Temporary Replacements(Transcript)

It is a busy day in the choir classroom as Lexi, Reece's sister came to the classroom just to announce something.

Lexi: Right guys, Reece is in the hospital today.

Harvey: Wait what?

Blake: Why?

Lexi: He got a high fever and wouldn't stop coughing and vomiting. He has pneumonia but it's not COVID-19.

Everyone: Phew!

Lexi: So he sent me to assign 2 people to take his place, George Stephen Gresley Smith and Zoe Isabelle Thomson-Cheng.

George and Zoe: Yes!

Then Joshua came to the door.

Joshua: No, I deserve that position, not those 2 weeny juniors.

George: Look Joshua, Reece was only 12 and was a junior when he got this position.

Zoe: Yeah, and we know him better than you. Because of my brother.

George: Also we are not weeny juniors, even though we're small.

Lexi: Guys, maybe we can make a vote in order to chose who will be the choir director before Reece gets released from the hospital.

George: I think we should do a performance. Joshua, try to get your own choir, our choir will perform at lunch.

Joshua: Game on George Stephen Goosely Smith and Zoe Isabelle Thomson-Ching Chong.

George: First of all, it's Gresley.

Zoe: Second of all, don't treat me like my brother, Blake, and it's Thomson-Cheng.

Lexi: Good, and I'll tally it, there are approximately 275 students here.

It is soon lunch time and the choir and theatre kids were finishing their food and going on stage.

Kandace: What are we doing, Zoe?

Zoe: We need to perform in order to get people to vote for us instead of Joshua, look at him.

The choir and theatre kids looked at Joshua and he is convincing people to vote for him.

Jenny: Geez, I recognised him, I was in school when he was there. He treated me and my theatre troupe badley, really badly.

Brad: So what are we going to do to in order to convince people to vote for us?

George: As choir director, we will be performing this song, now let's go.

They went on stage and started performing a song.

Song: Heartache On The Big Screen by 5 Seconds of Summer

Zoe: #Started out like in the movies #But it ended like a bad dream #Curtain opened, heard the crowd roar #This one's a repeat, seen it before#

George: #Rewind to the start before it all went wrong #What's going on?#

Zoe: #Fast forward to the end, after everyone's gone home #And they've forgotten it all#

All: #This ain't a movie that I wanna see #A tragic story, starring you and me #Yell "Cut," we're stuck inside this scene#

Zoe: #This is heartache on the big screen#

All: #The clock is ticking, and I'm out of time #The camera's rolling, and I forgot my lines #My script is ripped and now I see#

Zoe: #This is heartache on the big screen #This is heartache on the big screen#

Brad: #Curtain closes on this cliché #Like a story of a bad day #Back to square one where I started #As I stand here broken-hearted#

Harvey: #Fast forward to the end, after everyone's gone home #And they've forgotten it all#

All: #This ain't a movie that I wanna see #A tragic story, starring you and me #Yell "Cut," we're stuck inside this scene#

Brad: #This is heartache on the big screen#

All: #The clock is ticking, and I'm out of time #The camera's rolling, and I forgot my lines #My script is ripped and now I see#

Harvey: #This is heartache on the big screen#

Troy: #If Hollywood could see me now, I'd get this starring role #But they won't so I'll just keep on acting the fool#

Blake: #This ain't a movie that I wanna see #A tragic story, starring you and me #Yell "Cut," we're stuck inside this scene, yeah#

All: #The clock is ticking, and I'm out of time #The camera's rolling, and I forgot my lines #My script is ripped and now I see#

Raphael: #This is heartache on the big screen #This is heartache on the big screen #This is heartache on the big screen#

Everyone: (applauds)

Molly: Wow Zoe and George, maybe you deserve position as choir director.

Emily: Yeah.

Jenny: Just quick question, where is Reece and why he needed you to be choir directors?

George: Because he's in the hospital and he assigned Zoe and I to be choir directors.

Zoe: Yeah, but that idiot, Joshua wanted that position. I dunno why.

Danna: Maybe he doesn't like Reece or Blake or us.

George: Of course he doesn't, he is the school's biggest bully.

Blake: Guys, I think he is performing something to convince others to vote for him.

Zoe: Performing spice girls? Eww...

Luke: What? They're girls, you're a girl.

Zoe: That's not what I mean, it's just that, it's not my type of music. My type of music is more on rock music and anything from the 2000s that doesn't suck.

Blake: She's a tomboy.

George: We have to do more convincing, for now, let's check on the graphs Lexi has been making.

The choir and theatre kids went to the choir classroom where Lexi shows graphs with tally marks.

