1 Chapter 1: Application
"Adryan!" My little brother yells once. "Adryan!" He yells again. He comes running to my room with a big smile on his face.
"What, Oliver?" I said,
"We haven't played today" he said frowning while looking at the ground swaying side to side.
"I can't, I'm busy. I'm working on a song" I replied.
My bed at the moment had sheet music everywhere, my laptop on my left and my keyboard right in front of me.
Oliver is my younger brother, obviously. He's 10 years old and he always saw me as his role model, his hero. The kid loved me and I loved him too. When he was born, he couldn't stop crying but as soon as I grabbed him he stopped crying. Is like he knew, weird huh?.
"Come on, when was the last time that we played?" He asked
"Last week?" I said
"No, two weeks. I'm bored" he ran to me and grabbed my arm and started yelling,
"I'm bored," he yelled two more times and I was getting annoyed.
"Alright, alright. I'll play with you" I released myself from his grip and I raised my hands, surrendering. He started jumping and cheering.
"Just wait till I clean all of this mess" I said
He groaned, "you're so slow cleaning"
"I'm organized, try it sometimes" I said and he rolled his eyes and waited for me to clean the mess of sheet music and cans of lemonade, my favorite drink.
I finally cleaned the mess and I went to the backyard to play with him.
"So, what are we going to do?"I asked and he quickly entered the house,
"wait there!" He yelledI stood there for like four minutes and he came blasting me with his water gun.I shouldn't have given him that dammed toy for his birthday. But with the insane summer heat, the water felt good.
"You are so going to get it!" I started chasing him and damn, he ran fast.I stopped and placed my hands in my knees, and I started breathing loudly.
"Adryan, are you ok?" He ran to me with a concerned look in his face.
"Sorry, I'm just exhausted. 19-year-olds don't have the same energy as a 10-year-olds. He walked closer and I yanked the water gun from his hands.
"Haha, I got you!" I started shooting him and he never stopped laughing.
"Adryan, Oliver" I hear my mom calling us. I turn around and I see her standing there with a curious smile, her right arm rested on the wall.
"What's wrong?" I ask She told us to come in. When we entered she gave us both towels. After drying she gave me her laptop
"Press play" She was in some random website. She had a video that was paused. And it was called, "invitation to Starsdom"I started watching the video. Some lady was talking,
"is it hard to be famous? Do you feel like your dreams are never going to come true? Well audition to Starsdom and we'll make sure you'll have a great career thanks to us. Auditions start august 15. If you want to audition, visit our website Stardom/auditions.com and fill out the application. Don't miss it" she finished off by pointing the screen with a little giggle.
"Adryan, you have to audition," mom said.
"Audition, to enter this random show. It looks impossible, I'll never enter." I explained. The show is kinda random. I mean, appearing literally out of nowhere.
"You can. You have the talent. I've heard your songs they're amazing" mom grabbed my hands and tried to convince me.
"I just...." I was about to speak but then I thought about my father. He's lying sick on a hospital bed and we can't even afford his medications and his treatments most of the time. If I actually won the show, got a record deal and turned famous... I might help him and cover all of our debts. Oliver hopefully looked at me waiting to hear the word "yes" come out of my mouth.
"I'll try," I said and my mom and Oliver started cheering.
"I know you will enter, and I know you'll win it," mom said as she gave me a strong hug and Oliver joined as well.
"Stop, your going to crush me" I said as I felt all of my oxygen slowly slipping away. Thankfully, they let me go.
"Go fill out the application" Mom said.I went to my room and I grabbed my laptop. I went to the website.The site popped up and I saw one of the stupidest catchphrases ever, "starsdom, the path to fame and a great life" I've never seen this show before, it must be new. And I don't believe the instant fame thing they are promising. Before I signed in I decided to look at the rules of the show.
"Starsdom is a singing competition that promises instant fame and a great life. How does it work? So you have to audition, and each judge will give you a star. If you get three stars, you'll get three chances to stay on the show. If you get two, you'll get two chances and if you get one, you'll have one chance. So if you enter you have to write, produce and make your own songs depending on the number of stars that you have. Then you will post them by round and you will have to make a music video to your most popular song,by yourself and our amazing crew. How does the voting work? So the fans will vote for each song that they like the most. The song that has the least votes will be eliminated and you will have one song less and if all of your songs are eliminated you're out of the show.If you are at the risk of being eliminated each judge will have one chance to choose a few and create a group. If the judges placed you in a group you will have to audition again and if it doesn't work out all of the members will be eliminated whether they have a song or not. The show will have two winners, the one that places in first place and the one that places second. The winner will have a full concert in The Hollywood bowl and the one who placed second will be the opening act.If I enter I'll at least get one star and if I don't, well this just isn't for me.I clicked enter and another page popped up. It said that I needed to put my name, age, address, phone number, email, and why do I want to be in the show.I filled all the basic information and I wrote why I wanted to enter the show,I want to audition because music has always been a dream of mine and my family believes in me, especially my dad. He's sick and almost dying And he always wanted to see me follow my dreams and I would like to make him proud as a dad. And just like that I hit send
