3 weeks later

"NOOO! They can't do that to them," I yelled at my TV as Stiles and Lydia were kind of being tortured by someone in the mental asylum. I was acting like such a fangirl. When the episode was over, I decided to check my emails because they were piling up and I needed to go delete the ones that aren't important.

The 5th email I came upon looked strange because I've never seen that email address before. I opened it up and it read,

Hello, if you are receiving this letter it means you have been chosen to dance with Erik Jangger in his next music video. The arrival date to come to Los Angles, California is July 20th. We will be at Long Beach Airport at 3:00 Pacific Time Zone. We will be meeting at Terminal 5 where the baggage claim is. If you continue to join us in the music video, you will stay for 2 weeks in California at a dance studio with the other winning contestants. My email is [email protected] if you have any questions or if you aren't available to join us. We greatly appreciate your time and consideration for joining up with us.

My mouth hung open in disbelief. I was chosen. Me, Amanda, a girl who hasn't danced in a fairly long time, was chosen. "I WAS CHOSEN!" I screamed to no one. But then I sat down because more thoughts flooded my mind. Maybe there wasn't a lot of entries; someone had to have quit so I was their second or backup choice; maybe they had the wrong email or they accidently sent this to me.

One thing I had to do was text Ally. She was the one to get it all together. I screenshotted the email and sent it to Ally. (do fake email thing and texting thing)

Amanda: HOLY SHITT DO YOU SEE THISSS?!?!? (pic attached)

Ally: wait, is that what I think it is?

Ally: HOLY CRAP

Ally: I TOLD YOU SO I FREAKING TOLD YOU SO

Amanda: Yeah, yeah we get it but I didn't think I would get chosen lol

Ally: you have no faith in yourself

Amanda: BUT CAN YOU BELIEVE IM GOING TO SEE ERIK IN ALL OF HIS BEAUTIFUL GLORY IN PERSON??? SJDDJOHGOF

Ally: that's amazing. I am really happy for you

Amanda: When did you get all nice and cute?

Ally: since always duhhh

Ally: its just masked behind my sass

Amanda: I don't believe you but...alright

Soon, my parents came home from their job to cook dinner. They both work in the doctor field. My mom is a surgeon while my dad is a some job in the doctor field. Since they are doctors, they are needed at crazy hours but we still manage to eat dinner together; Mom's rules to eat dinner as a family.

I became really nervous to tell them that I'll be going to California in a couple of days. My hands got all sweaty as I rubbed them on my jean shorts. I tried to get a conversation going to ease my mind and to get my sweating hands to stop sweating so much.

"So, did any thing exciting happen at work for anyone?" I said as I pulled a big, cheeky smile on. "The flow of people was pretty good today, don't you think?" my mom asked my dad who was staring at me. He knows me too well and I think he knows what my smile meant. "You only smile like that if you want something. Just say it, it'll make it worse if you just hold it in."

I took a big breath and said really fast, "SoAllyandimadethisdancevideoforacontestand IgotpickedtogotoCaliforniatodanceinamusicvideo." My was parents were looking at me wide-eyed. "Honey, say that again but a lot slower. I didn't think you were able to talk so fast," my mom explained. I bit my lip and said, "Sooo, Ally wanted me to make this...dance video for...this contest and if you get picked, you can dance in a music video and I got picked so I need to go to Cali on July 20th. And for 2 weeks." I said that last part fast-ish because I know my parental units and they would not be happy with me flying alone. "Wait, wait, wait," my dad started up. "What you're saying is that you entered a dance contest-" "not by choice, but by force thanks to Ally. Continue." I said, cutting him off. "And you got chosen to be in a music video that is going to be filmed in California on July 20th. Did I get it all?" I nodded in confirmation.

"I thought you said you weren't going to dance anyone," my mom exclaimed. "Again, Ally pushed me to do this. Didn't even know about it until she told me," I answered.

My dad rubbed his temples together in frustration as my mom was plain flustered. I tried to calm them down, "But don't worry, I have nothing those weeks. I checked the calendar. I'll be out of your hair...and Ally made me do it...and...I'll be good. I really want to go."

The looks on their faces didn't give me the satisfaction I wanted. "We'll talk about this after dinner, honey." I bit my lip and nodded. The table was quiet until I went upstairs and awaited either my punishment or excitement.

I started to eavesdrop on the conversation but couldn't get much out since they were in the farthest room in the house, they're good. As I heard their footsteps, I scrambled into my room and made it look like I was doing work. My parents stepped into the door and just kept staring at me. "Sooo...?"

"Pack you bags, you're going to Cali."