Kim's POV
I walked towards my locker nervous, I had just auditioned for the role of Juliet in our schools play, Romeo and Juliet. I really needed to make the role, it's be a great opportunity for me to explore the acting career.
"Hey Kim." I turned and saw Jack behind me. I waved and grabbed my books.
"How'd your audition go?"
"Good I guess...I really hope I make the part. Jack what if I don't make it?"
"If you don't make it there's always next year, don't worry." I sighed, he was right.
"Okay, I won't worry. Definitely won't worry. I'm not even thinking about the audition. Not at all." I mumbled and Jack smirked.
"Hey Kim, you do realize that even if you're not Juliet you could still be in the play."
"Of course I know that Jack, but Kim Crawford always and only plays to win." Jack rolled his eyes.
"Whatever you say."
Jack's POV
"Hey Jack, Rudy, sorry we're late." Jerry, Milton and Eddie said walking into the dojo.
"Why we're you guys late?" I asked.
"We were auditioning for the play, Romeo and Juliet." Milton said.
"I love Shakespeare! You know I auditi-"
"Rudy can you not go on with another one of your stories?" Eddie asked cutting him off.
"But this is a good one." We all rolled our eyes, Rudy's stories were not even remotely close to anything good. Rudy sighed.
"Fine, but it's all your loss!" he yelled and walked out of the dojo.
"You know trying out for the play is the best way to pick up chicks." Jerry said smiling.
"Is that really the only reason you guys auditioned?" I asked.
"Well for Jerry and Eddie, while I on the other hand love Shakespeare. I auditioned to be Juliet's father." Milton said.
"I auditioned to be an extra." Eddie said.
"While I auditioned to be the amazingly handsome Romeo. Dude you know how many girls I'll pick up if I get the part?" Jerry asked smirking, I rolled my eyes.
"Jerry you do realize you are going to have to memorize seventy pages of lines? Which for you is impossible because you can't even remember what Ms. Benson assigned for our History homework..." Milton said, that was true.
"Oh no what have I done? Ah whatever." Jerry shrugged.
"At least my part is simple. I just stand in the background." Eddie said smiling. Kim walked into the dojo smiling.
"Hey guys sorry I'm late. Where's Rudy?" Kim said walking into the dojo.
"Probably Falafel Phil's." Milton said, I looked at Kim. She looked exceptionally cute today, she walked over to the dummies and started punching them.
"Hey Jack, Kim's trying out for Juliet right?" Jerry whispered, I nodded.
"Then you should go tryout for Romeo. If she gets the part as Juliet and you get the part as Romeo..." I see where Jerry was going with this and I thought it was great idea. But I couldn't make him think I liked Kim, I hardly could stand near Kim without everyone chuckling and making hearts and kissy faces.
"Well Jerry, that'd be a great idea. But too bad I don't like acting and why would I want to play her love interest?"
"Jack you can act, do I have to remind you about pomegranate man?" I rolled my eyes, it was a small commercial part and it didn't even air due to Rudy.
"Look Jerry, thanks but no thanks." I went towards the other punching dummy and started practicing. I needed to try out for that play and get the part of Romeo.
I walked out of the gym, nervous. I had just auditioned for the part and just realized how nerve wracking it is. Now I know how Kim feels. Now I just needed to wait until after school to see if I got the part, and more importantly if Kim did. If I was Romeo and Kim wasn't Juliet, my whole audition was for nothing. I was more afraid of Kim being Juliet and someone else being Romeo. I couldn't let that happen, I needed to be Kim's Romeo. I sighed and walked off to class.
It was after school, finally. I ran towards the crowd of people at the list then tried to get past them.
"Excuse me." I said trying to get through the crowd then looked at the list. It said playing the part of Juliet was Kim Crawford. I smiled that was good news, at least now I know Kim won't be storming into the dojo about to strangle someone. I looked then raised my eyebrows shocked. Playing the part of Romeo was...Jerry Martinez. I couldn't believe it...Jerry got the part. Jerry and Kim? Jerry had to kiss Kim. Well I mean it was Jerry, it's not like it was Brad. Kim and Jerry always fought, so it shouldn't be a problem. But if it wasn't a problem then why did it bother me so much? I stormed away from the list, I couldn't even think of the play anymore.
