Harmony amidst Chaos | A Jori story

Dream in action

-TORI'S POV-

I really don't know how I ended up here. Or maybe I do?

A few days ago I was still checking my mold bush science project with one of my classmates, which was extremely gross to be honest. And right now I'm dragged up on a stage feeling nerves in every part of my body.

Trina has her schools 'Big Showcase' tonight, or actually HAD her schools Big Showcase, because she's currently being treated for, well... a very big, nearly bursting tongue. Which has something to do with her ordering some Chinese herb gargle that's supposed to help you sing better. I don't even wanna know... All I know is that I was sitting in the audience with my parents when we heard a scream from backstage. A teacher brought us to probably the most disgusting and angry looking tongue I've ever seen and the school nurse told us that Trina's not allowed to even talk, let alone sing tonight.

It sucks for her of course, but while mom and dad run after Trina and the school nurse, people are wondering how to fix this problem 'cause 'the show must go on'.

So that's where the disaster starts for me...

I got tricked into doing the performance instead of Trina.. HELP!!

I can't sing, I can't really dance, I don't even go to this fancy art-school and I only helped André and Trina rehearse!

But before I knew I literally got dragged behind a folding screen, where they stripped me from my clothes and put on a new dress like I was some kind of Barbie doll.

Back to right now, where I just got pushed onto the stage after trying to run away.

André is already behind his keyboard on my right mouthing that 'it's okay and I got this'.

God I really like the guy but right now I could kill him... and those other people eyeing me from backstage..a and those people staring at me from the crowww.. Wooowww- wowwww-wow. That's a huge crowd...

As I'm starting to panic, André begins playing the first cords of the song he wrote especially for the Big Showcase. I really love the song, it's catchy and there's a nice beat. Trina wanted the slow version though, so I guess we're doing that now.

I really don't feel like embarrassing myself but I don't think I've got any change of running away anymore. It's just like presenting that mold bush project right? How bad can it be?

Lights go out for a moment and that's my que to get the first notes out.

So I collect all the courage I have in me and try to remember the lyrics.

♪ Here I am, once again ♪

♪ Feelin' lost ♪

♪ But now and then ♪

Okay Tori, now the dance moves...

♪ I breathe it in ♪

♪ To let it go ♪

The words come to me easily, but I'm feeling like this is going too slow. That up-tempo version will speed it up. The sooner I'm of this stage the better.

I gesture André to speed things up.

♪ And you don't know where you are now ♪

♪ Or what it will come to if only somebody could hear ♪

My nerves slowly drop and I'm, maybe surprisingly, starting to enjoy doing this. The dancers enter the stage, smiling at me and my confidence gets a huge boost. I might be able to pull this off without embarrassing myself!

♪ When you figure out how ♪

♪ You're lost in the moment ♪

♪ You disappear♪