Chapter 3

Audition Day

Sakura woke up slowly, it was too early for a Tuesday. Especially since there was no school today. Well, now that she was awake, she may as well stay awake, rather than get woken up by her brother… there was a creak on the stair. Sakura grinned mischievously, before silently rummaging through her drawers, until at last she found last years Halloween mask. She put it on and hid behind the door.

Her brother on the other side had heard nothing…boy Sakura was going to have a harsh wake up call today, he thought to himself.

He opened the door quietly, so as not to wake her--yet. He peered round, but saw an empty bed.

"Huh?" he said aloud

"Raaaaaaaah!" Sakura jumped out from behind the door.

"Eeeeeek!" Touya squealed like a little girl

Sakura took the mask off, and rolled on the floor laughing, she looked at her brother who was a ghostly white.

He soon got over his fear however, and tried to cover it up.

"I always knew that you were a kaiju just waiting to get out…" he grinned evilly.

Sakura's laughing stopped abruptly, but she had her own trick up her sleeve.

"And I always knew that there was a little girl inside you just squealing to be free…" she laughed as Touya stormed out of the room.

Sakura sighed, one nil to her. She took her blue pj's off (decorated with cute little clouds) and walked into her en-suite shower. She let her bath run, whilst dancing around the room in her underwear.

When the bath was run, she screwed the lid back on her cherry blossom bubble bath, and took the rest of her clothes off. She poked a foot in the water to test the temperature, when she found that it was just about right, she stepped in, letting the scent of cherry blossoms over power her, and make her very relaxed. Shed just woken up, but she was nearly asleep again.

Li mansion:

Li paced around his study, he was bored.

Man, why the hell did I make the auditions Friday? It seems like ages away…

He picked up his guitar and started strumming.

I should've made the ad more detailed, I might get some really heavy metallers… or some real weirdoes… oh man, what about the old folk? That might be quite amusing.

And what about forms? I didn't think of making any, I'm so stupid!

He threw his guitar on the sofa. It was dark green in colour with some Chinese symbols in a darker green, just for an added effect. It was the newest guitar out by fender, and he had taken the liberty of decorating his own.

He rested his head in his palm for a while, he had to sort out thee application form business somehow.

"Wei!" he called.

Within moments, his faithful servant was in the doorway.

"Yes?"

"I erm…forgot to hand out application forms with it…erm, what should I do?"

Wei smiled at Li, not a mocking smile, but it was friendly.

"Just have them in the audition, and make them fill them in right before they do. Shall I bring a Polaroid to attach to the form sir?"

Li let out a sigh of relief, Wei always knew how to sort things out.

"Yes please Wei, but you may need to buy a lot of Polaroid films…"

"Certainly sir." And with that, Wei left the room.

Li chuckled to himself, finally someone who knew what they were doing in his life. Why couldn't Wei be his manager… now there's a thought?

Sakura's house

After around two hours in the bath, Sakura finally emerged from the bathroom (after refilling the bath several times btw) in a towel, with the water cascading from her body onto the soft-carpeted floor.

She looked at her reflection in the mirror, she saw no difference from the last time she looked, but she still liked to look, just in case she found a spot or a cut, but she didn't. Instead, she saw a fifteen-year-old girl, in her last year at Tomoeda high, with short auburn hair, hanging in sodden locks, which were stuck to her face. She saw bright and entrancing emerald eyes, that caught anyone's attention, but they were shrouded by black make up, remnants of last nights make up.

She had tried to get it off with soap, but it had gone in her eye and stung madly. So instead she looked like a panda.

She smiled at herself, showing off rows sparkling white teeth, which seemed to shine under the light.

She turned away from her reflection and walked into her bedroom, she pulled out her make up box from under her bead, and sat on the stool opposite another mirror. She climbed over the clothes and mess on her floor to reach it however, Sakura wasn't known for being tidy.

She opened the lid on her box; with a click she heard it break.

"Oh for gods sake…"

Sakura pulled out a bottle of clear make up remover, grabbed some cotton wool and cleared away the make up. Her face was clear, and she felt fresh.

Standing up, she looked around her room.

"Where the heck are my fishnets?" she mumbled aloud. She spotted a leg sticking out from underneath a dirty pair of jeans. She stood on t-shirts, belts and jeans to reach them, she nearly fell over when she got a belt caught around her foot, and for some reason it was attached to the bed post.

She got some underwear on, a cute black bra with skulls adorning it, with matching knickers. She then put the fishnet tights over these. She opened her wardrobe, searching for her favourite pair of jeans, she soon found them and put them on. They were black, pinstriped three quarter lengths with random zips to decorate them. Tomoyo made them.

She sprayed some deodorant, before putting on a black and white 'clash' top. Next, for the make up.

She walked back over to the other side of the room, and put on some light pink lipstick, heavy eyeliner, top and bottom and a dark green eye shadow.

She went back into the bathroom, brushed her teeth for three minutes. Yep, she was now ready to go out.

Band practice. Band practice. Band practice. Band practice. Band practice. Band practice. Band practice. Band practice. Band practice. Band practice. Band practice.

OH MY GOD!

Sakura completely forgotten about that. It wasn't her band; it was just Sakura watching Madison sing, with a whole orchestra (that her mother had arranged) to accompany her.

This was important to Madison, because she wanted Sakura and her mother to approve of her, and now, Sakura had forgotten to turn up. She felt so guilty.

A: n/ I've had this story of for AGES and I've only had one review… and now I've spent ages writing this chapter, this ones a fair bit better than the other chapters though…well, if anyone does read this, I hope you enjoyed it, and please review!