Brooke and Rae walked into their English class that they had surprisingly easily found. A small Blonde boy in a girl's uniform pranced up to the two with a taller boy who had white hair with black roots behind them.
"Your Rae and Brooke right?" The small blonde boy said cheerfully. The girls looked at each other and nodded a bit confused. "I'm Momiji Sohma!" He said with pride. Then he got very close to the two and whispered. "I'm part of the curse too! Shigure told us about you! This is Hatsuharu, He's part of it too."
The girls looked from one to the other. Momiji was very feminine, but seemed very sweet and eager to get along. Hatsuharu on the other hand was extremely hot, but didn't seem as eager as Momiji was. He was very quiet and calm. The girls decided they would stick with these two for the class, and introduce Blaze to them later. She would like Hatsuharu.
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Blaze stood on the bleachers in the chorus room. Her teacher, Mr. Oswaki walked in and asked for her down front. She made her way down the bleachers and stood in front of the large man.
"Alright Blaze, if you will follow me, you need to audition" He said in a deep voice.
"Audition!" Blaze squeaked. "But I have nothing prepared! I didn't think I would need to audition for a class I would be taking!"
"Well you thought wrong. I guess you will have to sing it unaccompanied, or if I know the songs then I will play it on the piano." He walked Blaze into a separate room with nothing but a piano, piano bench, and a tape player. She was to do scales, and sing 2 songs of her choice.
She went through the scales and he was impressed to see how amazingly wide her range was. He then asked her what her first song was. She didn't know what to do. She quickly went through a list in her mind of songs she had performed in the past and spit a song name out.
"Wishing you were somehow here again" she said nerved.
"Ah… from phantom of the opera very nice choice. I don't know that one so you will have to sing it on your own. You may start." Blaze took in a deep breath and then in a sweet falsetto voice began to sing.
You were once my one companion
You were all that mattered
You were once my friend and father
Then my world was shattered
Wishing you were somehow here again
Wishing you were somehow near
Sometimes it seems if I just dreamed
Somehow you would be here.
Wishing I could hear your voice again
Knowing that I never would
Dreaming of you won't help me to do
All that I dreamed I could
Passing bells and sculpted angels
Cold and monumental
Seem for you the wrong companions
You were warm and gentle
Too many years fighting back tears
Why cant the past just die?
Wishing you were somehow here again
Knowing we must say good bye
Time to forgive
Teach me to live
Give me the strength to try
All the memories
All the silent tears
All the gazing across the wasted years
Help me say goodbye
Help me say good bye
Blaze finished and her chorus teacher stood to his feet and began to clap. She was in shock; she had remembered all the words!
"That was amazing! Really it was!" His face became more serious and he looked at her with stern eyes.
"But I need to know if you can do other types of singing. Chorus isn't just opera, so I would like you to pick a song that shows…other parts of your voice." This was easy for Blaze. She would pick her favorite song, Defying Gravity.
"I'm going to sing Defying Gravity" she told him. His eyes lit up.
"Now I know this one! What key do you want me to play it in? You know what, I'm sure the original key is just fine. Alright now let's go back into the chorus room so you can sing it for the class."
"What!" Blaze shouted "You didn't say anything about me singing for the other students!"
"Well I need to know if you can perform well in front of the crowds! It's very important for the end of the year concert!" He waltzed out of the room with Blaze following behind. As soon as he walked in the students stood and fell silent. Blaze was surprised. In her old school if a teacher had left the room there would be people hanging on the ceiling by now.
"Alright, now this is Blaze and since it's her first day here, she will be singing for all of you, just like you all did on your first day. She will be singing Defying Gravity from the Broadway show Wicked." He sat on the bench and began to play the intro. Blaze looked at her audience, all judgmental and waiting to tease her, she could tell. She'd prove them wrong.
Something has changed within me
Something is not the same
I'm through with playing by the rules of someone else's game
Too late for second guessing
Too late to go back to sleep
Its time to trust my instincts close my eyes… and leap
Its time to try defying gravity
I think I'll try Defying Gravity and you can't hold me down.
I'm through accepting limits
Cause someone says there so
Some things I cannot change
But till I try I'll never know
Too long I've been afraid of loosing love I guess I've lost
Well if that's love it comes at much too high a cost!
I'd sooner buy defying gravity
Kiss me goodbye I'm defying gravity and you can't hold me down
Unlimited
My future is unlimited
And I've just had a vision almost like a prophesy I know
It sounds truly crazy
And true the visions hazy
But I swear someday they'll be
Up in the sky defying gravity! Flying so high defying gravity
They'll never bring me down
So if you care to find me
Look towards the western sky
As someone told me latly
Everyone deserves the chance to fly!
And if I'm flying solo
At least I'm flying free
To those who ground me take a message back from me!
Tell them how I am defying gravity
I'm flying high defying gravity
And soon I'll match them in renown
And nobody in all of oz no wizard that there is or was
Is ever ganna bring me down!
Bring me down!
AH!
Blaze belted out the last note and then took a bow. Everyone was on there feet clapping and cheering, Mr. Oswaki brushed tears from his eyes.
"Well Blaze I have decided… you're in! You will be in the Soprano 1's and you will be our featured soloist for the concert!" Blaze was more than surprised. She was happy though too. The happiest she had been in a while, finally she got to sing again without being ashamed or nervous someone would hear. Then the bell rang and it was off to 3rd period.