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Misty's head jerked up when she heard the bell, the final bell of the day.
Its sound bounced off every surface off every available surface and slicing through her brain.
Normally the final bell gave her heart a little kick-start but not today.
Not today on her day of reckoning.
Today is signalled the beginning of her nightmare.
That nightmare was called the school musical.
Ash groaned and began hitting his head off the desk repeatedly.
"As fun as that looks, we gotta get a move on" Misty began as she came to stand besides Ash who was slumped against his desk hitting his head of the desk.
Misty couldn't help but smile when Ash lifted his head up and a sheet had attached itself to his forehead.
She whipped the page off, startling Ash
Raising his big brown eyes to her, watching as she pulled her bag on over her shoulder, the white sleeves of her jacket sliding up to her elbow then falling down to her hands.
Ash began to study the jacket.
Misty always wore it; it was her jacket and whenever she wore a jacket that was the one she wore.
It was a full length white woollen jacket with loose sleeves and a hood, it was a zip up but he never saw her zip it up.
The white wool made her red hair look even brighter and livelier, it brought out the silky smoothness of her skin and the creamy complexion of it and her rich see greens eyes seem deeper and more mesmerising, if that was possible.
In his opinion anyway
He fumbled around in his backpack and found the bootleg c.d. he kept in his bag.
It may have seemed like a cheap rip off to anyone else but this c.d. held a lot of sentiment and it meant a lot to him.
"Let's go make some magic, people" Duplica cheered, walking into the vacant class.
She paused when she saw the looks Ash and Misty were both giving her.
"Some of us aren't lucky enough to actually get a punishment of something we were intending on doing anyway" Richie remarked as he followed Duplica in.
"What?" Misty, Duplica and Ash all asked in unison, giving him questioning looks.
"Oh don't argue" Richie told them strictly.
"Then don't speak" Duplica shot back.
"Oh lets get going on anyway, I'm sure there's a lot of things in this place just waiting to clung to my forehead" Ash replied
This time it was Richie and Duplica giving puzzled looks to one another.
Misty giggled and headed out the door.
"Hey guys" Brock called out coming up behind Misty.
Snap was with him and he froze lost in a dream
As if in slow motion, Misty turned around, her red hair fluttering as she did so and he jacket flapped.
She reminded Snap of an angel.
While Snap lost himself in a dream world Misty put her hands on her hips.
"I'm not even one guy.... singular.
How did you come with me being a lot of guys?
I mean I wanna hear the mathematics behind this one equation"
Brock sighed realising that Misty wasn't gonna let him get out this one.
"Hey howzabout I give you a lollipop" he responded, using the same psychology that he used on his little brothers and sisters.
He pulled out a large orange lollipop from his backpack.
"Brock?" Misty asked, folding her arms and narrowing her eyes at him.
"Ok, ok I'll keep it " Brock said in defeat.
"No! No, I do want it" Misty cried, looking like a small dejected child with a sad expression and her eyes filled with worry that she may lose it. .
"Ok here you go," he said handing her the lollipop.
"Yay!" Misty cheered as she ripped the wrapping off it and popped it into her mouth.
Brock grinned surprised and amused and he patted Misty on the head as she giggled.
"I think I may have found a weapon against you," he said in a voice used to talking to pets or small children.
Misty glared at him, her expression quickly transforming into a snarl and a low yet threatening growl emerged from her.
"Ok, ok keep it. I'll get you more, just don't hurt me" Brock cried.
Misty kept her defences up, making sure he wasn't going to try anything but then smiled when she realised he wouldn't.
"I'd hafta be a damn fool to take her on, specially when I've given her sugar" Brock said to no one in particular.
"You'd give a nutcase like Misty sugar? Dude you have just signed the universe's death warrant" Richie cried, panicking.
"Hey a lollipop" Ash cried when he saw Misty.
Brock and Richie shuddered when they heard the low menacing growl again.
"Ash, let her keep the lollipop. We don't even wanna try and take on Misty when she's in a good mood but you wanna try it when she's in a bad mood, has had sugar and would be suffering withdrawal?"
Ash backed off seeing the look on Misty's face.
"Yeah I think I'm gonna let her keep the lollipop" Ash decided aloud.
Misty's face softened and she smiled again and began humming as she continued to enjoy her lollipop.
She skipped off towards the theatre that had built to the side the school.
Duplica caught up with the gang.
"Hey guys" she said cheerfully.
"Careful, last time I said that, it ended in disaster" Brock remarked.
"You ok, Snap?" she asked looking at Snap, tilting her head curiously.
