A.N. Okay, I haven't updated in a while. Sorry! College is tough!
Plus I spend way to much time reading fics. I will sincerely try to be
better.
Chapter Four
Unfortunately for Holly, her walkman broke down about half-way through detention. By then she had run out of song ideas. So of course who should be buzzing around annoying her but Pietro himself. If he didn't shut up, she was going to... Suddenly, she smiled. It was a bit mean but she had had enough!
She turned to him smiling and said in a super-sugary concerned voice, "I'm so glad to see that you are feeling better." He looked a bit puzzled and everyone else looked curiously at them. She ignored them. "I mean, I thought you were going to faint back in Biology." She made sure to put an emphasis on the word faint. She could hear a few snickers. "You were so pale. I guess some people have a more delicate temperament."
Pietro was turning red. Everyone else was at least chuckling. Many were laughing their heads off. She didn't have to say another word. Already people were asking him if he was afraid of a "widdle worm". Holly just went back to her book.
"Hey," she looked up. It was Bobby. "Do you want to get started on that English project?"
"Good idea. What's your favorite Shakespearian play?"
"Uh.."
"Let me guess, that's like asking me my favorite mathematician."
"Well, how many Shakespeare's plays do you know?"
"Hm, Let's see. I've read: Taming of the Shrew, Merchant of Venice, Much ado about Nothing, Hamlet, McBeth, Julius Ceaser, and A Midsummer's Night Dream, but that was in comic book format so that doesn't count. I've seen but not read: Othello, King Lear and Comedy of Errors. I haven't seen or read but I know the plot of Twelfth Night, and As you like it."
Bobby was staring at her by then, "How many plays did he write?"
"Somewhere around thirty I believe, and don't forget I think it was also a hundred sonnets."
"Sheesh. This guy didn't know when to shut up. Which is your favorite?"
"Taming of the Shrew, without a doubt. I don't know why. But it is."
"That's some sort of mushy romance, isn't it?" Pietro butted in evidently having gotten his pride back.
Holly rolled her eyes, "It is a romance but it is not mushy. It's a play within a play. You see it begins with a noble returning from the day's hunt and finding a drunk passed out on the ground. He decides to play a joke on the drunk by taking him to his (the noble's) house, dressing him in fine clothes and have all the servants keep treating him as a lord. While he is doing this, the players come by to put on a play, "The Taming of the Shrew." In that there is a wealthy merchant who has two daughters.." She quickly realized she was losing her audience. "The movie '10 things I hate about you' was based on it. Mind you I haven't seen that movie but I know the basic plot is similar."
"Oh, cool. That might work."
"Uh, you are probably going to want a copy with notes at the bottom of the page." Seeing that Bobby looked a little miffed at her estimate of his intelligence, she scanned the room (A.N. Pretend their in an English classroom) until she saw a copy on the shelves. She quickly looked for the right part. "Why, Petruchio is coming, in a new hat and an old jerkin, a pair of old breeches thrice turned; a pair of boots that have been candle- cases, one buckled, another lac'd: an old rusty sword tane out of the Town Armory, with a broken hilt, and chapelesse: with two broken point: his horse hip'd with and old mothy saddle and stirrups of no kindred: besides possest with the glanders, and like to mose in the chine, troubled with the Lampasse, infected with the fashions, full of Windegalls, sped with Spavins, raied with the Yellows, past cure of the Fives, starke spoyl'd with the Staggers, begnawn with the Bots, Waid in the back, and sholder- shotten... The paragraph goes on but I think that's enough to prove my point. Oh, don't forget that there's archaic spelling too." She smiled at the lost looks on everybody's face. "Isn't language fun?"
"Notes, check."
A.N. Okay I ran out of inspiration. Hopefully next chapter will be more interesting. I left out most of the archaic spellings in the last paragraph but some or it is still there. No you are not supposed to be able to figure that all out. Don't worry. I'm sure you are all aware that I do not own Shakespeare or any of his works or the movie '10 Things I Hate About You'. I haven't seen the movie but it really is based on 'Taming of the Shrew'. There will be more about the project but not likely too much.
