Wintersmyth or Winter Smith?

Chapter 28- Adventures In Music

Winters pov
The morning I went back to the same place to find out what our first theme is. I guess how this works is every round we get a theme and have a the whole day to choose a song and an outfit. It's all about presentation. Your outfit has to add to the theme and what your singing. I went into the big auditorium where everyone was sitting in the front. I went and sat behind everyone. I sat next to a girl about my age. I didn't say anything to her but she turned to me. "We're lucky huh?" I looked at her. "What?" I asked. "I said were lucky. To have made it to the top fifty. Even if we don't make it all the way we still get to be on tv and be treated like a star around town if people remember you." I nodded. "I guess that makes us lucky. I'm Angela." I shook her hand. "Sarah. Any idea what the first theme is?" I shook my head. "I've never done this before. I just moved here from San Francisco." I said. "Well trust me! Swellview's Got Talent is the BIGGEST music event in Swellview of the year! I've always wanted to be here but this is my first time getting in!" I smiled her. "Well I hope you make it all the way." I said. I meant it. She seemed to want it really bad. "You too! We should hang out later! Go costume shopping together!" I laughed. "Never thought I'd hear those words but sure!" We laughed. "Oh please, don't even bother getting costumes! It's totes obvi I'm going to win this year! After all, I'm the best!" A snotty voice said from behind us. I turned to see a clearly rich and stuck up popular girl sitting behind us high fiving her friends. "Well clearly you've never been the best before considering you can only win this competition once." She gasped. "This year I'm going to win! Besides, the competition this year is weak anyways." She looked me up and down. "I wouldn't count me out yet spray tan. Because I've never met failure." I shot back. "Well then let me introduce you." She said. "That must be easy considering how close you two are." Her and her friends gasped and walked away making faces. Before she left she looked at me. "Prepare to eat your words." I scoffed. "Bring it Blondie Barbie!" She stormed off. Sarah stared wide eyed at me. "What?" I asked. "You just trash talked Maria Belington! Do you know what you've done?!" I grinned. "Sent the wicked witch flying on her broomstick." I laughed at my joke. "No! You've made an enemy of one of the most powerful manipulative people around here!" I laughed. I don't think she understood why. I've faced villains and superhero jobs and and controlling my powers and everything else a normal person would never do! I think I can handle one snotty brat! "Look, call me overconfident. I have my reasons to be, but I'm not really scared of anything anymore!" I laughed. "Anymore?" She asked and I realized I screwed up. "It's a long story. Oh look! We're starting!" I said and looked up to the front where the same announcer walked on with a mic. I knew that the cameras were filming live like a reality show and caught Marie and I's feud. I get the feeling they will be following me and her around a lot hoping this will heat up. And if Marie is the self centered evil manipulative person I have her pinned to be, it will hear up. "Attention everyone! I know your all excited but there are fifty of you and one of me! Before I tell you the first theme and get you all rowdy I have to tell you some rules. First, at the beginning of each day, when you've decided on your song you can not tell anyone what it is until you come up to the front and tell us first! This is for your own safety so no one can steal your song! And there are no repeats so its first come first serve! Second, you may not pretend to be anyone else on the list! We have photo identification by the names so we know! If you do attempt such a thing you will be immediately disqualified and banned from ever competing again! And lastly, any sabotage or disorderly conduct towards the other contestants will result in the same as the previous rule. Now, for the moment you've all been waiting for, your first theme." His voice got low and we all cheered. "Drumroll please!" We all did so. "Your first theme. Is. Powerful songs! Exciting songs! Songs that make people believe that you are fully confident in who you are! I'll give you a few minutes to decide on your song! Remember do not tell anyone until you've told us! Think away!" My mind shot around looking for a song. Then I found the perfect one. My hand shot in the air before I knew what was happening. "Yes? You there! State your name and song!" He pointed at me. I was the first one so everyone stared at me. "My name is Angela Cooper, and I would like to sing Fight Song by