Inside she was hoping against hope that interacting with Misty didn't cause the dreamy look.
Snap let out a dreamy sigh and walked down the hall as if on air.
The others watched him, puzzled.
"That's not normal" Ash commented.
"I don't think we're really too concerned about being normal" Brock said with a laugh.
"You know, guys are crazy. You're just crazy idiots" Duplica snapped and stalked down the hall towards the theatre.
This left Brock, Ash and Richie standing in the hall in confused silence.
"You guys saw and heard that too, right?' Richie asked sounding a little concerned.
Ash and Brock exchanged scheming looks and looked at him innocently.
"Saw what?"
"I didn't hear them say anything unusual"
"Misty had a lollipop and Duplica called us crazy idiots" Richie protested.
Ash and Brock turned to each other with mock confused and worried expressions then turned back to Richie.
"That never happened, Misty walked down to the hall humming and Duplica said "See ya" and went away"
Richie was considerably worried now and he looked down, thinking over these new facts brought to light.
"But Misty never hums, and she rarely ever sings, only when she's around.." he trailed off when the sound of Brock and Ash's laughter filled the air.
He looked up and the other two were in hysterical laughter.
They walked off down the hall towards the theatre, still laughing.
"That's not funny," Richie yelled after them but chased after them anyway.
Ash and Brock were so busy laughing and talking that when they pushed open the doors of the theatre they never looked ahead and they crashed into Misty, Duplica and Snap.
Richie walked in and paused.
"We were kind of expecting the drama teacher or any teacher or even a janitor" Duplica remarked as they looked at the rows of completely empty seats.
Something burst though the doors and shoved past them with an apology,
The sudden force of the movement caused them to lose their balance.
"HEY WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE!!!!!!!!" Misty yelled at the stranger.
The stranger turned around and saw a redhead who had fallen back into a chair, her legs dangling over the armrest, looking very annoyed.
He approached the small group, a couple of them had been knocked back into some chairs and the others had just fallen on their butts.
"Are you roaring at me?" he asked in a low calm voice.
Misty looked him in the face and realised that he was in fact the drama teacher.
"Well I was but I'm not at the moment" she replied.
"Hmm you have a certain fiery charm to you, do you know that?"
"No I wasn't aware" Misty grumbled as she pulled herself out of the chair and straightened herself up.
"And I know you've worked in the theatre before. You have such a performers vibe about you, possible linked with the fire in the belly attitude."
"I never worked in theatre, that would be my sisters, not me" Misty barked at him.
"Ooh so passionate, you must be in the play, tell me have you ever considered acting?"
The others kept quiet, watching and praying that Misty wouldn't land herself in anything too messy.
They had given up praying that she wouldn't land herself in any trouble
With all the qualities that the drama teacher had noticed about Misty as well as her big mouth and they way she said things before thinking pretty much guaranteed trouble.
They just prayed that it wouldn't be too much trouble for her to handle.
"Yeah I consider acting to be a load of oomph" Duplica's hand clamped onto Misty's face, preventing the ending for that sentence.
She grinned sheepishly up at the drama teacher.
"Hmm good timing, lemme guess... a comedian?" he asked Duplica.
"Yes actually," Duplica, said, beaming.
"And I assume that all of you besides spunky are going to audition?" he asked.
Ash and Snap shook their heads.
"Heh, why not, the female population of this school should not be deprived of my ability" Brock announced.
"I'd hit him if he hadn't given me a lollipop" Misty remarked, looking down at the orange lollipop in her hand.
"Then truly his plan worked and everything makes sense again" Duplica joked.
Brock pulled out a green lollipop and handed it to Misty.
"Protection money" he told her.
"Do I have to protect you from me or from others?" Misty asked.
"Both!"
"Hey as long as you keep the pops flowing"
"Ok so I have two auditionees and how about you?" he asked pointing at Richie.
"I may as well" Richie shrugged casually.
"Hmm and you three have no intention of auditioning?" he asked Misty, Ash and Snap.
"Well I'm good at photography so I could work on" Snap began but was cut off.
"You will work on sets and lighting" the drama teacher announced.
"But I." Snap began to protest but was cut off again.
"Tell it to my personal assistant" the drama teacher, Mr Crefell, said.
The group went silent, waiting for this personal assistant to appear or at least to be elaborated upon.
The silence continued for a few more awkward confused moments.
"Misty!" Mr Crefell hissed.
Misty looked at him and he nodded at Snap.
"What? I'm the personal assistant?" she asked confused and exasperated.
