Disclaimer: I don't own any of these characters expect Marissa.

Right as Marissa was getting her stuff out of her locker Jake came around her and put his arm around her. Kevin saw this and turned the other way. Jake saw him and smiled. But almost too quickly Marissa reached down to grab something and Jake fell down because she had caught him unaware.

"What was that for?" Jake growled.

"I had to grab something," Marissa said shutting her locker and walking off.

"Wait up, Marissa!" Jake called. "Where are you going?"

"Play practice, did you forget you were in a play right now?"

"No, I just, got distracted," Jake lied as he and Marissa entered the theater.

"With what?" Marissa said.

"You," Jake said, putting his arm around her, Marissa shrugged it off. "What was that for?"

"It's kinda getting annoying, you're treating me like I'm your property, and not your girlfriend," Marissa said as she got on stage.

Marissa looked out in the audience to find Mr. Francis. He wasn't there. She remembered that she had seen him the other day, at the shack. She had wondered what he was doing there, and he wasn't there today. Instead the music teacher, Ms. Pipers, came into the theater.

"Mr. Francis couldn't make it, so I am subbing for him today," she said.

"Did you turn him in?" Marissa whispered to Jake.

"Possibly, I told Principal Powers," Jake said.

"What happened to Mr. Francis?" Marissa asked Ms. Pipers.

"He was caught doing something badly, and he was fired," she said. ""I will not tell you what, that is personal, and if you want to know ask Mr. Francis."

"I guess you told her, huh?" Marissa whispered to Jake.

"Yep, sure did. Besides, there was something freaky about him from the start," Jake said.

"Can we run the Kansas City scene?" Ms. Pipers said as she sat down.

"Sure can," said Chia coming onto stage after making out with Jinx backstage.

Marissa knew she wasn't in that scene so she walked over to Jinx. They talked for a little while then Marissa wondered onto the other side of the stage to visit Kevin. She needed to talk to him too. When she got over there she overheard a conversation.

"Then after we get Will and his gang locked up, we can hypnotize the whole crowd and cast into worshiping us," Parker said.

"Perfect Parker," Lanta said. "I knew you were always the brains of this operation."

Marissa gasped, she couldn't believe it.

"What was that?" Chanzen said she looked over and spotted Marissa.

Marissa dashed away from them as fast as she could. She quickly ran back and ran into something, or someone. She screamed, but then a hand covered her mouth and pulled her back. Marissa squealed to get away but couldn't. The figure then turned her around and let go of her mouth. Marissa could barely make out who it was.

"Who's there?" she asked.

"Kevin."

"Kevin, I can explain…"

"There's nothing to explain," Kevin said. "You better hurry; your scene is coming up."

"Oh great!" Marissa exclaimed as she rushed over to the other side of the stage to get on. Kevin sighed and walked over to where Parker, Lanta, and Chanzen were.

"She overheard everything!" Parker exclaimed.

"We can't do it with her knowing now," Chanzen said.

"Unless she is unable to make the show," Lanta said.

"How would we do that?" Chanzen said.

"We could "accidentally" drop the backdrop down at the wrong time, causing it to land on her and get her out of the show," Lanta said.

"Awesome idea," Parker said.

Kevin's eyes went wide open. He knew that no matter how mad he was at Marissa and Jake he had to save her. He quickly dashed over to the opposite side, just in time. Lanta began to lower down the backdrop as Marissa came back to meet it.

"Watch out!" Kevin said as he ran on stage. Marissa screamed as he whipped her into his arms and out of the way. Marissa panted as she quickly thanked Kevin.

"How did you know?" Marissa asked.

"I saw it starting to come down, and I didn't want you to get hurt," Kevin lied.

"What happened, are you okay?" Jake asked, rushing on stage.

"She's fine, no thanks to you," Kevin said.

"What are you doing here Kevin? You aren't supposed to be on stage till the lights are down."

"He just saved me!" Marissa yelled. "You could at least thank him!" Marissa exclaimed as she ran out of the theater.

"Great job!" Kevin said as he ran after her. Jake looked over to Jinx.

"What happened?" he asked her.

"Oh, you weren't watching your property, were you?" Jinx said angrily as she followed Kevin and Marissa.

"Wait up!" Jake said as he ran after Marissa, Kevin, and Jinx.