33 Arrogan (2/2)
Finally after 20 minutes in the subway surrounded by people that asked him about everything, he was even asked if he had a girlfriend or a boyfriend. He reached the venue were the final round would be held, Rena had sent him a text to tell him that she was already inside and sitting in the audience, today the audience had to come 2 hours before the start of the show so they came at different times, he headed straight into the contestants waiting room.
After his identity was checked he got inside, this time the waiting room wasn't as big as usual and inside the relatively small room were already sitting 8 people, 3 « women » and 5 « men », most of them were younger than 20 so it was an exaggeration to call them men and women.
Since they were already 8 waiting inside it meant that Sam was second to last to arrive, those that had already arrived were separated from each other, each one was sitting in a corner alone and doing their own things, the tension in the air could be felt by touching it.
In the earlier round nobody knew who they would be against in the finals so they weren't as competitive as today but today they knew that for them to be champion they would have to beat the other 9 present today.
As usual Sam didn't care much about his competitors and went to find a place to sit while listening to a recording of him singing his original song: « Love me » that he would be singing today. He was totally confident that he was made into the most talented person here since he had gotten the system.
He was also confident in the feelings he had put into his first song and knew that lots of people must have had a similar experience as his with Sophia, or at least that they would identify with the song. That would help him gather more votes.
After a long awkward silence in the room the final contestant arrived and also found a place to sit. He was that Moussa Nelle that did a hip hop dance act on the previous round and was announced to be a finalist just before Sam, the show had actually started before the guy arrive and he would have been considered losing by forfeit. On the TV in the front of the room the judges were being shown while they were discussing, this was made to leave time to the production team to get everything ready, the show would officially start in the next minutes.
While they were all waiting a girl around 19 years old stood up, Sam knew her from sight as she was not too far from him during the finalists announcement. What he didn't expect was that she headed in his direction and stopped in front of him while showing his earphones.
« Can I help you with something ? »
He asked while taking them off, he didn't know this girl so he was confused at her reason for approaching him.
« You can't, I just came to tell you that today you'll be losing to me. I heard your singing and it's great but singing what other people wrote isn't enough to be amongst the best. »
He finally understood what she came for: she was just an arrogant person that wanted to boast.
« Haha you are right, I'll try writing on my own someday. »
He replied while starting to put back his earphones but she kept on going.
« I hope that you're singing alone will be enough to put a fight against me, I don't want to win too easily and the rest of the people here are nowhere near my level. »
He had guessed that she was an arrogant person but he didn't expect it to be this much, everybody in the room looked at her vehemently, she was way too arrogant but nobody spoke. Expect Sam that was too confident the rest of them wanted to analyze their concurrents's skills so they watched the show and knew really well that the two favorites today were Sam and that girl named Julie.
She was also a singer and she sang her original songs on both the previous round, her singing skills were on par with Sam so they felt like she would win if she sang and original and Sam a cover, of course that would give her more points in the audience and the judges's view.
« I'll win, you can't do anything against me with your level. »
Replied Sam, he didn't like being arrogant but he knew that in this world he was the only one that had the right to be. The system was his permission to be arrogant, since she didn't have a system why did she come and blasted in front of him ? It was only their first conversation but he disliked her already.