Chapter Three: Maria
Kazu: *steals last cupcake* Interesting chapter name...
Ashley: Yeah, very. Well, this chapter does have to do with the person in the role of Maria. And...it's a song name!
Rika: *sighs*
Ashley: You guys are getting boring. I'm inviting everyone else. HEY GUYS, COME HERE!!!
Ryo: Yeah?
Ashley: These guys are getting boring. So, make conversation!
Takato: You've got....um...lots of reviews...
Ashley: *darkly* I know.
Henry: I guess people don't appreciate fine plays like West Side Story...
Ashley: Or they hate me...
Henry: Yeah, that too.
Ashley: Okay, enough of that. Say the disclaimer, Ryo.
Ryo: Um..okay. Ashley doesn't own Digimon, or West Side Story, but she is lucky to own herself. And Amber owns Amber. And same with Sarah. That makes no sense.
Ashley: Hmm...maybe. Now, chapter three: Maria...
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Many weeks passed, leaving only a four days to the big night.
"Dress rehearsal starts in fifteen minutes everyone! Get ready." Mrs. Tenner shouted, as all the students ran around onstage.
Ashley was sitting around, doing absolutely nothing, except talking to Rika. Somehow the conversation landed on Brittany, the girl who was playing Maria.
"We should congratulate her. I never did," Ashley said.
"Who would want to CONGRATULATE a person who has to KISS Ryo?" Rika asked.
"Come on, be nice..." Ashley said, and Rika sighed.
"Alright, I'll say congrats and then leave."
Brittany, who was sitting alone, was working on her lines for the play. Ashley and Rika slowly walked up to her. Ashley was the first to speak.
"Um..hi, Brittany. Congratulations on the part of Maria. You're really good at it."
Brittany looked up and snickered. "Coming from YOU, that doesn't mean a thing."
Ashley looked a little taken back at first, but recovered. "I wish you good luck at the performance."
"And I DON'T wish you good luck, because I know it will go to bad waste on YOU." Brittany looked back down at her lines, "You shouldn't even gotten a part, your acting is so bad."
"Okay, Brittany, that's it!" Rika suddenly said, "All I was going to do was come over and say 'Congrats!'...but you don't DESERVE it. You're a stuck-up brat!"
Brittany didn't seem fazed one bit. "Oh, poo. I'll just have to get over it. Excuse me." And with that, Brittany got up and went through the door leading to backstage.
"I don't like that girl one bit," Ashley muttered.
"Me either."
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After rehearsal, the group, with Henry's girlfriend, Amber, was meeting in the park. Rika was in a extremely bad mood after the encounter with Brittany. And, coincidentally, the subject landed on Brittany.
"She is so HOT!" Kazu said.
"I agree," Kenta...um...agreed.
Amber started laughing. "Like you'll have any chance with her."
"HEY!"
Everyone started cracking up, except Rika and Ashley.
"I don't like her..." Ashley said quietly.
"Why not?" Henry asked.
"She's just a stuck-up little brat who doesn't deserve any part in this play!" Rika yelled.
"Calm down, calm down." Ryo tried to calm Rika down with no luck. "Okay, what happened?"
"I was trying to say 'congratulations' to her and she started insulting Ashley," Rika explained.
"How?" Takato asked.
"The usual a stuck-up brat would say...she doesn't deserve to be Maria," Rika said.
"Well, there's nothing we can do about it," Henry said, "Let's let Brittany be Maria, and we can go on with our own parts."
Everyone agreed.
"I'll still think she's hot though."
"KAZU!"
"Sorry."
~~T~H~R~E~E~~M~O~R~E~~D~A~Y~S~~L~E~F~T~~
"Stupid rehearsals...I don't even see why I bother to come," Rika muttered, as she sat down in a chair backstage.
"Rika!" another stage member, Isabelle, exclaimed, "You know we have much more work to do! I don't even know how we are going to get it finished."
"We have barely nothing left. All we have to do is pick up the tickets from Hallmark (A/N: I don't own Hallmark either. ^_^) and tell the copying place how many programs we need."
