Fifty eight

Blake's POV

It's the day of the dress rehearsal for grease. Everything has settled back down at home. I never thought I would ever call Elm Tree House home but that's what it feels like now. I glanced over at Jessie, Josh and Rick who were eating their sandwiches to my left. They were like the brothers and sister I never had. It really was like one family at Elm tree and I felt at home for the first time in years since mum and dad had started fighting.

We had all week off lessons to prepare for the show on Monday and Tuesday night. Which was why we were sat eating our lunch in the drama studio. We had gone over some scenes that morning and some of the songs. We'd changed some of the blocking for one of the dances so everyone could be seen. It was all coming together. Tee came hurrying over to us, holding up a shiny pink jacket. Jessie's eyes lit up. "Is that mine?" she asked, her eyes sparkling. Tee nodded. She had been given the task of making the pink ladies jackets. They were all slightly different. Faith as Rizzo had a slightly shorter one that came to mid-waist and was leather. Jasmine's Frenchy one had been 'customised' with ribbons, buttons and bows to make it more kooky like her character. Jan, played by Alice, had an entirely different material for her jacket. Whereas most of the others had silk, Alice who had an allergy to silk had a lycra one which was a slightly darker shade of pink than the others. Emily who now played Marty instead of Lori, had her name embodied on the back under the words 'Pink Ladies'. Jessie had just the standard pale pink, silk Pink ladies jacket. Jessie took the jacket Tee was offering her and slipped it on. We all breathed a sigh of relief. It fit perfectly, was just the right length and looked amazing on Jessie.

Oh yeah and on the topic of Jessie, she was currently blonde. She had bleached her hair especially for the show. She kept itching her head though. "Stop that Jessie," Josh scolded her. She scowled.

"It's itchy though. Bleach is not a comfortable feeling on your head," she said. She turned back to Tee. "oh Tee, I love it. It's amazing. Thank you." Tee blushed with pride and ran over to sort out the other costumes she had made. Tee had actually been left in charge of all of Jessie's costumes, mainly because she was such an amazing designer and because she spent a lot of time with Jessie and so could capture a bit of Jessie's personality in Sandy's costumes. Rick, Josh and I were still waiting for our leather jackets to arrive. They had been delivered in rather than made. As Jessie sat back down still admiring Tee's handiwork another one of the costume designers came over holding three black jackets in her hand. She handed them to us and we all slipped them on. We looked at each other and nodded appreciatively. From her seat on the ground Jessie wolf-whistled. "No wonder Sandy can't get enough of you. You all look very hot," she said cheekily. We all grinned at her and sat back down next to her. Faith came running up. She stopped when she saw us all wearing our jackets.

"Very nice guys, now move it Miss Gooden says lunch is over," we all sighed and followed her back onto stage. Miss Gooden nodded appreciatively when she spotted the jackets.

"nice," she said. We all grinned. "now listen. The primary school are coming at two to see the rehearsal so you need to go and get your costumes sorted out, take them to your specific area to get changed in and get ready for the first scene. Good luck everyone," she said. We all nodded and hurried off. Jessie ran off towards Tee who smiled at her and handed her all the different dresses she had for the show. Jessie rolled her eyes when she spotted us watching us as we waited to get ours.

Jessie's POV

I saw Rick, Blake and Josh look towards me. I rolled my eyes at the number of dresses Tee was handing me. They had it easy. A white t-shirt and their leather jacket and they were sorted for pretty much the entire show. I carried the dresses back to my pod. I was sharing a dressing room with the other pink ladies and we were all just having fun. I pushed my bleached hair back out of my face and tied it up with a blue ribbon. I hated people touching my hair and face so I was having to do my own hair and make-up. I slipped into my first dress for meeting Danny. I was excited as Harry, Jody and Floss were all going to see the show that afternoon as they were part of the school coming to see it. I paced up and down in the dressing room as I waited to be called to the side of the stage. Faith rested a hand on my shoulder.

"calm Jessie," she said but as she said that, there was a knock at the door and Kia entered beckoning me to follow her. I took a deep breath and followed her knowing the girls wouldn't be too far behind soon.

Miss Gooden was on the same side as Blake was and she gave me a thumbs up. I nodded. Blake grinned nervously at me. I grinned back. We were both stood with our 'parents' ready to walk on. The lights went on and a voiceover announced the start of the show. I walked into position, sat on the bench with my parents. When the lights came up I stood up quickly.

"no! I don't want to move to Australia. We only just got here," as I said this in my accent I flapped my hands and felt my hand connect with Blake. I spun round. "oh my gosh. I'm so sorry. I didn't mean it," he looked up at me.

"damn, you're hot. Danny," he said as he stood up.

"Sandy," I replied smiling at him. I stared at him until my parents coughed. "Oh yeah. Sorry mother. Shall we go back?" I asked, dragging my eyes away from Blake.

This carried on for a bit until we got to the beach scene. "Oh Danny," I said. "I thought you weren't coming. I would have been so upset if you hadn't come."

"Well I'm here now Sandy," Blake replied

"Why did summer have to go so fast Danny? I want to spend more time with you. But now I'm off to Australia and I won't see you," I said and sighed towards the ground.

"I know," Blake replied, lifting my chin up. "I'm going to miss you," he said.

"And I, you," I added. We leaned in towards each other and just as we were about to kiss I had a very familiar voice interrupt us.

"That's Jessie and Blake. They aren't going out. That's wrong. Where's Rick?" Floss shouted loudly. I could feel Blake's warm breath on my cheeks as we both tried not to laugh. We collided lips harder than we would normally and kissed each other.

Rick's POV

I ran off stage at the end of the last song and watched from the side as Jessie and Blake sang one more chorus, kissed and waved to the audience. The dress rehearsal had gone amazingly well. Well except Floss's outburst which had caused all of us in the wings to silently crack-up so when we walked in for our first scene we were bright red from where we had stopped our laughter. I hugged Jessie as she came off. "well done Honey. You were amazing," I told her. I turned to Blake. "And so were you," he patted me on the shoulder.

"Same to you Rick. I still can't believe Floss actually said that though," he said. I sniggered and Jessie full out laughed.

"oh I needed that," she said when she finally stopped. "I wanted to do that so badly when she said it but couldn't. I was being professional." We all sniggered again.

Miss Gooden came up to us. "Someone wants to see you three," she said looking at us and smirking. We all looked confused but followed her back onto the stage.

Floss was stood on the edge of the stage hands on her hips glaring at us. I felt Jessie's shoulders start going up and down in silent laughter. "Why were you kissing Jessie, Blake? That's Rick's job. Rick did he steal your girlfriend?" she asked us demandingly. Jessie couldn't contain in anymore.

"oh Floss. You are brilliant. No he didn't steal me we were only pretending to love each other. And Rick doesn't mind. It's called acting kiddo," Jessie told her in between giggles. Blake and I just nodded in agreement. She dropped her hands to her side.

"oh, well that's good. You were brilliant," she said and draped her arms over Jessie's neck who hugged her back. If only the actual show went as well and life would be perfect.

A/N: Another massive update for you. What did you think of Floss's outburst? I thought it was witty. Two more chapter left, Indigo :)