I hope everyone had a good Christmas. I enjoyed part of it and the other is just like the rest of the holiday parties I don't like. I still don't own anything that has to do with The Mighty Ducks. So the answer to my last question:

Yes bald people can have hairline fractures because that type of fracture has nothing to do with hair as awtr101fan correctly stated it's a very tiny break in the bone that it looks like a hair on the x-ray.

And there is your answer now to the chapter.

Chapter 27: The Play Schedule
That Friday on my way to lunch Ms. Jones stopped me. She taught theater arts and a few English classes and as far as I had heard she was the one organizing the musical this year. "Lizzy Jacobs right?" She asked.

"Yes?" I answered.

"Good as you might know every year the choir puts on a musical with help from my theater arts classes and a few other students in the school, it's called Oklahoma! this year. Have you ever heard of it?"

"Yeah I've seen the movie a few times. Dwayne Robertson asked me to watch it with him."

"One of the main stars in the play told me you were good with lighting systems and you did it for your plays for the last three years."

"Yeah I did. Who did the lighting last year and why can't they do it again?" I asked knowing where this was heading.

"Rick Riley, heard of him?"

"Yeah he graduated last year, was a friend of my brother's. So what you want is for me to do the lighting since Rick won't?"

"Exactly. We perform on the 20th of May with two encores on the 21st and 22nd. That's a Friday through Sunday. Could you please help me? Everyone else I've talked to couldn't or didn't know how to work it."

"Alright."

"I know it's probably going to be another bother but my lead singer can't sing well. I also got a tip that you have a beautiful voice. Is it possible for you to sing over her?"

"Who's playing your leads?"

"Will Parker is played by Doug Moore, Ado Annie played by Megan Thomas, Aunt Eller by the wonderful Connie Moreau, Gertie buy Michelle Christian, Jud will be played by Andy Jefferson..."

"Good he dies." I muttered. Doug played left field and was occasionally sweet to me.

"It's just a play." She answered.

"Megan and Michelle are both cheerleaders right?"

"Yes," she said.

"Who's playing the main characters?"

"Laurey and Curly? Crystal Deam and Dwayne Robertson."

"Crystal can't sing?"

"She can just not as well as I would like."

"Why didn't you cast Connie as Laurey?"

"I had my reasons one of them being the better chemistry between Crystal and Dwayne. So will you do the singing parts or not?"

"Ms. Jones, I have absolutely nothing against this musical or anything it's jut that right now I play hockey and March 11th is our baseball season opener. No doubt training is going to start soon. I already have too much on my plate. I'm sorry but I don't think I really have the time to learn those songs. Tell you who you can ask though, try Julie Gaffney I hear she's got a good voice."

"Thank I'll see." I nodded and headed to the end of lunch. I walked into the cafe and swiped part of Fulton's lunch. Dean started laughing so I took his chocolate chip cookie.

"I was going to eat that." Dean whined.

"Well now you're not." I smirked.

"Ain't so funny when it happens to you is it dude?" Fulton said.

"One of her stars said that...hmmm...the only ones who know me that well are Connie, Dwayne, and Doug. Wait three years Dwayne man I'll kill him." I muttered more to myself than to anyone.

"What did Dwayne do?" Fulton asked.

"It's nothing." I answered.

"We better be careful man she already wants to kill someone who did nothing." Dean added.

"Time for class." Fulton sighed as the bell rang.

"I hate class." I muttered heading off to Psychology as Fulton and Dean went the other way to their classes. When I stepped into class I saw Luis and Russ already there. "Hey guys." I said.

"Hey girl." They answered.

"Where's the lighting booth located?" I asked.

"In the auditorium." Luis answered as I took my seat. I gave him a 'well duh' look and he smirked.

"Top of the auditorium in the balcony it also houses the sound and projection systems." Russ clarified.

"Today we will be learning about psychology in the family." Our teacher droned.

It was like a breath of fresh air when the three of us walked out of his class and down the hall to study hall. "Anyone know what the hell he was talking about?" I asked.

"He said the next three class periods we'll be talking about how marriage and the family works and then we'll be doing a project that will take up quiet a few weeks." Russ answered as we sat down at our table.

