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The Water Goblets I made up all on my own, so they're all mine. Yay! I'm so special! The song, Hero, is by Superchick, and in no way do I pretend to make it my own. What's it called when you try to pass something off as your own? Oh well, I forget. Anyways, I'm not doing that, whatever it is. Anyways, yeah, I think I deserve a round of applause, because I worked hard on this chapter. Yes I did. I listened to the song Hero for quite awhile trying to match the sounds of the instruments. I am up at like 4:00 in the morning right now, writing this, and it wasn't too long ago that I wrote the part with the song. So aren't you all so proud of me? I don't play any instrument at all; so if I have in anyway, made a mistake, or anything, please let me know. Thanks! Sad fully, I haven't gotten any new reviews. ~Sob sob~ But, perhaps this chapter will bring them in. I hope it's good, I try my hardest to be good at writing, and sometimes, I think I'm good, but sometimes I think I really, well..stink. Give me your opinion! I will try to write more as soon as possible. Oh yeah, and can anyone tell me how I made up the language Hermione uses in her spells? Hint: look closely, and you will see. Why don't you all tell me what your favorite character is? I'd like to know, just out of curiosity. Oh yeah, and as to the muggle CDs. I think that Harry lives in our century, so I don't see anything wrong with using muggle CDs a little bit. Personally, I'm not a big fan of using a lot of modern stuff in Harry Potter fan fiction, but this once won't do any harm, especially since I'm not using any electricity, and I've tried to make it more magical than scientific, if you know what I mean. The song is a muggle song, yes, but I tried to pick one that wasn't too popular so it didn't sound like I was one of those ditz's that uses Avril Lavigne and Britney Spears in their stories. Sorry if that offends you, but yeah. Anyways, thank you, and remember; reviews make me hungry! Oh wait that's not it. Oh yeah! Reviews make me want to write more! There we go. Got it right that time. Don't worry; I'm not high or anything. I think I need some rest..
Chapter Twenty-One
"Ok, let's start by warming up," said Ralee.
Mandy, Lizzy, Missy, Elorra, Hermione, and Ralee were all in the Transfiguration room, working on their act for the talent show. They were quite unorganized, aside from their costumes. That was the only thing that they had planned out. They didn't know what songs they were going to play; if they were going to make up their own, or use real muggles songs or not, and even if they did know, they wouldn't know where to start.
Ralee looked at Lizzy. "Ok, Lizzy, give us a beat."
Lizzy tapped at her drums, pulsing out a beat. Boom ba ba boom, ba ba boom, ba ba boom, ba ba boom.
"Ok Mandy, give us a riff."
Mandy played a guitar riff to the drumbeat, and then slowed it down to a more rhythmic sound. Ralee nodded in approval. Then she glanced at Elorra and nodded again. Elorra understood, and added the deep sounds of her bass guitar to the music. Finally, after waiting for Ralee's signal, Missy played on her acoustic guitar.
Ralee tapped her foot to the music, and then started vocalizing.
"Sing with me, Mandy, Elorra." Ralee vocalized again, with her husky voice, and then Mandy came in with her clear and strong voice, then Elorra joined in, singing a sweet soprano. They harmonized together for a moment, before Ralee stopped.
"Ok, that's very good. I like that."
"What about me?" Asked Hermione.
"Well," said Ralee, since that was a bit slow, we didn't need a DJ, but when we pick it up a little, we'll add you in." She turned to Elorra, Mandy, and Missy. "You girls can read music, right?" They all nodded. (A/N, I couldn't read music if my life depended on it, so I'm not even going to pretend I can.) Ralee looked thoughtful. Finally she just sank down to a sitting position on the floor. "I wish I knew songs, real songs that we could play," she said.
Hermione gasped. "Oh, I forgot! I'd told everyone that I knew some muggle songs we could sing, and I brought some with me, then I forgot to bring them out."
"Let's see them then!" Said Missy.
Hermione reached into the pocket of her robes and drew out a folded up piece of parchment. "Here they are. They've got the words on them and everything." She handed the parchment to Ralee.
Ralee looked them over. "I wish I knew what some of these sounded like. I know all about muggle dress, but unfortunately I don't have a clue as to what their music sounds like. You're our only hope Hermione. You're the only muggle born out of all of us, correct?"
