The group walked back with Tamera and Rachel was started to get excited. This was really starting to move along!
"Okay, so you are our main leads. Shelby is talking to the boys about their responsibilities, and I am going to be covering yours. You are our leads; that comes with a lot of responsibilities to take on. We also have some younger cast members this year, so I expect the older ones to step up," she said, looking at Rachel. "And lead by example-make them want to come back next year."
"We're not really going to be doing much today aside from running through the songs. The rest of the night is yours! By the way, I am very proud that you guys didn't go to the party; that you put your musical first! We really did cast the right people for the leads, good job!"
The girls followed her out to the main stage so they could all be together for the music run through.
They all sat on the risers in groups; they were allowed to sit where they pleased, but when their song came up they had to stand and sing it.
Rachel, Caroline, and Kendall all sat together, while Una and another girl sat on the opposite side of the risers. One row down from where the girls were sitting sat Mitchell, the boy who was cast as Boq. He looked anxious for his performance, so Kendall decided to walk down and talk to him. He had shaggy dirty-blond hair, brown eyes, a lop sided grin and was around 5'11.
"Hi, my name's Kendall. Is this your first year here?" she asked politely, noticing how cute he was.
"I'm Mitchell, and yea I am new here."
"Are you scared? You kind of look like you're nervous."
"Yea, I don't have any friends here. I wasn't too sure about coming, but my glee coach wanted me to give it a try. He thinks I have talent or something like that."
"Well I'm sure you do, that's why you got a lead! I am playing Nessa, so we will be spending a lot of time together. I can't wait to get to know you! Where are you from?"
"Yea it should be fun; I'm from Chicago," he said sounding thankful to have finally made a friend.
"No way! I'm from Chicago too-that's so weird and cool at the same time!" exclaimed Kendall. It was bizarre to think that she could have seen him around having no idea that they would meet in New York instead of their shared hometown. "We'll have to talk later; it looks like we're going to be starting soon"
"Yeah, we totally have to talk more! Want to meet up for dinner after practice?"
"Sure that would be great"
Rachel gave her an approving look. She could tell that he really liked her. Before they started she whispered softly in her ear, "K's got a date."
"It's not a date!" she whispered back. "We're just going to have dinner and talk!"
"Sure, whatever you say Kendall," Rachel joked
The first song started. It was the ensemble's starting song where Galinda comes down in her bubble. Una looked really displeased that she had to sing with the group and that she had such a small part, but she kind of deserved it for what she had said to Rachel and Kendall on the first day.
Soon it was Rachel and Caroline's song. It was hard to act like they hated each other for the number, What is This Feeling, but were both good actors and they got through it with relative ease.
Kendall and Mitchell's song was great they were perfect together and they did their part in Dancing
Through Life with great emotion.
The rest of the run through was uneventful, but when they got to As Long as Your Mine, things started to get interesting. Rachel had yet to meet who was playing Fiyero, so she thought it was going to be awkward to sing to someone she didn't know, but that proved her wrong. When she started to sing, they locked eyes and it was like no one else was in the room. They sang through the song and the whole cast clapped in approval. Rachel knew one thing, she was going to find out who he was after practice; she had never connected with anyone like that through a song.
The rest of practice went well. It was fun to sing Defying Gravity it was her favorite in the whole show and she couldn't wait to be gravitated for the incredible number. She also liked singing For Good with Caroline. Now she just needed to meet that boy, so she told Kendall to have fun on her "date" and that she would see her later in their dorm. She then explained to Caroline that she would see her tomorrow because tonight she was going into the city with Shelby.
She ran ahead of the crowd so she could catch up with the boy. She just had to introduce herself they really connected during the song and he had to have felt it too.
"Hey, wait up!" she called up to him as he was walking out of the building.
She finally got up to where he was. "Hi I just wanted to introduce myself since we are going to be spending a lot of time together and I thought it was time for us to formally meet. My name's Ra…"
"I know who you are-you're Rachel Berry," he said, cutting her off.
