Author: SkyTate19
Title: Reluctant Idol
Summary: After being raised by only his father since he was 4, Bridge now has a new obstacle ahead of him: gaining the respect of his high-school classmates! Can he gain their respect by his hidden singing talent and maybe even find some true love? Find out!
Disclaimer: nothing is mine, just the idea of mixing American Idol with Power Rangers!
Chapter 26
David was absolutely right. Things were getting harder for all of them. But they also knew it was about to happen: they were in the top 9, so they couldn't expect something easy anymore.
There were still two things they could rely on to have some fun: the photo shoots and the Ford music video they had to do every week. The last one mostly: every week they had blast shooting one of those videos.
Every week they were brought to different locations for the video. When they arrived that week, no one was aware what was going to happen: they never tell them about it. The first thing they saw when they were out of the cars was a big basketball court in what it looked like a suburb "Guys… I have a bad feeling about this…" said Cole worried
The others nodded as they were approached by the director "Hello guys! Who wants to play basket?" everyone took a sigh of relief as they nodded happily "Between the nine of us?" Ronny asked
The director laughed "no, no! You're going to play with them" he said pointing behind them. When they all turned, they found themselves face to face with five big guys looking at them with evil grins "you're in guys?"
The guys all nodded happily minus Bridge: he was terrified by them "don't worry Bridge, you will be the referee" the small guy sighed at that as the other laughed "that means one of the girls has to play"
Ronny quickly raised her hand "when there's a game to play, you can count on me guys!" the four guys cheered and gave her a high five.
The director nodded "Z, Sid and Adele you will be the cheerleader. Come with me guys and you can dress up for the video" all of them went to the trailers to get ready. Bridge was the first to be ready: he only had to change is sweatshirt.
When he saw the others coming out: he busted out laughing: they were looking so funny. Cole and Sky looked at each other and started grinning: in a blink of an eye, they started chasing the young boy around the court.
The director came up to them to make them go in their positions. As the music started Bridge blew the whistle and the game begun.
Hours later, they went back to the house laughing "Hey why don't we go out tonight?" Mack suggested and everybody nodded. They all went to their room to get ready and, when Bridge and Sky entered their own, the oldest lose no time and started kissing Bridge as the door closed "Ehm… Sky?"
The man looked at the boy and saw him blushing hard. He still wasn't use to that "I'm sorry… I wanted to do that all day. Nice job at the basket game anyway" he said and went to the bathroom to take a shower, leaving to boy in the middle of the room.
When he returned in the room, Bridge woke up from his trance "anyway Sky, what are you going to do about your song?"
The man grinned proudly "have you ever heard about White Snake?"
Bridge shook his head "well… they've done a great version of Day Tripper. So I'm going to do that. Also, I'm going to use the talk box. It will be amazing"
He finished dressing and headed for the door "I'm going downstairs to make a phone call. Hurry up or we will leave you here" he closed the door and everyone could hear his big laugh in the hallway.
After a moment of spacing out, Bridge blinked his eyes "talk box?"
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They decided to head to a karaoke pub not far from the house. They were having great fun listening to them destroying various songs. It was now Mack turn, and he was literally -what's new pussycat?-
As the others were almost on the floor for the laughs, Ronny sighed "he is so cute… too bad we can't date while we're on the show…"
Bridge and Sky's eyes grew wide at that "what do you mean by that Ronny?"
"It's against the rule dating another contestant while we're on the show. We could be expelled if the producers find out" the girls explained quietly to the boys.
The small boy started panicking at that. What if they get caught? "However… I don't think that one of us will go to Nigel if that would happen. Right?" she asked with a grin while she looked at both of them.
As the others nodded, Sky smiled finally understanding everything: they knew about him and Bridge. And they just told them they were ok with them "thank you guys" he just whispered.
Cole laughed "you thought we didn't know anything? You two are so into each other!"
"Yeah you are… just be careful" Adele said in motherly mode
Bridge smiled shyly at them. Everything was new for him. but he knew he had his friend on his side. Little thing he didn't knew, Ty was on the other side of the table thinking about Ronny's words and that gave him an idea.
He just had to wait for the perfect moment to make it work…
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OK! OK! I'm evil I know… what will Ty do? Will he make this idea work or he will think of another thing? Stay tune to find out! Also, the top 9 live show is about to start, who will leave the competition this time?
Also, I use the real Ford music video made by the top 9 of American Idol. Here you can find the video. You just have to imagine Bridge and the other playing
http: // www . youtube . com / watch?v=_BxtDjs_ZhU