A/N: I did not have the time to really go through and edit this so I apologize if there is a huge amount of errors in this.

Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight or any of the characters.

"Alright, men, stand tall and firm." Ari commanded. His deep baritone voice boomed with authority.

The boys stood in an arch in front Ari. On the left end the arch stood the basses, Abel and Dennis. The Baritones, Ben and Mikey, were on the right side. The two altos, Javi and Noah, were in the center on each side of them was a tenor. The first tenor, Kevin, was beside Javi and the second tenor, Robert stood beside Noah. The arrangement of the tenors had originally been the opposite. Leah quickly jumped and undid Ari's decision making. She knew very well that Robert and Noah were more compatible and that Noah, the more stoic, quiet boy would eventually lose his mind around Kevin, who was more energetic and crude.

"Alright. Now turn your back to the boy to the left of you. See that back before you? Give it a massage."

The boys looked at Ari bewildered.

"You heard me, give the other guy a massage."

The boys began to awkwardly rub each other's backs.

Ari silently counted to ten, only breaking to call out, "Add some chops." When he reached ten seconds and clapped loudly.

"Stop. Turn around and return the favor."

This time the boys were less awkward as they turned to give the boy behind them a back rub.

Leah, who was seated on talk of the old baby grand in the corner of the chorus room, watched the whole thing utterly fascinated.

"Eyes on me." When all the boys gave Ari their attention, he smiled and said, "Okay, follow me. Oh, no wait." Ari turned to Leah. "Hit the C for me please?"

Leah obliged, bending over to hold down the key as Ari hummed it back.

"Nice set, Ms. Finewater!" Kevin catcalled.

Ari opened his mouth to admonish the boy but Leah beat him to the punch.

"Right back at ya kid." She called back.

All of the boys, except for Robert, laughed. Even Leah let out a few chuckles. Ari raised a brow when caught Robert glaring at the other boy intensely.

"Alright, men, eyes back on me." Again the boys were focused.

Ari then led them through warm-ups on the C scale. They started on hums and then progressed up to syllable warm-up on Ah, ya, and he. By the time they were done warming up the boys looked slightly fatigued. It had been the longest warm-up of their lives. As the bell rung, all of the boys looked up at the clock in the back of the room shocked. The warm-up had been the entire class period. Just as Ari had intended.

Before the boys could dash out of the room, Ari had each of the boys a black folder.

"In these folders you will find the warm-up we just did, a few others and the 8 pieces that we will be working on. The piece tagged with green sticky notes are the ones we will be doing for the winter concert and are the ones you should look over and listen to tonight. Go over the warm-up we just did for a good 15 minutes as well. When you come in tomorrow, Ms. Clearwater expects you to be on time. 7:30 sharp, standing in the arch arrangement. Not 7:35 or 7:31. 7:30. She's going to go over warm-ups with you for 10 to 15 minutes and then she will run through the piece with you."

"Will you be here again?" Mikey asked. Ari rolled his eyes not missing the challenge in the cocky boy's voice.

"Yup. I'll be at that piano."

Leah almost laughed. The boys had been less than happy at Air's appearance in the chorus room, Mikey being the only one to actually speak on it. Popping off with a quick, "Who you?" When he first noticed Ari in the room.

"Get out of here, guys. Before you're late to your next class and get me into trouble."

"I'd love to see you in trouble." Kevin smirked.

"I bet you would."

Kevin winked at Leah before waving each of his fingers individually at her, his 'sexy' goodbye, and leaving the room. From the down the hall Leah could hear a loud smacking sound and Robert angrily yelling, "Stop being so God damn disrespectful."

Leah went to stand in the chorus doorway. "Robert, while I am very appreciative that you would take the time to defend my honor, hitting isn't necessary." Robert looked at Leah sadly but nodded. "Besides, I sure Kevin hits himself enough anyway."

Several of the boys still in the music hall, began to laugh loudly. Robert gave Leah a huge smile.

"Have a wonderful day, Ms. Clearwater."

Leah smiled back. "Thanks, you too."

Then Robert ran down the hall, hurrying to catch up with the rest of his friends.

When Leah turned back into the chorus room she found Ari, sitting on the floor and flipping through a binder of music he had brought along with him. Leah walked back towards him, choosing to lean against the chalk board instead of sitting beside him.

