My Favorite Criminal (StudxStud)

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Jorja Hunters
Feb 24, 2024 | 4:48 pm.
Old Friends & Pleasing.

"Iiiiii wiiillll aaaallll- I watched as she coughed then cleared her throat. My eyes widened, and my fake smile slowly faded when the auditioner tried to continue singing. "Baby let it go" Choyce mumbled, and I hid my laugh behind my hand.

"I think we've heard enough? Yes?" She lowly asked me and my manager, I immediately nodded. "Miss you can stop" I told the teen girl and she smiled, and straightened her posture. "Thank you for coming out, we'll be in contact soon" I stood up and she shook my hand, squeezing it.

"I can't wait. We're gonna be so good together" she smirked then quickly walked out.

When I sat back down, all three of us immediately crossed her name off the list. "NEXTTT" my manager called, I slouched in my chair and hid my yawn with my arm.

"Tired are we?" Choyce lowly asked "shut up" I whispered, lightly hitting her arm.

I haven't been getting much sleep since I came home. I know mentally I'm home, but my body is still adjusting.

My eyes lazily followed the brown skinned fem person who was dressed in a black goth aesthetic. They had my manager's assistant pushing in their electric keyboard, behind them. "I got it from here, thank you baby girl" they said and the assistant started giggling and nodding.

"Charisma, check" my manager mumbled, and I made a mental note myself. "Hey. I'm Yara, I go by she/they pronouns. I'm fleshly 21. I sing and play multiple instruments, mainly the keyboard" she introduced herself, and surprisingly handed us each a headshot.

"Any questions?" She asked and I smirked, liking everything about her so far. "What song are you doing?" Choyce asked and Yara smiled "a song for you by Donny Hathaway" and my manager became overly interested.

"Go on" I told her and she immediately went to sit down. She surprised me when she started from the middle of the song.

"You taught me precious secrets
Of a truuu love with holding nothing
You came out in front... When I was hidinnn
Now I'm so much better..."

And when she sang the word 'listen' it was like all 3 of us started to hold our breath as we waited to see and hear if she would mess up the piano solo.

When she did it perfectly, I released and saw my manager smile and circled her name. While Choyce squeezed my hand under the table to show her conformation.

Was the solo hard or something that blew us away? No. But we've seen so many people come in here unprepared and unfortunately really bad. So we were happy to hear something good.

And because we knew she could do the first solo we were comfortable and utterly amazed by the second, more full solo towards the end of the song.

She had our attention from start to finish and I loved it.

We lightly clapped when she finished and she smiled, stood and took a slight bow.

"Thank you for coming in, we'll definitely be in touch" "I hope so" Yara shook my hand then surprisedly went to shake Choyce's and my manager's.

When she was fully out of the room Choyce smiled at me. "I liked her" "me too" I made known "same, she sang with an old school type of feel" and we all nodded.