you sit in the kitchen of your house, working on a school project with one of the kids from your class.
"I am so upset!" Camille walks in announcing. "You will NEVER believe who I got paired with for the showcase" she adds.
"NATHAN SIB! A TENTH GRADER!" she complains.
"what's the big showcase?" your project partner asks. "it's a performance they put on at her school, every year-"
"They invite agents and producers and other powerful people in the show business. it is extremely important to me which is why I'm upset and GOODBYE" she cuts you off, stealing your partner and dragging him out of the house - slamming the door shut behind her.
"Hey! I have a science project due tomorrow! I have to turn in my mold bush!" you exclaim.
"No! Nathan is coming and you have to help us figure out what we wanna do, I definitely wanna sing"
the doorbell rings, interrupting the conversation you and your sister were having. "UGH! he's here." she complains. you follow behind her, "STAY!" she demands. you give her an unamused look. she walks to the door to let him in, "come in" she groans as the door opens.
"thanks.." he replies, noticing her unamused presence. "y/n, that's Nathan" she says pointing at him.
"Nate" he corrects, "hey!" you say.
"You go to Hollywood arts too?" he asks. "Nope, I'm not a performer. just my sister!" you answer. "Yep!" she says, putting her arm around your shoulders.
"Woah, nice piano!" Nate says, walking towards it and playing a tune. his effortless talent shocks you. it was like he could do it blindfolded.
"Oh my gosh, you're amazing!" you say, sitting beside him on the bench of the piano. your sister groans at your words.
"No grandma listen, there's no way you can drown at my school!" Nate says, talking on the phone with his grandma as you walk to the back yard to bring him lemonade. once he ends the call you ask, "your grandmothers coming to the big showcase?"
"heh, yeah! it's gonna be the first time she leaves the house in.. six years." he says, his words shock you "what.. why?" you ask. "Yeah! cause the woman is scared of everything, umbrellas, bikinis, breakfast food.."
"so.. if she saw a rabbi in a bikini eating pancakes?"
"The woman would burst into flames."
your conversation about nates.. interesting grandma was interrupted by Camille yelling to let you know it was time to rehearse AGAIN.
as you walk in you see Camille in a ruffled teal and white dress, "you really need to wear that just to rehearse?" you ask.
"a performer needs to feel the part to be the part" she says in a mocking tone.
"Okay, let's start with my song" she says, Nate is quick to reply, "and I'm guessing when you say your song you mean the song I wrote?"
"eugh, nobody cares who wrote the song! just take it from the part where I make it shine." Nate does exactly that, playing the keys to the piano. Camille begins singing, loud and high. "You got any aspirin?" Nate asks. you nod your head having the aspirin on hand.
you watch the performers before Camille, admiring all the talented shows they put on.
you turn behind you and see an elderly woman, "oh hi! Are you Nate's grandma?" you ask. "I DONT KNOW YOU!" she yells, ducking behind the seat Infront of her, everyone turns and looks your direction with a confused look on. you turn your head forward shielding from the embarrassment.
you're quickly interrupted by the sound of a girl wailing in the back and the school principal coming up to you, "hi, are you Camille's parents?" he asks in a frantic demeanor. "Yes, why?" your parents reply. he doesn't answer the question he just tells you to follow him.
the three of you trail behind him, rummaging to get through the tight space of seated people. the girl continues wailing in the background.
as you get backstage you see Camille waving her hands and freaking out. the closer you get the more visible it gets. "Oh my god what happened!" your parents ask her. "Your tongue - IT'S HUGE!" you add. Camille tries to talk, but it's just a bunch of noise. "Does anyone know how this happened?" the nurse asks.
"The Chinese herb gargle!" you guess, Camille puts her finger to her nose, trying to say you were right. "What are you talking about?" your dad asked.
"She found some website with a recipe that said a Chinese herb gargle is supposed to help you sing better." you answer. Camille continues waving her hands and trying to talk. "She must've had an allergic reaction to it." the nurse adds. Camille looks around embarrassed, "is she gonna be, okay?" your mom asks, stroking her hair for comfort.
