told to dance about like crazy and when we stop, Zach and Robert clap. "Well done guys." Zach says and Robert nods, "You will go record with Nikki in the studio now, and then film the video tomorrow." We nod and leave the set. I walk with Damian and Cameron.

"Where are we eating tonight?" Damian asks. "Not from the same place you bought breakfast the other morning." I say and he laughs. "Guys, i gotta take this." Cameron says and walks ahead of us, we see a smile start to creep on his face and I turn to Damian. "How long have they been together?" He smiles. "2years 4months. I cant remember how many days." I smile. "He really love her." I say and Damian sighs. "Whats wrong?" I ask him and he shrugs. "Nothing important." I nod. We walk to the studio and when we get there, all sit in the waiting for our turns.

"They have a snack machine." Bryce says and we smile, he pops his head back out and I walk with Lindsay and Marissa to the machine, I get a bottle of sprite and we walk back up. Nikki calls me and I walk in.

"Ok, Nicola." I nod and she plays the backing track. "Baby you're a firework, come on let your colours burst!" She nods. "This time, really go for it. You've got it, i just wanna feel it" I nod and it starts playing again. I do it again and she nods. "Great." I smile. "Thank you." I say and walk out.

Samuel turns round to me. "Want a crisp Toto?" I shake my head. I'm good thanks." A smoke. That's what I want. One itty-bitty cigarette. None of these guys smoke, you can tell. I guess, you couldn't tell I smoked either, but too much paparazzi and these guys would definately frown upon it. "Guys." Alex says to us and we all go into the sound room and stand around the microphones. "Boom. Boom. Boom..." We sing it and I close my eyes.

The Glee Project. 2011. Is actually happening.

I open my eyes and we walk back out. "Good job today guys." We smile at Nikki and walk back out. We walk down the street and see a chinese. We all look at each other and nod. We each order and when our food comes, I look at Marissa's plate. "Is that all you want?" She nods. "I'm not that hungry." I nod and eat my beef with black bean sauce and Noodles.

When we finish eating, Samuel looks over the balcony. "Skip!" He shouts down and a guy with short curly hair looks up and smiles. "Come on." I look at him. "What?" He is all hyped up. "Come on!" I grab my jacket, we set money on the table and walk down the fire escape.

We get to the bottom and Samuel hugs him. I nod. "Irish?" I nod. "I'm Ni-" He nods "Irish." I laugh and we shake hands. They start talking and I look back up at the guys, who are all leaning over the balcony. I wave up and hear a flick. Damn you Skip! Of all the days someone could have a cigarette in front of me.

Ahh second-hand smoke. It'll do.

Skip looks at me. "So, Irish, Hows my man coping in the house?" I smile. "A hell of a lot better than I have!" We laugh and I nod. "Yeah, He is doing great. Ain't that right pink shorts?" He smiles "Of course Toto." Skip nods. "Creepy kids." I laugh at him. "So, where is the rest of the meat-eaters?" Skip says to us and we all look up. "Hi." Skip says awkwardly to them. "I'll give you guys a minute to catch up." Samuel smiles. "Nice meeting you Skip." He nods. "You too Irish." I walk back up the fire escape.

"Who's that?" MyKynleigh asks me. "Skip. He's in Sam's band." She nods. "He smokes." Cameron says. "Yup." The lucky sod. Samuel runs back up to us. "Ready to go?" We nod and walk down.

"So, Skip." Bryce says to him. "He's my best friend." Matheus nods. "At least I know where I stand." We smile at Matheus and keep walking. "He smokes." Alex says. OMG please can they stop bringing this up? "Yeah, do you guys have a problem with that?" They shrug. "Nope." Bryce says and they keep walking. Should I ask? No, I'll look pathetic. Ugh. The cravings will go away. We get back to the house and Samuel takes out his Iphone and grabs his guitar, he walks out to the fire escape and nods at me to follow him. A smoke? That would be awesome. "Can you hold this?" I nod at him and take his Iphone. I hold it up and he nods to start filming. "Hey guys this is Samuel Larsen, and Nicola McSheffrey- If you can find her back there." He says with a smile and turns the camera on me. "Hi." I say and he laughs. "Nerd." I smile and take the Iphone off him and he starts playing the guitar. "Sugar." Samuel says and starts singing. I smile and he nods his head along with the beat from the guitar. He smiles at me and I nod. When he finishes, he looks at me and plays the last note.

