Thursday, January 26, 2012

Curtain Call (3)

Her foot gently pressed on the gas, the car going just over 20 mph. Ross leaned forward from his back seat and looked at Laura, her concentration on the road. "You can go a little faster you know," he said, ignoring the look her driving instructor gave him. Laura laughed and gently pressed her foot harder on the gas.

"Oh boy, when you start learning to drive I am going to make you suffer," she responded, laughing a bit. Ross just laughed and rolled his eyes, leaning back in the seat. He didn't understand why the instructor wanted him in the car during the lesson but he got Taco Bell out of it so he was fine.

"You're not as bad as you make it seem," the blond commented, referring to their recent interview on KTLA.

"Trust me, Mr. Lynch, this is the best she's driven," the instructor said from the passenger seat as she adjusted her glasses.

"That's because I know Ross isn't some sick-o that'd attack me in a heartbeat," Laura mumbled under her breath. Ross, seeming to have been the only one to have heard it, suddenly burst out laughing. The brown haired beauty giggled in response, making a right into the set parking lot.

"Good lesson, Laura," the instructor said before handing Laura a sheet of things she needed to improve on then walked to his own car.

"Do you need to make a lot of improvements?" asked Ross as they made their way to Riker's awaiting car. The two climbed in the back-seat as Laura silently reviewed her list. Once she read the last thing, she burst out laughing. Ross rose an eyebrow at her and she could only thrust the sheet into his hands, the laughter not stopping.

"What does it say?" Riker asked as he turned down Laura's street.

Ross suppressed a chuckle before he read the last improvement aloud. "You do better with Ross in the car but you need to focus more on the road than silently flirting with your boyfriend."

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They had been doing promo interviews for the past week and Laura was exhausted. She trudged onto the lot where Rachael Ray was filmed, slowly making her way to the make-up and dressing room. It was early in the morning and the only thing on her mind was sleep.

If you asked her later that day, she would not have recalled going to hair, make-up, and then waiting in the dressing room. She would not have even recalled saying hello to Rydel and Ryland in the hallway as they filmed everything, like they had been doing all week, trying to get some new shots for the next R5-TV. However, she did remember Ross sitting beside her on the couch and watching the opening monologue for the show. Not even five minutes into watching it, Laura and Ross both fell asleep from exhaustion. Her head lulled to the side, resting on Ross's shoulder. His head find its way on top of Laura's head.

Too soon they were called to get to set. Ross and Laura rushed down the halls, Ross more awake than his brown haired friend, causing him to urge her forward by gently guiding her by holding her forearms. They both were awake and alert by the time that Rachael Ray called them out. Ross and Laura walked out holding hands in a friendly manner, as they were told by the staff. Though Ross has no idea how you could hold someones hand in a friendly manner.

They took their seats at the table after greeting Rachael.

"So, welcome guys!" the cook said with a smile. The two friends just laughed and thanked her, adding that they were happy to be there, the usual. "You both star in Disney's show Austin & Ally, care to tell us what it's about?" Ross looked at Laura expectantly, for he found that she explained the show in the best, most entertaining way possible.

"Well, it's about these two people, Austin and Ally, who are complete opposites yet find themselves in this musical partnership. I play Ally who is this amazing songwriter BUT, uh-oh, she has really bad stage fright. Low and behold, Austin Moon, played by the incredibly talented Ross Lynch, comes and steals one of Ally's songs. At the end of the day, the extremely shy songwriter and the very, very outgoing singer find themselves friends in a musical partnership." Rachael nodded her head, laughing at the perfect points as Laura explained. She moved the front of her cards to the back and continued the interview.

Ross and Laura had become experts at these interviews considering how almost every single one had gone the same. The blond haired boy had suggested they make up a game, seeing who could indirectly get the host to say their word of the day first. They had successfully gotten a few television reporters to say things along the lines of "cheese" and "Redvines". Today's word was wheel.

"Okay," Rachael began, putting her cards down on the table. She looked at the duo with a smile. "So you guys have been promos all week?"

"Oh yeah, I think we've done two," Ross began uncertainly, looking at Laura for confirmation. Once she nodded, he continued. "A day all week."

"And then what do you guys do?"

"Then," Laura said with a laugh, "we go to the studio and rehearse."

"But it's worth it," Ross said, Laura nodding her head in agreement. "We absolutely love our jobs."

"Yeah. We probably have the best jobs in the world. We have the best cast and crew, everyone is amazing and so is everything about the show," Laura finished.

"Now, I know you guys are tired," Rachael said. The duo looked a little confused before the cook put a picture of the two asleep in Laura's dressing room up on the screen. While the audience showed reactions of content and laughed a bit, the pair couldn't stop laughing. "But we just have a few more things that you have to do. Ross, your character Austin Moon loves pancakes so I'm going to keep you two around and we'll be making pancakes very soon!" Rachael Ray said into the camera before turning to the two guests once she was sure that her microphone was off.

"Yay! I love pancakes!" Laura said with a smile.

"I hope you guys are hungry," Rachael said. The two nodded their heads enthusiastically. "You guys will be a team and will be going up against the show's other guest for today Brad Pitt. He's going to be paired up with one of his biggest fans who happens to love cooking. Are you guys okay with this?" she asked, wanting to make sure. The two teens nodded their heads with a smile before they were rushed backstage so Rihanna, the musical guest for the day, could perform. While standing backstage, they made up strategies to help them win the cooking challenge. The two figured they could use as much help as they could get considering how competitive they each were and that they were going against two people who cooked far more than either of them combined, Ross having rarely cooked.

