Tears of an Angel
Chapter 8
"HUH?" said the five Eva pilots.
"I'm very sorry about this," said the director looking as though she was about to cry. "But I tried to cajole the other boy, Toshi, not to leave but his mind was already made up. I already gathered everyone else from the drama club to switch a few roles."
"Then, who am I?" Asuka asked stepping forward.
"Oh, Asuka......let's see, you were Pearl before, right? Asuka, I'm afraid I'm going to place you as Mistress Hibbins. You see, because of the two leads dropping out almost all the roles have to be changed! I know how much you enjoyed being Pearl, Asuka, but I don't have any other choice."
"But the show's tonight!!" Shinji protested. "How are we going to learn all the lines and the songs in less than six hours?"
"Try the best you can, everybody. If you forget then just make something up from mind that sounds similar to it. I need you five to try on your new costumes. Oh, and we won't have the orchestra anymore."
"Why?" Kaworu remarked.
"Because all our musicians are now going to be on stage tonight performing in place of the new parts they received. Because of Toshi's drop-out and Kasumi's illness, everything is screwed up right now."
"Then what will be the music for the show?" Rei stated looking a tad bit nervous.
"I have all the music on a CD for everyone to sing to. The only people who will have to memorize the songs for the afternoon are Rei, Shinji, Kaworu, and Toji. Asuka, you will sing but only a minute song with Rei. Here are the CDs for all of you." The director gave each child a golden CD and sent them to try on their costumes. Rei was very pretty in a woman's puritan dress. Asuka looked funny with a crazy mix of a witch's clock and a puritan woman's dress with a hood. Toji looked hilarious with a man's puritan uniform with a basket at his arms filled with fake flowers and grass. Kaworu's costume was a little big, but with a few sewing methods from the director before opening night it would be perfect. His uniform was out lined with gold threads at his cuffs and hat. Shinji looked rather dashing if anyone would say for himself. He looked rather cute in a puritan outfit with a bible under his hand. Thus, the new Scarlet Letter cast was here. Time for a new kind of-UH, OH!
Later that afternoon~
"We're screwed. Just screwed beyond belief!" Toji let out. "How are we gonna tell Misato-chan that we have to cancel our dinner plans just to see us on stage looking like a bunch of fools? We're screwed!" he repeated with a gloomy air surrounding the current atmosphere everyone was in at this particular time.
"I suppose we have to tell her," Shinji advised. "She'll be wicked pissed if we just dump her at a restaurant for four hours and she discovers that we have been performing at our school." Everyone got a death-defying chill down their spine.
"Misato-chan? We're home!!" Rei called inside the house. Misato raced around the corner with a big smile.
"How was everyone's day today?"
"Why in such a happy mood, Misato?" asked one Eva pilot.
"Basically, work was great at Nerv today. No filing to do just a few computer assignments on the angels that need I remind you are no more! HA HA HA HA HA!!! Kaworu was getting uneasy at this but tried to ignore it the best he could.
"We wish we could say the same," Rei said hinting that something was about to spoil Misato's good mood.
"What's up guys? You all look like you got a dirty little secret."
"Well we have something to tell you, Misato- sama. Urm.....uh...Shinji has something to say, don't you, Shinji?" Rei nudged him a little.
"Misato, we have to cancel our dinner plans tonight. Our drama director told us that Kaworu, the others and I are to switch parts in our school musical. Before all this happened, we could've had dinner right after the play before the restaurant closed, but since all of us need to be at the school all through the play, the restaurant will be closed when the play is finished. Kaworu and I are not in the orchestra anymore, we are all singing to a burnt CD. We're very sorry, Misato. We know you wanted to see this new place and celebrate our performance but we couldn't help it."
Misato stood there with barley a single emotion on her face. Then she started to twitch.
"I've waited and worked a long time to get a night off to go to The West Hill. WE'RE GOING!"
"But what about the play? We need to be there!" whined Shinji trying to reason with her that he knew had zero affect.
"Fine. We'll leave right now so you all will be back in time for your circus act. Everybody who needs to take a shower, get in there now! I'll be in the shower upstairs. If we get there early enough and eat fast enough then you guys will have nothing to worry about," Misato explained very happy with the plan. "Now get ready."
Everyone: "But, Misato-chan......"
"I SAID GET READY!!!" she roared.
