Hey gang, I would like to say one thing real quick. This story was given to me by a friend, her account is Kikyz, if you want, u can read the story there, but this story will now be updated, as in edited as well, so here is what's gonna happen, I am going to edit, and post this chapter, then do the ones that are already posted here, that means any recent reviewers will have there names mentioned, and I will be doing authors notes =D I am a good author I think, in the sense that I am really nice to people that review, or even just alert =) well, I hope you enjoy this next chap, and chaps to come, sorry this note is so long... Btw, do you think I should make Kori's name Starfire, like from the beginning? I think her parents were just hippies or something...?
"Hey hey, you you, I don't like your girlfriend! Something something, I think you need a new one!" Anikeekia sung along badly with the radio, dancing around the room. Kori humming the song as she continued playing a game on the xbox.
Raven sat in the room getting highly annoyed. She hated that song, and every other song Avril Lavigne made. It was bad enough that it was blasting on the radio, but everyone was singing it. Not to mention Anikeekia jumping on and off of Kori's bed, on to her own, and all around the room.
"ANIKEEKIA! Will you stop singing and dancing so stupidly." Raven demanded as the song went off.
"Sorry Raven. I just can't help it. That song just makes me act crazy." Anikeekia said with a slightly guilty, mostly happy grin.
"Crazier." Raven mumbled under her breath. A Lindsey Lohan song began to play, and Anikeekia started dancing and singing again.
"If you can't control yourself then could you at least put some clothes on."
Anikeekia wasn't wearing anything, but some red underwear with a cartoon fox on it. She had promised to buy Kori some with a bunny on it. Anikeekia stopped dancing and looked at Raven for a quick second.
"Raven, you know that when I take my medicine that I get really hot. This helps me cool down faster. If you would just try it, then you'd be more comfortable." Anikeekia smiled.
"No thanks." Raven replied with a sick look on her face.
Later at tryouts
Everyone was crowded in the girls gym for an audition in the play, even the ones that didn't even have to.
Everyone that saw the movie wanted to be in the play, to get out of the test or for some other personal reason.
"Robin, I thought you said you weren't going to try out." Gar said confused.
"I'm not. I'm just here to support Kori. I can't act, at least, not in front of a crowd."
Terra sat in a chair next to Addie and Grant.
"Well, with her helping pick the cast, I don't have a chance." Raven took a swig of tea out of her water bottle.
"Don't worry Raven. You'll do just fine." Kori and Anikeekia said in unison. Ever since Anikeekia started taking her meds she became a Kori clone, but with a dash of spice.
"Kori Anderson." Rose called out bitterly. She hated having to help her mom. Kori went out on to the stage with a big smile, strike one.
Addie sighed," Um..could you not smile so much."
Kori's smile disappeared as she walk toward Jerri, who was also helping his mom by playing the part of Zin in the tryouts.
"Jerri...I mean Zin. I love you so, but I..I.." Kori was never afraid to go out and do something, when she was not alone. But she was, that's why she was nervous. Everyone staring at her was something she was used to, but it was different somehow. The pressure was getting to her. She started sweating and her mind went blank. The room was spinning and she was getting hot, too hot. Her vision went red and she fell down on the stage. Before Robin could get to her, she picked herself up. She felt...sick. She zoomed out of the gym followed by Robin.
"Raven Roth." Rose called drawing a rose on the back of the name list. Raven walked out on to the stage and looked around. Addie smiling lightly at her; Grant eating chips; Terra talking on her cell; the guy that always wears a green hat, and Brad are talking; Gar's listening to his CD player; and everyone else watching her. Raven took a deep breath and walked toward Jerri.
"Zin, I do love you, but I can't kiss you. Your a royal prince and I'm nothing more than a common street rat." Jerri placed his hands on Raven's hips and looked into her eyes.
"You are no such thing. If anything, I am the rat. You should not let such silly, made up rules stop us from feeling."
This was the part they were suppose to kiss. They leaned in for it, but Addie intervened. The girls sighed in a adoring way. Stuff like that was what made them love Zin. Even if he's just a fictional character.
One girl slapped Gar out of his jealously, 'cause he was the one that made them miss that scene in the movie.
"Anikeekia Mareno." Rose yelled tiredly. Anikeekia went out and didn't waste any time to start. And did everything perfectly. So perfect, every girl was sick to their stomachs, and they wanted to run her out of town.
The next day and stuff
Addie posted up the results of the tryouts on the bulletin board three hours before school had started. She didn't want to get mixed in the cross fire...
"OMG! I'm playing Thous!...Who's Thous?" A girl in pink with a star on her shirt asked her friend who was wearing the same outfit, but it was purple.
"How should I know? I'm just the maid." The one in purple said disappointed. She looked over to her friend wearing a blue shirt with a star on it.
"I think Xhous is Zin's mom. She dies in the opening credits." The one in purple sighed. She was in the best play of the year and she was going to die as soon as she got on the stage.
