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The Gang's all here.
The Show Must Go On.
Kori and Rachel were chatting to Ian, most people get nervous before a big show like this but Kori and Rachel were used to the stomach butterflies that they just got over it. It was afternoon before the last, big night of the performance. They had done the show for four nights now, but this was the main one, the one where family, if any, and friends came to watch them. Bruce Wayne and Alfred came to watch them, and all their friends. Because of Bruce's immense fortune he had bought the whole front row, for their friends and any close relatives. He had also made a generous donation to the drama department. To get better props, costumes and more wigs for Ian to style. It was Friday the twenty seventh of January. Anyone involved in the show got excused from all lessons today, to get ready and set the stage.
It was two hours before the opening, and everyone was working hard to make sure everything was perfect and ready for the start. Kori and Rachel were sat on a chair as Ian was sorting their wigs so they stayed on their heads, even if they are in a struggle.
"So have you two got the jitterbugs?" Ian said as he was fastening the wig to Rachel's head.
"I haven't, have you Rachel?"
"Nope. Never have probably never will."
"Oh I do, and I'm not even going on the stage, but I always get the jitterbugs before a performance." He said before chuckling to himself, Kori joined in by giving a slight giggle but Rachel just forced a smirk onto her face, so she didn't seem rude.
Richard was in the queue to get popcorn with Victor and Garfield. Bee, Lilly and Chris were all sitting next to Bruce and Alfred. Even though Lilly came from England she even knew about Mr Bruce Wayne, the multi millionaire. Lilly was like Kori. She sat up straight and politely laughed at all his jokes and answered in full sentences. Bruce took a liking to Lilly; he knew that she would be a businesswoman she looked like one now; he even offered her a job on the Wayne Corporations. Lilly said that she would think about it. Where as Bee was just like Rachel, she was polite but knew not to take anything seriously.
"I heard that you marched someone over to the mall, to get you a replacement necklace?" Bruce said to Lilly, and he cheeks flushed. She thought to herself that, just ruined her chance to be acknowledged by Bruce, but he just smiled at her rosy cheeks.
"I think that is very sensible of you, I would have done the exact same thing."
"Thank you kindly." She said as her cheeks returned to their natural colour. Richard rolled his eyes behind Bruce's back, and mimed hitting him over the head.
"Dick, if you were doing that properly, I might not be able to tell, what your are doing." Bruce said calmly and grabbed Richard's wrist and pulled him down to sit on the chair next to him.
"I don't want to sit next to you."
"I don't want to sit next to you, but if you insist on being so immature then I will have to put up being sat next to you, Dick." Bruce hissed before looking back at the stage because the main lights had dimmed out and the curtains began to open. Everyone went into silence in the auditorium as Rachel and Kori made their way onto centre stage.
Richard and Garfield, who sat next to each other, just glared evilly as Kori and Rachel had to flirt with Roy and Aaron. Whenever Aaron got the chance he would smirk at Garfield. The red curtains closed on the scene where Kori and Rachel just got kidnapped for the interval. The audience broke into applause, and then everyone got up and went to the loo or to get some more sweeties.
"I swear that if Aaron looks at me like that one more time, when Rachel is acting to like him…"
"Just shut up Gar, I know how you feel but just put up with it. Kori told me to calm down at the end. Apparently I will get mad at the end. So calm down for now."
"Dude, that made no sense but I got the drift, let's change the topic. How do you like it so far?"
"It's great, Kori and Rachel really are great actresses aren't they?"
"Yes they are, I am fully enjoying myself. Don't you think Kori and Rachel suit the two other lads?" Bruce replied from behind Richard. Both Richard and Garfield gave him a hard stare.
"No, they don't Bruce. If you have forgotten, they are already taken. Remember" Richard hissed but Bruce just laughed at him, sat back down and drank his cup of coke.
"That just wasn't funny, dude." Garfield said before looking back at the stage, because again the curtains began to open. Kori and Rachel were strapped to chairs and had sticky tape across their mouths. They had their heads hung down until the auditorium was silent then they started the scene.
