Chapter 4: Oh, The Drama of it All!
Late at night, I crawled downstairs to watch Pokemon TV, since I couldn't sleep, but all that were on were The Amazing Adventures of Quagsire and Living with My Evolution. "Ugh, there is nothing on!" I mumbled under my breath, then turned the TV off and fell asleep on the couch.
The next morning, I awoke to find my mother standing over me. "So, I assume you didn't sleep?" she said, her hands on her hips and a serious look on her face. I smiled. "Yeah." Then I got up and walked upstairs to my bathroom. Luckily, Alex, my brother, was still sleeping. I took my toothbrush, moved it around in my mouth to remove all the plaque, then spit into the sink. Then, I closed the door and went to the bathroom, when I was done, I made sure I was fully dressed, opened the door, washed my hands, and walked out of the bathroom and downstairs to eat breakfast. Taking a bowl from the cabinet, I sat down at the table and poured myself some Poli-O's, a sugar cereal that turns milk blue. Pouring fresh Miltank milk from the Miltank farms near Goldenrod city in the nearby country of Johto. "You know, I think I'm outgrowing these!" I said, laughing as my milk turned blue. My dad looked out from behind his newspaper and laughed. "You know something? I think you're right." I grabbed my spoon and started eating my cereal. They were full of sugar, but good nonetheless. Alex, at this point, walked downstairs and grabbed another bowl and spoon from their respective places and started pouring the Poli-O's into his bowl, but before his bowl was full, the box was empty. "Oh man," he shouted, "what am I going to do?" My mom walked into the room from the family room. "There's six more boxes in the cereal cabinet. Go grab one." I laughed. "You're gonna turn into a Poliwag!" He rolled his eyes. "Yeah, yeah. Just give me the milk."
Walking the same route as I do everyday, today was just a little more exciting. Today was the tryouts for the school musical, Escucha mi Corazon. Unfortunately, all the songs were in Spanish, a language I hadn't learned, since I was studying French, but I'm sure I could handle it. I was dancing down the street like a lunatic, doing the samba, the flamenco, and other Spanish dance steps and singing the main song from the musical. When people started staring, I stopped dancing. Reaching the bus stop, I stopped, standing next to Steph. "Are you trying out for the musical?" she asked. "Of course," I mentioned proudly, "and you?" "Well, I was thinking about it." I smiled. "You should! It's gonna be really fun!" She looked at me with a face that meant she didn't believe me. "Oh yeah, like last year's musical? I had to dance on a platform suspended from the ceiling!" I rolled my eyes. "I know, I was on that same platform." She laughed.
The bus got here rather early. Of course, naturally we would have sat in the back, but since I became the personal blunt of Aaron and Seth's jokes, Steph and I decided to sit near the front. Thirty seconds later, Sam came on board. She had an annoyed face on. "You didn't wait for me!" she yelled. Steph told her why we didn't, explaining that if we did, I would have been dragged away to the darkest corners of the earth. "Huh?" Sam did not understand Steph's analogies. "She would have been forced to sit next to Aaron." Sam smiled and said a flat, "Oh."
Arriving at school, I walked off the bus and into the building. Stopping at my locker to get my books for the first half of the day, I thought I heard Aaron say, "Nice ass." Even if he didn't, I still was annoyed at him. Could you blame me?
It turns out he did say what I thought he said, because he kept repeating it in science, along with replacing my behind with other parts of my body. I felt like a store mannequin with Aaron and Seth staring at me like they always do. I snapped them out of their delusions, and the four of us returned to the project. However, as I was painting Pelippaa's beak a yellow color, I heard Aaron whisper to Seth, "I like the feisty ones." I ignored them and returned to painting the Pelippaa. In gym class, more of the same, as Seth and the rest of the soccer team were deliberately checking me out, however, that might not have been a good idea since we were playing dodgeball, catch my drift? I started teaching my legendary Pokemon/Pokemon gym Battling today in one of the many wings of the school. It turns out, none of the immature soccer boys were in my class, but I saw some girls with the same blue varsity jacket. Plus, Steph and Sam were in the class too. "I didn't realize you girls get varsity jackets," I told them. "Well, the boys and girls play on the same soccer team," one of the girls said, "and I think we're more mature and better players than the boys on our team."
