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It was a normal Thursday morning, time to go to school. Everyone sat down in their classes. "Hay Lin, please report to the office", a lady said in the intercome. Everybody "oooo!"'d at Hay Lin. Hay Lin igrnored them and walked to the office. She went inside and saw Mrs. Knickerbocker standing there. "I think it would be better if you announce the auditions, no?", Mrs. Knickerbocker pointed at a door. Hay Lin nodded and opened the door she was pointing at. She saw the same lady who she gave the paper to the other day, making the usual announcments. "And we have a special announcment by Hay Lin", the lady said.
Will, Irma, Taranee, and Cornelia (though in seperate classes) smiled. "Um, yes, hello? Is this thing on?", Hay Lin said through the intercome. "Yeah ok, you all know that, um, every year we have the school play right? Well this year, I'm the creator of the play, and I'm proud to say that it's done! I already made the scripts with cute little yellow and purple-...oh right", everyone giggled.
"Anyway, I just wanted to say that I will be holding auditions today after school. On the bulliten board, there are the names of the characters, and scripts, so you can take one and write your name next to the character you want to play. There will also be some dancing and singing scenes, so if you're an awsome dancer or singer, come on by!I hope to see you guys there! Bye", Hay Lin left the room and went to the bulletin board. She stuck a big list of characters in the middle on top of the "Weekly Clothes Line". She then took out the scripts from her backpack and stacked them up in the table next to the bulliten board. Hay Lin nodded and left for class.
After School...
Hay Lin and her friends were walking side-by-side to the school's auditorium with cool sun glasses, and walking exagaratingly cool. The girls pushed open the doors and stroke a pose. Then the doors came back and smashed their face. "Ow", Hay Lin whispered. They opened the doors again and saw tonz of people looking over their scripts. "Oh, looks like Caleb arrived", Irma pointed. Cornelia gasped and looked at Caleb walking towards them. "Hi ladies", he said. "Hey Caleb, you here to watch?", Hay Lin said, taking off her sunglasses. "Yeah, wish you all good luck, I'll be with Hay Lin, right?", Caleb asked. "Yeah, you'll be sitting with me to see all the others audition", Hay Lin said walking to thesecond aisle of thetheater-looking chairs (It looked sorta like the movies, but instead of a big screen, a stage).
Hay Lin got out a a cordless microphone and said, "Hey listen up everyone!". Everyone stopped talking and looked at Hay Lin. Will, Irma, Taranee, and Cornelia took off their glasses, put it in their pockets, and went up to the stage. "I will first be auditioning for Rose. Everyone else can take a seat at least 5 rows behind me and my cousin, Caleb", HayLin pointed at Caleb, who was sitting next to her. "Cousin?", Cornelia asked the girls. "Uh, don't look at us, it's Hay Lin's thoughts", Irma laughed nervously. Cornelia raised an eye brow, "Ok, whatever". The other girls glanced a face of relief. Will, Irma, and Taranee went to go join the other children, while Cornelia and a bunch of girls were back stage.
"Ok, first person auditioning for Rose is...Jasmin Cordidet", Hay Lin announced on the mic. A girl with dorky looking glasses, braces, and really weird shoes and socks slouched her way to the center of the stage. Hay Lin and Caleb looked at each other with an eyebrow raised and then looked at Jasmin. "So, I-I-I'm gonna acho, audition for Rose...", Jasmin said with a stuffy voice. "Go ahead and say any line that Rose says", Hay Lin said in the mic.
Jasmin turned and turned the page, until she finally stopped on one page. "Oh, Berny a...a...achoo, I'm so sorry that I... l-i-e-d...oh lied, right?", Jasmin asked. "Uh, I think we've heard enought, we'll keep in touch", Hay Lin said on the mic. "But you don't even have my number", Jasmin said. "The bulliten board will comminucate with you. Next we have...Courtney and Bess Grumper?", Hay Lin focused on the names to see if they were real. The Grumper sisters both came out to center stage.
