Adam, Part 6

Daniel

“Fuck, his key card”, Daniel muttered.

“Check his pockets I guess?”, I answered.
I had Matt’s arm around my neck as his tall, beefy body struggled to stay upright. Matt’s other arm was around Daniel’s neck. We were in the elevator as we reached Matt’s floor. He was pretty much wasted. He had trouble standing and when he spoke it was unintelligible.

Daniel, Matt and I had partied so hard now that we knew all three of us had made the final round of this talent competition and were going to be performing live on TV on Saturday. We called Kimmy and put her on speaker and she was both ecstatic as well as sad that she couldn’t celebrate with us.

Matt was the one who surprisingly was the worst at holding his liquor. Now that we were dragging him down the hallway of his floor and stopped at his door, Daniel checked the front and back pocket of Matt’s jeans.
“Nothing here”, he said.
I patted the front pocket and new it was empty. I let my hand glide over Matt’s round ass, without any response from him at all, I felt the outline of what had to be a key card.
“Got it”, I said.

I reached into Matt’s back pocket and fished out the card. I handed it to Daniel who stood closer to the door. After opening the door, we dragged Matt in and let him fall back on the bed. With his arms spread, his T-shirt raised up and his hairy belly was visible. His eyes were closed and it didn’t take long before he started snoring.

Daniel and I looked at each other. He pulled me in and kissed me.
“Wanna go to my room?”, I proposed.
“Fuck yeah”, he replied.

Daniel

Already in the elevator to my floor we were making out and I lifted his shirt to touch his chest and abs. We were both quite intoxicated, but I was horny above all. I opened his jeans and saw his black underwear.
“Wait, wait…”, he chuckled when the elevator doors opened.
Thankfully the hall was empty. I took his hand and walked to my room. I opened the door and pulled him in. Daniel smiled. His jeans fell to the floor as I took his shirt all the way off and dropped it to the floor. We kissed and I took off my own shirt. Daniel stepped out of his jeans and started on mine. He sat on the foot of the bed and pulled me closer by the waistband of my briefs.

Now my jeans fell down and Daniel pulled down my briefs as my rock hard cock popped out. He moaned as he took it in his mouth. He licked and sucked on my cock in a sensual way, like he was making love to it. It was so hot. It made me even hornier. His moans continued throughout. At one point I put my hand on the back of his head and fucked his face, in a rhythm much faster than he had been sucking me off so far. After a few times he pulled back and looked at me with watery eyes.
“Fuck!” he said, before getting right back on my cock.

I pulled down my briefs and played with Daniel’s chest and face as he sucked me.
“Slap my face”, he suddenly said, and I slapped my cock on his tongue and his cheek a few times.
I chuckled. I pushed him to lay down on the bed and I took off his trunks. His cock was rock hard as it swung back and forth after escaping the underwear. I kneeled down to take it in my mouth and he moaned louder, making clear he loved it.

Daniel

Soon enough, I was lying in the middle of the bed and Daniel was on his side further down, sucking my cock again. He couldn’t get enough. He was trying to get my cock as far down as he possibly could, eventually managing to deepthroat me. It was fucking hot. I pulled him up to kiss him and I tasted my own cock. I let my hand go down his back and squeezed his butt. He sucked on my nipple as I did, making me moan in return.

I had Daniel get on all fours and he arched his back. His ass was beautiful. I ate him out.
“Oh yeah, push that tongue in there”, he moaned.
I noticed his hole was now hairless. He had manscaped for me. I buried my face in between his cheeks and it was heaven. I could have stayed there forever. When I felt Daniel’s hips start to grind and his moaning get louder, I knew what was about to happen. Daniel came into the duvet, hard. Normally I wouldn’t want a guy to come this early, but I had learned that Daniel had multiple orgasms in him. I kissed him as I felt his breathing slow down again.

Unsurprisingly, Daniel wanted to suck my dick even more. When he came up for air, we would kiss, but soon he would go back down to blow me.
“I… I want this dick to fuck me”, he finally said.
I smirked. Daniel laid down on his back and bent his knees up. I gradually let my cock enter him. As my hips touched his cheeks, he went “Whoa…”. Somehow the size of my dick was still a surprise, even though he’d had it in his ass two nights ago.

