This has to be one of the fastest updates I've ever done, I am honestly still in a state of shock. Just a quick note to everyone, I may or may not be able to update this story again for a while. This is due to a very busy schedule coming up, but I will try as hard as I can to update, so please be patient with me. Remember, present is in regular type, flashback is in italics. Read and review, hope you guys enjoy! Hugs and butterfly kisses, ravenclawdancer4999
"That story is definitely right up there in our top ten finest moments," Jaime laughed, "Along with that time a trash can caught on fire…"
"WHAT?" Meredith yelped.
"Oh yeah," Rosenthal grinned, "I remember that; Matt was trying to use matches to make the edges of Dumbledore's will look old and tattered. I think one of the girls had thrown away a can of hairspray and somehow a couple of embers fell on it. No one knows exactly what happened, not even Matt, but somehow the entire trashcan caught on fire. Walker put it out though, so we didn't end up torching the place."
"We're just lucky that Richard knew where the extinguisher was," Walker added, "We would have really been in deep shit otherwise."
"As if we haven't been in deep shit before," Darren chuckled, "Almost the entire faculty at U of M was about to pass out when they found out we were putting on a show about walking, talking, and singing genitals."
"THAT was an awesome show," Joey responded, "Not just because I got to play myself."
"Because you got to make out with Jaime?" Holden taunted.
"No, because I got to watch you dress in drag!" Joey retorted.
"That was such a fun show; Sally is still my favorite role to this day," Jaime mused, "The guys wrote such a great script, music was hilarious, and I can't forget the conversations I would have with Joey underneath the sheets in the finale…"
"Do tell," Julia smiled, looking very interested.
"Well, we had a really good conversation about hamsters on opening night," Joey answered, "We also talked about the apocalypse and which one of us would die first. I already had this conversation with Nick Strauss; he already said he would be the first to die."
"I said that they would eat Lauren first," Jaime offered.
"Why me? Why not Darren?" Lauren pouted.
"Because you're bite-sized, that's why," Jaime answered, looking very pleased with herself, "The zombies want an appetizer before they move on to someone like Jim."
"Yeah, but probably one zombie would have to throw another zombie at Jim's face just to reach it," Meredith commented with a completely straight face.
"I don't know, it seems like Lauren would be the one to try to take a bunch of zombies out," Julia shrugged.
"Exactly; I'm not a badass, but I've played one before," Lauren smirked, "I have more skill with a fake switch blade than all of you combined."
"Now there was an interesting show," Dylan snorted, "You would swear that Lauren had a split-personality disorder. One minute you'd be talking to her about rainbows and sparkles, but the minute she put that wig on, you had better run."
"But then you would approach her when she was with her puppet and she'd be nicer than you'd ever seen her," Julia added.
"It's not my fault that I'm a method actress," Lauren said crossly, "As a matter of fact, it made things really difficult…"
"Madre de Dios," Lauren muttered under her breath, trying to get into character, "Who knew playing two different characters could be so tough?"
Lauren had already caught herself trying to speak in broken Spanish while playing Buggette not once, but twice at the last dress rehearsal. No matter how hard she tried, she couldn't seem to find rhyme or reason as to why it happened, just that it was worst when she and Julia repeatedly moved back and forth between being bugs and humans. She tried to keep it under control, but it just kept spilling out like word vomit. It just seemed that whenever the petite girl put on the black, spiked wig with the red bandanna, she automatically felt stronger, rougher, and more badass.
Dylan didn't seem to have any problems adjusting, why couldn't she be more like him? He had never gotten his characters mixed up, not even once. While she had been contemplating this, her cue had come up faster than she realized. The two panels that served as doors slid open, the spotlights temporarily blinding Lauren. Without thinking, her voice took on a very throaty and high-pitched tone.
"Alright peoples!" Buggette's voice escaped from Lauren's mouth. She felt her heart skip several beats; she had done it again. Quickly coughing to get a second to compose herself once more, she twisted her face into one of disgust. Her eyes narrowing, her gaze swept over the audience, who looked at her expectantly.
"Madre de Dios muerto," she scoffed, "I can hardly breathe through all the estupidez in here."
"Is there anything ELSE you guys haven't told me about?" Darren asked as everyone was laughing.
"Well, I guess there's all the stories from Batman that you never heard," Jim chuckled, "But I guess that's your loss…"
"What kind of stories?" Rosenthal replied curiously, Joey nodding eagerly behind him.
"Oh, you know, just the usual disasters that end up being funnier than the original script," Jaime shrugged, "Like Walker and Holden during 'To Be A Man' on the second weekend of shows."
"And Walker scraping up Holden's nose with a ball of tinsel," Lauren added, giggling slightly, "He looked like Rudolph for almost two weeks…"
"It's not that funny," Holden whined.
"Actually, yes it is," Dylan smirked, shaking his head, "But hell, I didn't know what I was going to do when I mixed up my costumes in the middle of act two."
"You did what now?" Julia raised an eyebrow, looking confused.
"That awkward moment when stripping off your costume no longer brings thoughts of sex, but of, 'Oh shit, I'm on in thirty seconds.'" Dylan thought wryly, throwing off his construction helmet and ripping off his plaid shirt. He paused for half of a second; his mind had suddenly gone blank. "Fuck, what comes next?"
Looking around, extremely panicked, Dylan realized that Denise was already gone, Nick was already changed and back onstage, and the set list had disappeared. Suddenly, Brian sprinted by in his blue spandex, his red cape whipping out behind him as he ran.
"Green Lantern," Dylan decided, not having to time to question the situation further. He grabbed his black spandex and yanked it on at the speed of light. He finished getting changed just as he heard Walker start to sing. Running to the wings on stage left, he stopped dead roughly fifteen feet from the stage.
All he saw was Jim, Denise, Jeff, and Jaime, all dressed in their 'villain' attire. He felt his heart jump up into his throat, but he didn't have time to agonize. Thinking on his feet, he turned around and sprinted through the backstage, cursing profusely the whole way. Dylan didn't stop until he reached stage right, almost taking Lauren out in the process. Lauren whipped around to give whoever ran into her a piece of her mind, but her eyes grew large as she realized who it was and what he was wearing.
"What the-" she started.
"Two, words," Dylan panted, trying to catch his breath, "Costume mix-up, along with, three other words. I'm. A. Dumbass." Not bothering to question him further, Lauren nodded just as her cue came up. Dylan simply covered for his mistake and ran out with her, taking his usual spot in the back row.
"How did I not know that happened?" Julia exclaimed, looking very amused.
"Not all of us were lucky enough to have a grand total of three costumes, Jules," Lauren commented bitterly.
"Yeah," Joe added solemnly, "Some of us had only two."
"Fuck you, Walker," Meredith fumed, remembering her nine costumes and frantic quick changes very clearly.
"Fuck YOU!" he replied menacingly.
"Fuck you, I'm gonna kick your ass!" Holden sang fondly as there was a collective groan from almost the entire group.
"Not this again," Jim moaned, attempting to block out the sound
A/N: As much as I wish these stories were real, they aren't. The exception is the first one with the trashcan; Jaime mentioned this in an interview somewhere. Don't ask me which interview, because I haven't got a clue. Don't forget to use that nice little review button at the bottom of the page!