Anjyu: Oops, sorry, I didn't realize about Rosetta's age. I'm bad about remembering how old I made people. Well, hopefully, she's going to stay 17 now.

And sorry, no smut scene for Yuri/Layla, my friend said no :(

Chapter 5

Sora sighed as she looked at the meager gathering of the people able to perform- the only people capable of starring were Sarah and Anna. Layla and Leon were still out, May couldn't star with her pregnancy, and Yuri couldn't perform until his sprained ankle and broken wrist had healed. He had tried to convince Kalos otherwise, but no one had wanted to take the risk.

"Well, this sucks," she said to Sarah and Anna as they watched the rest of the cast get ready for tonight's show. They nodded in agreement. As of now, all they could do was wait for Mia to finish editing the script for their lack of people and hope the performance went off without a hitch.

At five minutes until show time, Mia finally came dashing up to the trio, panting and waving the new copy of the script. "Hey," she said quickly, passing them out to the three stars, "I'm not sure, but I think I can make it work. Anna, you're playing all of Yuri's part, do you think you can pull it off?"

Anna nodded nervously, knowing that it didn't really matter if she couldn't she was going to have to try anyways. Mia nodded in satisfaction, then said, "Sora, Sarah, you guys are fine, but you're going to have to alternate playing Rosetta's part. Unfortunately, there's a scene near the end- all four of you are in it and I don't know if I can find a replacement for Rosetta in time!"

Sora hesitated, thinking back to her first performance with Leon, then said quickly, "Mia, find someone to play my roll in the last scene, I've got Rosetta's."

Mia shook her head frantically as she said, "No, wait, Sora, you won't have time to change costume! You'd only have a minute and-"

"Trust me, I've got it covered."

Mia was about to ask how the hell she was going to pull it off when Ken called out 30 seconds left, sending Mia scurrying back to the controls and the others out on stage.

The rest of the evening was a whirlwind of extremely tired performers and confused rookies as they tried to keep up with the many changes Mia had made to the script. Anna was barely keeping up while Sora and Sarah were struggling to modify their practiced routines to fit Mia's editing. By the time the last scene rolled around, Sora wasn't even sure if she would have enough energy to pull it off.

She saw the rookie standing off stage, just ready to take her place, since her role in the last scene was really to just stand there and look pretty. Fool was waiting for Sora at Rosetta's entrance, though he was known too happy about it.

"Only using me to change costume, that's what you people do," he grumbled as he unzipped the back of her dress and pulled it over her head. "Never to actually do something I think is fun, no, you just call me when you need magical floating invisible tiny people."

"Fool, quit complaining!" Sora hissed as she fought with the sleeves of Rosetta's costume. "You know, if you didn't want to be here, you could of just stayed with Rosetta tonight."

"I was going to!" he snapped angrily, "But her mother is very annoying! Honestly, always jabbering on in French, and every time Rosetta tries to talk to me, she-"

"Okay, I get it, I get it," Sora muttered as she rolled her eyes and jumped back onto the stage, slightly off balance, though dressed as Rosetta.

The others stared at her in confusion, wondering how on earth she had managed to get dressed so fast, but Sora did her best to ignore them and concentrate and both remembering Rosetta's part and not slipping and falling fifty feet to her death.

When the performance was finally over, even Sarah was too tired to go bouncing around the room like she usually did. "Come on," she said, waving Sora, Anna, Mia, and Marion to where she was leaning against the wall and panting for breath. "Celebration for us pulling it off and no one falling. Yay for us."

Sora shrugged while Anna said, "I'm all for it, as long as 'celebration' means we all lay down and get some sleep."

Sarah chuckled. "That's exactly what I had in mind."

As it turned out, what Sarah had in mind was a little different then sleep, but close enough- they all lay around Sarah's place, saying a word or two to each other occasionally while they watched some TV show about baby pandas. It didn't take long enough for them all to pass out on each other, still exhausted from the draining performance.

