lost in another world

Different Drama

"What's our next class?" I ask my best friend. "Acting class." I nod and together we walk to the gate of our school. Our teacher asked us to meet us there. Half of the class is already there. "Heeyyy" I greet everyone excitedly. We're a close group, the class doesn't have many students. Everyone greets me excitedly back. After a minute or so, the teacher arrives. She greets us excitedly, she is as much part of the group as everyone else. "This isn't everyone, where is the rest of you?" she asks, noting who isn't there. "Still in their former classes, they'll be here soon," Floor answers. Esmee, our teacher, nods and thinks. "Let's go to the clumps over there, the weather is good." We all look at each other and nod in agreement. "Can someone put in the chat that we're heading to the clumps. Hah, with the class to the clumps. Funny." We all giggle at her remark. Maurits notifies the rest of the group where we're heading and we all walk over to the little piece of forest close to our school.
With Brooke, Lynn and Ruby, I walk towards a little hill in the forest. We got instructed to make a little performance with our surroundings. We have to use the forest. "Maybe we can do something with hide and seek," Lynn suggests. "Or someone goes missing," Ruby supplements. "And later on their body was found," I giggle. "Someone goes missing during hide and seek while she just stands behind a thin tree," Brooke jokes. We arrived at the top of the small hill. "So," Lynn starts, "what are we gonna do." "Someone goes missing while playing hide and seek or someone just goes missing, I don't know," Ruby says quizzically. "Esmee is coming our way, act like we have a plan," Brooke says panicking. "But we do have a plan," Ruby says. "Well, not really," Brooke says again. "Hey there girls. So, what did you guys have in mind?" "Someone goes missing," Ruby says, answering Esmee. "But can you do that while focusing on each other?" I start to form an idea. "I want you guys to make the situation between y'all clear. The emotions," Esmee continues. "Maybe we could do something with a plane crash?" Lynn suggests. "But how can you do that while interacting?" Esmee asks her. I got an idea. "I think we still can do something with the missing part," I start, "we can act like someone went missing, but more focus on how everyone feels about it. Maybe someone is angry at another for not paying attention, someone else could be sad or scared." Esmee nods. "Yea, that's a good one," Brooke smiles in agreement. "Yes, indeed. So like that you can make the situation between y'all interesting. The situation doesn't really matter, the tension between the people is what makes it interesting." Esmee smiles and with that she leaves us to head towards another group. "What was your idea again, I didn't quite hear you," Ruby asks me. "That someone is missing and that someone is angry about it and someone is sad," Brooke answers for me. "Yea, scared is also an option," I add. "I can be the sad person," Brooke says as she walks down the hill a little. "I'd like to be the angry person," Lynn says. I stare into the air. What is a good emotion with a missing person. "I'll be stressed." The others nod. "I'll be the scared person," Ruby says. "Let's walk up the hill as starter," Brooke suggests. We all nod and start to improvise.
"I like it." We all nod in agreement with Lynn. "Maybe you can walk out of the picture in the end and then suddenly scream?" she suggests me. I nod in agreement. "That's a good one." We all practice a few more times.
"One minute!" We hear Esmee exclaim. We finish our last practice and then get ready to head towards Esmee, but she was already on her way to us. She wants us to go first. I guess my screams made everyone curious.
"Do you want us to stand over here?" Esmee asks me. I nod: "yea, that's fine!" The groups stands a little under the hill and we walk to the other side under the hill. "You ready? Action!"Brooke starts sobbing, I start looking around as a paranoid freak, Lynn storms her way up the hill and Ruby looks around scared. While I search behind trees and underneath leaves on the hill, the girls do their part. "Why are you crying? Maybe if you paid better attention, she wouldn't be missing!" Lynn shouts. Brooke starts to cry louder, but I don't pay attention to it. I keep looking and literally have my hands in my hair. I start to descend the small hill, but I was a little to early, so after searching the ground where I was supposed to scream, I continue to look on the other side. "Guys, maybe we shouldn't do this. Maybe the murderer is still out there," Ruby says scared. "But I wanna see my parents again!" Brooke sobs loudly. I hear my best friend giggle. Then it's my turn. I pretend to trip over a hand and scream, while backing away. But while taking a few steps back, I actually trip and fall on my butt. Confused. I look at the obstacle. I get in shock. I freeze. I don't know what to do. I tripped over an actual hand. Along with an actual arm. I feel like I sat there staring at it forever. "Phoebs, come on, we're done! Esmee wants to talk it over," Brooke shouts to me. But I barely hear her. I feel like I'm screaming but there isn't any sound coming out of me. I'm paralyzed. "Phe, you ok?" Olivia, my best friend, asks me. I vaguely see her head towards me. I want to answer her, but I can't. Then I come to my senses and realize that I'm not scared of a dead body, just shocked how I found it. I quickly stand up. "A dead body. A real one" I say to Olivia who almost reached me. "Very funny," she says, but as she has come close enough, she sees it too. When I tripped over it, the covering leaves had moved. It is silent for a moment. "Fuck" she then mumbles. She too, looks paralyzed. "I'm calling 911," I say. "Esmee, there is a real dead body over here." The group was already staring confused at us, but when I say that, different emotions come free. Esmee walks over to us to inspect the body a little, while keeping everyone at distance. Some get curious, some are scared and some are shocked. I am calling 911.