Two worlds

Chapter 14: Script

Chapter 14

Emma

Sophia is really ecstatic the whole day today. No one can get her to calm down, not even Chris. He's even trying to kiss her to get her to shut up, but she just pushes him away all the time. It’s seems to make Chris sad, like she cares more about the play than him.

We're getting our scripts today. We already know what parts we have of course. Not that I'm happy with that though. But today we're getting the scripts so we can start practicing for real.

It's not until the end of the day though, and if Sophia doesn't stop being this annoying, I will shove her into one of the many trashcans we have in this school. And I'm actually serious, she's really getting on my nerves.

I sigh as she does a silly pirouette as she walks in the middle of Chris and Carter.

"Sophia! Seriously, enough of this", I sigh. "We know that you're excited, but I really think that's enough".

"Cranky pants", Sophia giggles and doesn't let me ruin her excitement 

I scratch the back of my head irritated.  "How are we going to get through the rest of the day?" I whine to Julia as she hooks her arm through mine. "I'm going to throw her into a trashcan!"

"Oh no you won't", Chris says, putting an arm around her shoulders.

"I'm not afraid to toss you in there with her", I say. "If you're on her side in this I'll get rid of you too".

He's not really on her side in this. He doesn't want to be in this play either. But Sophia is his girlfriend after all. He wants to make her happy and he wants to support her. He’s in a pretty hard situation. Or I guess it's not that hard now since we're all in this stupid play and can't get out of it. 

"We'll all help!" Isaac mutters annoyed through closed teeth.

"Oh don't be so grumpy guys!" Sophia says happily. "It's going to be so much fun to get the scripts, we'll know what to say and what to do! It’s going to be fun! And the best part of this is that we're all doing this together".

Belle stops so quickly I don't even have time to stop and accidentally walk right into her.

"Beeeelle", I whine irritated. "What you do that for?!"

She turns around looking at us all. "Guys! Sophia's right", she says. "We haven't been at all excited over this, we can all agree that Sophia has been excited enough for all of us, but she's right, even if we don't like acting this could be a fun thing to do together our senior year, something we all can be a part of".

Sophia is smiling really big and making noises I don't even think is human, but I think it's of happiness that she's finally gotten someone over to her side.

"Thank you thank you!" She laughs and hugs Belle. 

They both looks at us and we look at them. Well... I guess it could be fun. I just... I hate acting. It's really not my thing. I didn't even make an effort at the casting. 

"And you still got the lead role", Clove laughs.

I face palm. "I said that out loud", I say stating the obvious fact. 

I feel John chuckle beside me as my arm slightly touches his arm because I'm standing beside him. I don't look at him though, I don't want to give him the satisfaction.

"I don't know if we can ever be as excited as Sophia in all of this though", Julia says. 

She's not much for acting either. And I didn't even know that Sophia was until now. I still don't think she's all into acting to be honest. I just think that she's a very happy girl who really wants us all to do something together. But she has to like acting a little bit, otherwise we could've done something else.

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We get past the day without me tossing Sophia in the trashcan, but not without difficulties. I was so close to throw her into one of those, but Chris stopped me, Sophia just laughed at the whole thing. I think she doesn’t understand how close she was to end up in the trashcan.

Hopefully she'll calm down after we get our scripts. But I'm not going to get my hopes up too early, because I might end up disappointed instead. 

When our last class of today is about to start, we drag ourselves to the auditorium for our class in drama. To get our scripts. To die. Okay not the last part but understand my situation! God, I hate acting! I don't even like to talk at presentations in front of my class. It's not that I have stage fright or anything, because I don't, I just don't like it. It’s not really my cup of tea.

We walk into the auditorium and walk up on the stage. Ms. Plank said that she wanted us all to sit in a circle in the beginning of every class. I don't know why, and I don't really care much about it either. 

We sit down. Only a few people have arrived and while we sit and wait, the circle fills as the students arrive.

When everyone has arrived, we're only waiting for Ms. Plank to show up. About three minutes after everyone's arrived, she walks onto the strange with all of the scripts. She starts to hand them out and asks us to look them through.

Uninterested I look through the script I got. I skim read through it not really paying attention to what I'm reading. What I’m getting from the script, this is going to be a play about high schoo, love and heartache. Very cliché. Suddenly my eyes land on something that actually catches my attention.

This can't be happening! I think to myself as I read it again and again and again and again in the hopes that I've read it all wrong. But I haven't.

It says that I'm going to have to kiss Carter. Why? Can this get any worse?