"And make sure nothing will go wrong with the stage and props...and check all the costumes, and everything else that needs a run-through before we perform!" Isabelle said.
"When you break it down, it's barely nothing," Rika concluded, matter-of- factly.
"Urgh!" Isabelle gave up, and ran off to check the props. Rika shook her head, and watched the chaos on the stage. Everyone was freaking out.
"I am SO glad I don't have a part..." Rika muttered.
"Okay, people, take a five minute break. I really really need a break!" Mrs. Tenner almost gasped.
The people on stage scattered into the audience or backstage, sighing with relief.
"I hate my part," Ryo sighed, and Rika snickered.
"It's not funny!! How would you feel if you had a huge part in play and everyone was counting on you?" Ryo asked.
"I would laugh...because I wouldn't have a part."
"Lighten up Rika...he has many lines to learn," Ashley came in view. "That's exactly the reason I didn't want the part of Maria."
"So, how's the part of Anybodys going?" Rika asked.
"Great. I know all of my lines. I'm confident."
"Lucky you," Ryo said, sarcastically.
"Okay, we're gonna leave you alone Ryo..." Ashley said, as she grabbed her lines and walked backstage with Rika.
"Over here!" Takato yelled, in the back of the stage with the rest of the group.
"Hey guys. How are your lines coming along?" Ashley asked.
"Great, thank you-oo, ooblee-oo!" Jeri exclaimed.
"Alright..." Ashley said slowly, "How 'bout the rest of you?"
"Great."
"Same."
"I can't wait till the performance."
Everyone was confident with their parts. Rika said, "Looks like everyone is set...except Mr. I-snap-at-everyone-who-makes-a-joke."
"Ahh..." Henry said, looking out to where Ryo was pacing back and forth, "Yeah. It seems like he's working a bit too much."
To the right of Ryo, Brittany was dancing around stage as part of one of her songs.
"Brittany looks confident," Kenta said.
"TOO confident..." Ashley murmured.
"She DOES act like she knows everything," Amber said, "She came up to me today and started to "teach" me how to accent my narration parts. She said I wasn't doing them right."
"Hmm..." Everyone pondered and Brittany for a second.
"Everyone! Back to your places!! Back! We are doing scene four!" Mrs. Tenner shouted from the stage.
"Cool...I'm not in this scene," Ashley said.
"I have to narrate EVERY scene," Amber grumbled, and set out for the stage. Everyone except Rika and Ashley did too.
On the stage, all the cast members were getting ready, and taking places. But Brittany was still dancing around the stage, unaware of where she was going.
Long story short, BANG! "AHHHHHH!!"
"Brittany! Brittany!" Brittany's friend, Jamie, cried out, rushing over to help her.
Brittany was on the floor, groaning in pain. All the cast immediately rushed over to see what was wrong with their star lady.
"My leg! It's broken!" Brittany shouted, as the cast started to panic, "I can't go on with the play!"
Mrs. Tenner was trying to calm everyone down. "People, people, we will find another Maria. Who knows the lines?"
Everyone looked blank. "NO ONE KNOWS THE LINES?!" Mrs. Tenner yelled, panicking herself, and going backstage to see if anyone back there could help.
Backstage, where everyone was totally oblivious to what was happening onstage, Rika and Ashley were talking about the part of Maria.
"It's so fake that part! And it's so EASY..." Rika was saying.
"Easy? I'd like to see you say a line..." Ashley said.
"I mean, all you have to say is: 'My hands are cold...yours too...so warm...'" Rika recited.
"Rika, that's - that's - "
"PERFECT!" someone cut in. Mrs. Tenner came running up to Rika, a big smile on her face.
"Congratulations Rika...you've got the part of Maria."
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Rika: How did I know this was going to happen?
Ashley: *innocently* What?
Kazu: Hahaha...
Rika: Oh, shut up.
Ashley: Well, LOYAL reviewers, review PLEASE? Pretty please? I'll give you a chocolately chip cookie! Alright...? Alright!
Kazu: In other words, CLICK THAT BUTTON BELOW AND REVIEW!
