Guys and Dolls

Whiny Slag {chap. 2, Charlotte}

The week leading up to the auditions were painful and nerve-wracking.

Anita was so hell-bent on me winning the role of Sarah that she forced me,  to practice my speaking part at least four times at lunch, and the singing part twice.

“Don’t worry,” I finished my line for the scene when Sky asks Sarah to dinner, and began to sing the first line of I’ll Know. “I’ll know, when my love comes along…”

“Okay, okay, that’s good, I don’t need the singing,” Anita waved me away. “But don’t you dare abuse your voice. We have four more days until the auditions.”

I nodded and took a bite of my sandwich. Anita had forced me to practice my audition part before I got to eat my lunch. Jake slid into the seat next to Anita. “I heard a thing.”

“What was the thing?” I asked.

“The thing is about her,” Jake pointed at Anita, an evil smile on his face.

“What?” Anita asked, and then a look of realization dawned upon her face. “Oh. Oh, shit. You heard the thing?” Anita asked Jake, a look of fear on her face (and trust me, Anita looking scared is rare).

 “What thing? I want to know the thing!” I banged my hand on the table to emphasize my point.

Jake turned to me, the smirk still on his face. “Anita and Samir had another fight.”

“No,” I gasped. “No, no, no! No way!” I squealed in a very un-me way. “What was it about?”

Anita groaned. “You had to bring up the thing?”

Samir was a rather hot guy in Anita’s AP English and AP European History class. He was also in our AP Physics and Honors Math, as Anita and I shared those classes.

Anita and Samir had huge, heated fights that were rather fun to watch. They were about anything and everything really; books, homework, the weather, social lives, music, you name it. They had once argued about a trash can (long story, hard to explain).

I don’t think they realized how passionate they were about each other; when they argued, it was quick and had a kind of teasing lilt to it. Their fights were the kind that the perfect couple would have.

In other words, Anita and Samir were my OTP (OTP= One True Pairing. The couple that you favor the most, or ship the most. Shipping means to support a couple, for example, if you thought Brangelina [Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie] are a cute couple and were good together, then you probably ship them).

Anita and Samir’s fights started in Science. Every week we had a STEM challenge; we had to build something specific with the given materials. They were things like cup holders, but Anita and Samir took competitive to another level. They fought on just about everything after that.

Our Science teacher, Mr. Brown, was the coolest teacher in the school. He was only twenty-something, so he understood teenagers. He was actually on board with the Samir and Anita thing. He teased them as well, and enjoyed partnering them up for multiple projects.

“Ugh, it’s nothing,” Anita groaned.

Everybody had an inkling that Samir liked Anita, though they both denied it. Anita, on the other hand…

Well Anita wouldn’t tell us even if she truly did like him. She was a mysterious young grasshopper indeed.

“It wasn’t ‘nothing’!” Jake almost yelled. “You called his girlfriend a whiny slag!”

“You called his girlfriend a slag?!” Delilah, my older sister by a year sat down. Delilah hung out with my friends all the time. Even though she was an annoying sibling sometimes, most of the time, she was a great sister and friend. “Wait what are we talking about?”