Richard's knuckles were turning white as he gripped to the arms of the chair and Garfield's teeth were gritting together slowly, as they watched the love scene between Kori and Rachel with Roy and Aaron. When their mouths met Richard's eyes popped out, even though he was wearing sunglasses. Richard told himself, calm down, they have to do this. It is just an act. Then he noticed that the girls kept trying to break away from them but they kept them close. This was the last action of the whole show, so they couldn't close the curtains until Roy and Aaron had got their filthy mouths off Kori and Rachel's. Poor Rachel and Kori had to pretend that they were enjoying it. When Roy's hand reached to her butt it got too much for Richard to bear, the same went for Garfield. They both stood up at the same time and jumped onto the stage. They pushed the boys off their girlfriends. Smiled at their dumb struck faces and slanted their lips over theirs. Roy and Aaron had been pushed right off the stage and the other actors, with help of Ian, stopped them from returning on the stage. Miss Moran closed the curtains quickly. The audience were in complete shock of what just happened, that they weren't sure whether to boo, or to cheer for it.
Bruce stood up by himself and began to clap loudly. When everyone noticed that Bruce was cheering, they all stood up and began to clap and cheer loudly.
They broke apart when they heard the audience yelling their heads off for an encore. Kori looked up at Richard and smiled at his handsome face.
"Thank you. And you should be glad that you got a clap or Miss Moran would have your head."
"Yours too Gar." Rachel whispered.
"Right when the curtains open again, for the bows, you have to join hands with everyone and bow then pick me up bridal style when everyone else has gone from the stage. Then the curtains shut then we can get off the stage." Kori explained to Richard as everyone was getting into his or her places. Rachel told Garfield the exactly same thing. The curtain re-opened and everyone cheered louder. The other various actors and actresses made their way from the stage and only Kori and Richard and Rachel and Garfield were left on. The boys picked them up bridal style just like the girls told them to do. The noise went up even louder when they shared their last kiss on the stage in the spotlight. The curtains closed for the last time and Kori and Rachel had to hurry to get their photographs done. Richard and Garfield gulped when Miss Moran made her way over to the boys.
"Wonderful! I never would have thought of audience participation. And they need you for the photo call. Thank you lads, you have made this the best night!" she said before hurrying off, to give an interview about what happened. Richard and Garfield smiled for the camera as they were in their places. Richard and Garfield had the girls in their arms and Roy and Aaron were to stand behind them trying to get to the girls but failing.
"The headline, Actors jealous as simple viewers grab the girls! Wow what a headline!" a reporter said as he was running around trying to get interviews or any back-stage gossip. Kori smiled sweetly as Rachel tried to do an innocent grin but she couldn't quite manage to make her smile look sweet, it looked like she had just poisoned someone, but it didn't matter. The camera lights flashed all around them as they could still hear the cheer of the audience.
When the girls finally got away from the photographers, and had come out of their personal dressing rooms Richard and Garfield were busy in a glaring match with Roy and Aaron, who were on the other side of the room. Kori pulled Richard's glance away from the lanky redhead and onto her, a beautiful redhead. While Rachel just stood in front of Garfield's face and kissed him. Aaron's jaw dropped but she didn't care, she pulled away and let Garfield lead her into the reception area where the rest of their friends were waiting. When they came into a large red room, it broke into applause again. They tried their best to ignore everyone and get to their friends but it took them ten minutes to get to them.
"Y'all mad." Victor said when the four stars approached. Alfred politely clapped from behind the large build of Victor. While Bruce just looked at them, forcing his jaw into a lopsided grin. Lilly hugged them while the others congratulated them.
"Wow, I so wouldn't have had the nerves to do that!" Chris said, but he was lying to make them look good. He had been apart of a private drama group since he was three, but he hated just acting. He was more into the musicals. His last main part, he played Oliver Twist. And he knew that if it was Lilly up there kissing his worst enemy he would also stomp up onto the stage like they did, but this was their moment so he stood back and let them take the limelight.
"I couldn't even be on the stage. Not even if I was just the cleaner person at the end." Lilly said while she gently hugged her four friends. Bruce ushered them all outside to where the limo was waiting. Richard rolled his eyes when he saw the sleek black limo.
"You just wanted to draw that extra bit of attention didn't you Bruce?" he said when everyone else had made their way into the limo and only he and Bruce stood outside.
