Jay's Dream- Jay's first audition.

[Jason Mills]

Soon Jay had just remembered about his big audition. He got a frightened feeling inside as he  rushed away from Rose and  then sort of felt confused as he let go of her hand and said ‘Im so sorry Rose, but I just remembered about my audition, and I better go now’. Rose smiled, ‘yes of course Jay that is understanding, I’ll walk with you near your home’, and then they both smiled and walked through the forest fast, rushing to get back to civilization.  They talked about things that cheered them up while walking, Jay felt disinterested because he was in a big rush to get home as quick as he could, he wasn’t  really listening to Rose. They both seen the big streetlights that led them out of the forest towards the peaceful scenery, where they could see views of houses and vehicles driving by the roads. Rose smiled as she said ‘Jay, I hope the best for you’, they both then hugged softly as Rose felt much happier. They rushed away from the trees as Jay gazed at Rose running away home like a graceful wind. Then suddenly Rose looked back at Jay at the trees and she smiled, waving her hand at him.  Jay’s eyes looked as if glared or sparkled from light as he just smiled back at her.  He then grinned at Rose and walked in the other direction, quickly. And Rose sort of giggled when she watched Jay leaving and then  she too ran off home. Jay soon reached his home and felt this warmness inside when he entered the house, he looked around the home as it was very quiet and to Jay it seemed nobody was home at that moment.  Jay went straight to his bedroom and he got this sense of smell from his body odour from the bed covers and this made him feel as if he lived in the nature for years and just came back to society, reality.  Jay thought of Rose and her wonderful imagination, Jay felt she amazed him.  Jay thought of Rose’s reassuring smile and her hair blowing directly from the wind, Jay imagined Rose gazing at him near the waterfall. This all made Jay sigh as he wished Rose was there with him as he sat on his bedside in complete silence. This silence was more beautiful and peace to Jay, he sees himself with Rose as they spread peace and love in the world from harmony and the melody of their special talents.  Jay then choose his audition clothing as he got a cold shower and freshened himself up as he soon was ready and motivated for his moment. This talent audition meant everything  to Jay because he wanted to do something creative in his life. He wanted to entertain and shock people with hype  emotion over all the actions in dancing that he would choose to do. Suddenly Jay heard a bang from his front door and he jumped from the bed and went near the stairs landing to see who or what it could be. Jay then heard his mother Michelle talking to herself with worry,  Jay then shouted ‘is that you Mom?’. Soon Michelle  ‘yes it’s  me, where have you been all day? Get down here now quickly, we need to chat son’.  Jay rolled his eyes and kind of smiled as he walked down the staircase and to Jay his mother looked exhausted. Jay then slowly asked ‘is everything okay Mom?’. Soon his mother sighed and said ‘yes son, I just got worried about you earlier, I thought you would not be back on time for your chance with the audition later’. Jay smiled, ‘Mom everything is fine, don’t worry about me, please because I’m well capable of making my own decisions. Mother, you know   I wouldn’t be foolish and choose bad paths of life or make bad choices’. Michelle grinned, ‘what happened earlier?’. Jay began and told Michelle the amazing things that happened with him and Rose, from the nature views and the powerful friendship between them both.  Jay told his Mother that Rose’s personality made him feel speechless inside, he described Rose’s traits to Michelle from how she is fearless and full of wonders and curiosity for the world and others. Michelle, herself was very interested and curious towards Jay’s interest in Rose. Michelle thought it was lovely what they shared between them as friends. Soon after their long discussion about Rose at the dining table in the kitchen, Michelle hugged Jay as tears came down from her eyes as she put her hands on Jay’s cheeks and said ‘now son, you do your best and please don’t worry too much about this audition. Just try your best and take it as a challenge and do what you do best’. Jay smiled brightly, ‘thanks Mom, and yes I will do just that’. Soon he got ready for his audition, it seemed it was just like a test to see if he can get through, but for Jay, he felt it was much more than that. This was his biggest goal and ambition towards what he really wanted to do in life, which was expressing himself creatively with theatrical talents. Jay kept getting these dreams of him one day