"Mom!" Rachel stood outside Shelby's door.
"Yeah, honey?" Shelby opened the door giggling but the smile quickly disappeared as she saw her daughter's face.
"Oh, sweetheart, what happened?" She went into mother-mode and pulled Rachel into a hug as Rachel started crying.
"Shelbs? Who is it?" A male voice called from inside Shelby's room. The voice was teasing, playful but concerned at the same time.
"My daughter." Shelby answered quietly.
Kendall stood behind Rachel, wondering who was in Ms. Corcoran's room.
"Mom, Una broke the necklace!"Rachel said, calming 's eyes widened.
"Is this the roommate who's been bugging you and Kendall since Day 1?" Shelby asked mildly.
Rachel gave her a small nod and held out the broken chain.
Shelby took the necklace and called over her shoulder, "Cam? Are you going into the city tonight?"
"Don't call me Cam. And yes, I am." A 5'7" blond haired man walked over to her and casually put his arm on her shoulder.
"Do you want me to take it in and have it fixed?" He asked Shelby.
"You really do know me well," Shelby said as she smiled and handed him the chain.
He began to walk down the hall.
"Cam?" She called after him.
"I'm going to stop answering when you call me that!" He called back jokingly.
"Same time tomorrow?" Shelby grinned.
He nodded and ran into the night.
"Why is it dancers are so cute?" Shelby wondered aloud.
Rachel just stared at her mother, shocked, but Kendall grinned and said "Well, usually dancers tend to dance and so they stay in shape and I have no idea other-"
"It was rhetorical." Shelby cut her off with a small frown.
"Oh." Kendall said in a small voice.
"It's fine, K. I'm joking." Shelby laughed. "You girls should go to bed though but first I want to take to Rachel" said Shelby
Rachel nodded. It had been a long day.
"But what about Una?" Kendall asked, her voice trembling slightly.
"I'll take care of her tomorrow." Shelby smiled at the girls.
Kendall grabbed Rachel's arm "hey I'll see you later in the room.
"Mom who was that" asked Rachel sounding hurt that her mother didn't tell her later.
"That's Cameron I am kind of seeing him" she said meekly.
"Um ok well when were you going to tell me"
"I wasn't really sure"
"Oh" said Rachel sounding even more hurt"
"Why do you need him we have been fine on our own I mean you just meet a week ago why haven't you told me this is so unfair mom, this little fling better be over by the end of the summer." Rachel said, she wasn't pissed Shelby got a boyfriend she was pissed as well as upset that Shelby didn't tell her they were all each other needed no guy needed to come between them.
Rachel walked towards the door "Rachel wait"
"Save it Shelby" great thought Shelby Rachel called her Shelby. There was a point in time where Rachel knew about the contract that was written up and how she planned on giving Rachel up and she called her Shelby for like 2 months before she finally stopped. Rachel only called her that when she was really mad disappointed or both.
With that Rachel walked out the door leaving a upset Shelby alone.
Rachel walked into her dorm with Kendall waiting.
"Hey Rachel"
"Hi Kendall I think I'm just going to go to bed wake me up for breakfast tomorrow please" Rachel said flatly.
Kendall woke Rachel up at around 6 to get ready Rachel bounced back with Kendall why be mad at her she didn't do anything. She explained the whole story to her and Kendall totally understood.
There was a knock on the door at about 7. "Come in!" Rachel and Kendall called at the same time. They laughed and gave each other a high five. Una sighed and muttered something like "kids."
Shelby poked her head into the room. Una sat up straight and pulled the earphones out of her ears.
"Did you finally decide I'm better than these two and gave me a good part?" She asked excitedly.
Shelby frowned and walked into the room.
"Uh... No?" Shelby said, shooting Rachel and Kendall a look as they tried to hide their giggles.
"Why don't you two go get breakfast, I need to talk to Una." Shelby suggested, smiling especially at Rachel.
"You know smiling at me isn't going to help or change the fact that you lied to me" Rachel said exiting the room with Kendall. Shelby just gave Kendall a desperate look to try and get Rachel to talk to her.
The two girls ran outside and burst out laughing as soon as the door shut.
"Kids." Shelby muttered, making Una smile.
"So, why are you here?" Una asked. Though it didn't show, Shelby could tell the girl was nervous.
"Rachel, Kendall and Caroline have all told me you've hurt their feelings." Shelby said quietly, sitting down on the opposite side of Una on the two-person couch.
Una nodded, not taking her eyes off of the co-director who could easily send her home.
"If this behavior continues, we will send you home." Shelby said, making Una's heart sink. She couldn't go home. She had to be in this play, it was a matter of college.
