Who: Bart Allen, Kara Kent, M'gann M'orzz (Open to all of Centennial High) What: The First-Day-of-School Pep Rally gets a lot more interesting when Bart pays off the Student Council Vice-Secretary When: Tuesday, August 28th-- the first day of school. Rating: PG
Bart had been incommunicado most of the last week. Somehow, he was always busy doing something whenever anyone asked him if he was available (even Kara). He spent a lot of quiet time in his room, though the thuds that came from behind the door said he wasn't being idle; though whenever Linda tried to check on him, he was sitting peacefully at the computer by the time she got the door open. A whole week of preparations came down to this...
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The first day of school was nerve-wracking for everyone, but Bart felt much better about it this time around than he did a few months ago. He had friends, a girlfriend even, and he wasn't at all alone which was... nice. But, in true Allen fashion and with a wish to not jinx anything, Bart still wore his Grampa's signature lucky red bow tie to the first day of school. No need to throw his luck away now.
The Pep Rally itself wasn't horrible. The weather was still nice and they had decided to have it on a portable stage out on the football field with the whole sound system brought outside as well so that all the students could actually hear what the faculty said (not that most cared). Megan was up with the cheerleaders who threw cheers and miniature dance routines in between the different teachers and coaches pep talks about the upcoming school year. Bart saw Kara across the bleachers and waved, but didn't go over-- not yet. He had things he needed to do first.
It was hard to believe that they had been dating for so long. All summer long in fact-- Bart knew how rare that was. Four months of dating was like forever and he wanted her to know that the oncoming school year wasn't going to change anything.
He could hear the principal beginning to wind down his speech and Bart took that his cue. His teacher looked away for a minute to clap for the principal and by the time she looked back, Bart was gone.
Grabbing the acoustic guitar that he'd stashed before the Pep Rally, he speed-snuck his way behind the stage and passed fifty dollars off to the Vice-Secretary of the Student Council, who counted it quickly and got out of the way.
"Thank you, and now a word from your Student Council Vice-Secretary. Go Eagles!" The Principal cheered while the student body applauded politely.
The principal left the stage. It was do or die time.
Bart walked onto the stage with his guitar and tapped on the microphone to make sure it was on. The Principal, confused, looked back. Well, he didn't think that kid was the Vice-Secretary... but maybe he had been wrong.
It sounded a little different, given that his guitar was acoustic and not electric, but Bart started to play the first few notes and the Track team (who he had made friends with last year and promised to do all their homework for two weeks) began to use the various household utensils Bart had provided them with to be his percussion section.
Bart found Kara in the crowd, and then he started to sing,
"You're insecure. Don't know what for. You're turning heads when you walk through the do-o-or. Don't need make up to cover up. Being the way that you are is eno-ou-ough."
Here the Track team really earned their pay by all turning to face the audience and singing along as Bart's back up while he continued,
"Everyone else in the room can see it. Everyone else but you..."
The Vice Secretary timed it just perfectly to switch to the recording right as the beat dropped and Bart swung his guitar around to his back, the neck poking out past his shoulder like a musical sword hilt and continued to sing.
"Baby, you light up my world like no body else. The way that you flip your hair gets me overwhelmed." Here, Bart flipped his own hair with an eyelash flutter, imitating how girls did the classic no-hand hair flip. "The way you smile at the ground, it ain't hard to tell. You don't know-oh-oh."
Leveling one arm straight out in a move stolen from all the classic Rock Gods, Bart pointed at Kara up in the bleachers, "You don't know you're beautiful."
Surprisingly enough, as soon as Bart finished this line, the string of cheerleaders ran out behind him and started going through one of the dance routines they had learned during the summer (and taught Bart some of just for the occasion, he really owed Megan for this one). "If only you saw what I can see, you'd understand why I want you so desperately."
Although Bart was only doing a few parts of the dance, from the bottom of the bleachers, the Track Team also began to do the arm motions of covering their eyes and pretending to look around, singing along. "Right now I'm looking at you and I can't believe you don't know-oh-oh. You don't know you're beautiful."
Everything and everyone stopped singing and dancing, and Bart took two steps forward to the edge of the stage to look right at Kara and smiled, "That's what makes you beautiful."
He slung the guitar off of his back and quickly handed it to Megan in exchange for his skateboard, leaping down off of the stage to get ready for the next verse.