What Happens in Vegas...

"Chris stop! You know that freaks me out!" I cried before cowering behind my hands. Chris laughed and put away his sai. "I'm sorry Rumour, I forgot" I rolled my eyes at him and allowed him to help me up from my spot on the floor. I glanced down at my watch and sighed "Chris we need to get going, we have five minutes to get on stage and practice or Zach will kill me for being late again" He groaned, we had been practicing for hours with very little sleep and it was taking a toll on us.

"Come on" I sang, dragging him from our joint dressing room. "Hey, I'll race you there" I said, a grin coming across my face. He nodded "On three then. One, two...THREE!" I sprinted ahead of him as soon as the word left his mouth, I dodged the crew, a few stadium workers and even some of my cast mates. I ran over to the stage and jumped up onto it, raising my arms in victory. As I was doing a victory dance, Chris ran and tackled me onto the floor, payback for winning I guess. We heard the rest of the cast laugh, they were used to our antics by now. I glanced over at Zach to see if he was going to scream but he was shaking his head and trying hard to suppress a smile.

"Alright guys, I realize that you are all very tired so I have a treat for you, we are just going to run through 'Single Ladies', 'Friday' and 'Born This Way' then you guys get the rest of today, tomorrow and the day after off, as well as the weekend. I'm confident that you guys know your stuff and you deserve the time off" I smiled at Dianna for helping me off the floor and turned my attention to Zach just as he was finishing. I looked back at Jenna and Heather and they smiled at me, 'Single Ladies' was easily our best performed number together, as well as the most fun.

"Alright guys, places" I suppressed a yawn and nodded to no one in particular, getting into my place between Jenna and Heather, right behind Chris. As the music started I allowed myself to get lost in it, taking risks to ensure that i was giving it my all. When it was done Zach was amazed "Guys great job! That was absolutely perfect, and Rumour, you did fantastic. If you do that every time it will easily be the crowds favorite" I blushed at his praise, not used to it.

I walked off stage in a blissful mood, the only time it darkened was when Darren walked past. I glowered at the dark-haired man and continued on my way, running up to Heather and jumping on her back. She laughed and held on to my legs as she carried me to her dressing room that she shared with Dianna and Jenna. I jumped off her back once we got inside the room and walked over to her mini-fridge grabbing a watter bottle for the each of us. I sat down on the plush carpet and sighed in bliss, only an hour and I would get to go to the pool. "Why do you hate him so much?" Heather's question snapped me out of my peaceful thoughts. "Darren I mean. I swear I haven't seen you two act civil towards each other since he started"

I calmly took a sip of water as I thought of a way to answer that would make sense to her "He just doesn't take anything seriously. I'm a serious performer so it annoys me how he thinks that this is all a joke. Plus I feel like every time he looks at me he's undressing me. Its creepy" I added a fake shiver for affect and got her to smile. "Come on, lets go back now so were not rushing later" I agreed with her suggestion and walked back with her.

"Why are you so happy?" She asked questioning my smile. "Because we only have to do one more number and then I can leave. You know unless something goes wrong but what are the chances of that happening?"

~*~

"Ryan that's it! I refuse to work with him anymore, either you fire him or I quit!" I screamed, stalking over to Ryan. He took one look at me and took a deep breath. "What did he do this time?" He asked quietly, signaling one of the assistants to go and get who he was looking for. "He tripped me while we were practicing 'Born This Way', I then proceeded to turn my ankle, and fall face first onto a prop which is now giving me a black eye." I spat out as quickly as I could, my anger making my British accent more prominent.

"I never tripped you!" I whipped around toward the defensive voice behind me and began cursing at him, my words becoming so rapid they were barely understandable. Darren began yelling as well and soon our words were nothing but a jumbled mess. Ryan and Zach had to separate us and place us in different areas of the vast room so we could cool off.

"I think both of you are talented young adults and I would love to keep you both on the show" Ryan started, his voice tinged with annoyance "However, if you two continue to act like children I will fire you both. Do you understand?" I looked down guiltily and nodded my head feeling terrible for acting like such a brat. "But for right now I think what you two need is some time off, so go back to the hotel and I'll see you two in a few days, hopefully acting more civil" We both nodded like small children that had just been reprimanded and walked away slowly.