"Well, her tongue is obviously enlarged and - erratically throbbing." she says, pushing her fingers against her tongue. Camille feels her tongue and begins freaking out more. "Anyway, she's going to be able to perform?" the principle asks. "of course not!" the nurse adds, Camille grabs the nurse's shoulders, shaking her and trying to speak "stop trying to talk! your tongue could burst!" the nurse adds, making Camille shy away and shriek at her words.
"I'm sorry sweetie, next year." your mom and dad say, attempting to comfort her. "I'm gonna take her over here and massage her tongue." the nurse chimes in.
as everyone walks away you stay with Nate, "I guess my grandma came here for nothing" he says disappointed. the principle turns back to the two of you, an obvious idea formed in his head, "wait, does anyone else know Camille's part?" he asks, looking around the room for an answer. "His sister does!" Nate says with a smirk on his face, pointing at you. "Uh! me sister? no no no no no, I just helped them rehearse!" you plea. "I'm not even a student here I couldn't even go on -" you're quickly interrupted by Nate pulling you aside, "you know this whole thing inside and out, the song, the choreography, you can do this, come on!" he says.
"Uh - uh!" he throws his hands up "she said she'll do it!" everyone around the two of you begins cheering.
"No, I did not say I'll do it!"
"Woah woah woah, she can't go onstage wearing that." the principle says. "Excuse me!" you reply offended. "Go get her something cool to wear." he says to the stylist. "I am not going, okay?" you attempt to say, but your words are overpowered by the principle telling Nate to bring you.
Nate pulls you behind a curtain despite you fighting back, for a second you get away but Nate quickly catches up and picks you up from behind. your arms and legs waving in the air trying to stop him.
once you're dressed in a silver sequin dress and pink high-top's your pulled on stage by the stage crew, trying - yet again to get away. Nate watches as he gets the piano ready. you're pushed onto the center of the stage, everyone watching confused as you struggle.
you look over to Nate, he nods his head at you mouthing the words "it's okay" to try and calm you down.
the piano begins playing, the other instruments following in the background. the lights go low and begin to regain their brightness as you sing.
your confidence starts off low but begins to grow as you get the hang of it, adding the choreography as you go.
everyone in the crowd watches, shocked at your performance and stage presence.
as the song ends everyone stands up cheering, Nate runs to you spinning you in his arms. the curtain closes as your family comes to congratulate you, shocked at your performance.
your family time comes quickly interrupted by someone coming to ask who you are, "I'm y/n l/n, who are you?" your principal chimes in before the guy could answer, "this is our student director, Mr. Eichner"
"You don't go to school here?" Mr. Eichner asks. "No, I just-" he quickly cuts you off to ask if you'd like to attend school there.
you look to your family around you "...well, should I?" you ask panicked. everyone around you shouts yes. "Wait but all the kids that go here are crazy talented." you say. "Yeah, but so are you!" Nate adds. "But what if I'm not good enough?" you ask, your words making everyone around you groan and talk at once. you chime in, making the chaos crazier.
Nate sneaks away, pushing Sinjin out of the way and lifting the curtain. everyone in the crowd confused, the chaos stops, Nate walks to the front of the stage "HEY!" he yells, to get everyone's attention. his grandma replies, "HEY NATE!" she yells, everyone in the crowd turning to her.
Nate grabs you by the arm, walking you up to the front of the stage with him, "this girl doesn't think she's good enough to go to school here. what do you people think?" he asks the crowd.
everyone begins cheering and applauding all at once, "okay!" you say, jumping into Nates arms. everyone jumping and cheering with you.
you and Camille walk in the doors of Hollywood arts, people around you dancing, talking, practicing instruments. the vibe is unmatched; everyone is happy and awesome. "See - it's just a high school" Camille says. "Uh, it's not just a high school, these kids are all artsy, creative and talented and I'm just - normal." you reply. "it's okay! there's nothing wrong with being average." Camille attempts to comfort. "Anyway, you're not alone. I got your back!" she says. her words were quickly taken back by her friend coming to say some guy got his hair straightened, Camille ran away faster than you've ever seen her run.
a girl walks behind you, "hey can you tell me where -" your words were quickly cut off by her start of a sentence, "oh my god! your tori right?" she asks excited. "Uh huh" you reply, "you were so awesome in the big showcase!"
