The next day, everyone is hanging out in the Asphalt Cafe before school starts. While they sit and chat with each other, Sikowitz walks up to the group and scares Tori like he did before her and Jade's 'play date' from a while ago.
"Sikowitz! I thought I told you to stop doing that?"
"I remember you saying that you hate when I do that, but never telling me to stop. Anyway. Helen wants a small group of students to do a small concert this saturday night. You get to either pick a song to perform, or write your own. You can do singles or duets. Have your decision by the end of today, and tell her before you leave school for the day. All of you have to be involved in some way, even if it's just playing an instrument. Good day. I will see you all later for class."
"Hey, wait."
"Yes, Toro?"
"Really, again? Anyway, why us? Don't we have a say in the matter?"
"Not really. I already told her that you would do it. And what again? What did I miss?"
"You called me Toro when we did the method acting challenge, which I won!" Tori says while looking at Beck and smiling, which he just smiles back at. Looking at everyone else, who seem ok with it, she looks back at Sikowitz, "Fine, we'll do it."
"Good. See you all later."
With that, Sikowitz walks into the school, leaving the students to talk about what they want to do before school starts in 15 minutes.
"Anyone have any ideas?" Tori asks after a few moments.
"I'm not much for singing, but I'll play guitar for each song."
"Sounds good Beck. I'll play piano with each, but I also want to sing. Anyone up for a duet?" André responds.
"Sure, I'll do a duet with you, André. It'll be like old times."
"Vega, how can it be 'old times' if you did it a few weeks ago?"
"I, well, shut up." Tori mumbles to Jade.
"How about you Jade? You up for a duet with me?"
"Sure Carlos. Any song ideas?"
"I got 2 actually. 'Broken' by Seether with Amy Lee. And 'Bring Me To Life' by Evanescence. I know 'Bring Me To Life' isn't technically a duet, but there are male and female vocals in it. Any you like?"
"I'm leaning more towards 'Broken', actually. You two ok with that?" Jade says looking at André and Beck, since they want to play instruments.
"Sure." "Fine by me." The both say.
"What about you two?" Beck says to his girlfriend and best friend. "What song you want to do?"
"How about a remix of 'Countdown'? I met a girl a few days ago, but I didn't want to ask her out yet the time because of the whole marriage assignment thing of Sikowitz's. I really like her and we get along better than any girl I've been with before."
"Sounds good to me. What's her name?"
"Chill, Tori. You'll find out saturday night, just like the rest of you." André says to the rest of the group.
"I'll stick with backing guitar, if that's alright with everyone?" Robbie says, shyly, looking at the others.
"Sure. I don't see a problem with that. How about you Trina? What do you want to do?"
"I don't know, sis. Maybe back up vocals on some of the songs."
"Sounds good to me. Any problems with the rest of you?" Tori mentions after her sister.
"None, as long as you don't do back up for me and Carlos. Deal?" Jade says, holding her hand out to the older Vega girl.
"Sure." Trina responds, grabbing Jade's arm hesitantly, shaking it none-the-less. "Why are you being so nice to me? Usually you'd yell at me or something."
"I'm doing it for Carlos's sake. Now. Cat and Jace are the last two I think. Any ideas you two?" Jade says to Cat and Jace, who were quiet the whole time.
"I kind of want to do 'Missing' by Evanescence. I looked it up after you told us you did it for your audition, Carlos, and I like it. Is it alright if I do a solo, Jace?"
"Fine by me, Little Kitty. I want to sing 'My December' by Linkin Park."
"I didn't know you like LP."
"You got me into them, Carlos. We're all singing calming songs, except for André an Tori. Anyone realize that?"
"Not till you mentioned it. Everyone ready for class?" Beck answers his cousin.
With everyone saying 'sure' and 'I guess', they all head into school, getting to their first class just as the bell rings.
End of the day
"So, does everyone know what they're doing for saturday?" Helen asks as everyone heads into her office.
After they all tell her what they're doing, she smiles and writes down what each person is doing to get everything ready for the concert.
"Good. André, you and Tori will be the last up. Hayley and Cristopher are doing a couple of songs before you two, and before them are the rest of you, which I will tell your order that night."
"They're in it too?"
"Yes, Carlos. Sikowitz told me everyone involved with his assignment last week was involved. I trust there are no problems?"
"None, Helen. Let's head out and get ready for saturday." Tori says, trying to keep Jade and Carlos calm after the new information.
"What songs are they singing?"
"Sorry, Jade. Can't tell you. All I can say is that they are both singing alone. You will all find out saturday night. Bye."
Heading out, they see Hayley and Cristopher in the distance. Hayley smiling at the group, while Cristopher shows little emotion on his face.
If anyone wants to know the songs Hayley and Cristopher are singing, send me a PM. Also, if anyone has an OC for Andre's girl, let me know. I have no idea what to do for that. I know it's shorter than the others, but I didn't know what else to add to this. The next chapter will be the concert.
Other than my idea for a VicTORIous 'Ashes' story like I mentioned before, I also want to do a supernatural story. I know a lot of people make them, but I want to try my hand at one as well. Let me know which you would like to see me make next, and I'll start working on it when I get closer to the end of this story. The supernatural story I'm thinking of is Jori where Jade is a werewolf and Tori is vampire. I've read plenty where Jade's the vamp and Tori's the wolf, so I switched them to be different. As well as a VicTORIous Sucker Punch mix. It'll be supernatural as well. If you haven't seen Sucker Punch yet, I recommend if you like fantasy adventure movies. Let me know which of the three you'd like best. Thanks to everyone who has reviewed and followed this.