They all nodded.
"Then," said Ralee, "we need to find some way of hearing these songs. "
"Oh," said Hermione, "I have them on CD."
Ralee wrinkled her forehead. "CD? What in Merlin's name is a CD?"
Hermione laughed. "It's a device muggles use to listen to music on. A friend from my muggle school gave it to me before I came to Hogwarts. She um.burned some songs onto it."
Elorra's eyes widened. "Burned?"
Hermione smiled. "It's just a term, Elorra, nobody has really burned anything. The only problem is, I don't know how we can listen to the CD. I've never really played it much, because I don't have anything to play it on."
"Did you bring the um.CD?" Ralee asked, still unfamiliar with the term.
"Yes, yes I did," said Hermione, pulling it out of her pocket. She showed it in its case to the girls.
"Wow!" Said Lizzy. "Its shiny!"
Hermione couldn't help but laugh. Then she asked, "How can we play it though? Oh wait! I forgot, there's a spell you can use to get objects to do their purpose. If I remember correctly, you wave your wand, like this, and say, 'Esoprup, ruoy od tcejbo.'"
Missy looked impressed. "Wow, some of the spells you do must be really advanced, Hermione, that sounds like it's in a different language."
Hermione smiled. "It is. It's an old tongue called Sdrawkcab. Not many people know about it. Now, let's see here." She waved her wand in a circle over the CD, now out of it's case, closed her eyes, and muttered the incantation under her breath.
The shiny plastic CD began to spin in midair, and to play its songs.
Ralee looked at it, entranced. "Wow." I had to read about the record albums, the ones the DJ uses, but I never heard anything about CDs." She touched the CD, and it rewound a fraction.
"Ah! So that's how you rewind and fast forward. You just move it forwards, or backwards." She touched the CD again, and this time it fast-forwarded.
"So what song is that?" Ralee asked.
Hermione listened. "That's Hero, I thought we could try that one." She handed the words over to Ralee.
Ralee read the words, and listened to the music, and she began to get the tune down. Soon after rewinding it several times and listening to the song again, she began singing along with it. "Ok, let's try it. Can you guys, play along with that?"
Mandy, Missy, Lizzy, and Elorra all nodded.
"Great. Ok, now let's go." She started the song over again, and this time, they started to play with it.
The song started with an electric guitar solo, then the bass came in.
Ralee sang the first part, a solo, just as Lizzy started lightly tapping the cymbals.
"No one sits with him, he doesn't fit in, but we feel like we do when we make fun of him, 'cause you want to belong, do you go along, 'cause his pain is the price paid for you to belong."
Then Mandy and Elorra joined in with her harmonizing perfectly, and keeping steady with the beat of the guitars. In the song, a keyboard also joined in, but as they didn't have one, they did without.
"It's not like you hate him or want him to die, but maybe he goes home and thinks suicide."
Then Ralee alone again: "or he comes back to school with a gun at his side, and a kindness from you might have saved his life."
Then there was just a steady thrum of the bass guitar, then Ralee again:
"Heroes are made when you make a choice."
Then the other two guitars came in again, and Lizzy, full throttle, pounding out the music on her drums. Mandy, Elorra, and Ralee all sang together again:
"You could be a hero, heroes do what's right, you could be a hero you could save a life. You could be a hero, you could join the fight, for what's right, for what's right, for what's right."
Then there came an electric guitar and drum duo.
Then just Lizzy's drums and Ralee again:
"No one talks to her, she feels so alone,"
Then the bass came in.
"She's in to much pain to survive on her own."
Then the electric guitar came in.
"The hurt she can't handle over flows to a knife, she writes on her arm; wants to give up her life."
Then the acoustic mixed in, and Mandy and Elorra, joined in with Ralee.
"Each day she goes on is a day that she's brave, fighting the lie that giving up is the way, each moment of courage her own life she saves, when she throws the pills out, a hero is made."
Lizzy tapped harder on the cymbals, and then dropped out, along with the electric and the acoustic, Elorra kept going on, the only instrument for a moment. Then Ralee sang again:
"Heroes are made when you make a choice."
