lilies *James Potter*

Chapter 70

"Again." The man on the other side of the glass huffs into the mic connected to Liliena's and James's headphones. Liliena gives James her hundredth glare of the afternoon. James had a feeling he was going to miss Harry's first full proper day at Disney World the following day. He could only hope Harry didn't see any of his favourite characters without him to take pictures.

Liliena takes a drink from her water bottle as the music is reset and started once more. "From the top." She sets the bottle down uncapped onto the stool provided as a mini table and begins to sing, again.

Her favourite song was starting to get on all her nerves. James riffles through the papers reading through his parts again.

"I close my eyes and I can see. The world that's waiting up for me that I call my own. Through the dark, through the door, through where no one's been before. But it feels like home."

Liliena looks over to James, still eyeing the pages in his hands.

"They can say, they can say it all sounds crazy. They can say, they can say I've lost my mind. I don't care, I don't care, so call me crazy. We can live in a world that we design. 'Cause every night I lie in bed, the brightest colours full my head. A million dreams are keeping me awake. I think of what the world could be. A vision of the one I see, a million dreams is all it's gonna take. Oh, a million dreams for the world we're gonna make."

James looks up for a nanosecond to meet Liliena's eyes who are watching him. His part was coming up soon and if they were going to have to take yet another take she was truly going to murder him in his sleep when they got back to the rental as she started the second verse.

"There's a house we can build. Every room inside is filled with things from far away. The special things I compile, each one there to make you smile on a rainy day. They can say, they can say it all sounds crazy. They can say, they can say we've lost our minds. I don't care, I don't care if they call us crazy. Runaway to a world that we design."

Liliena gives him a look and James fumbles with his paper, still in hand but he catches himself and starts his part.

"Every night I lie in bed, the brightest colours fill my head. A million dreams are keeping me awake. I think of what the world could be, a vision of the one I see. A million dreams is all it's gonna take. Oh, a million dreams for the world we're going to make."

It was only his first part, he still had their shared duet and more parts to complete. Liliena prays he doesn't fuck it up as she takes her next part.

"However big, however small. Let me be part of it all. Share your dreams with me. You may be right, you may be wrong, but say that you'll bring me along to the world you see."

James focuses, nodding his head to the beat to time himself to jump it. He didn't realize how difficult it was when it came to a song he hardly memorised in comparison to all of Pandora's songs that he could sing on the beat even without the music. He now gave Liliena and all the other actors and singers his compliments for their hard work and dedicated talent.

They sing together on time.

Finally, Liliena thinks.

"To the world, I close my eyes to see, I close my eyes to see."

James takes his next part.

"Every night I lie in bed, the brightest colours fill my head."

Liliena looked over to him, finally a smile instead of a glare was sent his way from her. James had to keep his excitement down on the radar so he wouldn't go mucking up the song just because of a mere proud smile Liliena sent his way.