Chapter seven: Unexpected
"Good morning class! C'mon! Look alive!" Mr. McGee greeted the next morning.
The class just grunted, looking sleepy, like always in the morning.
"Today we will hear a song from our fellow girls; Christina, Lyra, Maya and Sabrina! I hope you haven't forgotten about it!" the teacher continued, very excited about it.
The class cheered up immediately. They were very curious about those "new" girls and now this was the chance to get to know them better.
"We better go, or we're going to be late" the teacher said happily
"Excuse me! You said we will perform just to you and this class, not the whole school!" Maya rose her voice in surprise
"Well you see, you said that you will perform for us, and I thought you would be happier to perform for the whole school instead" he smiled excited.
It seemed like Maya was going to say something, but she shut her mouth and turned to the girls.
"What now!" she asked them nervously
"Dunno, but I guess we have to perform coz we promised" Sabrina shrugged
"You serious?"
"Umm, girls… We have to go to the Great Hall if we want to be there on time" Mr.McGee reminded them
"Why didn't you tell us before! So we could prepare better!" Christina said to their teacher
"I wanted to give you a surprise! C'mon we better go! The whole school is waiting!" he smiled and pushed them to the exit.
The rest of the class followed. When they were outside the class, the teacher lead them to the Great Hall. Meanwhile, the girls walked in the back of the group, joining the guys
"I can't believe it! That teacher is really weird!" Lyra said in shock
"Oh, c'mon at least they'll get to know you better. You haven't heard the rumours that spread around the school…" Tala said
"What rumours!" the girls yelled at Tala at once
"Well, they said you were….."
"Come on girls it's your turn to go up the stage" their Music teacher said and pushed them on the stage
"But…" Maya protested, looking at Tala
He simply smiled and said "Later!"
"Good luck!" they heard Johnny shout.
"We're really gonna need it" Christina said to herself, preparing her bass
The stage was quite huge, and girls had a lot of space for jamming. When they came on the stage, they almost had a heart attack. There were about 1000 people watching them, including all the teachers and the headmaster. They were all waiting for performance to start.
"Ok girls, rock on!" their music teacher shouted
"Ok, umm, this song is called The Anthem…" Maya added before they started
Sabrina counted the rhythm on the drums…and they jammed.
I can't
take this
I need somewhere to go
I need you
I'm so
restless
I don't know what to do……
And so on…When the song was over everyone clapped surprised and some of them cheered. Some dudes even said "You rock!" or "Rock on, babes!". The girls looked at the ones who cheered. Who else than the four guys! They smiled at them gratefully.
The girls already said "thanks!" and turned to get off the stage when they heard somebody say….
"More songs! You rock!"
They turned surprised. They never thought they would like their music. After what Tala had said about the rumours….They thought they probably didn't like them or their music, so they simply wanted to go off the stage. But now they were looking at the huge crowd…cheering and whistling at them….they just looked at each other and smiled. They went back on the stage.
"Thank you. We'll play a few more songs then" Lyra said to the cheering crowd
"1, 2, 3, 4,…."
And so they jammed. The crowd was roaring, almost literally. The more they cheered, the more girls felt that their music really rocks. After the songs, Promise, Together, Jump and Grow up the headmaster said that it was enough for one day and they had to end. Their schoolmates weren't happy to hear that, but went out of the Hall anyway. They burst out in the halls to discuss what had just happened.
In the halls……
"That was awesome!" Ozuma congratulated while they were walking to their next class.
"I thought you said you were gonna play Welcome to my life, why didn't you?" Kai asked to everyone's surprise
"What, you didn't like it? You could just tell us in our face, Kai." Lyra said a bit disappointed
"I didn't say that I don't like it." He said
"What did you mean then?" Sabrina asked
"I'm just asking you why didn't you play that song, if you said you were going to play it?" Kai said a bit bored
"That's because we didn't want any more people to know about our past" Maya told him
"You think they're that smart?" Johnny asked, smirking.
"Yes, Johnny. Because if you figured it out, they could too. Or are you saying that you are the smartest guys around and nobody is that smart as you?" Christina told him in his face.
Johnny just stood there, stunned. He didn't say a thing anymore.
