Kennedy is King by Cameron James

Author:Cameron James [James, Cameron]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-11-10T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Cassidy felt sorry for me. I guess so he invited me to the theatre rehearsal, to watch, not necessarily to partake. He figured it was better than just sitting around for two hours doing nothing. When I’d told Stephen this, he’d laughed, and laughed and told me to go and humour him. He’d see me later.

I asked him how, he tapped his nose and walked away and I thought about that for practically my entire music theory lesson. I was, in fact still thinking about it when I walked into the theatre, sitting on the front row of the seating bank near to their theatre director Finn.

He was gorgeous.

Simple as, and I think around Otis’ age.

He smiled at me when I sat, his smile turning sympathetic when he looked at my arm, then he turned back to the stage where most of the theatre boys were sat on the edge. The theatre boys ranged from first year through to ours. You only got into the theatre if you passed your primarily audition and auditions happened every September.

For the last three years, Cassidy has sat beside Finn conducting said auditions and choosing his own elite team and they were incredible, really as a whole they were incredible. They had the chance to showcase this at the Christmas show, every one of them got a song slot and were expected to fill it, and they did. It was kind of their first audition before the summer musical auditions. That Cassidy was of course going to be the lead in.

“Let’s warm up gentlemen.” Finn said, then waved the music sheet at them, they all followed it like little puppies who were about to be fed. It amused me. “As requested, my gorgeous theatre babies.” Finn said as he handed out the sheet. The gasps came like a Mexican wave. Finn smiled smugly, turning to start the backing track, his expression perfectly said ‘I did a good’. The opening number from Waitress filled the theatre, and then Cassidy began to sing.

I’d been taken to see Waitress over the summer, it was one of Cassidy’s flavours – excuse the pun, you know, pies – of the year, he was hopelessly in love with the entire thing and it was enjoyable. I definitely enjoyed it – and the pie in the interval.

And you could see it on the stage, although it seemed him and everyone else was as obsessed given the joy as they sang through the warmup. I’d watched them perform of course, for the last few years we’d been in the orchestra pit as the senior orchestra always played for the summer musical, and of course we knew they were phenomenal, but I tended to spend the entire performance reading the sheet music over watching the stage, so now, I sat and appreciated until I caught Finn’s eye.

He was watching me, a raised eyebrow and a smile on his face.

“What?” I said quietly, he laughed coming to sit next to me, choosing to sit on my right so he didn’t knock my elbow – I fully appreciated that.

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