It was a cold yet clear December afternoon, and Marinette was in the christmas spirit. Carefully she strung up colorful lights on her balcony in her parka and snow boots. A small shiver ran down her spine. Marinette sighed and stepped back to admire the work she'd done on her favorite bakery. Tinsel, lights and strings of popcorn could be found along the steamed windows and inside was a tree decorated with glittery ornaments. She smiled slightly and headed in to warm up with a cup of hot coco.
Although his house was farther away, through the thin clouds, Marinette could make out Adrien's house, and the shining lights that were slowly being hung up outside. She happily sighed once more, thinking of what Adrien would be doing at the moment.
"Alright class! Please listen up because I'd rather not repeat myself," Mrs. Adalene, the new professor, spoke aloud to the class.
"To celebrate the holidays this December, we're going to put on a play for the whole school! After giving this much thought, we'll perform the play, Romeo and Juliet!" Marinette gasped and beamed at her friend next to her.
"Now, auditions will be held a week from now, and you all must prepare a monologue for the directors. Because this will be a student prepared performance, you will be doing it all yourselves. The directors, I've decided will be Alya and Nino," Alya glanced at Nino and smiled in excitement.
"They may also cast themselves if there are not enough parts. That is all! You have the rest of class to work on your monologues!"
"Wow! I'll be able to work with Adrien!" Marinette squealed silently to Alya.
"And I get to direct it with Nino! This'll be awesome girl! Now we need to get to work on your monologue!" Alya decided.
"Dude! Imagine if you get to play Romeo! That'll be so cool!" Nino exclaimed.
"That will be fun, but I'm not sure I really want to. More lines means more to memorize. I'm also already so busy with fencing, chinese, piano and schoolwork," 'and not to mention saving Paris all the time. I'm already late enough as it is!' Adrien thought to himself.
"Aww, come on dude! You're already a model and being an actor is just a step up! You'll memorize those lines no prob! Plus, I bet Marinette's going to go out for the Juliet part, and I don't want to see her kissing any other guys, you know what I mean?" Nino whispered. It was true. Adrien and Nino were very protective of Marinette. Considering they hung out with her and Alya a lot, they had grown to care about her like a little sister.
Adrien sighed, "Alright. I'll do it. You'll have to help me memorize my lines though, okay?" Adrien smiled.
"Well look who's being all confident. Remember, there's no guarantee you'll get the part! You better start finding a monologue!" Alya was eavesdropping on their conversation, "I'll do my best on this end too. Mari better be ready, she's going up against the Queen Bee herself."
Agh, that's right! There's a possibility Chloe might get the part of Juliet, Adrien thought. Oh well. Nothing he could really do about it. He'd better start working on his monologue.