X-Factor (a Cimorelli Story)

Chapter 1

Lauren's POV

About an hour later me and Amy have been talking and I actually feel really close to her, it's like we've been friends forever, we get along so well even if we're total opposites.

Soon after the lady from before asks for another person as she's done so for the past hour and the name made me freeze.

"Lauren Henderson?" She asks and I look over at her and shakily start to stand up.

Amy looks at me and grabs one of my hands to stop me. "Wait that's you?" She asks and I just nod at her, she gets up with me and holds my hand interlocking our fingers. "I'll go with you then. So your not as scared." She says and smiles at me i nod back again and smile at her appreciating her offer.

We both walk up to the lady. "Hi is one of you Lauren?" She asks and I say a quiet 'yes' she nods at me.

Amy asks a question. "Can I go backstage with her? I don't know when I'm going up but I could wait backstage till then or just come back here when she's done?" The lady smiles then nods. "Yeah of course, what's your name though, I can see when your going on so we can determine if you should come back here or just wait backstage." The lady says.

"My names Amy Perry." Amy says and the lady nods and looks at her list of contestants. "Oh great news, your actually right after Lauren so you can just get your mic too." She says and looks up at us smiling.

I look at Amy and smile and she smiles back. "That's great!" Amy says then looks back at the lady. "Ok let's get you girls going then." She says and starts walking away, to backstage. We follow behind her, still holding hands. Amy probably noticed my hands were shaking because she gave my hand a reassuring squeeze. I look over at her and smile she smiles back and we arrive backstage.

We see a few people by the part we're at probably just because it's the part where the contestants are getting their mics.

I see the girl from before, the one Amy called a tree. "Hey Amy there's the girl you called a tree." I say pointing at her and she looks at me laughing.

"Hey I didn't call her a tree, I just said she's as tall as a tree." I laugh and playfully roll my eyes. "Yeah, yeah, whatever you say shortie." She laughs.

A male staff member comes over to us with two mics. He hands one to each of us then leaves. Amy pulls her hand away from mine and holds the mic.

I look around again and see the lady staff member bring the girl Amy called a tree on to the side of the stage to get ready to go on.

The lady tells her something then comes back over to me. "Okay you're after Katherine, Lauren. Then Amy you're right after Lauren. You guys can go stand by her because she's going on right after the person who's on stage is done." She says and we nod.

Me and Amy walk over to the girl and hear she's doing quite vocal warm ups. I look at Amy worried and whisper to her. "Should I be doing warm ups too? Should I practice my song?" I ask rambling.

She laughs. "Well if you want you can, we can even ask her-" points to Katherine. "To join us on the warm ups?" Amy whispers to me.

"Oh no...I don't want to draw attention to myself. And plus she's going on next, she needs to practice." I whisper back and Amy doesn't even listen tapping her. I try to stop Amy but the girl already turns around to look at us. She smiles at us and waits for what we have to say.

"Hey! Sorry to bother your warm ups but my friend here is going after you and is kinda nervous, so I thought maybe we could do warm ups together? To boost her confidence." Amy says and I just hug her arm trying to stop her but she's clearly not even paying attention to me.