Author's Note- I know I said that I was going to end my story soon, but I have SO many good ideas, and so I think it's actually going to be a while before I can actually finish my story. For future rehearsals in the story, I'm still going to use the same scene in the earlier chapters, because I don't want to give away too much of the play. I'm going to save that for the very end, when Massie and the girls actually perform the play for OCD. REALLY long chapter. Probably my longest chapter yet. P.S.- the title of the chapter might seem a little weird to you. "P Charming Is More Like P Awkard". The 'P' in the title stands for 'Prince'. I couldn't write 'Prince' out, because the title was too long, and it won't allow you to put periods or dashes, anything like that. So, I just had to to "P". Just wanted to let you know that. R&R!!!!

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Arts and Recreational Room

Thursday-3:12 P.M.

"Ok, from now on, we are going to have really serious practices." Mrs. Hallaway declared, "The play is in three weeks, so no more fooling around!"

Massie and the girls changed into their costumes and some of Mrs. Hallaway's assistants put some makeup on them.

Ten minutes later, Massie and the girls were ready for practicing. But first, Massie had to give the invites to Mrs. Hallaway.

Massie approached Mrs. Hallaway, "Mrs. Hallaway, I'm having a party at my house in a few weeks in honor of the play, and I'm inviting you to my party." she said, handing an invite to Mrs. Hallaway.

"Thank you, Massie." Mrs. Hallaway said.

"You're welcome." Massie said.

After Mrs. Hallaway looked at the date of the party, she said, "I'm sorry, Massie, I can't go to your party. I'm busy on the day of your party."

"Oh, that's ok." Massie smiled politely, while thinking, Yes!

Massie debated on whether or not she should still give the extra invites to Mrs. Hallaway.

"Are those extra invites?" Mrs. Hallaway asked, pointing to the handful of invites in Massie's hand.

"Ummm," Massie stalled, "yeah, I was wondering if you could help me give out the extra invites to any other people in the play."

I guess there's no way out of this. Massie thought.

"That is, if you want to." Massie quickly said.

"Oh sure, I'll certainly do that." Mrs. Hallway beamed. "After all, this is the least I can do to repay you, since I can't go to your party."

"Ok, thanks." Massie weakly smiled back. She had hoped Mrs. Hallaway would decline her offer. But, seeing how as Mrs. Hallaway was an always cheerful person, there was no way she could have refused helping.

"Is there anything else you need?" Mrs. Hallaway asked.

"No." Massie answered, handing the invites to Mrs. Hallaway.

"Ok, then let's start practicing." Mrs. Hallaway said, taking the invites from Massie.

Massie nodded and went up the stage, where her friends were waiting for her.

"So, what did Mrs. Hallaway say?" Alicia asked.

"She said she couldn't go to my party." Massie informed.

"Yes!" Dylan said.

"BUT- she said that she would help me with the invites." Massie sighed.

"Oh." was all Kristen could say.

"Yeah, let's just hope we don't get too many LBRs." Massie said, touching her hair to make sure everything was in place and ready for rehearsal.

Mrs. Hallaway entered the stage and clapped her hands for everyone's attention.

"Ok, ladies and gentlemen, let's begin now." she said.

Massie waited a second before starting.

She walked over to Claire and Alicia who were just standing there, looking bored. But they immediately brightened up and stood up straight, when they saw Massie begin.

"Oh my god! Where have you guys been? I was looking all over for you!" Massie exclaimed.

"Oh, you were? Sorry." said Claire.

"Yeah, we were talking to some people." Alicia said.

"Well, I'm glad you guys are here. Everyone was staring at me when I entered.

"Really?" asked Claire.

Massie asked, pretending to be concerned. "Do I look weird or something?"

Alicia said, "No! You look gorgeous."

"Yeah, they were probably staring at you because you looked so hot." assured Claire.

"Thanks." Massie smiled.

"So, you should go out and dance with someone." Alicia said.

"Who is going to dance with me?" Massie asked, looking sad.

But actually, inside, Massie was super nervous instead of sad, because she didn't really want to dance with Derrington. After last time's rehearsal, things between her and Derrington had gotten even more tense and awkward.

Claire said, "I don't know. Just ask any guy."

"Maybe your Prince Charming is here." Alicia giggled.

"Maybe." Massie smiled.

"Go on, we'll be right here, waiting for you to report back to us." Claire said, nuding Massie.

"Ok, you guys. I'll go. Don't go anywhere though!" Massie said.

"We won't!" Alicia smiled.

Massie moved to the center of the stage and pretended to look around.

Derrington went behind Massie and tapped her on the back.

Massie jumped a bit at Derrington's touch.

"Hey, want to dance, Cinderella?" Derrington asked.

Massie turned around and said, "Sure!" with as much enthusiasm as she could muster up.

Derrington lead Massie to an area and took Massie's hand and put it on his shoulder.

Massie turned red, she hoped no one saw her blush. This was super super awkward.

Massie prepared to sway to some imaginary music, like she had with all the other practices. But, to her surprise, when she and Derrington started to sway, they were swaying to some real music this time. Massie recognized the song as Big Girls Don't Cry by Fergie.

Then Derrington looked down at Massie and said, "So, how come I have never seen you around school?"

Even with her super high, high-heels, Massie was still a bit shorter than Derrington.

Massie paused for a bit before answering, "Um, I don't know. I have never seen you either."

Derrington said, "Really? Do you know who I am though?"

"No, sorry." said Massie.

Derrington smiled, "That's ok. Then it's your job tonight to find out who I am."

Massie smiled back and said, "Ok, then it's YOUR turn to find out who I am."

Derrington laughed, "Deal."

Derrington and Massie instantly broke away from each other when the scene was over.