"I don't want to go home." Una said quietly.
Shelby's heart leapt up to her throat. Una sounded so sad and alone, it made her realize that she messed up with Rachel. Like she didn't want to let anything or anyone hurt her but she did irony at its finest.
"So, is it okay if you apologize to Rachel and Kendall?"
Una nodded, tears forming in her eyes.
"Good. I'm glad we had this talk. Now, I'm starved. Let's go get breakfast!"
Una laughed and went with Shelby to the door.
Shelby left Una at the door with a small warning look before she went off to the staff lunchroom.
Una walked over to Rachel, Kendall and Caroline.
"Hey, munchkin. Your mom is so gullible. She does realize we're all actors, right?" Una smirked before walking off with no intention of apologizing.
Rachel sighed. "So much for a nice Ice Queen." She said, making her friends laugh.
"Alright! We are having a rehearsal today. Our choreographer slash musical coordinator will be here today so we're going to start with the songs and hopefully make our way to some scenes." Tamara announced.
The fifty kids cheered except for Mitchell, who was sitting alone at a table, sleeping.
"Kendall, why don't you go talk to Mitchell?" Caroline turned to Kendall.
"Well, uh. Ok," Kendall got up and walked over to him.
"They're so cute together." Caroline whispered to Rachel, who giggled.
"Uh, you're Caroline, right?" A tall boy with gorgeous dark blue eyes and curly dark brown hair wearing a Pittsburgh Pirates baseball cap came over to their table.
"Yeah. You're Foster, right?" She responded, blushing slightly.
"Yeah. Um.. Do you want to sit next to me at rehearsal today?" He said, ducking his head to hide the fact that he was blushing too.
"Sure. She'd love to!" Rachel exclaimed, giving Caroline a little shove towards Foster.
"Alright guys. This is-" Shelby stood on the stage in the theater, gesturing towards the man Rachel and Kendall had met the night before.
"Hi, I'm Cameron Jackson. You can call me Cameron but if you call me Cam, I swear I will kill you."
He said this with a straight face but Shelby started to laugh.
"Okay, this is Cameron. He will be watching you guys today to get a feel of what he can do without ruining your voices. Please run through the songs. Caroline, ensemble, take it away."
Rachel rolled her eyes she did not like this "cam" person at all.
Cameron and Shelby said that last sentance together and from Rachel's point of view from where she sat, she could see that as soon as Shelby and Cameron sat down, thier hands found each other and they held hands. Shelby let her head fall to his shoulder. Tamara said something and Cameron laughed and Shelby lightly punched her shoulder but laughed as well.
"Rachel!" Cameron hissed her name, looking up at her. He gestured for her to join them.
"Yeah?" Rachel asked snotty.
"Your mother has something for you." Tamara and Cameron said in unison before laughing again. Rachel wasn't laughing that was for sure she found this whole thing annoying.
Shelby held out the necklace, and it was totally fixed and perfect.
"Thank you." Rachel said flatly and with sarcasm in her voice to Cameron. He gave her a weird look and looked to Shelby.
"Oh, Miss Elphaba-" Mia Santiago began the wizard and I and Rachel stood up and blew the song out the doors. What she didn't know was that the three staff members were chatting about her.
"She's amazing. Besides the strange resemblance, she sounds really good. Better than you, Shel!" Cameron said under his breath to the head on his shoulder.
He received a light smack on his arm for that comment but Shelby also said "She's also younger and has been singing since she could wail. Meaning the moment she was born."
"Holy cow!" Cameron exclaimed as Rachel went into some of the higher and longer notes at the end.
"I agree" Tamara laughed as Shelby said at the same time "Cows aren't holy, Cam." The two women glanced at each other, high-fived and laughed.
The rehearsal went smoothly and they began working on scenes with Tamara while Shelby and Cameron started choreography and blocking the play by themselves.
Rachel glanced around. Ever since that chat with her mother, Una had been strangely quiet, not really talking to anyone about anything.
Right then, Una was in the back row, by herself, avoiding everyone's questioning glances.
Rachel stood up and went to the back row. She sat down next to Una.
"Hi." She said.
Una glanced up at her and saw the necklace.
"It got fixed?" she said simply.
Rachel nodded and said, "I don't want to fight, Una."
Una shrugged and walked over to a different seat.
Rachel sighed but inwardly, she was happy. Una hadn't said anything mean to her in that tiny conversation. Well, it was a step forward. She thought.
thought her and Shelby would be having a talk later she needed to know what was on her mind and what she really thought about this Cam person.
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