"I didn't know you were going to jump up onto a stage because you can't control your emotions did I, Dick?" Bruce said before getting into the passenger seat. Richard just scowled then hopped in next to Kori.
"I was so scared that no body would clap!" Kori said to get a conversation started whilst they were driving back.
"They wouldn't have if I didn't start it off." Bruce said, this of course was true but Richard hated it when Bruce was right.
"Yeah, everyone congratulate the big shot Bruce. Everything good that happened was because Bruce exists." He said sarcastically but his friends started to clap for Bruce, because they could except that Bruce was right, this time.
"Thank you kindly"
"Without even looking I could tell Lilly just said that, apart from I know the voice." Bruce said, Lilly's cheeks just flushed but you couldn't really tell.
"Go on Bruce, tell all my friends how amazing you are." Richard said so Bruce turned slightly in his seat to face the youngsters.
"I heard her say it before. And only Kori and her talk to me like that. If she said Mr Wayne, then I would know it was Kori. If they just said thanks it could have been anyone else. Then I would have to listen to the voice who was saying it but…"
"As much as this is interesting, I think that my friends have right not to die of boredom" he said evilly, Bruce just winked at his friends and faced the front again, Richard sighed with relief when the black screen came up separating them from the front.
"You shouldn't be so rude to Mr Wayne you know, he had raised you since you were a very little boy." Kori said sweetly but Richard just shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. Garfield could feel the tension, so he decided to start a conversation on a random subject, to try and lighten the mood.
Bruce had said goodnight to everyone and had made his way up stairs, he had loads of telephone calls and documents to fill in no doubt. Alfred stayed downstairs for a while to make sure everyone had everything that they want.
"Would anyone desire a drink?" Alfred said into the room. Most people shouted out many different drinks, but Lilly felt sorry for the old man, so she got up and followed the man into the kitchen.
"I have come to help you Alfred."
"Thank you Miss Lilly. I am grateful for your assistance."
"You come from England don't you, London right?"
"That's right. How did you guess, I try and hide my accent." (I don't know whether Alf really is from London, but he is now!)
"You can never hide a proper cockney accent! Wow you're the only person I have met, apart from family, that is from England."
"Yes not many people in Gotham or Jump city have immigrated. Tell me do you miss England?"
"I used to think I did, but now I have met Chris and all my new friends, I am glad I came here. I don't want to go back at the end of the year."
"You shall be departing form us? I am sure your friends shall miss you dearly."
"Don't tell them I am leaving, can you keep a secret?"
"Any true Londoner can keep a secret." Alfred said as he put the glass down and turned to look at Lilly.
"I can't tell you the whole story but, when school finishes in July this year, I have to go back to England and I probably will never come back. I do this a lot, and it never really bothers me, but all the other times I didn't make any friends, well not like these. And then there is Chris as well. But don't tell a soul, promise?"
"Not even mine, I promise" Alfred said before winking and passing four cups to Lilly, for her to carry into the main room. Lilly smiled gratefully at the kind butler, before taking the cups into the other room where her friends were waiting for her.
"Thanks Lilly, so what movie do you guys wanna watch?" Garfield said when everyone got their drinks and had settled down.
"If we have to watch a film, I am not watching a comedy. Horror or no film." Rachel stated bluntly. Everyone knew that she wouldn't change her mind so they were deciding on what horror to watch.
"The grudge?" Kori suggested.
"Boring." Garfield said.
"It has to be really scary!" Lilly agreed, but she didn't know why. She doesn't normally like horror films but a good scare now would be okay.
"The Seed of Chuckie." Victor said while browsing through the DVDs.
"I haven't seen it, can we watch that one?" Chris said, while Kori was talking quietly to Richard.
"If I get the frights can I hold your hand?"
"Of course you can Kori, and I would be worried if you wanted to hold someone else's hand." Richard chuckled as Kori snuggled into his shoulder. Kori was more into chick flicks or Disney. She loved happy endings and fluffy story lines. But as long as Richard kept tight hold of her, she would get through the night.