Daniel

Daniel started moaning again and his hole felt so tight on my cock again. I increased my speed, which sped up Daniel’s breathing and moaning as well.
“Ohhh…. Ohhhh…. Fuck me good…. You like my tight ass?”
“I love your tight ass”, I mumbled as I fucked him harder and harder.
I took his ankles in my hands and I noticed Daniel let his arms rest over his head as his body swayed back and forth on the bed with my every thrust.

I started slowing down again and fucked him deeper. His moaning became slower and more elongated.
“Oh fuck, you’re so deep…”
Now I knew the neighbors would likely hear us once again, I didn’t care.
“Fuck that’s hot… Oh yeah…”
His voice went up an octave and I knew what was coming.
“Fuck my ass!”
Stream upon stream of white milky cum came shooting out of Daniel’s hard cock, onto his chest and stomach. My cock still buried deep inside of him, I leaned forward and kissed him. He put his legs around my waist and kissed me back passionately. But he wasn’t done.

Daniel

After limping to the bathroom for a towel to clean the cum off of him, he walked back in and looked at me laying on the bed. My cock was still hard as a rock. No words were spoken. Daniel climbed up onto the bed and took my cock back into his mouth. He looked straight at me as he sucked me off and I knew I wouldn’t last much longer.
“I’m…. I’m going to cum!”
I came on Daniel’s face, mostly around his mouth. His tongue eagerly gobbled up my load, even though some of dribbled down his chin. As he was jerking himself off, he came a third time shortly after. I tasted my own cum as we made out and cuddled.

I woke up. Judging from the light in the room, it must have been early morning. I heard some faint snoring on my other side. I felt an arm on my chest. I turned my head the other way. Daniel was sleeping right next to me. His face was so close to mine, I was sure we were on the same pillow. I felt his regular breathing against my neck with each snore. I smiled. He is so pretty. I put my hand over his as I felt my own chest rise and fall and I tried to match his breathing.

I couldn’t stop looking at his face when suddenly a melody came to mind. I easily recalled the tune to ‘Butterflies’, which I had written about Daniel. I had only written a chorus, but all of a sudden I felt inspired. I sped up the chorus in my mind and I could give it a jazzy feel. Verses started coming to me as well.

As much as I wanted to lay like this forever and watch Daniel’s gorgeous face as he slept, I knew I had to get my guitar and write some things down. I sat by the window and started quietly. Daniel continued to sleep. The more of the song I was writing, the more I was imagining him singing it.

Finally I played what I had written and sang the melody. I looked up at the bed every now and then and saw Daniel wake up. He looked so sleepy, but he soon smiled. He got out of bed and walked my way with some rock hard morning wood. He sat down next to me as I played the entire song for him. His smile was so wide, I could tell he loved it.

Once I finished, Daniel applauded.
“Wow! Did you just write that?”
“I had a sort of chorus the day after we met. Tuesday. But I tweaked it and wrote the rest now.”
“Fuck, dude. You are so talented!”
“Can you imagine it with a brass section? Can you imagine singing it?”
“What?”
“I want you to sing it.”
“Really?”
“Absolutely! You’d nail it!”
Daniel got up and his naked body hugged mine.
“You’re the best!”

Daniel

Daniel and I spent all of Friday naked in my room. We talked, ate, fucked, sang and played music. It was my favorite day in Los Angeles by far, even though there had been several good ones. In the evening we found out the three artists who would complete the line-up.

On Saturday morning, every contestant that was left had to do interviews for local TV affiliates. It was kind of awkward to do, but it gave me a sense that people were really going to be watching the show later that day. No more empty audience, no more recording for YouTube. Live. Full crowd.

During rehearsals, it became clear that everyone’s performance had been upgraded for live TV. Frank had managed to get four acts from his area, the North East, into the final show. Daniel, Jess from New York, Louis from New Jersey, and me. He sat us all down. Daniel was going to have fireworks from the front of the stage during his final note. Jess was getting dry ice on stage. Louis got on-screen effects. Frank said that for me he got some spectacular lighting and audience participation.

Once I got on stage I did notice beams of lights moving beside me, slowly and in the mood of the song. During the final chorus the beams of lights went up to point to the ceiling. As I sang the song, I felt so at home on stage now. I felt like I was ready. In a way, I had nothing to lose anymore. I wasn’t expecting to win, being here was already a victory. I just needed to make sure that I gave it my best, but I felt comfortable knowing that was in my control.

