Kate sat on the stage with her legs dangling off it. Her dark hair was soaked with sweat and as she looked out at her cast, she noticed she was the only one being leveled by the heat. An abnormal wave of heat had swept over Minnesota and the teenagers were dealing with the worst Indian Summer they'd ever seen. None had the ambition to move, let alone stand under the brutal stage lighting to practice. Even Liz had been tamed by the heat, laying on the floor in front of the stage with her head in Portman's lap and her eyes closed.
"It's not suppose to be with hot in the middle of September." Goldberg groaned banging his head against the wall lightly.
Luis shook head.
"This is like December in Miami, mi amigo."
"We're so happy you have such great warm weather tolerance Mendoza, really we are. But I've got rehearsals to run and a cast that's suffering from heat stroke." Kate crossed her arms. Running this play was really turning out to be hell, but on the brighter side, Reagan had shown up for trial performance.
"Well me, Portman and Goldberg will coolin' off as soon as we get outa , I bet it's nice at the rink." Luis declared.
Suddenly Kate perked up.
"Luis you're a genius." She squealed throwing her arms around the boy's neck and planting a kiss on his cheek.
"Huh?" Luis had been called many things in his life but a genius was not one of them, but he was more shocked by Kate's sudden display of affection. He'd been trying to get next to her for a month and all it took was for him to mention the rink to get a kiss. He liked it, more over he like her.
"All right everyone," Kate clapped her hands to get everybody's attention "Pack up your stuff, rehearsal's being relocated to the campus rink."
A few minutes later there's a line of drama clubbers trooping across the campus with scripts in their hands. People looking out classroom and dorm windows were shaking their heads and rolling their eyes at their classmates
"Gitty-up horsy." Lizzie laughed smacking Portman on the butt as he gave her a piggy back ride to the hockey stadium.
"Keep it up babe and I'm gonna be joining your web-site." Portman teased.
"No you won't because you love me and you know it."
"Yeah, yeah, yeah."
Liz giggled and kissed the top of his head, Kate snorted and rolled her eyes and Goldberg made a gagging noise.
Luis took that as the opportunity to make another move on the student director.
"What's the matter Kate, my beautiful senorita? You don't believe in true love?"
"No, I don't." Kate shook her head. "Sometimes you have to grow up, leave the 'Creek' and enter the real world Luis. And in the real world there's no such thing as true love and soul-mates."
"I know the feeling Kate, but sometimes you do fall in love, unfortunately some times your prince charming is more of a frog." Reagan shot Luis a dirty look before as she past by them on her way to the front of the line to catch up with some of her friends.
After a chilly practice Kate and Liz returned to their room, Lizzie got changed and went over to watch hockey practice, while Kate settled down at her computer. She'd been in touch with a guy from Liz's group for a few days and they were hitting it off pretty well. She got an email from him every morning before school and she'd respond to it after she got back to her room at the end of the day. It was making her a little late for her usual activity of watching the Ducks scrimmage, but Goldie didn't seem to notice.
"Hey Dark Haired Wonder,
It's been a long day *sigh, I can't wait for all this responsibility to go away. It's good to know you keep busy to though, that why you're not just sitting here waiting for me to write back. To answer you're question, sure I'll go with you to the Fall Ball. What's the worse that can happen, we won't like each other and we'll split up and hang with our own friends. So yeah, we'll have to make plans. Write Back Soon."
She didn't sign her name at the bottom, they still hadn't shared their real names with each other. Mostly because Kate was scared if he found out who she was he'd stop talking to her, to be fair she hadn't asked for him either. There was exchange of any information that could lead to their true identities, it was in fact sort of romantic, reminiscent of something you'd see on the a cheesy teen soap opera. So maybe she wasn't ready to leave the 'Creek' no one had to know that even level headed Kate Simpson had a dreamy side.
"It's not suppose to be with hot in the middle of September." Goldberg groaned banging his head against the wall lightly.
Luis shook head.
"This is like December in Miami, mi amigo."
"We're so happy you have such great warm weather tolerance Mendoza, really we are. But I've got rehearsals to run and a cast that's suffering from heat stroke." Kate crossed her arms. Running this play was really turning out to be hell, but on the brighter side, Reagan had shown up for trial performance.
"Well me, Portman and Goldberg will coolin' off as soon as we get outa , I bet it's nice at the rink." Luis declared.
Suddenly Kate perked up.
"Luis you're a genius." She squealed throwing her arms around the boy's neck and planting a kiss on his cheek.
"Huh?" Luis had been called many things in his life but a genius was not one of them, but he was more shocked by Kate's sudden display of affection. He'd been trying to get next to her for a month and all it took was for him to mention the rink to get a kiss. He liked it, more over he like her.
"All right everyone," Kate clapped her hands to get everybody's attention "Pack up your stuff, rehearsal's being relocated to the campus rink."
A few minutes later there's a line of drama clubbers trooping across the campus with scripts in their hands. People looking out classroom and dorm windows were shaking their heads and rolling their eyes at their classmates
"Gitty-up horsy." Lizzie laughed smacking Portman on the butt as he gave her a piggy back ride to the hockey stadium.
"Keep it up babe and I'm gonna be joining your web-site." Portman teased.
"No you won't because you love me and you know it."
"Yeah, yeah, yeah."
Liz giggled and kissed the top of his head, Kate snorted and rolled her eyes and Goldberg made a gagging noise.
Luis took that as the opportunity to make another move on the student director.
"What's the matter Kate, my beautiful senorita? You don't believe in true love?"
"No, I don't." Kate shook her head. "Sometimes you have to grow up, leave the 'Creek' and enter the real world Luis. And in the real world there's no such thing as true love and soul-mates."
"I know the feeling Kate, but sometimes you do fall in love, unfortunately some times your prince charming is more of a frog." Reagan shot Luis a dirty look before as she past by them on her way to the front of the line to catch up with some of her friends.
After a chilly practice Kate and Liz returned to their room, Lizzie got changed and went over to watch hockey practice, while Kate settled down at her computer. She'd been in touch with a guy from Liz's group for a few days and they were hitting it off pretty well. She got an email from him every morning before school and she'd respond to it after she got back to her room at the end of the day. It was making her a little late for her usual activity of watching the Ducks scrimmage, but Goldie didn't seem to notice.
"Hey Dark Haired Wonder,
It's been a long day *sigh, I can't wait for all this responsibility to go away. It's good to know you keep busy to though, that why you're not just sitting here waiting for me to write back. To answer you're question, sure I'll go with you to the Fall Ball. What's the worse that can happen, we won't like each other and we'll split up and hang with our own friends. So yeah, we'll have to make plans. Write Back Soon."
She didn't sign her name at the bottom, they still hadn't shared their real names with each other. Mostly because Kate was scared if he found out who she was he'd stop talking to her, to be fair she hadn't asked for him either. There was exchange of any information that could lead to their true identities, it was in fact sort of romantic, reminiscent of something you'd see on the a cheesy teen soap opera. So maybe she wasn't ready to leave the 'Creek' no one had to know that even level headed Kate Simpson had a dreamy side.