Girl I Know

“Savannah, I’m leaving with or without you. Get your ass downstairs now!” Casey yelled up the stairs.

“Maybe if someone hadn’t locked us out at 3:30 in the fucking morning, she’d be downstairs and dressed already,” I replied mocking her bitchy attitude.

“Bitch, you wanna fuck with me, let’s go. Maybe you should realize who’s house this is and you should realize that you wouldn’t even know about this audition if it wasn’t for me,” Casey glared daggers at me.

“I’m ready, let’s go. Settle the fuck down,” Savannah came down the stairs with her dance bag over her shoulder.

Casey turned on her heel and marched out the door. I made a face at her back which made Savannah smile and shake her head. “Let’s hope we get this audition Vannie.”

“Right? Then we can live it up California style,” she grinned and we did a goofy little hand shake from back in high school as Casey honked the horn at us. I rolled my eyes and locked the door behind us before running to the car. Casey took off at the speed of light to get us off to our audition.

**2 hours later**

“Thank-you everyone for being here,” the representative for the record labels began. “We’re going to divide you up into 3 groups, we’re gonna have you learn a routine. Each group will have a different routine and we will see who can keep up the best. Out of those 3 groups, the top 3 will move into the final segment of the try outs and they will get the chance to be featured in some of our upcoming music videos. The winners will be announced 45 minutes after the final group performs for our judges. These judges will feature representatives for the bands that we will be setting up the videos for. Any questions?”

Noone raised their hands so she continued to list out the groups, Casey had been assigned to the first group while Savannah and I were assigned to the third. We told Casey good luck as they set us up in our groups. Savannah fidgeted with her bags nervously. “Tenney, Idk if I can do this. We have 10 people in our group, they only take the top 5.”

I held her hand, “Aww, Come on Vannie, you’re gonna do great. Just follow the routine, you were the best on our dance squad in high school. And you were the choreographer for us. You got this. No matter what I’m going to love you still, you’re always gonna be my best friend.”

She smiled and tilted her head then hugged me tight. “Alright, let’s do this,” she took a deep breath and let it out. We stripped to our yoga pants and sports bras, then put our hair up in ponytails. This is gonna be just like old times, just a little bit more stressful.

45 minutes later, I stood beside Savannah, we had survived the first draft picks and would be moving on to the final round. Luckily they’d given us a hiphop routine to learn, something that was similar to what we would do at a dance club. Casey came up to us, “You guys make it in?”

I nodded, “Yeah, we have the final round in like half an hour I think they said?” I looked over at Savannah who nodded agreeing with me.

“What about you?” Savannah asked Casey.

“Yeah, but just barely. I was number 5 in our group,” she stretched a bit. “I didn’t realize how long it’s been since I have actually danced. I’ve just been manning the bar. I don’t know if I’m fully prepared.”

Savannah hugged Casey, “You got this. I had preaudition jitters too, Tenney had to calm me down, you can do this Casey. You’re an amazing dancer.”

I nodded and hugged Casey too, “You got this chick.”

Casey smiled at both of us, “Thank-you guys. I’m sorry for the childish acts last night and then the whole bitchy attitude this morning. I’m not mad at you guys.”

“Sure could have fooled me,” Savannah replied. “But apology accepted.”

“Same here, you’re still our friend,” I grinned and lightly punched her shoulder.

Casey laughed and took a drink of her water bottle, “Group 1 you’re up in 5 minutes. Please report to the stage for the final judging.”

We hugged Casey again and told her good luck before she scurried off with the rest of group 1. This second judging in front of the judges, they were only going to take the top 10 dancers of the top 15. They said it’s so they can tell who’s going to make it and who’s not in the music business. You have to want this more than anyone else and if you show them your dedication then you’re going to succeed.

Savannah and I did stretches and rehearsed more so our muscles wouldn’t get cold and after 15 minutes, Casey came back out to us. “Hey, how’d it go?” I asked her as we took a break.

“I fucked up,” Casey said shaking her head. “I’m not going to make it, I honestly think I was the worst of everyone.”

Savannah hugged her tightly, “I’m sure that’s not true Case. If you jumped back in, they should be able see that atleast you’re dedicated enough to keep going. Everyone makes mistakes.”

Casey nodded, “I may have fallen during a move.” She blushed and hung her head before sitting down against the wall.

“I’m sure it wasn’t that bad Casey,” I said encouragingly as they called group 3 to get ready to perform.

“Good luck guys,” Casey said and gave us high fives as encouragement.

“I hope she’ll be alright,” Savannah said to me as we walked over to the room for the final stage.

“She’ll be fine, right now just focus Vannie. Remember, we all want this, show them you deserve it,” I smiled at her.

**1 hour later**

Savannah, Casey, and I all crowded into the room with the other dancers who’d performed for the judges. One of the guys had looked familiar but I couldn’t place him, figured it wasn’t that important. The representative took the floor. “Thank-you everyone for trying out, some of you will be cut from this audition, but we will keep your information on file incase we need extras; however, you will only get the jobs that are passed on by your peers in this room who DO get hired on Full Time.” Everyone was anxious, I had to close my eyes and take a deep breath. “With that said, let’s go ahead and list off the names from each of the groups that will be working with us in the very near future.

From group 1: Maley Cramer, Lacey Locks, and Bree Williams. Group 2: Samantha Brown, Natalie Snow and Lizzie Green. Group 3: Savannah Moore, Tennesee Trulove, Macie Lend, and Hannah Blake.

Congratulations to our winners, and we look forward to working with you.” The representative began applauding as did everyone in the room. Savannah and I looked at each other excitedly and then looked over at Casey who seemed extremely upset with the judging.

Casey picked up her bag and put on a fake smile, “Congratulations guys,” she said and hugged each of us.

“Aww Case, I’m sorry,” I said and hugged her back.

“But you’ll still get to work with them,” Savannah said trying to cheer our friend up as she made our hug into a group hug.

Casey nodded, “I know. Go get your first assignments, I’ll meet you guys in the car.” She turned around and walked towards the door and we approached the music executives.

A man in his mid-forties was the first to approach us, “Savannah and Tennessee, right?” He asked as he stuck out his hand. “I’m Larry Jacobson.”

I smiled at him, “Hello; how can we help?”

He smiled, “Well, the band I’m working for is going to make a music video that according to your background information, you girls may be exactly what I’m looking for.” He handed us a packet of papers each, which explained the concept of the music video, what our roles would be, the song that it would be to, and the band that we were assigned to. These packets also contained one of his business cards with all of his contact information.

“Thank-you Mr. Jacobson, we’ll let you know by the end of the day.” I shook his hand and then Savannah did and we turned to grab our stuff. I scanned through mine as we walked to the car and noticed 5 things about this job and I couldn’t believe it, “No fucking way…”

Notes

Sorry that this one is so jumpy and short; next one should be longer.