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Casting Call
The next few days were devoted to writing the play and working out the charecters. On the night of the auditions, Hermione told Draco she had a song ready for the play. He sat next to her on her bed and she pulled out her guitar.
"Don't laugh ok?"
"Never."
"Ok good." she started playing softly and then picked up as she started to sing.
"I sit behind the walls I built.
I am all alone.
No one can get through to me.
No one can get past the walls.
you take one look
And see an angel,
Flawless in every way.
But you don't see,
The real me...
You wish you knew
Everything I go through.
You wish you knew
The hurt I feel.
But you never can
You will never know the real me.
You wish you knew me... x2
I keep on the defensive.
I can't afford the truth to be revealed.
I built the walls so no one can see
I can't let anyone in...
I am too afraid to feel anything
I walk in a trance.
I walk in an empty shell
rid of all emotion...
-
My reflection is lost
in a vortex of darkness
I am lost in the darkness that has become me
Why can't my reflection show
who I am?
what I stand for?
because I seem to have forgotten myself
-
How can I trust in someone else
to see the real me
When I can't even trust myself?
I am lost in my own world
lost in my own feelings
I can't deal with the pain no more
is there really anything that is holding me back?
is there anything worth holding on to?
i am slipping into darkness
i can't find the light...
-
you wish you knew the pain I felt,
you wish you knew me
but I can't let anyone in..." She strummed her guitar one more time and ended. Draco stared and started clapping.
"Oh my god that was great!"
"Really?"
"Yeah. It was the best song I've ever heard. Who wrote it?"
"I did."
"Really?"
"Yeah."
"Awesome. Thanks."
"We should head down now."
"Yeah come on." they walked down to the great hall and sat at the table infront of the room. The line of people was immense.
"Will all the people trying out for dylans Best Friend stand over there and the rest of you leave the room real quick?" Draco said and 12 people remained in the Great Hall.
"Now Jerome is a very important charecter. He helps move things along. Now you will read a certain scene and we will fill in for the missing parts." the group nodded.
"Now you all have numbers. Will number 1 please step up?" a boy from Ravenclaw stepped up.
"I will be doing Act 2 Scene 3." Hermione stepped up infront of him.
"I will be featured in this scene so I shall be doing the lines with you. Oh and anyone who doesn't make it wil be featured as an extra."
"Ok."
"Why are you doing this to me?" Hermione read Aiden's line.
"What do you mean?" the boy read Jerome's line.
"You keep getting in the way of my lessons. What is your problem?"
"My problem is that you are stealing my best friend from me!"
"I am what! I would never try to do that!"
"Really?" he stepped up to her and got in her face. "Leave this city. No one likes you here." she fake slapped him in the face and he fell to the ground.
"How dare you speak to me like that!"
"Whatever. But I'd watch my back if I were you."
"But you're not me!" the scene ended. "We'll get back to you. Good luck. You can either stay and watch the other auditions, or you can head back to your common room." she said as he stood up.
"See you later." he said as he left the hall.
"Number 2?" Blaise stepped up.
"Act 2 scene 4. With Dylan."
"Ok." Draco said and stepped up.
"Why did you betray me for her!" Blaise said with emotion while reading Jerome's lines.
"I never betrayed you! You are my friend and so is she!"
"But you blew me off the other night at the club! You just had to see what was up with her and you left me alone after you promised you would let me vent!"
"You don't understand how I feel though!"
"How do you feel? Enlighten me!"
"I think I found my true love..."
"Yeah! Right!" he pretended to walk out of the room and the scene ended.
"Bravo. Excellent emotion. We'll get back to you in a few days."
"Thanks." he bowed and walked out of the Hall.
"Number 3..." the auditions went on for another three hours and finally as the last person for Aiden's mother left, the two of them collapsed into their chairs.
"Now we have to watch them all over again."
"I know who I want as each person."
"Really? cool so do I."
"Well, let's sort them out so we can give the results tommorrow at supper."
"Ok. Come on let's go."
The next evening they announced who the people were. "Jerome, Dylan's best friend, will be played by Blaise Zambini. Dylan's girlfriend, Hera, will be played by Lavender Brown. Aiden's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Neo, will be played by Ronald Weasley and Pansy Parkinson." a loud gasp was heard from the SLytherin table as Pansy fell out of her chair. "Dylan's other friends will be played by Christy Petro, Cho Chang, Seamus Finningan, Justin Finch-Fletchy (sp?) and Jake Epstein. The music instructer will be Naomi Townsed. The music school director will be Neville Longbottom. The popular priss, Crystal Lennia, will be played by Millicent Bulstrode. Her friends will be played by Parvati Patil , Yasmine McGrade, Kendra Kitcho, Malerie Necro, and Felicity Hoover. All the other people will be extras in the play. We will meet every Saturday and Sunday evening at 8:00 until 10 in the ROR. See you tonight." they stepped down and walked to the Slytherin table. They were thanked by the people who they gave parts to. After dinner they headed down to the ROR early so that they could get everything set up. When they walked in they were at the first scene in the play. Aiden's living room at night. Behind the set there were costumes. Hermione saw that her and Draco had no costumes.
"Our styles are the same. Guess we can just pick out clothes for each scene."
"Yeah." the door opened and people started coming in and sitting in the break area that was infront of the set.
