It was fourth period, and alone in the cello room, the Four sat in a circle. Laura got up and peeked out the window leading out to the main orchestra room.

"What d'you see?"

"Not much."

"Good. Then sit down." She did. They all looked at each other.

"So who has the Ring?" Silence. Rachel stood up, saying, "Elwyn, I gave it to you."

She laughed nervously. "See, I thought it was really. ugly, so I gave it to Laura." Rachel turned to Laura.

"Hey, it wasn't green, so I didn't care. I gave it to Sarah." Laura finished, shrugging. All eyes turned to Sarah, but were quickly averted when it was clear she was having another romantic rendezvous with her viola.

"Ugh! Sarah, that is *so* gross!" Sarah stopped what she was doing long enough to say with utter seriousness,

"It's not gross, it's love!" She then proceeded to quote long passages from Moulin Rouge. Elwyn turned back to face her.

"Sarah, the idea of having a relationship with an actual guy escapes you, huh?" Sarah shot her an angry glare.

"Billy *is* real, aren't you Billy?" And she was off again. Laura snapped.

"Sarah, WHAT DID YOU DO WITH THE RING?!?"

"I gave it to Billy."

"And what did Billy do with it?"

"Um."

She shook her viola up and down, and from inside, there came a rattling. "Billy ate it. He said it was yummy, too." Elwyn grabbed the instrument from Sarah's grasps, and pulled out a pencil, proceeding to get it to slide onto the writing utensil.

"Your hurting Billy!!! Stop this MADNESS!" After smacking Sarah upside the head, she was able to retrieve the Ring. It was very ugly, the Four admitted. Purple plastic, with a blue sequin jewel on the top. Elwyn set the Ring on her palm.

"It must be cast into the toilet of which it was created!" They all turned to Laura, who was getting into the spirit of things. Rachel turned to Elwyn, who was holding the Ring very gingerly.

"This. came from a TOILET?!? Ewwwwwwww!"

"Well, I'm not sure."

"Eww, eww, EWW!" Elwyn dropped the Ring, and it began to roll on the floor. It was headed.

"Sarah! Catch it before it goes underneath the cabinet!"

"Don't touch it!" But Sarah was oblivious to these cries, as she was making sure her "true love" was alright, and talking to "him." And it was gone. Laura held her head in her hands, exasperatedly. Elwyn cursed in some unknown language, probably made up. Rachel shook her head, and sighed, obviously highly annoyed. Sarah continued to talk to Billy.

"Alright. Lets begin operation 'Piece of Plastic.' " Sarah looked up. "Hey, where's the Ring?" Elwyn lunged at her, as did Laura. However, Rachel was the only semi-sane one of the group, and as a result, not as violent as the rest.

"It went underneath the cabinet." The struggle stopped, and there was a gasp.

"The cabinet? How are we supposed to get it out from there?"

"We could use an instrument bow."

"We could." Rachel pulled out one of the cello bows from an unused instrument. She began poking around in the very small space between the floor and the bottom of the cabinet.

"Ha! Got it!" She picked up the Ring triumphantly.

"Rachel. you're touching it." She cringed, and set it on a music stand. Then, she rummaged through her binder and pulled out a tiny bottle of Purrell. The momentary calm, however was shattered by a very loud 'plang,' and a sob from Sarah. They all turned around to see a broken d-string, and a very sad looking friend.

"You!" She pointed an accusing finger at Laura. "You killed Billy!!!!"