Chapter 2

"Stop staring" I heard Hale said.

Wtf?

"Who's staring at who?" I asked averting my eyes to the camera I was holding.

"You're obviously staring at that black haired girl over there" she cheekily said.

Eww. Gross hahahaha

"I wasn't" I denied but after a minute I just found myself staring back to the same person who's now so engrossed on drawing. How cut-- wait what?!

I got a bad feeling about this. sh*t

"How the eff did you even get in here?" I asked wanting to change the topic. "Uhm through the door? duuh" I swear sometimes Hale can be so sarcastic.

"I know that you idiot. I mean this is an audition you can't just come in if you're not participating"

"Girl I know that but knowing that my best friend is an important member of this club no one's gonna stop me you know" she said with a smug. So she basically used me to get it how funny, well it's not that I'm angry about that, she's my best friend anyway. "Whatever, just behave"

"I'm not a dog, Riu. Now tell me why are you staring at her?" can't she just drop this topic? "Hey I know that look, you can't make me drop this so answer me" this is stupid.

"I'm not staring, I'm just documenting this event. Now keep your mouth shut and behave" I said while looking away but she just laughed. "Guess my best friend is acting weird this year. Oh wait... there's not a year that you don't have a lover, tell me... is she next?" I know that's true but for some reasons... I don't like the sound of it.

"She's... not" I answered. Thinking that she'll be next doesn't sound good on my part. I'm not someone who gets into relationships with strings attached, I don't want ger to be one of those. Wait--- why do I care. Arrgh this is driving me crazy.

"Oh she's not? well that's new... more like... that's interesting" She said then left the room. What does she mean by that?

Arrgh forget it.

A few hours passed and the audition was about to end. My only job here is to take a picture of the last participant which is basically blackie(the girl with the black hair) and then we'll leave to do the judging in the other room.

I looked at her as she's seriously trying to finish it as soon as possible and it kinda make me smile. Hmm how persistent, Do your best then. I turned my back to stare outside the window and suddenly remembered the time I saw here. I wonder what she was thinking back then. She was caring a guitar and was laughing with her friends, but what made me look are those eyes that she has.

"--iu"

It's sad. And I hate it 'cause it almost the same as mine. I don't like it 'cause I know how it feels to keep things inside then hide it.

But compared to her sad eyes, mine are empty. "Riu!"

"Oh sh*t" I was startled when someone called me. That did woke me up from thinking, way to go jerk, making me almost drop the camera."I've been calling you for a while but you're not responding, are you ok?"

"I'm fine, I'm just thinking. Anyway, what do you need Jay?" I asked as he went near me.

"The last participant is done, do your job so we can finish this already." Oh she's done. "Ok. where is she?" I asked but he just looked at me. "She's behind me" he said.

"Well then move, you're so huge. I can't see her"

"Why so hard on me Baby Riu haha anyway I'll leave you two now" He said as he left slightly laughing. Why did you leave me with her you damn big guy. Now how do I socialize? Fck!

I looked at her and she's looking as well. Now that I get a closer look I noticed how white her skin is and she has a nice face..No--- nice is not the right word. She's totally good looking and has this 'Leave me alone' vibe because pf her eyes.

"U-uhm" I went back to reality as I heard her clear her throat. Damn! I just checked her out so boldly. Just when did you get so bold Riu? and why do I keep cursing today?

This is humiliating. I just got caught, how pathetic. I didn't bother responding and I turned my back on her instead. I don't want to see ger reaction, not when I just did something so stupid. "Go over there and hold your art work, showing it to the camera" I instructed and she did followed without saying anything. Not a talker huh? well whatever. I took her picture quickly and told her that we're done.

"Okay guys! Thank you so much for participating in this audition. We appreciate your hard work, However we do hope you know that not all of you will get picked but don't get sad about that. Don't stop here either if you don't get picked instead keep going, you might get picked next time. With that being said we'll be posting the results on Monday on the bulletin board on the hallway so kindly check it next week :) " I announced.

