Chapter 18: Wedding Bells and Tony's

A few weeks had gone by and plans for wedding were being set in stone. Izzy was getting kind of mad because Race wasn't doing anything to stop it. She and Steve had gotten a lot closer but they still didn't love each other... let alone like each other like that.

Things had been going great for everyone else. Well, maybe not great but they were going alright. The musical was getting better but they still had no Tony.

"Alright people, let's get started. I still haven't found us a Tony but we'll get one sooner or later." Mr. Asher said.

"Well, I better get up there. Don't make fun of us too much." Mush said, getting up as he, Elle, and Jax walked up tot he stage.

"Promise." Shelley said, smiling.

They made their way on stage and Talkback came and sat by Shelley.

"Hey, decided to join us?" Shelley asked.

"Shut up. He's lucky I'm even here." Talkback said. "Hey Parker, hey C.J."

"Hey." They both said.

"Now, we shall be doing 'America' to the War Council today. So, let's get ready peop -" Mr. Asher looked in the audience and spotted his Tony.

"You! There, next to the girl with the blue hair." Mr. Asher said, pointing to Talkback.

"Me?" Talkback asked.

"Yes. You are my Tony. We're going to need you for the War Council." Mr. Asher said, snapping his fingers.

"But, I'm not Tony! I'm too tall and Tony wasn't blond and just no!" Talkback protested.

"Quit dilly dallying and get up here." Mr. Asher said.

Talkback looked at Shelley who was trying to contain her laughter... but failed miserably.

"Go get 'em, Daddy-O." Shelley giggled, punching his arm.

He glared at her. "I hate you."

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"I think it's great that you're Tony." Mush said.

Talkback sneered.

"Well, sorry for being nice." Mush said.

"Oh, he's just mad because he's doing something he doesn't want to do." Jax said.

"It's not that I don't want to be Tony... okay, maybe it is that." Talkback said.

"Well, while you're figuring out just what it is, I will be leaving." Jax said.

"Where are you going?" Talkback asked.

"Home to sleep. I do like to do that." Jax said, rolling his a little.

Talkback glared at him. Jax smiled, got up, and headed towards the door.

"Hey, wait!" Mush called, following Jax.

"I didn't even audition!" Talkback said, exasperated.

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Blink and David were cleaning the loft. Why? Because they had nothing better to do. Just as they were about to tackle the couch, the loft door slid open and Mush came in.

"Hey Mush. What's up?" David asked.

He didn't say anything, he just sat down on the couch and stared.

Blink looked at him. "You okay, Mushee?"

Mush sat there for a minute, "I have a date on Friday."

"What?" David said.

"That's great!" Blink said. "Jax?"

Mush smiled and shook his head.

"Mush, that's great." Blink said, going over and hugging him. "I'm so happy for you."

"Thanks. I'm kinda nervous. I haven't been on a date in... ever." Mush said.

Blink sat next to him and David sat on the other side.

"Mush, you'll be fine." David rationalized.

"Really?"

"Yes, you're calm, cool, collected, patient, funny, sweet, there's nothing for you to be nervous about." David said.

Blink just stared at David along with Mush.

"I am NOT gay!" David screamed, stomping to his room and slamming the door.

Blink and Mush looked at each other, then to David's door, and then back at each other. They immediately started laughing.

David opened his door, "SHUT UP!"

That weekend,

RING!!!!

Blink groaned and fumbled around for his phone. He really needed to start turning it off. After a few minutes of fondling the area around his bed, he finally found his phone. He flipped it open and placed it to his ear.

"Hello?" He asked, groggily.

"Blink! I have horrible news!" Race screamed into the phone.

Blink drew the phone a few inches away from his ear and looked at it. He shook his head and placed it back to his ear. "What's wrong now, Race?"

"Izzy's getting married this week!"

"What?"

"Izzy's getting married this week!"

"But, I thought their wedding wasn't until like, two years from now or something." Blink said.

"It was... but their 'wedding planner' booked this hall for their reception and this is the only time they could get it unless they wanted to wait 6 years. So the stupid broad booked it!" Race shouted.