"Y-Y-Y-e-s, ma'am," they replied very, very scared. And they thought getting chased by an Angel would be worse. Misato winner, pilots-losers. Misato 7,391, pilots-zip.
"I will not tell who the father is of my child," Rei memorized from the script. "I will take my punishment freely. I will stand on the scaffold as demanded. Keep the wisdom that I will not give up my little on that I hold close to my breast."
"Hester Prynne, three hours on the scaffold is what will be asked of you. Let the public know of the A that you hide behind the child. On your bosom lies the symbol of sin. Let the community be reminded of what you have committed and hope that none other commits again." Kaworu was, he agreed, not the greatest Governor Winthrop in the world.
"The sin that has been recognized by the public will not be shortly forgotten. I will ask who is in cahoots with you as well. Do you speak?" Shinji felt that he was asking twenty one questions. He too felt that he would be a better Winthrop than Dimmesdale. Then he would not be on stage as much getting cold feet.
"What are you three doing?" Toji snapped without warning. "You're supposed to be showering, not memorizing. We can do that while we wait for the food at the restaurant." Everyone put their scripts down and dispersed about the house.
A few minutes later, Shinji was showering in the basement's shower that had a good deal of hot water left. It felt very good to Shinji who was already stressed out enough. He felt like he was in a Brady Bunch like family. Only in the 21st century. Shinji heard the shower door open as someone stepped inside. Shinji hide in the water and ducked his head under the counter where the shampoo and soap were placed.
"Shinji? Are you in here? I thought we might shower together. I know you're in here. The towel that you took form the upstairs closet is not wet."
It was Kaworu. Shinji's face was red as a beet. Why should I be embarrassed? Shinji thought to himself, still hiding. We showered before...together. Shinji came out from underneath the counter and spotted Kaworu, wrapped in a long towel.
"Hi, Kaworu-kun. Didn't hear you come in."
"Mind if I join you? We can help each other with our lines."
"O-Okay," Shinji spoke in a high voice as he blushed and looked away without shooting a small peek as Kaworu un-did his towel and sat next to him.
"What did Dimmesdale say to Hester before he met Pearl, Shinji?"
"Um...never juggle without a license?"
"No," Kaworu giggled. "He said that he hopes that Pearl loves him even though she never knew that he was her father. Reverend Dimmesdale wants to be Pearl's friend before Hester, Pearl and he try to escape from the country."
"Oh. Thank-you. We'll never be ready in time. Our director would've been better off hiring Nerv H.Q. than us. At least they can memorize formulas, codes, and messages with numbers, words or anything."
"Don't think that way."
"Do you like your new part, Kaworu?"
"Well, not really, but it's for the good of the play."
"Maybe so. I just hope it goes well."
"It will. You should not look to the bad qualities of every event that you encounter, Shinji. With each bad thing comes a least one good thing right?"
"I guess so."
PAUSE
"Kaworu-kun?"
"Yes, Shin-chan?"
"Will you do me a favor?"
"Of course. Whatever you wish."
"I'm very nervous about this production. I always thought I was never good at anything. Nothing at all. I wondered if I would be any good as an actor in this play. I have such a big role, and I have such little talent to do it. I need a little reassuring. Will you hold me....tight?" Shinji couldn't believe he said it. Kaworu wrapped his arms around Shinji's naked body and held him close.
"You will be all right Shinji. I'll be with you. Inside of you and on stage. So will Rei-chan, Asuka-chan, and Toji- kun. We are in this together. We can handle it. I mean, if you could defeat my brothers and sisters, then a play would be a breeze. Don't worry." Kaworu knew that Shinji wanted to be kissed. Mainly because Shinji had that glint in his eye and he was moving his face in closer. But then:
"KAWORU! SHINJI! HURRY AND GET DRYED AND DRESSED!! WE LEAVE IN TWENTY MINUTES!!" Misato called from upstairs.
With a spark of regret in his air, Shinji decided to get out of the shower with Kaworu. Kaworu stood up and grabbed a towel for himself and Shinji. Kaworu slid his finger under Shinji's chin and grinned at him.
"Has anyone seen the CD?" said Rei trying to fasten her shoes.
"What CD Rei-chan?" answered Misato?
"The Scarlet Letter CD of all the songs!"
"Found it!" Asuka called from behind Misato making her jump.
"The CD?" asked Rei.
"No, my watch! I thought I'd never see it again."