"My names Ella." but quickly after she spoke, she walked away.
another person enters the building, he's a tall, blonde, "hey um," again, you were cut off, "oh hey! hello! female." he spoke, "can you tell me where Mr. Sikowitz' class is?" you ask. he gives you the directions, somewhere down the hall to the right. "Thank you" you say, the interaction between the two of you was odd.
you walk into a highly decorated classroom, you quickly set your bag down and turn around. you bumped into a guy holding coffee, he was tall and had dark long hair. "Oh my gosh!" you say panicked. "no, it's cool." he assures. "No uh, see, it coming off!" you say, rubbing your forearm against his chest, attempting to get the stain out with the cloth from your sweater. "You might be making it worse actually." he says, looking down at you, the two of you begin making eye contact.
"Dude, why are you rubbing my boyfriend" a voice says from behind the two of you.
you break the contact, "I just - spilt coffee on him" you reply.
"Get away from him." she demands. "relax" her boyfriend says, walking up to her to give her a kiss on the cheek.
not even seconds after a voice comes in, "oh my god! there's a huge fire!"
everyone begins freaking out around you, frantic to get out of the room. "Kidding, kidding." the voice adds. "Just wanted to get your blood pumping - which I did! ha!" he says.
"Alright now, let's get started. rumps in chairs!" he adds.
Nate sits next to you, "he's our teacher?" you ask. he nods.
the teacher begins introducing you to the class, noting that you had given him some cash on the route to school.
"why'd you give him 2 dollars?" Nate asks. "I thought he was homeless." you reply.
"Now today we're going to continue our study on group improv. y/n I assume you're familiar with improve?" "no." you reply.
"Okay a crash course!" "Improv - acting without a script, which means the actors must come up with their own dialog on scene. understood?" you tried to lift your hand for a question, but it was quickly denied. "Sara you will captain the first group of the day, choose your actors!" the teacher directs.
Sara comes to the platform located at the front of the classroom, "Ella, Eli, Beck, and - tori." she says with a smirk on her face, you look up confused, Nate signaling to go.
Hollis suggests the setting to be home, Nate suggests the situation to be big news, the teacher replies to him saying "Nate.. nobody wants to see big nudes..?"
"Oh! well that's totally different." the teacher replies.
"Why don't you go wait in the hall." sara says, "uh, okay." you say as you walk out.
"And! action!" the teacher says. (red = sara, blue = roman, pink = ella, green = the random and regular is you)
"Hey babe, how was work today?"
"again" (the random and ella are acting as a kid btw)
"it's okay! I have great news that'll cheer up this whole family!"
"i went to the animal shelter and got us.. a dog!" sara says, pulling you in.
"Uh yep! I'm the new family dog.. woof."
"sikowitz, will you please tell this amateur that dogs don't talk, and that they don't walk on two legs."
"it's true y/n, if your gonna play a dog you have to be a dog." the teacher says.
sara looks back at you with a smirk on her face as you get on the ground.
"And! action!" the teacher says.
"I went to the animal shelter and got us a dog!"
"Uh oh! looks like this dog has bugs in her fur"
"It's okay, I read on the internet that coffee works great at getting rid of fur bugs!"
"Sara, maybe you shouldn't"
"Sara!" Nate interrupts, she doesn't listen, she makes her way to you pouring the coffee directly on your head.
you stand up looking at her with a confused look on your face, "what's the prob, dog." she says.
you walk out of the room embarrassed, Sara standing with a smirk on her face.
you make your way to the stairs, Nate following behind you "hey, what are you doing?" he asks. "Calling my mom and telling her I wanna go back to my old school." you reply. "Why?" he asks, as if it's not already obvious. "Because I don't like having black coffee in my hair!"
"Then I'll get you some cream and sugar, everything will be chill." he jokes.
you dial the phone and begin talking to your mom, Nate snatches the phone and puts it in his pocket. "you're gonna quit this school, on the first day, just because of one mean girl?" "It's not just her, its just- I don't fit in here with all this!" "Come on this school isn't different from other schools." "Oh yeah, cause other schools have weird guys with a puppet and teachers with no shoes and girls who make you bark like a dog?"
"Uh, you guys" Hollis says walking up to the two of you. "sikowitz wants you both back in class" his weird, oddly similar to him looking puppet adds. "He asked me to tell them!" Hollis argues with his puppet.
