Chapter 8
"These are the rehearsal spaces and dressing rooms and up here we got workshops and the main office. Oh Karla, your room is right next to Johnny." Buster says, showing Meena each part of the backstage.
"Thanks Mr. Moon." Karla is about to leave the two when she notices Mike head toward her. Meena stops to admire all the different acts rehearsing in their rooms.
"Awesome." Meena comments in, well, awe.
"Awesome? Pah!" She looks down to see Mike standing on the steps. "I think the word you're after is awful. And that's me restraining myself. Not an ounce o' talent between 'em, not an ounce. In fact, you know what? I think that prize is as good as mine already."
"Mike! Would you please quit with the bad attitude. Not everyone 'studied at the Lincoln School of Music' like you did." Karla confronts the mouse, and uses a mock sophisticated accent that makes the mouse turn red in rage. He opens his mouth to retort, but thinks again and just turns around to leave. "You want to start now, or do you want the night to gather up some songs?"
"Can you give me the night?" Meena asks, rubbing her front feet together.
"Yeah, it's no problem. You can come to me when you want." Karla walks into the room for her use.
Mike sits opposite a bull bank manager. "...Yes indeed, I am about to come into a very, very large sum of money. $100,000 to be precise." He says smugly, looking so sure of himself.
"Well, is that so? In that case sir you'll be wanting our platinum card." The manager says while pushing a silver credit card across the desk to the mouse. His face lights up at what he can now do.
Back at the nightclub the same female mouse is walking through the doors, but stops when a loud car horn blasts behind her. A red sports car pulls up, Mike exits and offers his arm to the female while everyone watches in awe. She takes it and they approach the doors to the club. "Well, well, well, hello again." Mike waves to the bouncer who allows them entry in the pulsating light room.
Ash and Lance sit on the couch in their apartment laughing at the song choice list. "Ha! Oh man, these are like, the cheesiest songs of all time."
"I know, right. I mean, I was even thinking of writing my own song instead." Ash says laughing.
"Wait, what? Your own song?" Lance stops laughing.
"Well, yeah..." Ash looks at him.
"Look, if you wanna win that money, just do what the koala says." Lance tells her.
"Why? You think I can't write my own song?" Ash asks, her face scrunching a bit.
Lance throws his paws up in surrender. "Whoa, whoa. I'm just saying, not everyone can write songs, okay? I know I make it look easy, babe, but it's not." He leaves the room. She looks at the song list and reconsiders her thoughts.
Meena steps off the bus, humming along to her headphones, trying to get her mind off everything. As the bus pulls away it reveals her front garden full of animals excited to see her.
"Oh, here she is! Quiet down everybody! Shhh!" Meena's grandma tells everyone.
Meena turns to her mother. "So, Meena? Are ya in the show?" Her grandpa asks.
"Uh. Well... yeah kinda but-" Meena is cut off by the crowd cheering.
"Woooo-hoooo! She did it!"
"Aaaaaah! I knew it! I knew it!"
"Oh, I'm so proud o' you, I could pop!"
"That's my birthday wish comin' true right there!"
"Way to go, Meena!"
"Mom? What the heck?" Meena asks in a tense whisper.
"Wait a minute, wait a minute. Don't be mad, okay? It was your grandma. She told the whole street about your audition." Her mother tells her.
"Mom, no, wait–"
"--Shush baby, you need to save that singing voice of yours so from now on, just nod or shake your head." Meena nods, while the neighbors around them call out her name and take pictures. When she finally was able to escape the crowd outside, she heads to her room, and start writing down songs that she would sing or hum around the house.
Johnny is in the gang's truck with the radio blasting as his father looks at a stopwatch. Big Daddy shakes his head at the time. Johnny pulls up beside him. "How was that, Dad?"
"You're still too soft on them corners Johnny- you gotta attack 'em! And you're crunchin' the gears, I told ya you gotta be gentle with the– look, turn that down, I can't–" Big Daddy advises, before he orders him to turn off the music. Johnny, getting annoyed with his dad, puts the pedal to the metal and drives off leaving his father furious. "--Oi! Listen to your father!" The truck roars down the makeshift track with Johnny putting his head down and looking fierce.
"Ya too soft on the corners, Johnny! Ya not doing it right, Johnny! Speed up Johnny!" He mocks his father, driving like a maniac. "Do it like I showed you–WOAH!!" He slams on the breaks when he sees his father step in front of the truck. He looks over the dashboard but doesn't see anyone. "Dad? Oh no, I've run over my dad." The dust settles as he looks forlorn, but it quickly turned to shock when Big Daddy pops up and slams the hood of the truck, laughing.
"Now, that is more like it!"
Rosita creeps in through the front door to find the lights low and her 'system' completing the cleaning tasks. She peepes in the kid's room and they are all asleep. A recording of Rosita finishes up the bedtime story. "And the three little pigs lived happily ever after. Good night my dears." Rosita heads to her bedroom and quietly gets ready for bed and climbs into the bed next to Norman, who is very sleepy. "Norman? Are you awake? How was your day, honey?"
"Same as always." He yawns.
"It was?"
Norman affectionately lays his trotter on her leg. "Mmm-hmm. Oh, I don't know how you do it all, honey. G'night..."
"Goodnight." Norman rolls, over, leaving Rosita beaming with excitement for tomorrow.
Water drips into Buster's bucket for the leak. Above it, Buster is high up on a ladder fixing a pipe with some tape, singing a tune. He wipes away water that has dripped on the photo of himself and his father cutting the ribbon. He smiles at the memory. "All creatures great and small, welcome to the Moon Theater!"
"Mr. Moon?" Miss. Crawly says bringing Buster back from his memory. "I have Judith from the bank–"
"Wha–no no no no. tell her, I'll call her back in the morning." Buster looks scared.
"Oh, I can't. She's right here." Miss. Crawly points a shakily claw to the hallway, a llama in a business suit, comes in.
"Judith! Hello!" Buster stutters a bit.
"These are the songs that Buster recommended to you?" Allen asks. Karla left the theater as soon as the sun started to set.
"Yeah, he handed it to me right before I got the call about you." Karla admitted.
"I had hoped that you wouldn't have been called. I didn't want to pull you away from rehearsal." Allen admits.
"Who else were they going to call? Leon or Julia? We haven't heard much from then since the funeral. Your brother has his own life with his own children and grands. We are the only one each other have now." Karla places her paw on her father's. "Now, I have no clue what to even sing. And I'm also going to try and help a shy girl to get enough courage to re-audition."
"Are you sure you will have enough time to do it all? I mean with your job-"
"Dad, my job has it's own hours. I'll be fine. Don't worry about me, your health is the most important thing right now." A knock on the door keeps Allen from saying anything else to his daughter.
"I'm sorry to say that visiting hours are over for tonight." A nurse says, peeping in through the doorway.
"It's ok. I need to get sleep anyway. I'll see you tomorrow, Dad." Karla stands up and leaves the room.
"Congrats on making the audition, Ms. Klein. When you have time tomorrow, you will be able to take him home." The nurse tells her as they head to the elevator.
"Really, so soon?"
"Yes, he responded well to the liquid vitamins. Just make sure he keeps it that way." The nurse give her a smirk.
"You were his nurse, you know how stubborn that dog is." Karla smiles.
"That I do, but I have seen patients change their whole life over a hospital scare. Trust me, he won't forget this for a while."
"Thanks for caring for him. You have a good night."
"You too."
A/N: I am gonna try better to make these chapters roughly the same length. This is my first time writing a fanfiction on a movie. I am so use to having a chapter for a 30 minute episode.
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