Chapter Eighteen
"No, you nitwit. I'm Faith." She pressed the knife to Theresa's throat and moved her towards the exit. "You and your little brat pack took the powers away from my sister and daughter. If I can't get all of you, I'll get one of you."
"Oh, please don't. I wasn't even there. I was on another world..." Theresa started sobbing.
"That doesn't make me any less angry. Not only did you take away my family's powers, but now my sister's husband is with his little girlfriend again... and I can't take that." Faith pointed out Ivy and Sam dancing very closely together out on the floor. "Now you are going to die and they will soon as well..."
"No, don't hurt her!" Ethan yelled out coming in the doors Faith was about to leave from.
"Stop right there or I'll kill her!!" Faith screamed out. She said it a bit too loud and everyone in the prom turned to see what was going on. Ethan stopped in his tracks and didn't know what to do.
Slowly, using Theresa as a human shield, she backed away into the exit. "Don't follow me or she's dead." She opened the exit door and started to back out of it when she was shoved forward, losing her grip on Theresa who ran away to her brothers.
"Tsk tsk tsk. You know for some evil genius, you're not that bright, dearie." Tabitha came in holding Timmy. "I knew you weren't dead, but I didn't think you were as stupid as to try and kidnap someone in public. Timmy, sic her!" Timmy jumped out of Tabitha's arms.
"Sure thing, princess!" Timmy was angry that he was tricked by Charity's charms. He ran over to Faith and started biting her ankles.
"Get him off me! Get him off!!" Faith started screaming and running around, but she couldn't shake Timmy off who had clasped himself to her leg.
"I have left my house, including the powers in the basement. Me and Timmy are on the good side now, so you better get out of here." She walked over to Faith and grabbed her hand, taking her powers away. "Go, and don't come back or Timmy will do more to you than bite your ankles." Faith ran out of the room while everyone laughed at her. Tabitha was a hero and everyone was being nice to her and their new friend, Timmy.
Someone came over the speakers. "Excuse me, people." Chad said. "Me and Whitney have gots a record contract for Malibu Records and we're goin' to start working on a CD, but we figured we'd perform for you now before we got too famous." Chad was on the stage playing a grand piano and Whitney was wearing a sparkling green gown with long slits up the side. She hopped up onto the piano's body and made a pose.
"I'm Whitney Russell and I'm going to be singing an appropriate song for tonight." Chad started playing the piano.
*So we talked all night about the rest of our lives, Where we're gonna be when we turn 25.
*I keep thinking times will never change, keep on thinking things will always be the same.
*But when we leave this year we won't be coming back, no more hanging out cause we're on a different track.
*If you got something that you need to say, you better say it right now cause we don't have another day.
*Cause we're moving on and we can't slow down, these memories are playing like a film without sound.
*I keep thinking of that night in June, I didn't know much of love but it came too soon.
*And there was me and you and when we got real blue, we'd stay at home talking on the telephone...
*We would get so excited and we'd get so scared, laughing at our selves thinking life's not fair...
*And this is out it feels...
*As we go on, we remember all the times we had together
*As our lives change, come whatever, we will still be friends forever.
*So if we get the big jobs and we make the big money, when we look back at now will your jokes still be funny?
*Will we still remember everything we learned in school? Still be trying to break every single rule?
*Will little brainy Bobby be the stoke brocker man? Can Heather find a job that won't interfere with her tan?
*I keep- keep thinking that it's not goodbye, keep on thinking it's our time to fly....
-Instrumental version of 'The Graduation Song' by Vitamin C
Whitney got off of the piano and Chad stood up. They bowed down and humbly accepted the applause that erupted the Youth Center.
Chad took the microphone and went over to the end of the stage and motioned for everyone to be quiet. He stood next to Ethan who had moved to the stage after Faith had let Theresa go. "Ethan? Hey, buddy, what's going on with you?" He spoke into the microphone and then handed it to Ethan.
"Well, Chad, this morning I woke up with this feeling, I didn't know how to deal with and so I just decided to myself.... I'd hide it to myself and never talk about it and didn't I go and shout it when Theresa Lopez~ Fitzgerald walked into the room?" He jumped off the stage and everyone started clapping in beat. He started singing his words as he walked towards Theresa. "I think I love you, so what am I so afraid of? I'm afraid that I'm not sure of a love there is no cure for. I think I love you, isn't that what life is made of? Though it worries me to say that I've never felt this way." He took Theresa's hand and the music changed.-I Think I Love You by the Partridge Family. Miguel was up on the stage now.
Chad went over to Miguel, "Hey, Miguel. What's up with you?" Miguel sighed.
"Well, I can't stop this feeling... deep inside of me. Kay, you just don't realize what you do to me. When you hold me in your arms so tight you let me know... everything's all right." Miguel started to sing his words and pulled Kay onto the stage, singing goofily and making Kay laugh hysterically. "I'M, I'M HOOKED ON A FEELING! I'M HIGH ON BELIEVING..... THAT YOU'RE IN LOVE WITH ME!!!!!" -Hooked On A Feeling by somebody...
Chad walked over to Luis. "Hey, Officer, is something wrong with you too?" Luis nodded.
"Yeah, there's a girl I know, Sheridan... She used to treat me bad, but I don't care anymore because I want her to know I love her..." More music started and everyone started laughing as Luis jumped up. "Why do you build me up, butter cup, baby, when you let me down and mess me around. And then worst of all you never call baby when you say you will, but I love you still. I need you more than anyone, darling, more than I have from the start so build me up, butter cup, don't break my heart..." -Bulid Me Up Buttercup by Somebody...
"OKAY! Cut the music!" Sheridan winked at the doubles and grabbed Theresa and Kay and went on the stage. "We are women of the 90s. It was very sweet you guys sang to us but we can sing, too!" She cued Chad and music with a better beat came on.
Kay started. "Now there was a time when they used to say that behind every great man there had to be a great woman..."
"But, oh! Time's change, you know it's no longer true we're coming out of the kitchen because there's something we forgot to say to you." Theresa sang out.
"Oh, sisters are doing it for themselves. Standing on their own two feet and ringing on their own bells. Sisters are doing it for themselves." They sang all together dancing with a little choreography.
"Now this is a song to celebrate the conscious liberation of the female state. Mothers and daughters, and all of their daughters, too. Woman to woman we're all singing along with you!" Sher belted out.
"Now we ain't making stories. No, we ain't laying plans. A man still loves a woman and a woman still loves a man!!!" Theresa went in front of the group and sang with full emotion.
Kay grabbed the microphone. "The inferior sex has got a new exterior.... we got doctors, lawyers and politicians, too. Hey, now, everybody. Take a look around. Can you see there's a woman standing right next to you!"
Sheridan took the mic from Kay as well. "Because sisters are doing it for themselves. Standing on thier own two feet and ringing on their own bells. Sisters are doing it for themselves." Sheridan was down on her knees belting out the words with all her feelings and they ended the song with a big bow. Their audience was full of applause and laughter. The couples all stood together on the stage and bowed, ready to start their happy new lives on a good beat.
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