Chapter Two

Lily Evans- Miss Bell

Sirius Black- Tyrone Jackson

Maria Diamicron- Grace Lamb

Patrick Stabilo- Nick Piazza

Alexis Dyskin- Iris Kelly

Ludo Bagman- Actor

Gilderoy Lockhart- Actor

Jessica Kathly- Miss Sherman

Ashley Combe- Dancer

Corey Jones- Actor

Claire O'Donnell- Mabel Washington

James Potter- Mr Myers

Abigail Dolton- Actress

Lisa Melid- Actress

Remus Lupin- Goodman King

Clara Densk- Dancer

Reese Stabilo- Carmen Diaz

Desiree Forton- Singer

Daniel Laztan- Actor

Deanne Elocon- Serena Katz

Robert Cooper- Dancer

Peter Telfase- Actor

Michael Shadur - Dancer

Mitch Elocon- Shlomo Metzenbaum

Alicia Shill- Dancer

Lisa Bennett- Dancer

Warrick Delafest- Joe Vegas

Blake Ginder- Actor

Sarah Wimore- Singer

Miriam Daikin- Singer

Director- Dalia Schwartz

Chapter Two

Two Weeks Later

"Real talent, I have more talent than all of you put together, if it comes to that. You, with your happy inconventions, have you served the foremost of places in art, and considered nothing genuine and legitimate except what you yourself do? Everything else you stifle it suppressed. I do not accept you. I accept neither you nor him!

"Get EXCITED please Mr Stabilo. Start again."

The other students were starting to get bored. The chatter had started up again. They all knew this scene off by heart, they had heard it done so many times. It wasn't that Deanne and Patrick were bad actors, it was just that Professor Magid was such a perfectionist, that they had to do it over and over, until it was just right.

"Real talent, I have more talent than all of you put together, if it comes to that. You, with your happy inconventions, have you served the foremost of places in art, and considered nothing genuine and legitimate except what you yourself do? Everything else you stifle it suppressed. I do not accept you. I accept neither you nor him!"

"You decadent!"

"Oh go back to your charming theatre and play your miserable worthless plays".

"I have never acted in such plays. Leave me, you're incapable of writing so much as a paltry little sketch". Deanne, or rather, Serena, sighed.

"Oh, Nick, I don't like this scene. I don't want to play these roles yet, and I certainly don't want to play your mother! And the scene's kind of, heavy"

"Madame Arthur is a great role. It's a classic".

"Classic, shmassic, why can't we do something different?"

"Alright, alright, how about Scotbark?"

"Which role would I play?"

"Oh Serena, stop being difficult".

"Huh, if anyone's being difficult its you. Why cant we try something romantic…but not too romantic. Something passionate…but not too passionate. Ooh the street Camden Mizuno. I've got it right here in my bag".

As Deanne reached into her bag and took out the book, a piece of paper fluttered down on to the ground. Patrick picked it up.

"Serena, what's this?"

"Uh, you gave it to me?"

"Yeah, last SEMESTER. You carry my picture around?!"

"Yes, I…I mean no, I mean…"

Patrick ripped the piece of paper up.

"Nick, what are you doing? Please don't, Nick".

"For crying out loud Serena, don't say a word. How are we going to get work done? Works all that matters. When are you going to start taking this seriously?" Patrick sighed. "Never mind". He started to walk off stage.

"Look, Nick, I want you to know its ok."

Patrick stopped, and turned around. "What's ok?"

"It took me all this time to realise, you're just not attracted to girls".

"WHAT?"

"You're into boys, admit it, its ok, really, there's nothing wrong with being gay".

"Oh you're really something. I can always count on you for a laugh, Serena. Look, lets take the day off, or better yet, lets take the year off". Patrick stalked off stage, and Deanne called after him.

"Nick, wait, wait!"

"Find yourself another partner Serena".

Deanne bent down and gently started to pick up the ripped pieces. She began to sing…

"We always seem to be, sister and brotherly…"

"No, no, NO! That is NOT how it goes, Miss Elocon! You need to sing it with more belief!"

Deanne sighed, and took a deep breath in. She began singing, and was instantly swept away. She took no notice of the other students in the classroom, who had stopped talking and rehearsing to listen to her sing. She didn't notice when Warrick Delafest poked Patrick Stabilo in the ribs, and muttered something in his ear, causing Patrick to turn bright red and slap Warrick. She sat down, gasping for breath, as she finished the song, and blushed red when she heard the clapping coming from her classmates. She turned even brighter red when Warrick yelled out,

"Sexxxyy!!! Mitch Elocon whispered loudly, "shut-up, she's my younger sister!" Her friends crowded around her and the chatter started up again, until Professor Magid clapped his hands.

"Act Two, Scene Five, places please". Deanne sighed again and walked back to her spot on the stage, avoiding Mitch's eye.

God, why does Mitch have to be so over-protective? I mean, sure, I'm his younger sister, but I'm only 15 months younger than he is! I already know that none of his friends, especially Patrick, will ever see me as more than Mitch's 'little' sister and Ree's best friend! Not that I would want him to, or anything.

