Chapter 2 - The Prince, The Princess and The King?
By: AmiMizuno A.A
Enjoy!
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"Ok... Let's get down to business!" said Shizuru with a business tone.
"Since this is the Drama Club, it is very obvious that we are going to do a play. The play is written by our Chairperson herself and she hope that the play will be shown during the festival. So everyone must co-operate for the sake of the play and our school... "Shizuru glared at everyone as if to say 'or else'.
Mai put up her hand and asked "When do we start?"
"Today" answered Shizuru with a smile.
"WHAT?" All of them bursted out.
"That's too soon!"
"I have work to do!"
"Do you think we have nothing else to do?"
Shizuru smiled evilly and said "Remember what I said earlier? Anyone who refuses to cooperate with me will be immediately expelled. "
The screaming and yelling stopped.
"Thank you" said Shizuru. "Now please sit back down"
Everyone got back to their seats, grumbling and muttering curses.
"So as I was saying, we are starting our work today. Let's start with the role casting, shall we? "said Shizuru.
Then, Shizuru walked out of the room and came back in with a big box. Everyone eyed at the box curiously and wonder what's in it.
"What's that?" asked Mikoto to Shizuru.
Shizuru grinned and said "It's a box that contains a lot of colored balls. Each and everyone of you have to put your hand inside the box and take out a ball. Your roles will be determined by the color of the ball you took out. So it means that everyone has a chance to get the main roles"
"I don't mind missing that chance." muttered Akira to Takumi.
"Hey but wouldn't it be fun? " asked Takumi.
"What is so fun about it?" asked Akira with a angry tone.
"Okok... don't get all steam up!" said Takumi. "I just thought that -"
"Ok everyone, when I call your name, please come and put your hand in the box to take a ball." said Shizuru, cutting off Takumi's sentence.
Akira sighed and said "Never mind... Let's just get on with it... It's not like I will be so lucky to get a main role right? "(He has no idea )
"Tokiha Mai"
Mai stood up and walked to the front. She put her hand in her box and took out a red ball. Mai looked at it and then at Shizuru but Shizuru just smiled at her. So Mai just sighed and went back to her seat, hoping that her role is not a bad one.
"Tokiha Takumi"
"That's me" said Takumi to Akira and stood up. He went in front and put his hand in the box. After a few seconds of searching for a ball in the box with his hand, he finally found one and took it out. It was a blue ball. He went back to his seat, looking at his ball and wondering if he got a good role. (Brother and sister sometimes think alike )
"Tate Yuiichi" Tate went to take a ball out and gone back to his seat.
"Suzushiro Haruka"
"Alright I am going. It better be something good, bubuzuke onna!"said Haruka.
"Hai" said Shizuru with a smile.
When Haruka was in the middle of taking a ball, the door opened and Nao came in. She looked around and led herself to an empty chair at the back of the back of the room.
"Nice of you to drop in, Yuki-san" said Shizuru. Nao shrugged.
After Haruka took out her ball, she showed her ball to everyone saying that hers is probably the main role. Everybody sweatdropped.
"Yuki Nao- san, it's your turn."
Nao looked at Shizuru and asked "My turn for what?"
"Your role for the play" replied Shizuru.
"Oh. Sorry, I am not interested."
"Well Yuki-san, I am afraid you have to do it. Unless you want to be expelled? Chairperson's orders" said Shizuru mischievously.
" ... "Nao glared at her and went to the front to take a ball out from the box.
"Thank you for your cooperation" Shizuru smiled at her.
"Whatever" muttered Nao.
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After an hour
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"Well it looks like everyone has a ball right?" asked Shizuru.
"Yes..." mumbled some of the people.
"Ok then. Wait a minute." Shizuru went out of the room for the second time and came back with a big piece of paper. The paper was full of blanks with colors and nearly ¾ of the paper was covered with another piece of paper.
Shizuru sticked the paper on the blackboard and turned to the people.
"This is the list of all the roles in the play and those blanks with colors are where you have to fill in your name according to the color of your ball. You will know what role you play after everyone has filled their name in it."
Some of them looked at the paper suspiciously while the others were filling in the blank.
"This is so stupid…." Akira whispered to Takumi. Takumi just looked at her and shrugged.
After everyone had filled in their names in the blanks, they went back to their seats and waited patiently for Shizuru to announce their roles.
"Well this is it..."said Shizuru. "Let's see who get which role, shall we?"
And then Shizuru pulled away the other paper that was covering the original paper. Then Shizuru scanned through the paper.
Everybody waited. Nobody saw Shizuru grinning evilly as she was scanning through the paper.
Shizuru turned to the people. She saw that everybody's attention was now on her.
"Kanzaki Reito will be in charge of the props. Kikukawa Yukino and Minagi Mikoto are in charge of the costumes."
"Akane-san and Kazuya-san are in charge of the lightings"
"And now for the roles" said Shizuru.
"Aoi-san, Chie-san and Nao-san will play fairy godmothers" Aoi and Chie gave each other high-five while Nao stared at Shizuru angrily.
"The role of the evil witch will be played by Munakata Shiho."
Everybody clapped. Shiho frozed when she heard that. Mai was laughing hysterically.
"Kuga Natsuki will be playing the king and also the father of the princess"
"Suzushiro Haruka will be playing the queen and the mother of the princess"
Natsuki and Haruka looked at each other and then at Shizuru, shocked at what they heard.
"Tokiha Takumi will be playing the king too but is the father of the prince."
"Tokiha Mai will be playing the queen and the mother of the prince."
The Tokiha siblings exchanged glances.
Oh man, this is weird. I am supposed to play the husband of my sister! Well I guess it's alright… sigh but how I wished that it was Akira-kun that got the role of the queen…
Oh my god! What am I thinking? I can't be possibly thinking of that! I am not gay! thought Takumi, blushing. Shaking his head and pushing his thought away, he concentrated on what Shizuru is saying.
Akira saw Takumi shaking his head and his face was red.
What's wrong with Takumi? Is he having a fever or something? Akira thought, concerned about his friend's health.
Anyway, back to the others.
"And now for the main roles, the role of the prince will be played by Tate Yuuichi"
Everybody clapped. Tate stood up and bowed to them.
"And the role of the princess will be played by….." Shizuru stopped.
Everybody looked at her eagerly. Shizuru smiled and said
"Okuzaki Akira"
Everyone face-faulted.
To be continued…..