"Anyway, I bet the whole school will want your autographs now" Tala said, breaking the silence
"Yeah, and we will create the fan club. Wait, it has to have a name….hmm what about…Rock Cats fan club, what do you say?" Ozuma teased
"Could you sign my underwear, please?" Tala added mockingly
"Oh, haha. Very funny. I'm laughing so hard." Maya said annoyed
A couple of younger boys came running towards them and stopped right in front of the girls.
"Hi! Could you sign my book? You girls really rocked back there! I hope there's a cd!" the young boy said excited.
"Umm, yeah sure..." Maya said looking at Tala and Ozuma who were smirking
After they all signed his book, the boy ran down the hall holding his signed book high in the air, shouting "They signed my book! They signed it!"
"Told you" Tala smiled
Maya just glared at him.
"We should go to our next class, or we'll be in trouble" Kai said, changing the subject
The next class they had was History. When they entered the classroom, everybody stared at the girls. As soon as they sat down the whole class began to whisper. The eight teens sat down in the back of the classroom. The teacher came through the door just in that moment.
"Hello class!" the History teacher said.
"What are you all whispering about?"
The class went silent in a second.
"Well, enough chatting and let's get to work!" she said again.
And so she started with her long theory about historical things again. Half of the class was almost literally asleep after fifteen minutes of her talking. The back of the class were lazing around too, talking quietly to each other.
"This just couldn't get any better" Johnny said, smiling sleepily. He was really enjoying this class, because they never did anything.
"Same here, pal. This day just couldn't get any worse" Ozuma said in a sleepy voice too.
"First, you girls have a massive performance, which was totally awesome, and now we get to sleep in our class. Man, I love History" he said and fell asleep.
"You really think it was that good?" Sabrina turned to him, just realizing he has fallen asleep.
"Ozuma?" she poked him with her finger
"Don't mind him, when he falls asleep, there's no way you can wake him up" Kai said to her
"Right." Sabrina said
"I think that meant yes" Tala said when Ozuma snored for a split second
"And he's not the only one who thinks that way" he added
Maya turned to him in surprise.
"Really? I mean, you really liked it?"
"Yeah, I think it was amazing" Tala said
"You're gonna be really popular in this school"
"I guess so……..Hey! What about the rumors you said they were spreading around?" Maya suddenly remembered.
"Oh, that. Umm, you know some of them weren't very nice…." Tala started carefully
"What did they say?" Maya said impatiently
"Well, umm, they said that you were…some new bitches in our school….." Tala began
"What?" Maya hissed, because she didn't want to be noticed by the teacher
"Who? Tell me!" she grabbed Tala by his collar (with some difficulties, because he was a bit taller than her)
"Calm…down…" Christina said dragging her away from Tala
"Pheew…." Tala sighed relieved, touching himself. "Still alive"
"Tell me who said that, and I'll smash him into million pieces" Maya said, still angry
"You won't have to do that" Kai said calmly
"Yeah, because we kind of already did" Ozuma told them, who has just woken up.
Girls just sat there, stunned.
"What did you do!" Sabrina asked
"Well, umm, we were just passing those guys, when we heard them talking…..that stuff about you……and we….well actually Johnny lost his temper…." Tala began to explain.
"What! It wasn't just me, you know! You lost it too! Basically we all lost it!" Johnny defended himself
"Ok, ok. We all lost it, so we kind of helped them forget what they said." Tala explained
"You beat those guys for us?" Lyra asked surprised
"Well, yeah, actually we did." Johnny said scratching his head and tried to make an innocent face.
"Wow…….thanks." Maya said, looking guilty for what she did to Tala before.
"No problem" they said
"Miss Winter!" the teacher called, making Maya jump.
"Yes?" she answered
"The headmaster wants to see you and your girlfriends. Now." The teacher said, pointing to the door.
"Aha, ok. We're coming." Maya sighed relieved
The girls said goodbye to the guys and went to headmaster's office.
"I wonder what he wants from us now." Christina asked the girls, before entering the office.
They knocked on the door.
"Enter"
They entered the office. There were four seats in front of the headmaster's desk.
"Sit down, please"
They sat down and wondered what will happen next.
