That night I couldn't sleep, along with the flashbacks I was getting from the abuse I was put through that day, I couldn't stop thinking about singing in front of Aidan. If I was successful in the audition, and he considered me in the contest. It would be a tough call for him. Ashley had to choose Ariana Grande as her weapon on this music battlefield. Ariana had always been one of Ashley's favorite artists besides Aidan, and she had won so many singing contests.

But, I was not going to let her swoop in and take away my dream. I carefully poked my head out into the hallway and listened for the sounds of snoring. Alexa and Isabelle were very heavy sleepers, but Aunt Mary was one of the lightest sleepers I had ever met. Even the smallest creak would wake her up. When I got back in my bed, I pulled my phone out from under my pillow and plugged in my headphones so I could try to find a good song that would blow Aidan's mind.

I wanted to use one of his songs, but I thought that it would be a little awkward to be singing one of his songs in front of him. After a while of song searching, I found the perfect one. I spent the majority of my night trying to memorize the song lyrics, but it was hard not to sing because it was so catchy and addicting to listen to. After a few hours of listening to that song, I could feel parts of me trying to fall asleep. But I started carefully dancing around my room to wake them up.

I had yet to tell Vanessa and Ethan that I was going to audition that night, but I knew that they would be happy for me when I told them. "Serena! Where's breakfast?" Aunt Mary called from the dining room when it was about nine am. I put my phone back in it's hiding spot and walked into the kitchen to make them breakfast. Usually, I would be irritated and grumpy when I made breakfast. But on this day, I was starting to feel confident about auditioning. But I couldn't let them see me in a cheery mood.

I placed plates full of eggs, bacon, pancakes, and sliced strawberries on the table. Like always, they complained about my cooking, but I didn't let it phase me. The chores that Aunt Mary had given me that day were long and complicated to complete. I had to wash all the windows by hand, vacuum all the rooms, clean the bathrooms, and mop the floors. Even though they were hard to complete, I kept thinking positive, hoping to get the chores done by the time the auditions started.

"Aunt Mary, I've done all the chores that you told me to do," I said when I had finished cleaning the bathrooms. I thought she would be impressed and give me the rest of the day off to do what I wanted, but Aunt Mary sat on the couch and shook her head. "Not all of them," she denied. I'm sure I did all of them. I ticked off the chores in my head, and sure enough, I did complete all the chores.

"Aunt Mary, I'm sure I completed all the chores. Which one did I miss?" I asked. She stood up from the couch and led me into the kitchen, and she opened the cabinets where hundreds of Tupperware spilled out like water from an open floodgate. "You're kidding me, right?" I asked, hoping that my mind was playing tricks on me. "Me and the girls will be going out for a girls night tonight, and I need you to clean this kitchen spotless by hand, including the oven," she smirked.

My heart sank in my chest. Just looking at this mess, I knew that it was gonna take me at least four hours to clean it, and I would definitely miss the auditions. "Yes, ma'am," I sighed in defeat. She tried to walk away, but her foot slipped on one of the Tupperware, but she caught herself on the kitchen counter.

I was left alone with the mess, and I started to feel like I wasted my time coming up with a plan to make use of my boring life.