Sorry I haven't updated for a while, I've been just cleaning my room and stuff. But here is my 4th chapter! By the way, everything in italics is what Ms. Darbus is writing on the pad of paper.

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Gabby, Troy, Steven, and Katy sat in homeroom the next morning discussing the square root of .323455.

"I think that the answer is 0.563!!" Katy explained.

"And I think you've simplified it!! I got .56345245!" Steven objected.

"How in the world did you get that answer? I got 0.56873104364013751275945734226269!" Gabriella argued.

"Okay guys. Here's the calculator." Troy punched in .323455 and then clicked the button that said 'sqrt' and after a few seconds, 0.56873104364013751275945734226269 showed up on the screen.

"WHOA! Okay, that is crazy." Steven said.

"What'd you get Gabby?" Troy asked.

"0.56873104364013751275945734226269."

"See, I told you she's a math genius!" Troy joked to Steven.

"Alright, you won. Whatever, I don't really care abou-"

Ms. Darbus entered the room and interrupted Steven's sentence.

She announced, "Alright, children of the chapel of the arts, listen up! We will be having a winter musiCAL-" notice the emphasis on the CAL, "and we are looking for auditions for Hairspray. We need Link Larkin, Tracy Turnblad, Penny Pingleton, Seaweed J. Stubbs, and other characters. Auditions are free period Thursday!" and with that she left the room.

Immediately conversation began getting noisy in homeroom. A buzz of excitement swept over everyone.

"Are you doing it?"

"LINK LARKIN!!"

"I want to be Amber!"

"Yeah, you'd be perfect for that Sharpay!"

"I'm going to be Tracy!"

"What?"

"Hey, man, let's try out! I could be Seaweed and Taylor could be his sister Li'l Inez and stuff..."

"WOW I HAVE TO BE MOTORMOUTH MAYBELLE!!"

"I am so Link."

"I am obviously going to be..."

The last person to speak didn't get to finish.

"QUIET!" Mrs. Montez shouted at the top of her lungs.

Troy and Chad kept talking.

"Mr. Bolton. Mr. Danforth. Quiet. Now."

Dead silence.

"Alright. Now here is a character list Ms. Darbus gave me. Raise your hand if you want one, and when you get it put your name next to the part you want to try out for. Keep it with you and give it to Ms. Darbus at the beginning of Free period so she knows who you are trying out for."

Everyone's hand went up.

Mrs. Montez began passing the pink sheet of paper out.

Pencils began scraping against paper.

The bell rang.

Books began scraping off the desks.

Feet began moving across the floor towards the door.

And there was silence again in the room.

LATER:

Everyone was practicing the song they would sing. According to the pink slip, they could sing any song from any movie.

THURSDAY: FREE PERIOD

"Okay, everyone. Give me your pink slips."

They did.

Ms. Darbus randomly shuffled the papers and called out the name that was on top.

"Martha for Tracy."

Martha started singing. "Oh oh oh woke up today feeling the way I always do. Oh oh oh hungry for something that I can't eat, then I hear that beat. The rhythm of town starts calling me down, it's like a message from high above! Oh oh oh pulling me back to the smiles and the streets that I love. GOOD MORNING BALTIMORE! Every day's like an open door..."

Ms. Darbus began taking notes on the pad of paper in her hand. She wrote Good singing, great job. Nice spunk and expression. Maybe.

"Very good, Martha! Thank you. Next is Troy, trying out for Link."

"Tell me I'm your man and you're my girl, that I'm the sea and you're the pearl, it takes two baby. It takes two!"

Nice. Maybe.

"Next is Steven, trying out for Link."

"I'm with Katy." Steven explained.

"Okay."

Steven began singing. "Summer loving, had me a blast."

Then Katy. "Summer loving, happened so fast."

Steven again. "Met a girl, crazy for me."

Katy next. "Met a boy, cute as can be."

Next, both of them sang. "Summer days, drifting away, to uh-oh those summer nights."

Wonderful voices, good character. It's a possibility.

"Very good, Mr. Almeida and Ms. Secran! Next is Gabriella, trying out for Tracy."

Gabriella suddenly turned shy as she began singing. "Hey mama, welcome to the sixties! Oh oh oh oh oh, hey mama go go go!"

Wonderful voice but not much confidence.

"Ms. Montez, great job. Maybe not enough confidence, but..."

"Oh, Ms. Darbus, if I sing with Troy then I will be confident! You know that from last year!"

"Yes, I remember. Next is Sharpay, trying out for Amber...Amber? Why Amber, Sharpay?"

Sharpay ignored the last question and began singing. "Hey, look out for that moving van, driving down our streets. You better lock up your man before he meets... the new girl in town, who just came on the scene..."

Maybe, maybe not. She might be good for Amber...

"and she's got a way of making, a boy feel like a clown..."

YES? I think Amber would be perfect for her.

"Very good, Sharpay. Time for Chad next."

"Taylor will be joining in, too!"

Chad began. "The blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice, I'd say it ain't so but what's the use? The darker the chocolate, the richer the taste and that's where it's at!! So baby run and tell that, oh sugar run and tell that!"

Then Taylor joined in as Li'l Inez. "I'm tired of cov'ring up all my pride (so give me a five on the black-hand side) I got a new way of moving and I got my own voice..."

"Very good."

Very good, I think they would be perfect for Seaweed and Inez. YES?

"Very good, next is Kelsi trying out for Penny."

Kelsi started singing, very quietly. "Up in my iv'ry tower life was just a Hostess snack, but now I've tasted chocolate, and I'm never going back! Without Love..."

Too quiet. But maybe, she has a great voice. Maybe not Amanda Bynes, but...

And after everyone else's auditions, Ms. Darbus said, "Very good everyone! Not everyone auditioned for every part, so you might get a random part like Motormouth Maybelle or Corny Collins, so don't be too surprised if you do. The callback list will be posted on the bulletin board tomorrow. Good bye! Free period is now over."

And the auditorium was soon empty and dark.