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Her Life Before Hell.

Chapter One

Irinia's Pov...

Acting was my life.

I had done it ever since my very first year of middle school.

I never expected losing my role or not getting a certain role that I tried out for.

So…in sixth grade, I got the lead in my first musical "Dear Edwina".

I played Edwina--a girl who gave advice to younger kids.

Then the next musical in seventh grade was "Bye, Bye Birdie".

I got a very sore throat after skateboarding in the rain for hours with a popular girl from school.

So I auditioned even with a horrible cough and terrible headache only to find out I got an understudy.

Of course I wasn't used to being turned down ever before…so this broke my heart.

After a depressing year of watching another girl act out her part terribly, to top it all off, my favorite teacher and director left her school to go teach at a High School.

So along came Mr. Daniels, a gay man with sweaty armpits and a different perspective on acting.

Later, I realized that he had a special place in my heart that taught me how to become who I really was.

During the fall, Mr. Daniels announced that "Wiley and the Hairy Man" was to be the next fall play.

None of the kids auditioned for it, except a few kids my age and a bunch of sixth graders who knew nothing about acting.

I was used to working with everyone my age, and drama was always a big thing when Mrs. McCorry was still at school.

No one auditioned only because Mr. Daniels was gay.

I loved acting so much; I didn't care who was my director, as long as I got to do what I loved.

As auditions came to a close, the cast list was posted.

It turned out that I got the lead, Mammy, who was the mother of a troublesome young boy.

This was a big part of my acting skills, because I had to play a mother with a Cajun accent.

It came as no trouble to me, and I was the best part of the play.

Then spring came, in all its glory.

Mr. Daniels posted that "Anne of Green Gables" was going to be the next musical.

I was confident in making the female lead, and did about everything in my power to become that role.

After three days of auditions, the cast list was posted.

Mr. Daniels had a strange way of casting people as roles, you see, because he would have two different casts, so there'd be two people playing one character.

The female lead of Anne had a double casting, and I made one cast, while another girl named Whitney, made the other cast.

I was very frustrated, because Whitney was not suitable at all for the role of Anne at all.

Whitney had blonde hair, Anne had red (and I did too!). Whitney was chubby; Anne was very skinny (and I was too!).

Now, if you want to become the character, you have to make yourself look like your role, and feel like your role.

I was always taught that one of the main things about casting was to look the character, so in my way of thinking, this casting was all wrong.

I got over it eventually, and dealt with how horrible a job Whitney did as well as her acting went.

Then I put on a heck of a show, and as an ending came to my middle school shows, I said goodbye to my director, and got a trophy for an "Excellence in Drama" award.

At the last week of middle school came, High School auditions for the fall play were taking place.

Rising freshman were allowed to audition…so of course, I went straight to the High School for auditions.

Some people I had worked with from the "Anne of Green Gables" in my grade went to audition as well (Whitney, Jeremy, and Melanie).

I had to do well on my monologue, because High School plays were the only thing colleges really looked at you for, in drama that is.

I walked through the auditorium doors with my best friend Melanie…and auditioned my heart out on that huge stage in front of the director, Mr. Canaan.

I never would've expected what would happen when I gave my final bow at my first High School Audition.