"Where's my hat?" Shinji wanted to know.
"It's on your head, stupid," Asuka pointed out very clearly. Shinji's hat was indeed, on his head.
"I need my purse!" Misato remembered as she ran past everyone into her room on the other side of the house. "Everyone get into the car and I'll be right there!" But everyone was in too much of a panic to hear her.
"I guess I'll go sit in the car," Kaworu said with nothing to argue about with his friends.
"NO MATTER WHAT, I WILL NEVER REVEAL THE TRUTH! FOR ONE SUCH AS ME CAN BE OBSTINATE AT SUCH TIMES! THE TIME OF MY CRIME IS VERY STRANGE; I WAITED YET WAITED FOR THE TIME TO CHANGE!" Rei sang to herself. She was positive that she had most of her songs memorized. Her lines were another story entirely.
Kaworu then walked in with an informative face.
"The car doors are all locked."
"Then get Misato's keys then," Rei suggested.
"Where are they?" Kaworu looked around.
"There they are!" Asuka said. The keys were on the edge of the kitchen counter.
"I've got them!!" Kaworu and Asuka said together. They both raced for the keys but their constant footsteps let the keys topple over and fall into a goldfish bowl.
"Oh, no!"
"Since when do we have a fish?" Asuka yelled.
"Since the beginning of this saga when the author forgot to mention it," Kaworu informed her.
"Ok, someone get the keys. I'm not puttin' my hand in there." PenPen came slipping in the kitchen and Asuka put on a wide smile.
"Oh, PenPen, sweet, cuddly, happy penguin, could you do me a favor?" Asuka grabbed a dazed PenPen and stuck him in the fishbowl and shouted, Get the keys! Get the keys! PenPen, squirming out of Asuka's grasp reached his claw upward with the keys for Asuka. She let him go with the fishbowl still stuck on his head. Yeah! Now PenPen's an astronaut!
"Now, we can open the door."
"Come on everyone, The West Hill awaits us in all our thumping, glorious glory! Let's go. Rock and Roll! Horray!" Misato cried with a hyped up expression. With everyone leaving, the door was locked and shut tight behind them. Unknowing to the five EVA pilots, they hade only two and a half hours left before show time. UH-OH!
Chapter 8
"HUH?" said the five Eva pilots.
"I'm very sorry about this," said the director looking as though she was about to cry. "But I tried to cajole the other boy, Toshi, not to leave but his mind was already made up. I already gathered everyone else from the drama club to switch a few roles."
"Then, who am I?" Asuka asked stepping forward.
"Oh, Asuka......let's see, you were Pearl before, right? Asuka, I'm afraid I'm going to place you as Mistress Hibbins. You see, because of the two leads dropping out almost all the roles have to be changed! I know how much you enjoyed being Pearl, Asuka, but I don't have any other choice."
"But the show's tonight!!" Shinji protested. "How are we going to learn all the lines and the songs in less than six hours?"
"Try the best you can, everybody. If you forget then just make something up from mind that sounds similar to it. I need you five to try on your new costumes. Oh, and we won't have the orchestra anymore."
"Why?" Kaworu remarked.
"Because all our musicians are now going to be on stage tonight performing in place of the new parts they received. Because of Toshi's drop-out and Kasumi's illness, everything is screwed up right now."
"Then what will be the music for the show?" Rei stated looking a tad bit nervous.
"I have all the music on a CD for everyone to sing to. The only people who will have to memorize the songs for the afternoon are Rei, Shinji, Kaworu, and Toji. Asuka, you will sing but only a minute song with Rei. Here are the CDs for all of you." The director gave each child a golden CD and sent them to try on their costumes. Rei was very pretty in a woman's puritan dress. Asuka looked funny with a crazy mix of a witch's clock and a puritan woman's dress with a hood. Toji looked hilarious with a man's puritan uniform with a basket at his arms filled with fake flowers and grass. Kaworu's costume was a little big, but with a few sewing methods from the director before opening night it would be perfect. His uniform was out lined with gold threads at his cuffs and hat. Shinji looked rather dashing if anyone would say for himself. He looked rather cute in a puritan outfit with a bible under his hand. Thus, the new Scarlet Letter cast was here. Time for a new kind of-UH, OH!
