Hey all! I want to thank my two most recent reviewers, lily, I'm glad that
you liked this story and are reading it, and I hope you continue to do so,
and Voldie On Varsity Track, What do you mean??? I don't understand! LOL.
Please note this is the last chapter, end of story. Um...yeah, end os story, no questions asked, period, and end of story, this is the end of the story. Yeah, weak attempt at a joke.
Laura, (Ralee.) I want to thank you for supporting me with the story, even though you like Draco better evil. :P I think you'll get the jokes that I include in this chapter, (Bob!) and in the chapter about the ball. (Dobby!) Also note the quotes from yourself that I instilled in Ralee. :P
I hope everybosy likes the ending and they way I wrote it. I would still appreciate any reviews, PLEASE REVIEW. Ciao for now!
Juliette4
Chapter Twenty-Nine
As the day of the Talent Show approached, the guys found themselves wondering why, all of a sudden the girls were acting jittery.
The day of the Talent Show, everyone gathered in the Great Hall, where just like the ball, the teachers had made a little stage. Lizzy looked at the program. "The singles go first," she said, "then the groups. We're in the group muggle category, and we go on third, after a boy doing an imitation of what muggles think magic is, and a group of Hufflepuffs putting on a play."
Harry came up behind her. "What are you looking at?"
Lizzy quickly turned around. "Nothing, just the program." She cast a look over her shoulder at Missy, Mandy, Hermione, Ralee, and Elorra. Hermione giggled.
Then, before Harry could say anything, Dumbledore stood up to talk. The other guys crowded around to hear.
"Attention everyone! The Talent Show is about to begin. If you don't know the rules, than you don't need to. There is one rule that I must insist on though, and that is that if you don't like an act, then please keep it to yourself. And also notice, everyone in the Talent Show, that there is to be fair play only. You will be disqualified if found cheating or sabotaging. And believe me you will be found." He gave everyone a stern look. "Now, for the first act!"
The girls watched the whole singles category and enjoyed themselves, until Dumbledore stood up again. "Now, ladies, and gentleman, and creatures of all kinds, the group category!"
Mandy jabbed Ralee in the side and Ralee nodded. When the boys' backs were turned each of the girls managed to slip away and go backstage.
The guys were preoccupied with the boy who imitated what muggles thought magic was, and didn't notice that the girls had disappeared.
The girls went backstage and hurriedly changed into their costumes. "What about our instruments?" Lizzy asked Ralee.
Ralee straightened out some of her chains. "Dumbledore will let the curtain down like he does before each performance and we'll go onstage, unshrink them, and take our places before the curtain is raised again. Like that girl who was singing in the singles category."
"Oh." Lizzy nodded.
Hermione put on her pants and turned to Ralee. "You said to do something to my pants before we went onstage," she said.
"Oh, yeah," said Ralee. "Tighten them."
Hermione waved her wand and whispered: "Stnap eseht nethgit."
Her pants shrank a little bit and molded to her body. "There," she said satisfactorily.
They heard Dumbledore announcing the next act. "Ok, girls, we're on next!" Ralee said, too nervous to do anything. The girls' all did minor adjustments to their hair and clothes and waited, their stomachs tight with worry.
"I wonder if Joshua, Patrick, Draco, Ron, Harry, and Oliver have noticed that we're gone yet," said Hermione.
They had in fact, NOT noticed that they were gone yet, and were going to be in for a big surprise.
"Ok, you guys know what order we're going to do the songs in, right?"
They all nodded. "Don't worry Ralee, we're good," said Missy.
Ralee just nodded nervously, and Lizzy chewed her nails.
They heard the curtain drop and applause.
"This is it!" Mandy squealed.
"Alright, come on girls, we can do it, best friends forever, right?" Ralee said.
"Right!" They chorused.
As they went onto the curtained stage where the audience couldn't see them, each said a little prayer.
By this time the guys were wondering where they went, and had all assumed that they had gone to the bathroom.
"Why wouldn't they tell us though?" Joshua asked.
"They're going to miss the next act," Ron said. If only he knew. If only he knew.
