Harry, or should I say Romeo falls to the floor stage dramatically. The narrator announces the final words in Shakespear's masterpiece before the crowd starts standing up for a standing ovation. After 5 seconds, Harry and I start getting up from our 'dead' positions and position ourselves in the middle as the other casts start coming out of the sides of our stage. When we're all ready, we hold hands with those beside us and bow simultaneously. Raven was in between Harry, after all- she was the director of everything.
The curtains start closing but we only ever start moving when it was finally closed. Every body starts cheering and hugging, Raven calls our attention from right behind the curtain. We could still hear our standing ovation from behind the curtain but we focused on the proud grin on Raven's face.
"You losers finally did me some good which makes you non-losers. It's time to bring out the big words and I'm here to say that your performance tonight was overwhelmingly outstanding! You've grown out of your mediocre practices and I'm so proud of you guys I could turn to an American redneck" she exclaimed, causing some of us to laugh.
"Mother Ray! It's not good to use all of your vocabulary in one speech" Louis teased, making me laugh hard. I really have nothing against her, if anything; I admire how much of a bitch she is. But Louis' remark was funny.
"Aye! Lucy and her group aren't the only ones who get to use big words" she comments back as we start heading backstage. Harry wraps his arm around my waist and pulls me toward him but it's an uncomfortable position, especially being squished in an itchy old costume as Juliet. Raven looks at us and smirks, "and I bet words aren't the only big things that Lucy puts in her mouth" she winks.
My eyes widen and heat starts rushing to my cheeks, I have absolutely no idea what to say in these situations. The rest of our batch is laughing, even Harry is but I really have nothing to say as he leads us out of the backstage.
"She isn't wrong you know" he mutters and I turn him and smack him in the arm. I was already red enough, he just had to go and make an unnecessary remark. "What? You put huge ass burgers in your mouth a lot, I'm surprised you haven't gained weight" he jokes. I scowled at him, but he just kisses me in response.
"I love you, even if you're a nerd. A beast. A beauty..." he narrows his eyes as I gather my bag. He follows me to the changing room and helps me peel off the ugly Juliet dress. I put on my regular clothes and we exit the changing room while he still has his thinking face on. Thankfully the cast are allowed to skip the rest of the classes since this is part of our extra credit so we walk out of school grounds and got in Harry's car. Niall, Mandy and Louis are in the backseat and we're going to have a little celebration from a successful play. Louis, Zayn, Lil and my group in the other car; since it's bigger. We're going to get some food and we're going to the beach for a picnic. We even have tents and crap.
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"We should go skinny dipping!" Lil is drunk. Like completely wasted out of her wits, but then again so are. Zayn cheers for her, these two... I never knew they would ever get together. Ever.
"Lucy!" Zayn calls for me and I turn to him. The other lads are playing football in the dim night but the bonfire we built gave off enough light for them to see. "I really want to thank you for bringing our groups together. I mean- I never would've met Lil" his voice is loud and wasted but his words aren't.
"Everybody! Cheers for... for- The Beauty who turned out to be the most amazing beast!" he yells. I face palm but laugh along with everyone as they cheer. Great title I have right there.
After a few hours, we decide to actually camp here. My tent mates are Harry, Lil, and Zayn in an 8 person tent. Louis has a lot of big ass tents. Our bags became our dividers so it wouldn't be awkward, but Lil didn't want to be left alone so she became a tent mate with Zayn. They became official, thankfully. We're sitting around the bonfire, the lads singing the Campfire Song Song from Spongebob except Liam who's just staring into the fire.
"How's Kirsten and Charlotte?" Kirsten named the little angel Charlotte Almira.
"I'm going to do everything for them. I don't regret anything" he says before turning to me and smiling. "She's worth it, Luce. They're worth it"
Mandy is on the phone with Julian Torres, her new boy friend.
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"We should move in with each other" Harry finalizes. I nod with him and we start planning but his phone starts ringing. The caller ID is the unknown but he answers it on loud speaker.
"Hello?"
"Zoe? Zoe Corazon?" It was Harry's ex girlfriend.
"Yeah, I wanted to congratulate you with the serious relationship you have with Lucy" before hanging up abruptly. We shared a weird look before chuckling.
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Author's Note: IT ENDED OMG TEH FIRST BOOK EVAH. IM GOING TO DIE. GOOD BYE LUCY hahahaha
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Beauty is the Beast || h.s. au
FanfictionUsually, the plot is there's a player guys and a nerd. Player guy plays with nerd girl who loves the guy. Her heart breaks and bla bla bla.. What if tables turn? What if it was the nerd who was playing the player? In this story, Beauty is the Beast
