Everybody's practicing their breaststroke while Cattleya had been spacing out on the side of the pool.
"Lea!" someone splashed water on her face.
"Meg!" she shouted at her classmate and co-club member, who was swimming towards her, "Why did you do that?" she added, but there's no hint of irritation or annoyance.
"To bring you back to earth silly, your mind's elsewhere. Something wrong?" Meg asked as she took off her goggles.
"No, I didn't get enough sleep last night. I was practicing my lines for the play,"
"Right, the play. About that, Professor Cielo told our class that we would join you tomorrow for our final project."
Megan was also enrolled in Professor Cielo's literature class, but in the other section.
"Yeah, she also told us about it. Are you planning on auditioning for the play?" Cattleya asked Megan.
"Yes, I think I might try to audition for Juliet."
"You'd be perfect for it. I think you'd be a perfect Thisbe too. Too bad you were sick during auditions," she told her.
"Nah, not really. I mean, this must be God's doing, right? I wasn't able to audition for our club, and here's our final project, a play. I wonder who'll be auditioning for Romeo? My class doesn't have a lot of boys."
"Ours too. Maybe Professor Cielo will be planning gender-bender roles?" they both laughed.
"If that happens, I think Rian would be the perfect Juliet," Megan said while laughing.
Cattleya didn't join her. "You know, Rian?" she asked. She didn't use Antonio so that she would avoid questions.
"Yes. We went to the same high school. He was my upperclassman. He's devilishly handsome, isn't he?"
"Not so much," Cattleya said, trying to hide her smile.
Swimming class ended, Cattleya was walking to her dorm when someone covered her eyes.
"Guess who?" said a high-pitch voice, which was intentional so Cattleya wouldn't be able to know who it is.
"I know it's you, Dylan," she said as she touched his hands, covering her eyes.
Dylan removed his hands, and Cattleya turned around.
"How did you know it was me?" he asked.
"Well, your voice. It doesn't really help even if you tried to high-pitch it," she laughed, "I appreciate the effort, though."
The two of them walked to their dorms.
~*~
The next day, Cattleya found many students in their classroom.
Oh right. The auditions.
Cattleya maneuvered her way to her seat, but someone's already sitting on it. It was Megan talking to Antonio.
"Lea!"
"Hi Meg." she greeted back and only smiled at Antonio.
"Sorry I sat on your seat, Rian told me it was yours and Liv. Here I can move. "
"N-o. Just stay there I'll sit elsewhere."
Cattleya then felt her phone vibrated and took it out. It was from Liv.
Fleur, I won't be in class today. I have to do something for my major project. I already told Callie, so it's okay. I just texted you so you would know.
