Broken

Chapter 6

•Laurance's pov•
   "What the fuck?!" Travis screams. "How the fuck did you get the fucking lead!?" He looks towards me, glaring.
   I shrug. "Beats me.." I murmur, "I don't even know who the hell Sydney Carton is!"
   A girl with dark, short hair and glasses glances towards me. She gasps, "You don't know who he is?!"
   "..Not.. really?" I blink, "uhm, who are you?"
   "I'm Kendra Adams!" She says, smiling. "And you are?"
   I point to the list of names, "Can you not read?"
   "Doesn't exactly help me if I don't know your name, now does it?" Kendra sasses.
   "Laurance Zvahl." I mutter.
   Travis clears his throat, "and I'm Travis." He wraps his arm around her shoulder, smirking wickedly.
   "Pleasure." Kendra blinks, shoving him away.
   Mythera and Alexia ran over, waving. "Sooo~, what happened?" Alexia says, smiling.
   "They mixed up the roles." Travis crosses his arms, "I didn't get lead." He pouts.
   "Aw, Travis.." Mythera snorts, "poor baby. Who got lead then?"
   "I guess I did.." I  murmur, still In shock.
   "By some miracle," Travis grumbles, "did I even get a fucking part?!"
    "So you can't read then," Kendra states, "if you bothered to look at the second name on the list you'd see that you play Charles Darnay."
   Mythera stares at Kendra, "Who's this?" She tilts her head.
   "Kendra. Kendra Adams." Kendra says, "Geesh, second time today.." She laughs.
   "Oh, cool." Mythera shrugs, looking towards the list. "I got Madam Gaspard."
    Kendra sniffs, "in the book, Gaspard is a man."
   "..Well that's nice to know.." Mythera frowns, furrowing her eyebrows.
   "I got Lucie!" Alexia squeals, smiling wide.
   "That's the female lead!–course, unless you count Madam DeFarge. Oh, and who's Brendan? He's my husband, apparently." Kendra grins.
   Mythera's eyes widen, "My brother?! I didn't know he auditioned.. he never told me.." She mumbles.
    "He probably wanted to keep an eye on you, Myth," Alexia shrugs.
    Kendra gives a nod, "then apparently your brother will be kissing me."
    "What?!" Mythera exclaims.
     "Well kissing me on the forehead," Kendra corrects, "while singing one of his many solos."
    "So even Brendan can get a solo.. no wonder you got the lead, Laurance." Travis says, snorting.
   I growl, "What's with you?" He'd been a complete asshole ever since he didn't get the lead. Salty ass..
   "Wait a second, that was a stab at my brother!" Mythera snaps.
   "Whaaat? None of them have even been in a play! Not even through staff." Travis mumbles, "don't you think it's weird?"
   "I bet I could do better than you.." I grumble, rolling my eyes.
   "What was that?" Travis looks towards me. He glares, furrowing his eyebrows.
   "What? Need me to say it louder?" I snort, "Maybe you should turn up your hearing aid, grandpa."
   "That's it!" Travis pushes me into the wall, laying a punch in my gut. I groan in pain.
   Isaac, the guy from the other day, stares at us. His eyes sparkled; "Fight! Fight! Fight!" He smirks and places his arms around Mythera and Kendra. "Any bets, chicas?"
   "Get the fuck off me!" Mythera snaps, growling. She looks towards Travis and I worriedly.
   "..ever heard of personal space?" Kendra grumbles, punching his shoulder.
   Travis rolls his eyes and punches my face this time. "Travis, stop!" I scowl.
   Isaac glances at the list, "Mr.Lorry?"
   Kendra snorts, "as if a pig like you could play Mr.Lorry. A formal business man? That hardly sounds right for you."
   I attempt at pushing Travis off, but fail completely. He ends up kicking me.. well, where the sun don't shine. I scream in pain, "Travis! Get the fuck off!" My voice went high.
   "Good luck playing Sydney now," Kendra scoffs, "He's not a soprano, but it looks like that's what you'll be singing now."
   "Enough!!" Alexia yells, pushing us apart. "You're friends. Remember that!"
   "Well," Kendra snorts, "I can see how the little doll got Lucie. Little Miss Sunshine and Rainbows."
   "Hey!" Alexia pouts. She looks towards me, "you okay?"
   I nod. "Hope my future wife doesn't want kids.." I mumble.
   Alexia bites her lip, cheeks flushing a bit as she turns away. She looks to Kendra, "wait, if I'm the lead, what do I need to do?"