The next morning Lilly had woken up earlier. She hasn't been filling in her notebook recently so she got it out from the bottom of her bag and began to scribble down some notes. She really enjoyed the film last night. All the girls had an excuse to snuggle into their boyfriends, well everyone except Rachel. Garfield was the one who had the excuse to snuggle into his lover. Rachel seemed unfazed by the whole film; she didn't find it remotely scary infact she found it quite funny. Lilly sighed as she turned over the page and carried on to jot things down. Alfred came into the room to find everyone snoring away. He just smiled and left the room. Lilly sighed and sat back up again, and then she got her pen from underneath her bag with her notebook and carried on to write in codes. She didn't want Alfred to find anything else out about her. If he came from London he might have heard of her, but Lilly was sure that he hadn't.
"Tiger, what you up to?" someone mumbled from behind her. She shoved her notebook and pen in her bag and turned around to see Chris looking at her with sleepy eyes.
"Nothing."
"You sure?"
"Positive. Go back to sleep." She said, but before she could even finish Chris was back to sleeping again. It was late night last night but Lilly was used to sleepless nights, and going to bed late and getting up extremely early in the morning. Lilly smiled at the sleeping figures of all her friends. She got up and took her clothes out with her bag that had her toothbrush in and walked to the downstairs bathroom. She cleaned her teeth and brushed her hair into low ponytail, then got changed. When she came out everyone was still asleep. She walked into the kitchen where Alfred was busy preparing breakfast for everyone. Lilly smiled and helped by washing up the glasses from last night, and the popcorn bowl. Alfred winked at her.
"You have no need to do that you know."
"I have nothing better to do."
"You have finished your little writing piece?" Lilly's eye widened, how did he know. Luckily Richard answered this question. He walked in just after Lilly.
"Alfred doesn't miss a trick, do you Alf?"
"I certainly don't Master Dick." Alfred smiled. Lilly just forced a smile on and carried on washing.
"Lilly why are you washing up?"
"I like to help Alfred, and I have nothing better to do. What are you going to do?"
"I am going to the gym, I do every morning, so if any asks that is where I will be." Richard said before jogging of down the corridor and down the flight of steps. Lilly just nodded and put away all the glasses, then walked back into the living room. Everyone was still asleep but there was a thin black door that had a flickering light from underneath it. She looked around nervously and went to the door she knocked twice no answer so she opened the door slowly to find Rachel sat up straight, in a circle of purple candles.
"Rachel?" Lilly asked timidly, she didn't know that Rachel meditates a lot.
"If you have to do something, sit down and close your eyes."
"I never knew you meditated."
"I said sit down and close your eyes, not stand there, keep looking and distract me. Now sit." Rachel said impatiently. Bruce had made this room her room, because she was nearly always at Richard's so Bruce was kind enough to dedicate a room to her meditation sessions. Lilly nodded and sat down Indian style next to Rachel. The candles let off a strong smell of lavender, Rachel was mumbling a mantra but Lilly didn't want to disturb her again, she just used this time to think about how lucky she is to know these people. Rachel stopped whispering put out all the candles; the room went into pitch-blackness.
"Tell me, can you still see me?"
"Yes, my eyes are used to seeing things in the dark." This was the truth; Lilly had often had to stay up all night and watch things at the dead of night.
"Good" Rachel said before leaving the room, and closing the door after her, Lilly just sat there in the dark wondering why Rachel didn't tell her to leave as well. She just shrugged her shoulders and followed her lead out of the room. Everyone was awake now apart from Garfield. Rachel was just bending down to kiss him but Lilly cleared her throat and held up a glass of cold water; Rachel smiled evilly and took the glass from Lilly's grasp. Then poured it over his head.
"What did you do that for? I prefer it the other way Rachel."
"Tough this one is so much more fun, so should see your face when the water touched you." She smiled but when she saw Garfield's face when she said that pouring water over his face was more fun than kissing him, she felt really bad. Garfield's eyes widened and his mouth drooped.
"What are you looking like that for Gar?" Rachel whispered
"I thought you liked my kisses." He said slowly and sadly. Rachel just raised her eyebrows and leant closer into his face.
"I do. It was just joke you fool." Rachel whispered again, and she saw his mouth turn back into his normal cheeky grin. Rachel just gave a small smile and have him a short sweet kiss. Now everyone was awake. Kori had gone down to the gym to find Richard.
"Richard?" Kori asked into the empty gym. Suddenly a grey and black blur came racing towards her from behind.
"Boo" it shouted before hugging her from behind.
