Chapter 4. Is anyone still updating their fics? I feel like I'm alone in this. Anyway, enjoy :)
Chapter 4: The Work Begins
Lily made her way to her room, a smirk etched upon her face. Slowly opening the door, she was immediately met with shouting.
"Where the hell were you?"
"What about you're audition?"
"Why are you smirking?"
"Girls" Lily eventually said, sitting down on her bed, "to answer all your questions, one, I was in the practice rooms to the side of the theatre, two, I auditioned last and you were right, it wasn't so bad, and three, I'm smirking because I think I did ok. Well, enough to get into it anyway."
"The cast list comes out tomorrow morning at eleven am" Mackenzie injected as Lily collapsed onto her bed.
"I'm looking forward to seeing that" Lily muttered before falling into a deep sleep, which she needed badly after the day's events.
"...And that's why you never do anything right in art design" Kaycie said, but Lily couldn't hear it properly. Shuddering slightly, she woke up and looked at the clock. Ten-fifteen am? Good, she was still in time for the cast list to be released.
"Morning" Lily groaned as she shot up and began getting dressed.
"Well look who's up" Sara said cheerfully, throwing a pillow at her.
"Sorry about last night, I was tired from the excitement of the audition" Lily explained to them, before going to the bathroom and brushing her and and teeth and getting a shower.
"Yeah, we could tell. Even I was surprised at how cheerful you were. So you really think you made it onto the cast list?" Mackenzie, watching her walk out of the bathroom.
"Yeah, they said I did fine, so I'm just hoping now" Lily smiled and sat in front of the TV, waiting for eleven o'clock to arrive. A short while later, Lily, Sara, Kaycie and Mackenzie were downstairs in cafeteria, with everyone else who auditioned, waiting for the list.
"Why are you here?" a spiteful voice said behind Lily, and she turned to see Abbey and her crew.
"I came to give my friends support" Lily replied calmly to Abbey, before turning to see dean Maede walk through the door with a piece of paper in his hands.
"I want you all to move away for a second while I pin this on the wall, and when I've walked away, you can see it. Understand me?" he asked them.
An echo of "Yes, sir" came as everyone walked away for a minute. Maede walked up to the notice board, pinned the piece of paper up, and walked backwards, watching the students itching to see who got in.
"Okay" he simply said and there was a giant scuffle to get the board. Lily stayed behind, watching everyone else look at the results.
"Yes! I got Liesl!" Sara yelled and turned to see Lily smile back at her. Lily watched as she turned back to the wall, then back to her with an open mouth. Lily simply shrugged and smiled at her, before walking off to sit a table.
She didn't notice Seth or Steven sit next to her, watching everyone fight to get a look at the board, so when someone said "Chaos" behind her, she jumped of the bench, shocked.
"You just scared me" Lily said, smiling to Steven, and sitting down again, next to Seth.
"Well it is" Steven laughed back.
"It's always like this, but it's a lot more this time round, for obvious reasons" Lily smiled at them before turning in the direction of someone shouting.
"What the hell?!" she heard Abbey yell over everyone. They all stood quite, because everyone knew she always got the lead role.
Lily watched as she marched up to where she was sitting and yelled at her.
"How the hell can you be Maria?! I'm totally better than you, how could you give me Brigitta?!" she yelled.
"Well," Seth stated, and watched as the other girls in the crowd sighed, "that's the exact reason why. Lily, here, would be a better Maria than you. Just except that."
Abbey screamed before walking back to her crew. Lily turned to Seth and mouthed 'thanks' before looking back at Sara, Mackenzie, and Kaycie who were shuffling towards her.
"Oh my gosh, we're so close to Seth" she heard Mackenzie mutter, and smiled as the shuffled up to the table.
"Look at you both, you already look like a perfect couple" Sara said to Lily, who turned to look at Seth and smiled at his look of confusion as well.
Lily shrugged as they watched Steven walk to the board and clapped his hands to get everyone's attention.
"Okay. Everyone who got a part, even if it's a minor one, come with me and Seth to the theatre so we can meet each other properly. We'll meet with everyone who didn't get a role later, because we have jobs for you" Steven said, and he pointed out of the door towards Brown.
"Come on" Lily said as she got up and walked after Seth.
Fifthteen minutes later, everyone was in the theatre, and was walking up to the stage where Steven had told everyone to sit in a circle. Once Seth had sat down, there was a giant rush as all the girls fought to sit next to him. Watching where Lily went, he simply got up without anyone noticing and went to sit next to her.