Laura and Ross waited backstage as Rihanna's opening notes began. The two friends danced and sang along to her newest single, not caring how big of fools they must look like. Ross had grabbed her hands and twirled her, their dancing looking less ridiculous than how their similar dance on Austin & Ally looked. After Rihanna's song ended, the two were rushed onto the specially designed kitchen set for the cooking challenges.

The kitchen set looked like it had been split down the middle and placed in front of the mirror. The left side was an exact replica of the right. Each side had a fridge, stocked with the esstentials, and extra ingredients, needed for the challenge. Each side also had an equal amount of counter space, appliances, a stove, and four burners.

Two show assistants helped Ross and Laura get their aprons on and each of them got a chef's hat the looked like it had fallen over and hung down on one side. They got into their marked spots and joked around about how each other looked in the hat.

"Ross, you can rock hats all the time but this one..." Laura began as a joke, laughing a little. She turned her attention to the audience member, Holly, an average twenty eight year old, as she took her spot next to the brown haired actress. "Good luck," she said with a smile, saying the same to Brad Pitt when he turned towards them.

"Make the best team win," Ross said, shaking each one of their hands.

"I admit, I'm a little scared to go against you guys," Brad Pitt began, rubbing his hands together. "My kids might hate me because they love your show." The group laughed and Laura felt a pink blush making its way onto her face as Ross thanked him.

"Ross! Laura!" the group heard, looking towards the front of the audience to see Ross and Laura's family there. Ryland held up the camera, filming them since he had gotten permission from the show. The duo waved at the camera before Rachael appeared, ready to introduce the challenge.

"Welcome back everyone! I've got two teams behind me ready to face off in our pancake challenge. On our left side we have the team of Ross Lynch and Laura Marano, the stars of Disney's hit new show "Austin & Ally"!" she said, introducing the teens. They smiled and cheered with the crowd. "And on the right we have one of the hottests celebs in Hollywood, Brad Pitt, and one very lucky audience member Holly!" The crowd cheered louder for the second team considering how most of the audience were older women who were infatuated with the older man. But Ross and Laura took no offense.

"On today's challenge, the teams will only have their knowledge of cooking and the objects on their side of the kitchen to help them complete a stack of five pancakes in," Rachael began, pausing to let the suspense seep in, "six minutes." The teams exchanged looks of quick panic before they prepared themselves for the challenge. "On your mark! Get set! Go!"

The second Rachael shouted "Go!", Ross and Laura set their plan into motion. Laura made a dash for her ingredients as Ross started up a burner while getting his.

They quickly met up at the bowl and mixed the ingredients together, their special ingredients being chopped up bananas and strawberries. Ross had been assigned the job of mixing it into a batter in the bowl considering how he was stronger. While Ross did that, Laura quickly got two frying pans ready so both herself and Ross could cook at the same time. Two and a half minutes passed and Laura faintly heard the notes of "Forget You" by Cee Lo Green beginning to fade despite it being in the middle of the chorus. Neither Ross nor Laura had even noticed they had been singing along while they cooked.

The sound of "Sexy and I Know It" by LMFAO began echoing around the studio and Laura laughed at the fact that Ross had been dancing to the exact same song not too long ago on KTLA. She watched as Ross poured the batter onto the awaiting frying pans, dancing along to the song. Laura laughed harder as she waited for the the mix to start cooking. They each heard Rachael yelled "Three minutes!" and they looked at each other in panic.

"Hey, you know what, let's just have fun," Ross said to Laura, putting his competitiveness to the side for once. He never really cooked and he was surprised at how much fun he was already having. It wouldn't be as much fun if they only thought of it as a competition. Though no one else heard what Ross said, Laura smiled and nodded. She had been flipping her pancake and it was done. She quickly put it onto a plate before pouring more mix onto the pan.

Ross had also placed a pancake on the plate and added batter to his empty frying pan. As Laura placed her second pancake on the plate (making their total three) and prepared to make the fifth pancake, she accidentally hit Ross in the side with her elbow.

"I am so sorry!" she said quickly, momentarily forgetting her pancake until Rachael yelled that there was two minutes left. Ross just laughed, placed his pancake on the plate (their total four) and bumped into Laura's hip with his own. The brown eyed girl just laughed and bumped him back. She flipped the last banana and strawberry pancake before placing it on their plate, finishing with thirty seconds left. Ross quickly rumaged through the fridge and pulled out a can of whipped cream, drawing a smiley face on the top.

"And time!" Rachael called, causing the two teams to stop what they were doing and look in her direction. And deliberating, happy that both teams had five pancakes, she called a tie. "It's a tie! You guys did amazing!" she announced, throwing her arms over the shoulders of Holly and Laura. Once she took her arms off to say goodbye to the camera, Ross hugged Laura in excitement.

As the crew began cleaning up the kitchen, and Ross and Laura had said goodbye to Brad Pitt and Holly, they waited on the set, eating their pancakes.

"There is not enough whipped cream," Ross said, drowning his pancakes in the fluffy white substance. Laura laughed and used her fork to take have of the whipped cream.

"Yum!" she said with a smile.

All Ryland could do as they approached the duo was shut off his camera with a smile. Rydel and himself had some perfect shots to edit for the new R5-TV episode.

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Obviously I don't own anything above except the plot. This is just for fun after someone asked me to write a Ross and Laura story. I hope everyone is enjoying it so far! :)

3 comments:

  1. Awww I love Ross and Laura's playful flirting in the car and on live TV. Too adorable, I bet together they can make anything fun as long as they are together

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  3. Love this story! Please continue soon! :)

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