I KNOW THAT IN THE MUSICAL AND THE BOOK THERE IS NO CAULDRON, BUT I WANTED TO ADD IT JUST TO GIVE ROSY SOMETHING TO WORK ON AND JUST BECAUSE.

Chapter 10

Success! and Study Dates

ROSY'S POV. CONT. MONDAY

We had just finished another run through after school and it had been another success. People would still give us compliments about our voices and how we would be the better Elphaba and Glinda, but, it was flattering.

We were all back stage going over a few things, when Abby came up to us.

"Guys that was great!" she gushed.

"Thanks Abby." I stated for everyone.

"Yeah…now for the bad news."

I assumed she was going to say something about my cauldron, and I just spoke out.

"I can make it work Abby! I promise!" I said.

"It's not that Rosy, I'm actually excited to see you do this. I know that you can do it. But actually it's something really bad. We haven't exactly sold a lot of tickets to the show yet." she said.

That was bad. If we didn't sell tickets, then what was the point of the play, plus that money goes to the school budget, which we tapped into to do this whole thing.

"Yeah, so tomorrow, we have to promote this thing and get people to buy tickets and spread the word about the play like there's no tomorrow!" she stated.

"You can count on us Abby!" I said and everyone began to agree.

"Great. Good luck guys!" she said before leaving.

Amy and I were walking home and we started talking.

"Do you really think that the cauldrons going to work Rosy?" she asked.

"It just has too!" I exclaimed.

"Okay, calm down!" she said putting her hands up in defense.

"Sorry, it's just…" I trailed off.

"I know, you want this to be the best it can be. It is our favorite musical." she concluded.

"Yeah, that and…" I trailed of again, looking away.

"Is this about what Fiona said?" she asked.

I nodded a little bit and spoke.

"You have no idea how much I wanted to gut punch her when she commented about my cauldron." I stated, clenching my fists.

"She doesn't know what she's talking about and you know it." Amy said.

"Yeah, I know." I said.

"So, has Scourge talked to you about Fiona anymore?" Amy asked.

"Actually yeah. When I stayed after to do extra backgrounds to get caught up. He talked to me and nothing has changed. He didn't even know why she was staying after while he was there with me waiting." I explained.

"If you ask me, it sounds a lot like she's cheating." Amy replied.

"Yeah, I thought so too. But I didn't say that. Plus he wants to wait until he has proof and not just go right out and accuse her. But I think, he thinks she may be cheating, he didn't say, but I could tell." I explained.

"Woah, rough." she said.

"Yeah, but what about you, have you talked to Sonic?" I asked.

"Yeah, we have another study session planned for Saturday at the library. It's amazing, he has become a perfect A, B student, but Sally is only just starting to get her grades up." she said.

"You must be getting through that thick skull of hers." I said laughing a bit.

"Yeah, that and well…" she trailed off. I raised an eyebrow.

"What?" I asked.

"It's nothing really. She's not giving me anymore trouble than she already does with her attitude and he big mouth." Amy said.

"Alright if you say so." I said. "Well, on a non-mean girls note, how are you on costumes? Can you finish them on time? I asked.

"Hopefully." she said sighing.

"Hopefully?" I asked.

"Yeah, Fiona's dress doesn't fit, Sally got ANOTHER, BIGGER tear in the skirt of her. I swear she's doing it on purpose so she can get to me. Jake's pants need hemming, Evan grew three inches since his lat fitting, I will never understand how he grew so fast, but it's probably what's in the milk they give people now. Sonic's Shiz University Jacket is threadbare, and is losing buttons. And I forgot to iron Jessica's Madame Morrible bodice for one of her main outfits, before I fixed the boning and now it's ALWAYS wrinkled." she said breathing in loudly.

"Wow, I don't know how you manage to stay calm." I said.

"You can't see it, but I am having a total break down in my mind." she said.

"Really?" I asked skeptically.

"Did you not just hear everything I just said that I have to do!?" she asked pushing me gently, but enough to make me step to the side a bit.

"Alright, alright I heard you. Calm down!" I said laughing. "Wanna switch places? I do the costumes, you do the cauldron." I joked.

"Not a chance." she said.