"AAHHH" Kori screamed when she felt someone's arms wrap around her waist and someone's lips came in contact with her cheek. She put up her hand to slap whoever just scared her but Richard's firm grasp stopped her from giving him a red cheek.
"Sorry I scared you Kor, but no need to slap me!" Richard said gently and Kori sighed with relief and lowered her hand. Then turned to properly face him, and kissed him. When they broke apart Richard smiled.
"That's more like it."
"It's your own fault for scaring me." Kori said before wriggling out of his grasp and walked towards the punching bag where Richard had just been taking out his anger. She just shook her head and walked out the gym, and Richard followed her like a lovesick puppy. When everyone washed and dressed they said good-bye to Alfred and made their way to the park.
Victor was taking Bee, Lilly and Chris in his car, Richard was going on his motorbike with Kori and Rachel and Garfield were going to walk it. Well halfway then Victor was coming back to get them after he dropped the others off. Kori followed Richard down to the garage and hopped onto his motorbike after him. Every scrambled into Victor's car before he drove off, so only Rachel and Garfield were left. Garfield was going to get a lift with Victor because there was room for one more, but he didn't want Rachel to walk on her own. So they set off hand in hand to the park.
"So, what did you think of the film?"
"Not scary, I don't do fear. Well not fear from a deformed puppet. Didn't you think that their faces are actually kind of cute? Cute being the operative word." Rachel replied in her monotone voice. Garfield just looked at her funny when she said the puppets were cute, those puppets give him nightmares.
"How could you call them cute?"
"Because it is so fake. Okay so they're not quite cute, but they are defiantly funny." She replied and Garfield just looked at her weirder.
"Funny? You are the weirdest girl I know, most girls…"
"Well, I'm not like most girls Garfield, and if you prefer what most girls are like then I'm sorry to hear that." She snapped but she told herself to calm down, count to ten. She didn't want to fall out with Garfield again.
"No I didn't mean it like that Rach, that's why I love you, you aren't too scared to be different."
"Thank you" she mumbled so it was just loud enough for him to hear. She pretended that she didn't like him complimenting her, but really it made her feel happy, but only on the in side. Only Garfield knew that she really loved being complimented, only Garfield knew that she is a sensitive soul in denial. She never let anyone criticise her, and she acted like she didn't care but it did actually effect her. But she kept everything bottled up in side; she refused to cry, ever well not in public. Not even Garfield has seen her eyes leak water. If she ever cried she made sure no one could see or hear her first. Rachel's emotions were now running around her head widely and her throat was clogging up, so she softly whispered her mantra, to calm down and get everything sorted in her head. Garfield heard her voice whispering and knew that she was getting stressed, so he squeezed her hand just to make sure that she knew he was there for her.
"Here's Vic" he said quietly so she would know to stop muttering her mantra. She didn't like people knowing that she needed to just relax for a while. She raised her head and smiled at Garfield, he gave her a giant grin in return.
"Hop in you two." Victor shouted through the window, Garfield opened the door and dived in while Rachel got in gracefully, and closed the door softly behind her. Soon they were all at the park. The boys and Bee were playing football while Kori sunbathed, in the unusual winter sun, and Rachel sat under a giant oak tree, like she normally does and got one of her thick books out of her bag and began to read. Lilly sat next Kori but as Kori could go out in a vest top and skirt, there was no point of Lilly sunbathing because none of Lilly's skin was on show. So she sat and watched the others play football. Lilly had nearly finished her task with Miss Bates; she thinks that she will have to leave earlier than the end of the year. If she remembers correctly she goes at the end of March. Today was the first day of February. Lilly was dreading telling all her friends, especially Chris, the truth about her.
KK another chappie done, what did you think, u tell me I cnt read minds, unfortunately, so PLEASE read and review! Thnx and can any one guess Lilly's secret before I reveal it soon? THAT'S RIGHT FOLKS I WILL BE SOON REVEALING LILLYS WELL KEPT SECRET! YOU MUST READ IT TO FIND OUT WHAT IT IS! Well just thought I would let you know that! So anyway please read and review Thnx TOODLE POP!
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Ps. Yes i know that it is really sad, get the tissues ready! MY STORY IS COMING TO AN END! -SOB BOO HOO CRY-