    Kendra gives a shrug, "sing a few solos. Kiss Jack Frost a few times." She points to Travis and his white hair.
   "Wait, what?" Mythera and I say at the same time.
   "But why's he the only one who gets to score?!" Isaac whines.
   "Lucie and Charles get married," Kendra explains. She glances at Isaac and back at the cast list, "if by some miracle you really do play Mr.Lorry, you'll need to kiss Ms.Pross. That's Renee Goodall."
   "Renee Goodale.." Isaac mumbles, "Nice." He smirks.
   "Classic playboy." Mythera rolls her eyes and glances towards Travis, "Reminds me of someone."
   Travis looks around, catching her eyes on him. "Wait me?" He blinks.
   I snort. "Who else?"
   "I wasn't asking you, dickhead." Travis rolls his eyes.
   "What? Now I have to be spoken to before speaking?" I shake my head, "Fuck off."
   "Not another word." Alexia groans, frowning.
   "Your fighting is annoying." Mythera states.
   Travis and I went silent. Kendra laughs, I think I heard her mumble something?
  "Awe fuck!" Alexia exclaims.
  "What?" I frown in concern.
  "Gene," she groans, "He's in the show too."
   "Why's that's such a big deal?" I ask.
  Alexia turns red and makes eye contact with Mythera, "it's... nothing."
   Yeah. Sure.
    Mythera frowns so it's clear she knows what's wrong. She glances at the cast list, "Gene's playing someone called Stryver."
    "What the hell kinda name is Stryver?" Travis snorts.
    "Stryver is Sydney's boss," Kendra explains, "he's constantly hitting on Lucie."
     "Perfect," Alexia huffs. I decide not to ask.
    "Who do you play, Myth?" Travis inquires.
    She peers over at the cast list, "madam Gasp... what?"
    Kendra gives an exasperated sigh, "Gaspard. Madam Gaspard. Honestly, don't you two read?"
   "Why don't you just explain it then, if you're so smart?" Travis replies.
   "Why don't I just teach you to read?" She retorts.
    "Can you just explain?" Alexia asks, giving a smile.
    "Oh, honey," Kendra smirks patronizingly, "do you even know how to get mad?"
    "I get mad," Alexia grumbled.
    "Sure you do." She rolls her eyes, "but fine. Madam Gaspard is Madam DeFarge's friend. After her son is hit by the Marquis's carriage and killed, Gaspard stabs him."
     "Ok," Mythera nods, "I get to stab someone."
    "Yeah," Kendra says, "I wish I got to."
    Alexia tilts her head, "that's not unsettling at all..."
    Kendra gives her a smirk before looking at the list, "apparently the guy you will be stabbing is someone call Kaden Pairsk."
    Our eyes move to Mythera who looks uncomfortable. Finally she nods, muttering, "at least I get to stab him..."
   As if on cue Kaden saunters over, "did someone say my name?"
   "So you're the Marquis, Blueberry," Kendra greets, "I've had you marked in my knitting since the beginning."
    Kaden looks as confused as I felt at that comment.
     "Oh come on!" Kendra whines, "someone has to get that!"
     "Sorry..." I mutter.
     "Ugh!" She groans, walking away, "seriously! Read a damn book!"
      We all watch Kendra leave before looking back at Kaden.  Travis moves a step closer to Mythera as if to defend her.
      "Long time no see, Mythera," Kaden grunts, "but at your size, you're pretty hard to miss."
     "Fuck off, Kaden," Alexia growls, taking Mythera's hand.
    "Jealous?" Kaden smirks, walking over to the cast list. He gives a laugh, "Not the lead this year, eh, Mythera?"
   "No," she mumbles, "Alexia is."
    "Couldn't fit in the dress this year?" Kaden chuckles.
    Mythera looks at the floor, "stop it, Kaden."
     "Just as well," he laughs, "we don't need a repeat of Romeo and The Cow."
     Mythera looks up and I could see tears streaming down her face. Comprehension dawns on me . No wonder she hasn't been eating.
     Not looking back at Kaden, Mythera ducks away, pushing passed Travis as a soft sob escapes her lips.
     "Gee," Kaden snorts, "I'm surprised she can run with all that extra weight."
    I see Travis stiffen, mad. He launches his fist into Kaden's jaw, sending Kaden flying into a locker. "You should've fucked off when you had to chance, you asshole." He snaps before running the way Mythera went.
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