Chapter 8 - To Act or Not to Act
When the three evil cheerleaders closed the door behind the gym, Bonnie's smile faded into a scowl of anger.
"How dare that stupid air-headed redhead insult my beloved Food Chain!" the brunette fumed, "She should know the law of the land at MHS by now!"
Sarah replied, "Ain't my fault for not doing anything! I have drama class with that girl next period with Miss Tudor!"
"Not you, Sarah!" Bonnie sneered with a snob look. "If only there was a way that she would never show her face in this school ever again!"
"There is the play coming up next Monday of Shake...Shimk...ugh...I always forget the name!" Amanda said before almost forgetting the name of the famous playwright.
"Shakespeare, A. Get your facts straight!" Bonnie corrected her. "Everyone should know the Bard's name by now!"
"Whatever!" Amanda said in dismissal, flipping her hair.
"As A said, the play, Romeo and Juliet, is next Thursday." Sarah added, "The entire school will be watching."
Bonnie stopped for a moment, her sneakers squeaking against the linoleum floor.
"Wait a minute...Romeo and Juiliet...next Thursday...in front of the entire school?" Bonnie snickered.
"This gives me a crazy, but effective way to ruin Kim's rep at the high school for good!"
(10 minutes later)
Bonnie, Amanda, and Sarah then approached the tryout sheet in front of Miss Tudor's classroom.
"Look, Bonnie! A junior hottie, Steve Jackson, is playing the role of Romeo!" Sarah said, pointing out the sheet while popping a piece of gum.
"He's totes like about as cute as Josh Mankey!" Amanda proclaimed. "Ahh...he's totes the cutest junior in school!"
"But where's Possible?" Sarah asked.
"There she is...with the crew!" Bonnie scoffed, "Such a loser for moving some lameo scenery around."
She then took the pencil from the clipboard and erased Kim's name from the crew.
"If we can move from here...to...here! There we go! That should ensure Kim being humiliated for good!"
Amanda and Sarah gasped in sheer terror.
"Bonnie?! You...you can't be serious!" Sarah stuttered, dropping the gum from her mouth.
"She'll be eaten alive by the crowd! Tomatoes raining down on her!" Amanda exclaimed, her face turning pale.
"And that should be enough for me to achieve complete victory over the wannabe once and for all!" Bonnie laughed.
(45 more minutes later, 2:45pm)
After study hall, Kim and Ron walked inside Miss Tudor's classroom. Zita was sitting right near the window in the middle row. Amanda and Sarah were at the rear of the classroom. Rick Flagg was at the front of the row while Josh was sitting at the desk right nearest to the door.
"So totally happy that this is the final class of the day! I've had just about enough of Bonnie being the Queen of Rubbing-Stuff-In-My-Face!" Kim said, folding her arms while taking a seat at her desk. "No more torture from that pesky brunette...at least for today!"
Ron agreed, sitting down at his desk, "And I'm tired of being hunted down like a dog from the detenion guys in G-Hall. They've been onto me for the last 2 weeks for lunch money that I owe them. And, as a threat, they stole one of my boxers last night and hung it on the flagpole!"
"Sucks to be you!" Kim sighed, and offered to be his bodyguard "Do you want me to teach them a lesson!"
She eyed Josh and blushed extremely hard. Josh gave a cool smile while
"No! No! I'll have to take the punishment like the baby that I am!" Ron whined, "Getting a wedgie and a purple nurple in the same day is never fun!"
"Don't worry, Ron! You won't have anything happen to you!" Kim assured him.
A few minutes later, Mr. Barkin entered into the room.
"Okay, people! I am going to lead this class in the absence of Miss Tudor!" Barkin said, plopping down his briefcase.
"Wait a minute! What happened to her?" Ron asked while raising his hand.
"She had an extremely traumatic case of stage fright from the last play she directed. I didn't press for details on her current condition!" Barkin exclaimed the reason for the absence of the normal drama teacher.
"So what's on the agenda for today, Mr. Barkin?" Kim asked.
"The roles for Romeo and Juliet for next Thursday have officially been filled on the clipboard." Barkin said, holding up said clipboard. "I will announce your roles in the order of importance! The tree that will be in almost every scene holding the branches...Stoppable, Ron!"
"Wha...why do I always have to play the inanimate object in every play?" Ron whined, "I cannot hold it in for the full 3 hours!"
"Intermission time, Ron!" Kim said, "You can hold it till then!"
