5-26-08 Written & Copyrighted by... Short ending~
Elven_Song:
-squeals- This story was so cute, even though it was pretty small. I love your characters. Tobias and Myles.. -faints- ^^
Please continue with this next bit, it's really cute to see Tobias' story.
AxelVal:
Thank you, Elven!
Next chapter should be up either tonight or tomorrow.
babyblueheart:
Yay!!! I love the way you've started this story, can't wait for the update!! :)
AxelVal:
The next day we went back to the building and got a schedule of when their first show would be. Just my luck, the first time we could go ended up being in two weeks, and it just so happened to be a talent search. If I could win this, I had a free ride for at least a year of college or I could do an internship with a modeling company.
So, two weeks later, we pack up a small bag of clothes, just like the flyer said, and walked across town. Dad and Uncle Jahre were waiting for us, along with Uncle Myles and my aunts, Terenti and Crescentia. Oh was I nervous.
It’s bad enough with judges you don’t know, but half your family? I was just thankful Grandpa didn’t come. He’s still a recluse if you’ll believe it! He hates crowds, but he loves big families and being around a few people at a time.
Back to the story…see, goldfish with ADD…yeah, anyway.
Once we stepped foot inside I was grabbed by the arm and lead upstairs with the other model-wannabes. A few kids from town were there. But most were from somewhere else, like maybe the college area or downtown. It didn’t matter, just looking around I felt I had a huge leap ahead of them.
Not to say any of them were ugly, but…honestly, I felt like I was in the deep end and they were all in the kiddy’s end of the gene pool. Except one girl. She was competition, and she looked serious too.
The upstairs was the prep-room, full of desks, mirrors, and pictures of people who had gone to this corporation to get their start. I liked my desk. It was right on the end, facing away from the others, though I could see them in my mirror. A few makeup artists came out and made-up our faces and hair after we changed into our clothes. I’m still not sure how they made my hair look so short, but, let’s just run with it shall we?
Almost half an hour later Grant and Miranda came up to give us a pep talk more or less. It as all about ‘Let’s have fun!’ and ‘It’s not everything who wins and who doesn’t’, you know the drill.
So then we snuck back down as quietly as possible and took a line up position at the foot of the stairs up to the catwalk. Not that it was actually a line mind you. Everyone just kind of stood there.
My heart was pounding. Not ‘thunk—thunk—thunk’, oh no, this was more like ‘thunkthunkthunk’. I could feel the light-headedness already.
That girl was standing in front of me. She turned her head a bit and looked at me out the corner of her eye for a few seconds before I made a face at her and she turned away, shoulders shaking with giggles.
I couldn’t help it. I started laughing too. Pretty soon the managers and other contestants were giving us death glares. Thankfully the music was loud and the announcer was speaking so none of the audience heard us.
We regained our composure and she turned to introduce herself to me. “My name’s Linn,” she said, sticking her hand out for me to shake, which I did.
“I’m Tobias.”
“Yeah, I’ve met your dad before. You might know my last name; Kiev.” I shook my head, not recognizing it in the slightest. “Oh well, it wasn’t too long ago anyway. He might not have told you or something.” Just then her name was called and only then did we realize the others had been going up on stage for quite some time.
“Gotta go. We’ll talk later, ‘kay?” She strode up on stage and I watched her confident walk and posing and waited patiently for my name to be called.
When it was, I went for it. I strutted my stuff like it was just me and the mirror. Maybe the bright lights shining in my face had something to do with that. I couldn’t see a thing!
Well. I struck a few poses and everyone clapped. I took that a sign for ‘get off the stage’ and made an exit. I was guided back upstairs where everyone who had gone already was nervously waiting. Except Linn that is. She sat in the chair and just kind of bobbed her head along with the music leaking in from downstairs.
Seeing me in her mirror she stood and ran up to me. “How’d you do?”
I shrugged and sat on the floor in front of my desk. Linn looked at me for a second before joining.
We sat there for a while, talking about random things, which happens a lot in my family for some reason, while we waited for the results. Suddenly the loudspeaker from the hall way crackled out ‘All contests are to report to the catwalk. Repeat, all contests please report to the catwalk.’
With a shrug to each other, we pushed ourselves off the floor and made it down the steps.
Waiting for our names to be called was excruciatingly boring. Though when I was finally called, last due to my last name, I was practically a nervous wreck.
Linn flashed me a confident smile as I walked past, though I’m not sure what she was confident about. I’ll skip to the good part. You really don’t want to hear all the boring comments.
At least this time the lights were off and I could see who was ridiculing me I guess.
Elven_Song:
Cute ch. Axel.
Hmm.. by the way, do you know where you got those ridiculously cute pink eyes on Tobias? I don't know if someone asked already, if so please forgive me, my brain's due to be mailed any day now.
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