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Jenna Brooks’s POV It was a feminine voice, I raised my head to catch her gaze. The first thing I noticed were her sparkling eyes. She had a rare eye color I couldn’t quite describe.She had long blonde silky hair with extremely long lashes. Her hair was parked in a loose bun. She had full lips, and her golden skin was smooth and flawless. Her posture exuded some kind of confidence.“How do you know I’m desperate to join the drama club?” I asked her, furrowing my eyebrows.“I heard your conversation with Liam. I didn’t mean to eavesdrop or anything.” She replied slowly, her voice was smooth on every syllable.Shit! Did she hear me talking to myself? She probably thinks I’m weird.“You know, I also talk to myself once in a while. I have this tiny voice that actually resonates with me quite well.” She said to my surprise.Finally, someone that matches my level of weirdness.“Really?”“Yes. And sometimes, I’d rather talk to it than talk to people. One of the reasons I don’t h
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Jenna Brooks POV What? No, no, no, no, no!!!I don’t wanna be Cinderella. Cinderella requires a lot of work, Cinderella has dialogues, Cinderella doesn’t just stand by the sidelines and make funny hand gestures. I don’t wanna be Cinderella. I want to be a tree, a freaking tree!!!“Congrats, Jenna.” Liam yelled, pulling me away from the crowd, “You got the lead role.”“What? I don’t wanna be the main lead, Liam. I want to be a minor character. For example, a tree.” I vented in a low tone.He leaned in, “What? Jen! You should be happy. You get to be a significant character! ““But I don’t wanna be significant!”“Cut the whining. I auditioned for the prince’s role and got casted as a mouse! A freaking mouse, Jenna!”I pouted, “So much for bad boy charm!”“I wonder who the male lead is.”“I don’t wanna know, Liam. I don’t wanna be Cinderella. Mouse also works. Let’s trade places.” I said with desperation.The thought of standing on stage and talking for too long was unbearable, t
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Jenna Brooks’s POV How was it possible? How could Conrad be the prince? No, no, no, no, no! He’s not even the type to be interested in stuffs like this. Conrad being the prince was going to ruin my whole plan. With him as my prince, I would never want to ditch drama club after finding Pstar7. This is bad, real bad.My palms suddenly grew clammy and I took a deep breath, “I…I’m not even sure I’ll take the role.” He cocked his eyebrows, “Why? I think you’ll make a great princess.” he said, softer than I had expected.Why does he have to say it like that?!“I’ll think about it, Conrad.”“Alright, shortstuff.”********** At dinner, Jeanette was the first one to talk about the play to Auntie Laurel. Conrad wasn’t at the table to stop her, he had left minutes ago for a run but only he and I knew he does a lot more than running. How did Jeanette even find out about the play in such a short period of time? Auntie Laurel was excited to hear about it and now that she knew, it
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Jenna Brooks’s POV “No!” I replied blandly.The smile on Liam’s face suddenly disappeared, “I understand if you’re too scared of losing.”“What? No. I’m confident you’ll never be able to pull it off.”“Then our deal is on?”“Deal.” I replied.He brought his face a bit closer to mine and whispered, “Good girl.” then my breathing seemed to stop entirely when one of his hands moved from above my head, traveling hesitantly down to stroke over my hair. As soon as I felt him take a strand between his fingers, shivers broke out over my body and butterflies swooped around my stomach.Oh my God, Jenna. What is this new feeling? You need to make it stop.“Aren’t you going inside?” I heard that familiar voice say. It was undoubtedly Conrad, standing there and watching us. Had he been there the whole time? Liam dropped his hand and I nervously walked into the club room to avoiding any questions. Luckily, first rehearsals were mainly table reading and talking. Our scripts were handed out t
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Jenna Brooks’s POV “Do you always have to close your eyes shut?” he whispered and I felt him pull away.I slowly opened my eyes and he was now standing a few meters away from me, a smirk on his face. Why did he pretend like he was going to kiss me? Why did he get my hopes up?“I…”He cocked his eyesbrows as he stared down at me, “You didn’t think I was going to kiss you, did you?”My gaze shifted slightly as I nervously tried to avoid eye contact. Of course, I thought he was about to kiss me. Why else would he bring his lips so close to mine?I let out an exaggerated “What,” then told him I was used to closing my eyes whenever someone was too close to my face. I wasn’t sure if he bought it because his face was too unreadable. With clammy palm, I held on to my script and bade him a quick ‘good night.’ before dashing off to my room.************ The following day, I tried to avoid Conrad because of what had happened last night. It was kind of embarrassing for me. That morning,
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Jenna Brooks’s POV I slowly stared up at him and even through my tear filled eyes, I could see that it was Liam. He had a cool headband on and he was in his football jersey. What was he doing here? Wasn’t he supposed to be at his football match?He led me out of the classroom, our steps were measured until we finally got to the rooftop. The welcoming breeze was soothing as Liam handed me a bottle of water. I took a seat on a bench and gulped down. He dropped down to sit beside me and pulled me in for a hug. I snuggled into his chest and cried. “I don’t deserve to be anyone’s friend.”“That’s not true, Jenna. I know you didn’t do it. You’re a great friend and anyone would be lucky to have you.” I nodded against his chest. When I couldn’t cry anymore, I sat up, wiping my cheeks. I looked at Liam, who was watching me. I tried to smile. When I did, he took hold of my hand and brought it to his chest.“I’m sorry Olivia was so mean to you. She’s also dealing with a lot,” Liam sa
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Jenna Brooks’s POVA week later…A lot had changed in the past week and I sometimes wondered how it all went down. After Conrad and I kissed, a lot of kisses and make outs had followed. We made out in the school auditorium, behind the bleachers, in my room, in his room, on the rooftop and in drama club room—mostly drama club room after we were done with rehearsals. This one week had been the best one week of my life. I still pinched myself every now and then to be sure I wasn’t dreaming.And there was Oliva who hadn’t come to school since the incident. The whole school wasn’t talking about it anymore so I expected her to get her shit together and face the rest of senior year head on. I had asked Jeanette to ask Summer about Olivia but Jeanette had said Olivia already quit working for her. We still hadn’t found out who told everyone about Olivia’s background.And there was Liam, who was sitting across the room in the student’s council room. He was elected as student council pre
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Jenna Brooks’s POV As closing bell rang, Conrad and I made our way to the drama club room. Everyone else was already there except Liam. During rehearsals, Conrad and I barely spoke unless need be. He had told me, “I don’t want the others to think we’re being unserious with the play,” and I had totally agreed with it. We weren’t supposed to mix duties with pleasure.As I sat across from the room, I noticed Conrad was talking to Anika and I tried to look away and not be bothered but I couldn’t help it. Thinking about it, we hadn’t really labeled our relationship. What were we? He just told me he liked me, I told him I liked him too and then we made out continuously.Most times when we were together, we hardly talked about anything. He would always cut me off in the middle of a sentence by either kissing me or squeezing my hands. But it was too early to label our relationship, right?I watched Conrad walk out of the drama club room, clearly angry. I thought of going after hi
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