Waiting For Mr. Darcy

Chapter 4 Were In

As everybody starts to pile in the chatter starts, "What part did you get?" , "Awe too bad maybe next year," "Yayyaya, no way!" are chourused throughout the room. Girls giggle and guys high five. Me? I just stand there clenching the script in my hands and brething deeply. Everybody looks like they belong and care for one another. And so far I don't see anybody in grade 10 which makes me feel so much better. But my bliss ends soon as I see Chanlier, Jess, Brian and one other guy with bright green eyes under a shag of blonde hair that I have never seen before. Chanlier was a tall guy with light dark skin, but it appeared to be that he wasn't one of the actors but a set designer, as he carried in what looked to be paintbrushes and light in a large brown meshed bag. Brian had a scipt hanging out from the back of his light blue jeans and Jess? Well he just looked like his commitment this year was to make fun of me. He looked at me and smirked, he had tripped me numerous amount of times with Mike and now that we would be working in close quaters I don't see his standings changing much. And then I hear the sound I was regretting to hear, "Hey Jess," and in comes Ashley with Alexandra and Meagan. She flips her hair and smiles at him with her golden eyes. 

"Hey to you too!" He smiles looking down at her. 

I turn around quickly and head to the back of the room hoping she won't notice me, but instead I run straight into Mike, "Hey, its shorty!" He grins. 

My face feels hot and I see Ashley and Jess coming over to me with grins. 

"How did you get in?" Ashley says, looking at me with despair, "I mean its not like you have talent." 

At this point in time the whole room started to look at us, the chattering almost stopped imedently. 

She looks at my script and I look around the room wondering if anybody else feels as short as I do. 

"What part did you get? An extra, maybe an outcast part, because if so, you fit it so perfectly!" she exclaims, flipping her hair over her shoulder with a quick hair flip. "I got Lydia, what did you get?" 

I'm trying not smile when I relize I got a part far more superiour to hers, Lydia was kind of a snob and an obnoxious charcter, it surely suited her well. 

I looked her straight in the eyes and I say "Jane Bennet," and you can almost hear everbody around us snicker and try to hold in their laughter. Ashley? Oh well she just truns white, but then her color comes back and her eyes go wide and she glares at me. I back up almost as if one of her eyes would pop out at any point of time. 

The room is slient and then Chanlier burst out laughing, his face is back with amusment and the room echoes his laughs. I smile a litle bit and think at least somebody is enjoying this conversation. At this moment the drama room door bangs open and Miss Lance comes in with stacks full of paper. 

"Well, at least CHanlier is having fun, come on everybody lets get started," The crowd starts to make there way towards Miss Lance. Ashley gives me another look and hits my shoulder as she moves past me. I take a deep breath and just breath faciing the opposing direction of eveybody. 

"Don't worry she is mean to everybody, shes a jerk," says a medium sized blonde to my right. "She was terrible to me last year and it was harder because her friends were in it too," The girl continous gazing her blues eyes at me, "my name is May," she says waving her hand at me, I couldn't help but noticed her nails were coated in zebra print nailpolish. Then she took me by the hand and led me to the crowd, "come on lets go!" As she pulls me into the crowd she whispers, "hey by the way what is your name?" 

"Oh, Ally," I smile weakly back at her.

"Alright everybody! Lets take attendience shall we?" Miss Lance speaks loudly over the crowd of chattering teenagers, "I will start with introducing our sound and tec team," she waved her arm over to three or four sound technitions, who smiled sheepishly and waved.