Lexi: So right here is the tally mark, this shows how many pupils voted for George and Zoe together and Joshua.

Blake: We already voted for Zoe and George.

Jenny: All of us did.

Aiden: Yeah, I mean who would like to vote for a big bully?

Robert: Mean girls obviously.

Aiden: What?

Lexi: So that's 29 votes for Zoe and George and 50 votes from Joshua?

Luke: Why would Joshua want to be choir director? It is hard work, even for juniors.

Blake: He just wants to enslave us after what Reece and I have done to him. He also put chemicals in Reece's eyes causing him to go to the hospital, get his eyes washed out and not go to school for a few days.

Lexi: Guys, you need to continue convincing people to vote for you.

Jenny: Ms. Jackson is assigning different clubs to perform this afternoon, maybe we could perform altogether.

Blake: Your brains are just like Reece's. Except that he gets straight C's in GSCE.

George: That's a good idea, but what song should we perform?

Zoe: One More Light by Linkin Park, it is more meaningful than the songs Joshua and the mean girls will be performing. The songs they perform suck.

Tristan: That's a pretty good song.

Connor: Yeah, the best song, even better than Spice Girls.

George: Then let's go, we're about to have a performance.

That afternoon, the assigned clubs will be performing for the afternoon. Joshua and the mean girls were performing some Spice Girl song which is so annoying but even the audience likes it.

Zoe: Guys, we're almost up, we've gotta be focused on our choreography and our singing.

George: Yeah, let's go.

The choir and theatre kids went on stage.

Song: One More Light by Linkin Park

George: #Should've stayed, were there signs, I ignored? #Can I help you, not to hurt, anymore? #We saw brilliance, when the world, was asleep #There are things that we can have, but can't keep#

Zoe: #If they say #Who cares if one more light goes out? #In the sky of a million stars #It flickers, flickers #Who cares when someone's time runs out? #If a moment is all we are #Or quicker, quicker #Who cares if one more light goes out? #Well I do#

Brad: #The reminders, pull the floor from your feet #In the kitchen, one more chair than you need, oh#

Tristan: #And you're angry, and you should be, it's not fair #Just 'cause you can't see it, doesn't mean it, isn't there#

Blake: #If they say #Who cares if one more light goes out? #In the sky of a million stars #It flickers, flickers #Who cares when someone's time runs out? #If a moment is all we are #Or quicker, quicker #Who cares if one more light goes out? #Well I do#

All: #I do #Who cares if one more light goes out? #In the sky of a million stars #It flickers, flickers #Who cares when someone's time runs out? #If a moment is all we are #Or quicker, quicker #Who cares if one more light goes out? #Well I do#

George and Zoe: #Well I do#

George: Thank you!

Ms. Jackson: That's wonderful guys, but where's Reece?

Zoe: Reece is sick and is in the hospital.

George: From pneumonia.

Ms. Jackson: Right, usually he leads the choir, then who will be substitutes?

Zoe: George and I will, he assigned us to do it.

Ms. Jackson: I see.

Joshua: Well that song is horrible, Spice Girls are better you punk rock idiots.

James: You may not like the song but we like it.

Zoe: Yeah, this song has meaningful lyrics unlike Spice Girls whose songs go like ugh.

George: Even the Beatles songs sound better.

Joshua: Whatever, I will be choir director and you lot will be performing Spice Girls for life.

Lexi: Actually, I made a tally chart so now Zoe and George have more votes than you.

Zoe: Wait a second, there is one more person who didn't vote.

Troy: How do you know?

Zoe: Lexi said that there are approximately 275 students studying here.

Ms. Jackson: Actually yes, there are 275 students here.

George: So that means there is someone who didn't vote.

Jenny: I know who.

The choir and theatre kids ran to the auditorium and called out for Anya.

Everyone: Anya!

Anya was surprised she nearly fell from the ladder since she is working on the set. Luckily, Zoe saved her with her powers.

Zoe: Woah, easy tiger!

Jenny: Reece would say that.

Zoe: Yeah.

Anya: Guys, what is going on?

George: We are wondering if you could vote for choir director. Who do you choose, Zoe and I or Joshua?

Anya: You and Zoe obviously, I don't want to vote for some bully.

Luke: Who does?

Anya: So this concludes that I will vote for Zoe and George.

Lexi: Thanks for the vote, Anya.

Anya: No sweat.

Everyone: Yes!

Joshua: What? (grunts) Why did you let her vote for these 2 idiot juniors?

