Enemies With Benefits / A Doah Story (ON HOLD)

Chapter Eighteen - Hades

Continuation from chapter seventeen

Noah's POV

Sitting in the auditorium, I watch Nick and Dixie play Hercules and Meg. They look really good playing the parts. Nick plays his part greatly, being as he is supposed to be madly in love with her at first sight. I think he does like her so it's easy for him to act. Dixie is just that good, like watching her play her part. It's like she becomes the character. She becomes the sexy Megara, who sold herself to Hades to save her boyfriend.

A loud banging from behind the stage interrupts the practice, and everyone stops what they are doing.

"What on Earth?" Mrs. Barrett gets up and Dixie and Nick go to move the curtain. I stay put not caring too much about what happened. It was probably just a prop that fell. "Oh! Call for the nurse!" Mrs. Barrett's voice rings, and I slip out of the room towards the nurse. I'm not good with blood. So I'd rather not see any if there are some. I go back walking after the nurse went running, I slip back into the room Dixie is in a heated conversation with Nick, she seems mad. I've never really seen her mad at him before. I take the chance to go a little closer, so I can get a listen too.

"Why do you need to know! It's not like I'm having sex with him!" She says and grabs what looks like her phone from him. "Why did you go through my phone in the first place?

"Because I was going to set a reminder for you to remember running lines with me after school! I made it to your contacts to put my name in there and I saw his name!" He says.

"Is this why you've been distracted? Because of him?" he replies. Dixie shakes her head.

"So what I have is Noah's phone number, it doesn't mean anything! I'm sure you have Addison's phone number!" She torts back.

"No. I don't, you wanna check." He holds out his phone. "When you're ready to explain, I'll be here." He walks away after that. Dixie looks down at her phone and mumbles to herself. I can't hear what though. I want to go ask her what happened and if she is okay, but I think that might defeat the purpose of secrecy. I feel horrible though, I did put my number in her phone. But what the hell it's a phone number! We haven't even ever texted each other, not even called!

"Darlings, everyone takes a seat!" Mrs. Barrett returns, and we all sit down. She isn't happy, and even I'm scared of her when she isn't happy. "With Mark being injured with a broken foot, we now need to recast the part of Hades." She clears her throat. I sit back smiling slightly. This will be fun to watch. This is going to be a war. I was right a second later people erupt saying they will take the part or saying this person or that person should do it. The practice continues like this for five minutes before Mrs. Barrett shushes the crowd.

"Do they know for sure his foot is broken? It's not just a sprain that will take two weeks?" Nick asks, and Mrs. Barrett nods.

"It's broken." She looks around the room, her eyes scanning the crowd for Hades. I look down at my phone. I'm still waiting to hear from Tatum. She didn't want to come to practice so I left her at the dorm. Bryce is going to give her a ride. I don't even know for sure if she is up yet. I send her a quick text and slip my phone back in my pocket looking back up. I see Mrs. Barrett staring back at me. Slowly her arm comes up and she points at me. This isn't good. "You. Mr. Beck. You will play Hades." She says.

"Ah... I begin. "That's not... I'm good with the lights." I say unsure how to tell her no. No way in hell is I going to play Hades. I'm not an actor! I sure as hell can't sing! Athlete. That's about it.

"Yes, you! You'll be perfect. You're tall and you can be scared when you want to, so yes. You will do it!" She scans the room again. "I'll have Ms. D'Amelio help you out with lines and skills. She is very good at it. I'm okay with this. I let out a breath, scratching my forehead.

"If I have to." I breathe.

"Yes, you do! Everyone gets to work on cleaning up the mess in the back. Ms. D'Amelio, you will help him with lines won't you."

"Do I have to?" She mumbles, giving her a pleading look. Mrs. Barrett just smiles at her and she also lets out a sigh. "Where is Hades's book?" She asks holding out her hand. Mrs. Barrett tosses it down to her, and she mumbles more to herself flipping through it.

"Chop chop!" Mrs. Barrett smiles at everyone. Dixie stands up slowly turning around looking for me. She makes her way back by me, with a smirk on her. She sits down handing me the book, with a smile.

"I told you that you could be in the play!" She says quietly, I smile that's right she told me a while ago that I could do it.

"I can't sing," I inform her.

"Good thing your part doesn't have to. Now we better get to work. You've got three weeks to get this down." She says, and we get straight to work reading through the lines. My phone vibrates in my pocket, and I pull it out. "Noah."

"It's Tatum," I say laying the phone down so she can see the screen. I reply with just an okay, now that I know she is awake. We go back to reading lines, and she tells me how I should be saying things and how to do good facial expressions while saying them. She has to use her hands a couple of times moving my eyebrows from me because apparently, I can't do it. "Let's see you do it!" I challenge and in less than a second she has one eyebrow up and the other down.

"It takes a while to be able to do it as well as I can!" She smiles.

"That's a bunch of bulls." I say "It's got to be like heredity or something. I can't do it at all!" I try and I just go cross-eyed. "Impossible." I breathe out, and she giggles. Then the bell rings, and the two of us sit up from the floor. Which we started laying on a while ago when sitting up straight got uncomfortable. "Alright... so I'll work on this... I say. "But.. I wanna do something tonight... see a movie go out to eat... something," I say. She stops walking and looks at me.

"Are you serious?" she asks, and I nod. Yeah, I want to spend more time with her! "Umm, okay yeah sure tonight," she says, then we go our separate ways, playing the parts we told each other to play. My day is going to be great. Take that Mr. Parker, she isn't staying away, kind of hard when Mrs. Barrett assigned her to help me with lines and other things. And I have a date with Dixie tonight!

To be continued...

A/N

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