They all stood in the auditorium waiting for Mrs John to turn up. Wally was sat on the stage.
"Hi Wally, what are you doing here?" Kuki asked, walking up to him.
Wally looked up at her. "Lights." He muttered.
"Wallabee! I didn't know you'd auditioned!" Becky yelled as she ran over.
Wally rolled his eyes and sighed deeply. "I didn't."
Becky shoved Kuki out of the way rudely as she stood in front of Wally, placing a hand on her hip and sticking out her breast. Wally groaned.
"Okay performers! Here's the moment you've all been waiting for!" Mrs John called as she entered the auditorium. "I have your scripts right here."
They all gathered to grab their scripts and looked through them excitedly as Mrs John walked over to Wally.
"Do you mind finishing off with the lights first, then coming to me for another job after?" She asked, Wally nodded.
He walked up to the sound box and got to work.
"Okay, so we'll sort out the timetable here now before beginning rehearsals. So Mondays I want full cast, Tuesdays, Principles, Wednesdays and Thursdays we have free and Fridays I want selected cast members." Mrs John said, writing on a notepad. "I also want Tuesday and Friday lunchtimes, full cast."
Wally carried on sorting out the lights, as he did he glanced out the window to steal a look at Kuki, but was distracted by Becky waving like a lunatic in front of her, Wally rolled his eyes and looked over at Kuki, who wasn't looking.
"Okay, let's start from the beginning...as it's a very good place to start!" Mrs John snag, walking onto the stage, then laughed. "Okay, opening number, 'I pray I make PA'. I want Nick here...Serena here...Carmen..."
When they were all on stage they were given their choreography and the pianist started to play. The actors began to sings. Wally glanced out of the window again and smiled when he heard Kuki sing her small line. It looked pretty cool while they were on stage and he was testing lights, even if he said so himself. When he'd finished he jogged down the stairs and stood next to Mrs John who was calling out giving points to the people on stage.
"I'm done with lights." Wally stated.
Mrs John smiled. "Great, thank you very much Wallabee, there's not much else I need help with yet, if you could come along to the other rehearsals, that would be great, then you could help out with sound, scenery and all that jazz."
Wally nodded and decided to sit next to the teacher and watch.
"Okay, so Fanny, since you come late in this number, after you shout your line, you run out." Mrs John instructed. "When she does that, I want everybody to go mad, running around, cheering, hugging. Okay, let's see it."
"I made it...I made it!" Fanny cheered, running off stage right. Everybody cheered and and went crazy on stage.
Wally smiled, it looked great already.
"Rachel, Cree, Chad and Alex, this is where you come in." Mrs John stood up and walked onto the stage. "They'll be a balcony here, so I want the two girls here, and males on the outside...good. Then Rachel says..."
"Ladies and gentleman, welcome to PA, the high school of performing arts." Rachel read from her script.
Mrs John added. "Happy chatter here," the cast did so.
"I'm your home room teacher...Miss Sherman." Rachel read.
"Okay guys so there's a drum roll, and it's straight to hard work. We'll work on that choreography later. Oh, Wally! There's a ladder over there, will you set that up and go up it so that I can see how high I want the balcony to be?" Mrs John asked.
Wally stood up and grabbed the ladder. The cast made way as he set it up centre stage.
"Freddie will you go up to the top row and let me know when you stop seeing Wally's head?" Mrs John asked, handing Wally some tape.
Wally climbed the ladder until Freddie called, Wally then marked the level that his head was at on the wall with the tape, then climbed back down. When he got down and was greeted by Becky.
"Isn't it great Wally, we'll be working together like everyday!" She said, wrapping her arms around his waist. He sighed irritably and pulled her off, then turned to take down the ladder.
"It's not every day." He muttered, carrying the ladder over to where it was originally placed.
Becky had obviously chosen to ignore and followed him. "Wow, you're so strong." She said sweetly.
"It's a ladder, it's not like it's a two ton weight to carry." Wally sighed. Placing the ladder down carefully and walking away, yet, she still followed.
"But you still have huge muscles." She beamed dreamily. He looked down at his arm, sure, he had muscles, but they weren't overly huge, just pretty average.
He sighed again. "Don't you have script to practice or something?" He whined. She shook her head and grinned, obviously not getting his less than subtle hint to go away. Wally decided to go and hang with Kuki, who was sat on the edge of the stage talking to Rachel, Maurice and Ace. Yet, Becky still followed, Wally chose to just ignore her.
Ace was whining about not getting the part he wanted. "I mean, come on! I'm the perfect role for Jose! I'm SPANISH for crying out loud!"
"I don't know, I wanted to play Iris because she seemed pretty cool, but Serena sounds real nice." Kuki replied, looking through her script.
"I got the part I wanted." Lizzie sang. "I knew that I was the Mabel. I mean, mostly because of my size but..."
Wally groaned, here it came, the size sympathising. Lizzie used to do this when she was dating Nigel, she'd manage to hint that she was big, then either get cross about them not saying anything so agreeing, or constantly whine if they told her that she wasn't. Wally sighed.
"That's all for today everyone!" Mrs John called. "We finish rehearsals at five from now on, today was just making a start, good job."
"Wally! You going to the tree house?" Kuki asked. Wally nodded. Kuki beamed. "Cool, I'll walk with you."
"Make sure you try and learn as much of your scripts as possible please." Mrs John said to them as they all walked out.
Becky was still tagging along next to Wally, who was blanking her entirely. "Well I'm going now Wally. I'll see you tomorrow right?" Wally said nothing, just acting as if he was really engrossed in Kuki's conversation.
"Thank crud she's gone." Wally whispered when he watched Becky walk away.
Kuki smiled. "You've got a girlfriend! You've got a girlfriend!" She said in an annoying sing song.
Wally made a gagging motion.
Kuki giggled. "She's like one of the most popular girls there. You should be flattered."
Wally blew a raspberry, making Kuki laugh. When they got into the tree house, it was empty.
"Wally, do you mind going over some of these lines with me?" Kuki asked.
Wally shrugged. He could think of better things to do, but it wouldn't hurt him to help Kuki out. They sat in Kuki's room practising for about an hour, before deciding it was time for bed.
