A Theater Class to Remember

Disclaimer: See part one.

"You're late!" Ms. Norbert shouted from inside the classroom as Kari, TK, and Tisha ran down the empty hall to the classroom.

E-138 was kinda hard to find. It was in the E Wing. The wing was made of three hallways that made a shape like a U. The large auditorium and smaller 'Little Theater' were in the middle, the pottery room and E-138 were on the far left, and the music and choir rooms were on the right. It was hard to get to class on time because to get to E Wing you had to go through the cafeteria, and it just happed that at the same time TK and the others were trying to get in the cafeteria, other students from the previous lunch hour were trying to get out.

Ms. Norbert was very understanding of it though, and would give her students an extra minute to get to class. Sometimes that did little to help. TK, Kari and Tisha slid into seats at the large tables that were set up in the room. The tables were those large cafeteria type, the foldable ones made of pressed wood. The theater classes didn't have enough priority to get desks. In fact they sometimes didn't even get a classroom. Sometimes Ms. Norbert had to move the theater class into the choir room or the auditorium because E-138 or the 'Little Theater' were being used for different classes.

When everyone had sat down Ms. Norbert called the class's attention. "Today we'll be playing theater games because the scripts I requested haven't gotten here yet. We'll play 'freeze'. My standard rules apply. You get participation points for preforming. Extra points for good improv. I am adding a few rules though. First, if you get up and get yourself in a situation where you don't know what to do, you cannot say 'Someone please say freeze!' Also, if you hesitate or can't come up with a line then you get points taken away. You should be to the point where you can be quick on your feet. You must see every situation through until the end! Got it!"

"Yes Ms. Norbert." The class said, then they walked across the hall to the little theater that was thankfully empty.

Freeze was a game where two people got on stage, and did a scene until another person shouted freeze. The actors on stage would stand unmoving in whatever position they were in when the new person said freeze. The new person would then tag one of the first two actors out and continure with a new scene.

Jackie and Tisha got up first and Ms. Norbert sarted them off with two girls in the mall.

"Hey, look at this!" Jackie began.

"What?" Tisha said.

Jackie picked up a broom that had been left on the stage. "It's the super broom! It sweeps by itself!" She held it out to Tisha.

"Freeze!" Jason shouted. He stood up and took Tisha's place. "I cleaned my room Mom!"

"Cleaned your room!?" She dropped the broom, grabbed Jason by the ear, gently, and pulled him to center stage. She then let go and shoved him a bit. He fell to the ground. "You call this clean!"

"Freeze!" Kari shouted. She tagged Jason out. Then she laid down on the floor. "That was a good match! I love boxing!"

"Yeah!" Jackie said enthusiastcaly. She walked closer to Kari and stood above her, one foot on either side of Kari, she crouched down a bit and extended her hand to her..

Before he knew what he was doing TK called out "Freeze!" He stood up and went to the stage. "Ummmmm...." He gluped looking at the two postitions he had to chosse from. 'I should have waited a bit longer shouldn't I have?' He thought. He tagged Jackie out then took her former position. TK couldn't think of anything to say.

"Well isn't this comfy." Kari commented from under him.

"Sure is." TK replied going along. Any second now Ms. Norbert would call change scene, she always did when her students got into inapproitate scenes. Or someone would call freeze. Soon, hopefully.... soon.... soon... SOON!!!!!!!! TK and Kari glanced over at the audiance out of the corner of their eyes. Tisha had her hand over her mouth to stiffle her laughter, she shook her head. So did most of the class.

Ms. Norbert shook her head as well. "I said you have to keep going until someone calls freeze. Since no one seems to want to do it, I think you're stuck."

TK and Kari looked at each other and paled. TK's eyes read 'sorry.' "So, have you done this before?" He blurted. Meantally he kicked himself.

Kari sat up a bit, took TK's hand and pulled him down with her. "Several times."

"Wooh!!!!" The kids called out.

TK had a line ready for 'no' or 'never', but 'several times' had never occured to him. He had no idea what to say next. Thankfully, or regreatably depending on your point of view, Kari kept going for him. "Let's just say you have a lot to live up to."

'You're punishing me for something aren't you?' TK thought.

'Hell yeah!' Kari seemed to say with her eyes.

'Fine then,' "Oh, I'll do better than just live up." He lowered his head to her neck on the side the auidance couldn't see. He didn't kiss her, his lips were a milliter away from her skin, but it looked like he was.

"Whoa! Go TK!!!" The students began catcalling. "Get a room!!"

Kari turned her head to him slightly while the rest of the kids were making noise. "TK, what are you doing?" She wispered, slightly panicked.

"Blame the ones who won't freeze us." He wispered back. "If we back away from each other somehow, I think someone will though."

"Okay." Kari brought up her hands, put them on TK's shoulders and pushed him away. He moved back so he was on one knee. Kari pulled herself out from under him. "Take it easy, it's too nice a job to rush." She said a saucy look on her face. She stood up.

"Freeze!" Bryan shouted. TK and Kari sighed with relief. Bryan tagged out Kari. "I dub thee, Sir Takeru!" He said, knighting TK with a pretend sword.

"Thank you my liege." TK said getting up to his feet. The game continued until the end of class. When the bell rang eveyone rushed out of the little theater, they definatly didn't want to be late for thier next class. Especially not with the juicy bit of gossip they had now.

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AN: Next time, it gets even worse. What's worse than having to swim in freezing cold water, that has way too much chlorine? Not to mention the fact that no one knows how many students from the earlier classes couldn't wait to get to a bathroom. There is something worse. Much much worse. Kari has to face the two guys who like her in a ittsy bitsy teeny weeny yellow polka dot bikini that she is wearing for the first time in her *life*. Why her?