Later that afternoon~
"We're screwed. Just screwed beyond belief!" Toji let out. "How are we gonna tell Misato-chan that we have to cancel our dinner plans just to see us on stage looking like a bunch of fools? We're screwed!" he repeated with a gloomy air surrounding the current atmosphere everyone was in at this particular time.
"I suppose we have to tell her," Shinji advised. "She'll be wicked pissed if we just dump her at a restaurant for four hours and she discovers that we have been performing at our school." Everyone got a death-defying chill down their spine.
"Misato-chan? We're home!!" Rei called inside the house. Misato raced around the corner with a big smile.
"How was everyone's day today?"
"Why in such a happy mood, Misato?" asked one Eva pilot.
"Basically, work was great at Nerv today. No filing to do just a few computer assignments on the angels that need I remind you are no more! HA HA HA HA HA!!! Kaworu was getting uneasy at this but tried to ignore it the best he could.
"We wish we could say the same," Rei said hinting that something was about to spoil Misato's good mood.
"What's up guys? You all look like you got a dirty little secret."
"Well we have something to tell you, Misato- sama. Urm.....uh...Shinji has something to say, don't you, Shinji?" Rei nudged him a little.
"Misato, we have to cancel our dinner plans tonight. Our drama director told us that Kaworu, the others and I are to switch parts in our school musical. Before all this happened, we could've had dinner right after the play before the restaurant closed, but since all of us need to be at the school all through the play, the restaurant will be closed when the play is finished. Kaworu and I are not in the orchestra anymore, we are all singing to a burnt CD. We're very sorry, Misato. We know you wanted to see this new place and celebrate our performance but we couldn't help it."
Misato stood there with barley a single emotion on her face. Then she started to twitch.
"I've waited and worked a long time to get a night off to go to The West Hill. WE'RE GOING!"
"But what about the play? We need to be there!" whined Shinji trying to reason with her that he knew had zero affect.
"Fine. We'll leave right now so you all will be back in time for your circus act. Everybody who needs to take a shower, get in there now! I'll be in the shower upstairs. If we get there early enough and eat fast enough then you guys will have nothing to worry about," Misato explained very happy with the plan. "Now get ready."
Everyone: "But, Misato-chan......"
"I SAID GET READY!!!" she roared.
"Y-Y-Y-e-s, ma'am," they replied very, very scared. And they thought getting chased by an Angel would be worse. Misato winner, pilots-losers. Misato 7,391, pilots-zip.
"I will not tell who the father is of my child," Rei memorized from the script. "I will take my punishment freely. I will stand on the scaffold as demanded. Keep the wisdom that I will not give up my little on that I hold close to my breast."
"Hester Prynne, three hours on the scaffold is what will be asked of you. Let the public know of the A that you hide behind the child. On your bosom lies the symbol of sin. Let the community be reminded of what you have committed and hope that none other commits again." Kaworu was, he agreed, not the greatest Governor Winthrop in the world.
"The sin that has been recognized by the public will not be shortly forgotten. I will ask who is in cahoots with you as well. Do you speak?" Shinji felt that he was asking twenty one questions. He too felt that he would be a better Winthrop than Dimmesdale. Then he would not be on stage as much getting cold feet.
"What are you three doing?" Toji snapped without warning. "You're supposed to be showering, not memorizing. We can do that while we wait for the food at the restaurant." Everyone put their scripts down and dispersed about the house.
A few minutes later, Shinji was showering in the basement's shower that had a good deal of hot water left. It felt very good to Shinji who was already stressed out enough. He felt like he was in a Brady Bunch like family. Only in the 21st century. Shinji heard the shower door open as someone stepped inside. Shinji hide in the water and ducked his head under the counter where the shampoo and soap were placed.
"Shinji? Are you in here? I thought we might shower together. I know you're in here. The towel that you took form the upstairs closet is not wet."
It was Kaworu. Shinji's face was red as a beet. Why should I be embarrassed? Shinji thought to himself, still hiding. We showered before...together. Shinji came out from underneath the counter and spotted Kaworu, wrapped in a long towel.
"Hi, Kaworu-kun. Didn't hear you come in."
"Mind if I join you? We can help each other with our lines."
"O-Okay," Shinji spoke in a high voice as he blushed and looked away without shooting a small peek as Kaworu un-did his towel and sat next to him.
"What did Dimmesdale say to Hester before he met Pearl, Shinji?"
"Um...never juggle without a license?"
