A/N Ah nightmare! Ok, I'm ill so I thought I know, to cheer myself up I shall finish my chapter of The Pants Move On... only to find it won't open, so now I have to start again! Which in a way is good as it was turning out quite bad anyway! Too much lovey-doveyness... which I like and everything but no thanks not for the rest of the story... so mwahaha my evil plans will pull through! Hopefully anyway. Ok so thanks to my reviewers, glad you like the story! Hope this chapter is better than the last!

Marianna still hadn't told Belle what had happened. And she didn't want to guess, Mari could be extremely touchy. But she really needed to go home. She had stayed for a couple of nights, kicking whatever poor girl was meant to be sharing with Marianna out of her room.

"Mari, I need to go,"

"Belle, don't leave me please..." She said, peering out from underneath her covers.

"Tell me what's wrong,"

"I can't," She wailed,

"Ok, that's fine... but Marianna I need to go home, and you need to get back to doing what you do best, acting! You are a brilliant actor, but you will get nothing out of this camp if you don't actually attend the workshops."

"You're right I guess..." Belle whipped back the covers,

"Now, get up, get showered, and get dressed!"

"Yes Sir!" Mari said, smiling a little. She went into the bathroom and came out looking a little more like herself, dressed in jeans, a green t-shirt and a green zip-up jacket she smiled at Belle. Her long red hair was brushed and flowing in waves down her back.

"See, you look lovely,"

"Thanks Belle," Her eyes began to fill with tears,

"No, come on, you've got to go!"

"Ok, look, can you post these to Erin? Two weeks is almost up anyway, no point in keeping them for another 2 days," She handed Belle the Pants.

"Sure I can,"

"Wish me luck,"

"You don't need it!" Belle beamed, as Marianna let herself out of the room. "At least I hope you don't,"

Erin was perfecting her plan when the Pants arrived. She had been locked in her room for a few days, only coming down to eat, but Jane wasn't worried because whenever she did come down she beaming. When the package arrived she sent Justin up with them.

"Package for you Madame!" He said, jontily knocking on her door. He heard papers rustling and then, finally she called,

"Enter!" He went in and saw her sitting at her desk, pencils and paper everywhere, and a box of charcoals lying next to her hand. Her brown hair was tied in a messy bun, it was just long enough, although bits were sticking out at random intervals and her face was practically covered in charcoal.

"Here you go," He handed her the parcel,

"Yes," She whispered, "Just in time,"

"What you doing anyway?"

"Nothing at all... just finalising my plan..." She said smiling.

"Ok then... I guess you won't be coming down then..." Justin said, walking away with a glint in his eyes,

"Justin! Why would it be necessary for me to come downstairs?"

"Necessary? No... but seeing as Danny's here, then you might have wanted to, but you're clearly busy!"

"Why didn't you tell me!" She shrieked, leaping up and punching Justin playfully on the arm, then she ran downstairs, messy bun and all.

Danny was waiting for Pete when he heard a shriek upstairs, then Erin came running in, with her hair all messy and her face covered in charcoal. Still she was beautiful. Shut up shut up he thought to himself, as he smiled nervously at her.

"Hey!" She beamed, "I'm almost finished the plan! Oh... and the Pants arrived today," She laughed,

"Oh indeed," He said, raising his eyebrows, "You going to put them on?"

"Not until the plan is finished!"

"Aw shame..." He laughed, "Glad you're almost done,"

Pete slouched into the kitchen, "Hey Danny... Erin... you ready man?"

"Yeah, sure..." Danny said, following him out the kitchen, but walking backwards to wink at Erin.

Dear Erin

Hey it's Belle sending these, which you may think is strange, but then remember our phone call? So I managed to get Mari back to classes, but she still isn't right... she didn't want to see these I think, that's why she gave them to me. Anyway, I hope you're doing ok, and I hope the Pants will do better the second time round! Did any of us have a good time the first round? I know I sure didn't... well to be honest I did, and that's the problem right? I still can't believe I did that to Russ... and now I have to go back and see him and Hazel being all... cute together. Even though I know they're good together, it doesn't make it any easier on me? Right?

Write soon, I need your advise and stuff...

Love Belle,

Dear Belle,

What! Picture me freaking out here, Russell and Hazel are together? What on earth has gone on over there, and why is no-one keeping up with telling me? You must now tell me all! I am so glad you managed to get Mari out of that room, surely she'll be better soon, whatever happened... right? Well I'm glad the Pants came, just in time to put my plan together... I'll tell you more about that after it is done! Anyway, I must go, very busy etc., but please write to me, telling me what has gone on over there with my best friends!