"I'm Metri!" Anikeekia squealed happily. She danced around the hall idiotically like she was in the dorm earlier. Raven sighed. She was the understudy for Metri, but she knew she didn't have much of a chance of being in the spot light with Terra helping choose the cast.
"What! I'm not the star!" Kitten yelled in shock. "I don't even have a part! Not even an understudy!"
"Ha! You couldn't even get a part! Even Kori got a part! Wow, you must really suck." The girls in stars mocked Kitten.
"At least I have a sense in fashion! That look is so pre-K." Kitten remarked. They were all wearing a star shirt with a matching skirt and a pony tail to the side of their heads.
"Well...You're ugly!" the one wearing pink said, unable to think of anything else. Kitten flipped her blond hair and looked at the one in blue, the leader.
"Mia, you know, you can join the Prepz. I could use a new slave."
"I don't think so. I'd rather just hang with Gia and Tia. If that's okay with you, master." She said annoyed.
Once Mia was best friends with Kitten and was her personal cheerleader. When ever Kitten did something, she was always there to cheer her on like she was so amazing. But after a while she got tired of being Kitten's slave/cheerleader and was sick of being treated like nothing. So she dropped Kitten and got herself some new friends, real friends whose names rhymed with hers.
Mia mockingly flipped her curly, brown hair and left.
"You better be happy she didn't pull that weave out, bitch." Gia scoffed. She flipped her black hair like Kitten, then followed Mia. Tia, not wanting to be left out, frowned at Kitten.
"And..Your ugly!" quickly flipping her short bouncy red hair and ran to her friends, stumbling. Kitten hissed and left.
"What? No cat fight! This sucks!" the guy that always wears the green hat groaned.
Gar sat in the field behind the school. There was an old tree that had a two seated swing hanging from it. It had been there since the school was first built, and who knew how long ago that had been? Gar looked at all the names craved into the tree, most of them inside of hearts. The tree was covered with names and hearts which made Gar sigh. It was an inner school tradition to kiss on the swing and write your names on the tree. All the students knew about it and most of the teachers did too because they were once students there as well.
Each generation had a different name for this tree, but it never had an official name. Today's generation is lazier, as the elderly would say. So it was no surprise they named it Love Tree. There were some rumors that Love Tree was some kind of magical being of love, like a second cupid if you will. Many believed the legend, no matter how stupid it seemed, but everyone that ever talked to Love Tree was kissed by their certain loved one.
"Tree...I can call you Tree, right? Well, Tree I bet your wondering why I'm here this time. Remember last time when I asked you to get Terra to kiss me. Well I want you to do the same thing this time, only with Raven."
Nothing.
"And maybe you could make sure that it doesn't end the same way it did with Terra. Not that I think Raven would do that, or that I don't have faith in our relationship,...if we have a relationship. Or that..." Gar continued to babble on and on.
Nothing.
"But the point is that I want to kiss Raven and a long one too. One that everyone can remember."
"Gar!"
"Tree?" Gar asked in a bit of fear.
"What are you doing out here so late?" Robin asked. The sky was dark and a few stars were out.
"I didn't notice how late it was. I guess I'll go back in." Gar looked at the Love Tree one last time. The wind blew, and the leaves on the tree made some noises. Gar shook his head as if he knew that meant it was going to happen. Once Gar was inside, Robin sat on the swing.
"Okay. I know I said that I didn't believe in this rumor, that your some kind of kissing cupid, but I can't fight the facts. I need you to get me a date with Kori...But if your the kissing cupid that must mean you can only give out kisses, huh?"
Nothing.
"I'm talking to you!"
"Talking to whom, Robin?" Kori asked. It shouldn't have surprised him that she was there. Just about every day she walked around the school for some unknown reason. She sat next to him on the swings and looked up at the sky.
"Me? Oh, um... no one. I wasn't talking at all. You must of been hearing things." He was nervous and Kori could tell.
"You came to Love Tree. Are you here to ask Love Tree for a kiss from someone special?" Kori looked into his eyes, with the moon's light gleaming on her face. He couldn't lie to her with her looking deep in to his eyes like that.
"Yeah, I was making a wish. I know it's kinda of stupid, though."
"And whom may be this girl you are wishing to be kissed by?" Kori asked hoping it would be her.
"Uh...It's...It's..you." He couldn't look at her, so he looked down at the grass, color slowly rising up his neck to his cheeks. Kori lift his head and kissed him passionately. A few minutes passed when they finally broke apart.
"Uh...does this mean you'll go out on a date with me?"
Kori giggled and nodded her head yes. She got up and began walking to the door to go inside.
"You work fast." Robin looked at the Love Tree once more then followed Kori back inside.
The show must go on...Before the show?
Anikeekia was eating some Ramen as Kori practice her line.
"Water?" she said happily.
