Chasing Secrets

5

Harley and I sat together at lunch with Pietro and his group of friends, while trying to talk to Harley it was quite hard to hear her with all the loud ruckus of the group, there are so many people I don't even know half their names, also it was a bad idea to sit in front of each other rather than next to each other

"So, how was last night?" She asked loudly

"It was okay, didn't find anything" I yelled back

"No proof that she's an alien?" the whole group went quiet

"Who's an alien?" Vanessa from the group asked, I think that's her name

"I saw Lilia in my dream with her brother and they were aliens, that's all!" I say before Harley answers her

"Would make sense if she really was an alien, I mean she's a weirdo" Vanessa adds

"No she's not, stop assuming things if you don't actually know this person" I suddenly get all defensive, even I didn't know where that was coming from

"Gosh, okay relax"

I huff and ignore what she said, then I get up from the table and see Juniper sitting by herself so I make my way to her

"Hey, this seat taken?" I sit down before she says anything

"Not anymore I guess" she chuckles

"Good, those people over there are so annoying I can't bother being around them"

"Isn't one of them your boyfriend and the other your best friend?"

"Yeah, they're deadass the only people I know"

Juniper and I laugh

"So, are you going to audition for West Side Story" she changes the subject

"West what now?"

"West Side Story! It's a modern day Romeo and Juliet, and by modern I mean the 60's, it's a musical where two street gangs battle for the control of the turf..up until it gets complicated and two members from both gangs fall for each other"

"Yawn, I think I'll pass!"

"Oh come on! It'll be fun I promise, well only if you audition for Maria the lead role, you'd be perfect for her!"

"Do I even look like her?"

"N-no but still you'd be perfect and you have an angelic voice"

"But I can't even-"

"Stop stalling and please just try it out. If it's not for you then I totally understand, but please, give it a shot, for me. I'll audition too, except I'll be Anita, her best friend"

"Okay fine, you win. But if I don't get picked I'm leaving and never doing such things again, got it?"

"Got it!" she flips her palms up at me

"Do I need to know any of their songs so I can sing them in the audition?"

"No, you'll just sing from the script in your hand, and you can improv which might I say you're marvelous at!"

I smile at her while thinking to myself, this may not be a bad idea after all.

At the audition, I started to get more anxious

"Lils, this isn't for me I-I'm scared" I tell Juniper

"Mr. Lockwood, Luna James would like to go first"

"What!" I yell in utter shock

"Good, let's get the auditions running, everyone off the stage, except for you Miss James, come on up front and center" Mr. Lockwood says