It was 3:30 in the afternoon of the same day. Each group went their own way with their members picking a date to decide when to choose and practice the song they were going to use for the assignment.
Trying to be as efficient as possible Tina wanted to do hers as soon as possible and didn't hesitate to ask both Jake and Joe on when they could work things out. "Alright team, so when are we getting this done? We need to get the song decided and we need to practice with the band just to have an idea of what it will sound like with music."
"I'm available any day as long as it's not on Thursday night. That's family night at my house followed by a pray circle session with my aunts." Joe said as he rummaged through his locker.
"Pray circles? Man, and I thought being a Jew was hard. How can you stand those things?" Jake asked as he himself also began taking things in and out of his bag pack.
"It's actually quite relaxing and it's said to purify your soul, maybe you should give it a try once." Joe replied back.
Jake looked at him slightly offended. "Are you trying to convert me or something?"
Before any more arguments could arise, Tina intervened. "Oh my God! Are you guys seriously going to turn this into a religious argument? We need to get together a song for this week and I refuse to procrastinate and let the others outshine us, I don't know about you but I'm tired of just being filler material for the glee club, this is our chance to show them our star power."
"Alright Mulan, but lets get this done as soon as possible. I'm not really that much into this week's theme and would rather just get it over with." Jake said as he closed his locker.
Tina shot a glare at Jake but before getting into an argument she just ignored the comment and continued. "Okay so if quickness is what you want I say we start this right now. Does anyone have a problem with spending from 2-3 extra hours at school while we get this done?"
"Sure, it works for me." Joe replied with enthusiasm.
"As long as it's over as quickly as possible, count me in." Jake replied as they walked their way to the library.
The library wasn't as empty as they had wished. Between the people at the computers either doing homework or just taking advantage of the schools Wi-Fi they went into one of the study tables at the far right corner of the library to have as much space as possible without getting interrupted.
"So the goal of the assignment is to represent our Spice Girl of choice, which in this case is Scary Spice. No actual song of them that I remember from the top of my head screams "Scary" but I think we could distract people from that and sort of dress up the part to get this as fitting as we can." She said, as she looked at her two other team members.
"Are you talking costumes for all? I'm sorry but judging by the costume you brought for last week's assignment I won't dare show myself looking like that to school." Jake replied back at the team captain.
Tina's look of disdain at Jake's attitude was starting to be given away by her facial expression. "Oh come on, are you going to make this hard on all of us? I get it you don't like the theme but you could at least try to not sour up the experience for those of us who actually want to get something done."
"I don't want to sound ignorant but I was oblivious to music basically all of my childhood so would you care to explain to me what type of clothing you have in mind?" Joe asked as his face clearly showed confusion on the topic.
"It's just basically leopard print clothing, big hair and other crap. Some of the information rubbed on to me while dating Kitty. She's huge on everything Spice Girls, she made me watch the whole damn closing ceremony at the Olympics just to see if they would re-appear at some point after their performance." Jake replied as he began carving out his initials in the table they were sitting at with a small pair of folding scissors.
"Oh my, that was so obvious I can't believe I couldn't see it." Tina said as both Joe and Jake looked at her with confusion.
"Sorry, I sometimes can't keep my thoughts in my head. What I meant was that I think I know why you are all grumpy and bitter about the assignment. You're obviously fining it hard as Kitty is a major Spice Girls fan and it reminds you of being with her as you might still feel attached to her in a way. I don't blame you, after I broke up with Mike I couldn't bare watch "Bunheads" as everything linked to dancing reminded me of him, and the plot was starting to get so good, thank God for re-runs." Tina replied as Jake began to look less angry and menacing as before. "Plus its not as if you are alone or single, you're with Marley now and you should think of how happy it will make her that you do an amazing performance to the whole group."
"You got a point there Tina, still the outfits and clothes Scary Spice wore were just something I have not enough balls to wear, not even Unique wears such outrageous outfits. Plus I don't even have hair long enough to make it look like a decent afro." Jake replied as he continued to crave his name on the table.
