Casey's POV

I looked at the clock, uh; thank god the class was almost over. The only downside is that when school ends, I have to go home. I mean, I love my family and all, but sometimes it's an awful lot of work. You see I come from a big family with five siblings, ranging from fifteen to five. Sometimes I feel like a full time babysitter, you see my mom has major depression and can't pull herself out of bed half the time. Which means most of the works on me; I guess it's just a pipe-dream… me being an actor and all. Once I'm out of HA I'm going to have to get what my mom calls a 'proper job' which basically means working at the drive through at McDonalds. At least if I make the money my little siblings can do what they like, it's absolutely fine if I can't accomplish my dream as long as Ronnie gets to accomplish hers. Ronnie is my little sister by the way… I know I'm not great at telling you details when I'm supposed to so I might as well get that over and done with. Veronica and I, wait I'm probably just confusing you now, Ronnie and I have shared a room since she was born. We still do actually, but it's okay. There's a curtain going down the middle. I feel sorry for my little siblings though. There are three of them in one room, and it's not exactly a big room. Mom takes the bgi one, she used to share it with my dad before he… before he passed away.

Wow… look at that, I've really gone on about myself, back to the story. Anyway I had promised I'd meet Connor at the auditions for the school play in his year. Yes, I'm friends with people outside my year. In fact, like all of my friends are outside of my year, it's complicated… So the moment the bell went I hurried down the corridor to Sikowitz's classroom, spotting Trina up the corridor, I could only assume she was going to meet AnnaBelle in the same place. As I neared the corridor I bumped into Connor, Connor and I were close through Robbie, who had told me he was going to skip the audition. He amazingly had a date tonight! Or Rex had a date, yeah, I think it was Rex who had a date.

"Hey, are you not auditioning…?" I asked him as I watched Trina disappear into the classroom, so the auditions couldn't be over.

"Na" He smiled "It's not a musical…"Connor was big on music but not on acting. He still had guts just deciding to not do it, I reckoned most of his class still would.

"Hey Maz, wait up!" I heard a cry down the corridor. It was Tori!

Oh, yeah, by the way Maz is Connor; it's a nickname of his middle name Marcus. He also said he likes to be called The Code, which I'm not quite so sure about.

"Tori… aren't you auditioning?" I said as I stepped aside to let Reese through, she was obviously panicking about missing her audition.

"No… I have some family stuff to do on that night."

"Me neither…" Connor said looking up. "So can I give you a lift back home?" He asked.

"Sure… Casey, do you need one." She asked and Maz gave me a glare, I knew the required answer here although Connor had offered to give me a lift home earlier.

"No, I'm fine." I'll just take the bus to pick up my little siblings from their various schools, when they will be tired as hell and will probably be screaming. And I guess Ronnie can wait outside in the rain for me to show up… Man, the things I do for that kid.

Mallory's POV

Stella and I were sitting there nervously waiting for the audition to starts when Ri-Ri ran in just about as quick as one person can run.

"Did I… did I miss it?" She panted and I smiled at her.

"No… it should be Tori next and then…"

"Tori's not auditioning!" Reese breathed out heavily and I could see the smiles form on people's faces around the room. I had a slight smile, but nothing major on my face. Partly because of the major nerves inside my stomach and partly because I don't really display my emotions that much, if I look calm then it calms down the people around me which in turn calms me down.

"What!" Stella yelled. "Yes…" she did an arm pump and then looked around, embarrassed. But it was a natural re-action, Tori got the lead in almost every play we've done.

At that moment Jade burst out the door.

"Nailed it!" She yelled and headed over to Beck, pulling him away from AnnaBelle who was chatting with him in the corner. She looked back at him disappointed and said something to Trina next to her. She had already auditioned so they headed out the room.

"Mallory Green" Well that was me for my audition, suddenly I felt like I couldn't breathe. I geared up and headed for the door. My brother nudged me as I walked past.

"Good luck, MJ. I know you'll rock it." It was reassuring having him around. It might be slightly weird that we're so close but we always have been. We don't fight a lot.

I slowly walked in and Sikowitz looked me up and down.

"Okay, well sing then" Okay… didn't he say that it wasn't a musical. Oh well, he's Sikowitz I'm just glad I have a musical piece prepared, well pretty much only a musical piece prepared. I'm not an actor. I mean I'm seriously terrible at acting. I even had Stella try and teach me to act, it didn't quite work.

I started off with my ballet medley, slowly singing a piece to accompany it, waiting for the drop. When it came in I smiled to myself again, I love this bit. I dropped my shoulder going into the hip-hop bit. When I came out, I had just about as much nerves as I did coming in. I wasn't going for a major part though. I was going for dancing, I think I've already explained how absolutely terrible I am at acting. I slid out of the room, walking next to Stella. CJ and I had offered her a lift home. Well, our mom had offered her a lift home.

"You've got to feel bad for AnnaBella, don't you?" I said.

"Yeah, she's obviously head over heels for Beck. But I'm not sure it's ever going to happen."

"You know, from the way they were looking at each other it might just…" CJ ran up to join us and Stella immediately shut up.

"So how were your auditions?" He asked us.

"Mine went well, but I'm not auditioning for a major role, Stella?" I nudged her.

"Mine went… mine went… good." Okay, what was wrong with Stella, normally she couldn't stop talking. I mean, I was close enough to Stella to know what could be wrong but… it couldn't possibly be that, could it? Not with my brother?