Title: Uncertainty
Author: Sparkling Diamond Satine
Warning: Cheesy story that I decided to write during my school's production of 'Singin' in the Rain.' (And ooh it was raining during the performance…and they were singing…haha) There will probably be some inside jokes…only because I love our inside jokes to the play…they're so great!
If you want to know the summary, it's in chapter 1.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything that doesn't belong to me…'cuz you know that wouldn't make sense and I like to make sense most of the time. The song is 'Lucky Star' and is from…guess what! Yes, Singin in the Rain! Big surprise there :D
Chapter 1 also has some important notes. Read those before reading this!
Note: My computer crashed over the weekend, so I was lucky I had everything uploaded! Anyway, sorry for the wait on my other stories, they'll be continued after I finish this. I've been trying to do this and study for the SAT's at the same time, so yeah, here's chapter 7!!
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Chapter 7 ~ Roxanne
I woke up once again in the Red Room, where I quickly got up and into my rehearsal clothes, complete with the golden crown thing. I looked at myself in the mirror and ran as fast as I could to the Moulin Rouge converted theatre. I held up a finger and caught my breath before running to the stage.
"Sorry I'm late, shall we begin the scene?" I asked.
Chris grinned, with his hat tilted slightly; he stood off to the side. He looked at his list and frowned. "Where is the Argentinean??"
"He fell asleep and we couldn't get him up. We'll need someone to stand in…but who will we get who knows all the lines?" Zidler asked.
"I'll…stand in," Chris said, hesitating. "I've practically memorized every song and line he sings."
"I wonder why…" one of the dancers mumbled.
"All right, just please continue before I decide to change the ending!" the Duke threatened.
"Okay, before we start the scene, I thought I should explain it. The evil actor has just tried to take away my...I mean the other actor's career and make it look like he quit. Satine, the actress, thinks he has stopped loving her, and is about to leave with the evil actor forever, but before she can, I, as the other actor, will sing the secret love song, and she will return by his side," Chris explained. "Satine, shall we take it from your line?"
"I cannot believe he is leaving me…" I said, with as much sadness as I could possibly show.
"I am sorry, young sparrow. He has found another and will be leaving acting to pursue a…different career," Zidler recited.
"But…he loved me so much!" I said.
"My dear, he never loved you. He was just pretending to show how great an actor he can be! Now come with me, I can make your life so much happier than it ever was!" Zidler said.
"It can't be…" I said, forcing tears to come to my eyes.
"Do not believe the mush this man is feeding you! I do love you! You are my lucky star. I saw you from afar. Two lovely eyes at me they were gleaming…beaming…" he sang, walking toward the stage.
"I was star struck!" I sang back.
"You're all my lucky charms," he sang.
"I'm lucky in your arms," I sang.
"You've opened heaven's portal here on earth for this poor mortal," we sang together.
"You are my lucky star!" I sang alone, and we all looked at the Duke for permission to keep the script the way it is.
"I don't like the ending…" he said, quite nervously.
"What?" Chris asked, his voice raising an octave as he said it.
"Why didn't the actress choose the other actor? He truly loved her and risked anything to get her. The other actor did nothing. I suggest the actress choose the other actor," the Duke said.
"Sowwy! I'm sowwy, but this ending does not uphold the Bohemian ideas of truth, beauty, freedom, and love!" Toulouse, said.
"I don't care about your Bohemian ideas! Why shouldn't the actress choose the other actor?" the Duke asked.
"Because she doesn't love you! H-him…she doesn't love him!" Chris said, regretting the slippage.
"So I see…the ending will be changed. And the actress will choose the other actor. It will be rewritten, without the secret song, by tomorrow morning and rehearsed just in time for opening night," the Duke announced.
I decided something had to be done, considering that I did not feel like having the ending rewritten and having to rehearse it right before opening night.
"But, sir, that is impossible!" Zidler declared.
"Harold," I said, flaunting my body in his face. I had to do my best to seduce him, if it meant saving the show, and the song. "How can you treat the Duke so appallingly? He should be treated with more respect. I'll tell you what, we shall have a little supper in the Gothic tower, and see whether you think the ending shall be rewritten," I said, adding an erotic tone to my voice.
Chris looked at me with hurt eyes, and I looked back with eyes filled with worry and sorrow. I was following exactly in Satine's footsteps, but I promised myself that I would not get anywhere close to making love with him.
~*~
"You can't make love with him," I said to her, grabbing her hand.
"I have to…he's too powerful!" Chrissy said, almost in tears. "You promised…you wouldn't be jealous!"
"Of course…I won't be jealous…" I said, not believing the words coming out of my mouth.