"Yes now get to it" he told her, shoving a green clear plastic clipboard into her hands, it had sheets clipped into it and a penholder at the side.
"Sir I really" Snap began but was hushed.
Mr Crefell pointed at Misty who sighed.
Snap also let out a sigh and looked at Misty.
"I don't want to do those jobs" he told her.
Misty turned around and looked at the drama teacher who, though he was only about a foot away, pretended that he couldn't hear them speaking.
"He doesn't want to do this" she told him flatly.
"But he must!" the drama teacher exclaimed.
Misty turned around.
It was clear from her expression that she realised the idiocy of playing messenger between two people who were practically beside each other.
"But you must" she told Snap but with much less enthusiasm.
Ash sniggered but swallowed down his laughter when he saw Mr Crefell fix his gaze onto Ash.
"And what shall you do?" he enquired.
"Um, theatre critic" Ash suggested hopefully.
"I hear you're quite good with Pokemon" Mr Crefell continued, thoughtfully.
Misty slapped her forehead while Brock shook his head sadly; both aware of the Pandora's box of bragging that Mr Crefell had unwillingly opened up.
Ash stood up straighter and took an air of arrogance.
"You kidding me? I'm the best Pokemon trainer you're ever gonna lay your eyes on" Ash bragged.
"Hey Pikachu, c'mon" he called and the others watched as Ash's bag began to squirm and out burst the small yellow electric mouse.
Pikachu leapt up onto Ash's shoulder and nuzzled Ash in the head.
Ash grinned and scratched Pikachu on the head.
Misty giggled and tickled Pikachu's chin.
Pikachu relished in the attention.
The drama teacher studied the three, never had he seen two people with so much fire and passion towards each other and it was because of that there was such incredible chemistry.
He was just cursing Ash's empathy Misty's hatred towards the theatre.
They would be such firecrackers in the play.
"Well I'm afraid that the auditions don't begin till four so you must wait around.
Misty, please prepare the appropriate material for the auditions"
Misty was about to question this but Mr Crefell drifted off somewhere else.
Misty trudged down towards the stage and hopped up.
Duplica wandered around the stage exploring and Ash joined her.
Brock and Richie collapsed into the two chairs directly in front of Misty in the front row.
Snap stood still, impressed by the size of their theatre, he guessed that the drama section of the school was very important.
Duplica came over to Misty and seated herself besides her.
Misty was tapping her pen off the clipboard trying to come up with what was deemed
" The appropriate material"
Ash looked over her shoulder and Duplica peered down at the sheet.
They started coming up with suggestions and the sheets were being titled.
"For the last time Brock, asking for the girls numbers is ok on the application form but we can't ask if they're single" Misty cried at him frustrated.
"But we need to know if they have any previous commitments so that we can know if they'll be on call whenever we need them and not with a boyfriend" Brock protested weakly.
Misty gave him a long angry stare and Brock fidgeted in his bag.
"Lollipop?" he offered meekly.
"Yeah ok" Misty said casually and shrugged.
She popped the lollipop in her mouth.
"So you'll ask them if they're single?" Brock asked hopefully.
"Nope"
The doors swept open and the group looked towards the entrance.
Giselle stood at the entrance, the light from outside shining against her giving her an angelic, heavenly look.
Brock's face softened and soon he wore a goofy grin.
Ash waved his hand in front of Brock's face but nothing could tear Brock's eyes away from Giselle as she made her way down the steps, elegantly as always.
Giselle approached them with a smirk.
"You're auditioning?" she asked with a sneer.
"And what of it?" Misty asked standing up.
Duplica remained seated and the others turned to look at Giselle.
"Sure, I just can't wait to see you guys make absolute idiots of yourself. As long as you don't mess up my audition"
"No I think you can do that just fine by yourself" Duplica observed.
"Buh Bye losers" she called over her shoulders.
Misty was about to leap up and charge after her when Duplica grabbed onto her in an attempt to stop Misty.
The sudden movement knocked them both back.
"Ohh come on. This too suhh -weeeet" Rudy's annoying voice declared.
Duplica fell forward and ended up lying on Misty who was knocked back on her back.
Their legs were tangle in each other's and the overall appearance was very....questionable.
"Why don't you back off?" Ash growled.
"Hey, just cause you never made a move doesn't mean that no one can ever even look at her.
You've been around a girl like that for this long and you never did anything, well dude you deserve for someone else to go out with her and for you to end up with someone not quite as hot"
"Look why don't you just get lost?" Brock warned.
Rudy walked away and began talking to Giselle but kept shooting Misty sidelong glances.