"I had a dream about you." Leah's voice was soft and quiet as she looked over at him.

Ari turned his head slightly, his body never leaving the crouching position it was currently in, and he looked directly into Leah's eyes. Brown on Brown.

"Oh, really? Did I look good?"

Leah almost threw a piece of chalk at Ari's grinning face.

"I'm not sure."

Ari turned towards her frowning; a brow quirked in confusion. "You're not sure?"

"We were at a pool side bar in the middle of the Caribbean, I could hear a voice but couldn't make out a face. It felt familiar though."

"Damn," Ari said shaking his head in disappointment. "I thought it was going to be a sex dream where I was super awesome and you were like. 'Ari, you're super awesome!'."

Now Leah did throw the chalk at his head.

"Ow." Ari rubbed the side of his face as he shot a glare at Leah.

"Aww Ari," Leah cooed mockingly. "Your face doesn't look so pretty when you're scowling."

Ari didn't respond right away and when he did it was not at all what Leah was expecting. "That kid, Robert, he likes you. You know that right? And that Kevin kid is a little as-."

Leah groaned loudly, not at all happy with his subject change.

"Please don't remind me." Leah stated cutting Ari off. "And if that didn't answer your question, yes I know the kid likes me. I just choose to ignore it. Better than telling the kid, no I'll never like you. I learned my lesson about tha-." Leah suddenly stopped, looking directly into Ari's eyes. She could see the hurt there.

"Well at least you won't pick Kevin over him. Little jerk."

"Eh, he's just messing with me. He enjoys the shock."

"Huh? That kid's an ass."

"An ass who's screwing with me. He doesn't mean it. At first, I was like you. How dare that little shit? But once I stopped letting it get to me, I realized that he just enjoyed messing with me. Now we're just kind of jokey, jokey about it. Robert on the other hand, that's real and I'm not going to play with that. I rather be kind to him and let him keep his hopes, no matter how unrealistic they are."

Ari shook his head. "That is not the kind of hope anyone wants." Then, to Leah's surprise, Ari laughed. "But I guess you're right, just let it lie. It'd be embarrassing as hell to bring it up to the kid."

Leah laughed. "Right."

Ari suddenly stood. "I saw an ice cream machine down the hall when I first came in, wanna get some?"

"Sure."

"Will the boys be prepared for adjudication?"

Leah looked at Mr. Barnes oddly. She and the other teacher were currently standing at the back of St. Kassia's small cafeteria. Lunch duty. It wasn't a bad gig aside from Leah having to stay past her normal work day.

"Adjudi-what?"

"Nora talks about it every year. The ensembles are judged by a panel of judges from the county or something like that."

Leah's eyes damn near bugged out. "I wasn't told about it! When is it?"

Mr. Barnes chuckled at Leah's shocked expression. "March. You got 3 long months. Although, you might not have to do it. St. Kassia is private and the adjudication is a state thing. We opt in to it."

"So you're saying that I may be able to opt-out?"

"I guess. Maybe contact Nora. Or Seymour Hackett, the department chair."

Leah groaned. "More emails, I haven't even emailed Alex Baker's father back yet."

Mr. Barnes scoffed. "Don't bother. That man is unreasonable as hell. I feel sorry for his poor wife having to put up with that prick."

Again, Leah's eyes bugged out as she looked at Mr. Barnes completely shocked. "Ronald!"

"What?" Mr. Barnes asked with a smirk. "It's true."

Leah could only laugh.

When the bell rung, the two said their goodbyes and Leah quickly rushed home.

Ari

Adjudication?

1:15p

Isn't St. K private?

1:22p

Yup. But apparently we participate anyway.

1:24p

Shit.

1:24p

Correct.

1:25p

Inbox

To: Leahclearwater stkassiaschool

From: juliaparrish stkassiaschoool

Good Afternoon: Ms. Clearwater,

Hi, my name is Julia Parrish and I am the English teacher here at St. Kassia. While I wish I was writing to solely introduce myself and welcome you to the school, unfortunately that is not the case. I recently had a death in the family and will be unable to come in this upcoming Friday. I was hoping, if you are available, that you would consider substituting for my classes that day.

Thank you for your time,

Ms. Julia Parrish