hearts on fire, we're no liars.
[ ricky bowen x original character ]
[ book two in the goddess series ]
[ part of the good times and the bad ones series ]
[ high school musical: the musical: the series season two ]
STATUS: COMPLETED
[ STARTED: may 1...
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chapter eleven: bring it on !
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NORTH HIGH WAS seriously getting on Athena's nerves. Not only did they release a video over the weekend about how their school was also putting on a production of Beauty and the Beast (seriously, how petty and petty immature did they have to be to switch their musical at the last minute because they felt threatened?) with that blonde girl Lily co-directing while also using Miss Jenn's dog idea, oh no. They posted another video showing Lily (the one who had tried to debunk Athena as Ricky's girlfriend multiple times) was playing Belle, and Athena hated to admit how much she looked like a natural in Belle's gold dress. How infuriating.
Miss Jenn had called an emergency meeting at school over the weekend. They were all currently gathered in the bomb shelter, worrying about the video. Athena paced back and forth in front of the risers where they were all watching the video from Ricky's phone. Both nervousness and anger was flowing throughout her veins.
"Oh my gosh, that's what's-her-name," Seb announced. "Lily from our auditions. She isn't just co-directing their show, she's starring in it."
"And she's playing my part," Athena added. She scoffed. "Really. I could've lived without seeing her again."
"Attie," Ricky lightly scolded.
"Don't Attie me." She continued to pace, absentmindedly running the owl charm back and forth on her necklace chain, and began to mutter to herself. "She's insecure, you're confident. She's insecure, you're confident. She's insecure, you're confident."
"Athena, you're panicking." Ricky suddenly appeared in her path, placing his hands on either side of her face to get her to look at him. "Hey, breathe."
Miss Jenn then walked in with some bags from Target, Carlos trailing behind her. "Thank you all for coming so quickly on a Saturday." They all took a seat on the risers. Athena sat beside Ricky, who laced their fingers together to try and distract her from freaking out more. "Or most of you all. We're missing a teapot and a village idiot."
"Uh, I think Kourtney and Big Red are at the pizza place," Ricky voiced.
"Yeah, Kourtney texted in the group," Seb said. "They said they couldn't get anyone to cover their shifts." EJ quickly hit his shoulder. "Oh."
Everyone turned to Seb with wide eyes, including Athena. See, they had two group chats — one with Miss Jenn, and one without Miss Jenn. Kourtney had texted in the one without Miss Jenn that they couldn't make it, yet Miss Jenn didn't know about this other group chat. And here Seb was, almost blowing their secret.
