E.C.H.O.

Stage 19 "Girls of Ellison High"

The mass of boys gathered in dorm three gave away that something was up. They were all crowded outside one particular room that was filled with boys. Eyes peered at Lucus and his roommates. Brian shrank back, looking as though he wanted to run. Hands reached out and pushed him back in his place, right between his two roommates.

Nathan reached a hand up and scratched the long wig of black hair that hung from his head. He moved a hand to the skirt of the uniform he wore and tugged at it; the uniform that identified him as a girl of Bel. Both his roommate wore it as well.

Lucas didn't move, deciding that the less he did, the fewer eyes would be on him. He had gone on missions for ECHO in various disguises before. But at least then they didn't make me look like a cross between Godzilla and... he shot a glance over at Nathan and then Brian. Out of the three boys, Nathan was the closest to pulling the look off, however, that wasn't saying a lot. Just think of it as a chance to get a look at Bel from the inside. Lucas tried to not think of how Nathan and the other guys had dragged him and Brian into this.     

"They're missing something." A guy stood back to survey his work, a finger tapping his chin.

There was a moment of silence as eyes stared at the three boys who looked like cross dressing gone very wrong. Poor Brian didn't even have a wig, instead, a bow had been clipped in his hair. The red lipstick that had been plastered on his lips and partly on his cheek gave away that he had tried to smudge it off.

Dwain, for whom they were going through this ordeal for, raised a finger in the air. "Their chests!" he exclaimed.

All eyes turned to him.

"They're flat," he explained.

"Huh?" someone asked.

"Boobs, man!" someone told him.

'Ahs' and 'ohs' went up all around. Brian looked like he was about to pass out. Nathan, however, almost looked excited.

"I want a C cup!" he yelled.

All around guys were jostling and shoving as ideas for fake boobs were called out. Socks were passed forward only to be tossed to the side after a whiff of them revealed they hadn't been washed in a good two weeks.

Lucas watched the unfolding scene in a calm manner. The whole situation left him both confused and somewhat overwhelmed. How almost the entire dorm three had gotten involved, he wasn't sure. Yet, somehow, as soon as the idea had been spread that the three roommates could sneak into Bel High, everyone had found a way to pitch in. The following day, three uniforms had been dug up that the drama team had apparently used for a play the previous school year. Wigs and makeup had been donated too.

Somehow, Lucas felt that Auden wouldn't allow what was going on to happen if he knew, but apparently the dorm heads were out for a meeting. Jamie was standing near the door, peering around with wide eyes and glaring every time Lucas glanced it that direction

"I have it!" Someone walked through the mass of guys holding up oranges. "We can use these!"

Lucas and his roommates found themselves bestowed with oranges that were stuffed down their shirts. The guys around them surveyed their work.

"Nathan, yours are crooked," someone commented.

Nathan corrected them before looking up with a grin. "Tell me I don't look like a beauty." He overdramatically battered the fake eyelashes that had been stuck on while posing as though doing a photoshoot.

"More like a beast," came the reply.

There was a snicker.

"We're going to be dead when they catch us!" Brian gasped,