Tristan stood on the stage with a huge decorative check for $15000, while journalists in the audience made photographs of him for their future headlines.
With a smile, he was thanking the audience for being there, and his friend (Nelson) and his manager (Derek) and his talent agency (Golden Talent Group) for supporting him.
The Second Identity System flashed notifications at him, too.
[Ding!]
[You have won the 1st spot in the Californian Young Star contest. Your status has increased. Reward: your CP increased by 5000!]
[Ding!]
[Your Pop-star rank has changed from Contracted Young Star to Adolescent Star! Reward: your CP increased by 1000!]
Next to him stood second and third place winners. Despite his boring last performance, Angelo Omen still earned the third place, while the second place went to a pretty and skilled, if not incredibly original, female pop-singer.
Tristan should've been ecstatic. A part of him was.