Rachel Platten!" I shouted to him. He nodded. "Excellent choice ms. Cooper! Whose next?" One thing I knew about powerful songs, was that you need a powerful voice to back it up. And that's what they would be judging. Singing with confidence and power. After we were dismissed I left with Sarah to head to the mall. I texted Charlotte and Henry to meet us there. When we got there they were waiting for us. "Who is this?" Henry asked pointing to Sarah. "This is Sarah one of the other contestants. Sarah this is Henry." I said. "Your shopping with the competition?" Charlotte questioned. "Guys it's friendly competition! And besides we can both get into the top two and duke it out from there!" I said and we pretended to fist fight. "Okay we don't have a lot of time so let's go!" I said. "Are we going to the costume store?" Sarah asked. "I don't think we'll find what we need there. If we want powerful and confident we need to was to the women's store and buy ourselves some power suits! In style of course!" I said and everyone laughed and we headed off. I picked out my outfit and Sarah picked hers. "Now we look like powerful threatening women!" I said smiling. We bought the clothes then everyone headed their different directions because we had to practice for tonight. It came all too fast and although I was prepared I felt like I was last minute cramming for a test. I got there and put on my costume. Then I put on dark lipstick and dark eye makeup to look powerful. But I left my hair down and put on cute accessories to keep my own style. When I caught up with Sarah we both looked great. The show had started and we were backstage. We agreed to keep an eye on the tv for each other on what people would say about our performance afterwards. We waited backstage nervously chatting. Marie walked up to us and scoffed. "What are you two wearing?! Trying to go for the cover of the next men's magazine?" She asked and I laughed. "I represent power in women in business and being able to do anything men can do. And at least I'm not going for cage fighters weekly!" I laughed. She was dressed exactly like a cage fighter. "I'm singing fighter by Christina aguilara!" She said annoyed. "Wow that's a hard one! Don't choke!" I teased. "I won't!" She said and then they called her name. She went on stage and plastered on about as much fake smile as she did bronzer. But one thing she did have was a powerful voice. She hit every note. In the future she may be some kind of a threat. But one thing she clearly didn't learn, was to not waste your energy and show everyone everything you have on the first round. People will get bored if you don't surprise them once in a while. She finished and placed off stage intentionally bumping into me. "Top that!" She said happily. "Gladly!" I said back. They called my name and I went on stage. My music started and I started singing. When I finished people screamed and cheered. I waved and walked off stage. I saw Maria towards the back crossing her arms and frowning. I smiled slyly at her before walking away. Sarah ran up to me freaking out. "Oh my god you should have heard them! The announcers were so excited talking about you! They said you were 'A real threat to look out for' and 'Someone to keep an eye on the competition' it's so awesome!" I freaked out with her. But they started calling her name to be ready to go on so she went to the edge of the curtain. I gave her a thumbs up before she went on stage. When I heard her voice I was completely shocked that she'd never made it in before! She was amazing! The TV announcers basically said the same thing about her as they did me which was awesome! We had minor freak outs together until the performers were all finished. For a few minutes the judges wrote stuff down and talked. Everyone in the show lined up and waited anxiously. The announcer who first walked up to us walked onstage and started reading names for the top twenty. Me and Sarah held hands until we heard both our names and we freaked out again. Unfortunately Maria made it too. Not to my surprise though. She was good. Out of all the crazy things I've overcome beating her should not be one of the hard ones! We went out to the lobby where some people congratulated us. Finally we found Henry Charlotte and Jasper who hadn't met 'me' yet. "You guys were SO great! I feel like I'm talking to celebrity's!" Jasper drooled. "Thanks. Who are you?" Sarah asked. "I'm Jasper! Charlotte and Henry brought me! They've told me about you Angela! What's San Francisco like?" Why did he have to ask me that?! "Um well it's a city, and it's warm." I said. "Jasper stop bugging her! You guys were great. Who wants sushi?" Henry asked and everyone raised their hands. The next few days went like that. I