"Um, only one can play Rose", Hay Lin said. Caleb shaked his head "no" and looked at the girls. "Ugh, well we all know that's going to be me", Bess announced. "What? Na-uh, I'm going to be Rose!", Courtney disagreed. "No I am!", Bess argued. They kept going like that for about one minute when, "Yeah, ok, you know what, just get out of the stage". Caleb had said in the mic. and then passed it to Caleb. "Yeah, please, get out of my site", Hay Lin said putting a hand over her eyes. "Ugh! Fine, we never even wanted to be Rose", the girls left with angry faces.
"Ok whatever, anyway, finally we have...Cornelia Hale", Hay Lin said with happiness in her voice. Caleb's annoyed face turned into happiness when he heard her name. Cornelia went to center stage and flilpped the pages. She stopped the pages and then started to read with a lot of heart and soul put into her words, "Oh, Bernardo, you know that we can not continue this any longer. Our countries are both under war, and they are threatening each other in order to find us. We must do what is right for our countries". Cornelia closed her eyes for drama. "But I would be willing to risk my whole country for you. I cannot live without you, Rose", Cornelia opened her eyes in suprise and saw that Hay Lin was holding the mic. to Caleb and he read Berny's part.
He looked up at her and smiled sweetly. "Then together, we must set peace between our countries, and then, we shall finally be free to live together, and express our true feelings of love", Cornelia smiled dreamily as she, not only said her lines, but it was as if she was saying that to Caleb, so of course, she put in a lot of feeling into it. "Bravo! Bravo!", Hay Lin clapped as she stood up. Caleb also stood up and clapped for her. Cornelia, not leaving contact with Caleb, curtsied.
"Hey! You just chose Cornelia because she's your best friend, Hay Lin! I'm not going to stand for this!", Bess argued as she pushed Cornelia, who almost fell, and stood up in the center. "Oh come on, Bess, don't be jealous, I mean, who else agrees that Cornelia was the best?", Hay Lin said in the mic., looking at everyone in back. Everyone cheered and gave whistled. "See?", Hay Lin said to Bess. Bess just stood there in anger. Cornelia pushed her with her hips with an angry face, "Whoops, my bad", Cornelia grinned. Everyone cheered again.
"So it's settled then, Cornelia Hale is our new Rose!", Hay Lin yelled. Everyone cheered. Cornelia jumped up and down in happiness and went down the stage to sit with her friends. Caleb looked back at her and gave her a thumbs up. Cornelia blushed and smiled. "Alright, yo yo yo, who's gonna be this girly's bo-bo-boy now!", Hay Lin rapped on the mic. Everyone laughed and a ton of boys, and I mean, a TON of boys came up to the stage. "I don't see as many boys here on the list", Hay Lin announced on the mic. looking at the boys then the list. "Yeah, but when we saw the Cornelia was gonna be Rose, well duh, we're auditioning!", a boy said. The boys started cheering. Caleb put a mad face and was about to get up, but was stopped by Hay Lin's hand. "You're going to be Berny no matter what, calm down. Cornelia's all yours", Hay Lin teased. Caleb crossed his arms and stayed sitting.
(There are too many boys to put, but I'm just gonna say that some were geeky, sorta like Jasmin, but better. You know, geeky voice and clothes. There were some cute guys, but Hay Lin kept turning them down)
Cornelia put on a "What!" face and turned to the girls. "How come Hay Lin is turning down all the cute guys! The last one was pretty good", Cornelia said. "Well, uh, mabye she wants the role of Berny to be played by someone...in his character", Taranee said nervously. Cornelia looked confused. "Yeah...I mean...she told us yesterday that the role of Rose and Berny had to be played by people who put feeling into it", Will backed Taranee up. "Well, if she doesn't pick someone soon, there's gonna be no one left", Cornelia sat back down on her seat and looked at the boys acting...weird and trying to hard.