I come out of the trance and he nods. "That was great." I say to him and he nods. "Thanks." I smile and we sit down on the metal sheets and look at the darkening sky. The lights of LA start to brighten and if I was with anyone else right now, i'd say that this was romantic- really romantic. He gathers his dreads and ties two together, making a sort of pony-tail out of his own hair. We sit and look out at the scene and I take my ipod out of my pocket. I use the back camera and take pictures of the scenery. "Why are you taking pictures?" I nod. "I want to remember this kind of thing." He looks at me. "What kind of thing?" I smile. "LA. The Glee Project." He nods. "Why are you taking pictures now?" I nod. "I don't know how much longer i'll be here." He looks at me with those dark eyes. "What happened to no more negativity?" You try going four weeks without smoking. "It's just, beautiful." I say back and he nods. "It is pretty awesome." I smile and nod. "Yeah, but you get to see it everyday." He nods. "Yeah, I am pretty lucky." I smile, stand up and take a picture of the entire skyline. We hear them singing inside and smile. I sit back down beside Samuel and he takes my ipod from me. He zooms in to part of the skyline. "This is where me and Skip live." I nod and go back to the camera. He switches it to the front one and takes pictures of us. I smile and Cameron walks out with Hannah and a blanket. "We thought you guys would be cold." They say and join us, we stretch the blanket out along us and Cameron looks at the skyline. "It's pretty." I nod. "Yeah, I was taking pictures of it." I say and he nods. My cell rings and interrupts the silence. The riffs of sweet child o' mine by guns n roses screech through their eardrums, yet it's like a soft melody to me. It makes Samuel jump. Which I laugh at and stand up. I lean against the metal security rail and answer it. "Hi." I say and listen to metal music being played in the background, but switched off when I answer.

"Hey Nicky." I nod. "Hi." I say again and look over the skyline. "I miss you." I nod. "I wish I could say the same." I say with a smile and look at the crazy night life below me. "Why did you call me?" I ask him and They all look up at me. "I just wanted to see how you were doing." I smile.. "Great actually. I've met great people and I like it here. It's nicer than ireland. Warmer." I look at them and walk down the steps. "You can live here. Like actually live." He laughs. "Are we just the undead in Ireland?" I smile. "Here, I can be me, not the person I was. For you. I am me and they don't care. Yeah I'm different, but I am being me." I say with a smile. "You were you in Ireland." I shake my head. "I spent my days hanging out with people who liked Justin Bieber." He laughs. "And we would hang out and listen to the latest metal album." I nod and walk down more. "Yeah, we hid away and listened to music we liked where nobody knew. Right now, I don't want to go back there. I'm here and I'm doing something I have always wanted to do." I say with a smile and look through the metal sheets at the three of them, who are polietely talking amongst each other, but I know they are listening. "You'll come back." I nod. "If I do, it won't be for you." I say and shift uneasily. "I have to go." I say and look at Samuel's bracelet. "Bye." He says and I hang up. I put my phone in my pocket and walk back up to them.