showing people how he really feels towards life and true gained success. He was soon ready and then walked to the art’s studio, feeling nervous about everything, so he took a deep breath and calmly continued walking to the studio, and soon went inside the building whenever he got there. The inside of the building was like a stage with an empty audience seating that could fill thousands of people in a room, to Jay it seemed to be a rich styled theatre, almost like a concert hall or something famous that you would see in the movies. It had a red velvet colour in the seating chairs and the walls that surrounded the room had curtains that were golden with purple lining that surrounds and shows great comfort in the theatre. Jay himself, felt amazed with the background of his surroundings, and he seemed to look dazed or delightful when he imagined a big crowded audience cheering him on, standing up for the stage of talented people around him and the others he knew and thought about. It was the thoughts and Jay’s performing imagination that gave him the inspiration to do and love such things. He looked around the area as he turned, smiling in circles. He gazed at the bright, creative colours on the ceiling, which was full of decorative stars in design. And there was shapes of angel wings in clouds, the clouds had a golden red feature in colour, delightful as flowers that the shapes had a nature creativeness. This all amazed Jay, very much. The ceiling reminded him of the school studies he done as a teenager, he imagined the ceiling was like the Sistine Chapel that was sculpted by Michel Angelo, who was a great Italian artist.  Which made Jay laugh with glee. He then closed his eyes slowly as he felt adapted to everything around him, the interest adored him. He danced with the rhythm of music in his heart, Jay went with the harmony of silence around him as he performed amazingly with the hymn of his voice. The actions of his dancing was quite wonderful as I imagine his character, Jay done flips in the air and movements that were all connected  to the sounds in his mind, it was magnificent to see how he danced so powerfully and freely, that would amaze any crowd of people, of all ages and interest. The crowds could only feel a point of view or give critical advice, but to Jay it was as if he was giving his heart away through a dazzling embrace. Jay didn’t realize, but suddenly people were all watching him perform from the theatre entrance above the audience seating. A moment later the crowds started applauding and clapped their hands over the excitement Jay performed, but yet Jay was shocked to find a crowd full of young people watching him, he thought it was insane to them crowds because he felt crazy to be dancing all alone on stage without any tone or sound in sight. He opened his eyes quickly and felt extremely embarrassed to be found this way, before Jay could do anything else he put his hands over his face and laughed. Jay didn’t want strangers to see his blushing, facial expression upon his red face. A middle aged woman appeared from the crowds, she spoke while walking with a modest postured reaction, ‘Im very impressed with you, young man’, she said. The woman walked towards the stage, analysing Jay’s character,  appearance, and even his body figure. To Jay, she seemed sort of interested, ‘so what’s your reason, for a young lad like yourself to be found in these premises of creative performing arts?. Jay smiled and finally felt confident again, ‘well, im very interested in acting and performing theatrically, it’s my dream to become a stage performer or a dancer, and it’s what I believed in doing all my life!’. Jay smiled while he gasped, the crowd of young people waited impatiently in the seating area as they all watched the conversation between Jay and the mysterious woman. Jay felt this wonderfulness inside him, like he was treating his heart with full of good and delightfulness, he felt this because he knew he was coming closer to the destiny he’s been waiting for all his life, all he had to do was wait and enjoy every moment finding the way. ‘It’s always been an inspiration to me to find my way through good, to become a performing artist would mean the world to me because I believe I can do it all the way because as I dance physically, I feel as if im unleashing an inner dignity of power within me. It would make me think of my life experiences as I take moments like a journey through the challenge of creating my own life’. Jay smiled as his eyes dazzled with pure good, his eyes sparkled as he looked above at the golden ceiling. The woman that stood before him was completely overwhelmed with a stunned emotion, ‘well that’s very interesting, especially for a start’. Jay was delighted, he had to cover his smile with self-respect, ‘thank you very much, I really appreciate your kindness’. The young people folded their arms and kept their eyes on Jay, they watched him like a guarded animal, protecting its territory from danger or change.  