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Mega-Prompts Challenge, dialogue prompt #083 - "I didn't sign up for this."
Becoming the Tamer King Challenge, Training Peak task
Digimon bingo, the non-flash version, #208 – athlete
Digimon Dawn/Dusk Remake Challenge, part 1c.2b - write a fic over 2000 words and include the sun or fire as a strong motif
Understudy
1. Sign-ups
We stare at the sign-up sheet together. Yuujin's got his usual grin. Mine's probably more contemplative. There are just so many choices. So many characters. And then the people who make the story a reality from behind the scenes.
Of all of them, which one would be best for me?
The rest of the class has drifted off already: after-school clubs, home… But I'd waited for Yuujin to finish with the soccer club and now we're here.
Yuujin has a way of making things happen when I would've been thinking till the sun went down.
'So what do you think?' Yuujin asks.
'I'm kind of excited,' I admit… but really, he knows me well enough to not need to, 'but I don't know. We've got no idea what sort of play we're signing up for.'
'But that's the fun in it.'
For Yuujin maybe, who is spontaneous and fun and the lead player in no matter what he faces. But me… 'You're auditioning, right?'
'Of course. And you?'
I hum. There are the leads, the support characters, the minors… and then the backstage crew. I'm. no lead, but I don't think I want a minor role either. That's too… inadequate.
'I don't know,' Yuujin teases. 'You've been forgotten on library trips plenty of times.' Which is my own fault, really, for finding an interesting book and curling up with it, forgetting I need to keep an eye on the rest of the class.
But still, I don't want to spend the festival reading a book. Unless I've got a book I can't put down on the day… but that's beside the point.
'Support and backstage,' Yuujin summarises.
Sounds like a plan to me. I scrawl my name under both those lists, then hands the pen to Yuujin and turns away to stretch.
Yuujin signs up for everything, by the sounds of the pen scratching away.
