Nervously Lili entered the auditorium. To stop her hands from shaking she gripped the script tightly in both hands. She could do this. She took another big breath as if to steady herself, and continued to walk down the aisle towards the stage. The cast and crew turned, everyone was looking at her.
"She's who you got?" someone said in disbelief.
"Can she even act?" cried someone else.
"Puh-lease, she is so quiet. She probably doesn't even know how to project," a girl in the front said.
"Guys, give the girl a chance," Alfred said standing up, looking around at his fellow actors.
Arthur huffed, and turned away from Alfred. Feliks hadn't exaggerated a bit when it came to those two. Lili's heart sunk. So far she couldn't see any of the other Yaoi club members at the production meeting.
"Thanks for that Alfred," Feliks said with a grin. "Anyway, I like asked Lili to fill in for Puck, and I'm sure you will all welcome her."
There were a few errant grumbles, but finally someone moved over so she could sit down.
"Great!" Feliks beamed, "well I guess we should get started. As you guys know, I'm like directing this thing."
"We know!" shouted someone at the back.
Feliks glared at them. "And I chose to call this meeting, since we've got some more people joining us."
The rest of the Yaoi Club came in through the side door. "So like these girls offered to help with tech, and I figured we needed the help."
"Do they have any experience?" asked the same guy as before.
"You better learn to like shut up! Or else I'm gonna have to come and like beat your scrawny ass," Feliks huffed.
"Calm down," a brunette said, patting his friend on the back. A gesture that Elizabeta couldn't help but notice.
"Uh I was wondering if I could do something with documentation," Mei said with a smile. After all taking pictures and filming was her specialty.
The brunette smiled. "Yeah sure. Oh wait, sorry, my name's Toris. I'm the play's producer. It's my job to make sure every job gets done. I don't think we have a cinematographer yet."
"Is it alright if I help you?" Kiku asked.
Mei blushed. "I would like that."
"What about the rest of you? What can you do?" asked Toris.
Bella smiled. "Could I help with set building. I've always wanted to learn how to use power tools any how."
"That would be Berwald's division. Ber, do you need the extra help?" Toris asked.
A stoic blond in the back gave a slow nod.
"Looks like you're in," Toris said with a smile. He turned to Michelle. "How about you?"
Michelle shied away. "Oh I really don't know much about theater. What still needs to be done?"
"We need some help sewing costumes," Toris said kindly.
Michelle tilted her head, "yeah, I'd like that."
"And you?" he said turning to Elizabeta.
"I've been a stage manager before," Elizabeta said thinking back to her sophomore year.
Toris nodded. "Great! We needed another, you'll be working pretty closely with the whole crew. I hope you can handle that."
With a confident nod Elizabeta went to join the rest of the crew.
"Alright this is like wonderful. Well I think we should spend the rest of the time like just talking and getting to know each other better." With an excited nod, Feliks went over to talk with Toris.
Elizabeta couldn't help but watch with interest. The two of them seemed pretty close.
"Don't even think about getting involved," a girl beside her said.
"Huh?"
"Toris is really into Natalia. Any way you go about it, blood will be shed," the girl replied. "I'm Jeanne, by the way. I choreograph all the fights."
"I'm Elizabeta."
"Yes your reputation precedes you," Jeanne said glaring at the junior. Then she smiled. "I think we can be great friends."
"Really?" Elizabeta asked skeptically.
"Oh yes. I've been working with those two for years, and I've been dying to get them together. I just didn't have the resources, but now..."
"Now you have us," Elizabeta said with an evil grin. It looked like she had found her next couple.
Jeanne laughed. "Oh I can't wait to see those two together! But seriously, I think Natalia enjoys the extra attention. I'd be careful if I were you."
"Don't worry," Elizabeta laughed. "I'll have you to help me."
Jeanne smiled. "I do know some pretty good techniques... just in case."
Elizabeta nodded. "Best to be prepared."
The two girls began laughing, as they started to scheme.
* Hetalia *
"So what do you have designed, set wise?" Bella asked Berwald.
