Leia's POV

Today's the Battle of the Bands! I'm so fricking excited and worried. I really really really hope we win.

I'm actually not so much nervous about losing as I am winning. If we win, I apologize to Luke and confess my feelings to him. It's not that I don't want to, but I'm really anxious to. How will I do it? How am I gonna word it?

What if he says no?

But I shouldn't be focusing on that right now. The girls and I wrote a beautiful, catchy song together and I can't wait to rock it for everyone to see. But we're up second after the boys.

I'm really excited!

Luke's POV

I'm so so so nervous. I'm actually really used to performing in front of others so I don't know why I'm so nervous now. For some reason I feel like something might be at stake if I win.

I've also been thinking about Leia. I've been avoiding her since the song incident because I feel like she should apologize to me first. She made a whole song dedicated to me, and it was not a good thing.

I suppose I drove her to make that song by ignoring her after our kiss. But if she had just waited a second, I would've been able to sing the song I labored over trying to help myself confess my feelings. But still.

Should I apologize first?

I don't know. I don't care at the moment. Right now all I care about is winning and being the first to sign the arch.

"First up is The Boy Band with "Open Road". Take it away boys," Mr. T announces.

The boys and I hop onto the stage and get to our positions. Hunter follows behind us, grumbling. We barely had time to practice this song because he was complaining the whole time about how the drum beat didn't sound right. It was so annoying. We, of course overtook him with the power of a 3-1 vote. 

I look back at him behind the drums and glare at him, saying, 'You better play the right beat,' with my eyes.

He nods his head with a submissive look, so I turn around in satisfaction, but right out the corner of my eye, I see a smirk.

Then he starts playing the wrong beat.

John, Theo, and I turn around and give him an annoyed look, he continues to play the drums without a care in the world.

"Is there a problem boys?" Mr. T asks.

"Yeah. He's not playing the beat we discussed. It'll throw us off," I reply.

"Their beat's stupid. Mine sounds better. But all of them can't except the fact that I had a better idea than them because John hates me and of course his little posse will agree with whatever he says."

"No dude, that's not it. It's just plain stupid. You're so annoying!" John yells.

"Settle down boys-"

"You know what? I quit! Not only this band, but Lost and Found in general. I never evem liked singing and instruments all that much. Why'd I even audition for this place?" Hunter interrupts.

"Calm down, Hunter-"

"No! I'm out," Hunter storms out. Everyone looks around the room awkwardly, not knowing what to say. It seems like that's been happening a lot lately.

Mr. T takes his forehead out of his hand before saying, "James, you're now the drummer for both The Boy Band and The Next Step. Boys, you have the next song to teach him the drum part. Girls! You're up."

We quickly rush over to James, running past Leia and the girls on our way over.

"It's a good thing I decided we record the song wasn't it? All you guys did was complain-"

"Yes, yes, Theo. You're our savior and you're so smart. Now pull up the demo, we don't have much time!"

Eva's POV

How amazing are we?

There really was no point in getting Hunter to quit Lost and Found, but according to Jude, him and all The Next Step dancers don't actually belong here. But he said that we'd only get Hunter kicked out because he would bring too much tension to everyone if he stayed. Everyone else is fine.

But this was more of an experiment for me. I kind of wanted to see just how far we could predict. I still can't believe that everything went exactly according to how we thought it would. That's ridiculous. It's like we're some kind of god in this universe, and we can manipulate anything we want to happen.

This is gonna be fun.

Annabelle's POV

The girls and I went up first and slayed our performance. We absolutely crushed it!

It's mostly all thanks to Leia though. She likes to say that all four of us wrote "Potent Love", but I gotta be honest, she basically wrote the whole song herself. I guess I was wrong about her. She came through when we needed it, despite all her boy troubles as of late.

Leia's POV

As we victoriously hop off the stage, my shoulder bumps into Luke's. Not in a mean girl kind of way, but an embarrassingly flirty kind of way. 

I go down into the audience and wait for them to start. As soon as Luke starts singing, I'm captured by his voice. He's the only person I can watch.

As I listen and think a little, I realize how stupid I've been. I love him. His voice, his personality, his everything. I don't care if we win or not anymore. I'm gonna tell him exactly how I feel and demand an answer right there. 

I'm no longer nervous. I'm actually quite confident now.

After the boys are done, Couples goes up with "Perspectives" and The Next Step goes up with "We Are". Then Mr. T goes up to announce the winners.

"Ok. Our first place winners are, drum roll please," everyone starts to drum the floor with out feet, "The Girl Group!"

The girls and I start screaming and jumping up and down. We congratulate each other and do a group hug. After, I go up to grab the marker for the arch.

"Thank you Mr. T!"

Clara's POV

I don't care who won, I don't care who hates who, it's all blah blah blah. That diva Eva stole my man!

Right before we went up on stage, she asked him out and he said yes! How dare he betray me like that. He should know that I am the love of his life. 

The bitch even got the solo part of the song.

This is so unfair! I literally cannot handle how much hate I have for that girl. But I do know that I have to get revenge on her, even if it is the last thing I do.

I sneak up behind Isaac and yell, "Boo!" He clutches his heart and starts laughing once he sees it's only little ol' me.

"Clara. You scared me. What's up?"

Isaac has had the biggest crush on me for a while and that crush is something I can take to my advantage.

"Soooo," I walk my fingers up his shoulder, "I need your help with something," I bite my lip.

"What is it?" he asks, super excited.

"I need to enact some revenge on Eva," I say in a super sweet voice.

"Why? Eva's nice."

"No she's not!" I calm myself down before I scare him any further, "She's dating Jude now. And that's a problem because I like Jude."

"Oh," Isaac says disappointed, "ok. I'll help you then."

"Yay," I bounce up and down clapping my hands.

"Doesn't this feel a little wrong to you?" Isaac asks.

"Getting revenge? Nah, trust me. She's a lot worse than she seems. You know I swear-"

"No. Using my crush on you to manipulate me into helping you get yours," Isaac says bluntly.

"I-i-i-i d-don't know what you're talking-"

"It's ok. I'll help you anyways. I like you too much to not help you."

Eva's POV

"I cannot believe how much we've done in the past couple of months! We're amazing!" I say, plopping down into a surprised Jude's lap.

"Y-yeah. We really are."

"We've managed to get three of the right couples, including us, and the two iconic bands together. I feel powerful. But what next?" I ask.

"Well, we've pretty much handled every big couple from our past life. Now for some personal changes."

I smile evilly, "Like what?"

"Isaac and Clara."

I roll my eyes, "That one you're gonna have to do on your own."

"Why?" Jude asks.

"Clara hates me. I know you were probably too focused on me to see it, but Clara was glaring at me every second of our performance. She's even glaring at me right now," I say, pointing behind me. I've been keeping an eye on her since I walked in the room.

"Yeaah so I guess you'll really have to work behind the scenes on this one. But it'll be fun! Come on."

"Fine."