"What?" he smiled when he saw her laughing at him.
"It's typical, you've gone and they're still fighting about who'll sit next to you" Lily smiled back as she watched Steven sit on his other side to save him from being pestered by the others.
After a few minutes of positioning themselves, everyone was finally in a circle.
"Okay, we're going start of by saying who you are, who you're playing, which college you go to, and where you're from. I'm Steven Spielberg, and I'm the director" he quoted, the nodded to the left of him were Seth was sat.
"Hey, everyone. I'm Seth, I'll be playing Captain Von Trapp. I am the creator of Family Guy, and I went to Rizdee. I am from Kent, Connecticut" Seth finished, and he winced at the murmuring of the girls in the room.
"Erm, hey, I'm Lily and I'll be playing Maria. I attend Rizdee and I'm from London, England" Lily looked towards her friends at the opposite side of the circle, and saw a flicker of jealousy in their eyes.
"Hey, I'm Kai Brown, I'm playing Kurt. I'm currently attending Rizdee, and I'm from Miami" Kai said. Lily watched as the circle went through everyone, finally touching on her friends.
"I'm Sara, I'm playing Liesl, I attend Rizdee, and I'm from Brooklyn, New York" Sara muttered to the crowd, smiling at Seth.
"I'm Kaycie, I'll be playing Marta, I also attend Rizdee, and I'm from Manhattan, New York" she smiled and looked at the floor. Lily could see here fidgeting with her socks. She knew how she felt, but there was nothing better than knowing she wasn't on her own.
"Hey, I'm Mackenzie, I'm playing Louisa, I attend Rizdee, and I'm from North Washington, Colorado" Mackenzie managed to spit out before hiding behind Kaycie who was laughing at her.
"Good, now that's sorted, I'm going to hand you all a script, and we're going to do a read through first, to get to grips with the musical. Yes, I expect you to read out your parts" Steven stated as he handed out scripts to everyone and they began reading the play. Lily was sat with her knees to her chest. She had the most lines out of everyone, and found it difficult just to sing the first song.
"Lily, you don't have to sing those yet" Steven said as Lily felt a wave of relief wash over her as she began reading her other lines. It wasn't until 8pm until Steven ordered them to go back to their dorms.
"Just a quick reminder guys, everyone on this musical has more time to do their degrees, so don't threat about work that needs to be handed in. You have plenty of time to finish it" he shouted over the noise of everyone leaving the theatre.
Lily, Kaycie, Mackenzie and Sara were the last ones on the stage when everyone had left.
"You getting more exciting stuff to practice when we've finished reading through the script" Steven told Lily as they walked down the steps towards the exit.
"Awesome, like what?" Lily asked him, looking backwards to see Seth talking to the others.
"Well, for starters, you're going be with me a few hours a week so we can practice some of the songs that Maria sings on her way to the abbey etc. Then, you'll be with Seth a few hours a week practising scenes, and also with everyone playing the kids, and then practising dances etc. We may do some of the practises out on the stage first time round as well just to say how they'd fit in" Steven explained to her as they walked to their dorm block.
That night, Lily lay in bed, thinking of the work ahead of her and the others. 'Tough times' she thought to herself, but rolled over smiling when she pictured the look on Abbey's face when she'd found out she wasn't Maria. With one last close of her eyes, Lily fell into dreams laced with music and laughter.
The next morning, Seth woke up to yelling from Steven.
"We're meant to be in the theatre in twenty minutes!" he hissed at him before throwing a pillow in his direction and started collecting up his papers.
"Sorry" Seth moaned as he hailed himself out of bed to get ready.
Twenty minutes later, both both them were heading to the theatre when Lily appeared behind them.
"I'm glad I'm not late. That would of looked silly. Sara, Kaycie and Mackenzie are there already. Said it would be better to arrive before the boss" Lily told them as they turned into the theatre building and through the hallways to the theatre its self.
The morning was pretty much the same as last night. They just read the script, finishing it around eleven forty-five am. Because of this, Lily and the others were allowed an early lunch.
"Oh, before you vanish, when you come back from your break, come straight to the practise room. We're going start on some of the songs with the kids and Maria" Steven said and he left them to go to their lunch.
Lily was sat at the lunch table, watching the TV in the corner of the room.
"How do people cope with such crappy quality?" she asked her friends.
"What do you mean? That's a better quality TV than most people have at home" Kaycie sighed at her.
"I have 3D at home. That's not even in HD" she retorted and got up from the table, walking off.