"So, you have no idea what are you here for, right? Let me tell you. I called you, because we need to talk about that performance you played an hour ago."
The girls looked timidly at each other. They thought that performance was a wrong idea and they'll be expelled for that.
"We're sorry, sir. We didn't….." Maya started explaining, but she got cut off by the headmaster
"No, no. You didn't do anything wrong. I meant to say that you should do more performances, because I have never seen this school so happy." The headmaster told their surprised faces.
"Huh!" was all they could say
"Yes, it's true. We've never had any performances like this in our school before. I'll talk to Mr. McGee about joining the contest." The headmaster continued and wanted to call for their music teacher.
"Contest? What contest?" Lyra asked
"It's a music contest. Every school is competing. We can finally join the contest now, if you agree of course. Do you?" he asked
"Well, we……we would like to know a bit more about this contest first" Sabrina said
"Oh yes. Of course. This contest is like the battle of the bands. The contestants have to play a song, which has to sound good and has to be creative. The most important thing is that the public likes it. I think that won't be a problem for you girls. Oh, T forgot something. The prize. The prize is, of course the trophy, but not only that. The winners get a three week vacation. Each of the winners can invite a friend to go with him/her and they can choose the location too. So what do you think about it?" he explained
"Three week vacation!" Christina asked surprised.
"Yes, and we would be very pleased if you were the ones presenting our school. We have nobody else"
"Ok, we'll do it, but when is this contest anyway?" Maya asked
"Well I'm very sorry, because I didn't tell you before, but the contest is in two weeks" the headmaster explained
"Two weeks? But that's…………..two weeks!" Sabrina said in panic
"I know, but I was hoping you could write a winning song in two weeks. And it's the last day of this school's year, so everybody will be there. I think this is also a chance about your schoolmates to get you even better"
"Yea, I guess" Maya said
"If you don't have any questions, you can return to your class" the school's headmaster said
The girls shook their heads in response and went towards the door. But before they went through the door, the headmaster stopped them.
"I forgot to thank you, girls. I am very thankful, for doing this for us" he thanked
"We aren't doing it for you, we're doing it for the school" Christina explained and others followed her out of the office.
When they were in the hall, going to their class, the school bell rang. Kids burst out of every classroom including the four boys; Kai, Tala, Ozuma and Johnny; who were carrying their bags for them
"Thanks" Sabrina said to Ozuma
"No problem. How was it, at the headmaster's?" he asked
"Guess what! He asked us to compete for the school!" Christina exclaimed
"Really! That's awesome!" Johnny said in disbelief
"Yeah! And if we win, we get a three week vacation anywhere we want!" Maya almost yelled
"Wow! That's cool! I wished, I could have a three week vacation anywhere I wanted!" Tala said, dreaming about going somewhere where he could relax
"Well, the headmaster said that if we win, each of us can take whoever we want to come with us. That means four people. Who knows……it might be you dudes." Lyra said, smirking a bit.
"You'd take us with you?" Kai raised his eyebrow
"Maybe……" girls said in unison, laughing at the surprised and happy at the same time, boys.
After school they all went to the girls' house to train of course. They trained for their physical strength first. After two long hours of training, they had a late lunch.
"Mmm…this is great. I can't wait to move in here." Ozuma complimented
"Yeah, well, you will have to keep this place "running" too, if you want to live here. We're short on money, remember?" Christina reminded them
"We're lucky, because we have maids and gardeners working for free in memory of my grandfather. They were really loyal to him, I suppose." Maya said
"Do you mean we'll have to work to earn some money?" Johnny asked
"Yes. That might happen some day" Maya explained
"How much money do you have? I mean how long will we stay here until you're broke?" Tala asked curiously
"You mean until WE'RE broke? I think you didn't hear very well, what we told you a few days ago" Sabrina corrected him
"We agreed that this house is no longer just ours, but it's also yours. We have to unite if we want to defeat Jack." Lyra said
"Wow, thanks. I really don't regret that we followed you on your first day now." Johnny laughed
Everybody laughed. The guys really appreciated what girls did for them. Nobody has ever done this much for them.
"Anyway this place should be running for a few years, I reckon. So there's no point panicking for now" Maya smiled.