Then the electric guitar, acoustic guitar, and drums went back in mixing with the bass once more. Mandy and Lizzy joined in with Ralee again:
"You could be a hero, heroes do what's right, you could be a hero you might save a life, you could be a hero, you could join the fight, for what's right, for what's right, for what's right."
All of the instruments played together without the voices for a moment. Then the guitars trailed out, leaving Lizzy's drums again. Then Ralee went on alone.
"No one talks to him about how he lives," The bass entered in again. "He thinks that the choices he makes are just his." The acoustic guitar came in. "Doesn't know he's a leader with the way he behaves, and others will follow the choices he's made." Lizzy began playing a little louder, and Mandy and Elorra sang with Ralee:
"He lives on the edge he's old enough to decide, his brother who wants to be him is just nine, he can do what he wants, because it's his right,"
Elorra and Mandy left leaving Ralee:
"The choices he makes change a nine year old's life."
The guitars started playing louder, and then just Elorra and Mandy sang:
"For what's right for what's right, for what's right!"
Then all three girls sang together again:
"You could be a hero, heroes do what's right, you could be a hero, you might save a life, you could be a hero, you could join the fight, for what's right, for what's right, for what's right! You could be a hero, heroes do what's right, you could be a hero, you might save a life, you could be a hero, you could join the fight, for what's right, for what's right, for what's right!"
They stopped singing, and Mandy ended the song, trailing with her guitar.
They all stopped and looked at each other. Ralee was quiet for a moment. "Well." She said at last.
Mandy nodded. "Well."
"It was good for our first try," said Ralee.
"But not great," finished Missy.
Ralee nodded. "Exactly. We need to do a lot of work on it. Assignment for tonight! Listen to that song, over and over and over again! Burn its notes into your head! That is, if it's all agreed that we'll play that song."
She looked around the room. Everyone nodded, except for Hermione.
"You don't need me in here," she said somewhat sadly. You sound great without me."
Ralee thought on that for a moment. "Well, I know you didn't do anything this time, Hermione, but we can add you into it. If you stay behind tonight, I'll work on it with you. I'll show you what to do, and find where to add you. I'm going to need a copy of that CD though, Hermione, you can share yours with everyone else, since you all live in the same, dormitory, but I need a separate copy."
Hermione nodded. "Yeah all right." She quickly muttered a spell that multiplied the CD."
Ralee took the duplicate CD, and its case, and put it in the duplicate case.
"Also, let's listen to the rest of the CD tonight, when we go to our dorms and decide another song we can do. I don't know if we should try more than two for the talent show. Oh, and Hermione I need you to help me make sheets of notes, for each separate instrument. We can do that now. Why don't the rest of you think of a name for our band?"
Mandy nodded agreeably. She sat down with Missy, Lizzy and Elorra, in a circle on the floor, and said: "all right, any ideas?" She looked hopeful, but they all shook their heads.
Meanwhile, Hermione and Ralee went into a corner to make sheets of music for everyone to memorize and practice with.
Mandy sighed. "I'm not very good at this sort of stuff," she said.
"Missy is!" Lizzy said suddenly, turning and looking at Missy.
Mandy and Elorra looked up at Missy hopefully.
"What? No! Lizzy!"
"What? You are!" Lizzy exclaimed.
Mandy rocked back and forth. "Please Missy? Just give it a try?"
Missy sighed. "All right, I suppose I can try." She scrunched up her nose, crossed her eyes, and stuck her tongue out of the corner of her mouth.
Mandy, Lizzy, and Elorra began laughing.
Missy uncrossed her eyes, and pulled her tongue back in. "What? I always do that when I'm thinking. Now, shhh!" They quieted down, as Missy resumed her thinking position.
Missy uncrossed her eyes. "Ah ha!" She said quite suddenly, scaring the others. Elorra had been picking at her nails, Lizzy was trying to scratch between her shoulder blades, and Mandy had had her eyes closed. They all jumped when they heard her voice.
"What, what?" Lizzy asked.
"Did you think of something?" Elorra asked excitedly.
Mandy leaned forward in expectation.
Missy frowned. "I don't know if it'll be good enough.." She said slowly. "But what do you think of..The Water Goblets?"
Lizzy wrinkled her nose. "The Water Goblets? Why The Water Goblets?"
