Acting On Ambition

Auditions Fucking Suck, Why Do I Go To These?

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Tom sighed loudly, leg bouncing mercilessly. He hated auditions. You sit in a room for three hours, get ten minutes to give it your best, and leave all while knowing you could get a life-changing opportunity. Tom yanked on the sleeves of his jumper again. He hated auditions...

“TOM!” Tommy glanced up to see Alex, his best friend. They had known each other for a while, with both of their parents forcing them into auditions when they were younger. 

“Alex!” The other teen sat next to Tom, pulling him in for a brief hug. 

“Are you excited?” Alex asked, pulling out his phone to take a picture with his friend. The boys laughed, doing a weird pose for the photo.

“Yes, I was sent the character sheets a week ago. None of them have names yet, is that weird?” Alex had been in a few movies and television shows as extras, Tom figured he probably knew about them better than Tom did. 

“Uh, no. Sometimes they don’t want to name the characters until they have the actors. Sometimes they just don’t want to release the character’s names. Which one are you hoping to get?” Alex noticed how Tom kept messing with the hem of his jumper and gently placed a hand on his friend’s arm. 

“Honestly, character 6. The fourteen-year-old. It seems like my type of character,” Tom shrugged. 

Alex nodded, settling further into his seat before he sat upright again. “Did you hear that Technoblade might be in this?” 

“No! I- Holy shit…” Tom muttered. “I mean… he’s a cool dude.”

“A cool dude? You once said you wanted to be him!” Alex laughed. Technoblade was an actor that had worked with Tom once. The guy always had golden contacts in, died his hair bright pink, and constantly looked angry. 

“Alex! I- That was years ago and before I met him!” Tom turned bright red, laughing nervously

The two boys continued talking, spilling their ideas to each other. Over the years, they had become extremely close. They even went as far as choosing shows they wanted to audition for together, their plan to work together fell through when Tom needed to stop. Tom loved working with Alex on everything, including the things he didn’t want to work on. Alex was like a brother to him. An overly supportive, annoying, sweet brother. Alex was able to help Tom through his father leaving, they stayed up that entire night playing video games and screaming songs at each other. 

As they talked, they missed the set of eyes trained on them from the front of the room. The man pushed his hair from his face, faintly recognizing the boys who were talking non-stop. At one point, they became particularly loud, yelling something about ‘Technoblade’. The man chuckled. His pink-haired friend had quite the reputation, often being referred to as ‘cold-hearted’. These boys seemed to think he was cool instead. 

“Hey, we have six people ready to audition for characters 6 and 7. The teenagers,” Dream’s voice was slightly muffled through his mask. 

“Yeah,” Wilbur cleared his throat. “I want to see…” he shuffled through the stack of papers, looking for one specific boy’s. “Him in character with Techno. I want to see if he can keep his composure. I think he’d be good for character 6.”