Dumbledore went out in front of the curtain. "Ladies and Gentleman, The Water Goblets!"
The curtain went up, and almost instantly the Great Hall was in an uproar. Weren't these the girlfriends of the guys who had sung at the ball?
Ron yelped. "Ah! What are they doing up there?"
"Good grief! This what they've been planning and we didn't know it!" Said Oliver.
Harry and Joshua were cracking up. Draco had a big grin on his face, and Patrick was so stunned he couldn't say anything.
Ralee, who was in between Mandy and Elorra who, if you'll remember, played the electric guitar and bass guitar, Missy was on the other side of Elorra with her acoustic guitar, Lizzy was behind Elorra and Missy with the drums, and Hermione was behind Mandy with the DJ, and later, the piano.
Ralee tilted the microphone, her chains jingling.
"Hello everybody! This may come as a shock to you, since none of you even knew that we were going to be in this Talent Show, but we are. And as an even bigger surprise to you, we did NOT copy this idea off of our boyfriends, because we planned it before they did, and we wouldn't have had enough time to practice if we had copyed of off them. Also, our name, The Water Goblets. That name was Missy's brilliant idea." Missy looked down at her guitar, and turned red. "We're called the Water Goblets, because we hope to refresh you with our music. Ralee looked into the audience, and found the guys' shocked faces. "Our first song is called 'Hero', and it's the first song that we ever practiced together, so it kind of has some special meaning in it. Here we go guys!"
Then Mandy and Elorra started playing, and they began the familiar song.
"No one sits with him, he doesn't fit in, but we feel like we do when we make fun of him."
Ralee sang and thought as she sang of how weird it felt to be singing onstage. She felt strangely...famous.
Elorra felt adrenaline pumping through her and realized that this was something that she would have never done alone if it hadn't been for her friends.
Lizzy grinned as she pounded away at her drums. This was so much fun!
Mandy tapped her foot to the beat. She'd forgotten that she was in front of an audience, she was having so much fun.
Missy played her guitar and thought of how strange it was that she, Missy Green was playing a gitar onstage in front of the whole school population. She just wasn't that type. Unless, of course, she was with her best friends. She grinned and played harder.
Hermione had nothing to do at first, then slowly, she began to play the DJ in different parts of the song. Different parts than what Ralee had chosen. And they sounded good! As she got more confident, she played more, twisting the two discs to make the funny scraping sound that was so popular in muggle music. She didn't change to the piano for the rest of their act.
After Hero, Ralee spoke again: "Our next song is Hold On!"
They went right into Hold On and played it, going over the tune that they had played so many times. They had discussed their act and decided that they would do three songs: Hero, Hold On, and A.M. to P.M. They had decided not to play anymore songs at all, they didn't want to push their luck. And Ralee had figured out, they shouldn't count their chickens before they hatched, so they didn't figure out a song to play if they got an encore, and they also decided that if they won, they'd just go up and accept their award without seeming so arrogant as to asume that everyone wanted to hear more of their music.
After Hold On, Ralee spoke yet again. "We have one more song to play," she announced.
"Boo!" Their boyfriends called, and Ralee grinned.
"It's called A.M. to P.M. And I want to say that no matter if we win or lose, we are having lots of fun up here singing for you guys, and that's the most important thing. Rock on!!!"
Elorra, Mandy, and Ralee started singing:
"Somebody hit the lights, so we can rock it day and night. People gettin' down that's right, from A.M. to P.M."
Mandy started playing.
"Everybody lookin' like stars, all the chicks and the fella's in the bars, all ya'll bumpin' this in your cars, from A.M. to P.M."
And they did rock on. Everybody did.
When they were done playing the song, all of the girls stood up and bowed. "Peace out!" cried Ralee, and they ran off of the stage, amid loud cheers.
Backstage, they jumped up and down with pure excitement, and hugged each other, squealing. When they finally got ahold of themselves, they changed back into their normal clothes and ran out to their boyfriends.
Ron grabbed Missy. "Why didn't you tell us what you were up to?"
Missy grinned. "So I could see the look on your face!"