Massie wiped her sweaty hands on the bottom of her dress.

"Now that's what I call a serious practice." Mrs. Hallaway said, completely oblivious to the awkwardness between Derrington and Massie.

Massie and the girls practiced a few other scenes later on.

"Ok, that's the it for today." Mrs. Hallway said.

Massie sighed with relief.

"Since you guys worked really hard today," Mrs. Hallaway said, "I'm going to give you guys a day off."

Everyone erupted into cheers.

"Tomorrow, there's going to be NO practice." Mrs. Hallaway continued. "I figure this is a good time to call in the rest of the eighth graders to practice a bit. So enjoy your little break!"

Everyone kept on cheering and clapping.

"But, if anyone feels like and wants to come to practice tomorrow, please feel free to do so." Mrs. Hallaway added.

I don't think anyone is going to come tomorrow. Massie thought. Maybe the LBRs and DWCs will though, since they probably won't have anything else better to do.

Massie and the girls were hugging each other.

"Thank gawd we have a break," Massie exclaimed. "we seriously need to go shopping!"

"Mhmm." agreed the girls.

Massie smiled, "Come on, let's get changed and go get ourselves pampered at a spa."

"Yeah!" Kristen exclaimed, "I haven't been at a spa for so long."

"Great, then let's hurry up." Massie said, "Meet up with me, right outside the room when you're done changing."

"Ok." said Alicia, as she went into a changing room.

Massie went into a changing room and got dressed into her regular clothes. She decided not to wash off her make up, because she figured that it would get washed off when she went to the spa.

Massie stepped out of the changing room and went to the costume closet to return the dress.

As Massie was putting the dress onto the hanger, something suddenly jumped out at her, and yelled, "BOO!"

Massie screamed, dropping the dress onto the ground. Without thinking, Massie quickly ran out of the room, still screaming.

"What's wrong?" Mrs. Hallaway asked, just as Derrington rushed up to Massie, asking the same question.

"I don't know." Massie exclaimed, who had stopped screaming, but was still really scared. "I was putting my dress away, when something popped out at me and scared the hell out of me."

Just then, Josh walked into the room, laughing his head off.

"What's so funny?" Massie snapped.

"You should have seen your reaction." Josh said.

"You mean you were the one who scared me?" Massie asked, her eyes narrowing straight at Josh.

Seeing Massie's dangerous expression, Josh's smile and laugh faltered. "Yeah, I was the one who scared you."

Massie instantly became furious and went straight up to Josh and smacked him on the shoulder as hard as she could.

"Don't. EVER. Do. That. To. Me. Again." Massie hissed. "Got it?"

"Yeah." Josh said quietly.

"Good."

"I was just having a little bit of fun." Josh said, smiling a bit.

"Well, that wasn't fun." Massie said.

"Josh," Mrs. Hallaway spoke, "please don't do that again."

"I won't" promised Josh.

"You better not." Massie glared at him.

Mrs. Hallaway nodded.

"Now, excuse me, I have to go somewhere right now." Massie huffed, and walked away from Josh, Derrington and Mrs. Hallway, without even saying goodbye.

When Massie got outside, she saw that all of her friend were waiting for her.

"Sorry I took so long." Massie apologized.

"It's ok." Alicia said.

"What took you so long though?" Claire asked.

Massie groaned. "Josh did something totally stupid to me."

"Really?" Dylan asked, looking pretty interested in what had happened.

"Yeah." was all Massie said. She didn't want to get into any details.

"What happened?" Kristen asked.

Massie groaned. She knew that question was going to come up sooner or later.

"Do you guys really want to know?" Massie asked, looking at each of the girls.

They all nodded vigorously.

"Of course." Alicia said.

"Fine." Massie said, seeing how she couldn't get out of telling them. They would just keep on asking and bothering Massie until she finally told them.

"Come on," Dylan said impatiently, "spill already."

"Hold on," Massie snapped, "I'll tell you guys once we get in the car."

The five girls climbed into Massie's car and Massie told her driver, Issac, where to go.

"Issac, can you please drive us to Spa Heaven?" Massie asked him.

"Sure, no problem." Issac responded.

"Thanks!"

The car started to move and soon, the girls were out of OCD and on their way to Spa Heaven.

Massie leaned back in her seat and began to tell the incident.

"Ok, so I was putting my costume away, when all of a sudden, Josh jumped out from his hiding spot and scared me to death." Massie explained.

"Ehmagawd, seriously?" Alicia asked.

"Yeah, and at first, I didn't know who it was, but then Josh told me it was him." Massie continued. "I got so mad at him so I punched him, and then left."

"That was so mean of Josh to do that." Dylan said.

"Yeah, I know." Kristen agreed.

"Maybe we should do something back to him!" Massie said. "What do you guys think?"

Claire stalled. "Um, I don't think it's worth it."

"Yeah, I agree with Claire." Alicia said, she didn't want anything happening to happen to Josh. "It's just going to be a waste of time."

"Fine," Massie snapped, "you guys don't have to help me. You guys will help me, right?" turning to Kristen and Dylan.

"Ummm," Kristen hesitated, she didn't really want to do it.

"How about let's not, Massie." Dylan said.

"Why doesn't anyone want to do it with me?" Massie snapped.

"Because it'll be a waste of time," Claire said, "besides, we can use that time for planning more in depth for your masquerade party."

Massie sighed. "I guess you're right. Fine, I won't do it. Happy?"

Everyone nodded.

"Ok, well, let's start brainstorming more ideas for my party." Massie suggested.

The girls instantly started chatting and telling Massie what ideas they had in mind.

Massie smiled, her masquerade party was ah-bviously going to turn out perfect.

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