After the five had managed to get the house a little cleaned up, they sat around the table outside, Danny sitting in one of the filthy chairs from the kitchen. Jack had picked up indian food (the girls suggested chinese and Danny had refused due to the fact that he was DONE with china) and the five had dug in. Once they were done, they asked Taylor to show them some of her tricks. She gave the four a little show in the living room, and after explaining she was an elementalist (no,Merritt, Not mentalist) she proceeded to set a match Henley found somewhere on fire, pick the fire up, turn it to to the size of a basketball, and dribble it around the room without it ever making contact with her . Suddenly, a knock at the door. Taylor, still dribbling, opened it to see a manilla envelope.
The other four soon joined her, careful to stay away from the flame bouncing in her hand. Merritt reached down and picked it up, and began to slowly unwrap it. He read it,then announced, We h"ave a show tonight at 10. Soundcheck at 8. Get your best tricks ready guys, Taylor,they made it clear you're to be onstage posing as one of our younger siblings." He dropped the note at the coffee table and went upstairs to his room. They'd decided the girls share one room, Merritt and Danny got the other two while Jack got the couch. The others who had rooms went to them, each prepping for the night's show. Only the control freak went to the kitchen. Danny was on the verge of hyperventilating, because "of course they wouldn't give him enough time to do his best work, why on earth would they do that?" He finally resigned himself to saying "well, if the eye wanted our best, They should've given us more time.I guess they don't" He then went upstairs,Taylor behind him, having extinguished her fireball.
When she got to her room, Henley already had at least five outfits laid out on the bed. They were all sparkly and had skirts that barely went past the waistline. "Woah. How many outfits do you have?" she asked as Henley was still unloading dresses into the closet, which was almost full. "No wonder you have so many bags. I'll use the closet downstairs." she turned to leave, but henley stopped her.
"No. Young lady, first we are picking out tonight's outfit. We only have an hour and a half till we leave. Open your bag." Taylor did, and the older girl went through five sets of jeans, three t-shirts, and another hoodie before reaching the bottom. "That's all you have? You're wearing one of mine." She went through their 'shared' closet before pulling out a blue/white dress with maybe a two finger strap that looked like it might reach Taylor's knees. It was light blue on bottom, fading into white at the top. The very top was lined with clear sequins. "Put this on. Go!" And so she did.
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It was almost showtime. Taylor'd impressed the others at soundcheck, but now the five were sitting backstage, and nerves were starting to kick in. Henley was doing her hair and she was applying blush and mascara to three men in suits. All too soon a stage hand came in to warn them ten minutes till showtime.
"Alright, Good luck everyone. Taylor, one more time. What are our names." Daniel received a pair of grey eyes rolled.
"Uncle M, Uncle Danny, Auntie Hen, and Jack. Honestly, is that so hard to remember?"
"I just don't want you to slip up on stage." They'd decided she would be Jack's 'adopted' younger sister since they were close in ages. The five went to the wings, Henley and Merritt on stage right, Daniel in the middle and the 'siblings' on stage left.
Once the other three had gone on, the stage lefters were almost up. Jack glanced over at Taylor and saw she was shaking, staring at the crowd. He grabbed her hand in his, and she squeezed. "You ready?" the teen shook her head violently. He sighed. "Scared?"
"Terrified. All those people..." He looked into her eyes and turned so they were facing each other.
"You did great at soundcheck."
"But that was just the horsemen and the crew. Now there's thousands of people i've never met watching and probably even more because we encourage streaming.I've never performed in front of more than thirty people before, Jack. How am I gonna do this?"
"Hey listen, I get where you're coming from. My first show with the horsemen I was a nervous wreck." complete lies.
"Really?" no.
"Sure. Here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna go out on cue, and I'll hold your hand the whole time. The audience will think it's ok because we're siblings who just found each other or whatever. If you get scared, squeeze and I'll take over, Ok?"
"Ok." and out they went.
The rest of the show was a blur for Taylor. It started with a sweet intro for the youngest horsemen, Uncle Danny and Auntie Hen doing some tricks together, Uncle M putting some poor man to sleep and then hypnotizing him into thinking he was a chicken, and Jack doing something with a deck of cards and a mirror that made them look like they were growing and shrinking behind him once he threw would say illusions run in the family if the family wasn't fake. Then Jack introduced her.
First she asked him to bring out the pot of water and put it in front of her. She'd chosen water and not fire today because, though she loved fire, water went more with her outfit. She caused it to rise, separate into three streams, each of those streams to form a ball, and then she juggled. As she did so, the balls grew and glowed and when she threw them up, they dissolved into mist and a rainbow appeared over the audience, causing them to applaud.
The other three horsemen joined Jack and Taylor onstage to do the final trick. Honestly, Taylor couldn't tell you what it was if she tried, but it ended with money to the audience, as always. She just couldn't stop thinking that she'd done it. She'd performed on an actual stage and the audience actually liked it. She smiled so wide her cheeks hurt but she just couldn't stop.
AN- hey yall! Another ch. Done! Thanks so much for reviewing if u did and if you didn't, now's the time to start!r+r please, and no flames. I hope to get another ch. Out soon and keep getting the story moving, so keep reading.
And now for one tiny detail,
A question- I need a villain for the horsemen to take down. So either a brand name or a person would be nice, thx. Also what's their deal. I cannot stress this enough. I love hearing what yall think. PLEASE REVIEW!
Happy reading,
-rain
