LAST TIME I UPDATED (which was months ago) THIS IS WHAT THE END BIT WAS, JUST TO REFRESH YOUR MINDS!

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"Holy shooties! Look at the time! We must fly, darlings!" Chaos cried. Everyone looked at her weirdly. "What? What did I say?"

They just shook their heads sadly.

"Maybe we should join forces," Henry announced on the way back to the mansion.

"Yeah, just for the summer!" Emma agreed.

"We could call ourselves the… Summer Strikers, or something," Usagi said.

"Or how about the Summer Smashers? Or the Sudden Springers!" Chaos exclaimed.

"I liked Summer Smashers," Fred and George said.

"Me too," Dillon, Henry and Lee agreed.

"So how about it?" Jen, Emma and Kelly asked.

Everyone looked expectantly at the only other person who hadn't spoken. Usagi.

She weighed the choices. She'd be spending time with her friends no matter what, and wouldn't it be cool to have some American friends? But it would be hard to keep the fact that they are witches and wizards concealed if they were with the Chaos Causers all the time.

"I…" she began.

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Okies, I'm just going to go into the next chapter now, and put all my schtuff at the bottom.

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"USAGI!" her mother called again, gesturing wildly at the car. "Time to go!"

"Don't think so," Usagi finished apologetically. "Mischief Makers is our name, and Chaos Causers yours. I don't think our groups should join… we may never be back."

Usagi turned away and ran up after the rest of her friends, yelling behind her, "We can still hang out together!"

The Chaos Causers shrugged and continued on down the beach to where Emma's mom was waiting to bring them to camp.

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Rec camp was decidedly odd. The Mischief Makers were handed a survey the moment they arrived, most of which asked about their preferences and whatnot. It wasn't too difficult to figure out that what they wrote down would determine their placement in separate groups, so they all shared their responses to make them as similar as possible.

The processing was done surprisingly fast, and the five were placed in the same bunch.

"Thespians?" Usagi muttered quietly to Kelly, and they giggled.

"Should be fun," Fred whispered.

"Lots of fun," George agreed.

The leader of the group turned around when they arrived in the auditorium. "Your surveys have indicated an enjoyment of theater. Well, welcome. We will be putting on a production of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Today will be spent going through the play, so you all will be able to decide which role you would most like to become. We also will play some getting-to-know each other games. Tomorrow, we will go through all of Shakespeare's works and find monologues for your auditions, which will take place the day after. Then, rehearsals will begin, and construction of the set, and working out the lighting."

The Mischief Makers gaped at him after the speech. "We're going to be performing?" Kelly hissed.

Lee shrugged, and they all joined the small circle of people on the stage.

"I'm Bob, and I like British people," a guy standing next to Fred said.

"I'm Fred, and I like… fish?" Fred said, inching towards George and away from Bob.

"I'm George, and I like guacamole."

"I'm Kelly, and I like… koalas."

"I'm Usagi and I like umbrellas." Usagi pulled a bizarre face. This game was so… odd.

"I'm Lee and I like leprechauns." The other MMs stifled laughter, for they all knew about Lee's poor experience with leprechauns.

The rest of the group gave the five a weird look. "Are you from Britain?" one girl asked the boys. "And you sound Spanish, and you… you have a very odd combination. Almost Japanese, British and American…"
"They're from Britain," Kelly confirmed, "and I am from Spain. Usagi was born and spent her early years in Japan, and then she moved to America, and then to Britain."

"Okay," several people said, then began a new game. "Pokémon sounds!"

"Pokémon sounds? Oh, my…" Usagi sighed.

Each person had to make up a sound of a Pokémon and a motion to go with it, and then say what Pokémon it was supposed to be. The game itself was found nearly impossible to explain, but once begun it was amazingly simple.

Usagi would go, "KARP!" and make fishy faces, and then say, "Pi-KA!" with short little arm movements.

Then the boy, named Dan, who had invented "The Pikachu," would do his movement and then someone else's… and it went around and around and was great fun.

The group leader showed up just as the game was growing dull, and distributed copies of Romeo and Juliet.

Several hours later, it was time to go, and the leader had asked everyone to think about which parts they would like to be.

"I definitely think that Shakespeare was a nympho," Kelly said, "but I think I want to be Mercutio for it. He rocks beyond belief!"

George waggled a finger at her. "No, no, no, missy. Fred would make a mah-valous Mercutio. Or, Friar Lawrence… you can be Mercutio, never mind. But I want to be the nurse!"

