I meant to upload this earlier...but I didn't.
Da-Doo
'Cause he knows strange and interesting plants are my hobby. Dadadadadadadoo….
"So you're moving." Danny nodded. "But you're still coming here." He nodded again. "Well what's the point of that?" "Tucker, it's not like it was my decision. My parents just suddenly realized ghost hunting doesn't really pay." "I find it hard to believe they just realized that," Sam said, joining the conversation. "But if you're still living in the same city, then moving doesn't really matter that much, does it?" Danny shook his head. "I guess not."
"So anyways, the first rehearsal's this afternoon," Sam said, abruptly changing the subject. "Dang! I can't go this afternoon!" Tucker said. "Not like you being there would make a difference," Sam muttered under her breath. "You'll be there, right Danny? You are the lead." "Yeah, I'll go-wait, you said Seymour was a small part!" "No, you said you wanted a small part. I just thought…I just thought you'd be pretty good as Seymour." Danny was silent for a while. Sam waited for him to say something, and Tucker looked back and forth between them, getting the feeling that he didn't know something. But the silence was broken by a bell ringing, signifying the beginning of class.
The day dragged on slowly. Every class that Danny, Sam, and Tucker had to sit through had either a test or a long lecture. Finally, school ended. But the trio didn't get to go home just yet. Tucker did, actually, but Danny and Sam headed to the auditorium for the first rehearsal of the school play.
"Oh…my…god." "That is a huge plant." Danny and Sam stood at the back of the auditorium, staring at a giant flytrap on the stage. The two of them walked towards the stage somewhat slowly, for though they knew the plant wasn't real, it looked quite realistic. As they walked, Mr. Kender walked onto the stage. He held a fancy remote control in his hand. He pressed a button, and the plant began to move. It loomed out over the seats in the auditorium, the giant trap opening as if it would swallow everyone in the theatre. Sam moved a slight bit closer to Danny, more out of surprise than fear.
Other people began to come into the auditorium. Like Sam and Danny, most simply stood and stared at the plant. But a few ignored it and just went to sit down. Those people had to move past the standing and staring people, however, and some weren't exactly nice about it. "Move it," one girl said to Sam, pushing her aside-and right into Danny. Sam stepped back to where she had been standing and scowled, then saw who the girl was. "Paulina? What the heck are you doing here? You aren't in the show!"
"I am now. My father donated that plant, and so I'm in the play now." "Right. Well, what part are you? This play is intended to have a small cast, and I don't see anyone in the original cast dropping out." "I'm your understudy. And don't worry, someone will drop out." Saying this, Paulina walked away. "Shallow snobby little BITCH!" Sam cried, lunging towards the popular girl. Danny grabbed onto her arm to hold her back. "Sam, calm down!" "What do you care, Danny? You'll be happy if she gets my part. You'll get to kiss her and all your dreams will have come true," Sam replied, adding a bit of a mocking tone to her last few words. "Just…just calm down," Danny said.
"If you lovebirds would stop yelling at each other, we can start the rehearsal," Mr. Kender said, suddenly appearing behind them. "WE'RE NOT LOVEBIRDS!" they yelled. Mr. Kender said nothing in reply, just walked back to the stage.
"Okay, cast, today is the first rehearsal. We are fortunate enough to have an Audrey II now, but we aren't going to get to use it yet. The set design crew needs to learn how to move it. Today, we'll be working on Downtown, one of the two numbers with everyone in it. Now all of you, on the stage." The cast all climbed onto the stage, and began rehearsal. They learned the words to the song, but didn't begin to choreograph it, as there was no time before rehearsal was over.
When Danny left the auditorium, his sister met him. "I'm driving you home today," Jazz said. "But I know where we live. I can walk." "Not anymore-Mom and Dad packed up the rest of our stuff today. We've officially moved." Danny sighed, and Jazz put a hand on his shoulder to comfort him. "I'm not happy about moving either. But we don't have a choice. Just think, it could be worse." "I don't need sympathy, Jazz," Danny muttered. "And how could this be worse?" "We could have moved to Wisconsin."
Danny didn't reply, as he was shocked by Jazz's words. On the way to their new house, he stayed quiet, wondering if Jazz had just said a random state-or if she knew more about him than he thought.
When they arrived at the new house, his mother pointed him to his new room, which was on the first level-like every other room. There was no second level. He went down a hall to his room, which had a lot of boxes in it, along with his bed, which was already set up. He sat on the bed, and swatted a fly from his face. The fly flew up to the ceiling. Danny watched it as it flew, and saw that there were a lot of flies on the ceiling, about 20 or so. He groaned, then walked out of his room.
"Mom, there's a bunch of flies in my room," he called. Maddie came from the living room, where she had been unpacking. "Then do something about them," she said. "There's a plant sitting outside the house, I think it's a type of flytrap. Why don't you put it in your room? I just unpacked a pot and a shovel, you can put it in the pot." "Okay." Maddie handed him a small gardening shovel and a pot. "Be careful not to break its roots," she said. "All right."
Danny walked to the front of the house, where he saw the plant. "What kind of plant is that?" he wondered aloud. But he really didn't care, he just dug it up and put it in the pot anyways, along with some dirt. He brought it into his room and set it on the floor next to the bed.
"So I have a plant," he said, thinking aloud. "Now what? What's it supposed to do?" The plant, of course, did not answer. Maddie called for Danny, saying it was time for dinner, which was fast food. As Danny left the room, the plant made a small noise. If someone was in the room, they would have said the plant was laughing.
Caine B: But there are some scenes similar to that song towards the end. So stay tuned.
Axion-Pup: You're welcome! And unfortunately, you won't see them kiss for quite a few chapters.
JadeRabbyt: That plant's already my favorite character, even though not much has happened with it yet. And really, I wasn't planning on having the Box Ghost in there, but I was mentioning boxes a lot-how could TBG not make an appearance?
DaydreamingTurtle: It would totally suck to do that.
Fluffyrachel: This was supposed to be up earlier...
Chaos-CAT1: I only recently saw the movie, after years. I'd seen it before, but I forgot.