A/N: Don't we all just love an early update :D
Chapter 28
Pentatonix sat backstage waiting their turn as Acoustikats went onto their third song in their set.
"Well Jeremy dedicating his song to you was... sweet?" Mitch turns slowly to face Kirstie.
"He sang Blurred Lines," Avi sourly interjects.
Mitch sighs, "I know."
"That's the least sweet you can get!" Avi says getting angrier as he talks.
Mitch nods slowly, "I know."
"I'd keep away from him if I were you Kirstie," Scott adds, "Go for someone who's mad about them singing that song."
All four of the other members turn to look at him, Mitch, Kirstie and Avi with looks of shock, Kevin with a smile.
Without looking at them Scott stands up, "You know what I might go to the bathroom before we perform, and before you all burn hole in the side of my head," he moves to step away when Mitch jumps up and follows him, "Me too."
Kirstie nudges Kevin's shoulder to get his attention then jerks her head in the opposite direction.
In understanding Kevin stands up, "I'm going to go and look... and see... check on the mics," he nods and smiles brightly at Avi before he practically runs off.
"Hey," she smiles, slipping into the seat Kevin vacated next to Avi.
Avi doesn't answer, he continues to stare down at his hands.
"You can't be mad at me," Kirstie starts.
"Yes I can," he answers shortly.
She sighs, "I mean you shouldn't be and you didn't have to sleep on the floor last night."
He laughs slightly, "That wasn't on purpose, you rolled over so close to me that I fell out, at least I'm assuming, I didn't wake during that, but when I did you were on my side."
Kirstie smiles, looking down a little embarrassed, "Sorry." She looks up at him through her eyelashes, "I guess I wanted to cuddle you to make sure you were okay, I mean you were all smiley at me during Stuck Like Glue yesterday, you even had your arm around me."
"It's called acting Kirstie, I guess I'm just better at it than I thought," he sighs as he stands up and walks off after Kevin.
Kirstie drops her head into her hands, but it almost immediately snaps back up when the singing on the stage stops. She jumps up from her spot, her heels clacking as she runs around and ducks behind a large curtain.
The Acoustikats walk off stage, grinning and high fiving each other.
When the back stage area is back to the same volume level Kirstie pops out from behind the curtain and walks right out into Jeremy.
"Oh hi," she says with a nervous smile.
He doesn't smile at all, "Where were you last night?"
"I ended up having to rehearse, sorry," she shrugs.
"I honestly don't know why you keep bothering, your group isn't going to win, they don't take kindly to newcomers, and groups of five never work. That's why they put you and Home Free against each other yesterday, to get rid of one of you. And then you only beat them because of your two and a half point advantage."
Kirstie cast a scowl on him, "I could say the same to you about the Warblers, you were both as terrible as each other, no wonder they paired you up yesterday, two teams lead by complete assholes!" she huffs and storms off in the other direction before spinning on her heel to face him once more, "Just you wait we're gonna wipe the floor with you right now!"
"This is an interesting round don't you think Jan?"
"Why yes Mark I do, three songs, it's certainly challenging on these young performers to produ-"
"I meant these two particular teams, they just got through in their previous rounds both due to bonus points, so it's only fair that they verse each other now."
"It was surprising to see new comers Pentatonix knock out resident country group Home Free. But not as surprising as Acoustikats, the group known for coming second to last for the past few years, beating four time national champions the Warblers."
"Well the Warblers lost their edge and two of their main components from last year, Scott Hoying and Kirstin Maldonado."
"Who just so happen to be in the new comer group Pentatonix who are really taking this competition by storm. I mean tell me how long has it been since you've heard a bass like that Mark?"
"It doesn't matter how good any of their members are, there are only five of them and in the long run it never holds out, a group of five has never made it past this round."
"Well it's not against the rules, in fact the minimum is four... it's just never been done before."
"It's never been done before because you cannot possibly get everything you need from five people. You just can't."
"Can't isn't a word."
"Well it's the only word that applies here Jan."
"I don't think it does, Pentatonix have made it this far easily and on pure, raw talent, I can't wait to see what they come up for this next performance. I'm rooting for them Mark, I want to see a difference, a change and Pentatonix is going to bring that to the table."
Avi, Kevin, Kirstie, Mitch and Scott walk onto the stage with their microphones and get into their positions, ready to sing their three songs, Forget You/ Since You Been Gone, Video Killed the Radio Star and their Britney Spears Medley. In that order, and they were ready.
Kirstie kept looking at Avi, hoping he'd stick with the choreography they'd come up with, she was supposed to leave Scott for Avi, and her and Avi would have to act like they like each other and she wasn't sure just how mad at her he was. And he'd mentioned the acting thing, maybe he was better at it than they all thought. Hopefully it would all just go alright and they'd be into the final three.
A/N: So what cha think? PTX beat Home Free and the Warblers are out... who saw that coming??
I hope you guys like that, and I'm hoping you're all still interested, please let me know cause we're getting closer to the end of the story, and only by the popularity of this one will there be a sequel.
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