Adam's POV:

Today was the day. It was the day that we would perform in front of the judges by ourselves for the first time before the top 36 were chosen. I decided to pick 'Believe' by Cher. It was kind of weird picking that song.
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Flashback:
'I can't find anything to sing' I thought as I looked through the guys list of songs to choose from. 'I don't think I should do Stevie Wonder, a lot of guys are going to do that.' I figured that Stevie Wonder wasn't the artist I wanted to choose from. I then saw a producer and decided that maybe the girls had a good song I could choose from.
"Can we pick from the girl's list?" I asked him.
"Yes, of course!" He answered and handed the list to me.
'Believe by Cher… Na, I'm not going to do that.' I thought for a few minutes. 'Well maybe if I changed up the field of the song. The melody is strong, everybody knows it. It has really beautiful lyrics. Let me try this!' I thought and headed to the vocal coach. I asked them if I could do that.
"Hmm… I don't know…" They replied to my idea.
"Well maybe if we changed the melody a bit and made it sort of the pop/rock ballet?" I said trying to convince them into letting me.
"Oh, okay." We paused for a little and then continued.
"Is it too gay? You think?" I asked them.
"Well…" and he shrugged, but I still did the song. It was a little awkward but it all worked out.
End Flashback.
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"So, you guys ready for today?" I asked Kris and the girls as we headed for the performing area.
"Definitely! What songs are you guys doing?" Jade said as she looked at me.
"I'm doing 'Because of You' by Kelly Clarkson." Allison said.
"I picked 'Believe' by Cher." I answered looking right back at her.
"Well I'm doing 'I Hope You Dance' by Lee Ann Womack." She said and Allison quickly gave her a nudge when she noticed her looking at me. She then blushed. I quite enjoyed that.
"Cool!" I said snapping back into reality.
"Well, I'm doing…" Kris said but was then interrupted by one of the stage managers.
"May everyone please stand in a line behind this box?!" The guy said into a megaphone and pointed to a box next to him. "Everyone here must pick a random number!" He continued as we all stood in a line and picked our numbers.

Everyone, surprisingly, wanted number one, including me! I was next in line. I looked over my shoulder and saw Jade talking to Allison. I felt like she was my good luck charm for some reason. I stretched out my arm and picked up a random paper. I looked at the number and it was the number one! Everyone noticed and started to clap. Kris also gave me a quick Hi-Five. I also noticed a camera so I decided to show off a little.
"Oh yeah, I got number one!" I said as I held the paper in front of my face. I then got out of the line and waited for the others to get their numbers. Jade, which was next in line, got 16, Allison got 31, and Kris got 8. Allison was jealous that we all got lower numbers than her. She had her arms crossed for a while and also pouted. We all found that cute, and funny!

About 10 minutes later, I was asked to go onto the stage and perform my song. The judges weren't supposed to say anything, so I didn't get any comments. After my song I walked of the stage and headed back to my seat where Jade and Allison both gave me hugs, and since Kris was a guy, he gave me a Hi-Five. After a few people it was then Kris. He did awesome in his performance. Later was Jade who got Paula to give her a standing ovation. Who can blame her, it was perfect. Finally there was Allison. She totally rocked it! After everyone performed, we all sat down for 5 minutes in our seats to just talk. When Allison and Jade finished their conversation, it was finally my turn to talk to Jade and Kris' turn to talk to Allison.

