Welcome to Reality [A Hunger Games fan fic]

[14] Welcome to the Theater

[14] Welcome to the Theater

Gale's Point of View

As school comes to a end, I sigh and drag myself to drama. I didn't want to do drama class, but somehow I'd been put in it. I can't act, I don't sing, and I don't play instruments. The only thing I'm good for in this class is doing lighting and stuff, if I didn't do that then I think I would've gotten kicked out of that class.

I get to the drama class door and pull it open. The classroom is actually the school theater, but we use it since it's the best place to practice. The only friend I have in this class is Madge, she's in it to play piano as accompaniment for the singers. But as I'm guessing you might've picked up, me and Madge aren't on the best terms right now. The lights are dimmed and there's voices coming from backstage. I sigh and walk back there, wanting nothing more than to go home.

When I brush past the curtains of the stage I hear someone calling my name. I look over and see Madge standing there, waving me over to her. I grumble slightly but still I walk over to see what she wants. As I approach she smiles.

"Gale," She greets me, seemingly a bit nervous around me, as she should be since I'm pissed off. "Can you move the piano onto the stage?" She asks, wincing back slightly like I might say no. I sigh and nod, looking over at the piano that's on wheels.

I get to the side of the piano and begin to push it on stage, Madge next to me. At first I don't mind, but as she stays silent I begin to get ticked off. With a final shove I roll the piano onto stage. I then briskly walk off, not wanting a conversation with Madge.

Class begins, Ms.Cressida calls everyone to the stage. We all line up against the stage and wait for instructions. She says that the singers of the class get to do a number today as practice for our performance coming up, where I'll be backstage as usual. We all go to our positions.

I find myself controlling curtains and the side stage lights. As I wait to pull open the curtains, a girl comes up and stands next to me, I recognize her as one of the very musical people in this class. She nods to me as she stands there, making her dark curly hair bounce around her face, and I remember that the singers are suppose to walk on stage after I open the curtains. So in other words, I'll be next to her until the music finally starts. I'm personally fine with just silently waiting, but the girl speaks first.

"You're Gale, right?" She asks. I nod, not wanting to talk to anyone. She has other plans. "What are you in this class for?" I just shrugged. She seemed to be getting increasingly irritated, annoyance flashed in her chocolate eyes. "Wow, you're such a great conversationalist, you know that? I don't think I've ever had such a intelligent conversation." She said, her voice dripping in sarcasm.

"Okay, okay, what?" I snap, breaking my silence. The girl rolled her eyes.

"I just wanted to have a conversation." She said, her tone getting more towards normal.

"Okay, well I'm Gale, nice to meet ya." I said, adding in extra sarcastic enthusiasm.

"I'm Amanda. I can't say it's all that good to meet you." She sighed. I rolled my eyes. "You're just a backstage helper, right?" She asked.

"Yep." I said, popping the P. "What about you? I'm guessing singer."

"Singer, and I play a bunch of instruments." Amanda said. I smiled lightly.

"Oh snap, we got miss over-achiever here, singer and instrument player." I said, using a fake sassy voice. Amanda smiled lightly.

"I'm awesome and you know it!" She laughed. I smiled with her.

As I opened my mouth to reply, the music started. Amanda quickly waved to me before running onstage. She was a good singer, I had to admit. Madge played piano along with the singers. I simply stood side stage and watched. This is why I think I havn't quit Drama yet, because it's nice just to watch people enjoying themselves onstage.

A/N:Thank you to our final guest star Amanda (Rockstar4682)!
So even though the homecoming chapter won't be for another two or three chapters, I'm going to start collecting votes for homecoming king/queen now! Comment, or message me who you want as Homecoming king and queen, it can be anyone who's appeared in this story except the twelve year olds. I'll be collecting votes until the final chapter!
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