Feelings | Oliver Schermerhorn

[4] Romeo & Juliet in Space

"Don't you dare fucking touch me!" I punch someone's arm as they tried grabbing me.

"Fucking hell!"

While the freshman were getting sat on and getting make-up on them, me, Natalie, and Ethan were kicking and punching anyone who got close to us.

Sure, we would help the freshman's and Kate, but we already tried. It kinda hard when you got other people trying to draw on you.

Oliver justs smokes as he watches us struggle.

I end up punching a guy in the nose. "I said don't touch me with your dirty hands!" The guy stumbles back and laughs. "Oh, you're getting it now."

He grabs my wrist so I wouldn't punch him but I step on his foot, hard.

He yelps and grabs his foot.

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Me, Ethan, and Natalie were fine but the freshman's had makeup and drawings on their face.

We stand by them as the turn on the lights and laugh.

"You all look so beautiful!" Emaline says and I snort. "Couldn't say the same about you." That's a lie though, I think she's okay. If her attitude was good maybe I would think better of her.

"Oh, you bitch!"

"What is wrong with you people?" Kate also didn't have anything on her face. "At least listen to what he has to say. He's a director, you know." Luke runs to get the alcohol.

They all laugh.

Luke places the drinks at the front of the stage. Ethan quickly grabs two drinks. One for me and one for himself.

Natalie isn't too big on drinking because she's a lightweight.

I open the bottle and take a swing.

"Zima." I hear Oliver say. "All right. Nice."

I sit down on the edge of the stage and continue drinking.

"So, I was thinking. Well... we were thinking-" Luke starts off but I cut him off.

"Um, I'm not really part of this?" I say but he ignores me.

"We all were thinking, maybe all of the unfortunate things that have happened recently are actually good things." I roll my eyes.

"No offense, but why spend all this time rehearsing a play that people can only watch once? Are you that excited to play parts that thousands of actors have already played?"

I take another swing and Natalie joins me.

"Also, uncle Vanya kinda sucks," Luke says.

"No, it doesn't kinda suck, it does suck," I say and one of the kids quickly stands up. "I'm killing them myself."

"Chill," Oliver says.

"I propose... I propose that A/V club and drama club,... and whatever they are in, join forces."

"Hating ourselves club," I say.

"We make a movie that you guys star in. We can screen it for the whole town."

"Yeah right," Jessica says. "You guys saw the music video he made? It was embarrassing."

"The only embarrassing thing is your face," I say defending Luke

Luke hushes me. Rude.

"Well, that's because the three of us were terrible actors. Now if we had real actors, we could make something cool. I mean something unique. Something this town has never seen before."