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~ six ~

"You did?" Jess yells, wide eyed after I told her the news. We were hanging at her house and 'working on homework.' It had already been several weeks since the news, but my father told me to keep it a secret until we know for sure.
"Yes yes now shush! I'm not supposed to be sharing a lot of information!"
She shakes her head and laughs, "So where are you filming? Do you know the cast yet? Do you know who's playing Tewks-"

"Jessica!" I say. She really just completely ignored me saying it's suppose to be secretive. Jess just gets too excited sometimes.
"Okay I'm sorry but actually. What do you know?"

Nothing. All I know is that I got the role. But just like her, I wish I knew more.

Especially who plays Tewksbury.

"Nothing," I admit, shrugging and pulling out some work from my backpack.
"Oh come on, you know I won't say anything,"

"Jess I'm serious!" I chuckle.
"Serious about what?"
"That I don't know anything!"

She leans back a bit in surprise, "Oh actually?"

God she'd clueless sometimes.
"Yeah, I'm for real right now. I don't know anything yet."
But I wish I did. I'm so insanely excited. And yet so fucking scared. God knows what kind of challenges I'll face these next few months. And god knows who I have to be in love with.

I can't even remember what love looks like.

"Oh... okay well then what do you wanna do?" She asks me, dropping her pencil on her paper and pushing herself off the bed
"What?" I shake my head, turning to look at her, "Jess we're working on school work."

"And I'm getting bored," she shrugs. I guess she really doesn't have good stamina.
But it's true. In elementary school silent reading, she'd pull out a book and open to a random page, and then go to sleep.

She's just not very good with doing school work that long.
"Okay fine... what do you wanna do?"

"I don't know."

And that's the other thing she does. Says she wants to do something, and then says she doesn't know what. I'm not gonna lie to you, it's honestly annoying.

"Okay well you always have an idea. Now what is it."
I watch as she strokes an invisible goatee as if she were thinking. I just sat there, waiting for a response.

"Oh! We shou-"

My phone begins to ring, and my dad's contact pops up.
"Wait hold that thought. My dad's calling," I say, clicking the green circle and allowing the call to start. Jess nodded and sat back down on her bed, waiting for me.

"Hey dad," I say into the phone.
"Y/n guess what!" He sounded into the phone with an excited tone.
"What?" I ask, now curious.

There was a pause, where I heard him rolling his tongue to create a drum roll affect.
"Oh come on," I groan in annoyance, "just tell me!"

Jess also seemed invested in my call, tilting her ear closer to the phone to try and hear.
Dad's drumroll finished.

"The cast list came out! I have it here!" He cheered.
"Wait seriously?" I say, eyes wide and feeling my adrenaline start pumping. Jessica gave me a "so?" look and I just listened to dad. She probably couldn't hear what he was saying.

"You can stay there if you want, but just know that whenever you-"

"I'm on my way," I blurt, interrupting him and ending the call, "Jess I'm really sorry but my dad just got the cast list. Can I go?"
She grows an excited look in her eyes and frantically nods.
"Why are you still here is the real question! Go! I'll see you tomorrow!"