On The Stage

5 - Andy's POV

We all went over to the diner. When we stepped foot into the place, we all got a waft of the smell of chips. We all grinned at eachother.

We sat down at a table together and ordered.
I looked around at everyone.
"I wonder if we'll get to see a play be performed!!" Celeste said happily. Henley rolled her eyes and went back to staring at Elvio chug his glass of water.

Elvio was an attractive looking guy, I couldn't really blame Henley, but they were a little touchy throughout the dinner, at one point Henley let out a tiny scream then giggled loudly when she saw us looking at her. Suspecting that Elvio had his hand down her skirt again, I decided to turn to Celeste to chat instead.

"I've been reading up on this theatre and it has so many cool stories." She told me.
"Was there anything mentioned about the death of an actor onstage?" I asked.
She nodded.

"Mildred Alain herself. The granddaughter of Fleur Alain, the woman the theatre was named after, mysteriously died onstage during a performance in 1963. Later on the autopsy results came back as a heart attack, but then it was revealed the people at the morgue were PAID to say that! Turns out, Mildred Alain had bribed them into telling the family she had died of a heart attack, when really she was poisoned. And she KNEW she was going to be murdered." Celeste explained.

"Woah. Jeez that must feel awfully like torture, knowing you're gonna die, and worse, murdered. What poison was it she was killed with?"

"Arsenic. Ingested. It was put in her drink."

"Damn." I said, looking down at my plate of food.
"If she knew she was gonna be poisoned, wouldn't she have thought of NOT drinking any drinks that she was GIVEN?" I asked.
Celeste shook her head.

"She didn't really suspect it was gonna be poison. She was sure that someone was gonna stab her or something worse." Celeste said, picking at her food. I looked at her.

"Aren't you gonna eat that?" I asked her. Celeste looked up at me, her eyes wide.
"Oh! No. Haha! I'm not hungry." She said, pushing her plate away from her.

I hesitated, then shrugged it off. I politely excused myself to go to the bathroom. Once I washed my hands, I came out and bumped into London.

"Shit! Sorry!" I cried.
"I- no! It's okay. Sorry." He replied. I laughed slightly.
"Wait, so you do acting? Like, you run the drama club at school." London asked. I felt like I was just lifted up. No one ever asked me about it, barely anyone even came to the drama club.

"Yes! I do! I'm an actress myself. I do commercials and modeling jobs." I explained to him. He nodded, impressed. There was a pause.

"Uh, I'm gonna go to the bathroom.." he said.
"Oh yeah! Sorry! I'll go sit down." I said, walking back to the table. My heart fluttered gently. London was more attractive that I had thought before. His voice sounded soft but also kind of hoarse.

Once I got back to the table, I could see Elvio and Henley giggling again. I rolled my eyes and sat down next to Celeste again.

"You left me alone with these guys!" She joked. I laughed, and she did too. She had a pretty laugh.
"Damn guys, I didn't think about it that much but we're gonna be staying just above the stage where that person died." Sam said, changing the atmosphere. It even caught Henley and Elvio's attention.

"Yeah it's real sickening." Henley said.
"Real sickening." Jazzie piped up.
"Awesome though." Blue said. We all looked at him.
"What?" He laughed.
"It is kind of cool I guess. So many plays were performed on that stage. Shakespeare in the early years of the theatre and then more modern musicals in the later years." Celeste said, smiling. Blue smiled back at her and winked. Celeste went red and looked away.

I nudged her and she laughed.
London got back from the bathroom.
"Are you all finished? We should go back now. It's getting late."

We all left and crossed the road back to the theatre. We all peeked into the big auditorium with the stage.
Elvio said whispered something along the lines of moans echoeing around and Henley smirked. I rolled my eyes. The stage was beautiful. There was small wooden engravings on the edges of the stage and there were red velvet curtains.

We went back to our rooms and we sat together in the guy's room. We chatted for a long while, then after about an hour Elvio and Henley left to "go to the bathroom".

"How lovey dovey and sexual can they get in one day-" Celeste sighed, frustrated.
"Sounds like someone's jealous.." I grinned at her. She looked at Blue and blushed bright red.

Blue sat with Sam and London chatting. Jazzie sat on the edge of Elvio's bottom bunk, reading a magazine she picked up at the front desk.
Celeste and I were sitting together.

"You've been staring at London since dinner. Does someone have a crush...?" Celeste asked me, smiling while lifting an eyebrow.

"I- ugh- not really... maybe.. something small. But nothing too big!" I started burning up. She laughed.
"I completely understand where you're coming from. He is quite attractive. But Blue is more my type. Brown hair..." she said.

"I wasn't expecting to develop a crush while on a fucking school trip.." I said to her.
"I know, right!! Well, who knows what could happen between us. I doubt we'd even get to Henley and Elvio level by the end of the week. I have some serious trust issues-" Celeste shook her head.

I laughed slightly and looked over at London.
"Yeah." There was a pause.
"Hey, wanna go explore a bit?" I asked Celeste.
"Oh.. well. Lights out isn't for another half an hour. Why not!!" She said, and we both stood up.

"We're just gonna go look around." I told the others.
"You aren't gonna fuck right? Like Henley and Elvio." Sam joked.
We both rolled our eyes.

"Lesbian sex wouldn't go down well in an old theatre, Sam. If workers found out they'd probably kick us out. Straight sex, they'd probably leave them alone." Celeste explained.

"How do YOU know??" Blue asked. Celeste went slightly pink.
"I'm bisexual. I'd know."
I looked at her, surprised. We both left the room.