Violet's Outfit

Nini and I's song had completely blown up. I mean yeah, at first I was really upset with Carlos for posting it without my permission, especially since I had no clue how Ricky would react to it.

But I have to say, I was super happy about how many people had viewed it and liked it and left nice comments on it. Even more surprisingly, Ricky was super supportive of it. He told me he liked the song, and he didn't even seem mad at me anymore.

Things were still a tiny bit awkward between us, but it wasn't as nearly as bad it was before. Maybe, weirdly enough, writing that song had helped me get my feelings out.

The song had become popular enough to the point where Nini and I were asked to talk about it on the morning show at school.

The interview had gone super well, and now it was after school and we were backstage.

"Who's ready to see their costumes?" Kourtney exclaimed, dramatically flinging the curtain off of the clothing rack that was next to her.

She then handed out our costumes. They were all super amazing! Mine was this huge dramatic opera dress, and I absolutely loved it.

"This is perfect, Kourt!" I exclaimed.

"Yeah, I love them!" Gina smiled.

"What's with all the padding in mine?" EJ asked, holding up his Gaston costume.

"Well...to give you abs like Gaston", Kourtney answered.

"It looks like the same stuff used in those crappy kids superhero costumes", I laughed.

Nini burst out laughing, "Oh my gosh! It totally does!"

"I don't need that. I already have abs!" EJ protested.

"Well, everyone has abs. But you don't have abs like Gaston. Besides there's also padding here", Kourtney said, pointing to the butt of the costume.

"Oh, yeah I need the padding there then", EJ said.

"I love my costume so much! Thank you!" Ashlyn exclaimed, holding her Belle dress up to her.

"Of course! They're all Kourtney originals. Now, let me show you the Beast head", Kourtney said, looking through some bins on the floor to find the mask.

"Did you leave it in the prop closet?" Ricky asked.

Kourtney shook her head no as her and Ashlyn both began frantically looking for the missing costume piece.

"Guys! North High literally just posted something about their beast costume!" Carlos said, looking up from his phone.

We all looked at one another and had a sinking realization. North High had taken our Beast head.

With that, we'd decided to go over to North High ourselves and get our costume piece back. As much as we didn't like them, we had to play fair in order to give ourselves the best chance at the Menkies.

After all driving to North High, we met in the lobby of the school and damn.

It looked like one of those fancy museums in DC. Everything was all marble and glass, and it was just super beautiful.

It made East High look like trash, if we're being honest. Once we were inside, we planned on going to the backstage dressing rooms, because that was most likely where the costume was.

However, we decided that Gina would be out lookout just because she could be scary if she wanted to.

We were almost to the auditorium when I heard my name.

"Violet?" Someone said.

I turned around and saw Romeo standing behind me.

"What are you doing here?" I asked, my eyes wide.

"I go here now", Romeo said.

"Oh, cool", I said, backing away from him.

"The real question is, what are you doing here?" Romeo asked.

"Just...visiting. I might transfer here too", I lied.

"Really? So, Ricky is transferring here too?" Romeo asked.

"Umm...yup. Yeah he is. Gotta go!" I said, running off and back to Ricky.

"What was that about?" Ricky asked.

"Apparently Romeo goes here now? And he saw me. So I might have just blown our cover..." I said.

Ricky rolled his eyes.

"What?" I asked.

"Romeo is everywhere, I swear! Sorry, I just hate him", Ricky said.

"I do too, don't worry", I said.

"And no need to worry about blowing our cover, Ashlyn's phone rang super loudly a couple minutes ago, and her ringtone is Toxic by Britney Spears, so that probably brought everyone's attention to us", Ricky said.

"Oh gosh. Yeah, it probably did. Everyone here probably has like fucking Mozart or something as their ringtone", I laughed.

"Probably. I doubt anyone here is as big of a Britney Spears fan as Ashlyn", Ricky laughed.

"I know! I love Britney too but not nearly as much as Ash does!" I said.

With that, we rejoined the rest of the group and made it to the backstage area. We quickly began rummaging through bins of clothes and stuff.

"It's not in here!" Seb exclaimed.

"It has to be! It's not back at school", Kourtney said frantically, beginning to open every cabinet she came across.

"Looking for something?" Lily asked, walking into the room with Antoine and Romeo.

"What! No, nothing at all!" I said, beginning to panic a little.

Romeo scoffed and rolled his eyes.

"We knew you were here", Antoine said, staring us down.

"Oh yeah? How?" Ricky asked, crossing his arms.

"For one, someone was blasting music even though phones are strictly prohibited backstage. Also, Romeo saw your ex-girlfriend in the hallway", Lily said.

"Ex-girlfriend?" I asked.

"Well, yeah. After your viral song, I just assumed..." Lily said, glancing at me innocently.

Ricky looked at me questioningly as I quickly backed away.

After some more talking back and forth between both of our groups, we'd decided to have a dance off and sing off to a song from Beauty & The Beast.

We'd be doing it to The Mob Song, and we had ten minutes to rehearse beforehand. While we were rehearsing, Ricky and Lily were at the back of the auditorium talking about something.

I didn't know what they were talking about, but the fact that they kept glancing at one another and glancing back at me made me feel super anxious.

After ten minutes of rehearsing (and ten minutes of Ricky ignoring me to talk to Lily), it was time to actually do the dance battle.

While it wouldn't really determine which school was better or which school had won, it sure as hell felt like it.

I danced and sang more intensely then I ever had before, almost like I was getting out my anger and trying to prove myself to both North High and Ricky.

While I'd consider us as the winners, all the North High kids said that they were the winners, mostly because Ashlyn had tripped slightly. Which wasn't fair at all, but whatever.

"Hey, can I talk to you for a sec?" Ricky asked me, as we were walking out of the auditorium.

"Sure, what's up?" I asked.

"That song...wasn't in the point of view of your characters, was it?" He asked.

"Well, kinda?" I said.

Ricky rolled his eyes, "Lily was right. That song was about me. I can't believe you'd do that! Do you know how bad that makes me look? That you post some fucking song instead of just talking to me about how you feel?"

"I didn't mean for it to be posted! I wrote it and I performed it, but I never intended on Carlos filming it and posting it. It was supposed to be just between Nini and I. I was frustrated about our relationship that day so I wrote down how I was feeling. What's so wrong about that?" I asked.

"You're so full of shit, Violet. Stop playing innocent", Ricky said.

"Why are you so upset with me?" I asked.

"I wouldn't be mad if you'd just talked to me about how you were feeling instead of writing a song about it for the whole world to see!" Ricky snapped.

"I didn't mean for anyone else to see it! I was having a bad day and wrote some shit down. You're overreacting!" I said.

"I'm so over your bullshit, Violet. All you seem to do these days is start drama over the smallest things", Ricky snapped, walking away from me.

"If I'm too dramatic for you, than good luck with Lily or Gina ir whatever girl you have feelings for now", I shouted after Ricky.

"Maybe I will. At least I know I can trust them to not go behind my back", Ricky said, storming off.

Author's Note: Hey guys! I hope you liked this chapter- I promised drama and here it is lmao. I feel like all my chapters for this season have been really really cliche so far, so please leave feedback if you have like any critiques or comments or whatever. I'm planning to update about the same time next week, so stay tuned for that!

Lots of love, Beth ❤️❤️❤️