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ChapterFourteen-They're A Disaster
September 13th, 2007
It's a few days later, and UTurn are at a meeting with the screenwriters of their web series. The members had been busy recording on their third album. They now have a bit of time to start filming their new series.
The screenwriters were made up of students from Boston College who were doing this for both grades and earnings. One of them told the UTurn members, "We have created a title for your web series. It's called, Breaking Out of High School. We've created numerous character ideas for you."
The members were given the character descriptions. After a few minutes of reading, the members were apparently confused.
Andrew asked, "Why is my character either a brainless prick, or some suicidal villain...or both? Do some of the former Beacon Hill High students want me dead or something?"
One of the other screenwriters spoke up, "Well, a couple of the people from the production crew were the ones who created these character ideas."
Andrew scoffed, "Of course."
Then Alyson asked, "So, these 'producers' gave us a mess of different characters? Do they expect us to clean this up?"
Another screenwriter replied, "I guess. They seemed like they were having fun writing your characters."
Justin asked in a stiff voice, "Do you have the scripts?"
The first screenwriter responded, "Yeah, we got the scripts. In each 30-minute episode, you will be having one song to perform at the end. There are a total of 25 webisodes, and so far we've written five webisodes. We're in the middle of writing webisodes 6 and 7."
"When do we need to learn the lines by?"
"Well, because your manager is being such an impatient prick," the screenwriter said reluctantly, "we start filming this Saturday."
With that, the UTurn members were furious. They started arguing with the screenwriters. One of writers told them, "Look, we're on your side, but we have to do this."
Andrew argued, "So we have to learn our lines by this Saturday? While recording our third album? And how are we gonna convince our choreograph to create 25 dance routines immediately?"
"I doubt your choreographer would be willing to do that, so..."
"So I have create the dance routines for UTurn?" Andrew asked angrily.
Alyson spoke up, "Andrew, some of us had dance training in the past. We can all help each other. But I don't like any of this either."
Then the scriptwriter turned to Justin, "One of the producers told me to ask you if you ever wore glasses."
Justin replied suspiciously, "Yeah, I did, but I haven't been wearing them since I was 11. Why?"
"The producers want you to wear glasses."
Justin rolled his eyes.
It's an hour later, and the UTurn members were at a low-key, posh bistro. They wanted to be out in public, but they didn't want to deal with any questions. Sure, they love their fans, but they had more important things to straighten out.
When they entered the bistro, they all wore sunglasses and some type of headwear so no one would recognize them. They grabbed two tables so all eight of them could sit together.
Alyson was the first to speak, "Okay, we have an enormous mess in front of us. We given characters that made us look like idiots. We have to create 25 dance routines. We just started recording our third album. We have write 20 songs for our secret album. And we have to find a venue for the real UTurn."
Andrew, who was looking at the five scripts, said, "In the first episode, we 'sing' Celebration. Since there's already a dance routine, we don't need to create new choreography. But for the rest of the episodes, we have to. How many of you had dance training?"
Justin, Alyson, Bailey, Libby, and Stacie all raised their hands. Amanda made a 'sort of' gesture, while Trevor made no response. Then Andrew said, "Okay, we all have to work together to create dance routines. Since I'm a Broadway prodigy and a technical dancer, I'll oversee the choreography that's being made"
Justin asked, "Why you?"
He replied with slight arrogance in his voice, "It's cuz I was trained the most out of everyone. Look, you need someone who's a professional to make sure the choreography is perfect...or at least doesn't look rushed. And that someone is me."
Bailey spoke up in an irritated tone, "Okay, since we basically settled that Andrew is slightly big-headed yet unfortunately right, we need to figure out our characters."
Trevor said, "Based on the scripts, it seems our characters were already decided for us. I'm supposedly the athlete. Andrew's a ditz and a jerk. Alyson is exactly like Andrew. Justin is an all-American genius. Bailey is some hipster. Libby is the ultimate mean girl. Stacie is Libby's backup. And Amanda is an emo."
Justin asked Trevor in shock, "I'm American?"
Trevor replied, "Yeah, and you're brainy."
He muttered under his breath, "No wonder those so-called 'producers' wanted me to wear glasses."
Andrew said to Justin, "Justin, you've lived in America for almost 10 years. You would've picked up our accent by now, which you kinda did."
Justin responded, "Yeah, but this is a full-on American accent. Since we barely have time to rehearse our lines, my American accent will be rough."
Bailey said, "Justin, everything's going to be rough because it's all rushed."
Amanda asked, "Justin, since when do you wear glasses?"
Justin replied, "I used to wear glasses since I was 6. When I moved to America, I was still wearing glasses. Andrew, Alyson, Libby, Bailey, and Ethan have seen me wearing them. When I started middle school, I'm not sure if Stacie has seen me wearing them."
Stacie responded, "I vaguely remember that, but I remember seeing you without them."
Trevor asked Justin, "So why did you stop wearing glasses?"
Justin replied, "When I started playing American football, I had to wear contact lenses. I've been wearing them ever since."
Alyson asked, "Do you still have your old glasses?"
"I do, but there are several problems. 1, I had my eyes checked after UTurn got signed, and vision has changed a bit since I was 11. I'm 18 now, so I'm not sure if I can still see well with them. 2, I want avoid my family as much as I can. My parents have been grilling me since they caught my two little sisters watching and looking at Russian UTurn near-porn. They're even asking me if I've gone bisexual. I keep telling them that I'm still with Bailey, and I express no interest in blokes...not that they had a problem with gays and bisexuals. I want to tell them that I'm being blackmailed into being some sex object, but I can't."
