chapter 2: The Beginning Of The Journey

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"Lisa Yam to stage please!"

I take a deep breath and pray to god I don't face plant it in front of the judges. But me, being the cluts I am, tripped. I tried to laugh it off but I knew my face was cherry red.

"Beautiful entrance." Simon says with a smirk.

I give a shy smile and look at my feet. He chuckles and I realize he's only joking. Simon starts to ask me questions. "How old are Lisa and where are you from?"

"I-Im 17 and im from Estacada, Oregon."

"Don't be nervous, you'll do fine. So what are you gonna be singing for us?"

"Im gonna be singing Jar Of Hearts by Christina Perri."

As I finish up, I look at the judges. I get a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach when they don't say anything and just stare at me.

Mary all sudden says "I-I have no words for how beautiful your voice is. I-Its just its magnificent. Simon, what do you think?"

"Well..." I get nervous at his tone. "I think you were wonderful. You have a very advanced voice for your age. it was simply beautiful. Lewie?"

"I think she sounded great but has room to improve." I face falls a little but I gather myself before they notice.

Simon agrees and says. "Well, yes and everyone has room to improve. And she's only 17. Marry is it a yes?"

She smiles and nods. "Yes"

"Lewie?" Simon asks.

"Uhm no im sorry." I bite my lip nervously. Another no and im going home. I cross my fingers at my side. Please.

"And I am gonna say a big damn YES!" I shriek with excitement.

"Thank you. Thank you so much. You will not regret this I swear"

They smile at me as I run off stage. I just wanted to run into my best friends arms and cry tears of joy. Too bad they weren't here. I had to leave them back home cuz we couldn't afford for them to come out.

I scream one more time and pull out my stupid flip phone to call Violet and Micaela. I miss them so much.

"Hello?" I hear Violet answer.

"Love? Guess what!!" I yell not being able to hide the excitement from my voice.

"Oh my god! Oh my god! Your on speaker. Micaelas here to"

"Ahhhh Lisa!! Did you make it?" Micaela screams in the phone.

"Noo! Im excited cuz I had tacos for lunch. Just kidding. Yes I made it!!"

We scream in unison. "We knew you could do it. Congrats mate!" Micaela yells back

"I know its cheesy but this really the first day of my big journey." I say in a cliché way but none of us care cuz im just too happy to even comprehend anything.

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