The week started, Sarah, Natalia, and Shane were back in school, Trisha and David had left, and everything was back to normal.
The seniors were all anxiously getting ready for their graduation, which would be in three weeks, and had set up a group of creative people to work on planning it.
Sarah and Natalia were part of this group.
"I think our colors should be bright, like pink and orange." An annoying and controlling red-head Lindsey said. Everyone looked at her funny.
"Maybe we should go with the traditional colors, blue and white?" Lori, the always traditional, Sandra D. type, suggested.
"Maybe-" Sarah started but was cut off by Mark.
"We should start planning the party for after grad."
"We should rent a hall." Marcy said.
"My mother-" Natalia started, and was, again, interrupted, this time by the big mouth Tasha.
"We should just have it at a park, a nice evening where we could use the stars as light."
"What about the bugs?" Hailey asked.
"Bug spray." Tasha answered.
"We could-" Sarah started again, again someone else interrupted her. "Should we use our invisibility for evil or to fight crime?" Sarah said and Natalia laughed. The two started talking about ideas they had about graduation and the party. The others on the plan team were obviously mad about them not helping out.
"Um, excuse me." Lindsay said rudely. "If your not going to help, then get out."
"We tried to help. You wouldn't let us give our suggestions." Sarah said just as rudely.
"Oh, like you have any good ideas." Marcy said flipping her hair.
"Actually, I do." Sarah fought back.
"You sound so sure of yourself. Maybe we should just let you plan the entire graduation and after party yourself." Connie suggested with a smirk.
"Hey, no objections here." Sarah said putting her hands behind her head and her feet up on the desk. "I could plan a graduation on my own, no sweat." She said with an evil smile.
She's been spending too much time with Jareth. Natalia thought.
"Fine, you can plan the entire thing alone." Lindsey said getting up, flipping her hair and stomping out of the room. The others all followed her.
"Hey! You're not getting all the fun to yourself. I'm helping you." Natalia said with a laugh. "Was it me or did they look like penguins walking out of here?"
Natalia and Sarah burst out laughing.
"Well, we have the next two classes free to do this stuff, let's get to it." Sarah said recovering from her laughter.
They worked for the next two hours and accomplished a decision on the caps and gowns, blue and white, the after party location, the fire-hall across the street, and were in the process of writing the introduction when the bell rang.
"Darn, I have to go to rehearsal. We can work on this again tomorrow." Sarah said to Natalia.
"That's fine. We got a lot done today."
"Yeah we did! You better go meet Shane before he leaves you here." Sarah said grabbing her things off the library desk.
"One, he wouldn't leave me. Two, how are you getting home?" Natalia asked.
"Ah, I'll walk or something." Sarah said smiling and walking out of the library down the hall to the auditorium.
When she got there she noticed she had 10 minutes before rehearsal started and was the only one there. She picked her phone out of her purse and started to play 'Bowling' until she heard the auditorium doors open and someone else enter the room. She turned around to look at the doors, but no one was there. She turned around to continue her game, but screamed when she saw Jareth's face in front of her.
"Jesus! Don't you ever get tired of that crap?" Sarah screamed and Jareth laughed.
"Your face is priceless when I do it." He said laughing.
"Well other than me to have a heart attack, what do you want?" She asked trying to calm herself. He did that way too much for her liking.
"I just wanted to watch how you and these fine young people are in acting out my story." Jareth said with a smile.
"You're going to get bored." Sarah said trying to get him to leave. She really didn't want him seeing what happened to them all over again and she really didn't want him to see whoever was playing him in the performance.
"Oh, I'm sure it won't be as bad as some things I've had to sit through. Try sitting through 6 agonizing hours of politics and not being one of the debaters. It's terrible." Jareth said shaking his head.
"Yeah, well, this will probably be even worse. All you usually do on the first practice is meet everyone, go over the script once, and take notes. Very boring." Sarah said resting her head on her hand.
"Sounds like it." Jareth said with a small laugh. "But I'll stay for you though."
"Fine." Sarah said as the first few people walked through the door. "But change your clothes will ya?" Sarah said noticing his Goblin King attire.
He laughed and changed clothes into a pair of blue jeans and navy blue shirt. To Sarah's surprise, he wasn't wearing his gloves as he usually did. She would have to ask him about those gloves later. He smiled and took the hand that wasn't holding her head in his and sat down next to her.
After about 5 minutes, everyone was there and the drama instructor, Mr. Cohen, was calling everyone's attention.
"People, quiet down." He yelled sitting on the edge of the stage. "Okay, I think everyone is here. I think the first thing we should do is reveal who everyone is." Mr. Cohen said picking up his notebook and putting on his reading glasses.
"Okay, the role of Natalie will be played by Sarah Williams. The Goblin King will be played by John Mallows."
John Mallows was the school heartthrob. He had jet-black hair, soft brown eyes, a flawless complexion. Sarah personally thought he was a pretty boy. She liked the more dangerous, more courageous type. Jareth's type.
"The roles of Gobble, Lox, and Horn will be played by members of the puppeteer club and their voices will be done by Mark Jones, George May, and Sam Lewis."
Hoggle, Sir Didymous, and Ludo. Sarah thought. She missed them now that someone had mentioned them.
"And Freddy (A.N. The original name of the baby) will be played by a doll and his voice, well, gurgling, will be done by Mary Lee. Okay, now that that's out of the way, how about we run through this script once, see if you have any questions. Sarah, I believe the first line is yours." He said nodding.
Sarah took a deep breath and started off with her first lines. "Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered, I have fought my way here to the castle, beyond the goblin city, to take back the child that you have stolen."
And from there they continued on with the story. Sure it was a bit different from Sarah's experience, especially with the kissing scene in the ballroom, but it still painfully reminded her of the mistake she had made of wishing Toby away.
No, it wasn't a mistake; look at where I am now. I never would be here, holding hands with Jareth, if it weren't for me wishing my bubby away.
After the rehearsal, she and Jareth walked home in the darkness.