When Sora opened her eyes to stare at the wall clock, she really didn't care that it said 1 in the morning. She did start to care when she heard a soft sigh, then a body rolled on top of her. "Hey!" she mumbled, trying to shove the person off.

Sarah groaned, then rolled off her onto the floor with a thump. Sora yawned, and just about to get in a more comfortable position and hope for more sleep when she remembered she didn't live alone anymore.

Oh, god, Leon. He had to be worried sick.

Sora immediately jolted upright and made for the door, trying to avoid stepping on any other bodies she couldn't in the dark. She couldn't believe this. Why had she ever agreed to go with Sarah after the performance? She had been exhausted and the idea of home had sounded much better then a party! Well, this was just great. Things couldn't get much worse then this.

When she got home, Sora saw things could worse. Leon was up waiting for her, wearing a suit and a very angry expression. Sora froze, wondering why he had a suit... oh, god, their date. Leon had made reservations at a fancy restaurant for the two of them after the performance and she had completely forgotten.

"Oh my god, Leon, I'm so sorry, I completely forgot, Sarah took me home with her and we just lost track of time!" she exclaimed, watching him anxiously as he got up and walked over to her.

"You just lost track of time? Really? Sora, that would account for, I don't know, a few minutes, half an hour at the most! You're four hours late! What exactly do you do until one in the morning, anyway?" he demanded as he started to pace around the room.

"Well, if you must know, we all fell asleep because we were so tired- and now it seems that I'm having a fight with you!"

"You're damn right we're having a fight! Sora, we're partners, we should see each other more then whenever you don't go out with your friends to party! I know that I can't work right now, but that doesn't mean-"

"Okay, first of all, I don't ever 'go out with my friends to party'!" she mimicked, starting to get mad now. "And second of all, I'm sorry, but we were exhausted after the show and I wasn't thinking and Sarah offered so I just went with her!"

"Oh, that makes perfect sense!" Leon shouted. "You're exhausted and instead of coming home, you go out with your friends and don't even think to call!"

"Well I'm sorry, but I didn't think I needed your permission to have fun with my friends! I already apologized for coming home late and missing our date, but now I don't even know what you're mad about it! If I want to go out with my friends then I can! You have no right to say I can't!"

"Sora-" Leon started, but Sora just threw up her hands and turned around to leave.

"Screw this, Leon, if all we're going to do is talk in circles then I might as well just go!" She turned around and slammed the door on her way out, ignoring Leon when he came back out after her and called her name.

KALEIDO STAR KALEIDO STAR KALEIDO STAR

"Sora?" Fool asked as she stormed into her old room at Kaleido Stage, which had now been empty for over a month. "What are you doing back here?" Sora didn't reply, she just flopped down on the bed and buried her head in a pillow, hoping Fool would have the good sense not to bother her.

Of course, Fool would never let the issue drop until he got an answer. He flew down next to her ear and started methodically thumping her on the head until she groaned and turned over, smacking him with her hand, which sent him flying towards the window. "Fool, can't you just go annoy somebody else for a change! Why does it always have to be me?"

"Because no one else can see me," he said as extricated himself from the shades. "And ow. You know, Sora, I'm not a fly, you don't have to throw me into things. You could just ask nicely."

"You were hitting me on the head, Fool," she muttered into the pillow. "It was self defense."

Fool groaned, then started going into his fortune-telling routine, which annoyed her to no end.

Finally, she sat up and shouted, "All right, enough already! Leon and I had a fight, that's all! Now will you leave me alone?"

"No," he said and sat on top of her head and got comfortable in her hair. With another loud moan Sora fell back onto the bed, wincing as Fool hung unto her head by gripping a few strands of her hair.

"Okay, are you going to spend the rest of the night on my head, Fool?" she demanded when he made no move to get up.

"Yes."

Sora moaned loudly, then decided to just let him do what he wanted. It made life easier for her if Fool was happy, and besides, it was unlikely she would be getting much sleep tonight anyway.

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