"What kind of project?"

"Don't know he said he'd explain it in more detail next week."

"Dwayne you are so dead." I said standing as he walked into the room followed by most of the team.

"Whatever happened it wasn't my fault I swear." He answered.

"Lizzy you are dead meat." Julie said as everyone but her, Dwayne, and I sat down.

"I didn't do it I swear."

"Does the production of Oklahoma! mean anything to you?" She asked.

"Come on sit down." The monitor said walking into the room. Her only rule was that you had to sit down and no yelling across the room. We sat down and I looked from Dwayne to Julie.

"You know you could have said no." I mentioned.

"That's not the point now my English grade depends on it." She retorted.

"If you would have said no you wouldn't have that problem now besides think of it this way you can slack off all semester and then have this bring it back up." Dwayne said.

"Dwayne where would you get an idea like that?" Fulton asked.

"You might not know it but Dwayne likes to procrastinate." I put in.

"Why do you want to kill each other? This could be very bad for the team." Charlie said.

"Oh Charlie we didn't mean literally. But we all got roped in to helping with the musical this year." I explained.

"You're not the only ones." Dean said.

"You too? By who?"

"My English teacher."

"We have the same teacher?" Julie asked.

"Yeah you just had her and I have her second period." Dean answered.

"So what are you doing?" Kenny asked.

"Connie's playing the oh so wonderful part of Aunt Eller." Julie threw in.

"For whose lead?" Russ asked.

"Crystal Deam." I spat like it was dirt.

"You really have a problem with Crystal don't you?" Goldberg said.

"Of course I do."

"I don't see why, she's really a sweet girl." Dean said.

"Don't you dare say that again." I growled. "Do any of you know who her current boyfriend is?"

"Brick White isn't it?" Kenny said.

"Yeah and until three days ago Brick was happy with Amanda Heartly. Everyone thought they were perfect together."

"He got bored with Amanda what's the big deal?" Luis asked.

"I know Amanda and Brick pretty well now. Aside from Connie and Julie, Amanda was the first girl to accept me at this school. She told me that it's pretty hard for the rest of the team's girlfriends to accept me because there is a slight possibility that I could take their guys."

"Because they'll be spending so much time with you on the field that they might be more comfortable with you than anyone else?" Connie said.

"Exactly, the closer I got to Amanda the more I learned about her and Brick together. She told me a while ago about a week after Brick said it that he may just be the one. Crystal got into Brick's head and managed to split them up. Amanda found Brick and Crystal making out and dumped him. That's not the first relationship she's ruined and I can almost guarantee that it won't be the last. I've only been here for a little more than a month and I know that."

"Off the topic of Crystal because that can take the rest of the day...who's playing Curly?" Charlie asked.

"Our very own expert puck handler." I smirked.

"Adam?"

"You wouldn't catch me dead in a play or musical." Adam said.

"No, the real cowboy." I said.

"Dwayne?" Charlie asked.

"Yeah." I answered.

"Who plays Jud?" Fulton asked.

"Andy Jefferson." I said smiling.

"You only like it because he dies." Dean said.

"Well yeah. But anyway what did you get roped into doing?" I asked.

"Ms. Jones talked me into doing the sound."

"Noooooo!" I exclaimed banging my head on the table repeatedly. All of a sudden I was hitting fabric instead of wood.

"You've lost enough brain cells already I won't let you lose anymore." Fulton said.

"You're funny Fulton remind me to send you into Readers Digest I hear they pay 10 grand for funny things."

"Thanks."

"So wait why is that such a bad thing?" Kenny asked.

"The sound booth also houses the lighting and projection systems. Lizzy got roped into doing the lighting and that puts them both in tight quarters." Julie explained.

"Which is why I want to kill Dwayne. You suggested she use me didn't you?" I spat.

"Yeah I did Lizzy but I'm sorry I just figured you wouldn't have a problem with it since ya said ya've done it for the past three years." Dwayne said sheepishly. If it hadn't been for the strong influence of his southern accent in that sentence I would have been a lot madder at him.

"Fine."