Missy hesitated. "Well, I thought that maybe we could be The Water Goblets, because we refresh people with our music, get it?"
They just stared at her. Missy sighed. "I knew you wouldn't like it."
Mandy blinked. "I love it! It's unique! Let's see what Ralee thinks."
"Why do we always have to ask Ralee?" Lizzy muttered under her breath. But no one heard her.
Mandy waved to Ralee and Hermione, who were just finishing up what they were doing. They came over to Elorra, Mandy, Missy, and Lizzy.
"What's up?" Asked Ralee. "Did you guys think of a name?"
"Yeah," said Elorra, "Missy thought up a good one."
Ralee looked at Missy. "Really? What is it?"
"Thewatergoblets," mumbled Missy.
"What?" Asked Ralee, confused.
"The Water Goblets." Missy said more clearly.
Ralee frowned. "Why The Water Goblets?"
"Tell her, Missy," Mandy said excitedly.
"Missy picked at a stray string on her robes. "I thought it might be good because we refresh people with our music."
Ralee thought on it. She opened her mouth as if to say something, then closed it and thought some more. Finally, "I like it! I really like it!"
"So do I!" Exclaimed Mandy enthusiastically.
Hermione and Elorra nodded slowly.
"Yeah, it's quite..interesting..riveting?" Hermione couldn't think of a word to describe it.
"It's different!" Exclaimed Elorra.
"And she's quite right," said Ralee, it is kind of neat. We refresh people with our music. Wow, that's pretty neat, Missy."
Missy blushed.
Ralee turned to Lizzy. "What do you think, Lizzy?"
Lizzy grinned. "I think it's great, I just thought it was kind of weird at first."
"It is kind of weird!" said Ralee laughing. "Then again, so are we!"
They all laughed.
"Well, it's a relief to get that out of the way," Ralee, said. She took the stack of papers out of Hermione's hands. She started handing them out. "Ok, now you guys if we want to do good, we have to listen to the song, memorize the notes, and the words, and the tune. I want you to work on these as much as you can in your spare time. See you tomorrow, to practice again! Don't forget to stay, Hermione."
And so ended the very first practice of The Water Goblets.
The Water Goblets I made up all on my own, so they're all mine. Yay! I'm so special! The song, Hero, is by Superchick, and in no way do I pretend to make it my own. What's it called when you try to pass something off as your own? Oh well, I forget. Anyways, I'm not doing that, whatever it is. Anyways, yeah, I think I deserve a round of applause, because I worked hard on this chapter. Yes I did. I listened to the song Hero for quite awhile trying to match the sounds of the instruments. I am up at like 4:00 in the morning right now, writing this, and it wasn't too long ago that I wrote the part with the song. So aren't you all so proud of me? I don't play any instrument at all; so if I have in anyway, made a mistake, or anything, please let me know. Thanks! Sad fully, I haven't gotten any new reviews. ~Sob sob~ But, perhaps this chapter will bring them in. I hope it's good, I try my hardest to be good at writing, and sometimes, I think I'm good, but sometimes I think I really, well..stink. Give me your opinion! I will try to write more as soon as possible. Oh yeah, and can anyone tell me how I made up the language Hermione uses in her spells? Hint: look closely, and you will see. Why don't you all tell me what your favorite character is? I'd like to know, just out of curiosity. Oh yeah, and as to the muggle CDs. I think that Harry lives in our century, so I don't see anything wrong with using muggle CDs a little bit. Personally, I'm not a big fan of using a lot of modern stuff in Harry Potter fan fiction, but this once won't do any harm, especially since I'm not using any electricity, and I've tried to make it more magical than scientific, if you know what I mean. The song is a muggle song, yes, but I tried to pick one that wasn't too popular so it didn't sound like I was one of those ditz's that uses Avril Lavigne and Britney Spears in their stories. Sorry if that offends you, but yeah. Anyways, thank you, and remember; reviews make me hungry! Oh wait that's not it. Oh yeah! Reviews make me want to write more! There we go. Got it right that time. Don't worry; I'm not high or anything. I think I need some rest..
Chapter Twenty-One
"Ok, let's start by warming up," said Ralee.
