Brittany stood off to the side in the busy room looking around and slowly taking everything in. There must’ve been about 150 dancers in the room. One look at her face would tell you that she was nervous and scared. She was at the try outs to be a *NSYNC dancer for their new video and up coming tour. She had to of been one of the youngest girls there only being 16 years old. She was cute, but not as pretty as the other girls there. Having brown eyes, brown hair with blonde highlights, and only 5”2”. But everything was based on talent and your ability to learn dance moves.
She felt a tap on her shoulder and turned to her left only to come face to face with another girl. She was pretty and had brown hair with gold highlights, brownish green eyes, and looked to be about 5”7”. “Hi.” The girl said. “My name’s Norchelli. What’s yours?”
Brittany gave a nervous smile before responding. “Uh…hi. My name’s Brittany.”
Norchelli smiled at her. “It’s nice to meet you. You’ve never been to try outs before have you?”
Brittany shook her head. “Nope. Can you tell?”
Norchelli laughed. “Yeah. You looked a little nervous over here by yourself. I know how it is. You get the butterflies and what not.”
Brittany nodded slightly. “Yeah.”
Norchelli smiled and grabbed her arm as she started to walk away. “Hey come on. I want to introduce you to some of my friends.”
Brittany followed her without much of a choice. “Ok…”
Soon she found herself in front of three other girls who looked older than her. She eyed each of them as they introduced themselves.
“Hi! My name’s Trixie.” A girl with light brown hair, mocha brown eyes, and who was about 5”4” stepped out in front of the little group.
“Hey. I’m Megan.” Megan said from behind Trixie. She had layered long blonde hair that was pulled up into a ponytail, hazel eyes, and was about 5”10.”
Next to Megan there was a girl with light brown hair, hazel brown eyes with green, and was about 5”9” jumping up and down. “Hiya! I’m Sarah.”
Brittany smiled at the three and gave them a little half wave. “Hi. I’m Brittany.”
The five of them made small talk for a little while before Wade walked into the room and clapped his hands to get everyone’s attention.
“Ok.” Wade started. “What we’re doing here today is I’m going to teach you all the dance moves to a song. Once I go through the whole thing I’ll dance with you guys two times with the music. After that you’ll all dance to the music as Becky, Mike, Jackie, and myself walk around and watch all of you dance. We’ll be looking at how much you remember, how well you stay on beat, how smoothly you dance, among other things. After that is over you’ll get a break and then my helpers and I will leave and discuss who will make it on to the next round. A hundred of you will be cut when we come back out. If you hear your name, then you’re one of the fifty that’s staying. From there the remaining fifty of you will be taught the dance moves to another song. This time I’ll only dance with you once to the music and then we’ll walk around again and watch everyone dance. You’ll get another break and we’ll leave again. When we come back twenty-five of you will be cut and twenty-five of you will stay. Again if you hear your name then you get to stay. The remaining twenty-five of you will then be asked to show us your own dance that you should’ve had prepared for today. Once you all go and we leave and come back fifteen of you will be cut. The remaining ten of you will then dance with the guys so we can get a feel of how well you dance together with the guys, look with the guys, among other things. By the end of the day we will have the five dancers and you’ll be told who you tonight. Now, it’s 8:00 A.M. right now and my goal is to have everything done by 8:00 P.M. which gives us 12 hours. So in order to get done in time we can’t waste anytime and need to begin now. Does everyone understand everything? Anyone have any questions?” When no one said anything Wade nodded. “Ok then, let’s get started.”
Brittany looked at Norchelli, Megan, Trixie, and Sarah and gave them all a nervous smile as she took her spot on the dance floor next to Trixie and waited for further instructions from Wade. ‘Here goes nothing.’ She thought as Wade began going through the dance moves.
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It was now 10:30 A.M. and every had been dancing their hearts out for the past two and a half hours. Wade had taught them the dance moves to ‘It’s Gonna Be Me’ and after dancing to it several times, with and without him, they finally got a break while Wade, Becky, Mike, and Jackie had left the room to go make their decisions on who would stay and who would go.
Brittany sighed and plopped down on the floor next to Sarah who was laying on the floor with her arm over her eyes. She looked around and saw Trixie slowly walking over towards them holding her back, Norchelli was also laying on the floor but on her stomach, and Megan leaning against the wall next to her. “I’m so tired after just that. I don’t think I’m going to make it past this round and if I do I know I won’t make it past the next.one.”
Sarah groaned from her spot and moved her arm away from her eyes to look at her. “Don’t worry. You’re not the only one. I think he’s trying to kill us.”
“Yeah. You’re not kidding.” Trixie grumbled as she finally made it to them and slowly lowered herself to the ground and leaned up against the wall before reaching for her water.
