"Good evening Seattle, you ready to find out who your Morp queen is?" Tammi asked from the stage, everyone cheered but Tara and Cleo less enthusiastically "It's time to see who will win the crowns at Lincoln Bay High" she said "We did have 2 nominations for Morp King but one dropped out..."
Tammi said shrugging, Tara looked over at Gavin who shrugged "So that leave's Gabe Laveilat" she declared, everyone cheered apart from Cleo who crossed her arms, he jogged onto the stage looking happier than ever and bowed, Tammi put the crown on him making it official, this made Cleo and Tara very nervous as they would find out who was queen
"And now I'd like to invite your Morp court princess's up here to join me on stage" Tammi said, nervousness filled Cleo to the brink of her feeling sick "I can't stay I just can't" she whimpered to Tara, Audrey and Tara tried to get her to stay but she ran backstage anyway.
Cleo could hear everything going on in the main hall, so far they had only said Stacey's name but it had seemed as though "Cleo" Tara whispered looking for her sister "I'm over here Tara" she said fiddling with her hands, Tara sighed and sat down on the floor next to her "You okay?"
she asked, Cleo shook her head "No I'm not, I know that were supposed to go up there in a few minutes and tell everyone were the Radio Rebels but Tara I can't" she said on the verge of tears "Cleo you can't just drop out now, I can't go up there without you" Tara said,
Cleo sighed and a tear fell down her cheek "Tara I'm so scared, I'm scared because you know how much I hate crowds and how I hate people's attention on me, I can't stand it Tara not that many people" she said, Tara nodded "And the Radio Rebels!" they heard Tammi say loudly over the mic, Cleo let a few more tears fall "Cleo, you remember the day we first came to Slam FM?"
Tara asked, Cleo looked at her and nodded "Remember how scared I was? You helped me get through that, were sisters remember" Tara said smiling while taking Cleo's hands into her own "And what was it we used to say when we were little?" she asked in a playfull tone,
Cleo smiled a little "Best Friends as well as twin sisters" she said, Tara nodded "That's right, and tonight were gonna tell everyone who we really are and settle all of this. I'll be there with you every step of the way Cleo, c'mon sis" Tara said standing up, Cleo sighed and took a deep breath before wiping away her tears and standing up.
Back In The Main Hall...
Rob gave the girls a thumbs up and clicked the button to turn on the microphones "Most of you don't know me, I'm the girl who sits in the back of the class and never raises her hand, who is so afraid of saying the wrong thing that she says nothing instead, the old me would have frozen in front of a crowd like this,
but something happened and suddenly the real stuff we were dealing with at school became more important than my fears, look I wasn't sure I was gonna do this tonight, and neither was Rebel 2, but I need to be true to myself, so here goes" Tara said through her microphone, she took one glance at Cleo who shook her head signalling she was unable to do it and stepped forward from behind the wall
"I'm Rebel 1" Cleo heard Tara say, it was silent for a moment before she heard everyone start clapping, Cleo closed her eyes and slid down the wall until she was sitting with her knees pulled up, she took a deep breath before putting the mic close to her lips
"And now that everyone know's who Rebel 1 is I suppose you all wanna know who Rebel 2 is right?" she asked, everybody went quiet again "I'm won't lie I'm not as brave as Tara, I actually just now decided I was gonna come out and say who I was, I'm still deciding weather or not to do this but what the hell right?" Cleo asked standing up, she slowly started down the steps
"My situation is a little similar to Tara's though, I could never talk in front of a crowd, terrified of messing things up I guess. But how do you know somethings not good or bad if you don't try right? A real smart woman taught me that, but here it goes I guess, my turn to show everyone right?"
she asked as she stood on the last step, the only one's that could see her were Gabe, Tara, Tammi and Stacey "Here goes nothin'" she said stepping down the last step, she slowly made her way over to Tara who was smiling, everything was quiet before they all started cheering and clapping again,
Cleo smiled and side hugged Tara who hugged her back, suddenly to everyone's surprise Principal Moreno walked onto the stage causing everyone to top what they were doing, she took Tara's mic "Thank you for an enlightening evening, and now that I know who the Radio Rebels are..."
she said pointing to Tara and Cleo "They are deffinatly getting expelled" Moreno said chuckling, everyone gasped and made sounds of protest "Enjoy your Morp Tara and Cleo. And don't bother coming to school on Monday" she added smiling like a lunatic, Cleo sighed
"Thought that would happen" she mumbled to Tara who nodded "I'm one of the Radio Rebels!" Audrey shouted from the crowd "Yeah me too" Gavin said stepping forward, before Tara or Cleo could get their heads around it everyone were shouting out that they were one of the Rebels
"You can't expel everyone can you?" Tammi asked cockily, Moreno looked around with an angered and annoyed look on her face, Cleo laughed in surprise as everyone started chanting in sync 'I'm a Radio Rebel', Moreno reluctantly handed the microphone to Tara and walked off in a huff,
as soon as she walked away everybody cheered "I believe this belongs to one of you" Tammi said handing Cleo the crown, her and Tara both glanced at the crown and then at each other "Well I guess because were all Radio Rebels this crown belongs to all of us, so congratulations kings and queens"
Tara said, everyone cheered again and Cleo chuckled before glancing at Stacey who didn't look so happy "But there is one person who's been dreaming about this crown all of her life" Cleo said through the mic while making her way over to Stacey who looked shocked
"Although were not sure if we heard her say she was one of the Radio Rebels" Tara said aiming the mic at Stacey who smiled "I'm a Radio Rebel, I'm so a Radio Rebel" she exclaimed excitedly "Well then I guess this belongs to you" Cleo said carefully placing the crown on Stacey's head,
everybody clapped "Why are you girls being so nice to me? When I've been nothing but mean to you?" she asked in confusion
"Because look at you right now Stacey, that dress and the crown you are 100% you right now, that's all us Radio Rebels could ask of anyone. You are yourself, and you've never been more beautiful" Tara said, Stacey chuckled and everyone cheered again.