As expected, Homecoming Week was hectic for both students and teachers alike. Schedules were different to accommodate for all of the different events.
One of the reporters for the school newspaper asked Mr. Castle what his thoughts were on this year's Homecoming Week. His answer was very simple. "It's the same as every other year: organized chaos."
The school allowed students and teachers to dress up for the theme of each day. The themes this year were simple and fun for everyone: Mismatched Monday, Teacher-Time Tuesday, Wacky Wednesday, Twin Day Thursday, and Spirit Day on Friday.
Anna had no problem in being prepared for Monday's theme. She had spent the day before going through her closet to find the exact combination of mismatched clothes, socks, and shoes. Sadly, her habit of oversleeping caused her to get dressed in a rush, which meant that she forgot about her outfit. Nevertheless, she came into the school, still partially asleep and hanging off of Kristoff's arm, in mismatched clothes. She never told anyone that her outfit was accidental.
Jack and Aster thoroughly enjoyed dressing as snakes on Tuesday in an imitation of Mr. H, the math teacher. Because "Mr. H can be mean as a snake if someone doesn't do a problem correctly." None of Mr. H's other students could argue with that logic. And many of the teachers mentally applauded the two for being creative. Especially Mrs. Tooth.
When Wednesday rolled around, there was absolutely no making sense of anything. Nothing was normal, except for one blonde sophomore, Alice Carroll. She was dressed in one of the many blue dresses that the girl was known to wear. Her reasoning for dressing normally was because "if everything is wacky, then wacky is normal, and normal would be considered wacky."
Thursday saw multiples. Literally. There were superhero twins. There were celebrity twins. Anna and Rapunzel dressed as twins by paint shirts that said "Princess" while they both wore fake plastic crowns. Then there were the group twins. Hiccup, Astrid, and some of their neighbors all dressed up as Vikings, or their interpretation of Vikings. But it was the fraternal twins of the misfit Vikings that stole the spotlight.
Friendships were put on hold temporarily during class competitions that included the highly anticipated powderpuff football game played on Thursday afternoon. Elsa, Astrid, Anna, and Rapunzel all took great joy in seeing their boyfriends be cheerleaders. Though Elsa did not play, she was a part of the seniors' powderpuff team by being the coach. Each grade level got to play each other. It all came down to the seniors vs. the juniors for the championship title. Even though they played well, the juniors were no match for the seniors.
All of the seniors were ecstatic. They were the first class to dominate the powderpuff football competition for all four years.
Despite all of the excitement throughout the week, nothing compared to the annual Homecoming Pep Rally. During the pep rally, all of the fall sports and activities would be recognized.
Every year, there was only one place in the entire gymnasium that had a mash-up of colors: the section specifically designated to the marching band.
As was tradition, seniors wore blue, as it was the school's main color; juniors wore white; sophomores wore grey; and freshmen wore black. All of the fall athletes had a choice. They could either wear their class color before changing into the required uniform for the pep rally later on in the day, or they could wear their required uniform for the pep rally all day. Kristoff chose the first option, as he would only have to change his shirt out for his jersey. Elsa, however, chose to wear her cheerleading uniform all day. It worked in her favor because the uniform was mostly blue.
Jack absolutely loved pep rallies. Not only did he get to see his girlfriend in her cheerleading uniform, which he absolutely loved, but he also got to get out of class early due to being in marching band. However, this pep rally was different.
It was his last Homecoming Pep Rally, and he wanted to make it unforgettable.
The pep rally started off with the band playing a few of the more popular stand-tunes before the principal talked about the school year so far, and about how proud he was of each all the sports and clubs. He then handed the microphone over to one of the gym teachers, Mr. North.
He lead the pep rally through its entirety as all of the teams were announced, with football being the last called. He made sure that everyone was excited about the game later that day.
And now it was time for everyone's favorite part of the pep rally: "housequake."
Housequake is the name of a percussion stand-tune. It was always a crowd favorite. Partially because of catchiness of the tune, but mostly because the cheerleaders did a very specific dance with this particular song.
Mr. Sebastian gave the signal for the drumline to start the song.
Housequake has a very distinct beginning. It was four hard hits on Bass 4. Meaning that it would be loud and deep.
Normally, the song was very fast-paced. However, there was a very distinct pause between each of the hits that signified the tempo of the tune.
The cheerleaders out on the gym floor heard the tempo, and adjusted their dance to match the tempo. Meaning that each move was exaggerated as it was done more slowly.
Every male student went crazy when the cheerleaders slowly rotated their hips before dropping and coming back up slowly.
Jack could not keep his eyes off of Elsa for the duration of song. He had never so happy that he played the trombone.
Because the tempo was so slow, even though the song was only played its usual three times, it lasted over three minutes. Even when the song ended, all of the students were still yelling and cheering.
Neither the principal nor Mr. North could be heard over the crowd for another couple of minutes. When they were finally able to get all of the students settled down, relatively, they started to dismiss the students, and thus end the pep rally.
Noticing this, two trombone players, who go by Jack and Aster, look at each other before starting brass song, another poplar stands-tune. Literally, it was a stand-tune played by all of the brass instruments and the percussion. After the first few notes, the other brass players joined in.
The band director signals for the band to stop playing.
They refuse and continue to play.
Students who were already in the process of leaving stop what they are doing in order to dance to this particular song.
Mr. Castle was literally pushing students out of his way while trying to get the band to stop playing.
After pep rally, the band director tells the percussion and trombones that the principal is royally pissed at the entire school. Words cannot adequately describe Mr. Castle's feelings toward the marching band after the two stunts that were pulled during the pep rally.
Jack asked what Mr. Sebastian thought about the pep rally.
"It was good, and it was fun." he said. "There was lots of school spirit."
Seconds after Mr. Sebastian answered Jack's question, the principal came over the intercom.
"Attention all students and faculty. As of today, there will be no more pep rallies at this school. Ever."
The yearbook staff had a field day with this Homecoming Pep Rally. They even dedicated a whole page in the yearbook to it.
This one pep rally went down in Bruma High School's history as "The Pep Rally to End All Pep Rallies."
AN: I hope you all enjoyed this chapter. Please review and tell me what you think. Also, I did not make up the events of the pep rally: housequake, brass song, the ban on pep rallies, and the nickname that the pep rally gained.