Once we got out of their sight I looked up at him. He really wasn't bad looking, he was actually very attractive. If he wasn't such an asshole I could probably be with him. He looked down at me and I glared up at him, my hatred for him flaring once again. He looked at me in disgust and walked over to his car, not even bothering to offer me a ride even though it was pouring rain, there goes my plans for the pool. I looked around the nearly empty parking lot in dismay, it seemed that everyone had left and I had no way of getting back. "Hey come on. I'll give you a ride back" I glanced up at Harry and smiled gratefully at him, silently thanking God that he was still here. I slid into his front seat and sighed in comfort as the car warmed me up. I looked out the window, enjoying the Nevada landscape before we stopped at a light.

"So are you coming out with us tonight?" I turned to look at him questioningly "We were going to head out to a bar for a few drinks and some dancing, the entire crew is coming it will be fun" He elaborated.

I bit my lip nervously when he said 'entire crew' Harry noticed and smiled comfortingly "You don't even have to talk to him, just come and relax. You deserve it, you work harder than Ryan sometimes" I laughed at his comment as we pulled into the parking lot, the rain letting up enough for the sun to shine through the clouds.

I thought about his offer as we walked into the hotel and to the elevator. It would be good for me to just let loose for a little while, I work really hard for this show and everyone knows it. Besides maybe I could find someone at the bar tonight and get Chris to stop nagging me. I stepped out of the elevator when the doors opened to my floor. "Thanks for the ride Harry" I said while I got my room key out.

"So are you coming tonight?" He asked, placing his hand on the door to keep it from shutting. I smiled at him "I'll see you tonight" I grinned and I gave him a wink, knowing that he wouldn't take it as more than a friendly one.

I walked down the cream colored hallway to the room Chris and I shared, letting myself in. I threw myself down on the bed and laid there for a few moments, allowing my muscles to unwind and relax. When I heard the door opened I rolled over "Chris what time is it?"

"It's a quarter to six, why?" He asked pulling off his sweaty dance clothes and making his way to his suitcase. "Cause I need to start getting ready, we're going out tonight remember?"

He looked up at me in surprise, which was probably a clue that I really did need to get out more. "Okay" He started slowly "Just let me take a quick shower and then I'll help you get ready" his tone becoming more and more excited as he completed the sentence.

I took out my laptop as Chris walked into the bathroom. When it finally started I opened up the web browser to my blog and began to update it by adding some pictures from rehearsal and writing a message to all of my fans. I really was grateful for all of them, without any of them I probably wouldn't have even been discovered. As I looked over the page my eyes lingered on a single picture, it was of me and Chris being ridiculous, as if we were anything else, but what had captivated me was the person in the background.

It was Darren and he was actually smiling as he was looking at us. As I looked at him in the photo I couldn't help but think how attractive he was, even if his hair was now shorter than the fist time I had even seen him. When Ryan had told us Darren was working on the show I had begun to research him and I had stumbled upon the 'Very Potter Musicals' and of course being the Potter dork that I am I just had to watch them, several times to be exact.

So anyway, I truly was excited to be working with someone as talented as Darren, I mean who wouldn't be? The first day he arrived I had shown him around the set and had been extremely nice to him, then he had made a chauvinistic comment but I had chosen to ignore it, although he had found the look on my face very funny. It was about a few days after he had shown up that I found I really couldn't stand him. He had turned everything into a huge joke, every time we would try to learn something new he would make fun of something and cause everyone to laugh, stalling what we were doing and causing rehearsals to run even later.

It was my fault I suppose that we couldn't be civil to one another, I had started it by running my loud mouth. The memory was still vivid in my mind. Darren had just finished filming 'Teenage Dream' and we were all annoyed because we had to do some extra scenes tonight due to Darren's antics. I had cornered him on one of the sets and-

The sound of the shower being turned off had snapped me out of my thoughts. I hastily closed the window and turned off my laptop returning it to my suitcase. A few moments later Chris strolled out of the bathroom wearing dark skinny jeans and a plain shirt. He walked over to his bed and slid on the silver jacket he had lying there. he looked up at me as he laced his Doc Martins "Whats wrong with you?"

I shooed away the lingering thoughts of Darren from my mind "Nothing, nothing at all. Lets just get ready, I want this to be a night to remember"