Misty and Duplica untangled themselves and sat up.
"Hey what did I miss?" she asked.
Ash stalked away angered by Rudy.
Brock and Richie followed him leaving the two girls by themselves up ion the stage looking confused.
"Apparently something big" Duplica said, surprised.
Students began filling up the theatre occupying seats and couple taking to the stage.
Misty, Duplica and Snap all sat on the stage talking when they saw a familiar face.
A familiar face laden with depression.
Tracey approached them and flopped onto the stage next to them, head cast down.
He stayed like this for a few moments.
"If this guy says hello, I think I'm gonna kill myself" Duplica whispered to Misty.
"You ok, Trace?" Misty asked, cautiously.
Tracey grabbed Misty in a bear hug.
"Its awful, I just can't stand her anymore" he wailed.
Misty looked towards Melody who was talking with Giselle.
She shuddered imagining the reign of terror that those two could inflict on the world.
"Lets just hope that they never realise their true evil powers and how powerful they are together" she joked half-heartedly.
She looked up when she saw someone she didn't recognise enter the hall.
This new girl paused and stopped one of the students passing by.
She said something to them and they nodded and pointed in the direction of Misty, Duplica, Snap and Tracey.
The girl approached them giving them a chance to look at her.
She was tall and slim with waist long navy hair that went straight down then spiked up at the bottom.
She was wearing a very dark pair of jeans and a red tight tee shirt.
The tee shirt had elbow length sleeves with a white stripe on each sleeve.
Around her neck she wore her pokephone type thing and a red bandanna with a white pokeball covered the top of her hand.
Three bangs of navy hair hung around her face and one in the middle of her forehead and she had bright hazel eyes.
"Um hi" she said nervously.
"Hi" Misty and Duplica said in unison.
Tracey who was still in the depths of depression didn't even raise his head to look at the girl; instead he mumbled a quick hello
Snap also greeted the girl cheerfully but it was obvious that he cared more about the two girls he was sitting next to.
"Can we help you with something?" Misty asked the new girl.
"Yeah I'm looking for a girl named Misty? Do you know where I can find her? I was told that she's the one you go to about trying out for the musical," the girl said shyly.
It was obvious that she was nervous about approaching two new girls on what seemed to be her first day.
"Yeah but you might wanna avoid her. She's real trouble-causer. She skips classes so she roams the halls looking for fights and getting herself drunk before she hotwires cars and goes for joyrides" Duplica told the girl.
The girl looked shocked and frightened discouraged about finding this delinquent and having to speak to her.
"Yeah that's enough outta you" Misty said hitting Duplica on the head with her clipboard. "Jeez with friends like you, who needs...friends like you?" she asked the green haired who was rubbing her head.
Misty then turned to the blue haired girl who looked puzzled.
"Don't listen to Duplica, she's a few sandwiches short of a picnic. I'm Misty and I didn't any of the stuff she said in fact I'm quite distinguished"
"Oh c'mon" Duplica's voice protested casing them both to look at her.
"I may have made up that stuff about you just there but you are not distinguished. You need a monocle and a top hat for that"
The blue haired girl giggled as she watched the two girls debate this.
"Tracey what do you think?" Misty asked turning around to him.
He was still looking down and Misty looked annoyed.
She smacked him on the back of her head with the clipboard and he looked up instantly and let out a howl of pain.
"Tracey, will you snap of it. We have company" Duplica told him gesturing towards the new girl.
Tracey looked up and he could have sworn his heart stopped beating.
Glossy blue hair cascaded down her back and spiked up at the bottom, smooth creamy skin, a slim elegant figure and a look of playfulness indicated by her clothes. Three bangs framing her sweet face perfectly and bright brown eyes glistening with delight and bright smile playing on her lips.
" I... trace... sketches nice meeting to you" he blurted out.
Misty, Duplica and Snap exchanged puzzled looks.
"I'm sure there was a coherent introduction in there somewhere" Snap remarked.
The girl grinned shyly and avoided eye contact and the girls thought they saw traces of a blush.
"My names Lisa. I'm new here" she told the group but found herself looking at Tracey.
"This is Tracey Sketchit" Duplica told Lisa with a smile.
Lisa looked down and gazed shyly at Tracey from underneath her long lashes.
"Hi" she said softly.
Girls are by nature incredibly intuitive, always able to spot attractions of others to the opposite sex, always able to spot budding romances and others feelings around another, well except for their own emotions.
Misty and Duplica were no different and exchanged knowing smiles as they watched Tracey and Lisa.
One thing was definite.
This was going to be interesting.
