Author's Note:This chapter is dedicated to my BFF in real life, DeanWinchester'sDaughter! Keep faving and reviewing and the same thing will happen to you. This is where the good parts come in starting with the spring festival. Where ANYTHING can happen!
I woke up that morning with the best feeling ever. It seemed like I didn't have a care in the world. I opened the window and inhaled the warm spring air. I opened my eyes and saw the sun hit Mt. Fuji. I walked towards my dresser and pulled out my uniform and put it on. I skipped over to my window with hairbrush in hand. I forced the bristles through the tangles and curls. I looked down the street to see cars passing everyone by and then there was sensei. He was with this guy with a scar over his right eyebrow. And there was another with him with a cut on his cheek. I looked at it closely and it looked fresh. Was that the man from last weekend?
I didn't have time to worry about it. I grabbed my socks and crossed my right leg over my left and saw these white lines along my shins. I gently stroked them and wondered about the source. I closed my eyes and shook my head as I slid my socks on followed by my shoes. I walked downstairs and took a piece of toast and took a bite out of it. I saw the time on the microwave read six in the morning. How did I wake up so early? I sat on the couch and layed down. I closed my eyes, not knowing I would fall asleep again.
This time, my mom woke me up, shaking me furiously. "Fumino, someone is here for you!"
I shook my head, stood up, and walked towards the kitchen. I went over to the closest mirror and my hair looked like crap. I just ran to the front door and Kurosawa was standing in front of me. "Well, there's this play for the spring festival. There will be auditions before and after class. I think you could be perfect for the female lead!" he told me. He lost me with the play and the auditions. I wouldn't want to audition for something like that. But I went for cheerleading and got in. I just took the script and thanked him as he walked away. I looked at the cover. Romeo and Juliet? Not a title I would've chosen but who am I to complain?
~~After Class~~
Everybody mixed in with their cliques. We already decided on the play called this Romeo and Juliet. I looked at sensei reviewing the script. I felt two pairs of hands on my back and a huge push. The next thing that I felt was my hands hit a desk and a hand upon mine. I looked up to see sensei's hand upon mine.
"Are you okay?" he asked.
I looked back to the girls and Sayo and Meg had an evil smile smacked across their faces while Oka-chan looked worried. I turned back to sensei. "Yeah, I'm fine." I turned around to walk back but felt myself turn back around. "Actually I'm not! I'm glad you had the script in your hands... I wanted to... Audition!"
Sensei's eyes widened and he stood up. He cleared his throat before speaking. "Everybody please wait in the hall. Whoever wishes to audition for the play, line up outside the door." Just then, the entire classroom was empty. He went to close the door and turned back towards me. I felt this huge lump in my throat as I noticed the other students couldn't see through the windows. "I'll be reading with you. You start at the balcony scene."
"What kind of character is she?"
"Romeo and Juliet is the magnificent play about these two people who meet at a ball and fall in love. Little do they know that they know, they're families are born rivals! Romeo is the kind of guy who doesn't know when to quit and would climb vines just to see his lady love. Juliet is the kind of woman who follows her heart despite who denies it, like her family. She has a Verona accent and I want you to try as hard as you can. Okay?"
I felt myself blush ten shades of red. But I managed to nod and opened the script.
"Fumino, do whatever you have to to get into this character and I might do things to make you so don't be afraid. And what I do to you is nothing compared to what happens later in the story."
"Alright... O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name; Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love. And I'll no longer be a Capulet."
I felt sensei walk close to me and caress my cheek. "Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this?"
"'Tis but thy name that is my enemy: Thou art thyself, though not a Montague. What's Montague? It is nor hand nor foot, Nor arm nor face, nor any other part Belonging to a man. O be some other name! What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet; So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd, retain that dear perfection which he owes without that title. Romeo, doff thy name, and for thy name, which is no part of thee, take all myself." I blinked once and noticed that sensei was pressed against me with his hand still at my jaw line. "Sensei..." He suddenly released me as I spoke again. "What kind of romantic scenes do Romeo and Juliet share?"
"She is engaged to a man named Paris and she marries Romeo without the whole wedding. There's quite a few kissing moments and a love making scene between the couple. And they die together! And that's what true love is all about!"
"Like an old couple on rocking chairs blowing away in the wind?"
He laughed at the thought. "No. She is forced to marry Paris even if she told her parents. So Juliet takes a medicine that makes her appear as white as snow. No pulse, no breath, no heart beat. The family doctor gave it to her and sent a letter to Romeo telling him what it did and to come for her after a short period of time. But he never got the note. So he goes and sees Paris mourning over Juliet's grave. He kills him and Romeo downs a poison. Juliet awakes to see him dead. She takes his knife and kills herself and she dies by his side."
I noticed sensei coming closer to me and placed a finger onto my cheek and move it to show me that I've been crying. "It's a good story. I can't help it!" I walked away and looked back. "Fumino, send the next person is. There should be a cast list by Friday!" I nodded and walked away. That moment when sensei had his body against mine, his breath on my skin, and his voice in my ear was still stuck in my head. If sensei and I get the main lead, I might die on stage! But that's not possible!