Chapter Four
Unfortunately for Holly, her walkman broke down about half-way through detention. By then she had run out of song ideas. So of course who should be buzzing around annoying her but Pietro himself. If he didn't shut up, she was going to... Suddenly, she smiled. It was a bit mean but she had had enough!
She turned to him smiling and said in a super-sugary concerned voice, "I'm so glad to see that you are feeling better." He looked a bit puzzled and everyone else looked curiously at them. She ignored them. "I mean, I thought you were going to faint back in Biology." She made sure to put an emphasis on the word faint. She could hear a few snickers. "You were so pale. I guess some people have a more delicate temperament."
Pietro was turning red. Everyone else was at least chuckling. Many were laughing their heads off. She didn't have to say another word. Already people were asking him if he was afraid of a "widdle worm". Holly just went back to her book.
"Hey," she looked up. It was Bobby. "Do you want to get started on that English project?"
"Good idea. What's your favorite Shakespearian play?"
"Uh.."
"Let me guess, that's like asking me my favorite mathematician."
"Well, how many Shakespeare's plays do you know?"
"Hm, Let's see. I've read: Taming of the Shrew, Merchant of Venice, Much ado about Nothing, Hamlet, McBeth, Julius Ceaser, and A Midsummer's Night Dream, but that was in comic book format so that doesn't count. I've seen but not read: Othello, King Lear and Comedy of Errors. I haven't seen or read but I know the plot of Twelfth Night, and As you like it."
Bobby was staring at her by then, "How many plays did he write?"
"Somewhere around thirty I believe, and don't forget I think it was also a hundred sonnets."
"Sheesh. This guy didn't know when to shut up. Which is your favorite?"
"Taming of the Shrew, without a doubt. I don't know why. But it is."
"That's some sort of mushy romance, isn't it?" Pietro butted in evidently having gotten his pride back.
Holly rolled her eyes, "It is a romance but it is not mushy. It's a play within a play. You see it begins with a noble returning from the day's hunt and finding a drunk passed out on the ground. He decides to play a joke on the drunk by taking him to his (the noble's) house, dressing him in fine clothes and have all the servants keep treating him as a lord. While he is doing this, the players come by to put on a play, "The Taming of the Shrew." In that there is a wealthy merchant who has two daughters.." She quickly realized she was losing her audience. "The movie '10 things I hate about you' was based on it. Mind you I haven't seen that movie but I know the basic plot is similar."
"Oh, cool. That might work."
"Uh, you are probably going to want a copy with notes at the bottom of the page." Seeing that Bobby looked a little miffed at her estimate of his intelligence, she scanned the room (A.N. Pretend their in an English classroom) until she saw a copy on the shelves. She quickly looked for the right part. "Why, Petruchio is coming, in a new hat and an old jerkin, a pair of old breeches thrice turned; a pair of boots that have been candle- cases, one buckled, another lac'd: an old rusty sword tane out of the Town Armory, with a broken hilt, and chapelesse: with two broken point: his horse hip'd with and old mothy saddle and stirrups of no kindred: besides possest with the glanders, and like to mose in the chine, troubled with the Lampasse, infected with the fashions, full of Windegalls, sped with Spavins, raied with the Yellows, past cure of the Fives, starke spoyl'd with the Staggers, begnawn with the Bots, Waid in the back, and sholder- shotten... The paragraph goes on but I think that's enough to prove my point. Oh, don't forget that there's archaic spelling too." She smiled at the lost looks on everybody's face. "Isn't language fun?"
"Notes, check."
A.N. Okay I ran out of inspiration. Hopefully next chapter will be more interesting. I left out most of the archaic spellings in the last paragraph but some or it is still there. No you are not supposed to be able to figure that all out. Don't worry. I'm sure you are all aware that I do not own Shakespeare or any of his works or the movie '10 Things I Hate About You'. I haven't seen the movie but it really is based on 'Taming of the Shrew'. There will be more about the project but not likely too much.