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Misty's head jerked up when she heard the bell, the final bell of the day.
Its sound bounced off every surface off every available surface and slicing through her brain.
Normally the final bell gave her heart a little kick-start but not today.
Not today on her day of reckoning.
Today is signalled the beginning of her nightmare.
That nightmare was called the school musical.
Ash groaned and began hitting his head off the desk repeatedly.
"As fun as that looks, we gotta get a move on" Misty began as she came to stand besides Ash who was slumped against his desk hitting his head of the desk.
Misty couldn't help but smile when Ash lifted his head up and a sheet had attached itself to his forehead.
She whipped the page off, startling Ash
Raising his big brown eyes to her, watching as she pulled her bag on over her shoulder, the white sleeves of her jacket sliding up to her elbow then falling down to her hands.
Ash began to study the jacket.
Misty always wore it; it was her jacket and whenever she wore a jacket that was the one she wore.
It was a full length white woollen jacket with loose sleeves and a hood, it was a zip up but he never saw her zip it up.
The white wool made her red hair look even brighter and livelier, it brought out the silky smoothness of her skin and the creamy complexion of it and her rich see greens eyes seem deeper and more mesmerising, if that was possible.
In his opinion anyway
He fumbled around in his backpack and found the bootleg c.d. he kept in his bag.
It may have seemed like a cheap rip off to anyone else but this c.d. held a lot of sentiment and it meant a lot to him.
"Let's go make some magic, people" Duplica cheered, walking into the vacant class.
She paused when she saw the looks Ash and Misty were both giving her.
"Some of us aren't lucky enough to actually get a punishment of something we were intending on doing anyway" Richie remarked as he followed Duplica in.
"What?" Misty, Duplica and Ash all asked in unison, giving him questioning looks.
"Oh don't argue" Richie told them strictly.
"Then don't speak" Duplica shot back.
"Oh lets get going on anyway, I'm sure there's a lot of things in this place just waiting to clung to my forehead" Ash replied
This time it was Richie and Duplica giving puzzled looks to one another.
Misty giggled and headed out the door.
"Hey guys" Brock called out coming up behind Misty.
Snap was with him and he froze lost in a dream
As if in slow motion, Misty turned around, her red hair fluttering as she did so and he jacket flapped.
She reminded Snap of an angel.
While Snap lost himself in a dream world Misty put her hands on her hips.
"I'm not even one guy.... singular.
How did you come with me being a lot of guys?
I mean I wanna hear the mathematics behind this one equation"
Brock sighed realising that Misty wasn't gonna let him get out this one.
"Hey howzabout I give you a lollipop" he responded, using the same psychology that he used on his little brothers and sisters.
He pulled out a large orange lollipop from his backpack.
"Brock?" Misty asked, folding her arms and narrowing her eyes at him.
"Ok, ok I'll keep it " Brock said in defeat.
"No! No, I do want it" Misty cried, looking like a small dejected child with a sad expression and her eyes filled with worry that she may lose it. .
"Ok here you go," he said handing her the lollipop.
"Yay!" Misty cheered as she ripped the wrapping off it and popped it into her mouth.
Brock grinned surprised and amused and he patted Misty on the head as she giggled.
"I think I may have found a weapon against you," he said in a voice used to talking to pets or small children.
Misty glared at him, her expression quickly transforming into a snarl and a low yet threatening growl emerged from her.
"Ok, ok keep it. I'll get you more, just don't hurt me" Brock cried.
Misty kept her defences up, making sure he wasn't going to try anything but then smiled when she realised he wouldn't.
"I'd hafta be a damn fool to take her on, specially when I've given her sugar" Brock said to no one in particular.
"You'd give a nutcase like Misty sugar? Dude you have just signed the universe's death warrant" Richie cried, panicking.
"Hey a lollipop" Ash cried when he saw Misty.
Brock and Richie shuddered when they heard the low menacing growl again.
"Ash, let her keep the lollipop. We don't even wanna try and take on Misty when she's in a good mood but you wanna try it when she's in a bad mood, has had sugar and would be suffering withdrawal?"
Ash backed off seeing the look on Misty's face.
"Yeah I think I'm gonna let her keep the lollipop" Ash decided aloud.
Misty's face softened and she smiled again and began humming as she continued to enjoy her lollipop.
She skipped off towards the theatre that had built to the side the school.
Duplica caught up with the gang.
"Hey guys" she said cheerfully.
"Careful, last time I said that, it ended in disaster" Brock remarked.
"You ok, Snap?" she asked looking at Snap, tilting her head curiously.