(Next chapter: Dealing with the news...and (maybe) part of the play! ^_^)
Kazu: *steals last cupcake* Interesting chapter name...
Ashley: Yeah, very. Well, this chapter does have to do with the person in the role of Maria. And...it's a song name!
Rika: *sighs*
Ashley: You guys are getting boring. I'm inviting everyone else. HEY GUYS, COME HERE!!!
Ryo: Yeah?
Ashley: These guys are getting boring. So, make conversation!
Takato: You've got....um...lots of reviews...
Ashley: *darkly* I know.
Henry: I guess people don't appreciate fine plays like West Side Story...
Ashley: Or they hate me...
Henry: Yeah, that too.
Ashley: Okay, enough of that. Say the disclaimer, Ryo.
Ryo: Um..okay. Ashley doesn't own Digimon, or West Side Story, but she is lucky to own herself. And Amber owns Amber. And same with Sarah. That makes no sense.
Ashley: Hmm...maybe. Now, chapter three: Maria...
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Many weeks passed, leaving only a four days to the big night.
"Dress rehearsal starts in fifteen minutes everyone! Get ready." Mrs. Tenner shouted, as all the students ran around onstage.
Ashley was sitting around, doing absolutely nothing, except talking to Rika. Somehow the conversation landed on Brittany, the girl who was playing Maria.
"We should congratulate her. I never did," Ashley said.
"Who would want to CONGRATULATE a person who has to KISS Ryo?" Rika asked.
"Come on, be nice..." Ashley said, and Rika sighed.
"Alright, I'll say congrats and then leave."
Brittany, who was sitting alone, was working on her lines for the play. Ashley and Rika slowly walked up to her. Ashley was the first to speak.
"Um..hi, Brittany. Congratulations on the part of Maria. You're really good at it."
Brittany looked up and snickered. "Coming from YOU, that doesn't mean a thing."
Ashley looked a little taken back at first, but recovered. "I wish you good luck at the performance."
"And I DON'T wish you good luck, because I know it will go to bad waste on YOU." Brittany looked back down at her lines, "You shouldn't even gotten a part, your acting is so bad."
"Okay, Brittany, that's it!" Rika suddenly said, "All I was going to do was come over and say 'Congrats!'...but you don't DESERVE it. You're a stuck-up brat!"
Brittany didn't seem fazed one bit. "Oh, poo. I'll just have to get over it. Excuse me." And with that, Brittany got up and went through the door leading to backstage.
"I don't like that girl one bit," Ashley muttered.
"Me either."
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After rehearsal, the group, with Henry's girlfriend, Amber, was meeting in the park. Rika was in a extremely bad mood after the encounter with Brittany. And, coincidentally, the subject landed on Brittany.
"She is so HOT!" Kazu said.
"I agree," Kenta...um...agreed.
Amber started laughing. "Like you'll have any chance with her."
"HEY!"
Everyone started cracking up, except Rika and Ashley.
"I don't like her..." Ashley said quietly.
"Why not?" Henry asked.
"She's just a stuck-up little brat who doesn't deserve any part in this play!" Rika yelled.
"Calm down, calm down." Ryo tried to calm Rika down with no luck. "Okay, what happened?"
"I was trying to say 'congratulations' to her and she started insulting Ashley," Rika explained.
"How?" Takato asked.
"The usual a stuck-up brat would say...she doesn't deserve to be Maria," Rika said.
"Well, there's nothing we can do about it," Henry said, "Let's let Brittany be Maria, and we can go on with our own parts."
Everyone agreed.
"I'll still think she's hot though."
"KAZU!"
"Sorry."
~~T~H~R~E~E~~M~O~R~E~~D~A~Y~S~~L~E~F~T~~
"Stupid rehearsals...I don't even see why I bother to come," Rika muttered, as she sat down in a chair backstage.
"Rika!" another stage member, Isabelle, exclaimed, "You know we have much more work to do! I don't even know how we are going to get it finished."
"We have barely nothing left. All we have to do is pick up the tickets from Hallmark (A/N: I don't own Hallmark either. ^_^) and tell the copying place how many programs we need."
