Just for a Moment

By ILoveCookie3

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Olivia Rodrigo is only 15 and can't believe the opportunity she's been given. She has booked the role of Nini... More

0 | Intro
1 | Auditions
2 | I GOT IT?!!
3 | Leaving
4 | Hello Salt Lake City
5 | Welcome to East High
6 | Bonding
7 | Let's Get This Over With
8 | Hiking
9 | What Happened?
10 | FaceTime
11 | Nosy Friends
12 | Everything's Fine
13 | Just Rest
14 | No Big Deal
15 | The Lake
16 | Why does this keep Happening?!!
17 | Relaxation
18 | You Can Trust Me
19 | First Day
20 | Feelings
21 | I Knew It!
22 | Talk
23 | Help
24 | Suspicious
25 | Elevator
26 | Sick
27 | Liar
28 | Confrontation
29 | The Truth
30 | Auditorium
31 | I Think I Kinda, You Know
32 | Start of Something New
33 | Break Time
34 | Comfort
35 | Episode Two
36 | Distraction
37 | Confused
38 | Surprise!!
39 | Detour
40 | Sweet Sixteen
41 | Bittersweet Ending
42 | Realizing
44 | Wondering
45 | Episode Three
46 | Not Him
47 | Lost
48 | No Word
49 | Footage
50 | A Billion Sorrys
51 | Scared
52 | Episode Four
53 | What I've Been Looking For
54 | Arguments
55 | Unknown
56 | Work
57 | Helpless
58 | Secret
59 | Born to Be Brave
60 | Episode... Six?
61 | Care
62 | Revealed
63 | Not Again
64 | Notification
65 | Last Minute
66 | Similar
67 | Truth, Justice and Songs in Our Key
68 | iHop
69 | Change
70 | Epiphany
71 | Divulge
72 | Different
73 | Homework
74 | High School Musical: The Choosical
75 | Clothes
76 | Chosen
77 | Episode Eight
78 | Debut
79 | Page 53
80 | Horrific
81 | Consternation
82 | Circumvent
83 | Vouchsafe
84 | Celebrate
85 | Emotions
86 | Spill
87 | Desires
88 | Stillness
89 | Cut
90 | Our Song
91 | Thin Walls
92 | Single-Handedly
93 | Egyptian Rat Slap
94 | Late Nights
95 | First Draft
96 | Status Quo
97 | Tumbling
98 | Ranking
99 | Big Scene
100 | Confession
101 | All I Want
102 | Basement
103 | Bawling
104 | That's a Wrap!
105 | Honest
106 | Just for a Moment

43 | Better?

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By ILoveCookie3

You can definitely tell with the scenes that I jumped around with the filming inclusionπŸ˜…

I don't remember where I found the picture at the topπŸ€·β€β™€οΈ




Let's do a quick checklist for the month of May 2021:

βœ… May 7 - New Joshua Bassett single (Feel Something)
βœ… May 11 - Olivia Rodrigo performs at the BRITSs
βœ… May 14 - HSMTMTS Season 2 premiere
βœ… May 14 - Olivia Rodrigo new single (good 4 u)
βœ… May 15 - Olivia Rodrigo performs on SNL
🟩 May 21 - Olivia Rodrigo's debut album (SOUR)

ONLY THREE MORE DAYS!!

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Joshua's sang a handful of songs so far in his live, and he hasn't seen a certain someone. He was now playing random chords as his eyes followed the comments. He eventually stops playing and rests his head against his hand.

"Let's take a break from singing for a moment. How's everyone's day been going?" His eyes just follow as the comments fly by. A certain one however catches his eye.

olivia.rodrigo βœ“
RUN ME OVER WITH A TRUCK

Perfect, she's on. "I'm getting kinda tired, but I have one more song before we end the night." Joshua fixes his phone to make sure it won't fall over before starting to talk again. "So I have this friend who's been going through quite a lot recently... and if they're watching this, I hope it makes your day better."

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Back in Madison's hotel room, she was eyeing her friend as Olivia watched the live. "Whatcha doing?" she asks.

"Watching Josh's live," she answers nonchalantly.

Madison smirks to herself. "Anything interesting?" His voice is insane. She decides to comment something just because she couldn't believe his talent. No wonder he's Ricky. "Hello? You never answered my question," Madison says.

"Oh, right. Um..." As she's about to answer, he says something that catches her attention.

"So I have this friend who's been going through quite a lot recently... and if they're watching this, I hope it makes your day better." Olivia immediately starts blushing, having an idea for where this might be going. Surely he's not gonna say anything. He starts playing the piano, and she's pleasantly surprised when he starts singing.

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Lovely
If you could see what we see,

Joshua sees Olivia comment STOP and smiles on the inside, knowing she's still watching.

You'd know you're like a movie
The ones that make-believe
'Cause you're lovely
I know you don't believe me
Just hear the words I'm singing in this song I wrote for you

He continues to play and just gets lost in the song. He isn't the only one who's mesmerized.

Lovely
If you could see what we see,
You'd know you're like a movie

He accidentally hits the wrong key but recovers quickly.

The ones that make-believe
'Cause you're lovely
I know you don't believe me
Just hear the words I'm singing in this song I wrote for you

Joshua tells his viewers bye before ending the live. I think that went really well.

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Olivia's blushing like crazy, and Madison can see it from the light of her phone. "What has made you so happy?" her friend asks.

"Nothing," she says.

"Olivia Rodrigo, don't even think you can get a lie by me."

"Ok, fine," she caves, "Josh sang an original song, and I... I just thought it was really good." I kinda feel a little better about our... situation now. Madison has to stop herself from squealing because it's late, and they're in a hotel.