Lily Evans walked into the common room hot and frustrated. Her lines were so long and complicated, that she got more annoyed by the rehearsal. Steam almost coming out of her ears, she walked over to James Potter where he was sitting on the couch, fast asleep, and shook him awake.

"Come on Potter, we need to practise our lines".

"Aw, come on Evans, be human, its, 10:00 at night! Bloody hell, why didn't Sirius or Remus wake me. I tell you, Remus is getting worse every day".

"Well I, for one, DO NOT CARE! WE NEED TO PRACTISE, AND WE NEED TO PRACTISE NOW!"

"God, Evans, don't lose your temper, we'll practise, just let me go get my lines."

"NO WAY ARE YOU GETTING OUT OF IT THAT EASY. DON'T THINK THAT I AM NOT WISE TO YOUR STUPID GAMES, POTTER."

"Accio Potter's FAME lines"

James's lines came flying down the stairs, and Lily grabbed them and handed them to James.

"A thankyou would be nice" Lily muttered under her breath, and then regained her composure. "Right, we'll start with Act Four, Scene Six"

"Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait! Evans, we need Jess to be able to do this part."

James stopped mid scene and paced up and down. Lily wrinkled her forehead in frustration and walked over to where James was standing.

"Just pretend she's here, ok? We don't need Jessica Kathly to be able to do this properly."

"You don't like her, do you? That's good, because Miss Sherman and Miss Bell don't like each other either".

James turned to look at Lily and saw a guarded look on her face.

"No" Lily said shortly about a minute later.

"No what?"

"No, I don't like Jessica Kathly, but we aren't here to discuss my intense dislike of Jessica Kathly, we are here to rehearse for FAME. Start again please, I'll do Jessica's part".

Ten minutes later, they had started and stopped four times, and Lily was getting hot and bothered.

"Come on, Potter, concentrate, please. I know that there are more important things to you than practising for this play, but I actually want to look good, not like an idiot. Please pay some attention".

"Alright, alright, so where were we?"

Lily sighed, and pointed to the second paragraph on James's page.

"Come onnn, Potter. We have to finish this scene tonight, and GET IT RIGHT. If that isn't too hard for you".

James started reading in a slow, bored voice, until Lily slapped his hand where it was following the words on the page.

"Come on Potter, this is important to me. I'll do anything, just do it properly, please?"

"Hmm" James said, "maybe I'll take advantage of this. Lets see, you could clean my room, prank Snape and Malfoy, dance naked in the middle of the common room…"

"Wait, why would you want me to dance naked in the middle of the common room?"

Lily asked, curiously.

"Because every single guy in Gryffindor, besides Sirius, Remus, Snape and Peter, would thank me profusely and become my slaves for the rest of my life," James explained to Lily.

"And why would they do that?"

"Because all the guys in the whole of Hogwarts, with the exception of Sirius, Remus, Peter, Snape and I, thinks that you are hot. Sirius, Remus, Peter and I actually hate your guts, which is why we do not think you are hot and I doubt that Snape actually knows what a girl is".

"Oh, well, thanks for informing me of that, but just for your information, I wouldn't dance naked in front of the whole common room, not if you paid me 30 thousand pounds".

"Hey, guys, what the hell are you doing up at this hour?" A bleary eyed Sirius came downstairs in his boxer shorts.

"Rehearsing" Lily said shortly, and James saw that she was trying to stop from laughing at Sirius in his boxers.

"Oh, its you Evans. I thought you were Remus".

"Oh, thanks Black, so much. Do I look much like a boy to you, Potter?"

"Uh, well, you see…" James stumbled over the words.

"What he's trying to say, little Evans flower, is that yes, you do look like a boy to him".

"Oh, well, that's nice. Since when did I care what Potter thought of me?"

Lily turned and grabbed her lines from the table in the corner, and walked back up to her dorm. She vaguely heard Sirius asking James,

"So, what really happened back there?" and James answering non-commitally

"Oh, nothing".

Lily was relieved that James wasn't going to repeat their conversation to Sirius. She really didn't want to ever hear that conversation again.

"I ABSOLUTELY REFUSE TO KISS HIM! NOT EVEN IF YOU PAID ME TWENTY BILLION POUNDS WOULD I KISS HIM! HAVE YOU LOOKED AT HIM RECENTLY? HE IS DISGUSTING!"

"Alright, alright Miss Dyskin, you don't have to kiss him in the rehearsals, but you do have to kiss him on the nights, and at least once in the dress rehearsal, because otherwise you wont be used to it. I suggest that you close your eyes and pretend that he is someone else if you find him so repulsive".

"HEY! I am not that bad, god Alexis, tons of girls would PAY to kiss me". Sirius smiled winningly and Ashley Combe swooned.

"Exactly my point" Alexis said, confusing Sirius.

"Only one problemo, dahl, I don't really want to kiss you. As attractive as I'm sure you are, I just can't look past the pole stuck up your arse". Laughter ensued from some of the guys in the room, but Alexis ignored them.