Mandy, Lizzy, Missy, Elorra, Hermione, and Ralee were all in the Transfiguration room, working on their act for the talent show. They were quite unorganized, aside from their costumes. That was the only thing that they had planned out. They didn't know what songs they were going to play; if they were going to make up their own, or use real muggles songs or not, and even if they did know, they wouldn't know where to start.
Ralee looked at Lizzy. "Ok, Lizzy, give us a beat."
Lizzy tapped at her drums, pulsing out a beat. Boom ba ba boom, ba ba boom, ba ba boom, ba ba boom.
"Ok Mandy, give us a riff."
Mandy played a guitar riff to the drumbeat, and then slowed it down to a more rhythmic sound. Ralee nodded in approval. Then she glanced at Elorra and nodded again. Elorra understood, and added the deep sounds of her bass guitar to the music. Finally, after waiting for Ralee's signal, Missy played on her acoustic guitar.
Ralee tapped her foot to the music, and then started vocalizing.
"Sing with me, Mandy, Elorra." Ralee vocalized again, with her husky voice, and then Mandy came in with her clear and strong voice, then Elorra joined in, singing a sweet soprano. They harmonized together for a moment, before Ralee stopped.
"Ok, that's very good. I like that."
"What about me?" Asked Hermione.
"Well," said Ralee, since that was a bit slow, we didn't need a DJ, but when we pick it up a little, we'll add you in." She turned to Elorra, Mandy, and Missy. "You girls can read music, right?" They all nodded. (A/N, I couldn't read music if my life depended on it, so I'm not even going to pretend I can.) Ralee looked thoughtful. Finally she just sank down to a sitting position on the floor. "I wish I knew songs, real songs that we could play," she said.
Hermione gasped. "Oh, I forgot! I'd told everyone that I knew some muggle songs we could sing, and I brought some with me, then I forgot to bring them out."
"Let's see them then!" Said Missy.
Hermione reached into the pocket of her robes and drew out a folded up piece of parchment. "Here they are. They've got the words on them and everything." She handed the parchment to Ralee.
Ralee looked them over. "I wish I knew what some of these sounded like. I know all about muggle dress, but unfortunately I don't have a clue as to what their music sounds like. You're our only hope Hermione. You're the only muggle born out of all of us, correct?"
They all nodded.
"Then," said Ralee, "we need to find some way of hearing these songs. "
"Oh," said Hermione, "I have them on CD."
Ralee wrinkled her forehead. "CD? What in Merlin's name is a CD?"
Hermione laughed. "It's a device muggles use to listen to music on. A friend from my muggle school gave it to me before I came to Hogwarts. She um.burned some songs onto it."
Elorra's eyes widened. "Burned?"
Hermione smiled. "It's just a term, Elorra, nobody has really burned anything. The only problem is, I don't know how we can listen to the CD. I've never really played it much, because I don't have anything to play it on."
"Did you bring the um.CD?" Ralee asked, still unfamiliar with the term.
"Yes, yes I did," said Hermione, pulling it out of her pocket. She showed it in its case to the girls.
"Wow!" Said Lizzy. "Its shiny!"
Hermione couldn't help but laugh. Then she asked, "How can we play it though? Oh wait! I forgot, there's a spell you can use to get objects to do their purpose. If I remember correctly, you wave your wand, like this, and say, 'Esoprup, ruoy od tcejbo.'"
Missy looked impressed. "Wow, some of the spells you do must be really advanced, Hermione, that sounds like it's in a different language."
Hermione smiled. "It is. It's an old tongue called Sdrawkcab. Not many people know about it. Now, let's see here." She waved her wand in a circle over the CD, now out of it's case, closed her eyes, and muttered the incantation under her breath.
The shiny plastic CD began to spin in midair, and to play its songs.
Ralee looked at it, entranced. "Wow." I had to read about the record albums, the ones the DJ uses, but I never heard anything about CDs." She touched the CD, and it rewound a fraction.
"Ah! So that's how you rewind and fast forward. You just move it forwards, or backwards." She touched the CD again, and this time it fast-forwarded.
"So what song is that?" Ralee asked.
Hermione listened. "That's Hero, I thought we could try that one." She handed the words over to Ralee.
Ralee read the words, and listened to the music, and she began to get the tune down. Soon after rewinding it several times and listening to the song again, she began singing along with it. "Ok, let's try it. Can you guys, play along with that?"