"How is that a bad thing that you two are so close? I mean the two of you are dating, tight space, no adult supervision, and a bona fide excuse to be up there. Nothing like a little extra alone time." Luis said with a wink.

"That would be a good thing...if it were just the two of them." Julie said. "Since Crystal can't really sing Ms. Jones wants me to do the songs for her."

"And Ms. Jones, being the incredibly smart woman she is, stuck Julie up there in the booth with those two." Charlie said.

"I hate you Charlie." I muttered.

"You too cuz." He answered. I stuck my tongue out at him.

"Oh Lizzy here's the practice schedule, the dates you have to be there are highlighted in pink, the days that are optional are in blue, and the days you don't are white." I flipped through it.

"One minute problem." I said.

"Hmm." Julie asked.

"Some of these dates overlap with Baseball and Hockey."

"Orion said he understands and that he's giving Tuesdays and Wednesdays off." Dwayne put in.

"You don't even have the Baseball schedule yet so how do you know they overlap?" Charlie asked.

"Call it a hunch." I said as Bastian showed up.

"Hey Hot Stuff, what's up?" Bash asked.

"Not much Stud, you?" I answered.

I looked at him as he smiled and took in his rather cute features. He reminded me of Matt a lot. Bash had dark green eyes and smooth brown hair. For some weird reason he looked more like Matt than I did but there were a few differences like his smile was almost always cocky and lit up most of his face, his ears were smaller, his nose came to more of a point and was smaller, and his eyes were darker and more mischievous. If I didn't know any better I would have said that they were step-brothers or cousins but I know that my mom had been faithful to my dad until the day she died and as far as I knew my mom's brother didn't have any kids. Although I thought Bash was cute he's already told me there's no way in hell he'd date me, so we just play flirt. It never hurts to be told how beautiful or handsome you are and to be constantly complimented.

"Nothing." He answered.

"Johnson, your butt and that chair need to be introduced and become the best of friends." The monitor said strictly. He pulled up the nearest chair between me and Averman and sat down.

"What brings you over here?" I asked.

"Just wanted to see my favorite girl." He said.

"Bash you flatter me." I smiled.

"Maiden name." I heard Charlie hiss. I looked over at him with a confused look but he just shook his head. It struck me that Bash's last name was the same as my mom's maiden name but Johnson was a common name and they weren't necessarily related.

"Anyway I just wanted to give you this. It's the tentative baseball practice and game schedule for this season. Matthews is pretty strict if you miss practice. You miss a game without a doctor or lawyer's note and you're benched for the next week and can't play in the game. All the rules are on the last page read them carefully. The guys and I have come up with loopholes to a few of them see if you can figure them out before we tell you." Bash said. Then he leaned closer and whispered "Dean's a protective guy. I like that, tell him I need to see him right after dinner." I nodded as he quickly walked away.

"What was that about?" Dean asked.

"You'll find out next period." I said.

"So Lizzy, ready to play your first game in..." Dwayne trailed off.

"Five years?"

"Yeah five years."

"Kinda, I'm excited but kinda scared too." I admitted.

"Come on you did fine at practice, you'll do fine tonight." Russ put in.

"If Orion will put me in. Wait the game's tonight?" I asked.

"Yeah didn't you pay attention at practice yesterday?" Connie asked.

"Lizzy relax you'll be fine. What would Seth tell you if he were here?" Fulton said reaching across the table and gripping my hand.

"Relax Slapshot, you'll do fine just remember what Matt and I've taught you and remember no matter what we will always love you now stop worrying and go eat something."

"And..."

"And if you stress anymore about this game I will sit on you until you promise me you've stopped."

"Now take that advice and relax." Fulton demanded.

"Look in all the time I've known this team and watched them play, and watched Coach, I've come to realize that..." Russ started.

"Russ you just made less sense than a vulture over a pond of rain water." I said.

"That's something that Cowboy would say." Averman pointed out.

"So sue me." I shrugged.

"I guess what I mean is you're damn good and Coach would have to be stupid not to play you." Russ corrected.

"Oh I'll get played tonight alright." I said cradling my head in my arms.

"You'll be on the ice tonight don't worry." Adam said.

"Are we playing at home tonight?" I asked.