"I'm sure it was a lovely song," she says casually. That adjective catches her attention. Olivia looks up from her phone at her friend, seeing a small smirk on her face.

"Yes?"

Madison looks away from the TV. "Yes what?"

"What's with the look on your face?"

"Oh, it's nothing," she says, clearly hinting at something. Not bothering to press any further, Olivia gives up. Whatever. Let's hope tomorrow runs smoothly.

*The Next Day*
It was back to filming for everyone. Olivia had said a bittersweet goodbye to her parents, and Madison was still in town but only for today. Tim luckily said she could come on set as long as she's not disruptive. "You ready to start filming?" she asks, standing behind Olivia's chair in the hair and makeup trailer.

"Girl, I don't even remember what scenes we're doing today," Olivia says, looking at herself in the mirror.

Suddenly, they can hear the faint sound of some song playing in the distance. "What in the world is that?" Madison asks, going to the door. A few minutes later, Joshua shows up with a speaker blasting a Jackson 5 song.

He turns it down, so they can hear him and says, "Morning."

"I see you finally went through with your speaker plan," Olivia jokes.

"I think this works better than coffee," he laughs.

Madison's phone starts ringing, and she says, "I have to take this; it's my mom," and leaves the trailer.

Once she's gone, Olivia says, "I, uh, I saw your live last night."

Joshua smiles a little, knowing she was watching. "Yeah?"

"Mhm," she nods, "I joined late but still heard one song."

"What'd you think?"

"I liked it... a lot." His smile grows wider; Joshua can feel it, and Olivia sees it in the mirror.

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"Wait, that's today?"

"You didn't know?"

"No, I did; I just forgot. Shit."

"It's fine; there's no reason to freak out." Julia and Olivia were preparing for their live performance of Wondering, and they could not be more nervous.

"Yeah, you're probably right," Olivia said.

"C'mon, let's get going," Julia says, pulling her toward the auditorium. The two girls run off laughing, hoping their nerves will go down on the way there.

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"Guess who's still freaking out?" Julia says rhetorically, hitting random keys on the piano. They were both sitting at the piano and reading over the lyrics and their lines.

"Are we ready yet?" Tim asks.

"Um, one more minute," Julia says. He nods at them and goes back to the cameras.

Olivia stands up and starts pacing around the stage as her nerves build more than she'd like them to. Joshua joins them a few minutes later in a three-colored hoodie, dark jeans, and vans along with Madison. "You two excited?" he asks.

"Uh huh," Julia says with a shaky voice, still randomly hitting keys.

"What's wrong?" Madison wonders

"Oh, nothing. Just singing live... again," Olivia deadpans.

"At least you've done it before!" Julia counters, spinning around on the piano bench.

"You both are gonna do amazing," Joshua reassures, "I know you will." Julia goes back to the piano and starts playing the chords for Wondering instead of random keys. Joshua pulls Olivia into a quick hug and whispers, "You're gonna do great, bubby."

Olivia blushes and playfully shoves him. "Stop," she whines, "I told you I don't like that." Julia was now playing quieter; Madison fortunately (at least for them) didn't hear him.

"Why?" he says in the same tone, "I'm not stopping until it grows on you. I know it will."

"It won't, and I refuse." She exaggeratedly marches away from him and goes to stand by Julia at the piano. Joshua just chuckles, shakes his head, and joins them.

A few minutes later, Tim has everything ready, so Joshua and Madison go behind the camera.

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Oliva (Nini) hears a noise as she stands near the entrance to the auditorium. Confused and wanting to avoid people at the moment, she goes toward the sound.

As she approaches the stage and goes around the curtain, there's someone at the piano. Once she's finally standing next to the bench, the person looks up at her. "Oh, hi."

"Hi."

"Hi."

"Hi. Uh, I didn't know anyone was in here," Olivia (Nini) says quickly.

"I can be gone in like seven seconds; six if I don't zip my bag," Julia (Ashlyn) says, gathering her papers and clearly flustered.

"Oh, no, no, no, no, no; don't go. What was that?"

"What was what?"

"That song you were just playing."

"Oh, that. It's, um... Miss Jenn asked me to compose a song for my character; it's probably way too much. I'm playing Mrs. Darbus, the teach-"

"Oh, I know who you're playing, Ashlyn. I sat across from you at the read-through. Besides, you're EJ's cousin."

"We don't have to talk about EJ; I don't- I don't wanna talk about EJ. Do you wanna talk about EJ?" Julia (Ashlyn) says, talking really fast.

"No, I mean, I- I do, uh... but just not right now." Julia (Ashlyn) nods at her as Olivia's (Nini's) phone goes off in her pocket which catches Julia's (Ashlyn's) attention.

She chuckles at the message and whispers, "Geez, this has to stop."

"It doesn't matter who texted you; it's no one's business," she says, still talking fast and making a note about her song.

"No, uh, one of my moms has been sending me these fortune cookie messages every day to keep me 'balanced,'" she says with air quotes. "Um, 'true test of character is what you do when no one's looking,'" she reads off.

"Why would someone send that?"

"She seriously needs to stop; it's like the fifteenth one today."

"Cut!"

"Are you ready for this?" Olivia asks.

"Yeah, I'm totally fine," Julia says.

"Josh, where have you gone!?" Tim shouts.

"Over here!" he calls, getting up from one of the seats.

"Go ahead and head out to the hallway." He nods and quickly steps out.

"You two ready?" Tim directs at Olivia and Julia.

The two look at each other before nodding. "I hope so."

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I never realized how ironic Nini's fortune cookie message is, considering what EJ does.

For those who haven't heard it.
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In other news, I think Lovely could have an official studio version in the future because at 0:11 on the following video, Joshua says how he can't sing any more verses since he's saving those.

The Lovely era is coming! (And with it probably more drama.)

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