"See! this doesn't happen at my old school!" you argue.
"Will you guys be cool?" Nate asks. "Him? be cool?" Hollis' puppet jokes. "you're a demon!" Hollis argues.
"You guys! sikowitz really wants everybody back in class!" Ella says as she walks up. "And you really wanted a date to the prom last year but you didn't get one, did ya?" the puppet adds. "Joey!" Hollis says to his puppet.
"Tell your puppet to stop being rude!" Ella shouts. "Don't call him a puppet! that's an offensive term!"
"Yeah, this schools pretty normal." you add.
"Just please go back to class and tell him we'll be back in a minute." Nate says. "Okay, this school is not normal." he adds as they walk away. "But you're not normal either, I've seen what you can do on stage. you belong at this school, you're fantastic."
you sit at home after school rewatching your performance from the showcase. Camille comes and sits next to you on the couch, "you know, you're actually not terrible." she says. "You're really gonna quit Hollywood arts?" she asks. "What do you think I should do?" you ask. "I think you should come back." "Why?" "So I won't be known as the girl with the lame little sister who quit on her first day." she says, shoving your shoulder.
she gets up to walk away but stops, "And I think you were really good in the big showcase."
"Thanks Cami" you reply. "But I would've been amazingggg!" she adds as she walks away.
the next day you walk back into Mr. Sikowitz' class, everyone turns and watches as you walk into the classroom, especially Sara.
"y/n, you're back!" Mr. Sikowitz says. "Have you ever thought about coming in through the window?" he asks. "no." you reply
"Think about it." "Now sit."
"Okay today we're going to be doing alphabetical improv. what is alphabetical improv you ask? well I answer. It's when we give a little to the first actor in the scene if we used the letter A for an example then the actor must make his first word start with A. which might go something like..." he says, pointing to Roman.
"Apples are falling out of my butt" Roman says.
"Lovely. Now the next actor must start his line with the next letter in the alphabet which in this case is B, so he might say.."
"Bring those apples so that we all may enjoy the fresh apples from romans butt." Nate adds.
"Charming. Now who wants to lead the first group?" Mr. Sikowitz adds.
"I do" you say, raising your hand.
"Alright, Y/n chose your actors!" he instructs.
"Okay, Nate, Roman, Ella, and Sara." you say, with the exact smirk Sara had on her face yesterday. She walks up, kissing roman as she stands on the platform. you roll your eyes at her action.
"Sara, kiss your boyfriend on your own time." Mr. Sikowitz says. "Oh, I will" she adds.
"Okay if you start your line with the wrong letter, you're out!" he directs.
"Hollis, give us a letter."
"p!" joey the puppet says, "Oh I was gonna say P!" Hollis argues.
"Okay, the scene can be anything you want, the first letter of the first line is P, Y/n! Action!"
'Please go take a shower."
"Quit telling me what to do."
"Relax, girls, let's all try to get along."
"eeeh! You're out!" Sikowitz says, making a fake buzzer sound. "Ella your line had to start with an S"
"Ooh, my life's the worst!" she says as she sits back in her seat.
"Alright, Nate letter S to you."
"Something just bit my toe!"
"Turtle! that turtle just bit his toe!"
"Unbelievable that you're even here."
"Very immature of you to say that."
"What if the turtle bite broke my toe bone!"
"X-rays are the only way to find out."
"Zap! I just healed your toe with my magic finger."
"Aliens are the only thing that can heal a toe with finger zapping."
"By the way your shirt is ugly."
"Correct, I am an alien."
"Even though she's extremely annoying."
"Fainting because I can't breathe your earths air."
"Hey! why don't you go jump off that cliff over there?"
"Just where did you come from?"
"Lousy animal's kangaroos. They're awkward and dirty."
"Maybe they learned from you."
"No one talks to me like that."
"Please run in front of a bus."
"Quite obnoxious of you to say."
"Up your nose I see boogers."
"Wish you thought of it?"
"X marks the spot I'd like to punch."
"Your finger smells weird"
"Zero is what you are from a scale of one to ten"
"As if I care what you think"
"You eat your pants! WAIT!"
"Sorry Sara the next letter was-"
"I know what'll make you feel better"
the two of you end the scene with a kiss, everyone in the room cheering as your lips press against his - except Sara.
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