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Anyways... here's the 14th chapter.
"..." means talking.
'...' means thinking.
(...) means what the writer thinks.
[...] means the skip in the play.
Disclaimer-I don't own Beyblade nor its characters but my OCs and the plot. On with the story. I don't own 'Much Ado About Nothing.' There will cut in lines and scenes. Pardon me for any mistake.
Chapter-14
"...students akin to every year we will be having a Shakespearean play by the 12th grade students. We'll have three groups at most. The drama teacher Mrs. Beckenham will be choosing the best play out of the three groups, and then the winner group will act their play on the Foundation Day of the school. Is that clear?" there were choruses of 'yes ma'am' after the long speech given by Mrs. Hideki. The students were excited while some didn't even care.
Like our Kai. He walked out as quickly as the lecture was finished. He was walking casually around as his thought drifted. It had been almost three weeks after their ghostly experience in the apartment. Elena was well now. Her leg was healed till now.
She was alright but he was confused. Every time he saw Elena, he felt different. There was something in the girl which made him give the girl some special priorities to the girl (I used the girl three times :P ). She was different from other girls he came across. She was pretty but wasn't girlish. She was friendly but wasn't chatterbox. She was calm but wasn't shy. She did talk-backed sometimes but wasn't rude. She is cute, beautiful, and short-tempered sometimes... not sometimes but every time when angered or irritated. But she wasn't spitfire but was mood-swinging. She blackmails, she fights, and she loves excitement. She was a perfect girl for his liking. 'Hey wait... where did that come from? I don't like her in that way. But still if she would react more coolly in some situations then maybe... but then also she's good... no one's perfect. She also doesn't need to be. Yet...' he chuckled at his own thoughts.
"You know it's not good to laugh at your own joke." Someone made a comment. When Kai turned around he saw the one whom he was thinking. Suddenly he felt heat rising on his cheeks.
"Hey... are you okay? You are getting red." She asked concernedly unknown to the reason.
"It-It's nothing. Just like that..." he trailed off as he cooled down himself.
"So what you think about this play? We're going to do 'Much Ado About Nothing'." Eli informed him as they walked casually down the corridor. Well they were casual just from outside not from inside. While Kai was trying his best to cool himself, Elena had a hard time saving her voice from shaking. 'WHAT THE HELL I'M DOING!' both of them thought at the same time? If people would have been telepath, they would have heard them from the 5th floor to the ground floor of the senior building.
"And who will whom?" Kai said trying to avoid the unimaginable silence structuring up around them.
"Rye is writing the script. Mike is playing the role of Don Pedro, while you think of others..." she smiled slightly at him.
"Red is going to be Claudio and of course Jules will be his Hero." He chuckled slightly.
"Right guess. But why didn't you think that they would be Benedick and Beatrice?" she asked.
"Beatrice will suit better on you than anyone." She blushed scarlet at those words of his.
"They're planning you to be Benedick." She said softly looking down at her feet trying to hide her blush.
As they entered the cafeteria, their friends were smirking after seeing both of them enter at the same time. More over when Elena was blushing.
"Hey Kai what did you do that made Eli go all red?" Tala said as he cocked one eyebrow.
"Nothing." He muttered at and sat down.
"Okay... anyways, since it is decided that our play will be 'Much Ado About Nothing'. Is it alright with you Kai?" Riley asked Kai looking up from her papers.
"Hn." Was his short reply as he crossed his arms and closed his eyes.
"K. Now the roles... I'm going to be your director and the script writer, Michael- Don Pedro, Jack (some name.)- Leonato, Harry- Friar Francis, Tom- Antonio, Chris and Morris- the messangers, Claudio- Tala, Hero- Julia and..." Elena's breath hitched in her throat while Kai gulped when Riley trailed off not telling the other two main characters.
"Beatrice- Eli! Benedick- Kai!" Michael almost shouted.
"Uh oh." Was the expression of our 'Beatrice' and 'Benedick'.
XxX
"Alright students. Now Riley's team please..." Mrs. Beckenham signalled the last team to play their act. First group played 'Tempest' while Lucy's group played 'Romeo and Juliet'. Well Lucy's act was just like 'to-bear-it-until-it-is-finished'. Her play of Juliet was more demanding type unlike the soft and tender one. The romance has just vanished from this play. As Elena framed it.
[ACT 1, SCENE 1] (Please don't kill me for skipping lines)
Jack (Leonato). I learn in this letter that Don Peter of Arragon comes this night to Messina.
Chris (Messanger 1). He is very near by this: he was not three leagues off when I left him.
[...]
Elena (Beatrice). I pray you, is Signior Mountanto returned from the wars or no?
Messenger 1. I know none of that name, lady: there was none such
in the army of any sort.
Leonato. What is he that you ask for, niece?
Julia (Hero). My cousin means Signior Benedick of Padua.
Messenger 1. O, he's returned; and as pleasant as ever he was.