We laughed and kept talking as we walked home.

LATER THAT NIGHT.

I was down in the basement working on the cauldron, and was VERY tired. I would make this work!

"Maybe I can add more green coloring to the water, then use the smoke machine to add extra smoke, then-" my out loud thoughts were cut off by my phone going off.

I had gotten a text from Amy.

From Amy:

Are you still up!? GO TO BED ROSY!

Sent: 12:45 AM

I sighed, I knew it was really late, but still. I let out a sigh.

"Maybe I should go to bed…Or maybe I could work for just a…little…longer…" just as I said that I passed out where I sat on the ground into deep sleep.

AMY'S POV.

"Out of the seven billion people in this world there's only you, almost a million words that I could say but none of them will do, so many years that I have lived but it feels like I just begun, out of the seven billion people baby you're the only one. Out of the seven billion-"

I hard my alarm go off and hit the dismiss button. That was my top favorite from The CAB'S new album Lock Me Up. I liked all the songs, but this one was my favorite. It was a love song.

I got out of bed and went over to Rosy's and noticed she wasn't there. I hope she didn't stay up all night. I headed to the bathroom but she wasn't there either. And she wasn't in the kitchen.

"Hey mom, do you know where Rosy is?" I asked.

"I thought she was upstairs, but I didn't here her come in last night. Let's go check the basement." she said, starting to walk.

"Right behind you." I replied.

We walked down and saw that the light was still on as we walked down the stairs. Once we got down the stair, we saw Rosy, curled and fast asleep. She even had one of the blankets over her that was kept down here. If there was ever an emergency, we would come down here. It was our emergency shelter. We always made sure to keep it clean.

I looked at mom and we laugh a bit, then went over and woke her up. Once she knew it was the next day, she ran past us and went to get dressed it was always funny to see her scramble, but I'm sure she thought the same about me when I was the one scrambling.

THREE DAYS LATER.

It had been three long days and night for Rosy and I. I had managed to fix the costumes, and she said she finally found a way to make the cauldron work. She had looked some stuff up on this science website and said she found the perfect way to make the cauldron work.

We were in the cafeteria during lunch with Mr. S. he had gotten everyone's attention and explained about the production and tickets being on sale. Then he had us act out the scene where the cauldron is used.

"Ready Rosy?" Abby asked.

"Yeah!" she said excited.

As Fiona sang the last long note of the song/incantation it was time for the cauldron. Rosy had pushed a button on a remote and all of a sudden it began to mist over a lot, then more and more and since it was going over the edge, you could see it begin to swirl in on itself, kind of like how water swirls down sink drains, until suddenly, it shot green, sparkling mist, thick foggy smoke and paper straight into the air. Then stopped right as the last note was finished.

Everyone in the cafeteria and some kinds who had been walking by had stopped to see it. The entire room was completely silent. Then just like that, everyone began to leave. We were all curious as to why they had left.

"Ha. What was that you said before Fiona, because it seems to me, that their eyes were all and only on the cauldron!" Rosy stated smugly, earning a death glare from Fiona.

"Sonic, Amy, you two go check out why everyone left." Abby said.

"Alright." we said at the same time.

I was able to see Sally glaring daggers at the back of my head. And I smirked slyly to myself. Another point for me.

"I wonder what's going on." Sonic stated.

"Yeah, it's weird." I agreed.

"So how have thing been with you?" he asked.

"Good, I finally got the costumes all finished." I said.

"Great to here." he replied.

"So are things still the same with…" I trailed off.

He looked a bit upset, and I hoped it wasn't at me.

"Yeah." he said.

"I-I'm sorry. It's none of my business, I'm sorry, I don't want you upset at me." I said hastily.

"I'm not upset at you. I'm upset about Sally. She's still being possessive and not in a caring kind of way either." he stated.

I was glad he wasn't upset at me.

"Hey look!" he said.

We saw that the box office had a huge line of people to buy tickets. It stretched from the inside of the building all the way out the door with people.

We saw Loren, who was selling tickets with Jason and she smiled and gave us a thumbs up. I was so excited I hugged Sonic tight, then remembered what I did and let go.

