Louis woke up really motivated. That's something that usually never happens. Today will be the tryouts for the musical and he's never been so sure to revive a role than this year.
He dressed in a beige loose fitting jeans with a light blue oversized sweater.
He heard Leigh-Anne quietly singing in the kitchen so he made his way downstairs and saw her swaying to music in the kitchen with a mug of tea in her hands. "Tea?" She asked when she saw him approaching her. Louis hummed as a response still nervous about the tryouts today.
"What's up?" Leigh-Anne asked. Her and Louis never were as close as Jade and him but he still felt like he could talk to her at any point. "Just nervous about the tryouts." He mumbled in response. "You and nervous about tryouts? What happened to Mr. I-get-all-the-lead-roles-Tomlinson?" Leigh-Anne teased. That was every year where no cute dancer would dance beside the lead role and it wasn't important to me. He wanted to say.
"Well this year is different." He tried to answer while slurping his tea. "Mhh, special someone?" She asked, but it wasn't teasing anymore. She asked rather softly as his mother would ask him. He groaned and burried his face into his arms that were laying folded on the table. She snickered and said "Well well well who's lover-boy?" There was her teasing again.
"He's a ballet dancer in Mrs. Flack's class and he's honestly just gorgeous." He told her honestly. "Ohhh you're so gone, Lou." He just sighted and finished his tea. "Need to get ready for uni, see you later!" He called out and scurried inside his room.
Downstairs, he grabbed his bike and made his way to uni. He listened to Metallica while still going through some lines he learned the last 4 days. He's got this. Hell he doesn't even know if someone else wants to try for the devil this year. Maybe he'll be the only one and without a competition he'll get to perform beside the curly headed beauty.
After he arrived at the bike parking spot in front of the uni he scurried into school. Tryouts are in third period and the first two he's got statistics and literature.
The hours seemed to go by so slowly and blurry Louis is sure he didn't remember anything from first to second period.
Awesome he'll just need to get the notes from someone and study everything again.
Finally the bell signaled it was time for third period. He ran down the crowded hallways into the large room where the tryouts are happening. Mrs. Scout greeted him happily. "Good Morning Louis! How's it going?" Beaming at her he answered "Really good, I'm really excited for today!!" She just laughed and hummed in agreement.
Slowly other student made their way into the room, quiet chatter filled the hall. "Good Morning class! Today we'll decide who will take over which role. I was pleased to see so many people wanting to participate. So for the devil Louis wants to tryout and we've also got Nick who wants to try." Great, Nick can't act for shit. He actually likes Grimmy, he and his boyfriend used to hang out with him during lunch.
"Hey Tomlinson, I'm sure you want to have the lead role and I only do this for a bet so no need to be scared." Nick whispered next to me. Still he was scared. What if Nick is really better than him?
He got called to the front and started performing. He was so deep into my character, he didn't notice the dance class that was now also listening. Near the end of his performance Louis finally caught someone's eye - the eyes that have haunted him since he first saw them - with their usual pretty eyeliner and mascara. Harry was smiling so big and listening intensely Louis nearly forgot to continue but luckily no one noticed.
After finishing his performance Mrs. Scout clapped loudly and told Louis that he could climb down the stairs. Nick walked up next and started with his performance. He was better than Louis thought he would be, even if he stumbled over some sentences. By the end Louis clapped loudly for him and whistled a bit. Harry met his eyes and looked at him to which Louis shut up. He thought Harry looked confused, hurt? jealous even? He wasn't sure. So he send Harry a reassuring smile and a little wave. To which Harry blushed and put his head back down to hide his smile.
"Great, next we'll hear who wants to tryout for the new angel. This is really complicated I know, we've never had a share role and I'm kinda sad that only Perrie wants to try it." Perrie blushed and looked down. Louis and her used to be friends well when her and Zayn were still dating just when her and Zayn ended things he felt like it wasn't a loyal thing to do to Zayn.
