Chapter 32: Performance (1)
"I still don't understand why we had to come two hours earlier. And this tie is mighty uncomfortable." Jamie complained as he walked beside Ari and adjusted the uncomfortable tie around his neck.
He was wearing a dark gray uniform, which consisted of a gray blazer and matching pants, a white shirt, and a black necktie.
Keeping his country boy origins at the forefront, Jamie also had on black cowboy boots and a black cowboy hat that shadowed his handsome face, but kept his shoulder-length blonde hair in place.
He carried his trusty guitar case on his back, and as he walked, it repeatedly thumped his back, wrinkling the uniform jacket.
"Because it's better to be safe than sorry. Now stop holding the guitar that way or you'll look like a wrinkly rag."
Ari smacked his back as he walked beside him.
He was dressed almost identically to Jamie, except for wearing a black turtleneck and black gloves, and holding a rented trumpet case.
He was unbearably hot from the LA sun, but the air conditioning inside the building would cool him right down.
As he and Jamie entered and quickly signed in, receiving their numbered badges, they followed a staff member to the waiting room, which surprisingly had a few contestants already in it.
Giving Jamie a knowing look, the two of them sat down in the large room and stared at the large TV in the center of the room.
Right now, it displayed live footage from the stage of the staff setting up the judges' table, and where the contestants who made it into the top 100 would sit.