CHAPTER 5

 Today is the day of the auditions, Alsiha has been flirting it up with the five boys who are judging us and she has been trying to take me down. I am scared. No that's an understatement. I am terrified. Those five guys out their could either make me or break me.

"Landa calm down. Your up next." Imogene says while rubbing my back comfortingly.

"I-I can't. Imo.. I can't do this." I say getting up and walking out of the room.

"Lanny! Come back! Your gonna do fine!" Imogene calls for me.

"Thank you Amanda! Okay next up, Alisha! Then Landa, both advanced students of the school." The announcer's voice booms throughout the school.

"Landa! C'mon!" Imogene says as she gives me a hug.

"Imo, you know I can't beat Alisha. She is awesome. Plus she has one their hearts." I mumble.

"I don't care you will win them over by how awesome you are." Imogene says and I nod.

"Fine, but your taking me out for frozen yogurt." I say.

"Yah yah, but I-" I cut her off.

"Annnd your paying." I say and run back behind the stage and grab my ukulele.

Alisha continues her song. Imogene was right, 30-40% of the people have sung 'Not Over You'. I smirk. They probably think I will be doing a recent song. Although, Alisha has really made this song sound amazing. I am so scared. The song is actually amazing.

She comes off the stage and smirks evilly at me. I bow my head down cause she is Alpha female here at the school.

"Last but certainly not least. LANDA!!" The announcer says and comes off the stage, "Good luck Landa."

I nod to him and start tapping the beat to 'Beautiful Soul' on the railing up to the stage. I continue walking on and when the railings end I play my ukulele and tap the beat as well. I look at the crowd and gulp. That's a lot of people. I look away and down at my ukulele. I hold my ukulele in my right hand and grab the mic with my left and burst into the song looking around. I pull the mic off the stand and continue the song while holding my ukulele and smile. This is going well. The judges are tapping their hands and nodding to the beat. When the song comes to my favorite part I put the mic on the stand and build the suspense with my ukulele while singing. I smile and finish off the song. I look around at the crowd clapping and the judges giving me a standing ovation just like with Alisha.

"Wow! Your quite good Landa." Liam says.

"Uhh.. Thanks." I say and he chuckles.

"Yah, I have to agree, it would be an honour for you to be on our tour. That is if the boys agree with me." Niall winks at me making me blush.

"Well boys, I think we all agree this is definately a battle between Alisha and Landa." Harry says.

 I go to leave but, the announcer pushes me back out with Alisha.

"Hey Harry." Alisha winks.

"Harry." Zayn mutters hitting his head.

Alisha glares at me and I look at her confused.

"So, who won. Beautiful me, or her." She says looking at me with disgust.

"One sec. I am sorry guys. What is your problem? What did I do to you?" I ask Alisha.

"Ooooo, Look who gained confidence." Alisha rolls her eyes.

"God! You know what. You can take this chance. I am tired of trying to get you to like me. I am tired of you dissing me and glaring at me. Most of all I am tired of your rotten attitude. Your flirting with these guys, when you have a perfect boyfriend. Derek. Honestly you make me sick." I say storming off the stage.

UGH! I HATE HER!

I walk out with Imogene following me and I say, "Imo, please. Leave me alone."

She nods and I let a tear go. I walk into the recoding studio and pace back and forth pulling at my hair. After I calm down i wipe my tears and listen to a few of my recordings. I reverse some times but, I just go into my own wonderland.

"Excuse me." Someone says.

"Oh, I am sorry. I didn't know someone was going to use this." I say wiping my tears and taking my CD out.

"No, I am here to tell you that, Alisha may have won cause you quit but, the boys and I would like you to come with us on tour. You won't get your own CD with your music or a music video or anything like that because rules are rules but, Alisha isn't half as good as you. So, I talked with the boys and we all agree that Alisha will get the CD and music video and you get to come on tour with us." Zayn says.

"Oh.. Uhm.. Okay." I say looking down.

"Does Alisha actually bully you?" Zayn asks.

I nod, not daring to look in his eyes.

"Well, it's 'cause you are waaay better then her." Zayn says exagerating the "A's" in 'way'.

"Do you really think so?" I ask.

"Absolutely, now wipe those eyes 'cause we are taking the winners out for dinner." Zayn says pulling me into a hug.

"Okay, but, I need to put away my ukulele and you know." I say.

"Yep! Just meet us in the main lobby in an hour." Zayn says and I nod. We both walk out and he walks me to the dorm elevators.

"See you soon." He says as I go up the elevator to floor number 10.