At this time, Mrs. Knickerbocker entered the room and went towards Hay Lin. "Hello, Hay Lin", Mrs. Knickerbocker sat in the seat next to her. "Oh, hi Mrs. Knickerbocker", Hay Lin waved. Caleb looked over Hay Lin's shoulder. "Who's he? I haven't seen his face in school", Mrs. Knickerbocker asked. "Oh, that's because...he's my cousin, Caleb,that lives...far from here. He's staying here for 5 months", Hay Lin lied. "Oh, well, it's very nice to meet you, Caleb. So, Hay Lin, how's everything going?", Mrs. Knickerbocker asked. "Well, the role for Rose will be played by Cornelia Hale, but the role for Berny...not so good", Hay Lin made a face. "Why not?", Mrs. Knickerbocker looked at the boys. "None of them seem to fit Berny's character...or look", Hay Lin mumbled. All the boys had already left the stage. "What!That's it?", Hay Lin stood up in suprise (well, she's a good actress wink). "Yup", Caleb said. "Oh my goodness, Mrs. Knickerbocker, what do I do?", Hay Lin asked Mrs. Knickerbocker, biting her lip.
"Everybody can leave, tomorrow we will finish the audition!", Caleb yelled. Everybody left, but Cornelia and the girls put their ears to the door. "You mean to say that all the boys already auditioned?", they heard Mrs. Knickerbocker say. "Yes, there were a lot of boys. I didn't...feel anything", Hay Lin said. Cornelia opened the door slightly, all the girls peeked, too. They saw that Mrs. Knickerbocker was examining Caleb. "Hay Lin, is your cousin by any chance, a good actor?", Mrs. Knickerobocker asked slowly. "Oh my gosh! Yes you're right! Look, I'll show you", Hay Lin dragged Caleb up the stage with the script.
"Are you sure I'll be able to impress her enough?", Caleb asked quietly as they were looking for a page. "Duh, this play is under my command, just do what you did with Cornelia, you were really good", Hay Lin whispered back. "Ok, so for right now, I'll play Rose, and Caleb will be Berny, you ready Mrs. Knickerbocker?", Hay Lin asked. They saw Mrs. Knickerbocker nod. "Ok, ready Caleb?", Hay Lin asked nervously. Caleb nodded slowly.
Hay Lin looked at the paper and said, "You already know all about me, and we've only met about a couple of days ago". "Yes, but I feel that I've known you all my life. You're such a wonderful person, Rose-", Caleb started with a lot of feeling. Cornelia stared at him. "-I mean, you're the only person I've known that understands me. Everyone else treats me like...", Caleb said...with feeling. "A prince?", Hay Lin said. "Yes, but you, Rose, are the only person who actually treats me like a person, and I admire that", Caleb said. "Bravo! Caleb, now I know why you and Hay Lin are related. You both are so talented!", Mrs. Knickerbocker exclaimed.
Cornelia smiled dreamily. "Corny?", Irma whispered. "What?", she whispered back. Irma looked at her with a smirk for a moment, and then said, "Oh, nothing". "I think, Hay Lin, that Caleb should be Berny!", Mrs. Knickerbocker clasped her hands together. Cornelia had an anxious face, Please say yes, please say yes, she thought. "I think so too, you up to it Caleb?", Hay Lin winked at Caleb without Mrs. Knickerbocker knowing. "Yeah, ok", Caleb smiled. Cornelia looked like she was going to scream. She quickly got her face away from the door and smiled wide. "Corny, are you ok?", Will asked, grinning at the girls. "Um, yeah, I'm so much better than ok, I have to go home girls. Bye!", Cornelia ran with a huge smile on her face. The girls saw that when she reached the gate she jumped up and screamed, "Yes!", and then ran home with a smile on her face.
"Well, haha, phase one worked", Taranee said, as Hay Lin and Caleb walked out. "You guys were watching?", Hay Lin smiled. "Yeah, and Cornelia-", Irma looked at Caleb, who looked nervous, "-she, Cornelia Hale, actually jumped and said "Yes!", she must've REALLY been in a good mood", Irma grinned at Caleb. Caleb mouthed the words, "Thank you", and looked at the heavens. "Haha! I guess he's happy now, but now, on to phase two", Hay Lin said, putting up two fingers.
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