A/N: Chapter 21. As always, my favorite readers gave fabulous reviews. Dani06 and xCuteyCupcakesx. And hello to my new reader AniimeChiick! Glad you're enjoying it so far!

So, my fabulous secretary lost her job… since I now have access to fanfiction again. She was devastated, but its ok, she'll get over it. I was so excited when I found out I could access this again. So thanks, Kylie for being my secretary! Woo! Well… on with the story!

The next day they had to perform during the day, one of their rare matinee performances. They all filed off the bus and into the theatre at 8.30, for the show to start at 11. Vanessa was in the middle of having her hair done when Ashley walked into her dressing room.

'How is it that your hair is already done and mine's only half done?' Vanessa asked incredulously. Ashley shrugged.

'Just lucky, I guess. So how was last night?' she asked. Vanessa grinned.

'It was great. The whole day was great. Apart from the traumatizing experience involving you.'

'Hey, that was so not my fault! And it was no picnic for me either.' Ashley said.

'I thought you were distraught! I was coming to comfort you!'

'Well that's sweet. Next time… just knock, before you come bursting in.'

'Ok, ok.' Vanessa said.

'You know…' Ashley trailed off. Vanessa looked at her. Ashley had a look on her face that said she wanted to say something else, but wasn't going to while Sandra was in the room.

'Hey, later on, we'll have Ash and Nessa time, k?' Vanessa said. Ashley grinned and nodded.

'Excellent. Ok, I'm gonna go annoy Corbin for a while. Tease him about his supposed "wicked sweet ninja skills". I'll see you later.' She left the room.

20 minutes later, Vanessa walked into the green room and saw Corbin raiding the cupboards. She grabbed a bottle of water from the fridge and flopped down on the couch.

'Where's everyone else?' she asked. Corbin shrugged.

'I don't know, I haven't seen anyone. Wait what are you doing here, you're usually the last one to be ready.'

'I don't know. I'm ready early today. You haven't seen Ash?'

'No, why?'

'She was in my room earlier and she said she was going to come annoy you for a while. She was going to tease you about your wicked sweet skills.'

'Oh. Well she didn't. And I don't know why she'd wanna tease me. We all know that my wicked sweet ninja skills are totally real. Hey man.' Corbin said as Zac came into the room.

'Hey. And I heard that. You do not have wicked sweet skills.' Zac said as he sat next to Vanessa, slinging an arm around her shoulders as he grabbed her water bottle and took a swig.

'Where's everyone else?' he asked.

'We were just discussing that.'

'Well Lucas is usually the first one here, and he's not, so he's probably off with Ash somewhere…' Corbin trailed off as Vanessa choked on her water and turned red.

'Are you ok?' Zac asked, patting her on the back. She nodded.

'What was that about?' Corbin asked suspiciously. Vanessa blushed and looked away.

'Nessa walked in on Ash and Lucas yesterday.' Zac said. Vanessa's eyes widened and she hit him.

'What do you mean walked in…? Oh.' a grin appeared on Corbin's face. 'That's funny.'

'It is not.' Lucas said from the doorway.

'I think I'm scared for life.' Vanessa agreed.

'I still think it's funny.'

'It's not funny. It was a traumatizing experience for everyone involved and it should never be spoken about again.'

'What are we talking about?' Ashley asked as she came into the room.

'Ness walking in on you on Luke.' Corbin replied quickly.

'Oh… ' Ashley said.

'But we've just agreed to never talk about it again.' Lucas added.

'Good.' The room fell silent.

'You lot are quiet.' Monique said as she came in.

'I silenced them with my wicked sweet ninja skills.' Corbin piped up. Everyone groaned.

'Must we start talking about this again?' Zac asked.

'Yes. It is time that you all recognized the fact that I do in fact have wicked sweet ninja skills and that in turn makes me wicked sweet in general.'

'You don't have wicked sweet ninja skills, Corbin.' Zac said, deadpan.

'I do! You admitted it last week!'

'When did I admit it?' Zac asked.

'Last week! I was talking about my wicked sweet ninja skills and you said "yeah ok Corbin, you have ninja skills." You said it.'

'I don't remember that. Does anyone else remember that?' Zac asked. Everyone else shook their heads. 'See Corbin, you're imagining things.'

'I'm not! I do so have wicked sweet ninja skills!' Corbin said, stamping his foot like a small child.

'Why are you lot still talking about this?' Kenny asked from the doorway. 'You've been having this discussion for months! Just agree with him so he shuts up. But right now, you all need to be on stage for warm up.' Kenny walked away.

'See? Kenny knows I have wicked sweet skills.'

'No he doesn't. He just doesn't want to listen to you talking about it anymore!' Zac said as he took Vanessa's hand and they headed to the stage for warm up. Corbin sulked all through interval and through most of the first act. It came to interval and everyone was sitting in the green room again. Corbin was still sulking.

'I do so have wicked sweet ninja skills.' He kept muttering under his breath. Everyone else was ignoring him. Until he finally exploded.

'Why can't you just admit it?!' he yelled.

