The next day AJ walked to her locker with a red wagon with tons of stuff in shopping bags.
"What the actual hell is AJ bringing to school?" Stan asked.
"Probably stuff for the musical." Butters responded.
"What position in stage crew did she get that would require her to bring so much shit in a big ass wagon?"
"Costumes. So I can only assume that costumes are in those bags."
"I thought there were costumes in the costume room, why the hell would she bring more?"
"I don't know."
"Well, maybe it's not costumes at all. It could easily be a shit ton of food for Cartman." Kenny joked.
"You know, I could actually believe that." Stan replied. "Speak of the devil." Cartman began to approach Stan, Butters, and Kenny.
"You guys did you see what AJ brought?! Holy shit! It's most likely for me and guess what?!"
"What?" Stan responded unamused.
"I'm not gonna share whatever it is with any of you fuckers and I'm gonna rub it in your face...especially Kyle's face. By the way, where is that shifty Jew?"
"Right here fatass." Kyle responded approaching the group.
"There's my shifty Jew." Cartman mocked.
"And there's a beached whale."
"Eh!"
"So apparently I ran into AJ on my way over here." Kyle said changing the subject. "She had a wagon full of shopping bags and I asked her what was in them."
"And what's in them?" Butters asked.
"I told you guys. It's presents for me." Cartman said confidently.
"Wrong fatass, it's stuff for the musical." Kyle said.
"I knew it." Butters said.
"Apparently AJ's on costumes for the show. So she brought some things from home to work on the costumes like fabrics, sewing kits, and all that stuff."
"Ha!" Stan said to Cartman. "Looks like you won't be rubbing crap in anyone's face today!"
"Whatever fairy princess Stan." Cartman said with a smirk as he left for class leaving Stan with a shocked expression.
When Cartman got to class, he sat down and then poked AJ
"AJ." He said. "AJ, AJ, AJ, AJ."
"Yes?" AJ asked turning her attention from the girls.
"What's up with the wagon?"
"Oh, costume stuff for the musical."
"Nothing for me?"
"Nope."
"Oh." Why the hell not!? I'm just as important as the shitty musical. Cartman thought as the rest of the fourth graders arrived to class and sat down.
At the girl's lunch table, Lana sat down next to Red. Lana and Red had developed a friendship after AJ had a slumber party at their house a weekend ago.
"Hey." Lana said to the girls.
"Hey Lana." All the girls responded.
"What are we talking about today?" Heidi said
"How Stan is a fairy princess." Bebe said.
"Wait, what?"
"I guess you didn't hear the story."
"No what happened?"
"Well, during the cold read of the musical yesterday Garrison called Stan a fairy princess."
"Bebe that's not what happened." Wendy said. "Mr. Garrison said his acting for one scene in the musical made his character sound nicer than a fairy princess when his character is supposed to be rude."
"Whatever, same thing."
"Not really." Red said. "But okay."
"Anyways." Bebe said completely ignoring Red's statement. "Apparently a lot of people know about Stan being a fairy princess."
"Yeah because you went around and told everyone." Red said.
"I was not the only one Red." Bebe responded. "I saw a couple of the other grade levels who aren't even in the musical spreading the story around."
"Yeah after you told them." Upon hearing that Bebe began to look pissed.
"Whatever, in a way I'm doing a favor for Wendy."
"How is telling everyone that Stan is a fairy princess be doing me a favor?" Wendy asked.
"Well, he's your ex-boyfriend now so it should satisfy you that he's going to be picked on am I right?"
"No you're not, Bebe. I'm not mad at Stan. We are actually friends." Upon hearing this, all the girls stared at Wendy.
"What?" Wendy asked.
"Every other time you broke up with Stan, you were pissed off and wanted to have nothing to do with him." Nichole said.
"Yeah, so what?"
"Because you should be pissed. Why do you want to be friends with a boy that ditched you on dates to hang with his best friend?" Heidi said.
"I figured if we became friends it would-"
"-End the Stendy cycle by throwing him in the friend zone?" Red interrupted.
"Yeah if you want to put it that way." Wendy responded.
"So you have no interest of getting back together with Stan?" Lana asked.
"Yeah. I'm ready to move on." Wendy said with a smile. That's good that's she's moving on from Stan. Lana thought. She needed to because well, you already know why.
"Isn't AJ supposed to be eating with us today?" Heidi asked.
"Yeah. She told me this morning she would be." Nichole said. "Her and I were putting stuff for the musical backstage this morning."
"Good I want to know all her costume plans." Bebe said. With that being said, a notebook landed on the table.