Kim's POV
"Guess who got the lead role in the play? Me! " I squealed walking into the dojo.
"Hey congrats Kim." Rudy said.
"Guess who got the part as an extra?" Eddie said walking into the dojo behind me, I smirked of course he was happy.
"Yeah well I didn't get to be Juliet's father. Instead Mrs. Daniels thought I'd be better directing the school play! So I took the chance." Milton said seeming satisfied.
"WHOO! Get who got the lead in the school play? That's right Jerry Martinez baby!" Jerry yelled running into the dojo. I realized Eddie, Rudy and Milton turned to Jack, why did they turn to Jack?
"Congrats everyone." Jack muttered and kept kicking the dummy.
"Jack you okay?" I asked walking over to him.
"Yeah, I'm happy for all you okay? Now can we get to sparring?" Jack asked. Milton and Eddie rolled their eyes and Jerry kept dancing, boy he was really excited. Well I don't blame him, it's the first time I got a lead role. This was going to be an amazing school play.
"Romeo, Romeo where art thou Romeo?" I said reading the script. We were all reading our parts out practicing them together.
"Read it with more feeling Kim, I need to feel that you want to know where he is!" Milton yelled, I rolled my eyes. Milton always went overboard when he felt he was in charge and I hated it.
"Romeo, Romeo where art thou Romeo? There that better?" I asked.
"No I'm still not feeling it." Milton said and crossed his arms.
"Well Milton, you know what you will be feeling in second? Pain!" I exclaimed and he jumped.
"Alright. Guys let's finish this tomorrow. I want these lines memorized by Friday. Our production will be next month. Maybe even in three weeks if we progress well." Milton said, I got up and walked towards the gym doors.
"Wait, wait Jerry, Kim come here!" Milton yelled, I swear his yelling was getting on my nerves. I walked towards him and crossed my arms. Jerry was on his cell phone talking. Milton grabbed Jerry's cell phone and turned it off.
"Look I'm not feeling any chemistry between you two. Even at rehearsals and we're just reading over our scripts." Milton said, I rolled my eyes.
"Milton, come on. Chemistry with Jerry?" I asked.
"Chemistry? I didn't know this was a class." Jerry said crossing his arms.
"Look you two need to get closer. Spend more time with each other so that this play becomes real." Milton said.
"But Kim's going to rip me to shreds I just know it." Jerry said backing away from me, I rolled my eyes.
"Look you two do it or you're out of the play! Oh and I don't think you want to test Captain Crumpnick!" Milton yelled. I laughed, what kind of name what that?
"Milton you are the director not the king of the world. Get over yourself!" I yelled, he sighed.
"Fine, now you two do what I say or I will kick you off." Milton said and walked out of the gym. Spending more time with Jerry? That just meant losing a lot of IQ points.
Jack's POV
I walked into Circus Burger with Eddie. Since Milton, Kim and Jerry were busy with the play and Eddie was an extra he didn't have to be there all the time. I couldn't stand hearing about this whole play thing. Everyone was making such a big deal out of it.
"Hey, cotton candy machine!" Eddie exclaimed and ran towards it. I went to follow him then saw Kim and Jerry sitting at a table together. What? I thought they were rehearsing for the play. Well Jack, maybe their taking a break. Don't jump to conclusions. Jerry said something and Kim started laughing. Kim laughing at something Jerry said? Kim never laughs at Jerry, except when he does something stupid and looks like an idiot she laughs at him but...this couldn't be happening, I never thought Jerry of all people would be with Kim. I sighed and walked over to the cotton candy machine.
Eddie and I got back to the dojo and Milton was there, wearing some weird costume which included baggy pants and a black cardigan which looked a lot like Kim's. He also had a French béret on and a megaphone.