Jay tried to make himself appear representable, decent or somewhat friendly towards these jealous crowds. ‘do you have any performance planned or anything in particular that you’d like to share or show us, from what you can do with your performing skills?’.  Jay felt his shyness and anxiety return, ‘well I had been practising this dance for quite some time, which I hope will help in this audition’. The woman grinned with acceptance and Jay gave this musical CD to a worker on the stage. To Jay it seemed this worker was a cleaner or a serviced employee. Jay quickly got into position on the stage and his pop sensation of the musical CD would have been familiar and known to most of the young people at the seating area. So the music started slowly and Jay danced to the beat and went with the excitement of the music as he showed great emotion and expression from the following of the song. He drifted apart into his own tone and went greatly with the dance, that it amazed the crowds, they imagined this this boy could only get greater.  Jay again, done all these movements and he done this turn twist as he put out his hands, directing to the audience in front of him, he moved his fingers delicately as he imagined himself spreading enlightened sparkles of light to the crowd over his loving fingernails. He took a few steps backwards and danced as he moved forward, moving his legs with the tone of the breathless beat. Jay moved his arms before his face to the light, it was like he was becoming blinded from the stage lights.  He then moved around the stage, pointing and singing to the crowds from the musical CD. Jay sang so powerfully  from the words.  Suddenly Jay done this big backflip into the air, like a professional gymnastic athlete, and then he landed perfectly back on the stage ground on his two feet with his father’s old fashioned, Italian shoes.  To Jay, he imagined the stage lights following him from wherever he performed, it was like beautiful rays shining down on him, it was as if it was going through his deepest emotion at heart, this all came from his gifted talent. He shifted his shoulders with movement, he done a facial expression that seemed pure passionate and compassion in what he was doing, in his best. Jay done a turn in dance, like a twirl, and then ran forward, like a proud angel expressing a healing embrace. Suddenly he slid to the ground and sang the last words of the song so emotionally as he showed his talent expression, with every sort of skill there was on stage. Jay got back up, off the ground and on his feet again and he danced back to  the middle position on stage, and he looked around the whole area and audience in terror with an act of drama performance.  He done this fast and yet powerful head spin with his hands on head as he dragged himself back to the ground, it was like he fainted, and his act was over. What Jay was trying to show was that he felt passionate towards his performing acts, his dancing skills showed that he died trying to show a dramatic scene to the crowds, it was greatly understanding to the audience as Jay expressed himself with true stage emotion.  Jay jumped back on his feet as it got quiet in the room. The woman felt amazed as she had her hands over her mouth, giving Jay a speechless impression. All the young people in the audience looked shocked over how stunning and dramatic Jay’s first audition truly was. The woman turned around and faced the audience as she gave an impressed smile, this made the crowds even more surprised because this woman, their drama teacher hardly resisted giving an honest smile over a performance. The reason the woman tried her best not to smile was because she believed being a critical teacher shall make her young community of people do better, over her training performing. The crowds then suddenly stood up from their seats and clapped their hands, just like Jay had imagined before his act. The crowds were impressed with the woman’s enthusiasm towards Jay’s talent. The woman blinked several times, ‘what are you, I mean who are you?’, said the woman. ‘my name is Jason, but I’d prefer to be called Jay because that’s what my friends and family call me, like a nickname or a stage name’. ‘well, aren’t you very confident’, said the woman. Jay grinned, ‘thank you, yes I’ve  always had faith towards these things. I always knew what I wanted to do in life’, Jay stretched out his arms as he  looked  around, ‘all this is my life, it has  always been my dream to do all this’.  