got into the top ten the next night when the theme was love by singing love story by Taylor swift. Then I got into the top five when the theme was fun and I sang shake it off by Taylor swift. Sarah had also gotten into the top five, which I was glad about. But so did Maria. The funny thing was that I've been singing songs that not only match the theme, but also match my life. Like when I sang fight song I was thinking about how I've come back through all the things that have have happened. And I sang live story because me and Henry were from two different worlds originally. Then I sang shake it off for the same reason I sang fight song. This whole time it's been like a joke I've had with myself because no one would understand my reasons for choosing these songs. But now to get into the top two the theme is dark. This should be easy for me, after all I was evil, but I got nothing. As I sat in the auditorium with four other people around me I thought hard. It has to be challenging to really floor then because three of us are going home and I won't be one of them. Think, what artists have powerful voices? That's it! Kelley clarkson! Dark side! It's perfect! It's challenging and it describes me perfectly! I told them and went shopping with Sarah. When I picture a scene for the song I picture a girl wearing a fancy black dress walking through a dark forest. I began looking everywhere until I found the perfect. When I put it on everyone agrees that it was the one. "I can guarantee that this is probably the darkest thing I ever have or will wear!" I laughed. When I performed that night everyone loved it. As we got down to smaller numbers more and more people came. I put almost everything into that song. What's been helping me a lot is how I relate to what I'm singing so it's easy to mean it. Everything went well except that my makeup went mysteriously missing. Oh wait it's not a mystery Maria took it. But but was fine I just used Sarah's. And it didn't work anyways Sarah and I got into the top two. I still can't believe I made it this far. When they said our names I loved seeing Maria's face. Seeing her ear defeat did feel pretty good. As me and Sarah celebrated on stage she stormed over. "This isn't fair! Everyone knows that I deserve to win more than either of you new girls!" She cried. "If anything that should say something about you. After all, they chose two new girls over you." I said smiling. It may have been harsh, but I was pretty sick of her by this point. All the other contestants started to leave the stage but she didn't move. "I promise you this isn't over! I will be back! You have it coming! Your going to regret ever auditioning!" She screamed as a security guard picked her up and carried her off stage. "THIS IS NOT OVER! ITS NOT!" She screamed before being carried backstage. Sarah and I just shrugged and hugged each other. We made it. Now one of us has do make it all the way. We all went out bowling to celebrate. Henry and I particularly spent a lot of the time together. I totally kicked his butt in the game though. We played arcade games together too. I think he really likes this new version of me. Maybe even enough to ask 'Angela' out. At first I thought if he did I would have to say no, but then I remembered, winter is on vacation and Angela is just a powerless substitute who doesn't have to train! But wait, Schwaz should be finished with the change back serum in a few days. I'm getting ahead of myself. It's not like he's even asked me out yet. But if he did, it wouldn't be fair to him or me to be together for a few days just to have to be separated again. And he would think he lost another girl and I would miss being with Henry again. Anyways I have to get this out if my mind before the final performance. I went back to the man cave and Schwaz was waiting for me. "I have bad news." He said. "What is it?" I asked. "The serum is harder than I thought." I shrugged. "That's seems more like your problem then mine." I said. "No. It means the serum vill take another veek." Great. So I'm stuck like this for even longer. Wait! That's fantastic! "Yes! Thank you!" I said and ran to my room. The next day I went into the auditorium with Sarah where we sat waiting for instructions. "It feels so weird! Being the only ones here! It's like we got bad directions and are in the wrong building!" Sarah said and I laughed. "I still can't believe we're it! We're the final two. The last two pieces of this whole competition pie!" I said. Okay seriously I've been spending too much time with Ray! The same guy walked in who'd told everyone everything from the start. "Okay girls congratulations you are the final two!" Sarah and I did a little fist bump. "But now it's the hard part. For this