The director and group leader had already stated that he had no qualms about cross-gender casting, and obviously the MMs wanted to take him at his word for it.

"I think I want to be Romeo," Usagi announced.

"And I, Juliet!" Lee cried, fluttering his eyelashes and beginning to quote part of the play in a very high-pitched voice. "O, Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?"

Usagi boomed deeply, "It is my lady, o, it is my love!"

The five began laughing uncontrollably, and wandered off in an attempt to find out where the car was at.

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"OI! This speech is good. 'Unsex me' hahahahahaaaaaaaaaaa!" George cried when he discovered a suiting monologue.

"How about this one, of Puck's?" Fred piped up.

"I think this one will suit me well- it's Othello's…" Usagi proclaimed.

Lee announced that Ariel's would "do him well," and Kelly stated that "this is the most perverted one outside of Romeo and Juliet, so it's good."

The rest of the day was spent on the frustrating task of memorizing their monologues to their best ability, which was very dull.

Usagi's father had an announcement to make in the car ride back to the mansion. "Be ready to leave at six thirty tonight- driving lessons start at seven."

They glanced excitedly at each other.

Fred wore a smug face. {This should be a cinch. George and I drive all the time.}

George smirked. {Yeah, like when we flew the car to get Harry out of his evil aunt and uncle's house.}

Lee shrugged slightly. {If these two idiots can do it, it should be easy.}

Usagi and Kelly grinned. {It sure should be!}

After a brief pause, what Lee has said set in on the twins.

"HEY!"

Mr. Tsukino gave them a very odd look in the rearview mirror, and Shingo tried to stifle his laughter rather unsuccessfully.

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Dead silence. You'd think that if you were in a room with the MMs, you would hear a lot more than dead silence.

But that's all there was. Dead silence.

Why?

Because they were trying as hard as they could not to fall asleep while learning about what to do if a kid runs in front of your car, or if you nearly smash into a tree, or if…

As the lesson ended, the instructor announced, "Quiz over this next time we meet, and then sign-ups for driving times for those that pass!"

Everyone groaned.

"That's so boring," Kelly whined. "I want to DRIVE."

"Me too," Lee agreed.

"I think we should-" Usagi interrupted herself with a huge yawn, "go home and wake up more."

As the car pulled into the driveway, an evil grin danced across Kelly's face. "How about a little game of tickle-torture time?"

Looking horrified, the rest of the group shouted, "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" and sprinted up to their rooms, Kelly hot on their heels.

"Come back here! I'm going to get you all! HAHAHAHAHA!"

It was about twelve thirty when Usagi's mother shouted that they should go to bed if they wanted to be awake for their auditions the next day.

Usagi went to sleep, keeping her fingers crossed under the pillow, hoping to get her desired role of Romeo.

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It seemed that they'd all done well during their auditions the previous day.

But finally, finally, they were all finding out whether they got the parts they wanted or not. The MMs rushed up to one of the several lists posted around, and closed their eyes as they faced it.

"On the count of three," Usagi breathed.

"One… two… three," they chanted together, eyes popping open to view the cast list on three.

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::peeks head sheepishly 'round the door frame:: Hi :O) I'm back! And I'm sorry that this took zoas to get out… I kept starting to write it, and then I'd lose it, and I misplaced my little plot card thingie, so I completely forgot where I wanted to go with this… and you don't care, do you?
Anywhoops, I don't know how far I'll bring this any more. My intent was to stop after the summer, but I might delve further into the school year. ::shrugs:: We'll see. And I know this chapter was kinda rushed, but most of the things I could've written about were really boring…

Anyone see the second movie yet? I thought it was a LOT better than the first- more Oliver Wood, y'know. Ah, man, he's ffffffiiiiineeee. LOL. I've seen it three times- the third was with two friends who only wanted to go to see Sean in it. Did anyone notice how in the Transfiguration classroom, the blackboard was really just a mirror image, and read "Transfiguration Lesson 16"? Or how, when Harry discovered Nick and Justin, he came in from the left (after leaving McGonagall) and then Filch came in from the right, left from the right, and returned from the right, WITH MCGONAGALL? I thought that was odd…

Sorry that I'm not responding to reviews like I usually do. I think most of my readers are gone at this point- 'cept for Tiggy! Hi girl! Thank you for being so dedicated! And thanks to everyone else who reviewed last chapter.

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