"I never said that. I just said that I don't want to kiss you BECAUSE tons of girls would pay to kiss you. And anyway, I think that's its probably the other way around. I think that you'd have to pay girls to kiss YOU!" Alexis sat down, satisfied and high-fived Lily, Maria, Deanne and Reese. A few indignant shrieks were heard from the corner where Jessica Kathly and her gang were sitting, and Jessica herself stood up to address the classroom. Two of her gang glared at Alexis, and the rest had crowded around Sirius, forming a circle.

"Oh do be quiet, dahlings, Jessica has something completely interesting to tell us. We mahst listen". Needless to say, even Professor Magid rehearsing in the corner with a few students, was watching Jessica, with a stunned look on his face.

"I just want to say…"

"YAWN" Lily yawned loudly, then caught the glare from Ashley Combe, Jessica's right hand woman. "Oh, sorry, did I interrupt you? I didn't realise you were speaking. You really need to talk louder Jessica, I'm sure everyone really wants to hear what you have to say". Lily glanced at James and was satisfied to see that he was staring at her with his mouth wide open.

"You girls are such losers, Sirius is only the hottest guy in the whole year" Jessica said, walking over to put her arm around Sirius's waist, giving Reese time to have a hacking coughing fit.

"Cough sorry cough I just cough can't cough stop cough coughing" Lily smirked at Jessica, and then turned to Reese. "Ree, are you ok?" she asked, with fake concern.

"Oh, cough I just can't cough stop cough coughing". Reese winked at Lily slyly in between coughs.

"Professor, if its ok with you, I think that we should take Reese to Madam Tulsey, don't you?" Maria looked innocently up at Professor Magid, and a bewildered look crossed his face.

"Yes, I guess you must. We may as well practise Jessica's scene while you're gone. Come on Jessica, hurry up, we don't have all day".

The girls jumped up and walked out of the room, Maria putting an arm around Reese and talking to her in low tones. Alexis turned around and smirked at Jessica, who stood with her arm around Sirius and a murderous look on her face.

By the end of that day, Jessica and all of her friends had declared war on Lily, Deanne, Maria, Reese and Alexis. It didn't bother Deanne, until the majority of the Hufflepuff girls, and a quarter of the Ravenclaw girls joined Jessica. Everywhere Deanne went, she found mobs of angry, hair pulling curse casting girls. Eventually, tired of the name-calling, and bitch fighting, she went back to the Gryffindor common room. It was deserted, except for one person, pacing around the common room, learning lines.

Everyone else had retired up to their rooms, annoyed at the noise that Lily and Jessica were making, fighting loudly in a corner. Eventually, Lily had got tired and stalked off with Maria, Reese and Alexis, but not before she had managed to scratch Jessica across her perfect face, leaving a deep, red gash. Patrick had taken to circling the room, reading his and Deanne's lines together.

"There you are, Dea, I've been looking for you everywhere. Where the hell have you been?"

"Held up by mobs of unhappy Ravenclaws and Hufflepuffs." Deanne collapsed into a nearby chair, and wiped away the tears that were gathering near her eyes. It was all too hard for her, a main part in the play, mobs of girls after her guts, and the pressure of exams coming up. She gave in and started crying.

"Hey, Dea, don't cry, come on, what's wrong?"

"Nothing," Dea said shortly, wiping away her tears. "Come on, let's practise".

She stared at Patrick, as if daring him to say anything else, and Patrick decided to ignore her burst of tears.

I'll talk to Mitch about it later, but I'll warn him not to interfere too much. I know how much Dea hates it when he interferes.

"Fine, come on, lets start with Act Two, Scene Four, ok?"

"Yeah, whatever". Deanne begun to speak, and Patrick couldn't help but notice that she spoke dully and took deep shaky breaths when she thought Patrick wasn't looking. Finally, Patrick couldn't take it any longer.

"Dea, are you sure you're ok?"

"LOOK, I'M FINE, OK! WHY DOES EVERYONE ALWAYS KEEP BOTHERING ME?"

Dea burst into tears and ran out of the room.

The minute she burst out through the common room door, who should come downstairs, but Ashley Combe. Patrick had a slight dislike for Jessica, Ashley and all their friends. They were extremely shallow and nasty, and followed him around wherever he went, annoying the hell out of him.

"Patrick!" Ashley came and sat on the edge of the chair that Patrick was seated in. She didn't have any of her friends with her, a very unusual thing, which meant that she was on a mission. She wanted something from Patrick, and Patrick didn't like it one bit.

"Listen," she said, leaning in close to his ear. "I have a proposition to make...

Well, how do you like this chapter?

The next one should be up within the next week.

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Thanks to:

DarkestMaeve: Thanks for reviewing! Yeh, I lurveee FAME, one of the best plays I've seen! hugs

LizMaurauder4eva: Oh thanks. I'm touched. I wrote the summary when I was in a really serious mood. This story is going to be much more serious than FFAF. Anyway, thanks TONS. hugs

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