Olive Green [GxG]

CHAPTER 10

The time was going fast enough. Sometimes it felt more like too fast. And so, the theatre club's play was here. Henry was acting like the most important person while we others were trying not to make his ego go higher than where it was - Leah's words when she told me not to encourage him even more.

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

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

  I chuckled, shoving my hands in my jacket's pockets. She acted like an introverted person so I wasn't really surprised at her words. And I couldn't even disagree. This amount of people wasn't comfortable for me either. Bumping into each other just for me 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 in her jacket's 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 to the double wing door.

  And so, we went in there together. Liam, not surprisingly, was the one holding our seats for us, whom we found sitting all alone while playing something on his phone. 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. But she was most likely asking the rest of her friends. The rest that only shrugged their shoulders. I expected them to say something about family trips which were a norm in my Luton friends 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 the town.

  "Elaid is gonna be back home, but that's all," I heard Amani say to which Leah nodded and turned her attention to me and Jade. I shrugged, not knowing about anything that would be planned.

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

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

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

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

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

  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 it here whilst everyone else was taking their leave.