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will be my princess of all that is Edward.


"The role of Kate monster/ Lucy the
Slut goes to..."

Bella reched down and grabbed my hand for support, my heart fluttered.

The past three days had flown by. Me and Bella worked tgether everyday day
during lunch and after school to make sure that we had our parts down flat.
We
never really talked about personal stuff. This was both a good thing and a
bad
thing. Good because she couldn't ask me questions about my sexuality, bad,
because i didn't get to ask her any questions about herself. All i knew, was
that she had a brother, Emmett, and an adopted sister, Rosalie. Her parents
were Charlie and Renee Swan, and she had gotten a part time job at Mike
Newtons parents store on Wenesday, but she didn't start until Friday.

The auditions seem to have taken forver. we started them at four, after
having
an hour to warm up. it was now seven. Ms.Tinnian was the judge, along with
her
student assistant, Patrick, and for some unknown reason, the gym
teacher,Mr.Mason.Tinnian had arranged it so that everyone sang a different
song. Alice and
Jasper sang 'the internet is for porn', Angela sang a surprisingly good
verson
of 'fine,fine,line', and mike had sang a near perfect (as much as i hate
to admit it) rendition of 'What do you do with a B.A in English' I wasn't
really paying attention to anybody else, I was to mesmerized by Bella. She
had
done wonderfully. There was no doubt in my mind that she would get the part,
and since I always got the lead male, I was a shoo-in for Princeton, I
couldn't
wait for the onstage kiss.

After sending us out into the hallway to wait for half an hour, while she
collaberated with the other judges, Ms.Tinnian came out to call us back in.

And here we were, listening to Ms.Tinnian read out the rolls:

"...Isabella Swan!"

She let go of my hand,jumped up, did that squeling thing that girls do, and
hugged me.

"Congrats," I told her

"Thanks," she whispered in my ear " Its so great to have such a great friend
as you."

Friend.

She considerd me a friend.

"And the part of Princeton/ Rod goes
to..."

I reached down and grabbed Bella's hand, if she thought of me as a
friend, I would use this to my advantage.

"...Mike Newton"

"WHAT?!"

Everybody looked at me. Had I yelled that out loud?

"Mr. Cullen, please try to contain yourself. As I was saying, The part of
Princeton goes to Mike, with Edward as the understudy"

'Understudy?' I weakly lamented within my head. I had gotten the male lead
the past two years! Mike had never
even shown an intrest in Drama. He wasn't even that good! Besides, whoever
played Princeton, also played Rod, the gay guy! i was MADE for that part,
why
didn't I get it?

"...goes to Edward Cullen"

"What?"

"please try to pay attention, Mr.Cullen, you
have the role of Brian."

I didn't even listen while she read out the rest of the roles. I had gotten
the part of the married guy. why couldn't she be type casting? that would
have
been so much better!

"Ok, everybody, pick up your scripts up here, and we will meet Saturday at
noon. The play is in two months, we will have roughly three rehearsels a
week,
including one on saturdays.If anyone has a problem with this, I really don't
care. I expect all of you to be completely devoted to your roles, now, I bid
you, adieu," she lightly said, as if telling slaves to clean the bathroom.

Ms.Tinnian and Mr.Mason left, leaving just us students.

I watched as Mike walked up to me, no, walked up to Bella

"Hey babe."

"Hi Mike."

"Congratulations on getting the lead."

"Thanks, you too." she smiled.

"Would you like to go out to dinner with me to celebrate? Maybe go over a
few lines?"

Please say no, please say no, please say no.

She looked at me sadly before answering "Sure!"

putting on a fake happy face.
Obviously, Mike bought it. Dammit. She couldn't possibly
like Mike, could she? I mean, she had to be smarter then that! she started
gathering her stuff, while Mike waited for her by the door, she turned to me
and I put on a fake smile, which Bella didn't buy, because she glared at me
and started silently laughing.

Huh. Girls, I guess.

"I'll call you after my dinner, ok? I'm really sorry you didn't get the part
you wanted," she honestly looked apologetic.