He smiled happily at the crowd with great pleasure as he felt thankful  with the crowd standing. He then walked off the stage as he listened to the woman whispering to the crowds in a silent tone. ‘Why don’t you join our little community here?’, she asked.  ‘I would love too, thank you so much. What’s your name miss?’. The woman rolled her eyes because she felt stupid that she never told her name, ‘ Marian is my name. I support young adults in the arts and drama society of this country’. Jay was stunned and extremely interested because he knew he couldn’t have arrived to a better place in succeeding his dream. ‘wow, Marian that seems pretty amazing to me’, Jay felt astonished in an overwhelming way. Everyone started walking through the seating areas and they came by this staircase, which lead them to the next top floor, which was filled with different talent of arts. Jay looked around  and thought it was like another theatre with more chairs and a balcony on the higher, top floor. Through the balcony floor level, you could all see the stage through a higher height from the view ahead. ‘This building is all so wonderful, I never would have expected to see it all from the outside’, said Jay. ‘Yes Jason, this building was built from past generations, it sure is legendary to us as a community. And it’s a great atmosphere for young gained memories. For many decades now, lots of young people started off here in this community, now they’ve accomplished their success with careers as talented artists, in the music and the movie industry. Most of our artists have made portraits and landscapes for the decorating of the art gallery in this village’. Marian then continued, ‘Jason or shall I say Jay, this is a place for peace and creativity, a place to unleash your full potential with art and performing, a way to feel free with drama and emotion. This place is not about perfection or duty, or even corrections, we accept mistakes and we live in the skill of the developing talent of persons, it’s all about gaining true talent and finding fun while finding the way to the path your heart desires’. Jay looked around him once more as he had deep, compassionate thoughts. He then smiled shyly at everyone because he didn’t want them to notice his excitement. They all went into this big room on the balcony floor, and there was a door that was painted colourfully, Jay could see a beam of shining light coming out  from the keyhole of the reflective doorknob. Jay was amazed as he immediately rushed towards the door and opened it slightly as there was a creaking sound from whenever he pulled the door sideways for opening or closing. Before he opened the door fully, he looked back at everyone else near the area, everyone was smiling at him in wonder. Jay then shouted ‘are you all not coming inside with me?’. Marian then walked towards him, looking happy,   ‘ Jay, you go on inside there yourself, as you will find your inner mystery as your imagination will come to life from whatever you see surrounding you, oh and remember always become open minded and open to yourself and keep those eyes wide open to what you feel and imagine, through spirit, that way you will seek the goal of your destiny’. Jay felt confused and said sarcastically, ‘what could be so amusing and different for me in this room, if you all have been in there once before too?’. Marian then walked closer  to Jay and said ‘no Jay, you see all these young people around you? Well they all too went in that room individually and found their creative side as they listened to their heart and opened up their imagination to become even better and yet more confident on stage over all the things that magically surrounded that room’, Marian pointed towards the door directly as she said her words with loving wisdom. Jay was incredible excited, ‘but Marian, am I good enough for this group?’. Marian looked shocked that he would say such a thing, ‘Jay you have excellent talent with creative performing and you have a sweet, breath-taking  vocal voice when singing, it’s understanding to anyone who watches or listens because you have a pure gift and whenever you perform, I can see your powerful, expressive skills with singing and dancing, and even dramatic acting too’. Jay looked as if he had been day-dreaming, his eyes looked pure and deeply involved with Marian’s words. ‘Marian, thank you so much for all the encouragement and praise you’ve given me, I really appreciate it all so much’.  He looked around at the other young people and they smiled at him too, it was like their smiles were making him keep sure of himself, confident in a way. He felt so grateful for everything that has happened for him in these last few hours, he winked at everyone and done this witty, sarcastic expression as he turned to the door and opened it fully and slowly went inside and closed the door behind him quietly.