Inside she was hoping against hope that interacting with Misty didn't cause the dreamy look.
Snap let out a dreamy sigh and walked down the hall as if on air.
The others watched him, puzzled.
"That's not normal" Ash commented.
"I don't think we're really too concerned about being normal" Brock said with a laugh.
"You know, guys are crazy. You're just crazy idiots" Duplica snapped and stalked down the hall towards the theatre.
This left Brock, Ash and Richie standing in the hall in confused silence.
"You guys saw and heard that too, right?' Richie asked sounding a little concerned.
Ash and Brock exchanged scheming looks and looked at him innocently.
"Saw what?"
"I didn't hear them say anything unusual"
"Misty had a lollipop and Duplica called us crazy idiots" Richie protested.
Ash and Brock turned to each other with mock confused and worried expressions then turned back to Richie.
"That never happened, Misty walked down to the hall humming and Duplica said "See ya" and went away"
Richie was considerably worried now and he looked down, thinking over these new facts brought to light.
"But Misty never hums, and she rarely ever sings, only when she's around.." he trailed off when the sound of Brock and Ash's laughter filled the air.
He looked up and the other two were in hysterical laughter.
They walked off down the hall towards the theatre, still laughing.
"That's not funny," Richie yelled after them but chased after them anyway.
Ash and Brock were so busy laughing and talking that when they pushed open the doors of the theatre they never looked ahead and they crashed into Misty, Duplica and Snap.
Richie walked in and paused.
"We were kind of expecting the drama teacher or any teacher or even a janitor" Duplica remarked as they looked at the rows of completely empty seats.
Something burst though the doors and shoved past them with an apology,
The sudden force of the movement caused them to lose their balance.
"HEY WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE!!!!!!!!" Misty yelled at the stranger.
The stranger turned around and saw a redhead who had fallen back into a chair, her legs dangling over the armrest, looking very annoyed.
He approached the small group, a couple of them had been knocked back into some chairs and the others had just fallen on their butts.
"Are you roaring at me?" he asked in a low calm voice.
Misty looked him in the face and realised that he was in fact the drama teacher.
"Well I was but I'm not at the moment" she replied.
"Hmm you have a certain fiery charm to you, do you know that?"
"No I wasn't aware" Misty grumbled as she pulled herself out of the chair and straightened herself up.
"And I know you've worked in the theatre before. You have such a performers vibe about you, possible linked with the fire in the belly attitude."
"I never worked in theatre, that would be my sisters, not me" Misty barked at him.
"Ooh so passionate, you must be in the play, tell me have you ever considered acting?"
The others kept quiet, watching and praying that Misty wouldn't land herself in anything too messy.
They had given up praying that she wouldn't land herself in any trouble
With all the qualities that the drama teacher had noticed about Misty as well as her big mouth and they way she said things before thinking pretty much guaranteed trouble.
They just prayed that it wouldn't be too much trouble for her to handle.
"Yeah I consider acting to be a load of oomph" Duplica's hand clamped onto Misty's face, preventing the ending for that sentence.
She grinned sheepishly up at the drama teacher.
"Hmm good timing, lemme guess... a comedian?" he asked Duplica.
"Yes actually," Duplica, said, beaming.
"And I assume that all of you besides spunky are going to audition?" he asked.
Ash and Snap shook their heads.
"Heh, why not, the female population of this school should not be deprived of my ability" Brock announced.
"I'd hit him if he hadn't given me a lollipop" Misty remarked, looking down at the orange lollipop in her hand.
"Then truly his plan worked and everything makes sense again" Duplica joked.
Brock pulled out a green lollipop and handed it to Misty.
"Protection money" he told her.
"Do I have to protect you from me or from others?" Misty asked.
"Both!"
"Hey as long as you keep the pops flowing"
"Ok so I have two auditionees and how about you?" he asked pointing at Richie.
"I may as well" Richie shrugged casually.
"Hmm and you three have no intention of auditioning?" he asked Misty, Ash and Snap.
"Well I'm good at photography so I could work on" Snap began but was cut off.
"You will work on sets and lighting" the drama teacher announced.
"But I." Snap began to protest but was cut off again.
"Tell it to my personal assistant" the drama teacher, Mr Crefell, said.
The group went silent, waiting for this personal assistant to appear or at least to be elaborated upon.
The silence continued for a few more awkward confused moments.
"Misty!" Mr Crefell hissed.
Misty looked at him and he nodded at Snap.
"What? I'm the personal assistant?" she asked confused and exasperated.
