Only a short one, sorry! Ugh, uni deadlines have made it difficult to work on this but we will do our best to upload another chapter soon!
Also, since we've had confusion, here is a full cast list
Aladdin-Alfred/America
Princess-Yao/China
Genie of the Lamp-Francis/France
Genie of the Ring-Arthur/England
Widow Twanky-Antonio/Spain
Wishee-Lovino/Romano
Washee/Set Design-Feliciano/Italy
Abanazar-Sadik/Turkey
Emperor-Ivan/Russia
Palace Guards-Mathias/Denmark, Erik/Norway and Emil/Iceland
Other background parts will be added as we come to them
Backstage
Director-Gilbert/Prussia
Writer-Matthew/Canada
Set design-Feliciano/Italy
Costume design-Feliks/Poland
Choreography-Toris/Lithuania
Lighting/Sound-Kiku/Japan, Heracles/Greece and Gupta/Egypt
Pyrotechnics-Leon/Hong Kong
And again, other jobs will be added later
Two weeks later, and the rehearsals were in full swing, much to the delight of both Matthew and Gilbert. As the ten days rehearsals came to a close an hour earlier than normal, there was almost a sigh of relief throughout the cast when Gilbert jumped onto the stage again, microphone in hand as he ushered everyone off the stage, wanting to address the cast as a whole. Glancing sideways he tried to look for Matthew, the two of them hadn't been speaking at all outside of the rehearsals since their argument. The Canadian felt the other's eyes on him and looked away, pretending to be listening to whatever Feliciano was wittering on about now. He was glad of the decision to put the Italian in charge of the set design; it was already starting to look amazing. It would just have been useful if between Feli and Feliks they hadn't already managed to spend well over half the budget, not that either of them seemed to mind.
Finally realising the other wasn't going to take any notice of him at all, Gilbert turned to address the crowd in front of him, forcing a smile: "Alright! So, as you'll know we're finishing early tonight for the first set of singing practices. You're all gonna get one these with Roderich at some point." Gilbert indicated the taller boy standing to his left: "He's our musical director dude, so yeah...uh..." The albino paused, losing his trail of thought for a moment as he heard Matthew and Feliciano falling about laughing offstage somewhere, Shaking his head a little to gather his thoughts, Gilbert continued "Alfred, Yao, stick around tonight...and everyone else I'll see you on Monday lunchtime..." For once, Gilbert was glad to be rid of the microphone, jumping off the stage and heading straight towards his two best friends, the forced smile slipping as Antonio threw his arms around him: "Mi amigo! Don't look at me like that! If the wind changes it'll stick!"
Gilbert just growled a little, not bothering to try and get the other's arms off him for a change: "Won't matter..."
Aww~" Antonio sighed, petting gilberts messy hair: "You still not managed to say sorry to Matthew?"
The albino was about to protest, but gave up half way through formulating his argument and restoring to just shaking his head, half-hearted hugging the Spaniard back. The bad touch trio had a bit of a deal when it came to feelings, it just wasn't something you talked about, and needing a hug didn't make you any less awesome.
Matthew finally reappeared from behind the stage just as the last few stragglers left; Antonio looked up and glanced up at the other. The Canadian's face dropped the moment he saw Gilbert.
Crossing the room as quickly as he could, Matthew was soon beside the other two; Gilbert had almost jumped out of Antonio's arms at the sound of footsteps, and was concentrating on the floor. Antonio pouted; he had a feeling that he and Loving ended up in this situation more often than they should do. He was about to say something when Matthew interrupted, eyes closed tight as he spoke "W-wanna come get ice-cream with me Gil?"
The Albino smiled, looking up at the other and nodding: "H-heh, yeah! That'd be awesome." Antonio watched as the two of them left, smiling happily. Maybe Gilbert actually had a chance at a relationship with Matthew; it was just nice to see him getting along with someone for once.
"Oi! Bastard!" The Italians yell was probably audible from about halfway across the school. Lovino Vargas was leaning against the wall, pouting hard "You finished playing cupid yet? I want my tea." Antonio grinned, darting across the hall and grabbing the Italians wrist, pulling him along after him.
A little way from the main rehearsal hall, Alfred and Yao were being instructed in how to stand properly by an irate Austrian. Roderich was starting to lose his temper after the seventh attempt, sighing and adjusting his glasses he looked up at the two "Now. Let's try it again. After you Alfred."
The American grinned, opening his mouth to sing just as Roerich's phone when off. Cursing in annoyance, the Austrian pulled his phone out, flicking in opens and leaving the room, and leaving the two of them alone.
Yao sighed as he watched the Austrian go, folding his arms as he leant against the piano "This is humiliating aru..."