I laughed. "I can account to that." The class was going to be split into two half-year classes. This half of the school year was to be on Pokemon Gym Battling. After I was done talking about the class, I let the students write out their Pokemon Gym teams and their favorite types. I always knew that Steph liked normal Pokemon, but psychic Pokemon for Steph surprised me. "She has a Natu though, so I guess that fits," I told myself.
After lunch, which was pretty uneventful, I had English class, where I had to write a story, which was easy for me, because I could write, but in history, I got to look forward to more tormenting from Aaron. Today, he put his arm around me and moved his chair closer to mine as he wrote down the notes Mr. Martinez put on the board. "Oh, just take me now!" I thought loud in my head as I wrote the notes down as well. After class, Aaron wanted to follow me to my locker and hold my books for me until I got home, but I told him I wasn't leaving school. "Oh, I'm not leaving school just yet." I told him. He frowned, but then quickly had a menacing smile, and sprinted in the direction of the auditorium. I shrugged, got my books that I would need for homework, put all the others in my locker, slammed it shut, then walked into the auditorium. I sat down next to Steph, when the tryouts for the musical began. All the boys were to go up first to do a dance routine for Manuel, the main man in the story, as the girls went to another room to sing for one for the music teacher. When I looked on stage to see who was trying out, I saw both Aaron and Seth on stage, learning the dance moves. "Oh no! Now I'm really in for it!" I panicked. I was even more shocked when Aaron and Seth actually were learning the dance moves with ease.
I was third to sing, so when it was my turn, I entered the practice room. Mrs. Albert, the music teacher, told me to start whenever I was ready. I picked the main song from the musical, which just happed to be the same name as the musical, Escucha mi Corazon. I closed my eyes, stared the song slow, then sped up just like the lead in the movie that I saw. At the end, I held my arms up and sand the last few notes with so much passion that I started bending back. Mrs. Albert, obviously impressed, smiled, and thanked me, telling me that I was done the singing portion of the audition. As I walked out of the room, I noticed that all the boys were done the dancing portion. I ran out onto the stage, where the speaking and dancing portion was. After finishing the speaking or acting portion, we all came out on stage to do the dancing portion. The dance teacher, Mrs. Stevens, taught us the dance moves, then we danced those moves in groups of six. Steph, Sam, and I were in the first group, so we stayed out. I stood in the front row center, with Steph and Sam to either side of me. Right before the music started, I noticed that the boys came back into the room and were watching us. I didn't worry though, I knew exactly what I was doing. And then, the music started.
I had so much fun as I twirled around, throwing my hands where they were needed and smiling as much as possible. In the end, Steph and Sam came a little too close to me, but we didn't crash or anything, we just ended closer together. As the music stopped and the boys clapped loudly in support of us, I laughed. "Let's see the boys do that," I said to myself. The teachers told us that the cast list would be up tomorrow.
The next day, I ran to the bus stop, complained that the bus was going to slow, ran into school, spent two seconds in my locker, ran over several people in the hallway, and up to the call list. I didn't see my name at the bottom, so either I got a really good part or I got nothing. Finally, at the top of the list, I read the following: For the main role of Ana, the role goes to . Rachel Stevens. At that time, I screamed the loudest scream I had ever screamed. I was so happy, I was jumping up and down. Aaron snuck up behind me, and said to me, "I see you got the main role of Ana." Then he checked the call list, and then said again to me, "And I see I got Manuel." At that point, my eyes widened. "Wait, you're the lead male, and I'm the lead female? But the lead male and female . have to kiss!" He moved into me wrapping his arms around my waist. "Yeah, isn't that great!" Then he changes the topic and pushing in closer. "You know, we should practice that kiss sometime." I grunted in disgust.
