Trying Again

Chapter Forty-Six

SR:

His hands easily holds my waist while my hands hung on his shoulders as our lips moved in sync. I'm pretty sure we drew in a crowd, I mean, who wouldn't stop to watch? Two people dressed in olden days' type of clothes, kissing backstage in a make up room, but I honestly don't care, the world means nothing to me now. Its only me and him. Only us.

We broke apart and he gave me a small smile which could be mistaken as a sad smile, and walked away.

What?

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"5 minutes people!!", yelled the stage manager. Not thinking about what just happened, I quickly pulled my hair into a bun. With one last look at myself in the mirror.

This is it, I said in my head.

"Please give a round of applause to Group 3!! Celina! Bryan! Jane!...", the stage manager introduced us all as one by one we make our way to the stage as practiced before. I know I'm dead when I can see alot of the audiences not really paying attention. They are bored already.

I started to panic, because as a performer, you have to command the attention. Not expect it to come to you. But I know for a fact, that they all watched it too many times to get excited about anything.

We stood there awkwardly as there are a few applause here and there, but its not loud enough, but a few seconds later, I hear one 'Woooo!!!' from a far. Then another one. I squint my eyes to see who is it, and was happy to find that it was Grace and Amy. Then Kyle and Mike started clapping and as if it was a chain reaction, everyone in the auditorium started clapping too. I couldn't stop smiling. I have great friends.

The lights dimmed and we ran backstage again. I feel hyped out. Hopefully what Kyle and Mike did made people realise that we are a group worth watching.

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I'm backstage once again. We're down to the last scenes. Everything went so well, everyone was just perfect and what's better? The audience loved us. You see, our teacher allowed us to change our dialogs. So thanks to the random Jane, 2 other guys and me, we made sure we put jokes into our act. Just to give it a little twist.

This chapter is where me (Rose) is sitting at a park bench, thinking back at the 'Daniel and Rose' moments. It starts from where we met, at the exact place I'm at now. So the lights are dimmed, I'm literally dragged into the changing room and got into the younger Rose look while the young Daniel is at the stage, reciting some poem.

As fast as I was dragged into the changing room, I was pushed out to the stage once again. I started walking out while having a sketchbook held out, a pencil randomly 'drawing' something on the book and randomly looking up as if I'm sketching the park.

I looked up once again and I see Daniel from a far, smiling at me. I made as if I'm a shy girl by looking at him for a while and quickly looking back down to my sketchpad while making it obvious to the audience that I was smiling to myself. Then this guy on a bicycle pushes my hand, making my sketchpad fly all the way to Daniel's feet. He picks it up, looks at it and smiles. I tilt my head to the left to show the audience that I have no idea what is he thinking.

I slowly walk to him to get my sketchpad back. I'm just inches away from him when the unexpected happened. SPLASH!!!!!!!!!!!

Water was spilled on me from somewhere above me. My mouth fell agape as I look up and saw that there stood this girl I've never seen before on one of the rooms directly above the stage hands holding two now empty pails and a smirk on that face of hers. I looked at Daniel, who was looking at the same direction as I was, but a smile on his lips.