Lots of Love Erin

Marianna had landed one of the main roles in one of the productions. She had talked to Jamie that first day, and told him everything that had happened with her and Hayden. Well not everything, but she told him about them sneaking off at night, and she explained that was why she hadn't been doing as well as she ought to have been. She went on to explain that they had now broken up.

"So, if you're going to tell my parents, that's fine, but I wanted to explain it to you, you've been nice and I thought you might wonder... why I haven't been out of my room and stuff..." She traced her foot on the carpet, not looking at Jamie. It was weird, he was only at the most 3 years older than her, but here he was, in charge of the decision to kick her out, and get her practically disowned by her parents... or not.

"I'm glad you told me Marianna," He sighed and sat on the table that occupied most of the room they were talking in, "I really should tell your parents, but I know how you feel, I've done stupid things for girls! And you seem sorry... look, auditions are today, put your all into it, show me you've changed and I won't say anything," She looked up and smiled, "But if anyone finds out about this, I didn't know ok?" He laughed,

"Sure, thanks Jamie, I'd better go and prepare,"

And the auditions had gone well, luckily one of the plays was one she already knew, and loved (unlike the others which were a little to overdone for her tastes)"A cry from Heaven" By Vincent Woods, it was a retelling of an Irish myth and her father had bought it for her when it first came out. (A/N I found out about this play on a website, meant for selling plays, so I know nothing about it except the blurb, so anything I write about it might be wrong, but we shall just pretend ok? I have however looked up the myth that the play was based on, so that bit should be ok, see I do research for my stories!) And now she was to play Deirdre of the sorrows, the beautiful main character. The director would be Vincent Woods himself, and he told Marianna that she had just the right look for the part of Deirdre. She was so pleased, but nothing could please her more than finding out that Hayden wouldn't be in her play, he, along with Kelly, Gladice, Travis and Sammy (from her group of "friends") had auditioned for "Grease" with Hayden playing Danny of course, and Kelly as Sandy.

"Good luck to her," Mari snorted, reading the list of parts pinned to the notice board. But deep down she felt troubled. She had really liked Hayden, and he had completely taken her in, she hadn't even realised. And now, well she couldn't think of it, she pulled herself out and ran over to Jamie who was walking past.

"Guess what! I got Deirdre!"

He winked at her, "I'm not surprised, an Irish beauty like you is perfect for the part!"

"Thanks, Mr Woods said you had suggested doing that play, he told me he had been planning on another one, but that you had told him there was a prefect Deirdre this morning."

"Would I do such a thing?" Jamie mocked, "I'm just glad you got a good part, you deserve it!"

She smiled and he went off, she turned round, almost banging into Kelly,

"Starting on the course leaders as well now, Slut?" She sniggered,

"Excuse me," Marianna pushed past her and walked off down the corridor to where scripts were being given out, but she could feel tears pricking at her eyes, so everybody knew, she shouldn't have been surprised.

"Marianna!" Rhona called out, running up to her, "Are you ok, I'm sorry that I was so horrible, I should have..."

"Its ok," Mari shook her head, "I guess I did need someone, but I had my best friends on call," She smiled a little, "I'm glad you're talking to me now though, I needed to tell someone my good news! I got the lead in A Cry From Heaven!"

"I heard, well done, well, I auditioned with Jake for Romeo and Juliet, I didn't get Juliet though, I'm the nurse, Jake's Paris, I thought you would have gone for that?"

Marianna grimaced, "I'm not really in the mood for love at the minute,"

Rhona clapped her hand over her mouth, "Oh my god, Mari, I'm sorry!"

"That's ok, stop being sorry!" She smiled at her, "I'll be fine, and so will you, how are things going with Jake anyway?" and she listened to her friend's trivial complaints as they walked back to their rooms with their scripts.

A/N Well I hope you liked it, this was much better than the one I was planning, shows how bad the last one was right? Well you know what to do!

Oh I thought I'd better add this Disclaimer: I do not know or own Vincent Woods, who is the real author of the play "A Cry From Heaven" I neither know nor own his plays either. I simply looked up plays for youths and found this, and I thought it fitted Marianna perfectly (Irish beauty and all that) I have however researched the myth from which the play was based.