Chapter 5. Thanks for the reviews on Tumblr. This story is more of a fluff story that a pornography. I thought I'd let you know :)

Chapter 5: My Favorite Things

Lily needed to get away from all the chaos for a while. It was nice knowing that she was playing Maria, but her life seemed so fast now.

She made her way to RISD where there was a bridge that let you cross the river. Lily expected nobody t be there because everyone was usually in classes of out enjoying their freedom. This wasn't the case this time.

Lily stood looking at a figure, who appeared leaning against the walls of the bridge which a sketch pad in one hand and a pencil in the other.

Seth only looked up when he heard someone else's footsteps approaching him.

"Hey Lily" Seth simply said before turning back to his sketch pad.

"Hey" she replied back and tried to catch a glimpse of what he was drawing.

Seth watched her eye his pad suspiciously before smiling and saying, "When I was here, I used to draw the river quite often. There was always something going on."

"So that's what you're drawing. I couldn't see it properly" Lily laughed as he showed her the sketch.

"Why are you here? I thought you were meant to be rehearsing with Steven soon" he asked, watching her hands fiddle with the wood on the wall.

"I have a bit of time left, I thought I'd spend it here away from the chaos. I don't have anything near me like this in England. It makes a change" she smiled, watching the light from the sun dance on the water.

"Do you miss England?" Seth asked her and turned to look at her..

"Everyday," Lily explained,"I miss my friends, and being the person in my group of friends to get excited about the snow each winter. However, it's better that I'm here, doing something useful. I love it over here as well, but there's still that part of me that wishes I could go home more often than just for holidays" Lily explained to him. Seth looked at the ground, thinking about what he'd say next.

"I've never been to England, but I'd like to go. Your monarchy is interests me. And I love your accents, and phrases you say that we don't have here, like 'jolly good'" Seth smiled at her.

"You'd best be taking the mick. I've never said 'jolly good'," Lily replied, laughing at him shaking his head, "And our accents are nothing special. Well, not to me anyway, but yeah, if you go to the right place, England is very interesting."

"Where are the right places to go then?" Seth asked her. He knew about London, but hearing about England from someone who lived there for nineteen years was special.

"Well, London, Liverpool, Manchester and Edinburgh is what you'd expect, but there's nice places around. There's small villages on the coast. My favourite one is probably Polperro in Cornwall. It was beautiful" Lily smiled at him.

Seth looked at his watch. If they'd been watching more closely, they'd of realized that they were five minutes late for their regroup.

"Steven's going to kill us. We're five minutes late, and it's going to take us at least ten minuets to get back to Brown" Seth mumbled, "Come on. We'd best hurry up."

Walking through the doors of the theatre together was a bad idea. The moment they had burst through them and interrupted Steven giving his talk, they were glared at by everyone on the stage.

"Oh" Lily simply said as she shuffled up to the stage and stood behind Steven.

"Good, both of you are here. Anyway, I want Maria and the kids to come with me. Seth, I want you to start working on props with everyone. You're in charge" Steven told him, and then walked off towards one of the rehearsal studios.

Lily waited for Sara, Kaycie and Mackenzie to catch up with her before they headed to the studio with the others.

"Why did you and Seth arrive together?" Mackenzie hissed, staring at Lily with jealousy etched upon her face. Lily knew Mackenzie liked Seth most out of all of them. She also knew that Kaycie and Sara, given half the chance, would be after him as well.

"I was running down the hallway, obviously because I was going to be late, and Seth was also walking down the corridor. I bumped into him before we reached the door and ended walking through it together" Lily explained simply. She knew lying to them was such a bad idea, but she couldn't tell them that they'd been chatting on the bridge at RISD because she feared Mackenzie would never leave it She enjoyed knowing where to find Seth when he wasn't at Brown, and she liked knowing they could chat and be left alone for a while.

"Is it really as simple as that?" Kaycie asked her. Lilt felt as though she was under a lie detector as they walked through the door of the rehearsal room.

"Yes, it's as simple as that, why?" Lily hissed back, getting angry at how they were questioning her.

"Oh come on Lily! Any girl would love to tap that" Sara replied, laughing with Mackenzie and Kaycie when they saw her cringe.

"I can't believe you just said that. Do you have any idea how nervous I am about playing Maria? I have scenes with everyone. And there's on scene, in particular, I'm dreading practising. Stop making me even more nervous than I already am. Seth is a lovely person, and I hope we can be friends during and after this musical, but please stop presuming things" Lily moaned at them, and walked off to go and sit in the chair next to Steven.

"Okay, today, we'll be practising 'My Favourite Things' which means, Lily, you'll be doing most of the singing. I want you lot here because we're also going to be choreographing it," Steven explained as he handed everyone a lyrics sheet, "Lily, have you seen 'The Sound of Music' before?"

"Yes, three times."

"Good, then I'll let you just go through the song now" Steven smiled at her as he went to turn the tape player on."You ready Lily?" She nodded at him, and Steven switched the tape on.

Lily began singing as best she could with everyone's gaze fixed on her. Her hands were shaking so much that she nearly dropped the lyrics sheet, but persevered anyway, knowing it would do her good.

"...When the dog bites, when the bee stings, when I'm feeling sad. I simply remember my favourite things, and then I don't feel so baaaad!" Lily sang and watched as smattering of applause echoed through the room. She knew she'd sang it okay.

"No wonder Seth wanted you to be Maria. He was so giddy that night, when he found you I mean" Steven told her and saw Kaycie, Mackenzie, Sara and Abbey all shooting daggers at her.

"Err... I didn't think he was so serious" Lily smiled back shyly,

"Now, what we're going to do next is rehearse the scene, because Lily obviously knows how to sing this part" Steven stated, as he began drawing lines on the floor with tape.

In total, they were there for three and a half hours, having immense fun trying to get the moves right. Even Abbey was having fun, and just laughed when Kai threw a pillow at her, instead of yelling a wave of abuse like she usually did.

After a five minute brake to get a drink, they had regrouped with everyone else to help decorate the props. Looking around, Lily saw a large puddle of paint on the plastic sheet they had put on the floor.

"What happened here?" Lily said to Jamie, the girl playing the Baroness.

"I moved across to paint this side and ended up knocking over the paint" Jamie smiled shyly as she looked at the green puddle resting on the ground.

"You should of seen Jamie's reaction, it was hilarious" Seth muttered as he appeared behind them and knelled next to Lily, with two new paint brushes in his hand. "Come on, you can help me paint that wall."

"I have such an interesting life. Painting walls, there's no better job around" Lily replied sarcastically and followed him over to where it was currently resting on the floor.

The only two people who saw them walk off together were Mackenzie and Abbey, who both had jealous thunder in their eyes.