Late at night, I crawled downstairs to watch Pokemon TV, since I couldn't sleep, but all that were on were The Amazing Adventures of Quagsire and Living with My Evolution. "Ugh, there is nothing on!" I mumbled under my breath, then turned the TV off and fell asleep on the couch.
The next morning, I awoke to find my mother standing over me. "So, I assume you didn't sleep?" she said, her hands on her hips and a serious look on her face. I smiled. "Yeah." Then I got up and walked upstairs to my bathroom. Luckily, Alex, my brother, was still sleeping. I took my toothbrush, moved it around in my mouth to remove all the plaque, then spit into the sink. Then, I closed the door and went to the bathroom, when I was done, I made sure I was fully dressed, opened the door, washed my hands, and walked out of the bathroom and downstairs to eat breakfast. Taking a bowl from the cabinet, I sat down at the table and poured myself some Poli-O's, a sugar cereal that turns milk blue. Pouring fresh Miltank milk from the Miltank farms near Goldenrod city in the nearby country of Johto. "You know, I think I'm outgrowing these!" I said, laughing as my milk turned blue. My dad looked out from behind his newspaper and laughed. "You know something? I think you're right." I grabbed my spoon and started eating my cereal. They were full of sugar, but good nonetheless. Alex, at this point, walked downstairs and grabbed another bowl and spoon from their respective places and started pouring the Poli-O's into his bowl, but before his bowl was full, the box was empty. "Oh man," he shouted, "what am I going to do?" My mom walked into the room from the family room. "There's six more boxes in the cereal cabinet. Go grab one." I laughed. "You're gonna turn into a Poliwag!" He rolled his eyes. "Yeah, yeah. Just give me the milk."
Walking the same route as I do everyday, today was just a little more exciting. Today was the tryouts for the school musical, Escucha mi Corazon. Unfortunately, all the songs were in Spanish, a language I hadn't learned, since I was studying French, but I'm sure I could handle it. I was dancing down the street like a lunatic, doing the samba, the flamenco, and other Spanish dance steps and singing the main song from the musical. When people started staring, I stopped dancing. Reaching the bus stop, I stopped, standing next to Steph. "Are you trying out for the musical?" she asked. "Of course," I mentioned proudly, "and you?" "Well, I was thinking about it." I smiled. "You should! It's gonna be really fun!" She looked at me with a face that meant she didn't believe me. "Oh yeah, like last year's musical? I had to dance on a platform suspended from the ceiling!" I rolled my eyes. "I know, I was on that same platform." She laughed.
The bus got here rather early. Of course, naturally we would have sat in the back, but since I became the personal blunt of Aaron and Seth's jokes, Steph and I decided to sit near the front. Thirty seconds later, Sam came on board. She had an annoyed face on. "You didn't wait for me!" she yelled. Steph told her why we didn't, explaining that if we did, I would have been dragged away to the darkest corners of the earth. "Huh?" Sam did not understand Steph's analogies. "She would have been forced to sit next to Aaron." Sam smiled and said a flat, "Oh."
Arriving at school, I walked off the bus and into the building. Stopping at my locker to get my books for the first half of the day, I thought I heard Aaron say, "Nice ass." Even if he didn't, I still was annoyed at him. Could you blame me?
It turns out he did say what I thought he said, because he kept repeating it in science, along with replacing my behind with other parts of my body. I felt like a store mannequin with Aaron and Seth staring at me like they always do. I snapped them out of their delusions, and the four of us returned to the project. However, as I was painting Pelippaa's beak a yellow color, I heard Aaron whisper to Seth, "I like the feisty ones." I ignored them and returned to painting the Pelippaa. In gym class, more of the same, as Seth and the rest of the soccer team were deliberately checking me out, however, that might not have been a good idea since we were playing dodgeball, catch my drift? I started teaching my legendary Pokemon/Pokemon gym Battling today in one of the many wings of the school. It turns out, none of the immature soccer boys were in my class, but I saw some girls with the same blue varsity jacket. Plus, Steph and Sam were in the class too. "I didn't realize you girls get varsity jackets," I told them. "Well, the boys and girls play on the same soccer team," one of the girls said, "and I think we're more mature and better players than the boys on our team."
