Ariella froze as she glanced at her paper. Wait, did she read that right? She legitimately had to sing and dance for a plant? No way. She sighed and looked at her fire seed. "You're high maintenance, you know that?" But she just had to do it. It was her homework, anyway.

Taking a deep breath and making sure no one was watching her, she thought of the first song that came to mind. "Ooh you make me live, whatever this world can give to me," she started, singing the Queen song her mother was obsessed with. Mortified, she started to skip in a circle around the stupid bush. This was getting out of hand.

She stopped abruptly, not continuing onto verse two. That should be good enough. Was that...laughing she was hearing from her seedling?