As November dawned at Beacon Hills high there was a certain buzz in the air, there was talk in the halls amongst all of the students wondering if there was going to be the annual Christmas Concert. It was something that a lot of the students and staff looked forward to every year and it was also something that made a lot of money for the school and the local hospital as it was part of the arrangement that the school had with The Trans – Siberian Orchestra. The band teacher had acutely helped them produce some of the albums so he knew the creators of it very well and he had gotten permission for the school orchestra to perform a Trans – Siberian Orchestra type show.
In addition to the schools string ensemble they brought in a group of students to play drums, bass, electric guitar, electric violin, keyboards and also some additional singers and dancers. The last couple years that Scott had been there he had played electric guitar along with Danny also on guitar, Boyd played bass well Stiles played the Drums, Jackson and Erica were on Keyboards and Isaac showed his talents on the electric violin. The female Dancers and singers were usually led by Lydia and some of the other cheerleaders as well. The funny thing is this odd group ended up together even before the whole were wolf pack thing, everyone put aside their feelings of hatred for each other for the shows.
For once the members of the pack were actually looking forward to it, in the last year since Derek had bitten Boyd, Isaac, Erica and Jackson they had grown close to each other as some sort of dysfunctional family. Over the summer they had fought off the Alpha pack together with the help of the Argent family and their hunters had even helped out. For some reason they had accepted that Derek and his pack meant no harm to anyone. Maybe they realised that the bigger threat was a pack of Alphas or there may have been other factors too.
One morning before the start of first period Allison came over to Scott's locker to ask him what all the buzz was about. Just as Scott was going to tell her one of the members of the school orchestra came over to him and asked "Mr. Ramone wants to know if you're going to joining us this year."
Scott looked at him and said "yeah, I'm looking forward to having some fun with you guys again."
Alison then asked him "what is this all about and since when did you become a band geek."
Scott smiled at her and said "first of all I am not a band geek, and second it's become a tradition here school for us to give back to the school and the community with our little Christmas show."
Well he was telling her this he got a text from the pack, as well as Danny and Stiles all of them were asking are you in this year, Scott texted back hell yeah.
At the end of the first period during the morning announcements there were two announcements concerning the annual Christmas concert the first was asking for all band members and the members of the rock ensemble to gather in the band room after school, and the second one was asking that anyone interested in singing or dancing in this year's show should report to the auditorium for additions.
At lunch that day Lydia asked Allison if she was going to come to the auditions after school, Scott turned to her and said "you should go out for it; it could be a lot of fun."
Allison said that she would take it under consideration.
Later that day Scott, stiles, Danny, Jackson, Isaac, Boyd, and Erica made their way o the band room, at the same time Lydia had final convinced Allison to go out for the addition too.
At the meeting with the band Mr. Ramon handed out the sheet music for the various parts most of it was stuff they had done before, but there were some new pieces in the package too, like the real Trans – Siberian Orchestra Mr. Whitman liked to change up the set list every year adding some new pieces but at the same time keeping some of the favorites. They always would do the show in two acts separated by an intermission where Scott would introduce the band as well as the singers and dancers. The first act was the telling of the story 'Christmas Eve and other Stories' by the Trans – Siberian Orchestra, the second part of the show had some of their other songs as well as a few that they liked to throw in as well.
During the meeting Mr. Ramon also offered Scott and Danny the use of any of his guitars that they wanted as he had a modest collection of them, which gave the two boys an opportunity to swap out guitars between songs if they wanted to. He also mentioned that there was room in the set list that if Scott wanted to sing the native carol that he sometimes did it was open for discussion. It was something that he did every now and then, his father had actually been part Native American through his mother's side, and she was actually from a native reserve in Quebec City in Canada. When Scott was two years old she had come to live with them as her husband had passed away and Scott's dad had been her only living relative,. Well she was living with them she taught Scott about his Native American culture, she even taught him a very old Christmas carol that had been written by a Jesuit missionary, he had written it in the native tongue of the Wendat people. Scott had actually sang it a few times starting in elementary school, the last time he had done it was when he was 14 just after starting at Beacon Hills High he had done it mainly as a tribute to 'Mama McCall" as he and Stiles had referred to her as she had passed away about a month before Scott's fourteenth birthday.
At the same time that the meeting with the band was going on the auditions were going on, most of the people who were there had been it before so there where only a few new spots open, When it came time for Allison to get up and she decided on the spur of the moment to sing something that she had sang when she was in a production of Mozart's the Magic flute in her old school, the song was called Queen of the Night. Once the auditions were finished the teachers conducting them thanked everyone for coming and said that they would be posting the list of parts that everyone had gotten for tomorrow morning.