Tori Vega entered Hollywood arts on a Monday morning like she usually does. She has her oversized purse on her shoulder and she is carrying in her theater history book to cram a few minutes of extra study in before the test later. She walks up to her lit up locker and put in her combo natation. She gave in a little jiggle before opening it. She put her English and Spanish books she brought home last night in and took out her improv notebook and her math textbook. She shut her looker and made sure it was locked. She walked over to were her friends where on the staircase.
"Hey." She greeted smiling at them. They all turned they're gaze to Tori.
"Hey." André replied and gave Tori a small wave.
"Tori look at my new stuffed animal. It's a pony called sugar cubes. I won him at the fair." Cat squealed and shoved a small stuffed red pony into Tori's face.
"Wow." Tori said faking enthusiasm and moved the stuffed pony out of her face.
"So people eat horses?" Cat asked innocently.
"Some people do." Beck told her.
"Yeah in central Asia." Jade confirmed from were she stood with her head on Becks shoulder. Cat yelped and covered her pony's ears.
"Attention students we are having an emergency assembly in the asphalt café all must be present." A voice from the intercom said. It sounded a bit like static but you could make out that it was vice principle Dickers.
"I wonder what it's about." Robbie wondered standing up from were he sat on the stairs. He wiped some of the dust of his trousers and picked up Rex.
"Me too." Tori agreed. Beck and Jade walked down the stairs and Cat stood up from the step at the bottom.
"Well let's go find out." André told them leading the gang outside to the asphalt café. The students were all outside and it was only then when they realized how many people ate they're lunch indoors. The gang took half a table up the other half was occupied by some other students. Jade sat on Becks lap and Cat sat on Tori's so there'd be more room.
"Attentions students!" Helen called. Everyone grew quieter and brought they're focus to Helen. "I'm afraid I've got some bad news." Helen said sadly. "The school board is no longer funding our arts program." Helen told them. Most students gasped at this. "Its been like that a while we didn't tell you because we thought we could make an arrangement." Helen said. Students were now talking in hushed whispers. "But we couldn't and now if we do not have $50,000 by next Friday Hollywood arts is going to be shut down." The students hushed whispers were now loud talking to each other. In shock Robbie had dropped Rex onto the ground into a half eaten burrito.
"Were are we going to get $50,000." A random student asked.
"See that's were the sad part is. Hollywood arts is closing down!"
The gang had met up in Nozu after school. Cat wasn't happy about everything , Jade wasn't sagging everyone each chance she got , Robbie hasn't touched Rex , André hasn't spoken at all he's just nodded or shook his head and Beck ,well Beck was still a robot. "So are you guys just going to give up?" Tori asked angrily. They all jumped no one had talked since they arrived besides to order their food.
"What can we do Tori no one as fifty grand lying around." Jade told her. Cat nodded in agreement.
"Well there has to be something we can do." Tori argued. "Why did the school board stop funding us any way?"
"They got a new head of management a couple months back he must of cut us off." Beck said looking into his miso soup.
"Well that's stupid." Tori said and picked at her California roll. André nodded.
"Dammit." Robbie said and shot up from the table.
"What's wrong?" Cat asked him.
"I think I left Rex at Hollywood arts." He said and fumbled in his pocket for money to pay for his sushi. He threw a 20 dollar bill on the table and picked up his bag.
"I've got it." Tori yelled.
"You have Rex." Robbie asked excitedly.
"No." Tori said confused.
"Then I don't care." Robbie said and walked off.
"What do you got?" Cat asked her.
"We'll raise the money ourselves." Tori said leaning back into her chair being proud of herself.
"How?" Jade asked.
"There is like 500 students in the high school alone if we all bring in $10 we'll have $5,000 and we can do concerts and dramas and street perform. There is loads we can do." Tori said. The others look at each other and agree by nodding there heads.
"Bikini car wash!" Cat shouts. Tori looks at her confused and Beck and André nod approvingly.
"No!" Jade snapped. Well she isn't not being mean anymore.
"I think they'll be fun." Cat said smugly.
" It will be and to start us off here is my first donation of $20." Tori said and placed the twenty dollar bill into the center of the table.
"$15." Cat said placing the three five dollar notes into the middle.
"$20." Beck said and placed into the growing pile. André still wasn't talking so he just placed the ten dollars into the center without saying how much he was putting in.
"Nickel." Jade said and placed the rusty nickel on top of the pile.
"Seriously Jade." Tori said.
"Fine." Jade moaned and replaced the nickel with ten dollars.
"Thank you." Tori said and smiled which Jade did not return.
"If we can plan this out with the whole school. Middle school and all we'll have enough money to give the school board." Beck said.
"We start tomorrow." Tori said.
"But we don't know what we're doing yet." Jade argued.
"Well maybe other people will have different ideas we're better as a group." Tori replied.
"We are going to do this." Cat squealed. "Omigod Tori I had the best idea ever." Cat told her.
"What." Tori asked.
"Stuffed animal petting farm." Cat squealed.
"Hopefully those other people have different ideas." André said speaking up for the first time.
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