Chapter 5

Ron was curled in a fetal position.

"Flying monkeys are just sick and wrong!" he exclaimed.

Tara and Monique groaned at his behavior.

"Ron, can you please stand up?" Kim asked of her best friend.

Ron stood up.

"I had to hide behind the dumpster at Bueno Nacho for an hour just to get away from them!" he exclaimed.

"After that, he swore off all starting roles in any plays." Kim said, "So he had to...reluctantly...play the tree in the next play."

"But for this play, Romeo and Juliet, I'd rather be behind the assistant director's table rather than be on the stage..." she added, gritting her teeth at the word assistant due to Barkin's announcement of the Glee Three as directors.

"Okay, so we understand Ron's reluctance on the stage comes from his monkey fears." Monique clarified before looking at Kim. "But what about you, girl? What's the buzz about your feud with the stage?"

Kim began, "It all began that October in Freshman year. I was about to go on stage for another Shakespeare play of his...the Scottish Play that begins with the letter M"

Ron gasped, recalling the name of the play.

"You mean MacBeth?"

And then he heard his pants rip from behind, showing off a part of his Flippies boxers.

"Oh man...not again with the pants!" Ron complained.

"Ron..." Kim groaned, "...you're not supposed to say the name of the play or else you would suffer years of bad luck!"

"Oh, come on, Kim! It's not like I say the name of MacBeth every time and something bad happens!" Ron said while leaning on a nearby tree. All of a sudden, a bird pooped in his hair, a stray dog urinated on his right shoe and something stung him in his behind.

"YYEEEEOOWWWW!" he exclaimed. A wasp had stung Ron in his posterior.

"Like I said, Ron...years of bad luck!"

"Okay, KP! I'll officially stop saying MacBeth from here on out!" Ron exclaimed while trying to rub his behind. A thunderstorm hovered above Middleton, including the high school. A flash of lightning followed by a loud boom of thunder was heard.

Rufus squeaked in fear and ducked in Ron's pants pocket, for he did not like thunderstorms.

It them began to pour buckets of rain onto the four teenagers.

Tara's jumpsuit and Kim and Monique's overalls were starting to get soaked from the rain.

"We're gonna head under the awning of the gym, since most of the students had gone for the day, excluding those in detention.

The group headed under the awning to protect themselves from the wet elements.

"So yeah...as I was saying..." Kim said while her red hair was sopping wet. "...flash back to freshman year...October...that Scottish Play."

A flash of lightning followed by a rumble of thunder as she flashed back.

(October 18, 2003, 7pm)

Kim was dressed in the costume of Lady MacBeth in the area to the back of the stage. She kinda felt nervous going on stage for the first time since the whole 'Silent-Night' high-note incident from last year in eighth grade.

"I'm getting butterflies in my stomach." she complained to the drama teacher, Miss Tudor.

Miss Tudor replied, "Don't worry. You'll do great out there!"

"You really think so, Miss Tudor?" Kim wondered.

"Trust me on it!" the drama teacher said with a wink of he eye.

Kim gulped as she walked out on stage, not prepared to face a crowd of people. She prayed that they didn't come with an extra set of earplugs.

She was unaware that Amanda, one of Bonnie's hench-girls, came up to Miss Tudor's side.

"In case if Miss Possible falters on stage, you'll take her place." the teacher said with a whisper.

"I know all my lines and studied them." Amanda replied.

"Very thoroughly?" Miss Tudor asked, "This play counts for 20% of your final grade, you know that."

"Inside and out!" came the reply from the vile cheerleader, rubbing her hands in glee, anticipating even the slightest of mistakes from Kim.

Kim was now in act 1, scene 5 of MacBeth. This was the scene in which she is reading the letter from MacBeth, played by fellow freshman, Alan Platt.

"The witches met me on the day of my victory in battle, and I have since learned that they have supernatural knowledge. When I tried desperately to question them further, they vanished into thin air. While I stood spellbound, messengers from the king arrived and greeted me and the thane of Cawdor..."

Sheer determination filled her lungs as she performed those lines without a script. Kim felt like that she was born for this part.

"So what happened then?" Tara asked.

Kim sighed, "Then...came Act 1, Scene 6..."

(the flashback continues)

Russ Niedelmeyer, as Duncan, and Kim, as Lady MacBeth were saying their lines.

"Look, here comes our honored hostess! Sometime the love my subjects bring me is inconvenient, but I still accept it as love. In doing so, I'm teaching you to thank me for the inconvenience I'm causing you by being here, because it comes from my love to you." Russ said while in-character.

And now came Kim's infamous turn.

"Everything we're doing for you, even if it were doubled and then...and...then..."

Kim then saw the guy who was playing Banquo, and stuttered on her line. It was none other than Josh Mankey, whom was talking on the role of Banquo because the student who was going to play him got sick on the day of that frosted tip spiked hair was present, attracting Kim like a moth to an electric zapper.

She never saw such a cute hottie guy in her life before and struggled to memorize the next line with a shaky voice.

"We...we...we...gladly welcome you...you as...um...ermmm...our guests..."

The full effects of stage fright came at her at possibly the worst time because of only the mere appearance of Josh. She was trembling and blushing at his cute hair, his cute spikey frost-tipped hair.

"Ooooooh! Ahhhhh!

Kim was so smitten by his looks...that she completely forgot her lines! And the audience was staring at her, seeing if she was going to say anything.

Not even a peep uttered from her mouth. The audience started to boo and hiss at her.

Miss Tudor, panicking that her job was on the line, ran onto the stage and made an announcement.

"Um...we are going to hold a brief 15-minute intermission! Yeah...yeah! Snacks and refreshments are located in the cafeteria to your right!"

While the audience filed out for the intermission period, the teacher went backstage to talk with Kim.

"What happened out there? Why didn't you recite your Lady MacBeth Lines?" Miss Tudor asked.

Kim told her the truth while eyeing Josh, smitten by him.

"I'm crushing...like a sheep!"

Miss Tudor looked at her and said, "I knew this would happen. Amanda, take the role of Lady Macbeth for the rest of the play!"

Kim was stunned out of her Mankey-like trance.

"Wait...what?!"

Amanda grinned evilly at Kim, "Yes, Miss Tudor! It would be such an honor!"

Miss Tudor then looed at Kim and said, "Miss Possible...for your lack of attentiveness and your...teenager-like 'crushes' on boys...if you call it that...I am giving you a F on MacBeth!"

Kim was beyond mortified to receive such a low grade. She had no choice but to accept it.

The redheaded cheerleader sighed and said, "Fine...Miss Tudor...I'll accept the grade as is.."

Amanda cackled and added salt to the wound.

"As Shakespeare would say so himself to you...to better to not thine be seen rather than choke during thine play of the Immortal Bard."

Kim hung her head low in defeat.