"If you just asked if we're playing at home tonight then the answer is yes." Kenny said. The bell rang and everyone in the room but me, Dean, Bastian, and Max left.

"Hey Dean, Bastian said that he needed to see you tonight right after dinner." I said.

"What about?"

"He didn't say, but I don't think it'll take too long."

"Whatever." Dean muttered.

I shrugged and pulled out my weekly planner to copy down the two schedules lying in front of me. There were a few days where baseball and the play overlapped but thankfully the play and baseball games never hit at the same time. Once I finished Dean took it from me. Flipping thought it his eyes kept getting wider and wider until they looked like they were about to pop out of his head.

"Damn Lizzy you're booked solid for the next nine weeks. You have to take it easy and schedule breaks or you'll wear yourself out."

"I'm fine Dean give it back I've got homework to do." I demanded. He handed it over, crossed his arms and settled back into his seat. I could tell he wasn't happy about it but I had history, science and English lit. homework.

At dinner I sat down in my normal seat and was slightly shocked to see that Dean sat down at the other end of the table near where Julie normally sat. "Hey." Bastian said sliding into Dean's normal seat.

"Hey," I answered picking at my food.

"What's wrong kiddo?" He asked as Fulton, Adam, and Charlie sat down

"Ta hell if I know, he's mad at me for some reason or another. Maybe because you want to talk to him or because he thinks I'm working too hard or maybe it's something else. Pre-game jitters or something. I don't know." I answered.

"Lizzy you should eat." Fulton put in. As the rest of the team slowly filtered in Bash put his arm around my shoulders.

"Don't worry too much Lizard; it'll work itself out in the end." He told me as the last of the team, Kenny and Goldberg, sat down.

"Lizard?" Charlie asked.

"Yeah. Coach got us together so we could watch some of her tapes while you guys were at practice. She's so good we decided she needed a nickname, all special like just from us." Bash answered.

"Come on Lizzy eat." Fulton said again.

"I ain't hungry." I said looking up at him.

"ER you had better eat everything on your plate before we have to leave." He demanded. Charlie looked at Fulton as did Bash and Adam.

"Drop it Fulton." I warned. He slammed his hands down on the table pushing himself up so quickly he knocked over his chair which drew the attention of the baseball team and the rest of the JV team. He leaned towards me and almost got in my face.

"Elizabeth Rebecca Jacobs you will eat everything on that plate in the next 10 minutes or I will force feed it to you." He yelled. Then he lowered his voice and really got in my face. "I will not sit back and watch my best friend slowly kill herself because my other best friend is an idiot and can't control his temper. You don't know what it's like to have to watch that and I do not want it to happen again." The rest of the ducks were now watching in shock. Out of the corner of my eye I could see most of the baseball team standing, sitting on their table, or leaning against it staring at Bash waiting for his signal to jump in.

"It's just one meal Fulton, calm down." Bash said tightening his grip around my shoulders.

"Just one meal tonight soon turning into one meal a day, then two, then three, and next thing you know my best friend is in the hospital unconscious for the third time because she hasn't eaten in a month. Eat now Elizabeth or I will come across this table and make sure you do." Fulton growled. I looked around at the JV ducks and saw Julie giving Dean a disapproving look, Connie shaking her head sadly, and then over to my baseball friends and saw most hadn't moved but Mike was making his way over to our table.

"Is there a problem here Lizzy?" Mike asked laying a hand on Fulton's shoulder. I looked up at Fulton and saw that even with Mike threatening to pound his face in he wasn't ready to give up this topic just yet.

"No problem Fulton's just worried which as my best friend is fully in his right. But thanks for worrying Mike." I said. With a nod from Bash Mike walked back to his table and the rest of them sat back down. "Fult I apologize I'll eat I promise." I muttered. He picked his chair back up then sat down. I wolfed down my food and then looked back at Fulton. "Happy now or do you want me to lick the plate?" I said.

"Just go prepare for the game." Fulton sighed.

"Thanks." I smiled. I stood, leaned across the table, and pulled Fulton towards me. I kissed his forehead and smiled again. "Thanks, really for everything." I said before walking away."

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