Beatrice. He set up his bills here in Messina and challenged Cupid at the flight; and my uncle's fool, reading the challenge, subscribed for Cupid, and challenged him at the bird-bolt. I pray you, how many hath he killed and eaten in these wars? But how many hath he killed? for indeed I promised to eat all of his killing.
Leonato. Faith, niece, you tax Signior Benedick too much; but he'll be meet with you, I doubt it not.
Messenger. He hath done good service, lady, in these wars.
Beatrice. You had musty victual, and he hath holp to eat it: he is a very valiant trencherman; he hath an excellent stomach.
Messenger 1. And a good soldier too, lady.
Beatrice. And a good soldier to a lady: but what is he to a lord?
Messenger. A lord to a lord, a man to a man; stuffed with all honourable virtues.
Beatrice. It is so, indeed; he is no less than a stuffed man: but for the stuffing,—well, we are all mortal.
[...]
Leonato. You will never run mad, niece.
Beatrice. No, not till a hot January.
Messenger. Don Pedro is approached.
[Enter DON PEDRO,CLAUDIO and BENEDICK]
Don Pedro. Good Signior Leonato, you are come to meet your trouble: the fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.
Leonato. Never came trouble to my house in the likeness of your grace: for trouble being gone, comfort should remain; but when you depart from me, sorrow abides and happiness takes his leave.
Don Pedro. You embrace your charge too willingly. I think this is your daughter.
Leonato. Her mother hath many times told me so.
Benedick. Were you in doubt, sir, that you asked her?
Leonato. Signior Benedick, no; for then were you a child.
Don Pedro. You have it full, Benedick: we may guess by this what you are, being a man. Truly, the lady fathers herself. Be happy, lady; for you are like an honourable father.
Benedick. If Signior Leonato be her father, she would not have his head on her shoulders for all Messina, as like him as she is.
Beatrice. I wonder that you will still be talking, Signior
Benedick: nobody marks you.
Benedick. What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living?
Beatrice. Is it possible disdain should die while she hath such meet food to feed it as Signior Benedick? Courtesy itself must convert to disdain, if you come in her presence
Benedick. Then is courtesy a turncoat. But it is certain I am loved of all ladies, only you excepted: and I would I could find in my heart that I had not a hard heart; for, truly, I love none.
Beatrice. A dear happiness to women: they would else have been troubled with a pernicious suitor. I thank God and my cold blood, I am of your humour for that: I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me.
Benedick. God keep your ladyship still in that mind! so some gentleman or other shall 'scape a predestinate scratched face.
Beatrice. Scratching could not make it worse, an 'twere such a face as yours were.
Benedick. Well, you are a rare parrot-teacher.
Beatrice. A bird of my tongue is better than a beast of yours.
Benedick. I would my horse had the speed of your tongue, and so good a continuer. But keep your way, i' God's name; I have done.
Beatrice. You always end with a jade's trick: I know you of old.
[...]
Clap! Clap!
Mrs. Beckenham clapped as the scene was ended. There was joy on her face and satisfaction dance in her smile.
"Well done! This was excellent. Especially Benedick and Beatrice. Kai and Elena, you both have done a wonderful job. The characters were brought lively by you. Riley, the way you managed it was very nice. The others. It was like Shakespeare had arrived here and directed his own play with the real characters. Those emotions of mockiness in Benedick and the 'as-if-I –care' attitude of Beatrice was too real." Mrs. Beckenham praised. "Now I don't think I have to compare the acts... because Riley's team is the winner!"
"Hurray!" all exclaimed, well not all.
XxX
"Guys... this it for today. Tomorrow we'll have our play. We've to do our best." The others nodded at Riley's words. "Kai, Eli, you guys do this scene. And then finally packup. Come on."
Stage was set as the act began,
[ENTER'S BEATRICE WHEN BENEDICK IS READING IN THE ARBOUR. CLAUDIO HAD LEFT WITH COMPANIONS NOW. ]
Beatrice. Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner.Benedick. Fair Beatrice, I thank you for your pains.Beatrice. I took no more pains for those thanks than you take pains to thank me: if it had been painful, I wouldnot have come.Benedick. You take pleasure then in the message?Beatrice. Yea, just so much as you may take upon a knife'spoint ... You have no stomach, [EXITS BEATRICE]
signior: fare you well.
[...]
"Good one. Now packup." Riley said as the students departed.
Kai wiped the sweat of his face and neck as they had been practicing for almost 2 hrs and as Riley said there was no rest. He gulped the water from the bottle given to him. When he put the bottle down, his eyes laid on the bottle supplier. Elena was standing there smiling at him. His brows creased on her smiling face.
"Glance around." He looked around as said and saw... girls. KTMFC. But they ogling at him from the window.
"Urgh." They all were staring dreamily at him.
"Get thee a girlfriend." Elena said as she walked away. This was his dialogue. That means Benedick's dialogue to Claudio. 'get thee a wife'. Just instead of girlfriend it was wife.
'Maybe she's right. Get thee a girlfriend.'
That's it. Hope ya like it. Next chappie is gonna be fun.
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