I hung out backstage with Daniel and Matt and I just felt at ease. I only started to get a little nervous once people were let into the theatre and you could feel a buzz backstage. But it was a good kind of nervous.

When the show started, all of a sudden there was a theme tune and a graphic. There was a presenter that was well-known and an audience that cheered and applauded. I smiled. It was so cool to be a part of this.

Thomas from California was going to open the show and there was a little video that started with a black and photo of him holding up the number 1, clearly shot during the pre-show during the week when he had to pick that number from a bowl. What followed were a few of his answers from the interview with Jon. They had interviewed the judges who were saying what they liked about his song, style and performance. And then the screen went black before opening on the stage with Thomas, ready for his performance.
“Song number 1. ‘A Legend on the Dancefloor’. Thomas Chew for California.”
It slowly sunk in that I was also going to have that little video before my performance.

Thomas did a great job of opening and it was cool that it was really underway. Rebecca from Utah was next and Daniel already had to get moving because he was the third performer. He kissed me before leaving the backstage area. Rebecca did amazing, but I was anxious to see Daniel.

In Daniel’s video, a judge said he had been so surprised by the level of professionalism he had showed in his performance. Another said that the genre really added to the diversity of the songs and artists and she wondered how the viewing audience would react to it.

Daniel

And then it was time. The shot of the stage already had Daniel looking into the camera in a way that I knew would sell the TV viewers. But the people in the audience were also wooing throughout when he sang and moved about the stage. For the final note he posed with one hand on his hat and one hand on the mic stand as pyro flew up in front of him. It was spectacular. I was so proud of him.

He came backstage and I kissed him again. We watched a few more performances together and soon it was my turn. I was following Jess from New York. I watched her as I was just off-stage. She did so well, had such a classy song. When she finished, she came up to me.
“The crowd is awesome, you’re going to love it”, she said.
“Thanks!”

I was told to go on when I heard my video start. I walked to the stool at the front of the stage, nodded to the conductor and sat down.
“The song is about a relationship that ended”, I heard my own voice say as I adjusted my guitar strap. “The person I loved, he had to move away for work.”
Suddenly I felt a lump in my throat. I had disclosed the gender of the person I was in love with when I wrote the song, even though I hadn’t meant to. I had just come out to the entire nation because I had been too rattled when I was interviewed just after being told I had made the show.

I completely missed anything the judges had said about me. I cleared my throat and tried to shake it off. ‘Focus on the guitar, the singing, try to look into a camera’, I told myself.
“Song number 8: ‘A Fantasy of More’. Adam Potter for Rhode Island”, the voice-over went.
I got my cue in my in-ear and off I went. In the audience I saw people waving a light back and forth. It was quite magical. For the final chorus I even got goosebumps myself. I was really feeling the song and I managed to look into the cameras better than I had so far. Once the song ended, the theatre erupted in applause.
“Thank you, thank you so much!”
Right before I turned around I suddenly spotted Kimmy. I could feel myself tear up. She had wanted to be up here more than anything. But she had flown back to support me. Me and Matt most likely. I waved and knew I had to leave the stage.

Off-stage I saw Lynn from Mississippi, who had only found out she was doing this less than 24 hours ago.
“The atmosphere is amazing, you’re going to do great!”, I told her.
We hugged and I walked backstage. It was so overwhelming to be up there. I was out of my comfort zone, but I sure was getting used to it. Soon I saw Daniel beaming with pride. Others were so sweet, telling me they had loved my performance as well. As I sat down, it started to sink in that it was over. I felt relief. I had done well, I could be proud of myself.

“Kimmy is here”, I told Matt.
He looked at me in surprise and then smiled.
“Thanks for telling me”, he said.
“The four of us are going to party when this is over”, I said.
Little did I know.

“Song number 13, Daydreams. Matthew Moore for Tennessee.”
Again there was something magical about Matt’s performance. The traditional country feel really stood out. When he got backstage I was just so happy that Daniel, Matt and I had all done well. We did a group hug.

Lindsay got to close the show. She sang incredibly well. It had felt so long ago since I had met her at LAX, less than a week ago. When she had outed me in front of Daniel and Matt, only last Tuesday. So much had happened. I had no hard feelings towards her. As she managed to end her song flawlessly with fireworks dropping from the ceiling onto the back of the stage and a kick-ass high note, a part of me wanted her to not win the show.