"Hey you all showed up. Good. Today we will practice the first scene in every act. This means that most of you won't be used for a while. If you wanna watch us for a while that's fine, if not we can page you when your turn is up." they all remained seated. "Ok. First we need Aiden's parents and Aiden. Ron, Pansy, and Hermione step up please?" the three of them stepped up. "Now, Hermione you will have to come down the stairs and enter the living room only to interupt a conversation. You can talk about anything except things that kids need to worry about. Bills, what's for dinner. Anything like that. Then once she enters you start your lines and actions that were written on the script. Got it?"
"Yeah."
"Ok. Action!" Hermione walked down the stairs while Ron and Pansy started talking about how much the water bill was costing.
"Hey mom, dad. I'm going out with my friends. Be back at midnight."
"Get your butt back here missy!" Pansy called.
"Why mom?"
"Cause you are grounded! Remember you didn't clean your room?"
"But daddy-!"
"Shut up! You are disrespecting us again!" Ron fake slapped her and she stumbled back. "You are worthless and ungrateful!"
"You are grounded to your room for the next month!"
"Yes mother." she walked up the stairs and the scene changed so Pansy and Ron walked off the back of the set where they were no longer visible. She started crying and stood up. SHe walked over to her dresser and pulled out a box full of money and counted it. "3,000 dollars. I finally have enough!" she said happily and put the money in her wallet. She grabbed some clothes and put them in a small suitcase with some accesories. She grabbed a black and pink bunny off her bed and tossed it out the window where it landed with a soft plop on the ground. The scene changed and showed her climbing down the trelace outside her window and running off in the dead of night.
"Good job. Absolutely flawless."
"Thanks." the three actors said together.
"Now we need Aiden, Dylan, Jerome, 12 extras, and Dylans friends." they all stepped up.
"Ok. WE start in the night club after Aiden had met Dylan in the lobby and they hung out."
"Ok." the scene changed to a dance club where the strobe lights were flashing and a few black lights were set up.
Hermione took her place at the bar.
"What'll it be Miss?"
"Just a Pepsi. With some vodka."
"Ok coming right up." a minute later he came back with a drink. "2."
"Here you go." she handed him the money. "Thanks." he nodded and walked off to another person.
"Dylan, check out that girl at the bar." Blaise said.
"That's the girl from the hotel."
"You know her?"
"Yeah. We met in the lobby of her hotel when she got the booklet for the music school."
"Oh."
"She looks depressed. I'll be right back."
"Dylan wait-"
"Give me a few minutes with her." he walked behind Hermione. "Hey girl what's up?"
"Girl?"
"You never told me your name."
"Aiden Neo."
"Dylan Sneider." he held out a hand and she took it. "Nice to meet you."
"Yeah. Same here."
"Care to dance?"
"Why not?" he led her to the dance floor between two extras and the scene ended.
The others clapped at their preformance. "Thank you." they said and bowed.
"Now we need..." the practice went on until 9:45 when they took a break.
"You guys were awesome for your first practice. Most of you have already memorized your lines and tht is a mojor help. Now I would like to take this time to fill you in on some maojor dates in the preformance."
"As you know we will be preforming this play for everyone in the school, any parents that would like to come, and the teachers. We will be preforming the play before CHristmas vacotion. The night before actually. And we wil have a dress recital the night before."
"Also we have been gathering music and Hermione has written one song so far for the play so there will be music playing. Al;l music in the club will be techno all of Aiden's music will be rock, and the other's will be different genres."
"WE expect you here tomorrow night same time. Then we will be rehearsing the whole first act for the play. Any questions?"
One hand shot up. "Who is going to make the costumes?"
"They are already picked out. Anything else?"
"Yeah, why were you two the leads?"
"Dumbledores orders."
"Why?"
"For privet reasons that he told us we can not disclose."
"Now we wish you a good night. Practice for your scenes. You may leave."
They all left.
"Hey we have to do a major scene in the final act. I am not too sure I got my lines down though. Can we practice?"
"Yeah." Hermione replied. "The final scene right?"
"Yeah. On the roof."
"Ok." they stepped on to the set and the scene changed to a roof scene.
"I am so happy for you." Draco started.
"I am glad you feel that way."
"Over the last month or so you have been my best friend."
"You are the one I should thank."
"But you are the first person to care about me."
"Like wise. Well, I leave for Europe tomorrow." she paused and studied his eyes. "Come with me..." she said in a barely whisper.
"But I can't. They won't let me."
"They said we can invite one person to come with us."
"And you chose me as your one person?"
"Of course. Who else could I choose?"
"Thank you."
They lean in and kiss like the stage directions say but pull away much quicker.
"I can't wait to go to Amsterdam."
"Oh shut up!" Hermione said and laughed.
"You know you can't wait either."
"I would wait until the day I die if it meant this night would last forever."
"Really?"
"Yeah..."
"Good. I can wait too." they leaned there foreheads together finishing the scene.
"Hey you didn't mess up."
"I know. I remembered all my lines. That's wicked."
"Well, we should head back."
"Ok." they walked back to their common room and and drank a cup of hot cocoa before heading to bed.
"Goodnight Draco." she said as he stood up.
"Goodnight Hermione." he kissed her cheek. "Sleep well." he said as he walked away leaving her stunned form holding her cheek where he kissed her.
She walked to her room and fell onto her bed with only one thought going through her mind. 'He finally kissed me...'
Well, i updated again! YAY! LoL. should have another chapter up soon! And the song is You wish you knew. I wrote it for my other fanfic. I hope you like it!
