"I DON'T WANNA GO BACK TO SCHOOL," cried Leo while grabbing onto Capricorn's leg. Capricorn tried to shake him off.

"Leo you're not five. Let go and get ready!" ordered Capricorn. Then Gemini walked into the living room carrying a black bag.

"What's in there?" asked Pisces.

"Nothing. See you all later!" Gemini ran outside.

"Don't worry. That bag isn't big enough to be a body bag," said Aries.

"How do you know what a body bag looks like?" asked Capricorn.

"Well it has to be big enough to fit a human inside so you can kind of imagine what it would look like," said Scorpio.

"Hey guys, did you know the school talent show is coming up?" asked Sagittarius.

"Wait! There's twelve of us! Let's all do a play!" suggested Cancer.

"Yeah! Let's all NOT do that," said Aquarius.

"Why not? If Cancer wants to do a play then we should try it out," said Taurus.

"Fine. As long as I get to pick the play," said Virgo.

"If you pick something stupid then I'll hurt you," threatened Scorpio.

"Don't worry. You'll love it!" promised Virgo with a big grin.

"We can discuss this during lunch. The bus will be here soon," said Libra.

***

After school the zodiacs were in the theatre room. It had a big stage and in front of it were  lots of seats. Then Cancer ran in the room.

"We have permission to stay as long as we clean up after ourselves," said Cancer.

"I don't want to do this," muttered Aquarius.

"What's that?" asked Taurus.

"I can't wait to do this," said Aquarius with fake enthusiasm.

"Virgo have you decided what play we'll be doing?" asked Libra.

"Yes. I think we should do Romeo and Juliet."

Scorpio crossed her arms. "I refuse to do that play. It's stupid and annoying."

"Like Virgo," muttered Aquarius. Capricorn (who overheard) started laughing.

Virgo grinned. "Oh really? Because those who participate get some cheesecake."

"Hmm... still not worth it," said Scorpio.

"And a few chocolate bars each. I believe you're running low on chocolate Scorpio," said Capricorn.

"That's because SOMEONE gave Pisces and Cancer all my chocolate!"

"I thought we were over this," said Pisces.

"So... are we going to do auditions or what?" asked Aries.

"I call dibs on being the director!" said Capricorn.

"I'm already the director," said Virgo.

"Assistant director. Or lights and sound. Just don't make me act!" pleaded Capricorn.

"Fine. Me and best friend Cappy will be the directors. The rest of you figure out what role you want to play." Virgo jumped off the stage and sat in the front row with a copy of the script. Capricorn sat beside him.

"So... who wants to play Romeo and Juliet?" asked Libra.

"I volunteer to play Romeo... only I could play such a fabulous role," said Leo.

"There's nothing fabulous about this play or any of the characters," muttered Scorpio.

"I guess Aries can be Juliet then," said Gemini.

"But I don't want to. Why can't I play Nurse or someone else?" asked Aries.

"But then someone else will have to kiss Leo," replied Aquarius.

"Libra and Aquarius can be Romeo and Juliet. Problem solved!" said Aries.

Libra crossed his arms. "Never."

"How about we just get Capricorn or Virgo to assign us roles? It would be a lot easier," suggested Pisces.

"Yeah. Otherwise no one will volunteer for anything," said Cancer.

"Let's let Capricorn decide. Virgo will give us stupid roles to mess us up," said Sagittarius.

"He looks pretty serious right now. I think he's taking this seriously," said Aquarius.

"How long do we have until the talent show?" asked Taurus.

"Two days," replied Gemini.

"We don't have a lot of time to practice," said Taurus.

"We'd better get started then," said Cancer.

"Hey Cappy! We want you to decide our roles!" shouted Aquarius.

"And Aquarius wants us to invite Antlia to come watch our play," said Sagittarius.

"Why you-" then Aquarius and Sagittarius starred wrestling. Capricorn and Virgo were discussing ideas for a few minutes.

"Alright. We made up our minds!" announced Capricorn. "Gemini will play Juliet, Pisces will play Romeo, Leo will play Paris, Sagittarius will play Tybalt, Aquarius will play Mercutio, Libra will play Benvolio, Aries will play Rosaline, Cancer will play Nurse, Taurus will play Friar Laurence and Scorpio will play lady
Capulet," announced Capricorn.

"What about the other roles?" asked Taurus.

"Hmm... some of you will have to play two roles. Figure it out on your own." Then Capricorn sat down.

***

Two days later it was time for the talent show. A girl was singing onstage while the zodiacs were backstage.

"Okay guys, everyone remember their parts?" asked Virgo. Everyone nodded.

"Our practices started out kind of... well... terribly but I believe we can do this," said Capricorn. Then the audience started clapping. Capricorn and Virgo walked offstage to sit in the front row. Gemini walked in front of the closed curtains and started reciting the prologue.

After she was finished, Gemini ran backstage. The curtains opened. There were a few props set up to make it look like the setting was a town. Aquarius and Cancer walked onstage and started playing Sampson and Gregory.

"I-I w-will frown a-as I p-pass b-by," stuttered Cancer who was getting stage fright.

"Nay, as they dare. I will bite my thumb at them, which is a disgrace to them, if the bear it," then Aquarius accidentally bit his thumb too hard. "OUCH! I THINK THERE'S BLOOD!"

"Oh no are you okay Aqua- I mean Sampson!" said Cancer.

"See. Is that blood? I think it's blood!" said Aquarius.

"Do you bite your thumb at us sir?" asked Taurus who quickly ran onstage.

