Chapter 11: Isabella's Audition

Isabella started to get ready.  She had an audition today for a Broadway show.  They were looking for actresses between the ages of 13 and 16.  "I can bring Minako for support!" she thought. 

"Minako…" she called.

"Yes?"

"Would you like to join me at an audition?  Neither of my parents can come and I would like to have someone there with me."

"An audition?!  I'D LOVE TO!!!"

"Don't get too excited now.  You can't audition since it's for a Broadway play.  They would need someone for at least a year."

"That's ok.  I still would love to go backstage at a Broadway theater!  How exciting!"

"You know it's so amazing how alike we are!"

"Yeah!  We both like to sing, to act, and play volleyball!  I'm so lucky to get a roomie like you!"  Minako noticed Isabella's ring.  "Hey do you wear that ring for good luck or something?"

"Oh this… no… well… yeah I guess I do.  Addy gave me this.  We all have one.  Each a little different than the other but we all have one."  She shows Minako the ring.  "See, my ring is a pale yellow stone, and it has a tulip engraved in it.  We each have a different flower and color."

"That's soooo cool!  How did Addy know where to get them?"

"I dunno, but when I first became friends with her, she just had it.  It all started with an audition I had…"

*Flashback*

"Oh god I'm late I'm late I'm LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATE!!!"  Isabella bumped into a girl with jet-black hair while she's running.  "Oh I'm soooo sorry!  I can't believe it!  I'm soooo sorry!"

"It's ok… you are obliviously in a rush.  Don't worry about it."

"No really… I feel bad.  Um… would you like to join me?  I have an audition, that's why I was running but afterwards I can buy you something.  To make up for bumping into you."

"No that's ok really.  I don't want to impose…"

"Oh not at all!  Please?"  Isabella gave the girl her best puppy dog eyes.

"Oh…" she was slowly giving in.  "Alright I'll go with you."

"Yeah!  This is wonderful!  Cause you see usually one of my parents can come with me but they are both busy and then I was late!  Oh it just hasn't been my day at all!  Oh how rude of me, here I am asking things from you and I don't even know your name!  I'm Isabella."  She offered her hand.

"Adelaide.  But my friends call me Addy."

"Well Addy, pleased to meet ya!"

At the Studio…

"So what kind of audition is this anyway?" Addy asked her new friend.

"Well it's for a commercial," Isabella said.  "But they won't say what.  I guess they are going to be working with someone who is pretty popular."

"Wow!  That's really big eh?"

"Yeah!  Hey what is this cat doing here?" Isabella picked up a cat with golden fur and a silhouette of a rose on its forehead.

"Marigold!  What are you doing here?"  The cat drops a ring on the floor.  "A ring?  Uh… Isabella do you want this?"

"Wow!  It's exquisite!  Oh thank you Addy!  And I don't even know you!  Wow!"

"Let's just say that it's the start of a beautiful friendship."

*End Flashback*

"And that's how it happened."  Isabella finished.

"Wow!  That's amazing!" Minako said.  "Are you ready to go?"

"Yeah, wait for me downstairs, I need to do something first."

"Sure no problem."  As Minako left the room Isabella replayed the rest of that scene in her head.

*Flashback*

"Oh!  It's my turn!" Isabella said.

"Break a leg!"

"Let's hope so!"

Isabella walked to the audition room.  "State you name and age," the woman at the desk said.

"Isabella Dayton, 15 years old."

"Ok, the way this audition will go is that we tell you to read something and you read it how you see fit."

"Got it."

"I want you to take that book right there and read from page 125 section 3."

"Ok, no problem."  She flipped through the pages.  "Ok…"  She said the text as if she is upset and on the verge of tears.  "My fault?  How dare you say it's my fault when you are the one that left!  I thought you loved me… No!  Stay where you are!  I can't even bear to touch you!  I can't even bear to look at…" She stopped herself when she noticed that the woman at the table was asleep.  "Am I that bad?"  She walked up to the woman.  "Miss?  Miss are you ok?"

In the next room, Addy could hear Isabella screaming.  She ran into the audition room and saw a monster attacking Isabella.  "Isabella!  Remember that ring?!  Scream, Tulip Power, transform!"

"TULIP POWER… TRANSFORM!" She transformed into Sailor Tulip.

"Addy transform!" Marigold yelled.

"ROSE POWER… TRANSFORM!"

*End Flashback*

"We destroyed the monster and that was the start of our wonderful friendship!'" Isabella thought.  She left the room for her audition.