"Water?" she repeated only this time she said it sadly. She continued to say her line in many different emotions over and over again.
Raven looked at the crowd of people in the audience. Every student not in the play, every teacher, every parent, was there.
"Hey, Rae." Raven turned around to see Gar dressed in a similar outfit Zin wore in the movie, just less expensive.
"Your Zin?"
"Yep, the best actor in this joint." He looked sorta cute with the outfit on. Too cute. Matter a fact, with that suit he looked just like Zin. Too hot, too sweet, and so understanding. It made him so lovable, so lovable she could have kissed him right then and there.
Anikeekia watched the two talk. The way they looked at each other, it was so magical. She drunk the warm, flavored water that was left in the ramen cup. She wished she could give her role to Raven.
Mia was wiping off make-up that was on Tia.
"I know your playing a forty-something year old mother, but that doesn't mean that you've got to pile all this make-up on your face. Your gonna get zits. You know your skin can't handle all this gunk." Gia looked in to the mirror next to them.
"Speaking of zits, I think I have one!" Mia stared at the caramel skinned girl for a few minutes.
"You don't have a zit. What you should be worried about is the fact that your maid outfit is too short."
Anikeekia smiled, she had an idea. "OMG! I HAVE A ZIT!"
Mostly everyone back stage crowed around her.
"Wow, that's a huge zit." a girl dressed as a maid said. Anikeekia started crying a river of tears at the comment. Rose walked over, and made her way through the crowd.
"Okay, what's going on here?"
"I have a zit, and I can't perform with a zit this big."
Rose looked down at her face and saw the biggest and ugliest thing to be on a human face.
"Yuck. Your right, you can't perform with that big old thing. I bet people in Japan can see that thing."
Anikeekia sobbed, "Why me."
Rose sighed and look at the casting list.
"Well Raven, I guess you are gonna have to be Metri, since what's-her-name can't do it."
As soon as Rose left to go tell her mother of the switch, Anikeekia smirked. "It's amazing what you can do with make up." She said quietly to herself, everyone else to absorbed in their own costume issues to notice her wiping her face of the "zit."
Why'd you do that?
Raven was wearing a long beautiful blue dress, too long actually.
"I can barely walk in these heels, let alone this dress."
"Sorry Raven, but Anikeekia is taller than you and there was no time to alter the dress. So you'll have to live with it."
Rose looked inside of her blue bag,"That little thief! He stole my chips again! I'm so gonna kill Grant."
Rose walked on the stage up to a microphone. "Hello everyone. We are here to watch this play based on this book we read and stuff. And we all will sit here and watch it. No matter how much you don't want to be here...And don't clap till the end people, it makes it hard to concentrate and stuff like that. Oh and turn off cell phones, beepers, and anything else that will make noises and stuff...Okay here's the reason you people drove all the way up here." She walked off the stage and the curtain was pulled up...
It was the end of the play, Raven holding a baby and Gar staring at her.
"What will we name her?" Gar, as Zin, asked.
"Metrion." Gar looked at Raven holding the baby. Even though it was really a doll, she made it look so convincing. He wished this was real. That him and Raven were married, had a baby, and would forever be together in love. He couldn't help but get sucked into the dream world of Azarath. Without any type of warning he kissed Raven. It surprised her cuase they weren't suposse to kiss. She drop the doll and started to drop the curtain and the audience clapped. Jerri had an I so don't care what they do, but I do look on his face, most of the parents were confused and shocked but clapping anyway, mostly all the boys were cheering Gar on, and everyone else just enjoyed the play.
Raven pushed Gar off of her and looked at him. Gar just stared at her, waiting for her to say something.
"Gar, why did you do that?"
"Because Raven, I like you. And maybe I even lo..li..la..love you."
"Gar, I like you, but..."
"No buts Raven! You can't keep doing this to me. One day you want to be my girlfriend the next..were just pals. So if I have a chance, would you let me know. For real." He left her standing there as he walked the halls to his room.
Them love words
Vic came in a few hours after Gar got to the dorm.
"Where's Robin?" he asked, not really caring.
"He's out on a date with Kori." Gar replied with a sad, but agitated voice.
"Why are you so gloom and doom?" Vic asked, noticing his sadness.
"Raven. She confuses me. I know there's something there. But she keeps ignoring what we feel for each other. I wish we could be together, even if it was just for a day." Gar turned his body in his bed, so he wouldn't be facing Vic.
Vic sat on his bed and looked at the post he got off a bulletin board.
School Ski Trip!
Sign up to go to NP Ski resort in the Cafe. Only $100 to go.
An evil smile appeared on Vic's face, "We're going on vacation."
I had a lot of fun editing this, and I hope I did a good job! Let me know 'kay? Here's a question that no 1 can answer, the line 'If i have a chance, will you let me know?' comes from what song? And just in case you didn't figure it out...
The one in blue-Mia
1 in pink-Tia
one in purple-Gia
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