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Chapter 10

"What was that all about," Adam asked, pulling Calum off to the side.

"What," Calum said, knowing what Adam was getting at.

"The fact that you and Mack just made a complete scene!"

"It was nothing. It was normal."

Adam snorted. "If that was normal, I'm the marrying Prince Harry over in Europe. Can't you tell me? I'm your best friend. You can tell me stuff you know."

Calum sighed. "Look, Darbus stopped us in the hall and wants us to audition for the play."

"And thats bad?"

"Very."

"I don't see what's so bad about doing the musical. It might actually be good this year if you're in it." Calum groaned. "Man, what's your problem?"

"The problem is that...I have to audition today-"

"And."

"Let me finish!" He bent down to hide his face from anyone but Adam. "I have major stage fright." Adam looked at him for a minute before starting to laugh. "It's not funny!"

"Yes it is. The wildcat superstar is scared of people watching him sing," Adam teased.

"Not scared...mortified."

Adam rolled his eyes. "Well, you're only auditioning in front of Ms. Darbus right?" Calum nodded. "Well, if you get casted for the part, you have a while to learn how to sing in public. I can help you there."

"Really?"

"Really, these people will tell you if you stink or if you're great and they won't lie. So, part of your stage fright will be gone because you know you're good."

"What about seeing people."

"Practice makes perfect."

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"Bolton, Boucher, you showed up! Excellent. Now take your place on the stage while I get some music."

Calum and Mack made their way to the stage and sat down in two chairs. They noticed a small girl sitting at the piano. She looked nervous. "Hi," Mack said.

"Hi," the girl said shyly. She looked at the two for a moment before turning back to the music on the piano. She had shoulder length blond hair and big brown eyes.

"What's your name," Calum asked.

The girl, who was obviously uncomfortable in their presence, answered softly in a sweet sounding voice. "Cassara."

"That's really pretty," Calum said politely. "Do you play the piano well?"

"I guess," she said quietly. "My brother said I was good."

"Who is your brother," Mack asked interested. She figured that she'd know him.

"Ryan."

"Ryan Evans," Calum asked. "And Sharpay's your sister?" The girl nodded slightly and turned back to the music on the piano. "How old are you?"

"I'm a freshman. I'm supposed to be in the eighth grade, but I skipped fifth."

"Wow, it's a pleasure to meet you," Mack said. "You're shy. I figured with Ryan and Sharpay as your siblings you'd be..."

"Loud like them?" She shook her head slightly and smiled at Mack. "It's easy to get lost in my house when their fighting. I guess I just never got over my shyness when they left for college."

Mack and Calum smiled at her before the doors to the auditorium slammed open, giving her a grand entrance. "Found the music. You may read off the paper." She handed Mack and Calum two small packets of sheet music. "Since I haven't been sent me this year's play, you'll have to make do with different music. Cassara already knows it, so all you two need to do is look it over."

Mack looked at hers and smiled. "Calum do you know what this is," she whispered excitedly.

"Yeah," he said. "This is music from Twinkle Towne." Calum remembered when he and Mack had gone to opening night to watch Troy and Gabriella be Arnold and Minnie. He sighed to himself, knowing Ms. Darbus expected him to be as good as Troy and Ryan when they auditioned, but deep inside him, he knew he wasn't.

He looked over the music, knowing that he had to try his best when he noticed something. On the top right hand corner, someone had written on the paper. It read: Don't worry, you're the star of the basketball team. What can go wrong?

His eyes widened as he searched for more writing. On the second page he found a different handwriting. Dude, you'll rock. You always do was written in a larger, more bold. On the back page of the packet there was one last little note written underneath the ending of the song. Man, you are going to blow the roof off this place. Don't worry, leave all the other stuff to me. Good Luck Troy!

So this was Troy's music. He smiled, and a wave of relief hit him. If Troy had used this packet to learn the music, then he could too. Turning to Mack, he saw her grinning and knew she had Gabriella's.

"You ready," Calum asked.

"Are you?"

He nodded, "I have a little encouragement written on mine." He showed Mack the writing and she quickly identified the first note as Zeke's handwriting, Jason's handwriting being the second and Chad's as the note on the last page.

"Ready," Cassara asked quietly. The two nodded and she started to play the familiar beat of Breaking Free.

After the first few bars, Ms. Darbus knew she had her main characters. Her vision was flooded with memories of Kelsi playing piano, of Troy and Gabriella singing and dancing. She had loved Twinkle Towne the most out of any of her plays and now when she tried to use others, she they just didn't come out right.

She had had Kelsi make another play, telling her of the great performance Mack and Calum had made her class off the play Romeo and Juliet and he hopes to gain them as her leads. Kelsi hadn't at all been surprised when Ms. Darbus called her, wanting her to make a play. Ms. Darbus had explained her case and Kelsi was delighted. Of course, Ms. Darbus had already had auditions for another play, in this giving Kelsi a restraint on characters she could choose to make.

But, this one was going to be better than Twinkle Towne. Kelsi had e-mailed the idea to everyone; Sharpay, Ryan, Chad, Taylor, Jason, Zeke, Gabriella, Cam and most of all Troy, asking them to put something special in it. Of course, Chad had put sports, Sharpay had made one of the characters like her junior year self and Taylor had made the main girl character a genius.

All in all, the musical turned out to be much like their school years. The jock and the brainiac trying to break free from their social groups, while their friends tried to split them apart. The jock was a basketball player who was heartless– a part added by Gabriella surprisingly. The brainiac was kind and gentle- which was added by Jason.

The best friends were a baker whose personality resembled Zeke's and a firm believer in education, which Cam named Taylor for obvious reasons. Ryan decided to make the jock a little clueless when it came to brainiac which everyone agreed with. Sharpay's character was named Lucy and she was really something, a bratty drama queen that had Sharpay written all over it.

Troy had decided that he would add a portion with just the jock. The jock would be thinking about the brainiac -like he did about Gabriella- contemplating his feelings for her and finally plucking up the courage to ask her despite what his friends thought, when he would collapse on center stage. The end of the play was set in the hospital, with the jock on a bed and the brainiac seated beside him. The jock would die slowly -much like Troy had thought he would when he collapsed- after finally telling the brainiac that he was head over heals in love with her.

Troy had thought that would be a nice little touch for Mack and Calum's relationship.

Kelsi had loved the idea. After reading it through, the story was just about the same as junior year, except the two were trying to get together instead of star in a musical. It was definitely a romance, but it wasn't as much of a romance as Twinkle Towne was.

Ms. Darbus was pulled out of her reverie when the song ended. She had never been so relax. Standing up she clapped loudly, shouting 'Bravo!' and 'Brava!' to the two teens. They smiled at each other before walking over to Cassara.

"How did we do," Mack asked.

"That was beautiful," she said, still not comfortable being with the two basketball stars. "She really liked it. I've never seen her that happy."

"I have," Mack said, remembering Troy's audition when she had flung the clipboard in the air.

"You'll have the scripts as soon as I get them from Kelsi," Ms. Darbus said, pleased that maybe this year he musical would be worth going to see.

"Kelsi," Mack questioned. "Kelsi's making the musical?"

"Yes," Ms. Darbus said, still happy that the two had impressed her as much as they did. "Now, I'll see you two soon."

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