midnightreading    & alwaysbemad  were judging this semi-final.

Hopefully I will impress both of them with my entry!
Here was the task set for the semi-final:

"You are walking in the mall casually singing your favourite tune when you get approached by a movie director, he loves your singing and asks you to audition for an upcoming movie..."

Here is my entry....

Click! Click! Click! The shutter sound from my friends' Phone cameras echoed through the shopping centre as we took selfies. We took more selfies, posing comically and collapsing in laughter as my friends captioned our selfies with 'LOL'.

Though then, one of my friends said,

"Err... guys, I like have to go to the loo..." So then, we all walked to the ladies loos. I didn't need the loo and I didn't want to awkwardly wait outside so I went and stood outside a restraunt. I rumaged in my handbag until I found my headphones. Slipping them in my ears, I played my favourite song on my Iphone. I started to tap my toe to the beat because this song was so catchy. This was the only problem with my favourite song : It was toe-tapping stuff. Soon I was humming along to the words, mouthing the words. The music starts to get louder steadily and then, finally, my ultimate favourite part of my favourite song ... THE CHORUS!!

"And there's nothing like you now,

don't listen to them, you're not a cow,

we could be so looooouuuuud...

stand out from the crooooowwwd...

there's Nothing nothing nothing

like you now

nothing nothing nothing

like you now

nothing nothing nothiiiiinnng...

I just wanna be with you now."

I belt out at the top of my lungs, dancing crazily to my favourite song. When the chorus ended, I opened my eyes, still grinning happily. Well, until I saw my friends with their Iphone cameras pointed at me, filming my outburst.

"Hey!" I yelled at my friends, embarassed. I hoped none of them had posted that video of me on Facebook.

My friends were laughing so hard at me as I lunged at their Iphones, trying to delete that video. But unexpectadly, I saw someone behind me, clapping enthusiastically. Huh? I thought as I turned around to look at him. A man in a suit and tie, dark glasses and carrying a briefcase, had seen my musical outburst and was smiling at me. My friends had stopped laughing as he approached me carefully. He whispered,

"Hey kid, wanna be in the movies? I am Director C, call me DC. I think you have an awesome voice and you actually dance well too! Follow me and I'll take you to the movie studio." He showed me an I.D card confidently. It looked real. I turned to face my friends and told them I would accept his offer and see them soon. I answered 'yes' to him and DC grinned at me, satisfied. He led me to a black Porsche and a chauffer ushered us both into the car before driving away from the shopping centre.

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The shiny Porsche pulled up outside a grand mansion and I was told to hurry inside to the first room on the left ASAP. I reluctantly went inside the tall, grand mansion, thinking this was a strange command. I would've at least liked to be welcomed, not ordered around just yet. As I walked inside the mansion, I entered the first room on the left cautiously. Inside the room, it was dark. Unusally dark, with a chair in a bright spotlight at one end of the room. As I further examined the room, I noticed there was a strange, mysterious air to the place. It looked perfectly fine and I tried to convince myself everything was fine but I couldn't escape the fact I knew something wasn't right. Was it just me, or were there... claw marks on that chair and those walls? I didn't like the feeling of this room. Then, as I sat down on the floor, I swear I saw something un-human go past that chair. I gasped, feeling my heart rate go up.

"Right... I am NOT staying in that room." I thought to myself, fleeing from the weirdness of that dark grey room.

Outside of the room, I heard DC and other people still talking outside loudly. Why didn't they want me to hear their conversation? I decided to listen in and find out why. I went near to the great wooden door and my foot stepped on a creaky floorboard. Creeeeaaakk. The conversation stopped momentarily, then I heard it start up again. This is what I heard as I shivered next to the door,

"She should be ready soon... You do realise they might find out it's not really a... SHUT UP! or they'll hear us... Director Claw, she's not stupid... "

Director Claw... DC... Why was he called Director Claw? I pushed the great Oak door open a bit more to hear the conversation more clearly. But the door swung right open, creaking loudly as it did so. I lost my balance and fell down the grand marble steps and onto the gravel walkway. I looked up ... and my mouth fell open in fright. There, on the lawn outside the Porsche, we 3 huge, hairy wolves as big as the Porsche. The wolves turned around, growling aggresively at me.

I squeaked pathetically,

"Where is the movie studio? Why have you brought me here?"

The largest wolf stopped growling and grinned wolfishly at me. He barked,

"Well little girl, I am DC. You are here to learn to never trust strangers with fake I.D ... There is no movie, there is no studio. You are not going to be a movie star, although us rogues know what you will become..."

I stared at him in the eye, intimidated by DC. DC continued before I had a chance to speak, "A ROGUE WEREWOLF LIKE ME!"

I didn't wait for him to start chasing me. I picked myself up and ran like the wind. I bolted inside the mansion, up the broken stairs, past cobweb covered rooms. All the time I heard howling behind me, steadily getting closer and closer. I spied a window in one of the rooms and thought,

"Maybe I could escape out of that window?"

So, with my jet black hair flapping behind me, I ran into an ancient old room with peeling paint. I stood there momentarily, gasping for breath. Then, I looked at the broken window and prepared to jump out of it and onto a tree. 1... 2... 3... I counted silently in my head. Then, I began to run, I ran faster and faster until I sprang out of the window, my arms outstretched, to reach a tree. But then everything seemed to go in slow-motion all of a sudden. I didn't jump hard enough and didn't reach the tree. I began to fall... onto the lawn where DC and the others were waiting. I smacked hard into the ground... but weirdly, DC said this to me in a feminine voice,

"Cara! Cara! Don't die on me! Wake up! Cara!"  Then something pinched me.

I woke up with a shot and my eyes snapped open. I looked around and saw the familiar sight of busy shoppers struggling with huge bags in a shopping centre. I realised I had dreamt the whole werewolf-audition thing. But my friends and the guy in the suit were staring at me worriedly. My friends breathed a sigh of relief when they saw I had woken up. But the guy in the suit smiled at me.

"It's a dream come true to be talent spotted." He said. "Still wanna be in the movies kid?"

I looked at him like he was crazy. He wasn't even bothered about my own health! So how on earth would he treat me in a movie studio? I thought to myself 'Stranger danger!' and refused his offer. The guy in the suit turned around and left my friends and I.

"You hit your head off a restraunt wall when dancing to your favourite tune." My friends told me. "We were so worried about you!"

I picked myself up and turned to face my friends, smiling to show I was alright. Then, I walked off with them, sure to have a much better time with them than at a movie studio with an inconsiderate director.

                                                                                        The End

This entry put me through to the Final round! :D I will start working on my final entry soon...

Hope it'll be a winning entry! :D