Chapter 6: Casting
Shayna walked into class and sat in her seat. The teacher was already at her podium flipping through papers.
"What's she doing?" Misty asked.
"Probably grading them, she's like the grading Nazi. Everything has to be this way or it's not right." Shayna said laughing.
Then the teacher shot Shayna a smug look and went back to grading.
"See, I told you." Shayna whispered to Misty as the class filed in.
Piotr took his normal seat next to Bryan who was diagonal from Misty who was on Shayna's right. Shayna and Bryan were always getting in trouble passing football notes around the room when there was a sub. It was pretty funny
Flashback
Bryan walked in and handed Shayna a piece of paper. She opened it and it said,
"Wanna throw paper footballs? There's a sub! Yee-haw!"
Shayna wrote back and said
"Sure and don't ever write that again."
So they start making them. The bad thing is Bryan has more than Shayna because he's not right smack dab in the front. Shayna is, but she still has some up there. Bryan looks at her and she looks back
"1,2,3." Bryan mouthed and threw a paper football at the teacher.
Shayna, Misty, and Piotr started laughing immediately. The teacher looked up from his work and said,
"Okay, who threw it?" and started searching the room.
Bryan looked at Shayna who looked straight at the teacher. The teacher came to Bryan's desk. Shayna was being all suave and hid the footballs in her bag. Bryan's were all over the floor under some kids desk. The teacher accused the kid of throwing the footballs. The teacher left to take the kid to the office and Bryan and Shayna laughed their heads off.
End Flashback
"And no paper footballs." The actual teacher said.
Bryan shot Shayna a look and Shayna laughed.
"Well, like I said yesterday we are starting Romeo and Juliet. Does anyone want to be a specific part?" Mrs. Halfin asked.
Misty raised her hand.
"Yes Misty. Who would you like to be?" Mrs. Halfin asked.
"I want to be Mercutio." She said in the most polite way that she can.
"Well, I would like a boy to play that part." Mrs. Halfin said.
"But! I could do it better than a boy could. I bet they don't even know what tragedy means!" Misty protested.
"I'm sure you could but I would like a boy to play this part. Bryan you are Mercutio." Mrs. Halfin said.
"Cool, who's Mercutio?" Bryan asked.
"SEE!" Misty yelled.
She went down the whole list of characters until there were four people left.
"Kurt, you will be Tybalt." Mrs. Halfin said.
"JA!" Kurt yelled giving Bobby a high-five. Bobby was Paris and Sampson.
"Alright, who wants to be our Juliet?" Mrs. Halfin asked looking around. "No one? Well then I guess I have to pick."
She looked in her grade book and found a name.
"Shayna Tanner, you will be Juliet." Mrs. Halfin said.
"HUH!" Shayna screamed.
"You are Juliet." Mrs. Halfin said.
"But! Well I guess it's not that bad, it all depends on who Romeo is." Shayna said.
"Now, who wants to be our Romeo?" Mrs. Halfin asked. When she looked up she saw the whole class except Piotr had their hand raised.
"Well, a lot of takers. Hmmmmm, let's see. Piotr, you will be our Romeo." Mrs. Halfin said.
"Alright." Piotr said.
"Yes!" Shayna yelled. "Oops, sorry Mrs. Halfin."
"Now, since you all know your parts you can get to studying your lines." Mrs. Halfin said sitting at her desk.