"Hey, the Spice Girls were not all about the look, they were all about the attitude and the way you decide to wear your clothes and feel comfortable with yourself while doing so will bring out all the Scary Spice we need to make this performance rock." Tina answered as she tried to encourage her teammates.
"I don't have any leopard print stuff myself but I think I have a leopard print bandana. Maybe adding a black tank top and a pair of military camouflage printed pants and jacket I have would help to pull of the look?" Joe asked as he looked at Tina's direction.
"That would work perfect! You could also wear your hair as wild as possible, not that it would be a challenge for you anyways but try to show your dreads as much as you can." Tina said as she took a hold of one of Joe's dreads. "Your hair's perfect for this, you were born to be part of this team!"
"Yeah, kind of makes me feel better about letting that hair salon coupon for a free haircut I got from a raffle expire last week." Joe said as he shook his hair letting his dreads move rapidly.
"What about you Jake? You got something to show your inner Scary Spice?" Tina asked as she turned her attention to him.
Jake took a deep breath before answering. "Okay don't tell this to anyone but I used to take salsa clases sometime before. Once of the costumes we had to use once were this ridiculous animal print extremely loose shirts with the huge v-necks and frilled sleeves, I got the leopard print one and I have it still somewhere but there's no way I'm wearing that to school."
Tina thought for a second and came up with an idea. "Well you could totally wear that but as I said before we have to show attitude as well. You could modify the outfit a bit. Look, you could cut out the sleeves and get rid of the ridiculous sleeves. Add a black leather jacket and you'll give out a sort of bad boy or biker vibe. It would be scary in a totally different way while still fitting the theme." Tina told Jake as he looked back at her.
"You sure? I mean I could do that but I'm not that sure it would work enough to fill the theme. You two will be going all out with this, won't that look out of place?" Jake asked with an insecure tone in his voice.
"Jake, a sleeveless leopard print shirt that will expose your man cleavage in a way that no woman would ever dare to do, together with a leather jacket that you will most likely will keep unzipped as no one in their right mind would cover themselves up with leather unless they want to die of insolation considering the climate right now will not look out of place at all. Trust me it will all work fine." Tina said as Jake gave her a warm smile. "Now that we got the image clear we need to brainstorm on songs. I wanted to do one of the classics but none of them is wild enough on itself to give out the Scary Spice vibe we are trying to create."
"Well I got an idea, what's the song you wanted to do?" Jake asked as he got his cellphone out and began Google-ing stuff.
"Well I always liked "Say You'll Be There" and it's a pretty well known song from theirs so I had that one in mind when we were given the assignment." Tina said as she was trying to get a peek at what Jake was doing.
"Well that one doesn't ring a bell at all." Jake told Tina as he continued to look for results on the Internet.
"You know, the one with the music video on the desert." Jake still gave her a confused look. "Where they wore the leather outfits that looked kind of slutty."
"No idea, but slutty does work with the song I had in mind, which I just found. How do you feel about mashing your song up with "Holler"? I remember Kitty told me that she Spice Girls music to play on our first time having an intimate night. I always thought that song had a sexy vibe to it." Jake told them as both of them listen with attention.
"A mash-up? Sound great actually. I bet no one will do that. The only problem I find is that the songs kind of sound different, how will we be able to mix them up without having them sound stupid?" Tina asked as Joe nodded.
"Leave that to Joe and I, we both have a facility with the guitar and we can experiment a way to have both songs work in synch." Jake told Tina as Joe agreed with him.
"Sure, I can offer my house as a place to practice the performance. We can then ask the band to make it more performance appropriate." Joe said as his teammates looked happy of how well everything was going to work out.
"Awesome, so we'll do a "Say You'll Be There"/"Holler" mash-up and we have a pretty decent plan to have Scary Spice represented well enough. I knew we would make an awesome team." Tina said as they were getting up of their feet and ready to leave.
"Preach, plus I doubt the other groups will have a such great chemistry as we developed." Joe said as he took a look at his teammates.
"I'm happy you say that, that's the whole point of the Spice Girls because…" She said as she looked at Jake so he could finish the sentence.
"Friendship never ends. Man I can't believe you tricked me into saying that." Jake said as the three of them laughed as they left the library.