Ron just kissed her.
Oliver went over to Mandy and pointed a finger at her. "You," he threatened, "you are in big trouble!"
Mandy only laughed.
Patrick swung Elorra around and then planted a kiss on her lips. "You sounded just lovely!" He said laughing.
Elorra giggled. "So did you!"
Harry smiled at Lizzy. "Never seen a better drummer." Lizzy was beaming so hard she couldn't say anything.
Draco didn't say anything to Ralee, just kissed her hard.
Joshua threw his arms around Hermione. "You were good up there," he said softly, touching her cheek. "And you're good down here."
Hermione blushed.
After the groups category was finished, Dumbledore stood up again to announce the winners.
"Third place winner of the magical singles category is...Anna Banner!" Anna went up to collect her award and there was cheers. "Second place winner of the magical singles category is...Barry Astro!" Barry went up to collect his award, and there was more, louder cheers.
"This is going to take forever," Lizzy rolled her eyes.
When it finally came time for the announcements for the group muggle category, everyone was tense.
"Third place winner of the group muggle category is...The Hufflepuff Girls!"
"Creative name," muttered Lizzy.
"Second place winner of the group muggle category is...Bob!" It was the guy who had done the impression of what muggles thought magic was.
"And now what I'm sure most of you have been waiting for...the First Place Winner of the group muggle category is..."
Everyone held their breath. This was the moment that they'd been waiting for.
Who would it be? Would it be them?
"The Water Goblets!"
"Lizzy! Be quiet, I'm trying to listen!" Hissed Mandy.
"Oops, sorry, I just want to win!"
"Shhh!" Mandy and Ralee hissed together.
"The Water Goblets!"
The girls all screamed simultaneously, and jumped up and down. They had won.
They went up onstage and bowed to the audience, their faces so wide, they thought that they would split. And then, holding their separate trophies, they flung their arms around each other's shoulders. They saw their boyfriends signaling to them from the audience; thumb ups, 'I love you' signs, and jumps in the air, and heard them whoop and shout, and they knew that this moment would forever last in their hearts, the time of when they were
"BEST FRIENDS FOREVER!" They shouted.
THE END.
Please note this is the last chapter, end of story. Um...yeah, end os story, no questions asked, period, and end of story, this is the end of the story. Yeah, weak attempt at a joke.
Laura, (Ralee.) I want to thank you for supporting me with the story, even though you like Draco better evil. :P I think you'll get the jokes that I include in this chapter, (Bob!) and in the chapter about the ball. (Dobby!) Also note the quotes from yourself that I instilled in Ralee. :P
I hope everybosy likes the ending and they way I wrote it. I would still appreciate any reviews, PLEASE REVIEW. Ciao for now!
Juliette4
Chapter Twenty-Nine
As the day of the Talent Show approached, the guys found themselves wondering why, all of a sudden the girls were acting jittery.
The day of the Talent Show, everyone gathered in the Great Hall, where just like the ball, the teachers had made a little stage. Lizzy looked at the program. "The singles go first," she said, "then the groups. We're in the group muggle category, and we go on third, after a boy doing an imitation of what muggles think magic is, and a group of Hufflepuffs putting on a play."
Harry came up behind her. "What are you looking at?"
Lizzy quickly turned around. "Nothing, just the program." She cast a look over her shoulder at Missy, Mandy, Hermione, Ralee, and Elorra. Hermione giggled.
Then, before Harry could say anything, Dumbledore stood up to talk. The other guys crowded around to hear.
"Attention everyone! The Talent Show is about to begin. If you don't know the rules, than you don't need to. There is one rule that I must insist on though, and that is that if you don't like an act, then please keep it to yourself. And also notice, everyone in the Talent Show, that there is to be fair play only. You will be disqualified if found cheating or sabotaging. And believe me you will be found." He gave everyone a stern look. "Now, for the first act!"
The girls watched the whole singles category and enjoyed themselves, until Dumbledore stood up again. "Now, ladies, and gentleman, and creatures of all kinds, the group category!"
