Riley's POV
"Come on, Maya, hurry up." I beg, dragging my best friend off.
"Riley, we've still got ten minutes before we have to be there." Maya reminds me.
"But I want to be early so that I can show the judges my dance to show how excited I am!" I say.
"Are you sure that you want to enter this as a dancer?" Maya asks doubtfully.
"Of course I do, Maya."
"What type of dancing are you going to do?" Maya says.
"The same kind that I did when we were trying to save the creative arts." I reply.
"Riley, I'm gonna be totally honest. You won't win with that dancing. Every other dancer will have gone to proper dance classes and do stuff like street dance, ballet, and jazz, and you haven't." Maya says.
"Maya, I don't care about winning." I say.
"Then what's the point of even entering this competition?" She asks.
"I want you to win." I reply.
"Why?" Maya says
"Just wait." I say.
"Fine. Anyway, since you want to get there so early, let's go."
Maya's POV
We go to the school hall, where auditions for the talent show are happening. If you get past that, then there's a bunch of rounds which people get eliminated after, until the final, where the winner will be decided.
The judges are sitting at a table. They are probably somewhere near ninth grade, maybe older, two girls, and two boys. One of the girls has wavy black hair, thick eyelashes, and is wearing makeup. The other has straight brown hair and brown eyes. One of the boys has blond hair and green eyes, and the other has black hair and blue eyes.
Each of them has a name on a card in front of them, kind of like the thing on Mr Matthews's desk. The black haired girl's name reads Alicia, the girl with the brown hair is Rosie, the boy with the blond hair is Will, and the boy with black hair is Jack.
Riley goes up to them and starts talking. She shows them her 'dancing' which is really just twisting her body into weird shapes and pulling faces. The judges smile politely, but when Riley runs back to drag me over, I can see them all chatting about her.
"This is my friend, Maya." Riley says, introducing me to the judges. "She's going to sing."
"Hey Maya." The one called Rosie says.
"Hi." I say.
"So, you like to sing, huh?" Alicia asks.
"Yeah, I can sing." I say.
"Cool. Do you wanna sing anything now, or would you rather wait until the auditions start to show us what you've got?"
"Maybe I should just practise my vocals right now." I say. After all, it seems important for Riley that I do well, so I might as well try, and looking round the room, I can see many people practising.
The doors open again, and I see Farkle, Lucas, Zay and Smackle come in. Riley rushes towards them, and I follow.
"What are you guys doing here?" Riley asks.
"I'm just here to support you, Maya, Farkle and Zay, and Smackle is too, since she doesn't go to this school, and she can't compete." Lucas says.
"Farkle? Zay?" I ask.
"I'm gonna put on a one man show, and I'm gonna be Pippin in it, no matter what I'm doing." Frazzle says, and I remember that he said something similar when we were saving art, music, drama, and creativity.
"I'm doing ballet. Like I've said before, I spend my time lifting beautiful girls. Ms Matthews, shall we dance?" Zay asks.
"Yeah, okay." Riley agrees.
I watch them fool around, dancing clumsily, until Riley accidentally makes Zay fall over.
"Oops." She says, helping Zay up.
"Guys, the auditions are about to begin!" Farkle reminds us, so we sit down as the first act is called up.
"India White." They call up, and a small girl with frizzy, ginger hair, stands up and does some ballet to a piece called swan lake.
"Thank you, that was a great performance." They say.
A bunch of people are called up, until it's finally Riley's turn, and she puts some music on and dances in her weird way. A few people start to giggle, but Riley doesn't seem to care. After that it's Farkle's turn, and he does some acting. Then Zay, and then it's me.
I sing a song called Seamless, which Riley and I picked out together a few days after she told me that she'd entered me in the competition. It's a song about friendship, so Riley and I knew that it was judges watch my performance, and when they clap at the end, it feels good, better than I thought it would be.
"Thank you, Maya."
When I go to join Riley, she smiles at me and tells me that I was brilliant.
"Thanks." I say. "But, anyway, since the auditions are almost over, why don't we head over to Topanga's and get some ice cream."
"All right." They say, and we head off, all of us feeling happy.