"I'm glad to hear someone is interested in what I'm doing for costumes." AJ said taking her seat in front of the notebook next to Bebe.
"Hey!" The girls all said in unison.
"So I'm guessing that notebook is full of designs am I right?" Bebe said.
"Well, as of right now I only have the ensemble's costumes designed."
"Let us see!"
"Otay." Bebe took the notebook and passed it around to all the girls until it finally came to Wendy.
"Wow these are cute. Especially for the maids." Wendy said. "Is Stan going to have a costume similar to the butlers in the ensemble?"
"Sorta." AJ said as Wendy passed it back to her. "I'm thinking since Stan is the head butler, that his character
Needs a tail coat and something well, extra to show he's the head butler. Something with
"I can't wait to see these on stage." Bebe said. "For once we might just have a musical with decent costumes." The girls all laughed and agreed that for the past few musicals the costumes had been absolute shit. For the rest of lunch, the girls moved the subject away from the musical and talked about other things that they loved to talk about, like makeup and celebrities.
During day 2 of musical rehearsals, AJ revealed to Mr. Adler her first designs.
"These are good, but how do you plan on making them I don't think this school has the right kind of materials to make them." Mr. Adler said.
"Nonsense." AJ replied happily revealing all the stuff in her shopping bags from the wagon. "My mom bought me all these fabrics last night as soon as she heard the news of me being on costumes. Oh and these threads, the pin thingies, and new needles for that sewing machine I used yesterday because to be honest, the sewing needles on the school's sewing machine are older than old. Like great grandpa and grandma old."
"Oh, well then continue what your doing but don't screw around."
"Trust me, I won't."
"Yeah..." AJ was just about to go into the costume room to see what she could transform into her design when she stopped. "Oopsie, forgot."
"What AJ?" Nichole said going through all the different makeup's she brought.
"I need to get measurements." AJ said face palming. "Silly me." AJ turned around and as she was about to head out to talk to Mr. Garrison, when she saw Kevin again.
"Hey Kevin!" She said.
"Oh hi." Kevin replied with a smile. "Where are you headed?"
"To talk to Mr. Garrison. I need to ask if I can pull cast members from their rehearsal for a teeny bit of time for measurements."
"Oh I'm actually heading over there myself. The techies wanted to ask Mackey what kind of sound effects and lighting he wants for the pages they're blocking."
"What is your actual techie job?" AJ asked as the two began to walk towards the cast, who were currently blocking the first twenty pages of the musical.
"Oh me? I'm on lighting. Andy assigned me there.
"Who's Andy?"
"He's a 6th grader and the Captain Kirk of our tech club."
"What is he doing for the show?"
"Sound effects. He gets to use a big sound board."
"Really? That actually sounds super coolio. So do you get like a light board?"
"Yes I do not as big as Andy's sound board but it's alright. Dougie, you might know him as Butter's comrade works with me on lighting as well. He's in charge of the spotlights."
"Wow, what else do you guys do for the show?"
"Well, The rest of the techies like Harry and Jan are working with the stage crew that are building the sets. They are in charge of closing and opening the curtains and moving sets for a new scene."
"Sounds like fun!" Kevin had AJ reached the blocking rehearsal and it had just been when Stan's first scene was being blocked.
"Oh god Stan your posture is horrible! You're a head butler for crying out loud. This isn't the Hunchback of damn Notre Dome and another thing-"
"-Excuse me Mr. Garrison." AJ said.
"What the, oh AJ...What do you want?"
"Well, I was hoping if I could barrow every cast member for 5 minutes so I could have measurements for everyone's costumes." Mr. Garrison sighed.
"Fine, but take the ensemble first because they don't have lines."
"Otay, that's perfect! The ensemble's outfits are already designed."
"Alright." Mr. Garrison said. "If you don't have lines in the show go follow AJ backstage."
"Mr. Mackey?" Kevin asked. "What sounds and lighting were you thinking of for the pages your blocking today?"
"M'kay Kevin, here's a copy of the script that I filled out with lighting and sound directions on them. I already have the whole show's lighting and sound written in this script."
"That's perfect. Thank you Mr. Mackey." Kevin said taking the script.
Kevin and AJ turned to head back stage with the ensemble behind them. AJ and Kevin stopped at the tech booth where Kevin waved goodbye and headed up there while AJ took the ensemble back for measurements. She measured Butters first and thought to herself, Car Car always taught me nerds were bad and manipulating butt holes that have no friends, but maybe he was wrong...no he can't be, could he?
"Ugh AJ?" Butters said gaining AJ's attention.
"Huh?" She asked.
"I didn't know that measuring me required me getting tangled up in measuring tape."
"Whoopsie sorry."