Voting opened as we went to commercials.
“I didn’t mean to come out during my video intro”, I told Daniel. “I’ve always told that story without any pronouns at the open mic nights and the one time I slip up, it’s on a live, national TV show.”
He chuckled.
“I thought it was adorable.”
“It will probably affect the number of votes I get, but you know what, I don’t really care. I don’t need to win. I don’t need the spotlight. What I have learned this week is that I want to write for others. With others.”
“And you’re so good at it, too”, Daniel replied.
Right after the voting closed, we got an overview of the 35 excellent performers who had missed out on this show. People were encouraged to check out the artist who had won the right to represent their state. Kimmy stood out a lot in this long line of cool performers.

All 15 of the night’s artists then had to get together on stage and stand in a line. We had to stand in performance order, so I was away from both Daniel and Matt. At first, the top 5 of the audience vote would be revealed in a random order, before we would know who won the record deal.

There was a music sting that was making me kind of nervous, but, much like two nights ago, the pressure was off, I just looked around and enjoyed these final moments.
“Arizona, Lindsay Hill.”
I heard Lindsay scream all the way to my left. She got to stand near the front of the stage. As long as she doesn’t win, I thought.

“Tennessee, Matthew Moore.”
I gasped, then cheered. I looked at Daniel and he was also cheering and clapping for his friend. OK, now I was getting a little excited. Maybe Matt would win the whole thing.

“Alabama, Liz Appleton.”
Quirky girl with the ukulele, interesting choice, I thought. Thomas was going to make the top 5, as well as Daniel, I felt. I looked around the rest of the row. Maybe Jorge from Florida?

“Rhode Island, Adam Potter.”
I froze. The audience cheered.
“Damn right!”, I heard Daniel shout.
“Go on!”, Jess was nudging me to my right.
It took a while before I remembered how to walk and I took my spot next to Liz near the front of the stage. Now I was shaking. What if… No, I couldn’t possibly.

Daniel

“Pennsylvania, Daniel Novotny.”
I was so happy, I started to cry. I clapped so hard and soon found Daniel right next to me, his arm around me.

The 10 other performers got a big round of applause, but in the meantime I could not believe I was standing here with my friend and a brand new lover.

“Lindsay. Matthew. Liz. Adam. Daniel.”
The audience responded to each of those 5 names.
“Only one of you can win that record deal. And the audience have decided.”
Daniel grabbed my hand and squeezed it. It would mean so much to me if he would win. I closed my eyes and heard the scary music again.

“The winner of our first ever Sing Your Song… is…”

“…”

“Kimmy, it is so good to see you!”
I hugged her so very tight and Daniel joined us.
“You were amazing up there, both of you!”, Kimmy said, beaming with pride, as she casually took some confetti out of Daniel’s hair.

I suddenly realized I was exhausted. It had been so rewarding to see Matt lift that trophy, but this past week had been so emotional. So much had happened. I had met so many awesome friends. Kimmy was obviously impatient to be reunited with Matt, but he was posing for photos, talking with the press, it was definitely going to take a while. So we just started drinking, celebrating Matt’s success without him.

In the meantime, I noticed my phone blowing up. Instagram, texts from friends, family. People I vaguely remembered. People from the open mic night in Providence. I would deal with all of that later. Now I was here with Daniel and Kimmy and it felt perfect. Frank even found us and thanked me and Daniel, and we thanked him in return. He drank a few drinks with us and let it slip that he got a bonus thanks to us making the top 5. His co-worker who had found Matt was getting an even higher bonus, obviously. So he bought us a round.

By the time Matt finally joined us, he was exhausted, but so glad to see us. We kept the party going in his hotel room for a little longer. But it had been such an emotional week for all of us, there was no way we were going to be able to properly celebrate. And the next day we would all go back to our own cities across the country.

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Adam and Daniel ended up living together in Philadelphia. Daniel recorded an EP, which included ‘Butterflies’. He did a few performances around the country and for TV shows.

Kimmy’s song ‘You Deserve This’, written by Adam, became her best streaming product for now. She often paid a visit to the boys in Philly.

Matt has become a mainstream artist. He received a Country Music Award for Best New Artist Of The Year 2021. He has tried to stay in touch but has been living in quite the whirlwind. He and Kimmy have remained friends.


THE END