Genome - The deception - I Volume

Part two

«But what's wrong with him? He's intractable these days", I tried to encourage Max and Kyle to talk about the girl he had a crush on, while we lined up to get our performance number. Max looked at me and smiled friendly. «You know I haven't the faintest idea, I've noticed strange behavior too, maybe he's just nervous about this competition he cares a lot about, like us», I had the impression that Max's response was evasive, «Yeah maybe you have right, it was a period full of tension, my problems with my father perhaps he felt quite involved in this matter. If it hadn't been for him I would never have found the courage to face him." Kyle entered the discussion: «You know that when he told us about you he was enthusiastic and certain that it was you the predestined to sing in the band, I had never seen him so thrilled, he told us that he attended the same lessons as you", Max turned towards Kyle with a strange expression and gave him a look as if he wanted to silence him. "Predestined?" I looked at them waiting for a response. We were interrupted by the arrival of Christophere Jensen, who wanted to speak to all the contest participants in the large room where the selections would be held. In the meantime Daniel had joined us and sat next to Max, he apparently seemed calmer to me. «Boys and obviously girls, I'm happy to see an influx, I had the opportunity to speak with him once and he seemed to me to be a person who deeply loved his work. He continued to speak to us from the stage where we would all be performing, he was dressed casually for the occasion, a simple white t-shirt and beige trousers, I noticed that he paused while speaking with his gaze towards a group of boys in the front row and it seemed to me to see that blonde we met at the entrance. A guy was going around the rows of seats handing out the turn of the performance. Kyle practically snatched the number out of the guy's hands. «We are twelfth almost immediately!», "They'll take us out immediately," Max said, looking at Daniel and me worriedly. Kyle had the urgent need to go to the bathroom and forcefully dragged Max along, while I looked away from the two boys and turned towards Daniel, trying to understand what he was looking at so intently. He had his eyes fixed on the place where those five boys were sitting in the front row. «Hey, forget it Daniel. We are here to at least pass to the first selection, try to stay focused», he turned towards me with a strange look. "Stay away from that guy, okay?" I didn't understand why I should have approached that blond guy anyway, I tried to think about this strange recommendation from Daniel.

The first six groups began to perform, four were uninspiring musical bands, in fact the judges didn't even let them complete the performance, the other two were crews of hip hop dancers who were also deleted immediately. The turn of those five in the front row came, the blond positioned himself in the center of the stage with his back to the seats and the others on either side of him in front. As soon as he started the music, the base was the Timbaland and Justin Timberlake song Carry out, that boy started dancing in an incredible way, it was pure energy; all five of them were dressed in a sort of tight, bright red jumpsuit. I felt Daniel's gaze on me, I turned to him and he immediately took his eyes off mine and turned towards the stage. Maybe he also didn't expect that those strange guys were really that good. It was the only performance up to that point that the judges did not suspend and as soon as they finished there was applause from all the participants in the competition. The performances went on. Kyle turned to us. «Those five dancers are sure to pass, have you seen that blond we caught at the entrance? It was amazing! Now group number eleven should perform, let's start getting up." We got up and headed towards the wings of the stage, I saw all the boys who had performed and I caught the blond's gaze again, as soon as we arrived he walked past us shirtless with his bare chest and spoke to me as he passed me. "You like what you see, huh?" I froze in place and saw Daniel try to follow. "Stay away from her you idiot!" The blond stopped and walked towards Daniel in a threatening manner. Kyle stepped in front of Daniel blocking him and a member of the crew held the blond down. «Kyle! Get up!» Daniel and Jad continued to glare at each other, a group of people arrived, perhaps the organizers of the competition, who took the blond aside, one of them called him by name as he approached his face. «Jad, that's not the case. Don't get burned, this is your chance." I saw him look at me again and he smiled cheekily and winked at me. I looked down feeling strangely embarrassed, he turned with his back to us and walked away accompanied by that person. "You don't scare me," Daniel shouted at him, pushed Kyle and looked at me strangely. Max walked over and grabbed his arm. «Daniel, we have to perform, calm down! Try to stay calm, leave that idiot alone." Daniel lowered his head and put his hand in his hair nervously: "Let's go get ready."

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