The Wolfman

chapter 3

"NOOOOOO!" Mr. Rochelle had just the same reaction when Dave came to tell him that Alvin couldn't be in the play anymore.

"I knew he wasn't gonna like this..." Darla and Amber said together as they stood by and crossed their arms.

'Well, at least things aren't going to get worse.' Atticus thought.

"Poor Alvin." Theodore remarked.

"I know, he really wanted it, who could be Hyde and Jekyll now?" Eleanor wondered.

"Well, I could be the doctor, I always wanted to be one." Simon remarked.

"No offense, Simon, but I don't think you could be that scary as Hyde." Darla pointed out.

"Hate to say it, Simon, but Darla's right." Atticus said.

"Maybe it could be a duo role?" Darla suggested. "Simon is Dr. Henry Jekyll and someone else is Mr. Edward Hyde."

"Darla, that's brilliant!" Rochelle praised her.

"We actually used to do it in my first movie before I got greedy and selfish," Darla blinked a little as she remembered. "We had this girl Shirley fill in for me sometimes."

"Really?" Amber asked her.

"Yeah, you just had to pay close attention," Darla remarked. "Before I got arrogant, I didn't mind it, but after Little Dickens, I was the star with almost no one else involved... My butler Max was the genie in my Aladdin movie though."

"Yeah, but who do you think they'll choose to play as Mr. Hyde?" Atticus asked.

Rochelle looked over to the other kids who worked backstage. 

The teacher who was new this year came in, Darla never really noticed it, but she had a great resemblance to Queen Athena in Atlantica, not knowing that that's who she really was, but living as a human in a reincarnated afterlife. 

"Oh, hello, Mrs. Seacrest," Rochelle greeted her. "What can we do for you?"

"Pardon me, Mr. Rochelle, but I just thought I'd visit my students." Mrs. Seacrest told him with a smile.

'She must be from somewhere none of us have been to yet.' Atticus thought.

Mr. Rochelle allowed Mrs. Seacrest to do so.

"You must be the new third grade teacher, nice to meet you." Cherry said to the woman.

"Nice to meet you too," Mrs. Seacrest smiled, then sat on the edge of the stage, then looked down to the youngest boy chipmunk. "I hear you need new actors for Jekyll and Hyde."

"Yes, how did you know?" Rochelle sounded astounded.

"Call it intuition." Mrs. Seacrest giggled.

"Just like me with my detective skills." Atticus said.

Mrs. Seacrest giggled. "Yes... You could say that..."

"You don't have any ideas, do you?" Rochelle asked the new teacher in school.

"Well, some of you need strength you need to use out and be someone you're not sometimes," Mrs. Seacrest. "Like Theodore as a bad guy."

"Oh, I couldn't do that, Mrs. Seacrest." Theodore whimpered at her suggestion of him being in the play. 

"He's right," Nathan shoved him. "I'll do it."

"Oh, please they need an actor, not a jerk, Nathan." Atticus said.

This made all of the other students laugh. Even Jeanette was laughing, even if she believed Nathan was only a bully because of a possible abusive family at home. Nathan scowled at them and folded his arms.