Mandy jabbed Ralee in the side and Ralee nodded. When the boys' backs were turned each of the girls managed to slip away and go backstage.
The guys were preoccupied with the boy who imitated what muggles thought magic was, and didn't notice that the girls had disappeared.
The girls went backstage and hurriedly changed into their costumes. "What about our instruments?" Lizzy asked Ralee.
Ralee straightened out some of her chains. "Dumbledore will let the curtain down like he does before each performance and we'll go onstage, unshrink them, and take our places before the curtain is raised again. Like that girl who was singing in the singles category."
"Oh." Lizzy nodded.
Hermione put on her pants and turned to Ralee. "You said to do something to my pants before we went onstage," she said.
"Oh, yeah," said Ralee. "Tighten them."
Hermione waved her wand and whispered: "Stnap eseht nethgit."
Her pants shrank a little bit and molded to her body. "There," she said satisfactorily.
They heard Dumbledore announcing the next act. "Ok, girls, we're on next!" Ralee said, too nervous to do anything. The girls' all did minor adjustments to their hair and clothes and waited, their stomachs tight with worry.
"I wonder if Joshua, Patrick, Draco, Ron, Harry, and Oliver have noticed that we're gone yet," said Hermione.
They had in fact, NOT noticed that they were gone yet, and were going to be in for a big surprise.
"Ok, you guys know what order we're going to do the songs in, right?"
They all nodded. "Don't worry Ralee, we're good," said Missy.
Ralee just nodded nervously, and Lizzy chewed her nails.
They heard the curtain drop and applause.
"This is it!" Mandy squealed.
"Alright, come on girls, we can do it, best friends forever, right?" Ralee said.
"Right!" They chorused.
As they went onto the curtained stage where the audience couldn't see them, each said a little prayer.
By this time the guys were wondering where they went, and had all assumed that they had gone to the bathroom.
"Why wouldn't they tell us though?" Joshua asked.
"They're going to miss the next act," Ron said. If only he knew. If only he knew.
Dumbledore went out in front of the curtain. "Ladies and Gentleman, The Water Goblets!"
The curtain went up, and almost instantly the Great Hall was in an uproar. Weren't these the girlfriends of the guys who had sung at the ball?
Ron yelped. "Ah! What are they doing up there?"
"Good grief! This what they've been planning and we didn't know it!" Said Oliver.
Harry and Joshua were cracking up. Draco had a big grin on his face, and Patrick was so stunned he couldn't say anything.
Ralee, who was in between Mandy and Elorra who, if you'll remember, played the electric guitar and bass guitar, Missy was on the other side of Elorra with her acoustic guitar, Lizzy was behind Elorra and Missy with the drums, and Hermione was behind Mandy with the DJ, and later, the piano.
Ralee tilted the microphone, her chains jingling.
"Hello everybody! This may come as a shock to you, since none of you even knew that we were going to be in this Talent Show, but we are. And as an even bigger surprise to you, we did NOT copy this idea off of our boyfriends, because we planned it before they did, and we wouldn't have had enough time to practice if we had copyed of off them. Also, our name, The Water Goblets. That name was Missy's brilliant idea." Missy looked down at her guitar, and turned red. "We're called the Water Goblets, because we hope to refresh you with our music. Ralee looked into the audience, and found the guys' shocked faces. "Our first song is called 'Hero', and it's the first song that we ever practiced together, so it kind of has some special meaning in it. Here we go guys!"
Then Mandy and Elorra started playing, and they began the familiar song.
"No one sits with him, he doesn't fit in, but we feel like we do when we make fun of him."
Ralee sang and thought as she sang of how weird it felt to be singing onstage. She felt strangely...famous.
Elorra felt adrenaline pumping through her and realized that this was something that she would have never done alone if it hadn't been for her friends.
Lizzy grinned as she pounded away at her drums. This was so much fun!
Mandy tapped her foot to the beat. She'd forgotten that she was in front of an audience, she was having so much fun.
Missy played her guitar and thought of how strange it was that she, Missy Green was playing a gitar onstage in front of the whole school population. She just wasn't that type. Unless, of course, she was with her best friends. She grinned and played harder.
