pictures in frames of kisses on cheeks

Anna: wished everything was as easy and comfortable as it was with Alissa in that precise moment. There were cookies and both of them were quiet and rather awkward, yet it was comfortable. And natural; most of the times Anna interacted with people that didn't belong to her close circle of friends, it felt stiff and slow. Either she was humoring them or they were humoring her, it seemed. Anna shrugged shyly, "I mean... Maybe after spending...m-more time together you can decide that? If I-I'm a disaster or not. W-Which I am, but... Yeah." I mean, this was surely a good sign, right? Anna was a total moron on the messy couch with her wild lion hair, and still Alissa stuck around. A wide smile bloomed across the short blonde's face as she munched on a heavenly cookie. "Yes!", came her reply right away, so enthusiastic that she almost choked on a mouthful of cookie and her own tongue. "Neither of us can cook. But you do. And you wouldn't be our slave cook or anything because Abraham Lincoln and it's illegal now... If Finn has any objections, we can shut him off with one of these cookies! 'Cept I don't wanna share." Alissa would be coming here to cook. And she loved to cook. Which meant she would be at the apartment a lot. And Anna would get to see her a lot. And now Anna's hands were sweating a lot. "She won't be!", she fired in a barely coherent sentence. "She would like to have you here... A lot. B-Because she can smell the cookies, and they smell like the most awesome cookies so she trusts you already." Wow, that sounded a lot like a metaphor for how she felt towards the brunette. Maybe because it was.

This is a solo for Alissa Puckerman, to be performed on Friday, January 17th as her audition for RENT. The song is Blue Wind, from the musical “Spring Awakening” - one of her favorites. She performs the song acapella. (A beautiful version of the song can be found here.)

Choosing a song was easy. At least, that’s what Alissa had been telling herself all week. She knew she was better off not singing a song of Mimi’s, since she’d heard it was just bad theatre etiquette. So, it left her with very few choices. Spring Awakening had been a favorite musical of Lissa’s since she’d snuck out to see it when the local theatre performed it, much to mother’s dissaproval. She wanted desperately to use a song from it for her RENT audition, but which one? After listening to the entire soundtrack at least twice, and probably annoying Briony with it, Alissa fell once more in love with the character Ilse. And most importantly, the song the character sings called “Blue Wind”. She knew she had to sing it for her audition.

When Friday finally came - after a long and stressful week - Alissa put on her favorite jeans (the ones with just enough holes in them to make her look edgy), a white band tee and an oversized cardigan, and made her way to the auditions. The line wasn’t terribly long, and soon she was headed in to the room herself. “Good morning. My name’s Alissa Puckerman, and I’ll be singing ‘Blue Wind’…from the musical ‘Spring Awakening’.” Her voice was confident and unwavering, and the smile on her face was shining bright and beautiful. Though, on the inside, she felt like she was about to fall apart from nerves. She cleared her throat before taking a deep breath and beginning her song.

Spring and summer Every other day Blue wind gets so sad Blowing through the thick corn Through the bales of hay Through the open books on the grass Spring and summer

Sure when its autumn Wind always wants to Creep up and haunt you Whistlin’ it’s got you With it’s heartache, with it’s sorrow Winter wind sings and it cries

Spring and summer Every other day Blue wind gets so pained Blowing through the thick corn Through the bales of hay Through the sudden drift of the rain Spring and summer