Getting Chances (Chandler Riggs Fanfic)

Chapter 32

Payson's POV

Rachel looked at me like I actually scared her. She'swalking over, oh shit.

"Hey Payson! Oh Melisa, I can take it from here." Rachel stated, a little too nicely.

Melisa gave me a look that said "are you going to be ok?" I gave a small nod in return.

Rachel kept a smile on her face the whole time, she led me to a corner of the room and stopped.

"What're you-" She stops my sentence by holding her hand up.

"Payson... I'm sorry." Rachel said and sighed.

What?

"What I did at the movies, when I kissed him... It was wrong. It was so wrong and I hate myself for it! I knew you were together but I was just so jealous and I- well you know. It could've broken you guys up and I feel awful. I see now that he's happy with you... And I mean he's really happy. I won't do anything to get in between your relationship again, I promise. Im still just really sorry!" She says with a look of shame across her face, as if she doesn't think I'll forgive her.

Should I?

I mean, she did almost break us up...

"It's okay. Thank you so much for apologizing, I know it's embarrassing to apologize to someone like this." I laugh and she laughs too. Did I just laugh with Rachel?

"Yeah, it is! I could've sworn for a second I thought you were going to shoot me down and then it'd have been reeeeally embarrassing." We both laugh again.

"Thank you, for forgiving me, it means a lot to me." She gives me a sincere smile, and I nod at her.

"Come on, I think we are starting. I'll introduce you to some people, yeah?" She smiles at me and I nod.

We do a few warm up exercises and then some improv work. At first it was me and Melisa pretending to be an elderly woman and a concerned citizen, then it turned out I was her granddaughter all along and we both had memory loss.

The class got a good laugh out of that. Then Rachel wanted to do one with me, so I decided to give her a chance.

"Okay, Payson and Rachel... Let me see..." The instructor said searching her clip board, searching for a topic.

"Aahh! Okay. Payson, Rachel is your best friend and she just spilled your biggest secret. Aaanndd go!" She said, letting the scene take a mind of its own.

"I'm sorry Kayla! I didn't mean to say it, it just slipped!" She started, giving me a fake name to go along with the scene.

"It just so happened to slip that I-" I stopped and rolled my eyes and grunted. "It's my birthday Gabbie! And you're supposed to be my best friend and you just tell everyone that? No! I don't think I can ever trust you again!" I say, getting really into the scene, both of us start to tear up.

"I don't know how to fix this Kay! I don't know what you want me to do! I can't take it back now that it's already happened! Now you just want to drop me?! What would Michael have told you to do huh?!" Her voice cracks so realistically as she starts yelling. Damn, this girl is good.

"What would Michael do?! Are you really going to bring my dead brother into this?! That's low, and you know it!" I tell right back.

"You seem to be forgetting what happened that night! How he died?! You seen to be forgetting that you're the one that was playin with the fire that-" I cut Rachel's amazing dialogue off.

"Don't! Just don't go there! I know-" I start to cry. "I know what happened that night." I say, and drop to my knees, still in character as 'Kayla'. Rachel rushes over to my side. "Kay? Kay I'm sorry! I should've never have brought him into this. I'm so sorry, please, I'm sorry." She says, hugging me, us both now crying, still in character as "Gabbie and Kayla".

"And scene!" I hear the instructor call, and a loud boom of clapping filled the room by the people around us. Me and Rachel both laugh at each other as we wipe our fake tears away.

"Ladies, that was amazing, I mean absolutely fenominal." The instructor called to us as we sat down, Melisa to my left and Rachel to my right. I'm starting to think that maybe, just maybe, me and Rachel could be friends?

"You did great!" Rachel says in my ear, as we watch the next act go up.

"You did too! I was totally engulfed in the scene, I forgot it wasn't real for a second!" I whisper back to her.

"Me too!" She laughs.

And we turn back to watch the rest of the scene by the other people in the group.

"Do you want to go shopping after this? I need some new outfits for an upcoming photo shoot I want to book, and I thought maybe you'd wanna come with?" She asks.

Should i? Come on Pay, give her a chance!

"Yeah, that'd be fun!" I say.

((Friendly reminder that there are only 3 chapters left!!! Well actually, only two but the very last one is an epilogue! The next two chapters get intense))