Hermione had nothing to do at first, then slowly, she began to play the DJ in different parts of the song. Different parts than what Ralee had chosen. And they sounded good! As she got more confident, she played more, twisting the two discs to make the funny scraping sound that was so popular in muggle music. She didn't change to the piano for the rest of their act.
After Hero, Ralee spoke again: "Our next song is Hold On!"
They went right into Hold On and played it, going over the tune that they had played so many times. They had discussed their act and decided that they would do three songs: Hero, Hold On, and A.M. to P.M. They had decided not to play anymore songs at all, they didn't want to push their luck. And Ralee had figured out, they shouldn't count their chickens before they hatched, so they didn't figure out a song to play if they got an encore, and they also decided that if they won, they'd just go up and accept their award without seeming so arrogant as to asume that everyone wanted to hear more of their music.
After Hold On, Ralee spoke yet again. "We have one more song to play," she announced.
"Boo!" Their boyfriends called, and Ralee grinned.
"It's called A.M. to P.M. And I want to say that no matter if we win or lose, we are having lots of fun up here singing for you guys, and that's the most important thing. Rock on!!!"
Elorra, Mandy, and Ralee started singing:
"Somebody hit the lights, so we can rock it day and night. People gettin' down that's right, from A.M. to P.M."
Mandy started playing.
"Everybody lookin' like stars, all the chicks and the fella's in the bars, all ya'll bumpin' this in your cars, from A.M. to P.M."
And they did rock on. Everybody did.
When they were done playing the song, all of the girls stood up and bowed. "Peace out!" cried Ralee, and they ran off of the stage, amid loud cheers.
Backstage, they jumped up and down with pure excitement, and hugged each other, squealing. When they finally got ahold of themselves, they changed back into their normal clothes and ran out to their boyfriends.
Ron grabbed Missy. "Why didn't you tell us what you were up to?"
Missy grinned. "So I could see the look on your face!"
Ron just kissed her.
Oliver went over to Mandy and pointed a finger at her. "You," he threatened, "you are in big trouble!"
Mandy only laughed.
Patrick swung Elorra around and then planted a kiss on her lips. "You sounded just lovely!" He said laughing.
Elorra giggled. "So did you!"
Harry smiled at Lizzy. "Never seen a better drummer." Lizzy was beaming so hard she couldn't say anything.
Draco didn't say anything to Ralee, just kissed her hard.
Joshua threw his arms around Hermione. "You were good up there," he said softly, touching her cheek. "And you're good down here."
Hermione blushed.
After the groups category was finished, Dumbledore stood up again to announce the winners.
"Third place winner of the magical singles category is...Anna Banner!" Anna went up to collect her award and there was cheers. "Second place winner of the magical singles category is...Barry Astro!" Barry went up to collect his award, and there was more, louder cheers.
"This is going to take forever," Lizzy rolled her eyes.
When it finally came time for the announcements for the group muggle category, everyone was tense.
"Third place winner of the group muggle category is...The Hufflepuff Girls!"
"Creative name," muttered Lizzy.
"Second place winner of the group muggle category is...Bob!" It was the guy who had done the impression of what muggles thought magic was.
"And now what I'm sure most of you have been waiting for...the First Place Winner of the group muggle category is..."
Everyone held their breath. This was the moment that they'd been waiting for.
Who would it be? Would it be them?
"The Water Goblets!"
"Lizzy! Be quiet, I'm trying to listen!" Hissed Mandy.
"Oops, sorry, I just want to win!"
"Shhh!" Mandy and Ralee hissed together.
"The Water Goblets!"
The girls all screamed simultaneously, and jumped up and down. They had won.
They went up onstage and bowed to the audience, their faces so wide, they thought that they would split. And then, holding their separate trophies, they flung their arms around each other's shoulders. They saw their boyfriends signaling to them from the audience; thumb ups, 'I love you' signs, and jumps in the air, and heard them whoop and shout, and they knew that this moment would forever last in their hearts, the time of when they were
"BEST FRIENDS FOREVER!" They shouted.
THE END.
