Hey! Sorry I haven't been updating in a while. Shout outs to: LoveShipper, SwiftStar1, Singer103, Shorses and all the guests. Now, I won't be updating stories until vacation time, which is on July, due to my end of term tests. I need to study, so this would be my last update. But, I made this update purposefully interesting. I will update Hate or something else either tomorrow or somewhere during the week when I could squeeze it in, since I only have one laptop with Internet. The other one's connection broke or something. Anyway, enough with my life. Let's see about Ally and Austin! This is one week into practice.
I sighed, and tried to stand as straight as I could as the costume woman, Ms. Kathy helped me onto my dress for the ball scene, where Romeo dances with Juliet for the first time. I didn't have a fat lot of lines for this act, and I have read the book with the text in it, more times than I could count, so I knew each line by heart. Today, Kathy helped me onto a long cobalt blue dress, with little gold trimmings, with full skirts, and a waterfall train at the back. With it, I wore a jewelry set that was supposed to match the dress. My hair was curled for the play, and a lot of work was put into practice, because Mrs. Morris wanted us to get used to moving around in the stuff.
"There," Ms. Kathy said, admiring her work. I looked in the mirror. My reflection was almost unrecognizable. I sighed, and grabbed my skirts the way I was taught to do by Mrs. Morris, who had played Juliet in Broadway once. I walked out into the stage. Austin and Trish were by the curtain. Tyler and a boy named Josh, who was a senior, was up on stage, acting out part of Scene 5. Josh was supposed to play Mr. Capulet a.k.a my dad. I breathed out, and they both turned to me. Trish was dressed in a bright red dress with white trimmings that did not have the same grandeur as Juliet's dress, but nonetheless was still grand. Austin was dressed in the traditional Romeo wear.
"You look great," Trish said enthusiastically. I shook my head.
"And CUT!" Mrs. Morris said, and offered advice and compliments to the actors.
"Next Setting! Juliet, Romeo and Rosaline, come on!" she said, and we all stepped out of the curtain. Austin put on his mask. Dallas stared at me, and I looked down.
"Alright, and Action!" she said, and music started to play. People started dancing. Austin takes my hand. I tried not to flinch at his touch.
"If I profane with my unworthiest hand, this holy shrine, the gentle sin is this: My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand, to smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss," he said.
"Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much, which mannerly devotion shows in this, for saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch and palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss," I said, trying not to squeak. Out of the corner of my eye, I see Mrs. Morris putting her hand onto her heart, in dramatic joy. I could feel my dread coming up, as Austin said another line.
"Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?" he said, and I tried not to go completely rigid, as more of my dread started coming up.
"Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer," I said, and if dread was food, I'd be obese by now.
"O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do. They pray; grant thou, lest faith turn to despair," he said, and I tried not to hold my breath.
"Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake," I said, and I knew that after Austin said his line, it was time. I had to kiss him.
"Then move not, while my prayer's effect I take," he said, and then, he kisses me. Despite my mental preparation, my eyes flew wide open, and I went stiff. I forcibly closed my eyes, and tried not to focus on Austin's lips on mine, and how warm they were. After what seemed like an eternity, he withdraws, and stares at me through his lashes.
"Thus from my lips, by thine, my sin is purged," he said.
"Then have my lips the sin that they have took?" I said, and I inwardly curse William Shakespeare for writing this line for Juliet to say.
"Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged! Give me my sin again," he said, and kisses me again. This time, I am prepared, and I force myself to melt into the kiss. He stopped, and looks at me.
"You kiss by th' book," I said mockingly, and for a moment Austin's eyes flashed, before it disappeared quickly.
"Madam, your mother craves a word with you," the nurse a.k.a my cousin, Emme said, coming closer.
The rest of the scene drags on, and when it finishes, Mrs. Morris had tears in her eyes.
"Excellent! That was great acting, Austin and Ally!" she said, as I run to the curtain to get out of the stuffy clothing, so I could go home in modern cotton shirts and old faded jeans.
"Tomorrow, we're doing the balcony scene," Mrs. Morris said. Oh shit. I really hate you now, William Shakespeare.
So, what do you think? Thankfully, Austin enjoys playing Romeo in his school play more than I did for mine. I had to play Romeo for a test since I go to an all girls school. it sucked for me.