chapter 2: Miranda pov
    Nervousness swept through me as I toddled towards Mrs. Jensons classroom. Opening the golden colored door knob, I spotted at least thirty people there to watch our audition, and the one and only, Miss. Snobby Clara sitting in the back, with a glaring face. Melody and I dashed towards her, and showered her with questions about the audition. She rudely rolled her eyes, and moved her seat.

“Seems like everyone has attitude now a days,” said Melody.

“Well that explains why she is friends with Mikayla,” Miranda answered. Abruptly Mrs. Jenson called me and Melody to perform our song.

The staid audience sat on the bleachers quietly, waiting for us to sing. Standing on the stage, the spotlight was on us now. Over a billion eyes stared us down, and made my legs feel like jelly. Melody looked as if she was ready to sing and she had done it before. We took the mikes, and belted out to the song “Irreplaceable” by Beyonce.

When the song came to an end, the crowd went wild, except for Clara of course!

“Girls, you need to make up your own song, not sing a song by a real artist, doing that will not get you to record your own single!” said Mrs. Jenson curiously. “Since you already auditioned and it is clear that crowd apparently loves you, you can sing your original song at the talent show, where the record producer, named Sterling will be there”. We replied “okay”, and scurried out happy with our success. Even though we did not follow the directions, at least the crowd loved how we sang! That night we celebrated with pizza. After that, we practiced our single, while Mikayla was helping Aunt Claire, do the dishes,and house work. It took about 2 hours for us to complete the song, and rehearse it a few times until it was perfect. We performed the song to Aunt Claire and Mikayla to make sure it was perfect. Aunt Claire applauded while Mikayla showed no sign of expression. I guess she was just in a bad mood today! The next morning, was a Saturday, the day of the Talent Show! We had to reach there at about 9:00 and it was now, 8:30. Usually we got up late, in Hawaii, but here it was hard to, without constantly hearing noise outside your window.

As Melody and I got dressed, we headed out to the Honda that Aunt Claire drove. We sat on the white leather, rough seats, and Aunt Claire drove away. Mikayla couldn’t come because she said she rather work on her newspaper. As we reached the school, well the high school, Clara, was standing there about to go in, wearing a red dress, with flowers on it, and her hair curled, looking as if she was going to go to a wedding. Melody and I walked in wearing jeans, and matching purple leather jackets, with our hair tied.
As all the children ambled onto the stage, we just followed behind them, forming a parade line.
The announcer, announced all the winners, (which were actually just 6), and the judges, (who were professional and famous judges.) My legs started quivering, as I looked at the crowd. Over 50 people were there, including the cheer team, who took a break to watch us perform. I didn’t think we would win, because I probably would mess up, but what I did was just thinking about school, and how I performed then, but it didn’t really help that much.
Abruptly, the crowd went silent, and the spotlight, was once again on us, well the six winning kids. The announcer announced that these two twins, named John and Joe, were up first. They didn’t sing, instead they performed some magic show, which I didn’t think was talent at all! Well I already knew they would loose by looking at the judges face expressions. Next up was Clara. She performed a dance, to a song that she wrote, which turned out to be pretty good, knowing the fact that it was about my favorite season, summer! She did really good, and everyone stood up after she was done. I guess she practiced a lot knowing the fact she didn’t fall in her long red gown even once! The judges gave her a 90% average out of a 100%.
            Next it was our turn. We performed a song, and dance to a song we wrote, called Rock star! After the announcer handed us the mikes, it was our time to shine. We were quite for a few seconds, so quite that you could hear crickets, then we began singing, with a little beat added in the back, from our school friend Mindy. We sang, I’m rockin, and I’m poppin, and I’m gettin what a rock stars wantin, and every bodys  sayin she’s a millionaire, b b b billionaire, DON’T THINK THAT I’M ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE OUT THERE, my life is getting harder and harder, and it’s either now or never, and you’re gonna hear my voice…. When I shout it out loud…. To the wildest crowd………. I’M A ROCK STAR!!
         When we finished our song, the crowd stood up again, and cheered. Even the cheer leading team cheered for us, and that’s when Clara got mad. We were so happy that we just stood on the stage smiling and waving like weirdoes, for about 2 minutes, until the judges made their decisions. They graded us on how loud we were, how our song was, and how we sounded. We got a 10 on the first one, because we were always loud, a 10 on the second one because our song was just awesome, and a 9 on the last. So our average grade was a 97%. We stayed standing on the stage, and remained, until the other contestants approached on the stage, the black shiny stage. It seemed like the judges made their decisions, and the cheerleaders drum rolled on the bleachers, and the judges proclaimed, that…………….WE WON!!!!!! I was so happy, that I started to cry, tears of joy! Aunt Claire ran us to the stage and hugged us tight, and Sterling awarded us with a trophy, and a disk, that was signed by him. Now we got to record our own song, and maybe even become famous!
           As soon as those words came out of my mouth, I thought about Mikayla who was back at home doing work, while we are here about to become famous. We were always a group, but I don’t even know what or who separated us. I missed doing everything together, but I guess it was just to late to get things back together now. As I turned around to go get some snacks, Clara stood there with her hands on her hips, staring at me right in my blue eyes. I sauntered towards her, trying to look mean like her. “I’m sorry you lost”, I said in the meanest way, even though that was just not me.
           “Don’t be sorry”, she said rolling her eyes as always. “I know how you won”, she snapped.
           I had no idea what she was talking about. But I knew she was just jealous. She always was as soon as we moved here. I know she just tried to steal Mikayla away from us, and she won at that, but I wasn’t going to be scared of her any more. I could tell she was mad, when her face turned as red as a candy cane.
           “Don’t be jealous”, I replied back. Her face turned red again.
           “I’m leaving because I don’t wanna be seen talking to you”, she answered, turning around heading for the exit sign.
“You just have nothing to say now do you”, I shrieked trying to let her hear me before she went too far.
My tummy started to grumble, so I got myself a red velvet cupcake and some cookies that smelled like sugar canes and gobbled it down. It tasted so yummy, I wanted more. I could hear people chattering, in the back. They probably want my autograph. Who wouldn’t?  Our song was astonishing. As I walked to the back room, I saw Melody asking a bunch of questions to Sterling, just as she would. She always made my day!
As soon as she was done with the questions, we left to go home, and Sterling let us know that he was going to come over on Sunday to sign the contract for our first song! I was content, and I couldn’t wait! We all skipped to the car and got ready for our first day tomorrow entering the world of being famous!