I smile. "Everything all right?" Hannah says to me and I nod. Samuel moves the blanket and I get in beside him. "Bad break up?" Cameron says to me. "Not bad. Just a break up." I say and put my head against the wall. "There now?" Samuel asks me and I laugh. "No. When auditioned all those months ago, now that he has heard I got out here, he wants to start it up again. It's pretty typical." Hannah looks at me. "What do you want?" I nod. "I want to enjoy this." I say and look out at the sky. They nod. "It is pretty wonderful." Cameron says and I look at him. "Nothing like this in Texas?" He laughs. "No." I smile and Samuel moves a little towards me and I play with his bracelets on his arm. I look up at the tiny bit of darkened skin peering out from underneath his t-shirt. I pull it up. "How many tattoo's do you have?" He nods. "9." I nod and Cameron starts staring at my ear. "I never noticed you had your ear pierced." I smile. "Yeah." He looks at Samuel's nose and turns to Hannah. "What have you got pierced?" We laugh and she points at her ears. "Just normal ear piercings." We look at her. "NORMAL?" Samuel says and I laugh. "How many piercings do you have Nicola?" I smile and bite my lip. "7." I say and they look at me. "Where?" Cameron asks. "I have two up here." I say pointing at my ear. "The Normal ones." I say copying Hannah. "two here in my nose and then up here, accross my septum." I say, pointing to the bridge of my nose. "You have your septum pierced?" Samuel says to me and I nod, "Yeah, but I don't wear it often, I don't like it that much anymore." I say and they nod.

"How many do you have?" I ask Samuel. "9." I laugh. "Balancing the tattoos and the piercings out then." He nods. "The NORMAL ones." Hannah laughs. "You guys are SO funny." She says in a sarcastic accent and I look at Samuel. "I have three in this ear, and two in the other. He says pointing to his ears. "And two in my nose." I nod. "What about you Cameron?" I ask him and we laugh. "Uhm." We look at him wide-eyed. "You actually have one?" Samuel says to him. He looks down and then points at his ear. I hold my phone up like a torch. "He does!" I say and Samuel takes his ihone out. "He takes a picture and we laugh. He sends it to twitter. "How did that happen?" Hannah asks him. "I got, drunk." We look at him. "isn't that like, Illegal here?" I say to them. "You have to be 21." I laugh. "Bummer for you guys." I say and they look at me. "You have to be 18 in Ireland." They look at me as if I am a fairy or something. "Really?" I nod. "Yeah." Hannah looks at me. "So you have gotten drunk before?" I nod. "Yeah." I say with a smile. "So have I." Samuel says and I look at him. "Skip?" He nods. "Yeah." I laugh and look at the time; 12am. "Anyway, I think I am going to head in." Hannah says. "Yeah, Me too." Cameron says and they get up. "We'll be in, in a minute." Samuel says and they nod. "Are you talking for me?" I say and he laughs.

"So. What did you guys talk about?" I ask him, he looks at me. "This and that." I nod. "You guys, totally heard the entire conversation." He laughs. "I just heard the last bit." I nod. "If I do, it won't be for you." He nods. I look at him. "He liked to hide the fact that I liked rock music. Where i'm from, that isn't cool or normal. So I hung out with kids who listened to pop music all day and then hung with him at night time and listened to metal music then. I was a complete fake." He nods. "I did it to fit in. I didn't want to be alone." He nods. "And now?" I smile. "I've never been happier." He smiles. "Come on." He says to me and I take his hand and grab the blanket. We walk in and lie in the girls dorm. "I'm tired." MyKynleigh says. Cameron nods. "Did you know that Nicola has her septum pierced!" Cameron says to everyone and I laugh at him. "Did you know that Cameron has his ear pierced!" I say and they look more shocked at that. I smile and grab some pyjamas and go get changed in the bathroom.

I walk back in, to see everyone lying on top of each other, on my bed. "What the hell is going on?" I ask them. "We're tired." I nod. "Night then." I say and turn off the light. I get up and lie on top of them. "This will be the most uncomfortable nights sleep I have ever had." I say and they all crawl out from underneath me. I lie there and hear breathing right beside me. I lift my ipod and shine it in their face. "AHH!" I squeal and they turn on the light. "You scared the crap out of me." I say to Samuel and he laughs. "Ok, now that you have scared the crap out of her, can you leave? I need to sleep." Marissa says and I smile. "Night guys." Samuel says and goes to his own dorm. I go to sleep.