Mandy, Missy, Lizzy, and Elorra all nodded.
"Great. Ok, now let's go." She started the song over again, and this time, they started to play with it.
The song started with an electric guitar solo, then the bass came in.
Ralee sang the first part, a solo, just as Lizzy started lightly tapping the cymbals.
"No one sits with him, he doesn't fit in, but we feel like we do when we make fun of him, 'cause you want to belong, do you go along, 'cause his pain is the price paid for you to belong."
Then Mandy and Elorra joined in with her harmonizing perfectly, and keeping steady with the beat of the guitars. In the song, a keyboard also joined in, but as they didn't have one, they did without.
"It's not like you hate him or want him to die, but maybe he goes home and thinks suicide."
Then Ralee alone again: "or he comes back to school with a gun at his side, and a kindness from you might have saved his life."
Then there was just a steady thrum of the bass guitar, then Ralee again:
"Heroes are made when you make a choice."
Then the other two guitars came in again, and Lizzy, full throttle, pounding out the music on her drums. Mandy, Elorra, and Ralee all sang together again:
"You could be a hero, heroes do what's right, you could be a hero you could save a life. You could be a hero, you could join the fight, for what's right, for what's right, for what's right."
Then there came an electric guitar and drum duo.
Then just Lizzy's drums and Ralee again:
"No one talks to her, she feels so alone,"
Then the bass came in.
"She's in to much pain to survive on her own."
Then the electric guitar came in.
"The hurt she can't handle over flows to a knife, she writes on her arm; wants to give up her life."
Then the acoustic mixed in, and Mandy and Elorra, joined in with Ralee.
"Each day she goes on is a day that she's brave, fighting the lie that giving up is the way, each moment of courage her own life she saves, when she throws the pills out, a hero is made."
Lizzy tapped harder on the cymbals, and then dropped out, along with the electric and the acoustic, Elorra kept going on, the only instrument for a moment. Then Ralee sang again:
"Heroes are made when you make a choice."
Then the electric guitar, acoustic guitar, and drums went back in mixing with the bass once more. Mandy and Lizzy joined in with Ralee again:
"You could be a hero, heroes do what's right, you could be a hero you might save a life, you could be a hero, you could join the fight, for what's right, for what's right, for what's right."
All of the instruments played together without the voices for a moment. Then the guitars trailed out, leaving Lizzy's drums again. Then Ralee went on alone.
"No one talks to him about how he lives," The bass entered in again. "He thinks that the choices he makes are just his." The acoustic guitar came in. "Doesn't know he's a leader with the way he behaves, and others will follow the choices he's made." Lizzy began playing a little louder, and Mandy and Elorra sang with Ralee:
"He lives on the edge he's old enough to decide, his brother who wants to be him is just nine, he can do what he wants, because it's his right,"
Elorra and Mandy left leaving Ralee:
"The choices he makes change a nine year old's life."
The guitars started playing louder, and then just Elorra and Mandy sang:
"For what's right for what's right, for what's right!"
Then all three girls sang together again:
"You could be a hero, heroes do what's right, you could be a hero, you might save a life, you could be a hero, you could join the fight, for what's right, for what's right, for what's right! You could be a hero, heroes do what's right, you could be a hero, you might save a life, you could be a hero, you could join the fight, for what's right, for what's right, for what's right!"
They stopped singing, and Mandy ended the song, trailing with her guitar.
They all stopped and looked at each other. Ralee was quiet for a moment. "Well." She said at last.
Mandy nodded. "Well."
"It was good for our first try," said Ralee.
"But not great," finished Missy.
Ralee nodded. "Exactly. We need to do a lot of work on it. Assignment for tonight! Listen to that song, over and over and over again! Burn its notes into your head! That is, if it's all agreed that we'll play that song."
She looked around the room. Everyone nodded, except for Hermione.
"You don't need me in here," she said somewhat sadly. You sound great without me."
Ralee thought on that for a moment. "Well, I know you didn't do anything this time, Hermione, but we can add you into it. If you stay behind tonight, I'll work on it with you. I'll show you what to do, and find where to add you. I'm going to need a copy of that CD though, Hermione, you can share yours with everyone else, since you all live in the same, dormitory, but I need a separate copy."