"Ok, I'll talk to you later, then."

She walked up to Mike, and he put an arm around her, shooting a glare at me,
and they left together. I started to get my things together, and Alice came
up
to me, Jasper on her arm.

"Edward, I'm so, so sorry." I could tell she was apologizing for more than
just the role, she must have heard the Edward the 'friend' comment.

"It's ok, really," It SO wasn't ok...


Avenue Q cast list:

Eric Sawyer– Gary

Mike Newton– Princeton/Rod

Edward Cullen – Brian

Jasper Whitlock – Nicky/Trekkie Monster

Isabella Swan– Kate Monster/Lucy The Slut

Angela Weber– Mrs T / Bad Idea Bears / Others

Alice Cullen– Christmas Eve

Patrick Wiser– Ensemble

AJ Jackson– Ensemble

Trever Smith– Ensemble


It wasn't until 10pm that the phone rang. I picked it
up on the first ring

"Hello?"

"Edward? It's Bella"

She sounded really upset,
like she had been crying

"Hi! Bella, is something wrong?"

"No, nothing really."

"Bella, i can tell something is bothering you. it sounds like you have been
crying, did something happen on your date with Mike?"

"...nothing i shouldn't have expected."

A pause.

"What happened?"

"Well... dinner had been going really well, and afterwards, he paid the
check, then offerd to drive me home. I accepted, because he had driven me
all
the way out to Port Angeles, so anyway, on the way home, he took a turn onto
a
dirt road, about four miles away from my house, we came to kind of a
clifflike
thing, and he started to go all octopushands on me"

"Bastard"

"Ya, I know, he
kept saying how I was a tease, -sob- and I should just let him do whatever,
becuase he paid for dinner."

"You didn't...?"

"Oh! God no!, I slapped him across the face, he called me a bitch, and
kicked
me out of the car, and I walked home"

"Why didn't you call me? I would have come pick you up!"

"I don't have a cell phone"

"Oh, will you be OK tonight?"

"Ya, I'll just sleep in Rosalie's room or something."

"Will you be OK on Saturday? With the play rehearsels and everything?"

"I'm not sure, probably, but I always have you there for support, right?"

"Right, of course"

"Thank you Edward, so much, I'll see you tomorrow, night"

"Goodnight, love"

Click.


The next day, I met Bella by her locker before
class.

"Hey, Edward. Do you notice anything strange going on?"

I looked around for a minute, before noticing that everyone was whisering,
and pointing at Bella. It's times like this I wish I had superhuman hearing,
or I could read minds, or something.

"Now that you mention it, ya. Why is everyone staring at you?"

"I don't know, I-"

Before she could finish, Jessica came running up to us

"Bella! Omigosh! Is it true?"

"Is what true?" she asked.

"Is it true that you had sex with Mike in the back of his Van at lovers lane
last night?"

"WHAT?! OF COURSE its not true!" she shreiked.

"oh, because thats what everyone is saying."

Bella started to cry. I took a deep breath

"Jessica," I said "Who told you this?"

"Oh, i heard it from Lauren, who heard it from Tyler, who heard it from
Eric,
who is on the football team with Mike. Apparently, he told the whole team
this morning at practice."

Jessica walked away, obviously sensing my rising
anger. I turned to Bella.

"Are you going to be OK if I leave for a few minutes?"

She started to calm down. "Do you have to?"

"Yes, it's something I have to do. How about you go wait in your classroom,
and I will pick you up to walk you to your next class after first period?"

"I'm not sure if I can, they are all going to be talking about me."

"Just ignore them, it's class, right? They won't be able to talk anyway,
just
remember that its Friday, you won't have to see most of them until Monday,
and
by then it will have all blown over."

"You're right, so I'll see you after class?"

"Wouldn't miss it."

She hugged me and then started walking to her class. I watched her for a
minute before I started walking in the opposite direction. There was
something I had to do.

Mike was standing with one of his football buddies, laughing and talking.

"She wasn't even that good, really, and she had small boo-"

I tapped him on the shoulder, he turned around.