America sighed, folding his arms and leaning against the wall, gazing the other "I know...I don't mean to keep missing my cue."
"I meant having to cross-dress, but that too" Yao answered, raising an eyebrow "And it's not that hard to remember!"
"It is!" the other complained, crossing over to sit on the piano stool, crossing his arms "I bet I'll never get it right."
Yao frowned, looking down at the script "Well, where is it..." he sighed "We're never going to do this duet without Roderich strangling both of us aru"
"He just seems to be on a mission to kill both of us..." the American copied him, flicking though the pages and landing on his lyrics "We could always try it now?"
"It can't do any harm" Yao agreed, picking up the karaoke CD they'd been using.
The American nodded, smiling at the other and picking up the lyrics, and actually managing to hit his cue for once.
Yao joined in, getting about halfway before his voice strained, coughing "It's no good aru, I can't go that high..."
"Can't you just take it down an octave?" Alfred asked, picking up a pencil and stealing the others lyrics "It can't be any more complicated than my guitar..."
"You play aru?" Yao looked at what Alfred was scribbling "I...understand none of that. What's an octave?"
"It's like...uh..." Alfred paused, thinking hard as he scratch the back of his neck with his pencil: "making it easier to sing I guess...because this..." he pointed to the highest notes on the paper: "is written for a girl and if I take these down here..." he scribbled on the sheet: "you should be able to sing it.
Yao looked at the notes as if they were alien symbols "Err...I can't read music aru...I have no idea what you just did" he admitted with a sigh
Alfred just grinned, sitting down on the piano stool and flexing his fingers: "you can sing though, so..." he scowled at the piano for a moment, repeating the rhyme back to himself his mother had once taught him when he attempted to learn piano, finding the right key he pressed it, looking up at the other "Sing your first word on this note, kay?"
Yao frowned and nodded, humming it to himself "I can just about manage, it's when it gets to here" He pointed at the crescendo of the song "That I really can't do it aru"
Alfred frowned harder, trying to figure it out on the piano in all manner of discords. Finally working it out, he grinned, looking up again: "but I bet you can do it to this!" he played out the rhythm to the other boy, not breaking eye contact with him.
Yao hummed it under his breath, a small smile "Thank you aru, that's much easier..." he hummed a bit further, trying to get it right "Can we try again aru?"
"Heh, course! I can try and play in on the piano if ya like..." Alfred grinned, flexing his fingers and positioning himself over the keys in the exact same way Roderich had been doing for the past hour.
"You can try" Yao replied with a shrug, moving to stand behind him
Alfred laughed, attempting to play the correct notes on the piano without success: "Gah!" he laughed, stopping for the fourth time: "okay, I surrender! Back to the CD?"
Yao sighed "I should've guessed you couldn't do it. Ok, let's try aru" he replied, walking over and setting the CD playing
The American nodded, smiling as the music started up again and he jumped to his feet, starting to sing along, holding out his hands to other.
Yao frowned but took them, wondering what the American wanted as he joined in on his cue, trying to remember the pitch from before
America grinned, taking the others hands and pulling him close to his body, arms wrapped around him as he continued to sing
"What are you...?" Yao looked confused as he attempted to continue to sing, blushing at how close they were
America didn't answer, still smiling as he continued to sing, keeping the shorter boy held close to him.
Yao sighed, knowing how stubborn Alfred could be. He continued singing, straining to see his words and trying to calm his expression
He just kept the other in his arms as they finally finished, smiling at Yao still. Waiting for him to speak or move or something, the American wasn't going to confess that he was blushing.
"Umm...you can let go now..." Yao mumbled, not about to admit that he didn't mind it. "I think that sounded alright aru"
The American boy let go, turning away from the other: "yeah...agreed! It sounds pretty good..."
"Are you alright?" Yao looked at him, concerned "You look hot aru..."
"What?" Alfred looked around again, laughing as he gathered up his lyrics sheets: "yeah! Aren't you warm too?" he cocked his head, grinning back at the other as his mobile started to go off.
Yao shrugged, picking up his own stuff "A little, not that bad though..." he frowned "Aren't you going to answer that?"
"Answer..." Alfred paused, before suddenly realising that his phone was going off, diving into his bag to grab it: "ugh...my girlfriend, again..." he flipped it open, holding it to his ear as he grabbed all his belongings, pushing the door open to leave, waving goodbye to the other boy.
Yao sighed and waved back, continuing to tidy after themselves before leaving the room himself.
Thank you to BirdieBunny for writing this!
Ehe...when we planned this out AmeChu was going to be the main pairing...the PruCan kind of developed and overtook it...and the PoLiet is threatening to do the same thing
Any opinion on this? Any pairing preferences? And any thoughts on the cast list will be appreciated ^^