You know the drill: Drake & Josh characters do not belong to me. The Wicked songs and concepts don't belong to me. All the songs were written by Stephen Schwartz. The line "Are you a good witch or a bad witch?" is spoken by Glinda in the Wizard of Oz movie. That's not mine either.

As always, thanks for the reviews. I have to comment to ReginaBina33 again: I don't write things without a reason. I kept Lea as Glinda a blonde because some brunettes (like me) and redheads can't pull off a blonde dye job or wig if we tried, besides I was trying to show that Lea is a bit more Glinda/Elphaba combo rather than Galinda if you catch my drift...by the way to everyone else, it does help to have general knowledge of the play here...Drake will comment on her shyness and being pretty a little later. I did consider making her less attractive than Shelly in the beginning, but I decided not to do that. So much for actually following Wicked...but you still get the idea. I actually wrote them that way because, being in choir, I've gotten really tired of hearing the annoying"choir girl" stereotype. You'll hear more about Lea a little later. P.S.: In my series that begins with the story "Insensitive" the girl he's after is a brunette.

Dramagrl: Always reading my D&J fiction. Thanks for commenting as always!

This story is completely written. I just post a little at a time. Okay. Drake is actually getting excited about this play that he didn't even want to do in the first place. Check out what he does:

Drake walked into the house to find Josh and Mindy on the couch working on homework.

"Yes, you are looking at the next Fiyero!" Drake said. "I wish I could find the soundtrack. That way I could hear how the part was originally done and maybe pull from that. I went to a couple stores, and they said they sold out of them. They go fast."

"I have it," said Mindy pulling a cd case from her backpack.

"Hey, can I borrow that?" Drake asked.

Mindy sighed. She couldn't stand Drake. He was Josh's brother though, and he did seem willing to do this part in the play. The fact that he was Josh's brother was enough though. If he meant something to Josh, she would be nice to him.

"Here," she said.

"Thanks," said Drake. "I should go rehearse this stuff. See ya later."

"See ya Drake," said Josh. "Boy, he's really excited about this play."

"Yeah, it's kinda out of character for him." replied Mindy.

"I hope he's getting more into the play than the reason he auditioned."

"Why'd he audition?"

"The girls."

"That is just like Drake! Doesn't he think of anything else? Who told him about the girls anyway?"

"Um...I did."

"Josh, why!"

"Because I could not stand seeing Hewitt play Fiyero. Fiyero is cool and Hewitt is...not. Ha, now he's a goat."

"I guess that is pretty funny. Isn't Hewitt the one who stole Drake's song at the talent show?"

"Yes. Drake was more upset with them for that then for you getting him in trouble."

"Can we not talk about that?"

"Sorry."

Mindy turned back to her math. Josh turned back to his notes. He had been taking care of things on the stage. He was glad he got to help with the play. He didn't have the best singing voice. He'd sing for fun, or if he was singing with Drake, like when they did Soul Man at the talent show. On his own he wasn't the best, so he didn't do musicals. He was quite glad to be working behind the scenes though. If he really liked this, maybe he'd start doing them for more plays. He liked being a part of something and making it work. Josh closed his notes for Wicked and opened his math book to the same page Mindy was working on. He'd have to balance his homework and the play, but Josh was smart. He could do it.

Drake flipped through the script before walking into the choir room the next day. He had read the entire play the night before. Nothing was as it had seemed in the original version of the story, whether you had read the book or seen the movie. How people came into the story was explained and their importance. It was quite an interesting theory on what actually happened, Drake had to admit. He tucked the script under his arm and opened the door.

Hewitt was inside arguing with the director again. Drake smirked and turned his attention to Shelly, who had just walked into the classroom. She glanced over at him and turned away. He looked a bit shocked. Not many girls would avoid his gaze.

Hewitt finally stopped arguing with Mrs. Lane, so she could start rehearsal.

"Okay," said Mrs. Lane. "Today we will just go over lines. I want to schedule lunches with each of you to rehearse your numbers. I will announce those at the end of rehearsal today. Now, I'd like to see the opening scene with our Glinda and citizens of Oz."

Lea stood at the front of the room with the "Ozians" surrounding her. Mrs. Lane explained the scene.

"Okay, the citizens have just learned that the Wicked Witch of the West is dead, Glinda addresses the crowd, through speaking and singing. No songs today, just lines, so please skip the parts normally sung," Mrs. Lane instructed.

Drake sighed. His part didn't come until a bit later in the show. He glanced over at Shelly again. Why wouldn't she look at him?

Mrs. Lane went through the entire play, explaining set up and lines.

"Now, each of you will need to rehearse songs, please come in at lunch on the days assigned to you," she said as she passed out rehearsal schedules. "If you cannot attend any rehearsal, after school or at lunch, let me know please. Also, we may have rehearsals scheduled in the morning if necessary, so watch for those."

Drake looked at the schedule. He had to rehearse with Shelly on Tuesday and Lea on Wednesday. His song with Shelly was "As Long as You're Mine," the love song of the play. His song with Lea was "Dancing Through Life," which was the song that described Fiyero. Other than that, he didn't have much to sing. Hewitt had even less to sing, which made Drake snicker under his breath. The lunch rehearsals would start next week, as it was Friday. Drake wouldn't have to rehearse Monday. That was Shelly and Lea, they had quite a few songs together and needed the entire time, whereas everyone else was split up on other days, but Shelly had all of Thursday's lunch and Lea had all of Friday's lunch. It was the price the girls paid for being the leads. They both had so much music to learn.

Drake spent the weekend listening to the Wicked soundtrack. Josh told him if he played the CD one more time he'd snap it in half. Then Drake reminded him that the CD actually belonged to Mindy. Josh gave Drake a blank look and left the room. Drake played the song "As Long as You're Mine" again. That was the song he had to sing with Shelly. What was with her? She seemed to give him evil glances and then ignored him, except when they were rehearsing together. It didn't make sense to him. She was really pretty though. If he could get on her good side, he'd ask her out. He couldn't find her good side though. That didn't mean he'd stop trying. She was very talented. Everyone was, but she stood out. Drake didn't pay much attention when the others were rehearsing, but when she rehearsed, he watched. He sighed and stopped the CD. He went downstairs where he found Josh looking at a sketch of something.

"What's that?" Drake asked.

"It's Glinda's transportation" replied Josh.

"Transportation?"

"Yeah. It's basically a platform with a round back that we left Lea around on. You know how in the movie Glinda floats around in a pink bubble? Well, they can't recreate that obviously, so this was the idea they came up with. Cool huh?"

"Sure," said Drake.

"Then there's where we lift Shelly for the 'Defying Gravity' scene. Man, this is gonna be so cool."

It wasn't that Drake wasn't glad to see his brother excited to be involved with this play, but he wasn't really into the technical stuff. Besides, he was trying to think of ways to get Shelly to act civil to him. What if he complimented her on something? It was worth a shot. Most girls liked that.