"But the bathroom in the auditorium is far too small!" Ron pouted.
Kim sighed, "Can you stop pointing out the obvious, Mr. Complaint King!"
Barkin then intervened, seeing that the conversation between Team Possible was a waste of time, "Moving on, people! The Nurse will be played by Flores, Zita..."
(30 minutes later)
...and the Montague captain will be play by Flagg, Rick!"
Once Barkin was done with almost the entire clipboard, he saw that the rest of class, excluding Kim and Ron, were asleep.
Barkin cleared his throat and pulled out an air horn and blared it as loud as he could. The tactic worked in not just waking up the class, but damaging a little bit of their hearing in the process.
"I see that this class is about as inattentive as before. As punishment, practices will be three hours after school instead of two!"
At that moment, the entire class groaned of their extra hour of their teenaged time being wasted by a play that has been performed many times before at other high schools.
"Spending an extra hour in an auditorium with a broken air conditioner! What else could be worse?" Ron bemoaned.
"Furthermore, the play will be overseen by...the Glee Three!"
The class then turned their eyes in sheer horror to three teenaged kids in the back of the room:
Vance Ment, the solo male of the group, was a senior and stood around 5'11, 150 pounds. He had brown hair, blue eyes, and freckles on the cheeks of his face. He was wearing blue jeans, a black shirt, and black sneakers.
Cara Van, the smartest of the three, was a junior and stood at 5'6, 119 pounds. Her hair was a straight blonde, and green eyes. She was in a black dress and a purple top and black boots.
Lastly, there was Laramie Tara. Like Vance, she was a senior in the class and stood around 5'5, 129 pounds. She was wearing baggy denim overalls, both straps hooked, and had a black t-shirt. She was in brown hiking boots.
These three also had black berets on top of their heads to prove that they were indeed a clique within the complicated ecosystem of Middleton High.
"These three wonderful students will be the ones directing the play and will make sure that we do not have a repeat of the stage-destroying incident like last time." Barkin continued.
"That's right!" Cara said, pounding her fist in her hand! "We expect perfection! We expect conformity!"
"This version of Romeo and Juliet will be so perfect that even Shakespeare himself woul approve!" Laramie agreed.
Vance barked, "So you'd better memorize your lines, word for word!"
Barkin sniffled a little. "I just love those words coming out of your mouths!"
Kim sighed, whispering to Ron, "Barkin may be over his head with this!"
Ron silent said, "Chillax! I'd be totally down with being a tree! Only downside is that I'll be missing the Pain King GWA match that night!"
"If only you can lay off the Tex-Mex for 3 hours!" Kim snickered. "And I'm only going to be a part of the crew! It's going to be no big!"
Kim was stunned that her name wasn't called when he got to the crew part.
"That's strange! I thought I signed up for that yesterday!"
Barkin contined to announce, "The role for Romeo will be played by the 'heartthrob' of the class, Mr. Steve Jackson!"
Steve Jackson, a junior, stood at 5'9, and at 140 pounds. His blonde hair was a bowl cut and his eyes were the perfect shade of blue. He had a clam necklace, a button-down blue shirt, and baggy jeans that were a size too big for him and showed a part of his polka-dot boxers.
All the other girls in the class swooned at his looks.
Kim sighed with adoration, "Steve is so the second hottest guy in the school right next to Josh! He's like...a rebel! He may not know that I exist yet, but he'll notice!"
Ron cleared his throat, "Ahem, what about me."
This caught Kim off guard as she blushed, "Oh...uhhh...uhh...I still like you Ron as a...friend! Yes!"
"And the role for Juliet will be played by...ooh...this is a late entry...Miss Kim Possible!"
Kim gasped as her normally green eyes turned blue and text started to appear. Her jaw dropped.
Ron waved his hand in her face, "Umm...Kim...KP...Mademoselle Possible?"
"Ron...I...I didn't sign up as Juliet!" Kim stammered. "You were with me when I signed that clipboard for the crew, right?"
"Yeah, I clearly remember that." Ron said.
Kim raised her hand and said, "Uhmm...Mr. Barkin?"
"Yes, Possible?" Barkin questioned.
Kim asked nervously, "Is there a way that I can switch places with someone as Juliet? I have a bit of...um...anxiety going out on stage!"
Barkin, however, shot her request down.
"Sorry, Possible! I just gave the signatures to the person for the playbills!"
Kim moaned and groaned loudly, plopping her head on her desk.