Jade's POV:

"You did amazing up there." Adam told me when Allie and I finished our conversation.
"Thanks! You weren't so bad yourself." Adam gave me the 'Look' so I was obviously going to have to add something to my sentence. "Okay, you were incredible!"
"That's better!" He said and we laughed, but our conversation was soon interrupted by our fellow contestant; Danny Gokey.
"Why hello there miss. I'm Danny. What might your name be?" Danny said. I opened my mouth to speak, but Adam decided to speak for me.
"Her name is Jade." Adam said and looked at Danny with a 'You better not touch her!' look, but Danny ignored that look.
"Well anyway, I noticed that we both did 'I hope you dance' and well you know what they say… 'Great minds think alike'." He said ignoring Adam.
"That must be wrong since you're talking about you." Adam mumbled to himself and sunk into his seat. That got Danny's attention and he looked straight at him.
"Uh… Yeah. Well…" I said but was cut off. Why is it that I wasn't able to speak while between these two.
"Well, I guess that were going to be in the top 10 together. I'll see you there." He said with a wink. I just ignored him and looked at Adam who obviously couldn't let it go. I didn't know what he was mumbling to himself, but I did see him roll his eyes. There's one pair I don't think I will ever want to get in between again.

Later on, we were all asked to go to different rooms. They had called Adam to go to a room a while ago along with a lot more people. I didn't know if we were going to be in the same room or not, but what I knew is that I really wanted all of us to make it through this part.
"Jade, come up here!" I man called and I did what I was told, Allison, Kris and Adam were already gone. I made my way to room number one. I opened the door and suddenly noticed Adam sitting on the ground kind of tired. I saw him look up at me and his face completely lit up.
"Hey Jade, over here!" he yelled waving his hand. I made my way over to him and sat down beside him.
"Hey Adam, didn't think I was going to be in the same room as you." I said to him and he giggled.
"Yeah, well, to be honest I didn't think I would be in the same room as anyone I knew. But I'm glad it was you." He said in a calm voice and gave me a small smile, which made me smile back.

We talked the whole time we were there. We soon got tired just like everyone else so we decided to rest. I rested my head on Adam's shoulder and he had his arm around me. I looked around the room and noticed Danny looking at us. I didn't even know he was here! But I'm glad he didn't try and flirt with me. Finally after hours of waiting we heard the group next door to us yelling and celebrating because they obviously got good news from the judges. Our door suddenly opened up and we saw Paula, Randy, and Kara standing there looking a bit upset. We knew that Simon had to leave to London, so it wasn't a surprise that he didn't stay. I'm a little relieved that he didn't stay because he would usually make you feel bad. They then started to speak.

"How you guys feeling?" Randy said to make us feel a little more comfortable.
"Good. Nervous. Fine. Freaking out a bit." We all answered.
"This has been the toughest decision for us to make this season," Randy said again and everyone got very nervous. "We always encourage people to come back and to you know everything, because you know you guys got a shot, and you know your really young and umm, just looking at all these faces this is so hard for us to do." Everyone was then disappointed because by the sounds of things, we weren't going to make it. "Uh..." he paused, "YOU GUYS ARE THROUGH!!" and with those four words, everyone jumped up and started to hug each other.

After a good ten minutes, we were able to leave our rooms and meat up with the rest of the contestants. I tried to find Allison and Adam tried to find Kris, but I didn't find her. Suddenly, someone snuck up behind me and hugged me so tightly. It was obviously… "Hey, Allison! Did you make it?" I asked hugging her a lot.
"Yeah! And I'm guessing that you made it too?" She replied hugging me back.
"Thankfully, oh and Adam made it too. We were in the same room." She then looked at me and smiled.
"Oh, so you were in the same room as Adam, huh. Did you get cozy in the corner?" She said with a wink and I rolled my eyes and ignored the question.
"Speaking of Adam, he said that we should all meet up next to the stairs. We should get going and see if Kris made it too." I said and she nodded.

We headed to the stairs and saw Kris and Adam talking.
"Hey guys! So Kris did you make it?" Allison yelled.
"Hey!" Kris yelled and came up to hug us.
"I'll take that as a yes." I said practically choking from how hard Kris was hugging us.
"Sorry, didn't mean to squeeze you guys so tight." He apologized.
"It's okay, we can't blame you." I said.
"Now come on guys lets go celebrate!" Adam yelled. And with that, we all headed to the hallway and celebrated with the other contestants; we needed to have some fun. Tomorrow we would be told who made it to the top 36 and hopefully we will all make it through together.