"You are my lucky star..." she sang in my ear. "I saw you from afar…"
"Of course…you are my lucky star…go…but I will not stop thinking of anything but you," I said, feeling my heart breaking as she took every step towards the Gothic tower in that sleek blue velvet dress.
I took my place with the other actors and actresses as we waited for the scene across the street to finish. No one really wanted to know what happened, at least no one I knew wanted to know.
"Don't worry, Shakespeare!" one of the dancers, definitely not Nini, said, crawling onto my lap. "Once the Duke gets his end…ing!"
I grabbed that girl right then and their, and threw her off of me. This wasn't what I needed to hear, and with my darling about to make love with the most disgusting man ever.
The Argentinean grabbed her away from me and yelled, "Never fall in love with a woman who sells herself. It always ends BAD!!"
I looked at the Argentinean with a blank stare, and then rolled my eyes.
"We'll have a dance!" he suggested. "In the brothels of Buenos Aires. Tells the story of a prostitute…and a man who falls in love with her. First, there is desire. Then, passion. Then, suspicion, jealousy, anger, betrayal! When love is for the highest bidder, there can be no trust. Without trust, there is no love! Jealousy…yes, jealousy will drive you...mad!" he began.
Roxanne, you don't have to put on that red light.
Walk the streets for money.
You don't care if it's wrong or if it's right.
Roxanne, you don't have to wear that dress tonight.
Roxanne, you don't have to sell your body to the night.
I had to raise up my voice, so I started singing the first thing that came to my mind.
His eyes upon your face.
His hand upon your hand.
His lips caress your skin…
It's more than I can stand.
Roxanne!
Why does my heart cry?
Roxanne!
Feelings I can't fight?
You're free to leave me,
But just don't deceive me,
And please believe me when I say I love you.
~*~
"When this production succeeds, you will no longer be a can can dancer. I will make you…a star," the Duke said. I could barely keep in the few foods I ate for breakfast down when I took my glove and rubbed it across my face, making eyes at him. "Accept it…as a gift from this actor to his glowing star," the Duke said, opening a jewelry box with a diamond necklace. This diamond necklace had more diamonds on it than even I remember Nicole Kidman wearing in the movie! I must have been dreaming, it was so heavy when he put it around my neck!
"And the ending?" I asked.
"Let Zidler and the writer keep their fairy-tale ending," the Duke said, smiling glumly, knowing that he was about to get his own ending. That's what he thinks!
~*~
We started singing again, as I made my way outside toward the Gothic tower. I needed to reach out for her and make sure she was still mine.
Roxanne, You don't have to put on that red light...
Why does my heart cry?
Roxanne...
You don't have to do your hair tonight...
Feelings I can't fight.
Roxanne!
You're free to leave me, but just don't deceive me,
And please, believe me when I say, I love you...
~*~
"Come what may…I will love you until my dying day…no!" I said, refusing my best. Oh, how he needed a good kick in the groin! I these feet weren't stuck in the most painful heels, that kick would come straight from me!
"No?" the Duke asked. He looked down to follow my line of sight. He saw Chris standing there, looking up at me, and most nearly snapped. "So I see…it's our very own actor…"
"Dear Duke…" I said, trying to think of some way around it. I didn't need the violence that I knew would come very soon.
"SILENCE!" the Duke screamed, closing the windows behind him. "You made me believe that you loved me…"
~*~
Roxanne, you don't have to put on that red light...
Why does my heart cry?
Roxanne...
You don't have to do your hair tonight...
Feelings I can't fight.
Roxanne!
...you don't have to put on that red light...
Roxanne!
You don't have to do your hair tonight...
Why does my heart cry?
Feelings I can't fight
Roxanne!
~*~
While I practically heard the chorus from inside the Moulin Rouge, the Duke was horrifyingly trying to…well let's not mention that because it's just WRONG!! I tried to escape his gross grasp as much as humanly possible, but with this corset binding me, and the fact that I could feel a coughing spell come on very soon, I just hoped Le Chocolat would come and save me soon. When I heard Chris screaming from across the street, I knew that he wasn't going to make in time, so I had to take things into my own hands.
I kicked off my heels, pulled back my arm, threw a right to the chin, and kicked him where the sun don't shine. That knocked him out for quite a while, so I raced home, wearing just my undergarments, and tears streaming down my face because I knew what I had just done may have endangered my life, as well as Chris'.
~*~
End: Chapter 7
Let me make a note, anything that came straight from the movie, I knew off the top of my head. All the dialogue, purely memorized! Wow…aren't I just terrible? Haha, now I know they're not perfect, so I improvised in order to not go through the entire movie. A little note on Roxanne, I was lazy, so I copied and pasted from a site…but yeah, I did know it!