 

Jay felt breathless as he opened his eyes to everything around him. The room was bigger than it looked and it was completely dark. Jay was up against the wall, trying to find a light near the wall and he didn’t want to move from the wall because he didn’t see anything around him.  Soon Jay remembered what Marian said to him earlier about being open to his heart and mind, so he closed his eyes and slowly opened them again, it was like mediation or a calm relaxation.  Jay could see sparkled stars in the dark coming closer to him, this made him feel in the performing mood again. He opened up to the sounds around him and he heard this beautiful instrumental music that made him dance proudly. Jay threw himself to the ground as he crawled across the floor, towards the bright stars ahead.  Suddenly, the beat changed from the music that Jay quickly got himself up off the ground and moved with the rhythm, moving forward as he got to the stars, which was the light to turn on the lighting in the room. As he pressed the button,  everything changed in the click of the moment. Jay could see everything that he was inspired by, all the great colours he loved were all painted over the walls, the colour was golden red. The floors had a marble decorative quality, the colour was  turquoise and these colors left Jay in an incredible mood. Jay looked around the room some more and noticed beautiful paintings of views and portraits of himself in future life. The paintings of views had a fictional, imaginary style of beings that don’t exist in this physical realm, world. Jay looked at them closely as he put his fingers on one of the landscapes, it had a picture of a multi-coloured waterfall, flowing down the ocean stream. Jay touched the waterfall and water flowed onto his hand with wetness of the picture. Jay then looked at the futuristic portraits of himself and it all made him feel amazed and speechless without words to comment. In the portraits, you could see Jay as a leader, a leader of peace and equality through freedom. The portrait had Jay in the centre of all crowds, explaining a more peaceful environmental world. The more portraits he seen, the more successful and remembered he became. But of course the real Jay in the mysterious room hadn’t any clue of how he made all those changes, but he knew stage performing was the beginning. He then looked at the ceiling, it had spiritual beings in rainbow colour, like winds but with amazing detail of beauty, like magical rays bursting out of the beings angelic heart. There was clouds and bright stars that surrounded the beings in the background, around them. Jay seen this stereo with musical cd’s and they all were his favourites, there was even new music that Jay never heard too. Jay thought to himself with disbelief from how all this could be true or possible. Jay turned on the stereo and his favourite music played, he flicked his fingers and a stage appeared and people were dancing and singing to the music. Jay jumped in the middle position, the centre and he became the lead singer and the main performer. Jay started to express himself powerfully as he started to fly in the air, like an immediate storm while he danced and sang. As he flew in the air, he landed on the heavenly ceiling and started comfortable laying over all parts of the room, he lay their like a born baby in a cot.  Soon the singing and dancing was over and everything stopped and disappeared again; the dancers, the music and stereo, the paintings and portraits, the mixed colours, everything. Everything did become silent and Jay closed his eyes deeply and soon he opened them again, he looked around and seen the darkness return as he was still up against the wall. Jay came to realize that it was his powerful imagination and this typical room that made these things become so amazing and wonderful to him. Jay left the room, fast from excitement. Everybody was gone from the balcony area. Jay wondered deeply towards what he could do. This all made him feel weird and confused. He left the room and went towards the balcony, he walked down the staircase and all the young people and Marian were practising at the stage, everything was back to normal. Jay was glad that they didn’t leave the building, so he quickly walked over to them. He smiled politely at Marian and quietly  said ‘can I talk to you for a moment please?’. Marian agreed, ‘oh Jay, how did everything go for you in the room?’. Jay became amazed, ‘it felt and seemed so real Marian’. ‘What did’, Marian asked. ‘the room, everything I imagined looked so realistic and came to life. It felt so magical and powerful with everything that was around me’. Marian laughed, ‘what did you see?’, she asked. Jay felt wonderful, he looked around him and he felt that incredible feeling return again. ‘I seen amazing views of colours, I seen paintings of landscapes or fiction things which didn’t yet exist in this physical world, they seemed incredibly  wonderful and the feeling I got whenever I touched them was ever so clear and real. I also seen creative portraits of myself in my own future life, I looked like a powerful and peace-spreading leader to all the economy and the environment, the world even’. Marian started to become deeply interested and she didn’t once doubt Jay for a second, it was as if she knew what he was talking about, as if it was possible to be true. Jay continued and said ‘suddenly a stage appeared and beautiful music played and things appeared from whatever word I said or spoke’. ‘Well Jay, it seems to show that your imagination became wide open in that room, it  showed you what you’re really capable of doing and  it showed your inner-self through creativity as a destined person. Your skills and talents shall lead you all the way in what you want to achieve doing’. ‘thank you so much Marian, that’s wonderful advice, it’s all so nice of you, I hope so too, I sure hope your right’. Jay thought he was so lucky with this nice group of people and the leader Marian all giving him the support and confidence he needed, he was thoroughly glad that they were all impressed in what he loved doing. ‘I guess I better go now. Thanks again, for everything’. Jay couldn’t stop smiling over what he just achieved in that day and he believed his life was getting much better as each day goes by with a new beginning of a new adventure in the present. Jay waved at the young people as he walked upon the exit of the building. He looked back one more time with disbelief thoughts of truth over how great this all made him feel, he knew this was only the beginning of a dramatic and an  adventurous chapter!