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Shaker Call Out

As East High’s drama company had their cast party at Salt Lake Slices, two party-crashers arrived and sullied everyone’s good mood.

They were about to be sent out when Big Red decided to do the opposite.

As usual thanks to @cadetcama and @redlyncentral for the creative juices.

[FFN] [Ao3]

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"It is true. Your show had a beginning, a middle, and an end. It was wonderful." A boy with a French accent nodded.

Every Wildcat present simply rolled their eyes at the faux compliment they received from their rivals.

After a successful, albeit stressful, opening night, the Wildcats held their cast party at Salt Lake Slices, Big Red's family pizza restaurant. Everyone was just having a good time reminiscing when two party-crashers got inside the establishment.

"And Big Red, you were also in it." The boy pointed at the owner's son.

The Wildcats frowned at the subtle dig the French boy had at them. Not letting these rivals get the best of them, Ricky decided to speak up.

"Okay, well, thank you for dropping by but this is kind of a private party." Ricky stood up, intending to escort them towards the door. "So if you could, uh-"

"Bye!" Every Wildcat chimed in.

"Thank you." Gina cheekily added.

"Out you go." Ricky pointed at the direction of the door.

"We'll miss you." Carlos waved.

"Actually no, you both can stay." Big Red voiced out. "Ricky, please close the door."

"Big Red?"

Despite how weird-ed out he was by his best friend's request, Ricky still followed it and locked it from the inside while the others were looking at Big Red as in a new light. No one expected this kind of reaction from their Le Fou.

"Kourtney, do you still have those videos saved on your phone?" Big Red ignored everyone's stares. "I've got some of them saved in mine."

"O my god! The shaker thief!" Ashlyn realized. "You mean?" Ashlyn looked at her boyfriend.

"Yeah, she even removed her sunglasses a few times." Big Red nodded and smiled at the same time.

"Shaker thief?" Nini couldn't help but ask.

"Basically, if there's one person from the drama club present at Slices, that's not employed, somehow, someone has been stealing the shakers that the restaurant provided the customers." Gina explained with a pointed look at Howie.

"We already confronted Howie," Kourtney came to her employee's defense. "Grilled him a few times myself once we found out who was stealing the shakers."

"How do you know this, Gina?" Carlos questioned his fellow dancer.

"She's my roomie!" Ashlyn declared. "Biggie tells me his stresses about the restaurant, including the shaker thief, and well, Gina and I talk about it."

"Excuse me?!" The blond girl exclaimed. "Are you accusing us of theft?!" She glared at Big Red.

"I think this will jog your memory." Kourtney declared as she connected her phone to the television near the counter and played the video.

The TV showed a CCTV recording by the most comfortable booth of the place. It showed Nini just ending her phone call while a boy, clearly the same boy that was currently present, talking to a blond girl, but the next thing that happened was the girl taking one shaker on the table and deposited it into her bag.

"Wasn't that Antoine?" Kourtney identified the boy.

"Big deal! That could have been Antoine's girlfriend!"

"The date was clearly before we found out that you stole our beast mask." Carlos countered.

"So he was in a relationship when he asked my cousin to dump her boyfriend and asked her out at the same time?" EJ raised an eyebrow.

"They could have broken up!"

Without another word, another footage played on the TV screen, this time it was Ashlyn and Big Red, who wasn't on duty, talking to each other. Not a moment later, EJ and Gina arrived and their talks turned into laughs.

The girl's face can easily be seen on another table, this time with her back against the laughing Wildcats. She made a face of discontent before she grabbed the shaker on the table and promptly walked out of frame.

"Isn't that you Lily?" Natalie raised an eyebrow.

"So what, I stole two pepper shakers," Lily scoffed.

"It's not just two shakers." Big Red interjected.

As more CCTV recordings played on the TV screen, displaying every time Lily was caught in the act of stealing one shaker per footage.

"Didn't you claim that North High is a quasi-pre-professional theater company?" Kourtney raised an eyebrow. "Correct me if I'm wrong, this is like my second opening night but do professional theater companies condone stealing?"

"They don't." EJ answered.

"Most performers are busy learning their lines and rehearsing that they don't have the time to do something petty and heinous such as stealing." Carlos supplied.

