Connor's POV

It is official, my world is complete, I could die now and I would die absolutely happy. Well except for the fact that if I died now I would miss my date with Tori tomorrow. Yes, I have a date with the Tori Vega, the amazingly talented, beautiful, brilliant girl who I have had a crush on since my very first day in this place.

I actually cannot believe my luck. Sure, we're quite close friends and Tori, Wyatt, Casey and I all used to hang out quite a lot of the time. That was before Casey transferred a few days ago, of course. I know why he transferred of course, if Tori moved now I would follow her in a heart-beat. I guess Casey was just love struck for Jade, most of us had seen it coming for a while. But I guess Casey himself hadn't realised it until we had all gone to visit The Star. Man, that place was amazing, literally brilliant. The technology in that place, there were enough recording booths for the entirety of the school to record music at once. There was a bouncer on the door and everything in the entire school was done with fingerprints, we had to keep begging students to let us in. They looked down on us though and I could see why Jade felt so on her own in that place.

I was musing on this as I walked past Sikowitz's office, (yes, Sikowitz has an office, I have absolutely no idea what the guy uses it for) but two loud voices interrupted my thoughts.

"What do you mean we might have to shut the play down?" I recognised that voice as Sikowitz's. "I spent ages calling all those talent scouts and agents. I think this could very seriously be an opportunity for one of my students to get discovered, and the play is in a week and a half."

"Well we're losing people quickly. Our main parts are staying, but we're losing all our chorus members that we need for the songs. Fist we lost Jade West…" I think that was Helen speaking.

"I know, and I'm sorry about losing her too, she was very talented, but didn't we just give her part to Chloe as a surprise?"

"Yes we did but she said she didn't want Jade's old part. She said she wasn't going to do the play at all, she said she may not even stay at this school."

"Not Chloe too" Sikowitz groaned

"Yes and then we lost that Casey boy from the year above and now the boys in the year below are talking about doing the same. Wyatt Stone has already applied to Star Academy. Not to mention Mallory Greenley who has decided not to do it to focus on her dancing."

"So wait, who did you offer Jade's part to?" Sikowitz asked, sounding really, really confused.

"Resee Chavis, another chorus member, do you know how many chorus members we actually have left now."

"No…" Sikowitz said, I think Helen scared him as much as she scared the rest of us.

"TWO! We cannot put on a show with a two person chorus. We'll be made complete fools off."

"Can't we just give them coconuts to make them give us good reviews?"

"No Erwin, we can't. Find some way to get your students back at this school and back doing this play if you want that golden opportunity for them. If you can't do that by next week, the play is off."

I heard Helen head to the door and I sprung down pretending to tie my shoe, as she came out she walked right past me.

I began to hurry to the Black Box where the rehearsal was taking place. I wasn't even in this play, but I knew that the people with parts deserved this opportunity. I wanted to help them get it.

I raced through the open door and interrupted them in the middle of a song.

"Sikowitz wants to cancel the play!" I yelled and quickly began to explain what I had seen.

"So basically if we can't get enough people back he'll shut down the whole thing." AnnaBelle and Beck exchanged glances looking very annoyed.

"Jade did all of this. She ruined my chances of getting discovered." I looked at him shocked. He and Jade used to be in love, everything about her always used to absolutely perfect to him. It was almost funny how quickly all of that had shattered and fallen completely apart.

Almost…

"Don't talk about her like that." That came from Wyatt at the side of the room. It was a surprise to see him sitting next to Chloe at the corner of the room. I thought they had said quit the play.

"Why, it's true?" AnnaBelle remarked and Chloe got up glaring at her, rage expressed through her eyes.

"So wait, what is the point in us being here?" Chloe said "All they seem to care about having us here for is that we can be in this stupid play to further everybody else's careers and not our own. I'm out of this school." This was the complete opposite of what I was trying to achieve. They may have not been doing the play, but at least they were still at this school, before I had said what I just said that is.

"I'm out of here too" Wyatt remarked, literally getting up and walking out with Chloe right behind him. "I'm going to school with my real friends."

Okay, I'm not going to lie that hurt quite a bit. Wyatt and I had been friends for quite a long time. The rest of the room didn't really seem like it liked me very much either. I was getting glares all around.

I guess despite my date with Tori tomorrow (which I am still so fantastically happy about though), my life wasn't actually so perfect.

Aah, looks like we're drawing closer to the end of this tale, but HA keeps losing people every day. I wonder how it'll all end.

I guess you'll just have to wait and see.

The Name Is A Lie, As Is The Cake

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