A/N: yes, this one is a very short chapter, but don't worry, it'll get better as I go on later this weekend.

Danny, Sam, and Liz all met outside Sam's class to go see the cast list together. Much to Danny's amazement, Sam hadn't changed out of her outfit all day. She even kept the witch's hat on.

When they first got to the list, lots of people were surrounding it, but they soon cleared out to let the three hopefuls through. Danny scanned the list:

Nessarose- Valerie Grey (understudy- Rebecca Goodman)

Was one of the names Danny recognized. Good for her, Danny thought, she was really good.

The Wizard- Alex McCarty

Madame Morrible- Lauren McCarty

Doctor Dillamond- Mr. Lancer

Lancer tried out! Danny was laughing on the inside, but probably broke out into a laughing smile as well.

Boq- Robert Arthur

That was the guy Danny had been hoping for. Thank goodness he got the part and not Edward Johnson. Then Danny read the last few names on the list:

Glinda- Paulina Sanchez (understudy- Liz Garner)

Elphaba- Samantha Manson (understudy- Jamie Brown)

Fiyero- Danny Fenton (understudy- Dash Baxter)

Danny stared at the list in awe.

"I made it…" he half said to himself, half said to the stunned Sam next to him.

"We made it, Danny" Sam whispered. Then, as soon as she was quiet, she screamed. "WE MADE IT!" Without thinking, she jumped into Danny's arms and kissed him.

"God, get a room why don't you," Liz joked.

Sam and Danny broke apart and made sure to stay a full two feet away from each other. Sam looked from the cast list, to Liz, and back again.

"Oh, I'm sorry Liz. I can't believe you only got understudy, you were so good." Sam frowned looking at the cast list. "Ugh… how could Paulina beat you! She was the worst."

"It's alright. Like I said before, I'm always in the background." Liz walked away, but as she did, Danny was sure he detected a tear in her eye.

"Man, this stinks, I want to sing with Liz, not Paulina," Sam said the name in disgust, "I wish there were someway Paulina couldn't be there." Sam looked at Danny and slowly, her frown turned into a smile, then a full-out beam. "but we MADE IT!" she screamed again.

- - - - - -

Danny and Sam stopped by Mrs. Anderson's office before they left to get the script. She ended up giving them a book of the entire script plus the lyrics to all the songs and two CD's (one with the people singing and one with only the music on it.)

"Congratulations, children. I will see you on Monday for practice. Oh, and wear comfortable shoes, okay? We will be practicing the choreography to one of the songs."

Danny and Sam both thanked her, promised to wear comfortable shoes, and walked out of the office, deeply absorbed in a conversation about the opening number that they didn't see Desiree come out of a locker farther down the hall from them.

"Well, the little goth girl wished not to sing with this one," she gestured toward Paulina, "and so she has wished it, so shall it be."

Desiree waved her arms and a purple smoke engulfed her and she was gone. One minute, Paulina and star were talking about how many times they got their nails done that week, and the next, Paulina could barely speak.

"It's probably just a cold, or maybe you were cheering too loudly at cheerleading practice and lost your voice or something," Star coaxed a very distraught Paulina to the nurses office, "don't worry, you'll be fine in no time."