Happily Berwald unrolled some pieces of paper showing her some intricate blueprints involving trees that would twist to reveal actors, a fancy throne for the Duke, and a bower for Queen Titania.
"These seem pretty ambitious," Bella said smiling at the designs. "Did you design these all by yourself?!"
Berwald blushed a bit.
"Yeah he did!" a short blond standing beside him piped up. "Berwald's super smart. He knows what'll work on stage and what we can accomplish in what time we have. Of course he's always super humble, even though I tell him he's a genius."
"Who are you?" Bella asked, smiling at the two of them.
"Oh, I'm Tino!" the senior said with a little laugh. He shook her hand. "It's nice having your help, usually it's just us and Lukas, and Emil, and Mikkel. It's nice to have a girl show interest –"
"Tino?" Berwald said gently.
"Oh...sorry. I tend to talk a lot. I often need to be reminded to shut up," Tino rubbed his neck awkwardly.
Bella laughed, these two were just too cute around one another.
* Hetalia *
Lili looked around at the other actors, all of whom were talking to somebody.
"So kid, you seem pretty nervous about all this. Is this your first time or something?" Alfred asked.
Lili nodded.
"Ha, I told you so," someone said.
"James relax," Alfred sighed. "He's been acting so long, he's let it go to his head."
"So er, who's who?" asked Lili shyly.
Alfred smiled. "Well I am the great Oberon, and you, young lady, play my ever loyal servant. Over there, Mr. Grumpy, plays my nasty queen –"
Arthur glared at Alfred. "You are absolutely horrid, you know that?"
Alfred rolled his eyes. "Anyway, the lovely Nat is Hippolyta, Feliciano is playing Hermia –"
"Wait, please. I barely even know this plot," Lili said looking very confused.
Alfred smiled. "Must be hard being thrown into this show when most of the cast is mainly off book. Alright here's the gist of it. There are heck of a lot of lovers. And –"
"At least tell it to her so it makes sense," Arthur griped.
"Fine then you tell it to her," Alfred shouted back.
"Fine I will!" Arthur cleared his throat. "So there's this Duke who's really happy because he found the love of his life, Hippolyta. But then Egeus, Hermia's father, is pretty upset since his daughter is in love with Lysander, but she is supposed to marry Demetrius. So Egeus comes to see the Duke, to threaten his daughter into marrying Demetrius. As it happens Hermia's best friend, Helena, is really in love with Demetrius. But no one really knows about that. So when Lysander and Hermia plan to elope, Helena tells Demetrius their plans so that he may fall in love with her. It doesn't really work out, which is how all four of them end up in the woods."
Alfred hastily took his chance, while Arthur had paused to breath, to interrupt. "In the woods King Oberon and Queen Titania are fighting, because Titania adopted some kid and Oberon is jealous. Which is stupid, because why would Oberon be jealous of anything having to with Titania? Anyway he gets Puck to play a trick on her. He sprinkles magic flower juice in her eyes so that she falls in love with the first thing she sees. Which happens to be an ugly ass, played by Gil. Cause Puck enchanted Bottom to have a donkey's head, so as to humiliate Titania even more! Then Oberon tells Puck to help Helen out with Demetrius, only Puck squeezes the juice into Lysander's eye instead. To fix the mistake Oberon puts the juice in Demetrius's eye as well. So then Helena thinks they, and Hermia, are playing a trick on her. Eventually it all works out, and each pair is with the right one. Then everyone lives happily ever after."
Alfred turned to see Lili's puzzled face. "That might be the most confusing thing I have ever heard."
Alfred grinned. "Don't worry you'll figure it out. And there are a lot of us willing to help you."
Lili smiled. She had a lot of work ahead of her...and she wasn't talking about the play.
Hey guys, here's the sequel! Um wow, this took me so long to actually start writing. School was hell, and I guess this is the first time I've actually had the time to start this over the summer. Besides I had wanted to finish my other story before beginning this one, and I finally did. Leave a review please! And favorite or follow. ~T.W.o.W.
