Before I start this chapter I would like to clarify something with a guest that wrote a review for the last chapter. Now I'm not offended or anything, but it seems that it's only fair to tell you why I was surprised you said that the last half of the chapter was 'past tense'. You see before that part of the story I mentioned earlier the name of the song she was going to sing, a little bit later I said I didn't own the song and you can find it on Spotify (which I also don't own) and listen along. That last half wasn't a past tense, those were the lyrics to the song, she was singing the song in the story. But since you can't hear her I gave you the option to find the song and listen along so you can get the idea of what she might've sounded like. And since I wanted to have the lyrics to be noticeable I wrote them like that. So I apologize if you thought the last part of was past tense. But I've used that style of text in other was then past tense in my other stories. So next time I'll specify how I use that type of text. But for now, I don't own anything except Susan, and here's part 2 of chapter 3.
Previously...
I opened my eyes, and waited to see how they will react...
In that split second of waiting, I couldn't tell if they liked it. But by the end of that moment, I had a standing ovation! People everywhere were applauding, I couldn't believe it, they actually liked me! When I got off the stage Susan came running up to me. "great job out there!" "Thanks, but it's not over yet." "What do you mean Maya?" "I still need to find out if I won or not." "Even if you don't win, you still got to stand out there and showed them your talent and you didn't even mess up, that alone is a win right there." "I appreciate your enthusiasm Susan, I just hope they feel the same way."
A little while later, there ready to announce the winner.
'Ladies and gentlemen, we've reviewed the acts and have come to a decision. The winner of the 2016 John Quincy Adam's annual talent show is... Maya Hart!
I couldn't believe my ears, I actually won! I walked over to the stage to receive my first place ribbon, watching the audience applauding me. I had the biggest smile on my face, it was the first time I ever sang in public and I won! Everyone came running up to me, telling me how happy they were to see me win. There even was a little victory party for me over at Topanga's. As the party started dying down my mom came over to me. "I'm so proud of you baby girl, I knew you had it in ya" "Thanks mom, I'm really glad you made it." "Hey Maya" Riley came over to us, "Can we talk outside?" "Yeah sure" we walked to the front of the coffee house stood outside. "So what's going on with you Riley?" "Well, you see, somethings been bothering me for some reason." "And that would be?" "I don't know, it just feels weird that two weeks ago all you wanted to do was stay out of the way of anyone's radar. And now here you are standing up in front of everyone singing your heart out." "And that's bothering you because?" "You said at the beginning that you wanted to do this to get under Missy's skin, I'm pretty sure we just completed that so why does it feel like we're not done?" "You know, when I was up there looking out into the crowd, seeing everyone proud of me when I won, in that moment, I completely forgot about why I was doing this." "Really?" "Yep, instead, I got this warm feeling inside me, like I was glad I did that. And you know what?" "What Maya?" "I think this isn't the end, this is just the beginning of something else." "And what is it that your thinking of doing?" "I think it's time I made another video."
That's the end of this two part chapter. Coming soon chapter 4 of this story, chapter 11 of "Riley's diary," and coming this April, a new story called "100 songs about us" featuring rucas!