"Milton what are you doing?" Eddie asked.
"Being a director. I'm getting into the mind frame of being a director so that way the play will be amazing." Milton said into the megaphone. I took it away from him then put it down.
"Well did you know two of your cast members were at circus burger instead of at rehearsal?" I asked.
"Who? You mean Jerry and Kim? Oh they weren't supposed to be at rehearsal. They were supposed to be creating chemistry." Milton said. I raised my eyebrows, what? Milton told them to what?
"Milton why would you do that?" I asked.
"Because, they need to be close for this play. Why Jack? It seems to bother you."
I shrugged, "...Well no, it doesn't bother me."
"Well it seems like it does." Eddie said, I rolled my eyes.
"I'm completely fine with it." I needed to think of a way to become Romeo's understudy, injure Jerry and then become Romeo. I sighed, it'd be a great plan but I couldn't do that to Jerry. I'll just stop Kim and Jerry from kissing, that'll be simple right?
"Hey Milton do you think I could be in the play?" I asked.
"Sure, we need more people on stage crew. You can be one of them."
"Thanks." Now all I needed to do was make sure Jerry didn't kiss Kim.
Kim's POV
I walked over to my locker and put my books in there.
"Kim, darling, we need you on set." Milton said running towards me.
"Milton; this isn't a movie! Plus we're still rehearsing our lines..."
"Whatever, just come to gym after school." Milton said and walked off. That boy was taking this way too seriously. I saw Jack walking towards his locker. With all the play business, I never got to talk to him anymore. I walked over to Jack and waved. He looked at me and smiled.
"Hey Kim, have you seen Milton?"
"I wish I didn't, he's going crazy."
"I couldn't agree more, he keeps talking like a freak."
"I know, and the way he was dressing now he's using my clothes! Seriously...someone really needs to knock some sense into that kid."
"Hey guys." Eddie and Jerry walked towards us.
"Did you know that apparently snakes can move quickly?" Jerry asked.
"Yeah, thanks to Jerry there's a snake on the loose in the school." I raised my eyebrows and looked around.
"Why would you even do that?" I exclaimed looking around. I was paranoid now, the snake could come up slithering anywhere.
"Cause I was bored, Mr. Wilson really should teach science better." Jerry said, I rolled my eyes. The bell rang and I looked a clock. School was over, that meant rehearsal.
"See ya Jack." I said and waved.
"Actually...I'm a part of the school play now." I raised my eyebrows, I thought that Jack always hated acting. I really hope they'd casted Jack as Romeo instead...
"Well I'm just on stage crew because Milton needs the help." Jack said; my heart sank.
"Guys we should probably get going before 'Captain Crumpnick' blows his top." Eddie said, we all nodded and headed towards the gym.
Jack's POV
"Now, test the spotlights to make sure that they work." Milton said and walked onto the stage. Jerry and Kim were on stage with their scripts. I walked over to the spotlight switches and turned them on then looked at the spotlights, they worked fine. I turned them off and watched as Kim and Jerry practiced their lines.
"Cut, cut! Jerry, Juliet's the love of your life. You cannot act like she's just a loaf of bread sitting on your plate!" Milton yelled.
"But Kim's playing Juliet." I rolled my eyes, how did Jerry get this part over me? I was a way better actor than him.
"Then pretend you're in love with Kim, okay?"
"But I'm not."
"PRETEND JERRY!" Milton screamed, he looked like his head was about to fall off. This was by far the scariest side of Milton I've seen. Everyone around him looked terrified but I don't blame him, Milton was like a monster.
"Juliet, I'll come for you at dusk and we will ride off on my trusty steed." Jerry said. Oh, maybe Jerry was a better actor than me, I mean he was pretty convincing. Jerry took Kim's hands and they gazed at each other. I crossed my arms,
"Cut!" I yelled and everyone looked at me.
"Jack, I'm the director only I get to tell cut!" Milton yelled and shooed me from the stage. I rolled my eyes, and sighed.