So Annie went off without a hitch. That's not the point. The next stop on our railway of love and disaster is approximately the time between A Midsummer Nights Dream and before the last day of school. This is going to be a series of events and therefore will be broken up by sub heading such as
The beginning! Admit it! This sounds loud and obnoxious in your head!
How cool is that! Anyway,
Dress Rehearsal:
Its the day before Grizzley Middle School puts up it's production of Shakespeare's, A Middsummer Nights Dream, and our protagonist, Gabrielle Richards is THE faerie servant, Peaseblossom. Our dear Cash is only the lighting technician.
Hey, at least I'll always have a good light shining on me!
By this time, Vinnie and Gabrielle are inseparable. They actually call themselves sisters, and when people stop and ask in the halls, "Hey, aren't you Bella's sister?" Or, "Hi! You're Vinnie's sister right?" They have learned to respond with, "Yup. My great great grandmother got busy with her great great grandfather." And vice versa. This was not the first time Gabrielle walked into Vinnie's house with a grand bellowing of, "I'm HOME!" putting an extra *uumph* on the long "O" Sound.
Lemme get something strait. Vinnie is the paddle in my canoe of depression. She is also the rock that keeps my canoe from tipping, and keeps the equilibrium balanced. I wouldn't be able to paddle my way up stream without her. If she wasn't there, I would be up a creek without a paddle.
No pun intended. Back to the story.
So, Vinnie was dressed in overalls and a black base shirt and black leggings. Her "CHERRY LIPS HAVE OFTEN KISSED THY STONES WITH LIME AND HAIR KNIT UP IN THERE." were painted firetruck red , with bright pink cheeks and overly exaggerated makeup.
"Perfect." Was Ms. Williamsons stamp of approval.
Cash was in his black jeans and black technician shirt, sitting in the raised chair, manning his tree lights.
"Exactly. Right there." Came another stamp of approval.
Gabrielle was in her brown, green, and lightly speckled pink skirt and top, and a beige under shirt, with her hair down, no glasses, a head band with flowers trailing up plastic antennae. An emerald green makeup mask in shape of a butterfly outlines the golden, sparkling innards of the mask that conceal Gabrielle's cheekbones and forehead temples. Black rhinestones studded her eyebrow line, right above her thickened eyelashes. This was the true Peaseblossom. She also had wings with the strings that go over your shoulder.
"Oh my gosh! Guys come look at her eyes! The golden mask puts flecks of gold in eyes! It really brings out the green in her eyes!" Ms. Williamson called out.
Gabrielle was blushing as people looked into her eyes, the windows to her soul.
"They're beautiful." Cash remarked.
Gabrielle blushed even harder. She'd never had a boy call her beautiful before. Well, besides her dad. Whom she only say every other weekend because of the divorce.
Hey hey hey! That's another story we'll get into later!
After the dress rehearsal, Cash, Vinnie, and Gabrielle, (But not Hope. She doesn't come back until later.) were talking together on the ledge again, still in costume. The others were looking for the key to the costume shop, where all of their clothes and makeup remover was. Cash and Vinnie were both on either sides of Gabrielle, so when she turned her head to talk to Vinnie, her wings smacked Cash right in the head. She turned around quickly, cutting off her conversation with her best friend. She was about to apologize, before she saw the bewildered expression on Cash's face.