"Perrie, you don't need to performance today then, you'll just get to share the role with Harry over there. That will work perfectly fine." Mrs. Scout gave her a reassuring smile. "Next we'll listen to everyone that wanted to try for Peter." Peter would play his best friend in the musical who'll betray him in killing him.
Four people stood up. Louis could see Calum, a friend of Ashton, then Stanley someone he used to be friends with in like elementary school but they kinda went into different directions in high school, there was Luke, or something like that, who's in his statistic class and lastly Michael Clifford, who's friends with Luke.
Louis zoned out during their performances he was so tired.
Mrs. Scout clapped in her hands. "Perfect, you can see by Monday who'll have which role for now I want to practice to put our song and the dance part together. Everyone on their place please" She announced.
Everyone quickly scurried off and stood in their place as practiced. The dancers stood in rows at the very side of the stage and the singers stood in the background so the dancers could dance in front of them. Mrs. Scout sat down on the piano and started playing the start line of the song.
Louis' group started singing just as the dancers of Harry were starting to dance. Everything seemed to go well till someone pushed Perrie who flew forward and bumped into one of the dancers who fell down the stage. Everyone gasped and Perrie, being as emotional as Louis remember her lately, started crying and rambling out many sorrys which Mrs. Flack waved off. "Who pushed Miss Edwards?" She asked sternly while looking through the rows of people.
Stan and his group of goddamn friends started laughing "Maybe she just can't stand still. Always been really clumsy." Stan said. Louis didn't know when Stan became the way he is now but he's so annoying. "I don't think Miss Edward would just stumble without someone pushing her." Mrs. Scout continued while Mrs. Flack called the mother of the girl that fell.
"I think that should be it for today. Stan and Oli please stay behind you won't be practicing with us from now on. The others can just go into the cafeteria and wait for their next class. We'll start new on Monday and I hope that'll turn out better. Have a lovely Friday tomorrow and a lovely weekend." Mrs. Scout announced.
Everyone groaned but made their way inside the cafeteria. Louis sat down on a table and soon after Gigi joined him. "Hi Lou." She greeted him while sipping from her apple juice. "Hi G, how's it going?" He answered. "Really good, I love the new dancers they're all so kind and cute. That Harry kid is so talented we practiced our fight, you know I need to kill him and everything and that part is really hard don't think I know someone else who could dance it, well besides me of course." She said while winking at the last part.
Louis just laughed loudly. Gigi's always been so confident in dancing and he admired that about her. "Have you ever talked to Harry? I mean he seems pretty interesting but I've only ever seen him walk around with that one blonde boy is that his boyfriend or something?" Louis asked trying to sound casually.
Gigi crackled. "I see, Tomlinson. You're interested in that lovely dancer boy with the curly hair. And no that blonde bloke isn't his boyfriend I don't know his name but I've seen him make out with my friend Amelia, you know the brunette one from our yoga class last year." Louis blushed a bit and tried to hide his smile that that blonde bloke wasn't his boyfriend while biting on his lower lip.
Gigi and Louis shared a yoga class last year, sounds weird yoga class, but his uni always had weird classes to begin with. They claimed that everyone should calm down between their lectures. Gigi wasn't dating Zayn that time so they weren't friends back then but they still got along really well.
Louis let his gaze roam through the big cafeteria till his eyes found what he was looking for. Harry sat there on a table with Perrie. He didn't know they were friends and from how less they talked he guessed they both were just sitting alone. Harry looked so lovely today in that big lilac sweater that he nearly drowned in.
Gigi cleared her throat "Enough daydreaming about fucking my favorite dancer, Tomlinson." Louis began coughing and nearly spilled all of his apple juice on the table. He kicked her leg under the table as she began crackling loudly. Louis found Harry looking at him from the other side of the room due to being this loud and he awkwardly waved at him.
The bell signaled the end of the hour and everyone shuffled out of the big room. "Hey Lou, I'm meeting Zayn now so we can drive together like two blocks, you're with bike right?" Gigi said while exiting their uni. "Sure thing." They took their bikes and drove off.