I laughed. "I can account to that." The class was going to be split into two half-year classes. This half of the school year was to be on Pokemon Gym Battling. After I was done talking about the class, I let the students write out their Pokemon Gym teams and their favorite types. I always knew that Steph liked normal Pokemon, but psychic Pokemon for Steph surprised me. "She has a Natu though, so I guess that fits," I told myself.
After lunch, which was pretty uneventful, I had English class, where I had to write a story, which was easy for me, because I could write, but in history, I got to look forward to more tormenting from Aaron. Today, he put his arm around me and moved his chair closer to mine as he wrote down the notes Mr. Martinez put on the board. "Oh, just take me now!" I thought loud in my head as I wrote the notes down as well. After class, Aaron wanted to follow me to my locker and hold my books for me until I got home, but I told him I wasn't leaving school. "Oh, I'm not leaving school just yet." I told him. He frowned, but then quickly had a menacing smile, and sprinted in the direction of the auditorium. I shrugged, got my books that I would need for homework, put all the others in my locker, slammed it shut, then walked into the auditorium. I sat down next to Steph, when the tryouts for the musical began. All the boys were to go up first to do a dance routine for Manuel, the main man in the story, as the girls went to another room to sing for one for the music teacher. When I looked on stage to see who was trying out, I saw both Aaron and Seth on stage, learning the dance moves. "Oh no! Now I'm really in for it!" I panicked. I was even more shocked when Aaron and Seth actually were learning the dance moves with ease.
I was third to sing, so when it was my turn, I entered the practice room. Mrs. Albert, the music teacher, told me to start whenever I was ready. I picked the main song from the musical, which just happed to be the same name as the musical, Escucha mi Corazon. I closed my eyes, stared the song slow, then sped up just like the lead in the movie that I saw. At the end, I held my arms up and sand the last few notes with so much passion that I started bending back. Mrs. Albert, obviously impressed, smiled, and thanked me, telling me that I was done the singing portion of the audition. As I walked out of the room, I noticed that all the boys were done the dancing portion. I ran out onto the stage, where the speaking and dancing portion was. After finishing the speaking or acting portion, we all came out on stage to do the dancing portion. The dance teacher, Mrs. Stevens, taught us the dance moves, then we danced those moves in groups of six. Steph, Sam, and I were in the first group, so we stayed out. I stood in the front row center, with Steph and Sam to either side of me. Right before the music started, I noticed that the boys came back into the room and were watching us. I didn't worry though, I knew exactly what I was doing. And then, the music started.
I had so much fun as I twirled around, throwing my hands where they were needed and smiling as much as possible. In the end, Steph and Sam came a little too close to me, but we didn't crash or anything, we just ended closer together. As the music stopped and the boys clapped loudly in support of us, I laughed. "Let's see the boys do that," I said to myself. The teachers told us that the cast list would be up tomorrow.
The next day, I ran to the bus stop, complained that the bus was going to slow, ran into school, spent two seconds in my locker, ran over several people in the hallway, and up to the call list. I didn't see my name at the bottom, so either I got a really good part or I got nothing. Finally, at the top of the list, I read the following: For the main role of Ana, the role goes to . Rachel Stevens. At that time, I screamed the loudest scream I had ever screamed. I was so happy, I was jumping up and down. Aaron snuck up behind me, and said to me, "I see you got the main role of Ana." Then he checked the call list, and then said again to me, "And I see I got Manuel." At that point, my eyes widened. "Wait, you're the lead male, and I'm the lead female? But the lead male and female . have to kiss!" He moved into me wrapping his arms around my waist. "Yeah, isn't that great!" Then he changes the topic and pushing in closer. "You know, we should practice that kiss sometime." I grunted in disgust.