Authors Note: this is going to sound stupid, but this is how i want my life to turn out. im actually in a band called The SImple Things with my two best friends, and we are trying out for X Factor next year! watch outfor our name, cause we will dominate one day. i promise.
‘and the winner is’ i felt Gwen and Belles heart pound as we gripped each others hands, Steve pulled the note out of its envelope. the suspense was killing us, ‘THE SIMPLE THINGS!’ the three of us screamed and tears rolled down our cheeks. ‘CONGRATULATIONS GWEN, BELLE AND CHARLIE! YOU HAVE THE X FACTOR!’ we gave Brian a hug and congratulated him for making it this far. Steve handed me the microphone ‘how do ya feel?’ i wiped my tears ‘pretty damn spectacular’ Gwen took the mic ‘i would just like to say thank you to everyone who voted for us, we are so grateful for everything you all have done!’ Steve took the mic back, ‘how does it feel to be the youngest group to win? i mean only 17 and look at you’ ‘well i mean we had a dream to get out there and sing for everyone, and thanks to everybody we made that dream come true’ belle said. ‘LETS GIVE IT UP ONE MORE TIME FOR THE SIMPLE THINGS!’ the crowd roared and we went backstage.
‘guys we just won’ i said, we all stood still just staring at each other ‘we promised each other that we would do this and we did it!’ i started to cry again. ‘girls we're going to need you to go to the dressing room’ the stage manager said, ‘yeah yeah’ i replied. our heels clicked on the floor as we shuffled to our small dressing room, tears of happiness still streaming down our face. when we got in out dressing room we stood still until the door was closed. ‘AHHHHHHHHHHHH!’ we all jumped up and down and hugged each other at our success. i looked in the mirror, ‘holy shit look at us’ mascara was running down my face along with Gwen and Belles, ‘we a mess’ Gwen said. ‘preach’ Belle said back. ‘guys you know what this means right?’ ‘PARTY!’ we all said in unison. the door slammed open and all of our parents and family came in. ‘CHARLIE!!!!!’ my mom yelled there was more crying and hugging and jumping. ‘girls i'm so proud of you’ Belles mom said.
it was around 10pm when we left the set, the producers set us up with a sweet limo for just us. the 3 of us got in. belle knocked on the window that lead to the driver, ‘hey can we possibly pick someone up?’ ‘sure, where?’ ‘Belle, what are you doing?’ ‘getting Ian’ she said. Gwen and i sighed, we hated Belles boyfriend he was a total douchebag. ‘belle just remember this night is about us’ ‘i know i know’
we went around the corner and picked up Ian at the bar, he jumped in and started making out with Belle. ‘ew’. ‘ok ladies where to?’ i gave him the address to the small party that Simon Cowell invited us to. we arrived and we knew it was definitely not a small party, there was at least 700 people in Simon’s familiar house. the last time we were here it was judge’s week, i just remember being extremely nervous and singing a taylor swift song. we walked in the front door and got cheered and clapped for, ‘thanks you’ we said and waved to people.
Gwen and i grabbed hands and made our way through the crowd. belle and ian went to the bar so Ian could get a drink (he was 21). ‘Holy shit, gwen is that Liam from One Direction?’ ‘i don't know where?’ i pointed to the boy, ‘i think it is’ we boy screamed a little. ‘crap i made eye contact!’ Gwen said, we quickly turned and went the opposite direction.
the night went on and we said hello to a lot of people, some we knew some never even we and never seen before. it was so weird, there was a lot of celebrities here, like Selena Gomez and Taylor Swift. ‘hey girls, you're version of Safe and Sound for week 4 was so beautiful’ ‘’oh my god, you're taylor swift’ she laughed, ‘yes ma’am’ ‘this is so surreal, can i give you a hug’ without even answering she pulled me in for a big hug. ‘dude i totally just hugged Taylor Swift!’ she walked away to go say hi to others and we just stood there in shock. ‘oh there's Belle!’ we ran across the room to get her. ‘hey belle we haven't seen you all night!’ ‘sorry’ ‘where ian?’ ‘he left...’ ‘oh, well we still have fun without him’ she smiled and we went outside to get some fresh air. ‘you missed it, we said hi to Taylor Swift and she gave Charlie a hug’ ‘oh yeah we'll i met louis from One direction!’ ‘taylor swift is better’ we all laughed. ‘hey’ a deep voice said from behind us, i turned around and there they were, the 5 one direction boys. ‘hello’ Belle said if her flirtatious voice. ‘we just wanted to say congrats on winning’ ‘thanks, that means a lot coming from you guys’ i said, ‘i remember standing on stage, just praying that they would say our name’ liam said, ‘but they didn't’ louis said we laughed. ‘well we gotta go...bye’ gwen said. we walked away from the boys feeling awkward, we used to have huge crushes on them, we planned it all out, Belle would get Liam, Gwen would get Harry and i would get Louis, but now not really, we actually didn't even like them anymore. they were annoying.
