Transition (Hikaru X OC)

C.40

I was in rehearsal and we were going over Zydrate Anatomy. Nearly everyone had the songs down, and some people were still using scripts and sheet music.

"Ready? Let's take Zydrate Anatomy from the top!" Atsushi called and the music started up with the Zydrate sluts singing first. "I can't feel nothing at all..." Then Graverobber started with his low voice.

"Drug market, sub-market,
Sometimes I wonder why I ever got in.
Blood market, love market,
Sometimes I wonder why they need me at all.
Zydrate comes in a little glass vial."

So I sang him a question. "A little glass vial?" And the sluts answered me. "A little glass vial!" And Graverobber continued. "And the little glass vial goes into the gun like a battery." Then the sluts panted twice.

"And the zydrate gun goes somewhere against your anatomy." Graverobber sang and the sluts panted again. "And when the gun goes off, it sparks, and you're ready for surgery!" And the sluts repeated, "Surgery!" Then miss Amber Sweet walked in.

"Graverobber, graverobber,
Sometimes I wonder why I even bother.
Graverobber, graverobber,
Sometimes I wonder why I need you at all!"

So Graverobber started singing again. "And amber sweet is addicted to the knife." "Addicted to the knife?" I asked. "Addicted to the knife." The sluts answered.

"And addicted to the knife,
She needs a little help with the agony.
And a little help comes in a little glass vial
In a gun pressed against her anatomy.
And when the gun goes off,
Ms. sweet is ready for surgery."

Graverobber sang and the sluts copied him, then Amber took over again.

"Graverobber, graverobber,
Sometimes I wonder why I need you at all..."

Then we all broke out into one huge confusing mess of lines.

[Sluts:]
It's clean, it's clear, it's pure--

[Shilo:]
It's what?

[Sluts:]
It's rare.

[Graverobber:]
It takes you there.

[Shilo:]
It what?

[Graverobber:]
It takes you there.

[Amber:]
It takes you there.

[Genterns:]
A little jump.

[Graverobber:]
Before the cut!

[Genterns:]
Why agonize?

[Genterns:]
Anesthetize!

[Amber:]
I can't feel nothing at all!

[Graverobber:]
'cause surgery...

[Shilo:]
'cause surgery...?

[Amber:]
'cause surgery...

[Graverobber:]
Is what she needs...

[Shilo:]
Is what I need...?

[Amber:]
It's what I need.

[Graverobber:]
To change inside.

[Shilo:]
To change inside?

[Amber and sluts:]
To feel alive!

Then Graverobber whistled and I looked over at him "Hey, that's Blind Mag's song..." I sang and Amber glared at everyone. "Who did that?!" She asked and Graverobber pointed to me.

"So ya think you got heart?
So you think you got balls?
So you think Mag can sing?"

"I don't think nothing at all." I replied. "So you think Mag has pipes? Well it's my turn to shine. When the Repoman strikes!" She yelled. "What are you talked about?" I looked scared and they handed me a magazine.

"Mag's contract's got some mighty fine print." Graverobber sang. "Some might fine print?" I asked. "Some mighty... fine... print..." the sluts moaned.

"And that mighty fine print puts Mag in a mighty fine predicament... If mag up and splits, her eyes are forfeit, and if geneco and rotti so will it, then a repo man will come, and she'll pay for that surgery, surgery!" He sang and we all broke off as cops arrived.

"Good run, everybody! Really good job! Let's take five!" Atsushi called and I stepped offstage to get a water bottle.

Gou came over and smirked at me. "You did good up there." He said. "Thanks, but I hardly sang." I shrugged. "You're the one who did well. Low notes are hard." I said. "Nah. They're easy. Your high notes are hard." He said and I smirked. "Well there's a reason I'm a first soprano and you're a baritone." I said and walked off. I checked my phone and saw a few texts from Hikaru, mostly saying how he missed me. I smiled and sent back an emoji (😙).

After five minutes was up, we went back to practising, and they decided to include Shilo in the weird sex thing Graverobber and Amber have going on in the middle of the street. "Okay, what do I do?" I asked.

"Just look uncomfortable and confused. Amber, touch her a lot, Graverobber, touch her, but not as much. Okay, from the top, people!" Atsushi called, so we did the scene over again.

It wasn't hard to look uncomfortable. Confused was a bit harder as Amber traced up my thigh and Graverobber kept himself near my neck and ear.

Practice was over soon enough and I went to sleep, dreaming about Hikaru between my legs.