Drama Girls by Mia Archer

Author:Mia Archer [Archer, Mia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-07-11T22:00:00+00:00

19

Sarah

Someone cleared her throat behind me. I turned around fully expecting to see Chloe standing there giving me her not-quite-as-shy-as-it-once-was look, but I was surprised to instead see Courtney standing there.

Well, it would be more accurate to say that Courtney was standing there with Mike next to her. She didn’t look happy about something either.

Not that I was surprised that she didn’t look happy about something. She’d been walking around the place like an angry cat for the past couple of weeks. She still hadn’t gotten over the fact that she was playing a supporting part rather than getting the starring role of Violet which she thought she deserved as a big bad senior.

Those were the breaks though.

I was surprised to see her there though. She could get into snits. There were long stretches in our friendship where we hadn’t spoken, and ever since she realized she wasn’t going to be a lead in this play we’d been in the middle of one of those stretches.

“What’s up Courtney?” I asked, forcing a smile.

The whole smiling thing still felt weird. Sure I was doing more of it now that I had Chloe around, but I was so used to walking around with permanent resting bitch face that it was weird feeling the corners of my lips quirking up.

Another pause. Then Mike elbowed her in the side. She jumped a little and took a step forward.

“I was wondering if you would like to go to a party we’re having at my place tonight,” she said.

“Are you sure you want me to go to your party tonight?” I asked.

“What’s that supposed to mean?” she asked.

I probably shouldn’t have risen to the bait, but I was like a big fat bass sitting just under the water looking at the nice fat wiggling worm run through by something shiny thinking “now that looks delicious.”

Yeah. I shouldn’t have taken the bait, but I was going to bite.

“Maybe I was thinking about how you haven’t given me the time of day since I got a lead in the play and you got a supporting part,” I said. “Maybe I was thinking how weird it is that a girl who’s supposed to be my best friend suddenly doesn’t have time for me.”

“Yeah? Well maybe I’ve been thinking about how much it sucks that my best friend has dropped me for her freshman piece!” Courtney shot back.

That brought me up short. I looked at her and then to Mike. He looked like he’d rather be anywhere but between the two of us, and he was pointedly inspecting a piece of lighting up in the rafters above the stage.

And in that moment I realized that maybe I hadn’t been the best friend all this time. I’d thought she was walking around pissed off because she was upset about not getting the part, but what if…

“You really think I’ve abandoned you?” I asked.

“Well you have,” she said. “This was going to be our year, my year, and now I’ve been replaced by that freshman.

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