A/N: Sorry fans, but we're getting dangerously close to the end. :( I know, I'm sad too. Only two chapters left, but stick around for an exciting message!

On Friday, the entire cast was frantic. Everyone was ordered to stay at the school and practice as much as possible. Since no one was allowed to go home, the cast ordered pizza and had a pre-show party in the band room. Everyone involved was in the room, including Mrs. Anderson and Mrs. G, when Sam stood on a chair to look over the crowd.

"Can I have everyone's attention," she said loudly. When the room went quiet, she continued, "Hi everyone. I just wanted to say something before we go on. This experience was wonderful. I want to thank everyone involved for making this musical so much fun. Although there were many times when I heard people getting discouraged, there was always a friend nearby to help them. Everyone here knows one another very well because of how long we had to work together. You all made to road to getting here very enjoyable. I mean, if it wasn't fun to do, most people would have dropped out." The crowd nodded their heads in approval and applauded.

Sam got down from the chair with a smile. When the room went silent again, Mrs. Anderson spoke.

"Okay children," she clapped her hands, "let's get this room cleaned up and start getting ready. Curtain time is in one hour sharp!"

The crowd cheered and started throwing this out and getting their costumes together. After Tucker said goodbye and good luck to his friends, he ran off to find the rest of the lighting crew to see that everything was working.

Danny, Sam, and Liz all stood together in silence.

"So," Liz said, "tonight's the night."

"Yep," Danny and Sam said at the same time.

"Good luck," Danny said.

"You too," Liz and Sam replied.

"We're gonna need it," Sam sighed.

"Hey, I think we're pretty good," Danny looked from Sam to Liz and back again.

"Well, pretty good won't do it," Liz sounded concerned, "We are gonna have to be awesome if we want butts in those seats out there."

"You shouldn't worry," Sam tried to sooth Liz's frazzled nerves, "Your better then the both of us combined. You'll do great. Now let's get you in your 'Princess Barbie' dress and you can practice your lines on me." She led Liz to the girls dressing room (which was actually the art room). Before she left she turned to Danny.

"Good luck," she whispered.

"You too," he whispered back and turned to the cooking room, which served as the boys dressing room.

About a half-hour later, the hall next to the backstage door was crowded with people in their various costumes. Some people were putting on makeup while others were taking pictures of each other to remember this wonderful night. Danny spotted Sam and Liz sitting in front of the band room door. Liz was beautifully dressed in a shimmering blue ball gown, Sam curling her sandy colored hair. Sam's hair was in braided pigtails and she had a crochet hat on. Her plain black dress was nowhere near as beautiful as Liz's was, but on Sam, Danny thought she looked more beautiful then ever. The one thing that set Sam apart from everyone else in the crowd, was that her skin was completely green.

"You look…" Danny couldn't put how beautiful she was in words.

"Green?" Liz offered with a laugh.

Sam stopped curling Liz's hair to look up at Danny with a smile, "wow, you dress up good."

"So do you," Danny managed to choke out.

Sam gave him a look of pure excitement as he grabbed a chair and sat next to the girls. "Can you believe that tonight's the night?" she said happily as she went back to doing Liz's hair.

"Yea, it went real fast didn't it," Danny looked at his watch and it showed they had exactly fifteen minutes left.

"You better hurry up, Sam," Liz commented, "we don't have a lot of time left."

"Why, what time is it?" she didn't stop curling.

"6:45," Danny said, "we have fifteen minutes."

"Wow, that's not much is it? You're done Liz, go get your tiara and wand, I'll help you into the bubble machine." Sam got up and disappeared behind the backstage door.

The fifteen minutes went by like seconds and before they knew it, the curtain had opened. Sam and Danny were two of the very few still left backstage. Almost the entire cast was sing No on Mourns the Wicked with Liz. Danny had to wait five songs till he made his entrance, so he made himself comfortable. Sam was very excited to make her entrance in the next song, that she could barely sit down.

"Sam, could you calm down," Danny watched her pace back and forth.

"I can't calm down! I'm so excited! This is going to be so great!" She squealed and jumped up and down. Danny looked at her wide-eyed. She was getting dangerously close to acting like Paulina at a football game. When he said this to her, she immediately sat down.

The song went on and Danny and Sam had fallen silent. Danny decided to try his luck and ask the question he had been burning to ask all night.

"Sam..." he moved closer so they were sitting the same way they had in the park.

Sam looked into his electric blue eyes, "Yes?" she asked quietly.

"Sam, I…" before he could finish, one of the cast members ran over to them.

"Sam!" He yelled, "Your up!"

"Crap!" Sam bolted onstage, leaving Danny to sit there.