Anna's Twist On Dead Poets Society

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The next day, Neil burst into the common area laughing with joy. He ran over to Rose and hugged her. 

"Guess what?!" he exclaimed. 

"What?" smirked Charlie. "Cause the way you waltzed in here like you were a male ballet dancer wearing tights that showed a little too much... tells me this has to be good." 

Neil ignored the snarky comment, and continued on to say, " I got the part! I'm Puck!" 

" Congratulations! That's great!" said Rose. 

"Acting... damn, I never looked at you like that Perry" stated Meeks. 

" I'm too happy to care what you think!" laughed Neil. 

" Hey, you know we'll always support you," said Pitts. 

" Yeah I know" answered Neil.

"Well as long as we off school topics, I'm going to call Chris!" yelled Knox. 

" NO!" gasped Charlie. 

Knox responded, " If I don't see her I'm going to kill myself!" 

Everyone's eyes became wide, and everyone yelled "NO!" 

Rose walked up to him " Don't you ever say that!" 

" I was joking" 

"Don't" 

"Let's go, I wanna see this" exclaimed Charlie. 

" Alright, Alright," said Knox putting his hands up in defense. 

The group walked through the plain looking walls to the telephone. 

"Chris is gonna hate me, my family is going to hate me, I hate me!" exclaimed Knox, " Careim Deim, am I right" 

He dialed the number. " Hi, it's Knox... you are having a party...at the Danbury's.... you want to invite me?!... you were going to call me!... I'll be there...bye!" 

The hall filled with laughter and "Way to go's"

" You don't really think you're going with her?" asked Charlie.

"Well no, but that's not the point, that's not the point at all!" Knox exclaimed. 

Charlie smirked, "Then what is the point?"

Knox thought for a second then responded, " She's thinking about me!" 

All the boys laughed and cheered him on. Rose rolled her eyes, she knew that girls only said that when they pitied a guy. But she had to admit that Chris's boyfriend seemed like a jerk from what she gathered from her friends. She hoped that things would work out for the two of them like they did for her and Neil. 

As they were walking back, Neil pulled Rose to the side corridor. He gently placed her against the wall, his hands on her waist. He then began to kiss her, Rose smiled and did the same back.

Rose asked, " What was that for?"

"It was for me getting the part, us finding a way to protect you, and lastly because you're pretty." smiled Neil. 

Rose smiled, " Okay then," she said in a high voice. 

Unfortunately, this was not the last time Rose was pulled from the group before getting back to her room. As she was walking with Neil the Latin teacher approached her.

"Rose I need to speak to you about your next assignment," he said.

Neil played dumb and acted like everything was fine and excused himself. Noted, he hated doing this, he never wanted to put Rose in any sort of danger, but this was part of the plan. 

The teacher grabbed her arm and pushed her into his classroom. He threw her onto a desk and was about to do hit her when CRASH! The large frying pan fell on his head. He immediately fell to the ground. 

Rose laid there in complete shock. What the noodle soup just happened?!

The boys then came out Neil ran to Rose asking if she was okay. He helped her off the table. Rose looked down at the man, his head was cracked open. 

" Is he dead?" asked Rose in a small voice.

Meeks kneeled down in front of him and felt his pulse. "Yep, he's dead" 

"I wanted to teach him a lesson, not KILL him!" yelled Rose.

Neil grabbed Rose's shoulders and spun her around so she was facing him. " What he was going to do, is almost like a moral sin anyways...but OMG WE JUST KILLED A MAN.!"

"Where should we hide the body?" asked Charlie. 

" No! We aren't hiding the body! Here's what we're gonna do, I'll pretend I walked into the room to find him dead, now everyone go back to the common room!" exclaimed Pitts.

Rose was scared and scared for life. She buried her head in Neil's chest. 

"I'm gonna take her to her room, " said Neil, the boys all nodded. 

Rose shook with fear as she walked, "He's dead because of me."

"Rose he tried to... well you know!" defended Neil. 

Rose looked away, "I promise you everything is going to be alright." said Neil, wrapping his arms around her. Rose took his embrace and fell asleep in his arms. Neil looked down at the head of golden hair on his chest and squeezed her tighter. He just hoped what he said was true.