Kandace: Because they deserve the position as substitute choir directors while Reece is in the hospital. I am also a junior but I got my position as co-director.

Jenny: Yeah.

Raphael: Why do you have to be so judgy?

Joshua: Because I'm a bully.

Annika: Yeah, you hear that? C'mon guys, these guys are annoying.

Joshua and Mean Girls: Hmph!

Joshua and the mean girls stomped off as everyone hi-five each other.

George: We are finally official choir directors.

Zoe: Yeah!

Then the bell started ringing.

George: Let's go home.

Lexi: Wait, before you go, can we go to the hospital and see Reece?

George: I am not sure about that.

Brad: Is it because you have cystic fibrosis?

George: Yup.

Harvey: Don't sweat it mate, I was also nervous about going to the hospital because mum spends most of her time there. She also has CF.

George: Okay.

Lexi: Then c'mon.

After packing their bags, they walked from school too hospital. Lexi and Reece's parents are there.

Lindsey: Lexi, how's school.

Lexi: Good mum, I'm with Reece's friends here.

Jamie: Well that's a lot of them.

Jenny: Hi, I'm Jenny Violet Tran, I'm Reece's girlfriend.

Lindsey: That's amazing.

Jamie: Guys, nurse is here.

Nurse: Relatives of Reece Brown?

Lindsey: We're here.

Nurse: He wants to see his friends and sister.

Blake: We're all here.

Nurse: Follow me kids.

Danna: But what about Mr. and Mrs. Brown?

Nurse: They'll follow, c'mon.

They went to Reece's room in the hospital room as Blake dashed in first and hugged his best friend. Because Reece and Blake have been close for a long time.

Blake: Reece!

Reece: Blake, easy tiger, the wires.

Blake: Oh, sorry.

Jenny: Reece, you alright?

Reece: I'm good, how are my 2 substitutes?

Zoe: Good.

George: Until Joshua came because he wanted to be choir director.

Reece: What?

Blake: It's true, just because Zoe and George are still little.

Reece: But you shouldn't underestimate them, they're a dynamic duo like Marie and Pierre Curie.

Zoe: I like Marie Curie.

Reece: So did you experience being real choir directors before I graduate along with the seniors?

George: We did, it was fun and Zoe got to print out sheet music.

Zoe: Those were Blake's.

Brad: We miss you Reece, we hope you could be released.

Reece: I'm actually fine here, I stayed in the hospital several times now.

Blake: For a broken arm, from a knee injury(he needed surgery), from laryngitis, from chemical burns in his eyes, from appendicitis and pneumonia right now.

Reece: Exactly, you know me well.

Blake: Thanks mate.

George: As choir director, I already assigned a song for us to sing when we're in the hospital.

Zoe: Hit it!

Song: Beside You by 5 Seconds of Summer

George: #Within a minute I was all packed up #I've got a ticket to another world #I don't want to go #I don’t want to go #Silent words are hard to speak #When your thoughts are all I see #“Don’t ever leave,” she said to me#

Zoe: #When we both fall asleep underneath the same sky #To the beat of our hearts at the same time #So close but so far away #Can you hear me?#

All: #She sleeps alone #My heart wants to come home #I wish I was, I wish I was beside you #She lies awake #I'm trying to find the words to say #I wish I was, I wish I was beside you#

Brad: #Another day, and I’m somewhere new #I made a promise that I’ll come home soon #Bring me back, bring me back to you#

Blake: #When we both wake up underneath the same sun #Time stops, I wish that I could rewind #So close but so far away#

All: #She sleeps alone #My heart wants to come home #I wish I was, I wish I was beside you #She lies awake #I'm trying to find the words to say #I wish I was, I wish I was beside you#

Harvey: #The pieces of us both #Under every city light #And they're shining as we fade into the night#

Troy: #She sleeps alone #My heart wants to come home #I wish I was, I wish I was...#

All: #She sleeps alone #My heart wants to come home #I wish I was, I wish I was beside you #She lies awake #I'm trying to find the words to say #I wish I was, I wish I was beside you#

Zoe: #She lies awake #Beside you #I wish I was, I wish I was...#

George: #She sleeps alone #My heart wants to come home #I wish I was, I wish I was...#

Reece: That's amazing, who wrote that song?

Luke: Calum and I wrote that 7 years ago.

Calum: Yeah, when we formed, we suggested that to you.

Reece: Oh yeah, we performed that to our parents before.

Luke: That's the spirit.

Lexi: We were definitely having fun while we were in school, but Joshua ruined it.

Danna: Yeah, kinda the worst type of fun I've experienced.

Everyone: (laughs)