I heard it... my heart raced, my stomach clenched was I, Niall Horan going to make it? Winning the X-factor, just making it a bit farther is all I wished for. Thoughts raced through my mind racing until... I heard. "The final contestant that has made it through... Tom Richards." My brain stopped I felt my stomach drop, I had a feeling as if someone had stabbed my heart. The interviewer asked me how I felt, my throat seized up as I choked out, "Its terrible waiting to hear you name, telling you that you made it, and its never spoken. I can't bel-" I couldn't speak. Tears overwhelmed me. I pulled my shirt over my face so the camera couldn't see