"Once again thank you for being here. The audition has ended, you may leave. Have a good lunch everyone" Ian said so the students started taking there things ready to leave. O felt someone touched my shoulder so I looked at who it was. Turns out it's jay and was telling me we're leaving. I followed him but before I got out my eyes went to a certain black head and there it goes again. She's laughing with her friends, walking towards the door but those eyes are annoying me.

Stop it. Those eyes... doesn't suit you.

"Hey what's wrong? you've been spacing out since a while ago" Jay said as we walked to the other room. "I'm fine, maybe I'm just nervous for the audition this afternoon" I said as an excuse.

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We're currently judging the art works of the participants and out of the 30 students, we're now down to 12. We're only picking ten so too bad to the 2 participants that will get cut out.

They already choosed 1 to get cut out so we only need another 1. I was looking at the drawings and calligraphies and they're currently choosing between two art works. I recognized one of it, and the left one was hers. Hmm after all you perseverance are you going to get cut out right away?

"This art work on the left part lacks on some things in the portrait category but the other one is fairly good, I think we should just pick the right one" I heard Mike said but he others didn't respond and are deep in thought.

This isn't going anywhere. Should I give you a hand Blackie? It wouldn't be so good if you get cut out right away, Right? show me what you got Blackie. "Let's not be hasty" I spoke out of the blue which made them look at me.

I don't know her so they wouldn't suspect me of anything. I should just do what I want after all I'm intervening not just because of her.

"You're right mike that the artist of the left art work is a little bit lacking at some point. However, The other one is just fair on both categories. The left one exceeds the other one in calligraphy and out of all participants this one exceeds all in calligraphy. If we choose the left one, it will be of great help to Dexter and Ervan when we're designing. Other than that the portrait the artist made isn't actually that bad. By the looks of the art work it definitely shows effort of the artist and the potential they have while the other one, even though it was fairly good than the artwork on the left side, it's a sloppy work. It might look good for some people but if you look at it more, it's sloppy. It's as if the one who made it just draw it to make it look good thinking it's enough to pass."

"Hmm I get your point, it will clearly help both of us when it comes to lettering, we're accepting a lot of those who are good at drawing but it's not like that's what we only need" Dexter supported.

"I know, but as you can see, alec's work on the right side, shows good results and I think he'd have a great potential"Mike said. Oh I get it, the other participant is your friend. I might be giving a push to someone right now but I'm definitely not doing it blindly. We purposely did not bother looking at the name of the one who made the art work so we'd avoid being biased and solely judge on the art work yet he boldly said the name here. How stupid.

"Like I said, we don't need those who think that little effort is what you only need in this club. The art work on the left side might not be as good as the other one but you can see that it has been drawn carefully with effort. We don't need those who only have potential. What we need is someone who has both potential and perseverance. Our club is not petty, we have a big role in this schools every event. We don't need someone who thinks to highly of themselves or those who think that they don't need to improve what they can cause they're already satisfied with what they can produce." I seriously said looking at them.

I definitely notice that Mike isn't pleased with what i have said specially when it seems that the others are agreeing with what I have said but he chosed to remain silent. You can't match me when it comes to this, back off puppy.

After a few minutes of thinking about this matter we have finally arrived to a conclusion.

"Okay so after giving it so much thought, the last member would be the artist of the art work on the left side. We'd be printing the results this weekend and post it on Monday. Is there any objections on the results?" Ian asked but none of us responded.

"Ok so we're done here. You can go" Our new adviser, Prof. Caley, announced. But before we went out I looked at Blackie's work to see her name.

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*sigh* at last I can finally get out of that suffocating room. Sure damn Mike isn't happy with this one. Like hell I care.

"Hey why are you smiling like an idiot?" I heard someone said, turns out it was Hale waiting for me here outside.

"Nothing, let's just go and eat. We still need to do a lot of things this afternoon." I said and pulled her.

Absentmindedly I can't help but smile and I don't know why.

I've given you a push even though you're not asking for it. The least you can do is not disappoint me.

I look forward in working with you, Ms. Lumi Shelegiel.