A Locked Up Heart.

Chapter Nine - Drama.

Feelings, they are simple enough in concept right?

Wrong. Dead wrong.

"Please Sherlock!" I begged as he got up from the couch.

"No." He refused.

"When do I ever ask you to do anything?" I implored.

"Never. Because usually, you are a smart girl." He emphasized, walking into the kitchen.

"But if you don't audition with me, I can't do the scene I want to." I appealed.

"I don't want to be in the play." Sherlock stated firmly. Grabbing a sandwich from the fridge.

"Look Sherlock, I need you to do this for me." I begged, grabbing onto his shirt sleeve.

"Why?!" He roared. I jumped back.

"Because if you don't... then Richard will ask me!" I cringed.

"So?" Sherlock grimaced.

"It would be awkward." I confessed.

"Why?" He said round a mouthful of sandwich.

"Er..."

He scrutinized my face.

"He erm, tried to kiss me."

Sherlock's jaw fell open. He ceased to move, the sandwich halfway to the plate. For a while he sat still, statuesque.

I heard something dripping...I need to fix that bathroom faucet. I checked my watch. It had been five minutes.

"Sherlock?" No response. "Sherlock you are scaring me." Finally after what felt like an age Sherlock's eyes fixed on me. He abruptly shut his mouth. Rage transforming his face into somebody else entirely. He stared through me and started walking briskly to the door.

"Sherlock!" I said chasing after him. "Please don't do anything stupid!"

He forcefully opened the door and stormed down the hallway.

"Sherlock!" I hissed.

"Sherlock!" Oh come on! Damn his long legs.

I manage to catch up to him and grab his arm, he is however undeterred, and keeps plodding forward. Sherlock starts to walk down a few new corridors that I do not know. It takes a moment before I realize we are headed away from all the dorms, and yet another to realize where we are.

The drama room. How fitting.

Sherlock stomps his way to the bulletin with the sign up sheet on it. He stands there a minute staring at me. Then he turns and writes both our names on the sheet.

"Thank you Sherlock! You have no idea how important this is to me!"

"Yeah I do."He says irritably.