just the way you are

chapter four: first actual rehearsal

august 4th is when rehearsals actually had started for the toursies. the eight joining the tour, had tried their best to make it to most rehearsals but broadway took first priority until the show had closed on august 24th. it was now august 26th which meant full time rehearsal for the eight who were now officially toursies and the jackson siblings were running late once again.

"brodes, let's go," bailey was pretty positive that her fifteen year old brother could take about longer to get ready than anyone else she knew except maybe corey and brendon.

"coming," brody ran out of his room and out of the apartment door. bailey followed him down the stairs after locking the door to their apartment. the two siblings sprinted to the subway so we could make it to rehearsal on time.

"brody, there's a -" bailey was cut off by her brother running full force into the door to the rehearsal room. brody didn't realize that there was a door as he ran around the corner.

"hey brodes, morning bails," jp laughed as he opened the door to let us in. behind him, bailey could see three heads stick out around the door frame.

"morning," brody groaned as he sat up.

"hey," bailey laughed once she knew that her younger brother was okay, just a little stunned.

"i wondered who ran into my door," jeff calhoun appeared behind jp in the doorway. "i'm not surprised now that i can see who it is."

"hey," brody yelled in indignation. bailey stepped over her brother and followed jp and jeff into the room leaving ben cook, sky flaherty, and josh burrage (the three musketeers) to help brody up. "some sister you are, charlie."

bailey rolled her eyes and walked over to where the 'girlsies' were sitting. a few weeks ago she met meredith ingelsby, her daughter wren, melissa steadman hart, angela grovey, stephanie styles, and ginna claire mason at rehearsal.

"good morning ladies," bailey sat on the floor next to molly and started to stretch.

"good morning bailey," meredith greeted the nineteen year old while ginna claire waved. angela, stephanie, and melissa were engrossed in a conversation.

"hey bails," molly bumped her friend with her shoulder.

"morning charlotte," daisy was sitting on one of the chairs as she looked over her swing binder, so she nudged bailey in the head with her foot.

"okay, now that's everyone here," jeff was standing in the middle of the room as he talked to his cast, "i want to run 'carrying the banner' with just the toursies and then we'll add in molly, bailey, brody, and julian, everyone understand?"

"yes sir," molly and bailey burst out laughing as brody and three musketeers saluted Jeff.

"oh brother," jeff shook his head at the boys, "places!"

brody came over to sit on the floor next to his sister as his friends and the rest of the newsies got into place for the top of the show. julian joined the three sitting on molly's other side. jp sat next to him and daisy sat on the other side of brody.

"ahh! ahhh! ahhhh! go!"

the five cheered as soon as the last note was hit by the toursies. The show they had started was definitely in good hands and all five were proud to be a part of this show's next journey.

"okay, shall we add you guys to this?" jeff asked rhetorically.

"the scene is simple," chris took over for jeff. "just like normal, bailey starts in the middle of tower b sitting on the steps. julian middle of c and brody top of b." the three moved to our spots. how the choreo went was brody jumped over his sister while she was sitting on the steps as they all yelled at sky who played albert. "molly, go to the bottom of a. i'll show you a quick version of what you do because i don't think you've run this track in a while."

"not since papermill," molly answered the unspoken question as she walked to her spot. chris showed her a basic demonstration before yelling up to bailey, julian, and brody.

"bailey, your choreo is your normal part for the first tower moving. julian, yours is not. you'll go to the middle of c and run into b before the tower moves. brody, you've covered this track before and you originated it so I trust you know what you're doing. when you four get on the floor, bailey part 1, molly part 1, brody part 2, and julian part 4 until the finch and jack part. then choreo is normal till the nuns come in. let's try all that from the scene."

"do you want to come out for lunch with me, ben, and josh?" brody came up to bailey after jeff called a break for lunch.

"i'm good, brodes," bailey looked over at her brother. She was sitting on the floor taking off hrt newsie boots and changing into her converse. "if i order something at panera, will you pick it up on your way back?"

"sure," brody shrugged as he picked up his backpack, "see you later, bails."

"bye brody," the older sister quickly grabbed her backpack and went into the next room which was also a newsies rehearsal space. it had been a while since she had done a dance video for her instagram, so she decided it would be a good day to do one since the toursies had an hour lunch break. bailey ordered some mac and cheese from panera for brody to pick up for her then tried to decide on a song.

after deciding to do 'run boy run' by woodkid, which was a dance she had come up with a few weeks ago after a class she had taken with mike faist and brendon, bailey ran through it twice before setting up her phone leaning against her water bottle to film herself.