"Yes now get to it" he told her, shoving a green clear plastic clipboard into her hands, it had sheets clipped into it and a penholder at the side.
"Sir I really" Snap began but was hushed.
Mr Crefell pointed at Misty who sighed.
Snap also let out a sigh and looked at Misty.
"I don't want to do those jobs" he told her.
Misty turned around and looked at the drama teacher who, though he was only about a foot away, pretended that he couldn't hear them speaking.
"He doesn't want to do this" she told him flatly.
"But he must!" the drama teacher exclaimed.
Misty turned around.
It was clear from her expression that she realised the idiocy of playing messenger between two people who were practically beside each other.
"But you must" she told Snap but with much less enthusiasm.
Ash sniggered but swallowed down his laughter when he saw Mr Crefell fix his gaze onto Ash.
"And what shall you do?" he enquired.
"Um, theatre critic" Ash suggested hopefully.
"I hear you're quite good with Pokemon" Mr Crefell continued, thoughtfully.
Misty slapped her forehead while Brock shook his head sadly; both aware of the Pandora's box of bragging that Mr Crefell had unwillingly opened up.
Ash stood up straighter and took an air of arrogance.
"You kidding me? I'm the best Pokemon trainer you're ever gonna lay your eyes on" Ash bragged.
"Hey Pikachu, c'mon" he called and the others watched as Ash's bag began to squirm and out burst the small yellow electric mouse.
Pikachu leapt up onto Ash's shoulder and nuzzled Ash in the head.
Ash grinned and scratched Pikachu on the head.
Misty giggled and tickled Pikachu's chin.
Pikachu relished in the attention.
The drama teacher studied the three, never had he seen two people with so much fire and passion towards each other and it was because of that there was such incredible chemistry.
He was just cursing Ash's empathy Misty's hatred towards the theatre.
They would be such firecrackers in the play.
"Well I'm afraid that the auditions don't begin till four so you must wait around.
Misty, please prepare the appropriate material for the auditions"
Misty was about to question this but Mr Crefell drifted off somewhere else.
Misty trudged down towards the stage and hopped up.
Duplica wandered around the stage exploring and Ash joined her.
Brock and Richie collapsed into the two chairs directly in front of Misty in the front row.
Snap stood still, impressed by the size of their theatre, he guessed that the drama section of the school was very important.
Duplica came over to Misty and seated herself besides her.
Misty was tapping her pen off the clipboard trying to come up with what was deemed
" The appropriate material"
Ash looked over her shoulder and Duplica peered down at the sheet.
They started coming up with suggestions and the sheets were being titled.
"For the last time Brock, asking for the girls numbers is ok on the application form but we can't ask if they're single" Misty cried at him frustrated.
"But we need to know if they have any previous commitments so that we can know if they'll be on call whenever we need them and not with a boyfriend" Brock protested weakly.
Misty gave him a long angry stare and Brock fidgeted in his bag.
"Lollipop?" he offered meekly.
"Yeah ok" Misty said casually and shrugged.
She popped the lollipop in her mouth.
"So you'll ask them if they're single?" Brock asked hopefully.
"Nope"
The doors swept open and the group looked towards the entrance.
Giselle stood at the entrance, the light from outside shining against her giving her an angelic, heavenly look.
Brock's face softened and soon he wore a goofy grin.
Ash waved his hand in front of Brock's face but nothing could tear Brock's eyes away from Giselle as she made her way down the steps, elegantly as always.
Giselle approached them with a smirk.
"You're auditioning?" she asked with a sneer.
"And what of it?" Misty asked standing up.
Duplica remained seated and the others turned to look at Giselle.
"Sure, I just can't wait to see you guys make absolute idiots of yourself. As long as you don't mess up my audition"
"No I think you can do that just fine by yourself" Duplica observed.
"Buh Bye losers" she called over her shoulders.
Misty was about to leap up and charge after her when Duplica grabbed onto her in an attempt to stop Misty.
The sudden movement knocked them both back.
"Ohh come on. This too suhh -weeeet" Rudy's annoying voice declared.
Duplica fell forward and ended up lying on Misty who was knocked back on her back.
Their legs were tangle in each other's and the overall appearance was very....questionable.
"Why don't you back off?" Ash growled.
"Hey, just cause you never made a move doesn't mean that no one can ever even look at her.
You've been around a girl like that for this long and you never did anything, well dude you deserve for someone else to go out with her and for you to end up with someone not quite as hot"
"Look why don't you just get lost?" Brock warned.
Rudy walked away and began talking to Giselle but kept shooting Misty sidelong glances.
