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Romance 101, Wednesday, Period 4 -- Class 5

Much to the horror of most of the class, they would find a karaoke set-up in the front of the room when they arrived. Don't even think of trying to slink away; Drake would hunt you down and drag you back, kicking and screaming.

"All right, kiddies," Drake said, clapping his hands and rubbing them together. "Love songs. I had you dance to them once, but today, we're going to sing them. Don't worry if you don't have a great voice. Sometimes embarrassing yourself a little can be a really romantic thing. So you're going to pick a song and belt it out. Sing from the heart. It's the words and the emotion that matters, not your voice. I'll step up and get you started."

The power of love is a curious thing
make a one man weep, make another man sing
Change a hawk to a little white dove
more than a feeling
that's the power of love

Tougher than diamonds, rich like cream
Stronger and harder than a bad girl's dream
make a bad one good make a wrong one right
power of love that keeps you home at night

You don't need money, don't take fame
Don't need no credit card to ride this train
It's strong and it's sudden and it's cruel sometimes
but it might just save your life
That's the power of love
That's the power of love

First time you feel it, it might make you sad
Next time you feel it it might make you mad
But you'll be glad baby when you've found
that's the power makes the world go round

And it don't take money, don't take fame
don't need no credit card to ride this train
It's strong and it's sudden it can be cruel sometimes
but it might just save your life

They say that all in love is fair
yeah, but you don't care
But you know what to do
when it gets hold of you
and with a little help from above
you feel the power of love
you feel the power of love
Can you feel it?

It don't take money and it don't take fame
don't need no credit card to ride this train
Tougher than diamonds and stronger than steel
you won't feel nothin' till you feel
you feel the power, just the power of love
That's the power, that's the power of love
You feel the power of love
you feel the power of love
feel the power of love

"Now, your turn. If you have trouble, I'll pick a song for you."

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You can try to sneak out, but you probably won't succeed.

Cara was a master of stealth, she was sure she'd be able to reach the door without being noticed.

But Drake could shimmer! And so he did, blocking the door. "Tsk tsk," he scolded. "No leaving until you sing. But I'll be nice and not make you finish your vegetables."

At the sight of Drake shimmering, Cara's hand automatically snapped up in case she needed reflect any magic tossed her way. Of course that probably ruined any chances of claiming she wasn't trying to escape.

"Mord'Sith aren't travelling performers, we don't sing," she tried instead. "Besides, I don't know any love songs." Ha! She could hardly be made to sing a love song if she didn't know any, could she?

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Edmund had fully intended to try sneaking out, only to see Cara beating him to it and being foiled in her attempt.

He was doomed. Completely and utterly doomed to sing in front of his peers. The look on his face was somewhere in the realm of alarmed, bewildered and lost. "This is madness."

"Madness?" Drake repeated. "This...is...ROMANCE!"

Fortunately, there was no nearby pit to try to kick anyone into.

Edmund would have taken being kicked into a pit over having to sing. "I mean this with all due respect, sir. You're a very interesting person." For some definitions of interesting. "Can I choose an older song? There's one I remember from Earth, only it's from quite a long time ago."

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Oh, sure, someone else had to go for the door. Meanwhile Kitty was looking at the floor and hoping so hard that it was basement under there. Of course, she might be in a little bit of trouble if it wasn't.

So Kitty just tried to make her way towards a wall, slowly, very slowly, so as not to attract attention, totally planning on phasing out of there so hard, omg.

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Drake was so used to people trying to inch away from him. It used to happen all the time in the Underworld when other demons were worried he was going to get them in trouble with the Source.

"I seeeee you," he said, eyeing Kitty as she tried to escape. "C'mon, give it a shot instead of fleeing for your life. It's fun!"

Darn it. "Oh, I wasn't trying to like flee," Kitty lied. "I just got an urgent text. There's been an emergency. I have to leave right away." You know, through the wall.

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Others went for the door, Dru was seriously considering the window.

Or at least faking a sudden, horrible case of laryngitis.

"C'mon, c'mon, get on up there and sing," Drake encouraged.

"Can't," she rasped, as she rubbed her throat with her hand.

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Rosalind inwardly fumed as she watched her classmates try (and fail) to get away (though she did wonder how that girl--Kitty?--had been planning to go through a wall) and kept to her seat.

She'd spent the last few days in an epic bad mood and now she was expected to sing.

Rosalind was this close to trying to walk out. Only the fact that it would a) fail and b) went against everything she believed in about school to just leave in the middle of a class, kept her seated.

Singing, though, that might be a bit much.

"Hey, you've gotten away with a lot of sulking in this class, but I'm drawing a line here," Drake said, grinning. "Get on up there and sing. It'll only hurt for three minutes or so. You're a tough girl, you can do it."

"Last I checked, Professor, being tough and the ability to sing were not usually comparable," she pointed out, her voice level and calm through sheer force of will. You did not bitch out a teacher. Ever.

Which wasn't Rosalind saying she wouldn't do the assignment, but talking to the teacher was better than--getting up and singing right away.

And all the songs she could think of right now were more along the lines of funeral dirge than love song and that wasn't funny at all.

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Sing?! He wanted them to sing?

In front of everyone in the class?!

Chloe had been pretty positive that nothing would ever make her hate one of Drake's classes. Now, she wasn't so sure.

She wasn't trying to escape out of the classroom, but she was trying to make herself really small in her seat as she tried to figure out a way out of this.

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"C'mon, it's not so hard," Drake said. "If it helps, just imagine everyone in their underwear. Or I could arrange it for real." He snapped his fingers and changed his clothes to a pair of red long johns. Fortunately he was facing Chloe so she couldn't see if the flap in the back was secure or not.

Christian's eyes were shining in excitement. Sneaking out was the furthest thing from his mind; he didn't understand how his classmates were less than delighted by the chance to sing.

"Do we have to?" Lindsay ~~whined~~ asked. She kind of wanted to hide right now. Or flee.

Drake nodded gravely. "Yes," he said. "Under pain of some awful embarrassing alternate assignment I think up."

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Ben thought his classmates were being a bunch of babies. It was only singing. It wasn't like there were costumes involved...

More than ever, Karla was thanking the Darkness for Dinah's gift of the ipod. It was still her only real introduction to this world's music.

Unlike most of her classmates, she wasn't feeling particularly fussy about today's assignment. If she was going to take part in the musical at the Boards this semester, she was going to have to get used to singing in front of people anyway.

Oh, how fun. Rinoa clapped her hands excitedly and wondered why more classes couldn't have singing.

KARAOKE!!!!!! And love songs?

Momoko was practically bouncing in her seat. She couldn't wait to see the song catalogue!

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