Nini and Ricky went off to find somewhere quiet to practice the scene as everyone else cleared the stage. Ophelia went over to backstage where some technical equipment that would be used for the show is at. Miss Jenn was right. Everything was hand-cranked which was odd. She wasn't used to having to deal with hand-cranked stuff like this. Honestly, the whole theater was outdated. Ophelia bit her lower lip as she looked at each of the options. She wished they had a label on them so she could tell what they were all for.

"Have you found the one that works the light?" Big Red asked, walking over to her. He and Ophelia we're in charge of the technical equipment for the show. Even though Ophelia knew more about this kind of stuff with being in yearbook club she was confused at how to work stuff like this.

"Nope." Ophelia sighs. "Why does this have to be so complicated?"

Big Red shakes his head. "No idea."

Ashlyn walks over to them. "Do you two need any help?"

"I think we'll figure it out." Big Red responds, glancing at the hand-cranked levers that were used for different things. "I just don't know how to make things light up."

Ashlyn smiles at him. "You walk into a room."

Big Red looks at her with a bit of confusion at first and then a big smile tugs on his lips. "Oh..."

Ophelia smiles at the two, quietly saying 'awe'. "Seriously, though, I've been through a few tech rehearsals in my day." Ashlyn glances at Ophelia and then back at Big Red. "You guys just holler if you need me."

Big Red nods, the big smile still on his lips. "Thanks, Ash."

Ashlyn puts a hand on his shoulder, giving it a comforting squeeze. "You got this." The two stare at each other longer than they probably should. Ophelia watched the two with a knowing smile. Ashlyn quickly breaks away her gaze from Big Red, gesturing with a nod of her head to Ophelia as she looks at the girl with a smile. "Besides, you got Ophelia to help you. She's a genius at this kind of stuff."

Ophelia shares a smile with Ashlyn before the red-haired girl walked away. Big Red glances to his right where Ophelia stood when he felt someone looking at him. He raises his eyebrows upon seeing she was grinning at him. "What?"

Ophelia points at him. "You so like her!"

Big Red scoffs, glancing at the floor to avoid her gaze. "No, I don't." Ophelia continues to grin at him, noticing that he was blushing, but she didn't say anything about it. "Let's...Let's just try to figure this out." Big Red said, looking at the levers in front of them. Ophelia nodded and looked at the levers as well. Big Red pulled down the one that's in front of him and the two teens looked around with confusion when nothing happened.

"Maybe that doesn't do anything?" Ophelia commented but it sounded more like a question.

"Okay, we just need to nail down our lighting and our sound, and ta-da we got a show." Miss Jenn said to everyone with a smile. "I need some bodies for the rooftop scene."

"I can do Troy." EJ offers. He shakes his head, mumbling what he says next, "Or at least some people do."

Miss Jenn nods, gesturing for him to get on stage. "Fine." She looks at everyone sitting in the rows, her eyes landing on Fallon who was reading the script. "Fallon," The girl in question looks up at her with a small smile. Miss Jenn sent her a smile. "Can you stand in for Gabriella?"

Fallon's eyes widen. She looks at Luca beside her with a panicked expression which made him chuckle. She looks back at Miss Jenn. "But I-I'm playing Kelsi."

"I know, dear," Miss Jenn chuckles. "But Nini is practicing lines with Ricky right now and we need someone to do it. Being Kelsi you don't really have a lot of time to shine and so I thought this could help you shine more." Fallon smiles a bit at hearing what Miss Jenn says despite the fact her nerves are growing more upon realizing filling in for Nini meant that all eyes would be on her. "You're very talented and I'm sure you already know Gabriella's lines."

Fallon isn't sure why Miss Jenn picked her to fill in for Nini at the moment out of everyone else there and the fact that EJ is filling in for Ricky made her even more nervous. She doesn't have stage fright, but she sometimes got nervous when she had to speak in front of a lot of people, knowing that they were watching her every move. Although hat Miss Jenn said is true. She does know Gabriella's lines. She doesn't have many lines since she's Kelsi and she's not in many scenes which meant she had a lot of time on her hands during rehearsals. So when she wasn't being a dancer in a scene she often read over the script, just in case something like this situation happened and Miss Jenn needed someone to fill in for someone who was busy.

"She does." Luca spoke for her when she saw her staring forward with the same panicked look on her face she had when Miss Jenn asked her to fill in for Nini.

"Great!" Miss Jenn smiled and gestured for Fallon to get on the stage.

Fallon stands up, sending a glare to Luca for making her to do this. Luca just smiled at her and sent her two thumbs up. Fallon took a deep breath, walking up the steps onto the stage and walked over to stand in front of EJ.