Author: Sparkling Diamond Satine
Warning: Cheesy story that I decided to write during my school's production of 'Singin' in the Rain.' (And ooh it was raining during the performance…and they were singing…haha) There will probably be some inside jokes…only because I love our inside jokes to the play…they're so great!
If you want to know the summary, it's in chapter 1.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything that doesn't belong to me…'cuz you know that wouldn't make sense and I like to make sense most of the time. The song is 'Lucky Star' and is from…guess what! Yes, Singin in the Rain! Big surprise there :D
Chapter 1 also has some important notes. Read those before reading this!
Note: My computer crashed over the weekend, so I was lucky I had everything uploaded! Anyway, sorry for the wait on my other stories, they'll be continued after I finish this. I've been trying to do this and study for the SAT's at the same time, so yeah, here's chapter 7!!
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Chapter 7 ~ Roxanne
I woke up once again in the Red Room, where I quickly got up and into my rehearsal clothes, complete with the golden crown thing. I looked at myself in the mirror and ran as fast as I could to the Moulin Rouge converted theatre. I held up a finger and caught my breath before running to the stage.
"Sorry I'm late, shall we begin the scene?" I asked.
Chris grinned, with his hat tilted slightly; he stood off to the side. He looked at his list and frowned. "Where is the Argentinean??"
"He fell asleep and we couldn't get him up. We'll need someone to stand in…but who will we get who knows all the lines?" Zidler asked.
"I'll…stand in," Chris said, hesitating. "I've practically memorized every song and line he sings."
"I wonder why…" one of the dancers mumbled.
"All right, just please continue before I decide to change the ending!" the Duke threatened.
"Okay, before we start the scene, I thought I should explain it. The evil actor has just tried to take away my...I mean the other actor's career and make it look like he quit. Satine, the actress, thinks he has stopped loving her, and is about to leave with the evil actor forever, but before she can, I, as the other actor, will sing the secret love song, and she will return by his side," Chris explained. "Satine, shall we take it from your line?"
"I cannot believe he is leaving me…" I said, with as much sadness as I could possibly show.
"I am sorry, young sparrow. He has found another and will be leaving acting to pursue a…different career," Zidler recited.
"But…he loved me so much!" I said.
"My dear, he never loved you. He was just pretending to show how great an actor he can be! Now come with me, I can make your life so much happier than it ever was!" Zidler said.
"It can't be…" I said, forcing tears to come to my eyes.
"Do not believe the mush this man is feeding you! I do love you! You are my lucky star. I saw you from afar. Two lovely eyes at me they were gleaming…beaming…" he sang, walking toward the stage.
"I was star struck!" I sang back.
"You're all my lucky charms," he sang.
"I'm lucky in your arms," I sang.
"You've opened heaven's portal here on earth for this poor mortal," we sang together.
"You are my lucky star!" I sang alone, and we all looked at the Duke for permission to keep the script the way it is.
"I don't like the ending…" he said, quite nervously.
"What?" Chris asked, his voice raising an octave as he said it.
"Why didn't the actress choose the other actor? He truly loved her and risked anything to get her. The other actor did nothing. I suggest the actress choose the other actor," the Duke said.
"Sowwy! I'm sowwy, but this ending does not uphold the Bohemian ideas of truth, beauty, freedom, and love!" Toulouse, said.
"I don't care about your Bohemian ideas! Why shouldn't the actress choose the other actor?" the Duke asked.
"Because she doesn't love you! H-him…she doesn't love him!" Chris said, regretting the slippage.
"So I see…the ending will be changed. And the actress will choose the other actor. It will be rewritten, without the secret song, by tomorrow morning and rehearsed just in time for opening night," the Duke announced.
I decided something had to be done, considering that I did not feel like having the ending rewritten and having to rehearse it right before opening night.
"But, sir, that is impossible!" Zidler declared.
"Harold," I said, flaunting my body in his face. I had to do my best to seduce him, if it meant saving the show, and the song. "How can you treat the Duke so appallingly? He should be treated with more respect. I'll tell you what, we shall have a little supper in the Gothic tower, and see whether you think the ending shall be rewritten," I said, adding an erotic tone to my voice.
Chris looked at me with hurt eyes, and I looked back with eyes filled with worry and sorrow. I was following exactly in Satine's footsteps, but I promised myself that I would not get anywhere close to making love with him.
~*~
"You can't make love with him," I said to her, grabbing her hand.
"I have to…he's too powerful!" Chrissy said, almost in tears. "You promised…you wouldn't be jealous!"
"Of course…I won't be jealous…" I said, not believing the words coming out of my mouth.