"No," Kaworu giggled. "He said that he hopes that Pearl loves him even though she never knew that he was her father. Reverend Dimmesdale wants to be Pearl's friend before Hester, Pearl and he try to escape from the country."
"Oh. Thank-you. We'll never be ready in time. Our director would've been better off hiring Nerv H.Q. than us. At least they can memorize formulas, codes, and messages with numbers, words or anything."
"Don't think that way."
"Do you like your new part, Kaworu?"
"Well, not really, but it's for the good of the play."
"Maybe so. I just hope it goes well."
"It will. You should not look to the bad qualities of every event that you encounter, Shinji. With each bad thing comes a least one good thing right?"
"I guess so."
PAUSE
"Kaworu-kun?"
"Yes, Shin-chan?"
"Will you do me a favor?"
"Of course. Whatever you wish."
"I'm very nervous about this production. I always thought I was never good at anything. Nothing at all. I wondered if I would be any good as an actor in this play. I have such a big role, and I have such little talent to do it. I need a little reassuring. Will you hold me....tight?" Shinji couldn't believe he said it. Kaworu wrapped his arms around Shinji's naked body and held him close.
"You will be all right Shinji. I'll be with you. Inside of you and on stage. So will Rei-chan, Asuka-chan, and Toji- kun. We are in this together. We can handle it. I mean, if you could defeat my brothers and sisters, then a play would be a breeze. Don't worry." Kaworu knew that Shinji wanted to be kissed. Mainly because Shinji had that glint in his eye and he was moving his face in closer. But then:
"KAWORU! SHINJI! HURRY AND GET DRYED AND DRESSED!! WE LEAVE IN TWENTY MINUTES!!" Misato called from upstairs.
With a spark of regret in his air, Shinji decided to get out of the shower with Kaworu. Kaworu stood up and grabbed a towel for himself and Shinji. Kaworu slid his finger under Shinji's chin and grinned at him.
"Has anyone seen the CD?" said Rei trying to fasten her shoes.
"What CD Rei-chan?" answered Misato?
"The Scarlet Letter CD of all the songs!"
"Found it!" Asuka called from behind Misato making her jump.
"The CD?" asked Rei.
"No, my watch! I thought I'd never see it again."
"Where's my hat?" Shinji wanted to know.
"It's on your head, stupid," Asuka pointed out very clearly. Shinji's hat was indeed, on his head.
"I need my purse!" Misato remembered as she ran past everyone into her room on the other side of the house. "Everyone get into the car and I'll be right there!" But everyone was in too much of a panic to hear her.
"I guess I'll go sit in the car," Kaworu said with nothing to argue about with his friends.
"NO MATTER WHAT, I WILL NEVER REVEAL THE TRUTH! FOR ONE SUCH AS ME CAN BE OBSTINATE AT SUCH TIMES! THE TIME OF MY CRIME IS VERY STRANGE; I WAITED YET WAITED FOR THE TIME TO CHANGE!" Rei sang to herself. She was positive that she had most of her songs memorized. Her lines were another story entirely.
Kaworu then walked in with an informative face.
"The car doors are all locked."
"Then get Misato's keys then," Rei suggested.
"Where are they?" Kaworu looked around.
"There they are!" Asuka said. The keys were on the edge of the kitchen counter.
"I've got them!!" Kaworu and Asuka said together. They both raced for the keys but their constant footsteps let the keys topple over and fall into a goldfish bowl.
"Oh, no!"
"Since when do we have a fish?" Asuka yelled.
"Since the beginning of this saga when the author forgot to mention it," Kaworu informed her.
"Ok, someone get the keys. I'm not puttin' my hand in there." PenPen came slipping in the kitchen and Asuka put on a wide smile.
"Oh, PenPen, sweet, cuddly, happy penguin, could you do me a favor?" Asuka grabbed a dazed PenPen and stuck him in the fishbowl and shouted, Get the keys! Get the keys! PenPen, squirming out of Asuka's grasp reached his claw upward with the keys for Asuka. She let him go with the fishbowl still stuck on his head. Yeah! Now PenPen's an astronaut!
"Now, we can open the door."
"Come on everyone, The West Hill awaits us in all our thumping, glorious glory! Let's go. Rock and Roll! Horray!" Misato cried with a hyped up expression. With everyone leaving, the door was locked and shut tight behind them. Unknowing to the five EVA pilots, they hade only two and a half hours left before show time. UH-OH!