Norchelli lifted her head off the floor a little bit to look at everyone. “There is no way I’m getting off this floor. At least not for a long time.”
Megan smirked and looked down at the four that were on the floor looking hopeless. “He’s only working everyone so hard so he can pick out the people who are hard working, dedicated, can keep up with the pace, and over all most fit dancers. So quit your whinning and just suck it up and keep going don’t quit. Quitters always finish last and those who stick it out finish first.”
“True to that.” Sarah said from the floor. She was now sitting crossed legged on the floor scanning the room. “How much longer until we find out who’s getting cut and who gets to stay?”
Norchelli looked at her watch and then at Sarah. “About another 5 minutes or so. They gave us 30 minutes and it’s already been about 25, so they’ll be back soon.”
Brittany was bouncing her leg up and down and chewing on her bottom lip nervously waiting to find out if she made the cut or not.
Trixie looked over at her. “Girl stop moving! How can you move? I’m so tired I don’t even want to move my finger.”
Brittany stopped bouncing her legged and gave her a sheepish smile. “I’m sorry. I’m just nervous that I won’t make the cut.”
Trixie smiled and shook her head. “That’s totally understandable, but girl you of all people have nothing to worry about. You were awesome out there. There’s no doubt in my mind you made the cut.”
Brittany looked at her and smirked. “Really?”
Trixie nodded. “Yes really. Now stop moving.”
Everyone laughed, but quickly stopped when Wade walked back into the room with a piece of paper in his hands. He clapped his hands once again to get everyone’s attention before he cleared his throat and began talking. “Ok, as most of you can probably guess that what I have here in my hand is the list of people who made the cute and are staying. So if you hear your named called please go over there to the right corner.” Wade pointed to his right where Becky, Mike, and Jackie were standing. “For those of you who don’t make the cut good luck next time and I ask that you please leave immediately after I finish calling everyone’s names. So are there any questions?”
A girl in the front spoke up. “So if we don’t hear our names then we’re supposed to leave. Is that right?”
Wade nodded his head. “Yes that’s correct. If you don’t hear your name called then you’re asked to please leave right away. Anyone else?”
No one else said anything.
Sarah, Megan, Brittany, Trixie, and Norchelli all held hands and nervously jumped up and down with their eyes shut.
Wade looked around and when no one said anything he looked down at the list of names in his hand and began reading the names out loud. “Katie Stratford, Sasha Woods, Willa Smith, Amanda Hillington, Rebecca Jones, Trixie Manning…”
Trixie and the other girls squeled when they heard her name being called. They all gave her big smiles as she literally skipped over to the corner.
Wade listed off another ten or so people and still continued with the seemingly never ending names.”…Carrie Toler, Wendy Potler, Brandy Varenton, Jill Cassidy, Morgan Dupree, Sarah Robson…”
The four girls screamed quietly when Sarah’s name was called and they all gave her a hug before she began walking over to the corner. She stood next to Trixie and grabbed her hand while they giggled with excitement.
Wade continued listing off another fifteen names, which kept making the list smaller and crushing more and more peoples hopes and dreams. “Caroline Farmington, Mandy Arthis, Patty Welsh, Norchelli Camacho, Megan Mathia…”
Megan and Norchelli began jumping up and down together and they both hugged Brittany and quickly walked over to the corner. Brittany watched them walk away sadly. There were only 8 people left to be called which meant she had almost no chance at all.
Wade yet again still kept going with the list finally getting down to the last five girls. “…Michelle Canton, Tanya Butler, Susie Tanis, Dayna Johnson, and the last girl is Brittany Thompson.”
At first Brittany didn’t hear her named called out, but when it registered in her head that her name was just called she screamed and ran over to her new group of friends as they all laughed with excitement.
“Oh my god.” Brittany said. “I didn’t think I’d make it!”
“I told ya you would!” Trixie laughed as the girls were still jumping with excitement.
Norchelli had a smile on her face from ear to ear. “I can’t believe that we all made it this far! It’s totally awesome.”
Sarah looked around her eyes sparkling with happiness. “You know we’re going to be the final five. We’re going all the way together!”
They all laughed as Megan spoke up. “That’s what we can only hope. But don’t forget we still have a few more rounds and cuts we all have to survive.”
The girls all just stood there happily as they watched a hundred other girls slowly file out of the room and forty five other girls that were happy like them giggled, laughed, and gave each other congratulations.
Brittany looked around ‘I hope that we are the final five. What’s better than working, hanging out with, and dancing with your friends? Not to mention five FINE guys?’ She was snapped out of her thoughts when Wade once again clapped his hands to get everyone’s attention.
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