"You are my lucky star..." she sang in my ear. "I saw you from afar…"
"Of course…you are my lucky star…go…but I will not stop thinking of anything but you," I said, feeling my heart breaking as she took every step towards the Gothic tower in that sleek blue velvet dress.
I took my place with the other actors and actresses as we waited for the scene across the street to finish. No one really wanted to know what happened, at least no one I knew wanted to know.
"Don't worry, Shakespeare!" one of the dancers, definitely not Nini, said, crawling onto my lap. "Once the Duke gets his end…ing!"
I grabbed that girl right then and their, and threw her off of me. This wasn't what I needed to hear, and with my darling about to make love with the most disgusting man ever.
The Argentinean grabbed her away from me and yelled, "Never fall in love with a woman who sells herself. It always ends BAD!!"
I looked at the Argentinean with a blank stare, and then rolled my eyes.
"We'll have a dance!" he suggested. "In the brothels of Buenos Aires. Tells the story of a prostitute…and a man who falls in love with her. First, there is desire. Then, passion. Then, suspicion, jealousy, anger, betrayal! When love is for the highest bidder, there can be no trust. Without trust, there is no love! Jealousy…yes, jealousy will drive you...mad!" he began.
Roxanne, you don't have to put on that red light.
Walk the streets for money.
You don't care if it's wrong or if it's right.
Roxanne, you don't have to wear that dress tonight.
Roxanne, you don't have to sell your body to the night.
I had to raise up my voice, so I started singing the first thing that came to my mind.
His eyes upon your face.
His hand upon your hand.
His lips caress your skin…
It's more than I can stand.
Roxanne!
Why does my heart cry?
Roxanne!
Feelings I can't fight?
You're free to leave me,
But just don't deceive me,
And please believe me when I say I love you.
~*~
"When this production succeeds, you will no longer be a can can dancer. I will make you…a star," the Duke said. I could barely keep in the few foods I ate for breakfast down when I took my glove and rubbed it across my face, making eyes at him. "Accept it…as a gift from this actor to his glowing star," the Duke said, opening a jewelry box with a diamond necklace. This diamond necklace had more diamonds on it than even I remember Nicole Kidman wearing in the movie! I must have been dreaming, it was so heavy when he put it around my neck!
"And the ending?" I asked.
"Let Zidler and the writer keep their fairy-tale ending," the Duke said, smiling glumly, knowing that he was about to get his own ending. That's what he thinks!
~*~
We started singing again, as I made my way outside toward the Gothic tower. I needed to reach out for her and make sure she was still mine.
Roxanne, You don't have to put on that red light...
Why does my heart cry?
Roxanne...
You don't have to do your hair tonight...
Feelings I can't fight.
Roxanne!
You're free to leave me, but just don't deceive me,
And please, believe me when I say, I love you...
~*~
"Come what may…I will love you until my dying day…no!" I said, refusing my best. Oh, how he needed a good kick in the groin! I these feet weren't stuck in the most painful heels, that kick would come straight from me!
"No?" the Duke asked. He looked down to follow my line of sight. He saw Chris standing there, looking up at me, and most nearly snapped. "So I see…it's our very own actor…"
"Dear Duke…" I said, trying to think of some way around it. I didn't need the violence that I knew would come very soon.
"SILENCE!" the Duke screamed, closing the windows behind him. "You made me believe that you loved me…"
~*~
Roxanne, you don't have to put on that red light...
Why does my heart cry?
Roxanne...
You don't have to do your hair tonight...
Feelings I can't fight.
Roxanne!
...you don't have to put on that red light...
Roxanne!
You don't have to do your hair tonight...
Why does my heart cry?
Feelings I can't fight
Roxanne!
~*~
While I practically heard the chorus from inside the Moulin Rouge, the Duke was horrifyingly trying to…well let's not mention that because it's just WRONG!! I tried to escape his gross grasp as much as humanly possible, but with this corset binding me, and the fact that I could feel a coughing spell come on very soon, I just hoped Le Chocolat would come and save me soon. When I heard Chris screaming from across the street, I knew that he wasn't going to make in time, so I had to take things into my own hands.
I kicked off my heels, pulled back my arm, threw a right to the chin, and kicked him where the sun don't shine. That knocked him out for quite a while, so I raced home, wearing just my undergarments, and tears streaming down my face because I knew what I had just done may have endangered my life, as well as Chris'.
~*~
End: Chapter 7
Let me make a note, anything that came straight from the movie, I knew off the top of my head. All the dialogue, purely memorized! Wow…aren't I just terrible? Haha, now I know they're not perfect, so I improvised in order to not go through the entire movie. A little note on Roxanne, I was lazy, so I copied and pasted from a site…but yeah, I did know it!