A Player's Responsibility

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A week passed and it was the day of  the play Romeo and Juliet and I’m trembling and shaking all over my body and I don’t know what to do, and I’m trembling and shaking like I’ve never done in my whole entire life. I’m playing Juliet what if I come out and people hate the play because they don’t think I’m beautiful enough to play Juliet, I mean Chloe or any other girl in school could have been Juliet instead of me. What if forget my lines on stage and they all start laughing at me. At worst of all what if I humiliate myself in front of Jason and everyone it would be disastrous, Ann, my dad, Jason’s mom and my school mates it would be horrific. I’ve never felt out of control in my whole entire life and as I thinking of what would happen I started shaking more and more.   I’m pacing up and down the dressing room in the atrocious looking costume, the costume is meant to be Juliet’s but I feel like Cinderella’s ugly step sister, shaking like crazy and then Jason comes in to the room. “Hey are you okay? Your shaking and trembling seriously” Jason asks as he comes in and held me in his arms and I can smell the dust coming from his costume it could almost be a hundred years old, but I began to calm down and the shaking reduced. “I can’t do this; I can’t go up on the stage and perform, I can’t” he looked me in the eye. “Sally you don’t have to worry we are going to get through this, your going to be amazing we run through our lines like a thousand times you’ll be fine. I promise it will be okay just take a deep breath. I nodded and took a few deep breaths. And I fully calm downed. “You’re amazing josh, you know that”. He smiled he sweet gorgeous smile that always knocks me off my feet. “Of course I am” he said then he grabbed me and kissed me. “By the way your costume stinks” I said laughing. “Very funny, now go break a leg on the stage”.

I was really nervous during the start but it helped that Chloe was playing the role of the nurse, she was an understudy and the main character got sick. We walk through the scenes, were me and josh dance on stage were our characters first meet and I had adrenaline oozing through my body. And josh is a very good dancer by the way. We went through the balcony scene together and he was amazing no one would know he was dyslexic and all the trouble he went through to learn his lines. He was a natural actor. I thought our first sex scene in the play would be awkward but it wasn’t and I managed to stay in character, somehow I could relate to they way she was feeling. Our final since together as I stabbed myself with the knife thinking he was death, I found myself really crying on stage and I felt very emotional and I kept praying it’s going to be over soon. And it was and we all came and took a bow and left and all the audience roared with cheers. I was ecstatic it went well and nothing horrible happened, except Romeo and Julie dying but of course, but apart from that it was awesome. It tragic when the two most important people in the play dies, just like Romeo and Juliet and the titanic and you just can’t help feeling sad.  “Honey you were amazing” my dad came and hugged me and Ann grabbed me and kissed me on my forehead. (No matter worth though I still don’t like her and I’m going to make sure she does take my mothers plays). I excused myself and went to meet my boyfriend and his family. Josh’s mom Jane and her best friend also called Jane were gathered together josh’s mom was still in a wheelchair, and she looked sicker than the last time I saw her. “You were wonderful sweetheart” she said and I could hear the struggle in her voice, but I just smiled and said thank you. “Yes she’s a star. I’m getting cold and hungry lets all go home now” josh said.