I punched him in the face, and walked away.


To my surprise, I hadn't gotten in trouble for the Mike incident, no one was
even talking about it. I figured that Mike didn't want to tell anybody that
he
got knocked out by the gay kid. He must have sworn his neanderthal
buddy to
secrecy. I didn't even tell Bella, she would jsut get upset, I knew that
about
her, no matter what, she didn't like others to suffer. That's what I loved
about
her, she was so selfless.

People talked about Bella all day, but I was by her side every possible
minute. I offered to hang out with her after school, in case she didn't want
to be alone, but she declined. Said she wanted a little alone time to read.
God, she was amazing.

On Saturday, I picked her up to drive to the school. People were gossiping,
obviously, when we got there, but Mike still wasn't in the auditorium. We
sat
on the edge of the stage and waited. It wasn't long before Mike walked in
with
Eric. I saw Eric nudge Mike and point to us, and felt Bella grab my hand for
support. Mike walked over, looked Bella up and down, sneered, then walked
away,
I felt Bella cringed beside me, right before Ms.Tinnian walked in.

"Hello, everybody, I trust you all read your scripts since Thursday. We are
going to jump right into rehearsels, starting with Act one, Scene seven.
This
is a hard scene for you, Bella, because you have to be both Lucy and Kate,
so
you have to try to be in almost two places at once, lets start with hearing
you sing 'special' Mike, you sit down in front and watch her, look at her
like
you think she is really hot."

Bella looked at me for support, I nudged her, and she got up on stage and
sang, she had a beautiful voice

LUCY:I can make you feel special
When it sucks to be you.
I can make you feel special
For an hour or two.

Your life's a routine that repeats each day.
No one cares who you are or what you say.
And sometimes you feel like you're nobody,
But you can feel like somebody with me.PRINCETON:Wow!LUCY:Yeah,
they'rereal.When we're together the earth will shake
And the stars will fall into the sea.
So come on, baby, let down your guard.
When your date's in the bathroom,
I'll slip you my card.
I can tell just by looking that you've got it hard
For me! For me!
For me! For me!
For me! For me!
I can tell just by looking that you are especially hard for me!

They continued on with the scene, few mistakes, it was rather disturbing,
really, to watch Mike and Bella flirt with each other, then I heard the lines
I
knew Bella was dreading having to say...

PRINCETON... I think you look really
beautiful tonight.

KATE: Oh Princeton! You look so handsome I could eat you alive!and she started
to kiss him.

It was even more disgusting then watching them flirt. I could tell she was
in
hell, and from what I could see of her face, she looked like she was about
tocry.The kiss went on for 5 seconds, 10, 40, a full minute. Bella was trying
to
pull away, but Mike wouldn't let her. He was holding her to him, she tried
to
push him off her, but he wouldn't let go. I could hear Ms.Tinnians voice:

"Mr.Newton! Get off her! This is very unprofessional!"

Finally, Bella managed to push Mike off her. Unfortunately, she must not
have
realised how close they were to the edge of the stage.

It seemed like it was in slow motion, their faces detached, her arms pushed
him, he took a step back, and fell right off the stage.

"Call the nurse!" I heard a voice yell.

Not even a minute later the school nurse rushed in, and began examining
Mike. she said something to Ms.Tinnian and Mike I couldn't hear. Mike looked
at Bella, who was still looking shocked on the stage, and he yelled:

"BITCH! YOU BROKE MY LEG!"


A/N- heyy ya'll, i got a beta, as you can probably tell by the proper punctuation and spelling. her username is MooWithTheCookieMonster‏ and having her is making me feel very professional :P VOTE ON THE POLL ON MY PROFILE and this is the longest chapter ive ever written, ever, so please review as a thank you! or else netx update will be very short. you can thank my Beta for the stroke of genious at the end, of having mike get the part then break his leg. Sorry about the allignment being weired, i cant fix it
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B/N (Beta Note) good. Very very good. I REALLY LIKED THIS CHAPTER. :)