Hermione nodded. "Yeah all right." She quickly muttered a spell that multiplied the CD."
Ralee took the duplicate CD, and its case, and put it in the duplicate case.
"Also, let's listen to the rest of the CD tonight, when we go to our dorms and decide another song we can do. I don't know if we should try more than two for the talent show. Oh, and Hermione I need you to help me make sheets of notes, for each separate instrument. We can do that now. Why don't the rest of you think of a name for our band?"
Mandy nodded agreeably. She sat down with Missy, Lizzy and Elorra, in a circle on the floor, and said: "all right, any ideas?" She looked hopeful, but they all shook their heads.
Meanwhile, Hermione and Ralee went into a corner to make sheets of music for everyone to memorize and practice with.
Mandy sighed. "I'm not very good at this sort of stuff," she said.
"Missy is!" Lizzy said suddenly, turning and looking at Missy.
Mandy and Elorra looked up at Missy hopefully.
"What? No! Lizzy!"
"What? You are!" Lizzy exclaimed.
Mandy rocked back and forth. "Please Missy? Just give it a try?"
Missy sighed. "All right, I suppose I can try." She scrunched up her nose, crossed her eyes, and stuck her tongue out of the corner of her mouth.
Mandy, Lizzy, and Elorra began laughing.
Missy uncrossed her eyes, and pulled her tongue back in. "What? I always do that when I'm thinking. Now, shhh!" They quieted down, as Missy resumed her thinking position.
Missy uncrossed her eyes. "Ah ha!" She said quite suddenly, scaring the others. Elorra had been picking at her nails, Lizzy was trying to scratch between her shoulder blades, and Mandy had had her eyes closed. They all jumped when they heard her voice.
"What, what?" Lizzy asked.
"Did you think of something?" Elorra asked excitedly.
Mandy leaned forward in expectation.
Missy frowned. "I don't know if it'll be good enough.." She said slowly. "But what do you think of..The Water Goblets?"
Lizzy wrinkled her nose. "The Water Goblets? Why The Water Goblets?"
Missy hesitated. "Well, I thought that maybe we could be The Water Goblets, because we refresh people with our music, get it?"
They just stared at her. Missy sighed. "I knew you wouldn't like it."
Mandy blinked. "I love it! It's unique! Let's see what Ralee thinks."
"Why do we always have to ask Ralee?" Lizzy muttered under her breath. But no one heard her.
Mandy waved to Ralee and Hermione, who were just finishing up what they were doing. They came over to Elorra, Mandy, Missy, and Lizzy.
"What's up?" Asked Ralee. "Did you guys think of a name?"
"Yeah," said Elorra, "Missy thought up a good one."
Ralee looked at Missy. "Really? What is it?"
"Thewatergoblets," mumbled Missy.
"What?" Asked Ralee, confused.
"The Water Goblets." Missy said more clearly.
Ralee frowned. "Why The Water Goblets?"
"Tell her, Missy," Mandy said excitedly.
"Missy picked at a stray string on her robes. "I thought it might be good because we refresh people with our music."
Ralee thought on it. She opened her mouth as if to say something, then closed it and thought some more. Finally, "I like it! I really like it!"
"So do I!" Exclaimed Mandy enthusiastically.
Hermione and Elorra nodded slowly.
"Yeah, it's quite..interesting..riveting?" Hermione couldn't think of a word to describe it.
"It's different!" Exclaimed Elorra.
"And she's quite right," said Ralee, it is kind of neat. We refresh people with our music. Wow, that's pretty neat, Missy."
Missy blushed.
Ralee turned to Lizzy. "What do you think, Lizzy?"
Lizzy grinned. "I think it's great, I just thought it was kind of weird at first."
"It is kind of weird!" said Ralee laughing. "Then again, so are we!"
They all laughed.
"Well, it's a relief to get that out of the way," Ralee, said. She took the stack of papers out of Hermione's hands. She started handing them out. "Ok, now you guys if we want to do good, we have to listen to the song, memorize the notes, and the words, and the tune. I want you to work on these as much as you can in your spare time. See you tomorrow, to practice again! Don't forget to stay, Hermione."
And so ended the very first practice of The Water Goblets.
