We get up and I eat my breakfast- Cereal and an apple. We sit around and look at each other. "I don't know about you guys, but I am not sitting around here all day." Emily says and goes out the fire exit. We hear her high heels clink against the metal while she walks down the stairs.
11 Hours Later
7PM
We sit in the boys dorm and the screen lights up. "Firework." It says and we all sit and smile, the music video plays and we smile. "Robert Ulrich and Zach Woodlee will be expecting you at 8pm on stage." We look around and hear a massive door open, we run out into the hall, and a wall moves up; we walk in through it and see a large stage. "Wow." Damian says and we walk out and get dressed. I wear a red top with dark skinny jeans and my red converse. I fix my hair and we sit until it reaches 7:55pm and walk on to the stage. When it hits 8pm, they walk in and stand in front of us. "Hey guys." We smile. "Hi." We say, I am going tonight, I know it. "You all did great on this weeks video shoot and your choreography." We smile and they look us over. "Marissa. Hannah. Alex. Samuel. Lindsay. Cameron." Zach says and we look around at each other. "You are all through to next week and you will not be doing a last chance performance tonight." They all smile and I smile at them, before they go back into the house. "Emily. MyKynleigh. Matheus." Zach says and they hold hands. "You have some work to do, but you will be coming back next week." They smile and Matheus lets out a sigh of relief. "Bryce. Nicola. Damian." We nod and step forward. "You will be doing a last chance performance for Ryan Murphy tonight." We nod. I knew this would happen.
"Bryce, You will be singing: Just The Way You Are By Bruno Mars." Zach says and he nods.
"Nicola, You will be singing; Big Spender. From Sweet Charity." Robert says to me.
"Damian, You will be singing Jesse's Girl By Rick Springfield." Zach says.
"Ok guys, we will see you at 10pm." We nod and walk away. We hug and walk back into the main room to the guys. "Hey." We say and they hug us. I sit with Marissa and Lindsay. "So what do you have to sing?" Cameron asks after about 15minutes of silence. "Just The Way You Are." Bryce says. "Big Spender." I say. "Jesse's Girl." Damian says and Samuel won't hold eye contact with me. Great. "You can now go to your rehearsal rooms." It says up on the screen. We get up and hug everyone. I get to Samuel at the end and he hugs me. "You'll be ok." He says and I smile. "Don't miss me too much." I say with a wink and we walk down the corridor together. We go into our individual rooms and I read over the song. I listen to it about 10 times and then sing it another 10. I wait back stage and listen to Bryce sing. "He is really good." I say to Damian and he nods. "Yeah." Bryce walks back and sits on a chair. "Good luck." They say to me and I walk on to the stage. My eyes go straight to Ryan Murphy and my stomach tightens. "Hello." He says to me. "Hello, I am Nicola McSheffrey." I say and he nods. "What will you be singing today?" I smile. "I am going to sing Big Spender From Sweet Charity." I say and sing it.
I smile and the music stops playing. "So Nicola." He says and I nod. "You have a different taste of music to the others in the house." I nod. "Yeah." I say and laugh to myself. "I like rock music, I'm a metal head." I say and he nods. "And how do you feel about performing songs like this?" I nod. "I'm happy with it. I mean, I don't mind singing pop music but I love rock music." He nods. "There is few characters we haven't had on the show, which I would like to explore." I nod. Holy crap. "You also had some homesickness?" I nod. "I don't think it was so much me missing home, as me thinking I don't belong here." He looks at me. "Why do you think you don't belong here?" I look down and then up at him. "These people are amazing singers and dancers and I feel like I am just there, just blending in." He nods. "Well, You have a very strong voice and we picked you out of 40,000 people. I think you'll be ok." I smile and he nods. "Thank you." I say and walk back out to Bryce and Damian. I hug Damian and he walks on stage. "That was scary." I say and he nods. I sit beside him and he puts his arm around me. I put my arm around his back and Damian walks back off stage. He looks at us and we walk back into the house. I go past the living area and go straight to the bathroom. I look myself in the mirror and nod. I got this far. Whatever happens next, doesn't matter.
I walk back in and sit down in between Samuel and Lindsay. "You ok?" I nod. "Yeah." I say with a smile and we hear footsteps. I look down and Robert walks in. "The list is up guys. I go take a look." He says, rubbing his hands together. We nod and he walks out. We all stand up and hug. I walk with Damian and Bryce. We all hug and we walk out together, before we get to the list, the three of us hug and Damian goes to the list first. He goes into another room and I walk out. I look at the list from a distance. I walk towards it and make myself look. I read down through the list of names. "Oh My God." I say and re-read it.
"Not Called Back: Bryce"
I walk into the room with Damian and hug him. After a few minutes, we all walk together into the choir room and hug Bryce. "You do not leave until Sunday." It says on a large screen. He nods and MyKynleigh stays with him and we all get changed. I put on a red dress and black heels. I fix my make up and hair and we all walk out together. We meet up with the guys and go out through the front door.