"Look, you could pay us $100 from the shakers and its contents that you stole, and you can leave." Big Red offered.

"It's not just $100," Kourtney interjected. "But we can break even with that amount."

"Who are you two supposed to be?" Lily exclaimed. "You could just barely stand during auditions." She pointed at Big Red.

"Lily, could you just pay them?" Howie groaned.

"Are you betraying us, Howie?" Antoine questioned.

"Fine, have it your way." Howie gave up. "Just for the record, you are talking to the owner of the restaurant you are standing on, and the assistant manager," He informed his schoolmates. "So sorry if I don't want to lose my source of income because of your idiocy." He sat down.

"So, Lily, your payment please." Kourtney approached the party crashers with an open palm.

"Look, we could do this the easy way, or the hard way?" Big Red sighed.

"Fine, call the police!" Lily stubbornly stood her ground. "But I'm not going down alone!"

"If you mean, how you stole Ricky's harness during his transformation scene? They know." Howie voiced out.

"Wha-"

"Yeah, Howie told us as soon as everyone from our company was present," Gina chimed in. "He wanted to tell Kourtney during intermission, but he also knew that it would put the act in jeopardy had we known ahead of time." She shrugged.

"We are still not done talking about that, by the way." Kourtney interjected.

"If you wanted to bring someone down with you, try a little harder." Gina 1 point oh resurfaced.

Lily, without a way out, and no money to pay the hundred dollars that she owed, she searched for ways to get out of the situation, or even get even."

"Ricky and I face timed each other."

"If you mean the time where you said you 'were struggling' that happened only one time," Big Red immediately countered. "And everyone instantly knew you had called Ricky as soon as your call ended, I was there."

"Ricky, remember your girlfriend's Rose song?"

"Lily, could you please stop?" Ricky groaned. "You aren't getting out of this or getting even with anyone." He added. "Please just pay Big Red and be done with this."

"I don't have that big of an amount, okay!" Lily exclaimed.

"Well, you could start by returning the shakers you stole," Kourtney raised an eyebrow. "Then we can deduct the prices of the shakers that you returned to the amount you owe, then you'll work for the remaining amount."

"No!" Lily exclaimed. "I'm not working at some derelict two-star family restaurant!"

"We could always involve the police," Seb shrugged.

"Take your pick." Carlos voiced out.

"Fine!" Lily grabbed Antoine by the arm and stomped towards the door.

"Don't forget, you start tomorrow!" Kourtney called out.

An expected growl was heard before the chimes of the door rang. The students of North High can be seen through the window, stomping away from the family restaurant.

"Do you think we're too harsh on her?"

"Too harsh?! Try too lenient! The restaurant lost more than a hundred dollars from her stunt!" Kourtney exclaimed. "You may not know this, Big Red, but the employees had to pay for the number of things that girl stole from your restaurant."

"Actually Big Red had the most amount to pay for Lily's theft," Ricky came to his best friend's defense. "He was forced to sell some of his video games so that he can contribute with the payment."

"Ricky!"

"You asked me to help you decide which games to sell," Ricky shrugged. "Some of them, you haven't even played."

"Don't video games cost $60? Ashlyn asked.

"Big Red already destroyed the package of the games he bought, so he couldn't sell the game at full price," Ricky answered. "He was able to sell one game for 15 bucks but all the other games only sold for 5 bucks."

"I told you not to question whether the Redonoviches included their son to contribute to the family restaurant's losses." Howie whispered.

"Why did you give her a discounted price then?"

"Tell me, do any one of you even carry around a hundred dollars?" Big Red raised an eyebrow.

"Not me." EJ answered.

"Nor me." Ashlyn shook her head.

"I usually leave the majority of my money home," Gina answered. But I have some money stored in my bag's pockets for emergencies, you never know."

"Besides, we can always reveal the full amount that she owed the restaurant as soon as she starts working." Big Red offered.

"I suppose that's fair." Kourtney nodded.

"With the Lily drama out of the way, who here still cares about the Menkies?" Carlos asked.

Everyone looked at each other, they were hesitating to raise their hands, eyeing if one ever would.

"Good!" Carlos sighed. "I thought it was only me."

"I mean, we already won right?"

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