'Corbin, honey, we're not going to lie to you, just to make you stop talking about it. And to be honest with you, the only wicked sweet skills you have are performance skills.' Monique said gently. Corbin pouted. Then his face lit up.

'What about wicked sweet Jedi skills?'

'No!' everyone chorused.

'Wicked sweet magic skills?'

'No, no and for the last time, no!'

Just then they were all called back to stage. Corbin sighed heavily as he stood up and left the room. The others all just looked at each other.

'Maybe we should just agree with him, to make him feel better.' Vanessa said softly to Zac.

'It'll only make it worse.'

When the show was finished, they had a few hours break before the night show. Everyone opted to go out and hang out at the café across the street, but Vanessa and Ashley decided to stay at the theatre and talk.

'So you never finished telling me about last night.' Ashley said, sitting on the bench in her dressing room while Vanessa sat indian style on the couch.

'It was amazing. We went out for a gorgeous dinner at this cute little restaurant. It was fun to just be ourselves for a while. And then we went back to our suite and had amazing sex.'

'Really? How amazing?'

'Amazing amazing.'

'Good. You guys deserved a fantastic anniversary.'

'So, you were going to say something earlier, but you didn't cause Sandra was there. What was that about?' Vanessa asked. Ashley laughed.

'Oh that. I was just going to say that Lucas was so embarrassed after you walked in, that he couldn't finish. He was all "like I can keep going after that." And then he left. I was just laughing at him.'

'Oh my god. I'm so going to tease him about that.'

'No, don't. He's a little sensitive about me talking about our sex life.' Ashley said with a wince. Vanessa laughed.

'Zac's the same. He keeps asking me if it's really necessary for me to tell you stuff like that.'

'It's just what we do.'

'I know. He'll get over it.' Vanessa shrugged.

'Sooo…. I haven't seen Joseph around much lately. Or Em. What's going on with that?'

'I don't know. I saw them both wandering around backstage this morning, but I didn't speak to either of them, and they didn't speak to me.'

'And Em didn't do her usual pre-show dressing room visit like normal. I hadn't realized until just then, but now that I think of it, that's a little weird, isn't it?'

'Yeah it is.' Vanessa said thoughtfully.

'Maybe tomorrow we should go visit her room. We haven't seen her in a while.'

'Yeah. It'd be good to see her. I hope Joseph won't be there though.'

'Me too.' Ashley said with a shudder. Just then they heard voices in the corridor.

'I do so have wicked sweet ninja skills! I don't care what you say.'

'Oh my god, he's still talking about it.' Ashley groaned. Vanessa rolled her eyes.

'CORBIN! YOU DO NOT HAVE WICKED SWEET SKILLS!' She yelled.

'I DO TOO!' Corbin yelled back as Ashley and Vanessa came out into the corridor.

'You weren't gone long.' Vanessa said as she slipped her arm around Zac.

'Yeah, well Corbin got us kicked out.' Zac replied darkly. Vanessa giggled but then fell silent at the look on Zac's face. Corbin was still ranting about his wicked sweet ninja, magic and Jedi skills.

'I just thought of something. What if I totally used my Jedi mind powers to make you believe I have wicked sweet skills. Then you couldn't possibly deny it.'

'No Corbin.' Ashley said with a roll of her eyes.

'Why not? I could totally be Luke Skywalker. In fact, once you saw my wicked sweet magic skills, you'd probably all think I was Harry potter.'

'No we wouldn't.'

'Yes you would.'

'no we wouldn't.' the argument went on as Zac gently pulled on Vanessa hand and took her into his dressing room, closing the door behind them.

'You know what they're going to think when they realize we're not there.' Vanessa said with a smirk. Zac grinned.

'I don't care.' he said as he sat on the couch, pulling her onto his lap. She curled into him and put her head on his shoulder, with her face pressed into his neck.

'Are you ok?' he asked. She nodded.

'Just tired.' She said softly. Zac nodded. They sat in silence for a while, listening to their friends arguing in the corridor. Then someone banged on the door. Zac sighed as Vanessa climbed off his lap and opened the door. Corbin was standing there with a big grin on his face, rocking backwards and forwards on the balls of his feet, looking just like a kid at Christmas.

'What?' Zac asked irritably.

'Lucas just admitted it. So now you have to admit it too.' Corbin beamed. Zac looked at Vanessa, who shrugged. Zac looked out into the corridor at Lucas, who also shrugged. Zac sighed.

'Ok Corbin, yes, you have wicked sweet ninja skills. And Jedi skills and magic skills. You're like a cross between the ninja turtles, Luke Skywalker and Harry Potter.' Zac said in a monotone. Corbin jumped into the air with a grin.

'Yes! I have wicked sweet skills! You all admitted it!' He began to laugh maniacally, so Zac closed the dressing room door again, pulling Vanessa into his arms.

'See, I told you admitting it would be worse.'

Yeah, ok, pointless chapter. But please at least tell me you thought it was funny. It used to be a lot funnier, but I accidentally deleted it so I had to write it again….. devastated much?