"Race! Calm down... we'll figure something out. Izzy won't marry him. It'll be like that Princess Diaries movie where she stops her own wedding because she's in love with someone else and doesn't like the idea of arranged marriages." Blink said.

There was silence on the other end. Blink knew that Race was just making this look. Blink sighed.

"It was on the Wonderful of Disney and David made me watch it." Blink said.

"I don't care Blink! I need a plan! I can't live like that! My girlfriend married and the whole adultery thing. I can't!" Race said.

"Race! Just calm down. Shelley and Elle will talk her out of it or they'll come up with something. They're evil... they can do that. They have connections." Blink said.

"Maybe you're right. Thanks Blink. I'll call you later." Race said, hanging up.

Blink closed his phone and looked at his clock. 7:33 am. He groaned again and fell back onto his bed.

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"I can't believe we can't think of anything!" Shelley said.

"I know! What happened to us? We used to be evil geniuses?" Elle said.

"This is a disgrace." Shelley said.

"Think of something?" Izzy asked.

The two girls looked at her solemnly and shook their heads no.

"I HAVE TO MARRY STEVE!" Izzy shouted.

"I'm afraid so." Shelley said.

It was quiet for a moment until Elle piped up.

"I've got it! We can get you a potion so you're heart can stop and then we -. Wait, that's from 'Romeo and Juliet'... that didn't turn out too well... nevermind." She said.

"What am I going to do? I don't want to Steve the Cartoon Man." Izzy said.

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Blink shot up in his bed. "Izzy's getting married this week! I should tell David." He said.

He then fell back onto his bed asleep. Then he shot back up again. "I should tell David because if I don't he'll hear it from someone else and then he'll get made at me for not telling him and that could result in something very, very bad."

Blink jumped out of bed and ran out into the loft. He headed straight for David's room.

Race was sitting on his couch drinking some coffee when he heard thundering footsteps above him. He looked at the ceiling as he heard an 'AHHH!' and a monstrous thud. Then he heard padding foot steps again.

"What the?" Race said.

"Race keep it down!" Spot yelled slamming his door.

Blink tore open David's door and jumped on David's bed... and for that matter David.

"David! Wake up! I have something very important to tell you!" Blink said and he slapped David's face. "Wait a minute."

Blink pulled the sheets and saw that it was not David's face he had just been previously slapping... it was his feet.

"DAVID! You have feet face! Oh no!" Blink yelled.

He then got flung to the floor and landed with a thud. "Get off of me!"

"David! You can still talk!" Blink said, joyously.

David pulled the covers off to reveal his face at the foot of the bed. "And you have a face!!! It's a miracle!"

David rolled his eyes and sat up. "What's so important that you had to come in here and jump on me?"

"Izzy's getting married this week."

"What?! But wasn't she getting married next year?" David asked.

"That's what I said... hey, I thought it was two years." Blink said.

"No, it was next year." David said.

"No, it was two years."

"Why would they wait two years if their parents want them married now?" David asked.

"I don't know I just heard two years. Anyway, that's all." Blink said, getting up and leaving.

David shook his head and looked at his clock and calendar. "Oh, ya wake me up on a Saturday when I don't have class! Thanks!"

Blink opened David's door. "You're welcome." And he shut it.

David sighed and went back to sleep.

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The days before the wedding were very hectic for everyone involved with it. Shelley and Elle had to keep on helping Izzy with a plan but it wasn't turning out to be fruitful.

The boys hadn't seen Race for more than 5 minutes on all of those days; even the ones who lived with him. It was starting to worry them. Well, it had worried them when it all started but now it was really making them worry.

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Izzy woke up and stretched. She got out of bed and did all the things she normally did, brushed her teeth, changed, brushed her hair, maybe in the process she would wake up.

But that morning would be different... very different.

Izzy walked down the stairs and entered the kitchen. She walked through the doorway and was greeted with.

"Isabelle, how are you today? Oh, what a silly question, of course you're happy, you're getting married today." Mrs. Lexington said.