Olive Green [GxG]

CHAPTER 10

THE TIME WAS going fast. Sometimes, it felt a bit too fast. With that, the theatre club's play was here. Henry was acting like the most important person while the rest of us were trying not to make his ego go higher than it already was—Leah's words when she told me not to encourage him even more.

  There were some parents in the school hallway that our small group passed. I could only guess they were parents of theatre club kids. Although some probably weren't, since it was an open event.

  "I should've stayed home," Amani muttered as we passed some more people on our way to the place where we normally had P.E.

  I chuckled, shoving my hands into my jacket pockets. She acted like an introverted person, so I wasn't astonished at her words. And I couldn't even disagree. This number of people wasn't comfortable for me either. Bumping into each other just for us to get from point A to point B—highly annoying.

  "You're here!" I heard a familiar voice call, to which I turned my head in its direction to see Leah, who was dragging Jade by her arm.

  "Obviously," Amani exclaimed, also shoving her hands into her jacket pockets.

  "Well, we can't see Henry now, so instead, we got some nice seats," Leah gave us a friendly smile, to which she nodded behind her towards the double-wing door.

  And so, we went in there together. Liam, whom we found sitting all alone while playing something on his phone, was the one holding the seats for us, not surprisingly. We sat down next to him alongside the not-so-small number of people.

  "What y'all doin' on holidays?" Leah suddenly asked, turning her head towards the rest of us.

  Her question surprised me a little. The others only shrugged their shoulders. I expected them to say something about family trips, which were the norm in my childhood friend group. Be it autumn or spring, both were spent more with our families. Don't get me wrong, Christmas too, obviously, but that one was when we all stayed in town.

  "Elaid is gonna be back home, but that's all," I heard Amani say at which Leah nodded and turned her attention to me and Jade. I only shrugged, not saying anything until I knew what she was planning.

  "We're gonna visit grandparents on the weekend," Jade stated.

  "Nice, so we can go to the cinema some day, right?" Leah asked, sounding rather excited. Although I couldn't understand why she would want to go to the cinema, especially on holidays when we could go on any other day.

  No one seemed to mind her idea, and I felt a bit weird about them taking me among them so fast. I hadn't even been in this school for two whole months yet. Well, the upcoming week was a holiday once again, so that couldn't really be counted.

  The play soon began. I didn't know it as I didn't even pay attention to that one rehearsal I had visited, but it didn't seem bad. Not that I was planning on seeing it ever again. Maybe a different one if it were a comedy.

  Henry indeed seemed to be very good at what he was doing. And so were the other kids I didn't care enough to know. Maybe it was because they were in the theatre club for a reason, after all, or I didn't see a difference between the ones who could act and those who couldn't—that was highly possible.

  My eyes went from the blond boy to the dirty blonde girl who stood not far away from him. She always seemed to be acting. In school, at least. But that was what many of us did, after all. Putting on a mask in front of many people. Whether it was for survival or something else.

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It didn't take long until every one of those kids on the stage was in front, bowing while people in the room were applauding their performance. The end of the play was here. Well, more like over, as the so-called actors went down the stage to change their clothes and probably even clean the stage whilst everyone else was taking their leave.