last performance you have to show us everything you've got! You have to be outrageous and really wow us!" He went over the rest while I thought. Now was my time to put in everything my voice has. Why song shows how far I've come, and that although I've been through hard stuff I still came out stronger? I know what I'm going to sing. "Angela do you have any of idea of what your going to sing?" I nodded eagerly and told him. "Nice!" He said and then me and Sarah left. We headed to the mall. "You know how we've never been to the costume store until now?" I asked and Sarah nodded. "Well now I'm order to be outrageous that's exactly where we're going. We went in and through a bunch of costumes but nothing worked for me. Then Sarah gasped and ran to me holding a dress. "You need to try this on right now!" She said excitedly. It just looked like a regular big white dress that went down to my feet. "Uh how is this going to wow people?" I asked. "Just go try it on!" She said handing it to me and shoving me toward the dressing room. Input it on. Still nothing special. "I just look like the worlds biggest snowball." I said walking out. "Not anymore you don't!" She said and pressed a button on the back of the dress. It lit up and suddenly a butterfly pattern appeared on the skirt. "Woah! That's so cool!" I said. Then it changed into a starry night. It kept changing into different things. "This is perfect thank you for finding it!" I said. We bought our costumes and went out to buy lunch and then head to the park to practice our songs together and give each other pointers. Soon enough it was time to head back to the stage to get ready. Sarah was going first so I helped her with her makeup. Then I wished her luck and she went out on stage. I looked through the curtains and everyone in Swellview must have been there! Which doesn't really help with nerves but I would be okay. I set my dress on the changing stall door while I went to get my makeup at the table in front of it. While I was turned around I heard a splash. I spun around to see my dress covered in sticky brown liquid and standing next to it was none other than Maria belington. "Whoops! I'm so sorry Angela! I just didn't see your dress there!" She said fake sweetly. "How did you get back here! It's for competitors only!" She laughed. "Well I just wanted to cheer my friends on before and after they were on stage! Whatever, doesn't make total sense but daddy bought it and he also bought my way back here!" I tried not to look upset about my dress so she wouldn't think she won. Then she dropped the fake sweetness. "Look new girl! If I'm not going to win this competition, no one is! Not even your little shy friend who would have never made it this far without you!" This time I laughed. "Well that's unfortunate for you because she's already on stage!" I said but she only grinned evilly. "Oh I have special plans for her!" Then she ran out of the room and disappeared to somewhere else. Now I didn't have time to worry about my ruined dress, now I just had to make sure Sarah got through her performance without any Maria caused interruptions. I ran to backstage and looked through the curtains. She was still out there singing. Maria was nowhere to be seen, that is, until I looked backstage to see her trying to cut a rope. I looked at what the rope connected to. It was one of those sand bag bunches that balances the light rack! She was going to drop those bags on Sarah! Okay I'm not supposed to be using my powers until I have a better grip on them but this could really hurt Sarah! I ran over and shoved Maria away from the rope. Before she realized what had happened I froze her. Sara's performance continued. I couldn't just leave her outnumber he open where someone could find her. I looked around a saw a closet nearby so I pushed her into it and closed the door and put a keep out sign on it. Then I ran back to my costume. It was completely ruined. There was no way I was going on stage without a costume. Maybe I should just forfeit and let Sarah win. But we promised to try our hardest and not let each other win. So I went into my changing stall and got undressed. Then I pictured the dress I wanted and soon enough an ice skirt and top formed around me. I added different colors of ice to the skirt to look like jewels. Then I walked out and to the mirror. I looked so cool! But something was still missing. Then I used my new electricity powers to add purple lights around the top and bottom of my skirt and blue lights around the top and bottom of my top. Then I quickly did my makeup and hair. Then it was time to go on stage and and perform. I walked out and people awed at my outfit. Then the music started and I began to sing invincible by Kelley Clarkson.