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Chapter 3
'Finlay Harrod. Please come now.' A head popped round the door. I got up. I was lead into a big room with a flat floor. There were lots of cameras round an edge and a big table with a man sat at it. I guessed he was the director.
He spoke. 'Hello. We would like you to act out a part from the script, with the help of Harry and Lucy here.' He pointed to two people sitting on chairs. 'Harry will be playing Greg in the film, but obviously Lucy is 20 years old for the part of lauren! She is the executive producer, standing in until we cast someone.'
Someone handed me a script with the same scene that I had read earlier. I stepped into the centre of the room. My whole body racked with nerves, my hands shook. The director gave a thumbs up and Greg started to perform.
The script said I was scrunched up on the floor in pain, so I did. Greg spoke out.
"That should teach you a lesson! Just be glad I don't go around beating up little girls or your sister might've ended up with a 100 stitches in her face!" He started to pretend kick me. Now it was my turn. Deep breaths. In out in out.
"Ahh! Don't hurt Lauren! She didn't do anything!" I cried, scrunching my face up in pain."
"Do you have any money?" I nodded and reached into my pocket, pretending to pull a note out.
"Don't think that's the last you've seen of me. I'll be coming for you and next time it'll be worse!" Greg walked off and I was left lying on the floor. Lauren, sorry, Lucy came onto the floor. I spoke out.
"Lauren, wait! I'm sorry! Please, wait!" I cried. ( Lucy was pretending to walk off, she turned around).
"You beat up Samantha Jennings? Why James? Why are you always getting into fights? Have you been expelled?"
"I don't know. Probably. Please help." (Lucy started to walk back).
"Alright, just wait 'till I'm upstairs before you tell Mum." The scene ended with Lucy helping me up. I hadn't noticed it whilst I was performing, but all the cameramen and the director were smiling and clapping. I was pretty sure they hadn't clapped for the boy before me! I noticed Janie and Mallie in the corner, they were both clapping. I took a little bow and walked towards a guy who was beckoning to me.
"That was brilliant!" He whispered as we walked off.
After my performance I was allowed to go and sit with Janie. She was in awe! She told me that I was the first one they clapped for, I hoped that was a good sign. She also told me that the boy before had been really bad. She was just about to say something else when the director, who was sitting in front of us turned around and told us to be quiet, the next boy's audition was starting. I noticed his eyes light up when he saw Janie. He whispered something to a producer sitting nearby, who nodded. I thought nothing of it.
The boy was really, really bad. I wouldn't normally say that, but he was. He said his lines wrong and he was really bad at acting. I think he knew it as well.
The boy after him was pretty good, but it was clear he didn't know what sort of person he was acting. The crowd didn't clap for him, though!
After the final boy had performed, the producer I had seen the director whispering too, came over to us. He said something that really surprised me.
'Hello Finlay, and you are?' He asked my sister.
'Janie.' She smiled.
'Hello Janie. We were wondering if maybe you and your brother could act out the scene together, with you playing Lauren.'
My sister just stared at him, before she managed a nod. I nudged her.
'Oh, um, yes!' She said.
'Good!' The man smiled. 'I'm Jules by the way.'
For some reason I was more nervous about performing with Janie than I was auditioning. As we stepped into the centre, our hand gripping our scripts, I noticed a bounce in her step. She really wanted to do this!
After our performance everything went quiet. Jules was writing things down and showing them to the director. Everyone was smiling at us.