"Sorry." I said nervously.

"No it's fine…really." he said smiling at me.

I was able to hide my blush thankfully.

We headed back and told everyone the great news and they cheered and began to gather around Rosy, congratulating and thanking her, making her blush. The only ones who weren't were Fiona and Sally.

"Rosy, you saved the production!" Abby gushed hugging her.

"Yeah, I'll say!"

"This is great!"

"Nice job!"

"Because of you we're selling tickets like crazy now! It's awesome!"

"Thanks you guys." she said bashfully.

We had asked her what she did to make the cauldron so great and she answered.

"All it took was a science website. Then I just had to get the smoke machine, I filled the cartridge that holds the water with green colored water, so that I would come out green. Then there were the small fans I put on the inside, they were arranged in a spiral, so that everything would swirl up and begin to come out over the edge due to how much was filling the top and the spiral fan arrangement kept it contained in a specific way. There's also a bigger fan at the bottom of it, that had a cylinder around the fan blades on top of the screen of the fan, so that when it turned on, everything was contained and would go straight up and not just poof out everywhere, everything else that I had that would be inside that would come out, like the paper, foggy smoke, and glitter came out with it, since it was in the and contained by the cylinder. And once it finished, it mostly all dropped back inside." she said taking a deep breath as she explained.

"You certainly put a lot of work into this." Mr. S said.

"We knew you could do it." I said. We all headed back to the auditorium and began setting things up. Next Monday was the first performance, so we needed to have everything ready ahead of time.

A while later, we were finished and could just talk. Then Sonic came up to me.

"Hey, we're still on for another study session at the library again this Saturday, right."

"Yeah, of course." I said smiling.

SATURDAY AT THE LIBRARY.

I was sitting down at one of the tables where you could plug your laptop in, waiting for Sonic. Just then I felt a tap on my shoulder, I looked and saw Sonic. He smiled at me and sat down in the seat across from me. We began to go over chapter thirteen through fifteen in our books.

We had finished in just a little over an hour, so we decided to go and grab a bite. Turns out he was an honorary member at Macaroni Grill, so we decided to go there. There is nothing wrong with discounts.

There really wasn't anyone there, so we were seated immediately and because, again, he was an honorary member. This was also my favorite member, I was now only two more visits away from being an honorary member myself.

It didn't take us long to order, so we just began to talk.

"I don't know, I kind of feel bad for saying this, but it's just not the same anymore…but it's probably nothing." he said.

We were talking about his and Sally's relation ship.

"…You know, no matter how cool with this you've pretend to be-" but he cut me off.

"There is no pretense here, I'm always cool and chill about everything." he stated, smirking.

"Not everything Sonic, otherwise you wouldn't be so unhappy…it's noticeable…to me." I said softly.

His smirk faded a bit and he looked away.

"You know…I think you're right." he said.

"You know I don't want this to sound a certain way that I don't mean, but you shouldn't be with someone who make you unhappy…" I said trailing off.

"Yeah. But I had talked to her about how she had been acting lately. I'm giving her one more chance. If she does anything else it's over." he said.

"Should I tell him about…no not now." I thought to myself.

"Well…good luck. You deserve to be happy." I said, reaching over and gripping his hand, and smiling warmly.

He smiled warmly at me as well, gripping my hand back.

"Thanks Ames." he said, still holding my hand.

I blushed lightly and pulled my hand away softly. Soon our food came and we just continued to talk about more positive things and eventually finished. And headed back to the car. He was giving me a ride home again.

On the way I began to sing some of the songs from Wicked that had Glinda in them.

"I still don't see why you or your sister didn't try out. Well, for real when it comes to your sister, but still. You would've gotten the parts and everyone seems to love you both already."

"I guess that we're used to being behind the scenes. I mean, yes, it would be cool to finally be the person acting on the stage. Especially for this production. Since we were five, when we first went to see Wicked, I wanted to be Glinda and Rosy wanted to be Elphaba. Everyone says that we are like them…" I trailed off.

"Well, they're right." he said. I smiled and giggled.

We continued to talk until he dropped me off. After saying goodbye, I headed inside and told Rosy all the details. This had been a great Saturday…

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