"I saw your audition to this camp on the website. It was the best one by far the depth in your voice, it's amazing. It is one in a life time and it's a true gift"
She was shocked by what she was hearing-he thought that much of her and he barely knew her. It was hard not to like this kid not just because of his talent but also his looks. He had light brown, curly hair and stunning blue eyes. She just kept staring at him and finally got out a meek whisper-like 'hi.'
"My name's Jesse by the way," he finally said, breaking the silence.
"So you're going to be my Elphaba. Well I'm glad they cast you and that you and I are going to be working together it should be great."
"Especially since we have such impeccable talents" said Rachel.
Rachel checked her phone for the time and realized that it was time to go meet her mom for their dinner in the city.
"I actually have to go but we will have to talk more in practice tomorrow I want to know more about you"
"I want to know more about you too-I can't wait till then." Jesse smiled and Rachel's heart fluttered, realizing they just had another moment. She really wanted to get close to someone this summer-she wanted the cliche summer romance, she longed for it; and she realized it just might be coming true. Rachel and Jesse went their separate ways, and realized they went the wrong way. Rachel was supposed to be going in the direction Jesse went and Jesse the way Rachel was going, so they turned around and gave each other a goofy smile and went the correct way yeah Rachel couldn't wait till tomorrow.
Rachel went to her mother's room so they could leave for dinner. She was pretty excited. They had been to the city before, but this was different; it was for the summer and it meant something to Shelby that Rachel had picked hanging with her new found friends to go out with her. She was going to make it special.
The pair decided to go to a little café and get some food. They wanted a very low key day where it wasn't going to be overcrowded and the café provided a perfect place.
"So how has your day been-I feel like we never see each other anymore," said Shelby.
"It's been good I really like the cast and everyone's voices sound really good. I know, I miss you. It's weird we never see each other. We used to see each other every day and now I don't get to see you often at all."
"Well how about we do this once a week. We go out into the city and spend some time together"?
"I'd like that a lot." They paused to sip their drinks. "Mom can I sleep in your room tonight?"
"Sure, you don't like you roommates?"
"No it's not that, it's just we usually just lay on the couch and watch movies or hang out and now we don't have that-I miss it."
"Wow I never thought I would hear that you actually miss me!" She joked.
Rachel looked at her seriously. "I'll always miss you. I don't know what I'm going to do when I move out here-that's why I want you to move out here with me. You can get an apartment and I will stay in the dorms."
"Oh Rachel I would love that! I would have missed you so much..."
The rest of their dinner went great. They talked about the play and what the girls did in the city the night before. After, they stopped at a little store to get some snacks for the movie they were going to watch.
The pair got back to the campus a little after eight.
"Hey I'm going to go back to my dorm and get my stuff so I can just get dressed here tomorrow morning"
Rachel walked into her building ready to see what the Ice Queen had wrecked this time.
She could already here the screaming coming from her room.
"Give it back! That's Rachel's!" she heard Kendall scream. She started to run when that was said.
She ran through her door, "What's going on?"
"She stole your necklace-look she's wearing it!"
Rachel forgot that she took it off before her shower, and she never put it back on.
"Give that back! Una this isn't funny."
"Why? Are you afraid mommy will disown you when she finds out you lost it?"
"I didn't lose it, it was on MY nightstand. You stole it-there's a huge difference."
"Does Shelby really think you're going to be on Broadway?" Una asked, mocking the words on the back of the necklace.
"I mean the only reason you even got Elphaba is because of her being your mom and everybody knows it."
"Actually she didn't cast my role Tamera did. So if you have problems with that go talk to her"
"Just give her the necklace back-it's not yours!" said Kendall.
"Why should I?"
"Because it's mine and it probably cost more than your entire wardrobe."
"Fine whatever" she chucked the necklace across the room to Rachel but she didn't catch it and it went flying across the room hitting a wall.
"Why did you do that?" Rachel asked, retrieving the necklace anxiously.
"What-Puppy didn't want to play fetch?"
Rachel picked the necklace up to find it snapped in half "What the hell! Una look what you did. My Mom gave it to me' it was special and you wrecked it. Just like you wrecked everything else!"
Rachel ran out of the room with Kendall in tow-she was going to her mom's room. Neither could stand to be around the ice queen for another second.
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