Amber Liu (o.s & s.s)

drama class

Murmurs of everyone filled the room, while the only thing that I was worried about was the fact that I had only slept three hours the previous night.

The door flung open and our overexcited drama teacher, Mrs. Thomas, came in.

"Good morning class!" She chirped, getting groans in response. "Today, we're going to practice improv acting skills. This will be done while using the alphabet." The class looked more unamused than before. "So, do I have any volunteers?" She asked, scanning the room just to see no hands being raised. "Alright, Amber! Thank you for volunteering!" She said, smiling widely. The girl sighed and walked to the small stage slowly, tiredness traced in her steps. "And... You!" She said, pointing in my direction. I immediately regretted coming to school that day. Hesitating, I made my way to the stage, standing beside a girl that was actually kind of attractive. I felt intimidated immediately.

"Alright! I'll start for you, and you two will continue the scene yourselves," Mrs. Thomas said, clapping her hands together, "Antarctica!"

"Brr" I simply said, rubbing my arms for warmth. "Cold, it's cold!" She said back.

"Drenched! I'm drenched in-"
"Everyone find a shelter."
"Frostbite, frostbite on my foot!"
"Glaciers, there's a glacier over there!"
"Hypothermia, I'm going to get hypothermia!"
"Igloos! Let's take shelter in one of those igloos!"
"Just start a fire!"
"Karaoke? Want to sing karaoke?"
"Lame, we need warmth!"
"More warmth!"
"No, fire! We need a fire!"
"On top of that mountain, there's a tree, meaning there's firewood!"
"Piles, we need piles of it!"
"Quarter, we just need a quarter of the tree!"
"Ridiculous! It's too cold, we need it all!"
"Selfish."
"Trees mean warmth, the more the merrier."
"Under there, the door to the igloo!"
"Various, there's a few other igloos too."
"Where?"
"X marks the spot, there's something buried here."
"You're not very helpful."
"Zippy, the air is very zippy."
"And there's still no shelter."
"Buried, the entrance is buried under the snow!"
"Cold, Cold, Cold!"
"Do you want to dig out the way?"
"Enough? Is this enough?"
"Frostbite, the frostbite is getting worse!"
"Get inside!"
"Help, my legs are numb!"
"I can't possibly carry you, my frostbite is spreading!"

"And scene," Mrs. Thomas said, ending the pathetic game we just played. "I have to say, I've seen better, but I've definitely seen worse. Well done you two." She said, clapping, signaling the rest of the class to clap along with her.

The ending bell filled our ears and everyone let out of sigh of relief.

"Remember, the cast for the show next month will be posted this Friday." Mrs. Thomas said before everyone left the room. Amber and I were the last to leave, since we gathered our things later than everyone else.

I walked out of the door, but was stopped shortly after.

"Can I talk to you?" A girl said from behind me, and I realized it was Amber when turning around to meet her. "What's up?" I asked, curious to what she would want to talk about. "I know that you don't know me very well," She said, scratching the back of her neck, "But want to hang out sometime?" I smiled, her nervousness was actually kind of cute. Although, I wasn't out to many people, so this was explainable. Instead of saying anything, I ripped a piece of my notebook paper out of my binder and scribbled my number on it.

"Text me," I said, putting everything back together, "I'm sure we can figure something out."

And with that, I walked off from the wide smiling girl.

hah this was bad idc fight me
and if you can't tell
I didn't take drama for a reason hahah

but ily

important announcement though!!!!
I started yet another story, about Amber ofc, that you all should check out. It's called 'Hiraeth' and it's on my story list on my profile. I'll update there way more often than I will here, most likely anyways.

but you're cute boo and a queen
if you think otherwise
ever
your mother (me)
will fight you

-sav xx