Hope

Rehearsals

Stood in front of the hall doors, I blew out a big breath of air, before pushing the tatted old wooden doors open. The hall was empty. Thank god he wasn't here yet. Flinging my bag to one side of the hall, I fell to the ground and sat looking at my phone.

About 2 seconds later, the opposite doors flung open, and Noah walked in, a big grin on his face, his blue glasses slightly crooked, his stick arms holding onto both straps of his backpack. The usual nerd.

"Hey, lil' red" he said, sitting in front of me. Angered by the fact that he called me by a fucking nickname, I spat "my name isn't lil' red! It's Alex you twat" Noah's eyes widened, he looked quite taken aback by my remark. Holding his hands up in surrender, he stated "whoa okay, okay, just saying cuz your hair is red". I glared at him. "So, you ready to get started?" I raised an eyebrow, "ye, I'm Syked!" He smiled, "well then let's get to work!"
"Yay!!!" I said sarcastically, while grudgily standing up. "Um, there's a scene where we have to kiss.... is that alright for you?" He said awkwardly. I answered with a stare. No fucking way. "Okay then...let's just focus on other scenes first then we can get to that later" I sighed. I can't wait until this hour of torture is over. "Okay, first scene... where we meet at a ball held by the capulets. So.. what do you think we should do for this scene?" I sniggered "how about.. sit around and do nothing!?" Noah laughed at this comment. "Why do you keep laughing at like every fucking thing I say?" I asked, confused. I'm not funny, I'm terrifying. "Because you're funny Alex, you've got a good sense of sarcastic humour, I like it." He smiled. Ugh. At times like this I want to throw up.

"Okay, so let's have the white stairs prop from the equipment cupboard and we can have you, Juliet up on the top of the stairs, looking down at everyone in the ball, then I could be stood down here, and our eyes meet..." I cut him off before he could say anything further to make me wanna puke even more. "Woah woah woah woah, there is no fucking way I'm doing any of that." I stood, crossed arms. He copied my stance "well you're gonna have to do it unless you want to fail you're drama class." He stated, giving me a big smart arse grin.

"Fine."