Misty and Duplica untangled themselves and sat up.
"Hey what did I miss?" she asked.
Ash stalked away angered by Rudy.
Brock and Richie followed him leaving the two girls by themselves up ion the stage looking confused.
"Apparently something big" Duplica said, surprised.
Students began filling up the theatre occupying seats and couple taking to the stage.
Misty, Duplica and Snap all sat on the stage talking when they saw a familiar face.
A familiar face laden with depression.
Tracey approached them and flopped onto the stage next to them, head cast down.
He stayed like this for a few moments.
"If this guy says hello, I think I'm gonna kill myself" Duplica whispered to Misty.
"You ok, Trace?" Misty asked, cautiously.
Tracey grabbed Misty in a bear hug.
"Its awful, I just can't stand her anymore" he wailed.
Misty looked towards Melody who was talking with Giselle.
She shuddered imagining the reign of terror that those two could inflict on the world.
"Lets just hope that they never realise their true evil powers and how powerful they are together" she joked half-heartedly.
She looked up when she saw someone she didn't recognise enter the hall.
This new girl paused and stopped one of the students passing by.
She said something to them and they nodded and pointed in the direction of Misty, Duplica, Snap and Tracey.
The girl approached them giving them a chance to look at her.
She was tall and slim with waist long navy hair that went straight down then spiked up at the bottom.
She was wearing a very dark pair of jeans and a red tight tee shirt.
The tee shirt had elbow length sleeves with a white stripe on each sleeve.
Around her neck she wore her pokephone type thing and a red bandanna with a white pokeball covered the top of her hand.
Three bangs of navy hair hung around her face and one in the middle of her forehead and she had bright hazel eyes.
"Um hi" she said nervously.
"Hi" Misty and Duplica said in unison.
Tracey who was still in the depths of depression didn't even raise his head to look at the girl; instead he mumbled a quick hello
Snap also greeted the girl cheerfully but it was obvious that he cared more about the two girls he was sitting next to.
"Can we help you with something?" Misty asked the new girl.
"Yeah I'm looking for a girl named Misty? Do you know where I can find her? I was told that she's the one you go to about trying out for the musical," the girl said shyly.
It was obvious that she was nervous about approaching two new girls on what seemed to be her first day.
"Yeah but you might wanna avoid her. She's real trouble-causer. She skips classes so she roams the halls looking for fights and getting herself drunk before she hotwires cars and goes for joyrides" Duplica told the girl.
The girl looked shocked and frightened discouraged about finding this delinquent and having to speak to her.
"Yeah that's enough outta you" Misty said hitting Duplica on the head with her clipboard. "Jeez with friends like you, who needs...friends like you?" she asked the green haired who was rubbing her head.
Misty then turned to the blue haired girl who looked puzzled.
"Don't listen to Duplica, she's a few sandwiches short of a picnic. I'm Misty and I didn't any of the stuff she said in fact I'm quite distinguished"
"Oh c'mon" Duplica's voice protested casing them both to look at her.
"I may have made up that stuff about you just there but you are not distinguished. You need a monocle and a top hat for that"
The blue haired girl giggled as she watched the two girls debate this.
"Tracey what do you think?" Misty asked turning around to him.
He was still looking down and Misty looked annoyed.
She smacked him on the back of her head with the clipboard and he looked up instantly and let out a howl of pain.
"Tracey, will you snap of it. We have company" Duplica told him gesturing towards the new girl.
Tracey looked up and he could have sworn his heart stopped beating.
Glossy blue hair cascaded down her back and spiked up at the bottom, smooth creamy skin, a slim elegant figure and a look of playfulness indicated by her clothes. Three bangs framing her sweet face perfectly and bright brown eyes glistening with delight and bright smile playing on her lips.
" I... trace... sketches nice meeting to you" he blurted out.
Misty, Duplica and Snap exchanged puzzled looks.
"I'm sure there was a coherent introduction in there somewhere" Snap remarked.
The girl grinned shyly and avoided eye contact and the girls thought they saw traces of a blush.
"My names Lisa. I'm new here" she told the group but found herself looking at Tracey.
"This is Tracey Sketchit" Duplica told Lisa with a smile.
Lisa looked down and gazed shyly at Tracey from underneath her long lashes.
"Hi" she said softly.
Girls are by nature incredibly intuitive, always able to spot attractions of others to the opposite sex, always able to spot budding romances and others feelings around another, well except for their own emotions.
Misty and Duplica were no different and exchanged knowing smiles as they watched Tracey and Lisa.
One thing was definite.
This was going to be interesting.