Author's note:

Hey everyone! Thank you so much for the reviews, I appreciate it. I love you all! J Anyway, must go on. In this fanfic:

Quince- Mike (hey, you didn't see that coming eh? Not many people use Mike in their fanfics)

Snout- Cody

Starveling- June (surprise again; there's now a woman in the workmen's group. But there's a reason I chose her instead of Willis, you'll find out later)

Snug- Joe

Flute- T.K.

Bottom- Ken

And here's the funny part: I decided to make the play a comedy Cinderella instead of Pyramus and Thisbe. Just think about who gets to be the fairy godmother… and it's not June… =) Oh, and I decided also to make it a birthday instead of a wedding, but that's not really important, so… yeah.

T.K.

It was terribly, terribly embarrassing. A while ago, our school's cruel old deputy headmistress had this long lecture about… actually, I don't know, I wasn't listening, something about inappropriate behavior in the school grounds. And the reason I wasn't listening was because a big group of our friends were chatting wildly throughout the whole thing, without a care. The six of us (including me of course) got into deep… trouble by the old wicked witch and as a mild punishment for the disruption, we were told to perform a comedy Cinderella for the principal's up-and-coming disco birthday party. Oh, the agony. In our big group of six there were 5 guys and 1 girl, and in Cinderella there were 5 girls and 1 guy. So guess who got to be the guy.

Although all 5 guys were fighting over the guy part, it was concluded that to be fair we gave the role to girl, June Starveling Motomiya, and the 5 guys had to play the role of the girls. In a way, I actually thought her perfect for the part of the prince (excuse the alliteration.) She had beautiful brown hair, wild and messy (reminds me of Tai, my brother Matt's best friend) but somehow still feminine. Her face frame was medium squarish, with sparkling brown eyes, making her look so powerful you could mistake her for a prince. Thus, her role.

Now we'll get on to the guys. First there was Jyou Snug Kido, or Joe, an old friend of countless years. He was an intelligent, but pessimistic, hard-working teenager. He was in 12th grade, ahead of practically everyone else, with dark blue medium-length hair and blue eyes (a dark shade; not so much aquamarine as those of my brother's). His glasses practically shaped his face with its light squarish frames, making him look as intelligent and professional as a lawyer or doctor. However, in Cinderella there was neither lawyer nor a doctor, so he got nominated to be the fairy godmother.

Second there was Mike Quince, a smart, blonde friend who used to have a crush on a friend of mine, Mimi (until my brother stepped in and claimed her, anyway). His description was… unusual. Descriptions usually start with the hair, but besides the adjective 'blonde' it's hard to say anything else. It is messy, but not spiky, more wavy but not too wavy. His eyes however, would match the description of my brother and I quite accurately; a sparkly aquamarine blue, a wonderful, enormous color. He became the self-nominated (note: self-nominated) director of our play, and also self-nominated evil stepsister. He made a good choice, as his features were more boyish than manly, so that was something nobody fought against.

The third was Iori Snout Hida, or Cody, who got the part of the other evil stepsister. He was short, with sharp brown eyes, and extremely dark brown hair which was fitted so smoothly over his scalp that he looked like a muffin. Despite his… looks and his height (just above my hip the last time I checked) he was very strong in appearance, with a powerful expression frown, smile or anything else. However, he was still too soft inside to be the evil stepmother, so the evil stepsister was the role for him.

Instead the stepmother was one of the big bosses in our group; Ken Bottom Ichijouji. (Author's note: Is that how you spell it? Or is it Ichijooji?) He matched the part perfectly. He had short, dark blue hair similar to the color of Joe's, short at the back, but two long pieces at the front that framed his face. He was quiet and mysterious, a lot like the stepmother, so nobody argued with that. But guess which part I got.

"You're Cinderella, T.K.," Mike's words rang in my ears for almost a week afterwards. I couldn't be a princess! How humiliating! I was 'persuaded' by the others that I looked beautiful enough to be a princess. I sighed in embarrassment and dropped my head, mouthing 'no…' but nobody else saw it, so they thought the sigh and the head drop was a defeated 'yes'.

Our first decisions began in Mike's house, and since it was his house, he decided to become the director. After careful consideration, he decided what our roles would be, according to the way everyone expressed themselves, and who would look and act best with which parts.

"Okay," Mike began professionally, lifting his sunglasses. "Is everyone here?"

"Yes…" everyone moaned in a tone dripping with boredom.

"Good," Mike nodded, turning his face down to the script in his hand. It was obvious he'd been planning this all night and he loved being the director. "June?"

"…Yeah?"

"You can be the prince."

"Oh goody," she said 'excitedly'.

"And… aha, for the main role… you're Cinderella, T.K.."

Then came my screaming, and everyone's persuasion, the whole sigh and head drop thing, and everyone's naughty smiles of victory, except for Ken, anyway.

"Oh…" he complained, "I wanted to be the prince, but you had to let June be the prince. Why can't I play? I want to be a main part, so why does T.K. get to be Cinderella? Oh… unfair people!"

Mike ignored him. "Joe, you're the fairy godmother."

In an instant everyone burst into laughter. "Why me?" Joe groaned. "Look, that day in the auditorium, I was telling you guys to shut up and now the deputy headmistress got me into trouble for doing something right just because she thought I was speaking with you! I shouldn't even be here, playing a woman's part! It's just not my kind of…"

"Joe," Ken butted in, "I want to play a main part. I hope it's okay with you, I think I should be the fairy godmother. What do you think, Mike?"

"No! Anyway, Cody, you and I will be the evil stepsisters."

"Oh yay," Cody made a face and turned away.

"Hey, Cody's too short to be the stepsister! How about you and I become the stepsisters, Mike? With Cody it might look a bit uncoordinated. I know how to act really evil by experience, so therefore…"

"You're the stepmother," everyone completed his sentence in unison. That immediately brought him to silence.

"We'll rehearse at the national park just a few blocks away from our school," Mike decided, showing us out to the front door. "I'll see you guys tomorrow and we can discuss more of this, okay?"

"Yep. See ya," the five of us said in unison. Mike closed the door of his house, and the five of us smiled at each other and walked off in different directions of the roadside footpaths, to our separate homes.

To be continued…