"Yes. I mean- I do bite my thumb, sir. And it really fuc- I mean freaking hurt too!"

"Do you bite your thumb at US, sir?" asked Taurus.

"Ugh... let's skip all this boring dialogue and fight already!" Then Aquarius drew his fake sword. Taurus did the same and they started sword fighting.

"I-I think Benvolio should come here soon," said Cancer. Then Libra ran onstage.

"Part, fools! Put up your swords, you know not what to do!"

Sagittarius ran onstage. "What, art thou drawn among blah blah blah more gibberish words. Turn thee, Benvolio, look upon thy death!"

Libra looked worried. "I do but keep peace-"

"BULLSHIT!"

"...put up thy sword, or manage it to part these men with me."

"FIGHT ME!" Then Sagittarius and Libra started sword fighting.

A few seconds later Leo ran onstage dressed as a prince. "Rebellious subjects, enemies to peace..." as Leo spoke Aquarius made bunny ears behind Leo's head.
(A/N: I won't make you endure the entire play again so let's skip right to the end)

***

"Then with a kiss I die!" then Pisces kissed Gemini and drank from a bottle that actually contained water. As soon as he fell down Gemini woke up.

"Where's my Romeo? What? He drank poison? Romeo's dead? WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT ROMEO TELL ME WHY!" screeched Gemini while shaking Pisces. "Well if he's dead then I'm dead too!" Gemini pulled out a dagger and pretended to stab herself.

Leo marched onstage. He started reciting the last lines of the play. "... for never a story of more woe, than this of Juliet and her Romeo. So basically when you pretend that you're dead to get out of a wedding, make sure you hire someone reliable to deliver the message to Romeo," said Leo. Then he bowed. The curtains closed. All of the zodiacs except Capricorn and Virgo stood onstage and bowed.

"This is bad. This is very bad," said Capricorn. Then everyone stood up and started cheering.

"They probably all hate the play so much that they enjoyed our screwed up version," muttered Scorpio. Then the zodiacs all went backstage.

***

After changing out of their costumes, the zodiacs all sat in the front row of seats. The principal walked onstage.

"Okay, next up we have a performer playing her special instrument." Then the principal walked back offstage.

"Wait. Who are we missing?" asked Aries. The curtain opened and Gemini stood in the middle of a stage grinning with her hands behind her back. Then she pulled a trumpet from behind her back and started playing. Everyone kept screaming and booing her, but Gemini continued playing.

Gemini bowed. "Thank you, thank you everyone. You're all just jealous that you can't play the trumpet half as well as I can." Then she stuck out her tongue and ran offstage. The curtains closed.

"Next up is a student who will be singing 'Fabulous' from High School Musical 2." Everyone knew who it was before the curtains opened to reveal Leo wearing a blonde wig, a pink dress with a stuffed bra, heels, a pink purse, pink sunglasses and of course a bunch of make up.

"It's out with the old, in with the new. Goodbye clouds of grey, hello skies of blue..." sang Leo in a high pitched voice. Everyone was either laughing their heads off or cringing.

"I can't wait until this is all over with. No more talent shows for us," whispered Capricorn to Virgo.

"I WANT FABULOUS! THAT IS MY SIMPLE REQUEST!" sang Leo while doing a bunch of dance moves and flipping his hair.

***

The principal walked back onstage. "Okay. Good job Leo. Now we know why you were kicked out of choir three ti-"

"FOUR!" shouted Sagittarius.

"Right. Now we know why you were kicked out of choir four times. Anyway our last performance of the day will be two best friends singing 'Closer' by The Chainsmokers. Then the principal walked offstage. The curtains opened. Of course Virgo and Aquarius were standing onstage.

"Hey, I was doing just fine before I met you," sang Aquarius.

Libra face palmed multiple times. "Not this song!" Aquarius continued singing until after the chorus.

"You look as good as the day I met you," sang Virgo in a high pitched voice.

"That voice will haunt me in my nightmares," shuddered Libra.

When it got to the chorus again Virgo jumped off the stage and grabbed Libra's hand.

"No! Virgo don't do this!" begged Libra.

"So baby pull me closer~" sang Virgo as he pulled Libra up on stage. Him and Aquarius continued singing and dancing around Libra. Libra looked like he wanted to die. Meanwhile, Capricorn pulled a muscle from laughing so hard.

***

Later on the zodiacs were back at the mansion. Aries, Taurus, Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces were in the living room gathered around Sagittarius who was doing something on his laptop.

"Aaaaaaaaaaand... its done!" said Sagittarius.

"Look! The comments are already rolling in!" said Aries.

"They're going to be famous," smirked Scorpio.

"Are you guys sure this was a good idea?" asked Cancer.

"They're the once that started it," said Taurus.

Gemini walked into the living room. "What are you guys doing?"

"Uploading videos on YouTube," replied Pisces.

"Huh?" Then Gemini walked over and Sagittarius showed Gemini the videos that uploaded. The first one was called "Sharpay 2.0" while the other one was called "three monkeys dancing on a stage".

"They're going to kill us," said Aries.

"Not if they don't find out," said Sagittarius.

"Who wants to bet they'll find out?" asked Cancer.

"Who wants to bet they won't even care?" asked Taurus.

"Either way I think we all can agree that we're finished with talent shows," said Scorpio.

"I agree!" said Pisces.

"What's going on?" asked Aquarius who appeared in the doorway.

"NOTHING!" should everyone. Then everyone ran away leaving Aquarius standing in the doorway looking confused.