Miss Jenn turns to Big Red and Ophelia who were still figuring out the lights. "Do we have a working lightboard? Do we have a working light switch?"

"Found it!" Big Red exclaimed, reaching toward the third lever. Ophelia furrowed her eyebrows, shaking her head. "Wait, I don't think that's-" She stopped herself in the middle of the sentence when Big Red pulled down the third lever and a blue-purpleish light was shined down on the stage.

Fallon glances over her shoulder to look at Big Red and Ophelia, but something else caught her eye. She screamed when she saw the mannequins in off in the corner of the stage. EJ screamed as well, noticing the mannequins as he looked in that direction.

"Sorry, everyone." Carlos apologizes. "My Uncle Ruben said there was gonna be some leftover stuff from the fashion show." He glances at the mannequins with furrowed eyebrows. The mannequins had bright neon clothes on. "I guess, the theme was '80s rave'?"

"In a unsecular reactor?" Ashlyn inquired. She laughed a bit along with some others.

"You guys," Miss Jenn turns to Big Red and Ophelia. "Do we have anything more flattering."

Nodding, Ophelia looks back at the levers as Big Red pulls up the lever to turn off the blue-purpleish light. "I think this is the normal light." She pulls down on the lever in front of her, smiling proudly when the normal light shined down on the stage. She glances at Big Red. "Maybe we should, like, put labels on these levers so we know for sure what they are."

Big Red smiles and nods in agreement. "Great idea."

"Okay." Miss Jenn turns to EJ and Fallon. "Troy, basketball stuff," She walks over to where her table was set up at the front of the stage. "Gabriella, math stuff, nobody doesn't cry and we end up here on second stage." Miss Jenn looks at Fallon with a smile. "Gabriella, give us your cue."

EJ and Fallon turn to face each other. Fallon takes a deep breath as she gets into character after taking a glance at the script she held. "'Remember in kindergarten, you'd meet a kid, know nothing about them, then ten seconds later, you're best friends?'"

"'Yeah'." EJ replied as Troy.

"'Singing with you felt like that.'" Fallon continued.

EJ takes a step closer to her, shaking his head. "'Look, I never thought about singing, that's for sure. Until you.'" Fallon looks at him weirdly upon seeing he has teary eyes. "'And now, I don't wanna stop. Ever.'"

"That's excellent and a little weird." Miss Jenn comments. She looks over at Big Red and Ophelia. "Big Red, Ophelia, can we hit these guys with a spotlight?"

"Uh, we'll look for it!" Big Red replied. He and Ophelia started quietly conversing with each other about which lever was the right one as they looked for the one that turned on the spotlight.

Fallon looks at EJ with furrowed eyebrows. "Okay, EJ, why are you acting so weird?"

EJ looks at her with a smile. "Oh, I'm just emoting. Feel free to join me, Fallon."

"If it would make me look as weird as you did when you did it," Fallon shakes her head. "I'm gonna have to go with no."

"Okay, EJ, Fallon, let's not wait for the lights." Miss Jenn looks at the two in front of her. "Just stand on your marks and gimmie you're cue again?"

Fallon glances at her and nods. "Got it, Miss Jenn." She takes a deep breath before she and EJ faced each other. She couldn't help but look at EJ weirdly when he started fake crying. What was going on with him?

"'I never thought about singing, that's for sure.'" EJ sniffles. "'Until you.'" 

Fallon's eye widen and feels her heart skip a beat when his hand rested on the side of her neck. "'And now, I don't wanna stop.'" She could feel her face get hot and only hoped that no one saw her blush while EJ leans closer to her for emphasis. "'Ever.'"

Fallon couldn't find any words to speak, continuing to stare at EJ with a wide-eyed expression. "EJ?" They both look at Miss Jenn when she speaks. Miss Jenn gestured for EJ to come over to her. EJ takes his hand away off of Fallon and she mentally scolded herself for missing his touch. EJ chuckled lightly while walking over to Miss Jenn.

Fallon furrows her eyebrows as she connected the dots as to why EJ was acting so emotional. Her eyes widen upon realizing he did see the notes that Miss Jenn wrote about him. "It makes so much more sense." She mumbled to herself. Fallon screamed along with Miss Jenn as she scrambled backwards when a latter fell in front of her.

"Big Red, Ophelia, did you do that?" Miss Jenn asked.

"No." Big Red responded.

From her place beside Big Red, Ophelia furrows her eyebrows and shares a confused look with Big Red. "How could we have even done that when we're right here?"

Miss Jenn looks behind her, letting out another scream upon seeing the two teens there since she didn't expect them to be standing there. Big Red looks at Ophelia, shaking his head as he answers her question. "No idea, O."

A/N i acutally love big red's & ophelia's friendship a lot you guys & ej & fallon are so cute !