"And make sure nothing will go wrong with the stage and props...and check all the costumes, and everything else that needs a run-through before we perform!" Isabelle said.
"When you break it down, it's barely nothing," Rika concluded, matter-of- factly.
"Urgh!" Isabelle gave up, and ran off to check the props. Rika shook her head, and watched the chaos on the stage. Everyone was freaking out.
"I am SO glad I don't have a part..." Rika muttered.
"Okay, people, take a five minute break. I really really need a break!" Mrs. Tenner almost gasped.
The people on stage scattered into the audience or backstage, sighing with relief.
"I hate my part," Ryo sighed, and Rika snickered.
"It's not funny!! How would you feel if you had a huge part in play and everyone was counting on you?" Ryo asked.
"I would laugh...because I wouldn't have a part."
"Lighten up Rika...he has many lines to learn," Ashley came in view. "That's exactly the reason I didn't want the part of Maria."
"So, how's the part of Anybodys going?" Rika asked.
"Great. I know all of my lines. I'm confident."
"Lucky you," Ryo said, sarcastically.
"Okay, we're gonna leave you alone Ryo..." Ashley said, as she grabbed her lines and walked backstage with Rika.
"Over here!" Takato yelled, in the back of the stage with the rest of the group.
"Hey guys. How are your lines coming along?" Ashley asked.
"Great, thank you-oo, ooblee-oo!" Jeri exclaimed.
"Alright..." Ashley said slowly, "How 'bout the rest of you?"
"Great."
"Same."
"I can't wait till the performance."
Everyone was confident with their parts. Rika said, "Looks like everyone is set...except Mr. I-snap-at-everyone-who-makes-a-joke."
"Ahh..." Henry said, looking out to where Ryo was pacing back and forth, "Yeah. It seems like he's working a bit too much."
To the right of Ryo, Brittany was dancing around stage as part of one of her songs.
"Brittany looks confident," Kenta said.
"TOO confident..." Ashley murmured.
"She DOES act like she knows everything," Amber said, "She came up to me today and started to "teach" me how to accent my narration parts. She said I wasn't doing them right."
"Hmm..." Everyone pondered and Brittany for a second.
"Everyone! Back to your places!! Back! We are doing scene four!" Mrs. Tenner shouted from the stage.
"Cool...I'm not in this scene," Ashley said.
"I have to narrate EVERY scene," Amber grumbled, and set out for the stage. Everyone except Rika and Ashley did too.
On the stage, all the cast members were getting ready, and taking places. But Brittany was still dancing around the stage, unaware of where she was going.
Long story short, BANG! "AHHHHHH!!"
"Brittany! Brittany!" Brittany's friend, Jamie, cried out, rushing over to help her.
Brittany was on the floor, groaning in pain. All the cast immediately rushed over to see what was wrong with their star lady.
"My leg! It's broken!" Brittany shouted, as the cast started to panic, "I can't go on with the play!"
Mrs. Tenner was trying to calm everyone down. "People, people, we will find another Maria. Who knows the lines?"
Everyone looked blank. "NO ONE KNOWS THE LINES?!" Mrs. Tenner yelled, panicking herself, and going backstage to see if anyone back there could help.
Backstage, where everyone was totally oblivious to what was happening onstage, Rika and Ashley were talking about the part of Maria.
"It's so fake that part! And it's so EASY..." Rika was saying.
"Easy? I'd like to see you say a line..." Ashley said.
"I mean, all you have to say is: 'My hands are cold...yours too...so warm...'" Rika recited.
"Rika, that's - that's - "
"PERFECT!" someone cut in. Mrs. Tenner came running up to Rika, a big smile on her face.
"Congratulations Rika...you've got the part of Maria."
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Rika: How did I know this was going to happen?
Ashley: *innocently* What?
Kazu: Hahaha...
Rika: Oh, shut up.
Ashley: Well, LOYAL reviewers, review PLEASE? Pretty please? I'll give you a chocolately chip cookie! Alright...? Alright!
Kazu: In other words, CLICK THAT BUTTON BELOW AND REVIEW!
(Next chapter: Dealing with the news...and (maybe) part of the play! ^_^)