Hi, I'm Brooke. Brooke Ingham. I have mousey brown hair and I'm just over 5ft. I am 16, 17 this August. I sing a little but dancing is what I do best. I love dancing. Today is the day I audition to get onto a tour, do you know, backing dancers? Well yeah. He's called Justin Bieber and hes alright I guess, his voice is decent anyway, he's my sisters ex boyfriend so I don't know if I'll get picked but I might as well try,I guess he can't judge me on that though, it will be fun. I'm not going to get my hopes up though, there's plenty of other opportunities I could go for but you have to keep trying to get these things. I'm not a very pretty girl or anything but I'm happy with my size, I'm not very skinny and not that big either, I guess I'm just normal sized.
I put my hair up in a high pony tale, put sweat pants on and a belly top, that's my usual dancing clothes, that's what the letter told me to wear anyway. I'm quite nervous but I always get nervous at things like this.
The studio is roughly 35 minutes away from my apartment, I will probably get the number 91 bus, it stops right round the corner, it'll take my straight to the studio.
Both me and my best friend Kim live together so we shall catch the bus together as we are both auditioning. Kim has blonde silky hair and she's just a bit smaller than me, she's really pretty but she says she's not. Don't all girls nowadays, well most girls anyway, apart from Britney who goes to our university, the university of dance, she'll most probably be there today. Showing off as per usual.
We both walk to the bus stop at approx 11:00pm, it starts by 12:35pm but could run a little later as there could be quite a few people who has to be seen. It'll give us enough time anyway.
When we arrive we go to the reception and ask which level it will take place. "Level 4". We both walk up the stairs to floor 4, I feel quite nervous but I'll get over it once I'm dancing I guess. I haven't spoke to Justin in a while, he knows I can dance and when he was with my sister he said he'd have me on his tours any day, he probably doesn't even remember me now anyway.
"Right, we're taking groups of 6, get into a group of 6, it doesn't matter if you don't know eachother, then line up, we will be with you shortly" somebody shouted through the microphone. Me and Kim stand next to each other and Britney asks if she can join us, I roll my eyes and Kim says "yes, of course you can". Britney gives me a sour look and smiles. Then three lads join our group. We're the first ones in the queue, I feel really nervous but Kim assures me I'll be fine, just focus.
"group 1, please enter"
We all line up behind each other and walk through the door to be greeted by a nice lady and a middle aged man.
"Hi I'm Scooter and I am Justin's manager, I am going to be helping choose the 10 lucky dancers, all get into your positions and when the music comes on, just dance, I will be writing notes about each and every person, please get into a line of boy, girl and what are your names?"
He goes down the line of us and asks our names individually writing them down on paper.
"Brooke"
"Ben"
"Kim"
"Jamal"
"Britney"
"Adam"
Scooter: "Thankyou, now just wait a minute and we will put two tracks on, one slow and one fast.
*music plays*
Beauty and a beat.
We all show Scooter what we've go, I kept looking up to see Scooter staring at me, he wasn't really paying much attention to anybody else but maybe that was just me imagining things.
As long as you love me, acoustic
Again we all dance. Then Britney falls over, she starts to breathe heavily. I carry on dancing, so does Kim but the three boys stop. Scooter takes Britney out of the room and gets first aid help for her, Scooter then comes back to see me and Kim still dancing and he puts his thumb up to us.
*music stops*
Scooter then claps and asks for our contact number, I will FaceTime or ring you if you have got in, then you will have to come down for a final dance so I can pick 6 official people to be on his tour. Out of 100s who enter, nobody guaranteed but I also recorded you all so official dancers can help me out too. I can also show Justin.
We all give him a contact number.
Kim: "What about Britney?"
Scooter "Well I have her first dance anyway, I just wanted to see if you can all dance to any type of music, not saying you will dance to as long as you love me, acoustic version as it's usually just him and his guitar but I don't know if Britney is healthy enough to do so many shows as its loads, it's literally all around the world, so many cities and just 6 dancers.
..."good luck you 5, you all done, amazing now I have another 270 odd people to see, wish me luck aha"
We all say "good luck Scooter and thank you for having us" at the same time.
He smiles.
We all leave the studio and Adam asks me for his number I hesitate to give it to him but Kim being Kim, Kimberly gives it to him, I walk off in embarassment, then me and Kim catch our bus back to the apartment.
