I was so happy to have Annaleigh back in the competition. She has worked so hard to be here and I'm glad she finally got away from all of those jury house losers. When we finally get relaxed in the living room Shamir walks in and announces that the next competition will be today, but that nobody would be going home, even if they lost. He says "Today's competition will be a songwriting challenge but with a twist. It will be alliance vs alliance and each group will perform their own original songs and thebest group will win a prize at the end of the night. Get ready performers because it's going to be a Backstreet Boys and NSYNC showdown". Sean asks Shamir Who the judges will be and he says "Simon, Paula, and Randy-Myself, Olivia, and Levi" The news made me happy because we already had Levi's vote without having to do anything. As I was thinking this I saw Sean scowl and glare towards Emily.... Does he know? There's no way he can know. I look at Emily and she seemed clueless, like always. The alliances split up to go work on their songs and the 3 of us head to the confessional room to practice. We tossed around some song ideas but nothing was clicking. We only had one hour left to write a song and come up with a choreographed dance. And then all of a sudden it just hit me. We needed to focus on writing a song that would shake the other alliances' confidence and cause them to do poorly in the challenge. I tell the others and they agree, but just how should we do that? I ask the gals what their favorite music is and Annaleigh says Hairspray and Emily say, Sister Act- both classics. We decide we want to parody a song so we test out New Girl in Town from Hairspray but it's not the one. Emily starts humming My God from Sister Act and we decide to go with it and change the words around. After singing it through a few times and choreographing a dance, it was perfect, I mean Broadway material. We could win Tonys.
We go downstairs and everyone is waiting for us, fashionably late as always. We get there and Shamir tells us that we're performing first. Perfect. We go up to the makeshift stage and I say "Hi we're the Startle Reactions and we gotta show for you tonight". The music starts and I can't contain my excitement. The other alliance will not be able to cope.
Hey girls!
Hey Trey, what's up?
Well,mock trial's become a real drag!
Everybody's depressed now!
Ah ha, not that guy over there
Who Him?
They all say he's graduating,and he was a really good president
We don't care if he's leaving, to us
He's always here
Really?
Nothing you could say could tear me away
From my Drew
(My Drew)
Nothing you could do 'cause I'm stuck like glue
To my Drew
(My Drew, my Drew)
I'm sticking to my Drew like a Harper to a Chris
Like Danny & Elias, we stick together
I'm tellin' you from the start
I can't be torn apart from my Drew
Nothing you could do could make me invent
To my Drew
(My Drew)
Nothing you failed to train could make me attack
My Drew
(My Drew)
(My Drew)
I gave my Drew, my word of honor
To be a good mocker
and we're gonna
You best be believing
I won't be impeaching my Drew
As a matter of opinion, I think He's tops
My opinion is
He's the best closer in mock
As a matter of taste to be exact
He's my ideal as a matter of fact
No closing attorney could take a 10
Like my Drew
(My Drew)
No attorney could ever take the place
Of my Drew
(My Drew)
(My Drew)
He may not be an Alex Grace
But when it comes to bein' happy
we are
There's not an attorney today
Who could take me away from my Drew
(Let's take it home, ladies)
There's not an attorney today
Who could take me away from my Drew
(Give them some of that deep shoulder action)
There's not an attorney today
Who could take me away from my Drew
We stop and the crew just bursts out with applause. I could tell right then and there that we had this competition in the bag. I look over at Sean and Jillian and they looked pissed. Hopefully, it was enough to throw them off their game, oh who am I kidding of course it was we were amazing. Drew just looks confused and honestly, I couldn't blame him, we just sang a whole song about him and we just met this guy a few weeks ago. We stand on the stage for a minute and the judges start to give us their comments.
Olivia-" Great performance guys! You all rocked it and I'm so proud to be one of your producers. I have nothing bad to say at all"
Levi-" I thought it was a good performance, but I could 've used a little more choreography from you guys. But the passion was there and I could tell you all we're having a good time. Amazing work!"
Shamir- "The singing was pitchy and the dancing was lackluster but other than that it was okay"
I felt good after getting those comments. I mean that was a pretty nice comment from Shamir, he said it was okay, I'm so flattered. We leave the stage and the other alliance comes on and as we're leaving Drew gives us high fives and tells us we did a great job, what a nice guy. We wish him luck, which pissed the other off, but that's okay because we came here to win. They performed and it was kind of a mess. It was a parody of a Taylor Swift song and I hated it. Jillian doesn't dance or sing and it looked like Drew was confused at the song selection the whole time. They finish and the judges start to give their comments.
Olivia: "Good job guys, I loved it"
Levi: "Didn't really like the song choice and there was no dancing. I would say I'm disappointed, but it's about what I expected"
Shamir: "No comment"
We were all stunned after those comments and it was pretty clear who the winners were. We all wait a few minutes and Shamir announces that the Startle Reactions won!!!!! We all jump up and hug each other and go up to shake the judge's hands. Jillian and Sean are glaring at us and Drew comes over and hugs us and tells us how touched he was by our performance, even if it was just to throw the other two off their game. Sean hadn't said anything this entire time and out of nowhere, he says "Of course their team won, especially with them being so close with the producers" and then he looks over and winks at Emily. Everyone looks over at her and her face goes pale, but I distract the situation by changing the subject and asking what the prize is. Shamir gets on the stage and announces that the prizes are three gavels with our initials carved on them, which was pretty amazing. Annaleigh and I start celebrating and when we turn towards Emily we see her look towards Levi and then towards us and she says "He knows, I'm so screwed". We give her a hug but the two of us share a look. Her secret was out there and her fate was in the hands of Sean.
