Turn it Off
Alya was all for crazy schemes, but Marinette was starting to scare her. She had this look on her face that just screamed, 'I did something crazy and it affects you all.' Just what was this girl planning? And why were the guys wearing hoodies and jackets? Every time she asked what was going on, the guys would just snicker and walk away, and girls didn't know what was going on either. Except for Marinette. The answer finally came during lunch, when a song blasted from Jean's phone as Marc stood on top of a table and started singing.
"I got a feeling
That you could be feeling
A whole lot better than you feel today!
You say you got a problem,
Well that's no problem
It's super easy not to feel that way!" Kim and Ivan helped him off the table, and he approached Adrien.
"When you start to get confused
Because of thoughts in your head," he taps the side of Adrien's head.
Don't feel those feelings!"
He wraps his arms around his frame, "Hold them in instead..."
"Turn it off! Like a light switch!
Just go click!
It's a cool little Mormon trick!
We do it all the time!
When you're feeling certain feelings
That just don't seem right!
Treat those pesky feelings
Like a reading light!"
Nino joins in, "And turn 'em off!
Like a light switch, just go bap!" He taps the side of Adrien's head.
Really, what's so hard about that?
Turn it off!"
"Turn it off!" All of the boys exclaimed.
Ivan sang, “When I was young my dad
Would treat my mom real bad.
Every time the Utah Jazz" he does jazz hands, making Mylene laugh, "would lose!
He'd start a-drinking,
And I'd start a-thinking,” his tone becomes more somber, “How am I gonna keep my mom from getting abused?...
I'd see her all scared and my soul was dying.
My dad would say to me,” he wagged his finger, “‘Now, don't you dare start crying’...” His tone became upbeat again, “Turn it off!”
“Like a light switch!
Just go flick!
It's our nifty little Mormon trick!"
"Turn it off!" Kim yelled.
"Turn! It! Off!”
“My sister was a dancer,” Max sang as he did a short tap routine, “but she got cancer!
The doctor said she still had two months more!
I thought she had time, so I got in line!” He fished his phone out of his pocket and held it up in the air.
The boys admired it and sang, “For the new iPhone at the Apple Store!”
“She lay there dying with my father and mother... Her very last words were,” he reached his hand out, “‘Where is my brother?...’”
“Turn it off!”
“Yeah!” Max cheered.
“Bid those sad feelings adieu!”
“The fear I might get cancer too.” The guys, sans, Marc, Max, and Adrien started laughing until Marc gestured for them to stop. It’s awkward silence until Marc sang the next part.
“When I was in fifth grade,
I had a friend, Steve Blade!” He held Nathaniel’s hand.
“Ooh, Steve Blade...”
“He and I were close as two friends could be!"
“We could be close...”
“One thing led to another
And soon I would discover!”
“Wow!”
Nathaniel spun him around and brought him down with a dip, “I was having really strange feelings for Steve... I thought about us, on a deserted island...
“We're all alone...”
“We'd swim naked in the sea...” The two slowly leaned in... “And then he'd try and...
WOAH!” They immediately pushed each other away. “Turn it off! Like a light switch!
There it's gone!”
Jean gave him a pat on the back, “Good for you!”
“My hetero side just won!"
"HA!" Alix laughed.
"I'm all better now!
Boys should be with girls
That's heavenly father's plan!
So if you ever feel you'd rather be with a man!
Turn it off!”
Adrien spoke, “Well, Elder McKinley, I think it's okay that you're having gay thoughts, just so long as you never act upon them.”
Marc gave him an, ‘are you serious?’ look.
“No, 'cause then you're
just keeping it down, “like a dimmer switch.
On low.”
“On low,” the boys echoed.
“Thinking nobody needs to know!”
“Uh oh.”
“But that's not true!” Adrien exclaimed before being pushed to the side by Marc.
“Being gay is bad, but lying is worse!
So just realize you have a curable curse!
And turn it off!” Max ran to the light switch and flipped it off, much to the girls’ confusion
“Turn it off!
Turn it off!
Turn it off!”
When the lights came back on, the tables were pushed to the far end of the cafeteria, answering the girls' questions on why they were moving. And the boys’ jackets and hoodies were gone and replaced by sparkling, sequined pink vests with gold trim. As they performed a well-choreographed tap routine, Alya turned to Marinette and asked, "Did you know about this?"
Marinette shrugged, "You mean, did I make a couple of sequined vests for the boys to wear while Jean and Marc taught them the tap routine for 'Turn it Off'?... Why do you ask?"
Once the instrumental ended, the boys posed. “Turn it off!”
Marc turned to Adrien and asked, “Now, how do you feel?”
“The same,” he shrugged.
They all groan.
Marc pats Adrien’s head, “Then you've only got yourself to blame.
You didn't pretend hard enough.
Imagine that your brain is made of tiny boxes!" He makes a square shape with his fingers
"And find the box that's gay and CRUSH IT!” Adrien flinched at the usually quiet boy's outburst. “Okay?”
Adrien furrowed his brow in confusion for a minute before a look of shocked formed, “No, no! I'm not having gay thoughts!”
Simon pumped his fist in the air, “Alright! It worked!”
“Yay!
Turn it off, turn it off!"
"Turn it off, turn it off!
Turn it off, turn it off!"
Like a light switch just go click! (Click click!)
What a cool little Mormon trick! (Trick trick!)
We do it all the time!”
Marc took over the song, “When you're feeling certain feelings that just don't seem right!"
(Don't seem right)
“Treat those pesky feelings like a reading light!” (A reading light)
“Turn it OFF!”
“Like a light switch on a cord!” They point to Adrien, “Now he isn't gay anymore!”
“Turn it, turn it, turn it, turn it
Turn it, turn it, turn it, turn it
Turn it!”
“Turn it off!” They finish with a pose and the girls clap and cheer.
"Yes, yes, thank you!" Jean preened. "Marc and I taught them the dance, it was torture, I'm not doing that again."