Chapter 47: Back to Normal

Over the next several weeks since then, things have started getting back to normal as the pack members resumed to participating on the camp's normal activites that all involve music. Ryan is still struggling to perform in front of people because his stage fright has gotten so huge that it made it hard for him to focus on practicing onstage with a few people staring at him, but Kendall would always try to calm him down by just many steps to overcome that fear. The more he tries to practice, the stage fright keeps controlling him and Kendall could tell that it's gotten so big that he lets his stage fright overpower him and he mades a cut movement to cut it short and took him to the side to talk to him.

"Ry..." Kendall whispered.

"I'm sorry, Kendall. It's just that my stage fright is still severe from what had happened to me one time so long ago. I don't like that feeling, but I don't know how to get through that." Ryan said, frustrated with himself.

Kendall sighed at this and he could tell that Ryan's hit a huge wall when it comes to performing onstage and then he thought up of one amazingly idea that seems to be the age-old stage fright that would always help and said, "Wanna know what always helped me?"

"What?" asked Ryan.

"When I go out there to perform and stage fright tries to hit me, I just imagine the audience in their underwear as I'm singing." Kendall replied.

That actually surprised Ryan the most by hearing that he has to imagine the audience in their underwear as he's performing to help his stage fright and asked, "Does it work?"

"Always. How do you think any performer pushes through the stage fright? And also...it's normal to feel nervous when you go out on stage and perform...the good kind. As long as you focus on performing, nothing else matters." Kendall answered.

Ryan blinks his eyes at that and it just brought everything into perspective on dealing with this and he took a deep breath and wanted to take that into consideration and said to Kendall, "How do you do that?"

"You just do. You have to believe in yourself." Kendall replied.

All of Kendall's encouragement seemed to sink in on Ryan as he's willing to push past those fears and he said, "Okay."

Both of them walked back to the stage and as they played the music, Ryan looks directly at the audience and just imagined his entire pack sitting with their underwear and for a minute, he started singing what he's gonna practice for the talent show and Kendall was amazed to see Ryan shine and he smiled as he kept playing his instrument.

Later on, Brutus and Koa were practicing a punk-rock/hip-hop mashup song that made together, Jojo and Mana were playing a hard rock song with a lot of emotional lyrics and many of the other campers who participated just let loose and let their freak fly and for their practice run, it just seems like the events that had occured the past weeks made them stronger.

Back at the cabins, several of the pack members wanted to make the newcomers official to be part of the pack and Mana texted Aaron and asked that they should meet at his RV to make the newcomers be a part of the pack.

Once Aaron received the text, he was excited and replied, "Come by in 10 minutes before sunset."