In this scene: Roles for the new English project are being picked and delivered. Lol.
Miss Walker’s face falls. I bet she thought we’d be excited and punching the air and running around naked in euphoric exhibitionism. I was surprised to see her when she walked into English, until Mr. Smith announced, ‘This project will be a collaboration between English and Drama, so your participation will count toward the annual assessment of not one but two subjects. Which means if you don’t take this seriously it’s goodbye to grades and college.’
Mr. Smith knows how to hit where it hurts. College, for us, is the ticket out of here and failing grades mean being stuck in this hell-hole for life. My reasons for going to college are entirely different from Sarah or Mel’s – who want to be fashion journalists. Heck, I’m even clueless about what I want to do. All I know is that I must go somewhere far, far away, where Aunt Ruby’s pity-pool eyes won’t watch my every move fearing when I’ll break and the neighbours won’t be whispering how tragic I am behind my back. School is a part time escape. College should be full time.
‘Cobweb, assistant fairy extraordinaire.’ Sarah crumbles her chit and pushes the hat toward me. Shredded pieces of fate – only half the original chits left now. Mr. Smith nods at Sarah and writes down her role. She looks disinterested already but Miss Walker keeps a steady gaze on her, searching for some sort of a smile.
I pick the smallest scrap of paper hoping it will say something like ‘lighting’ or ‘set design’ or ‘background sound’ – anything non-performance based.
Unfold the paper and my annual fate smirks back at me.
‘Ronni?’ Mr. Smith smiles expectantly.
‘Can I change?’
‘No. What you pick is what you play.’
‘Can I pick again?’
‘What do you have there, Ronni?’
I say it aloud and it’s wrapped and sealed and stuck forever.
Chai and Chapters 
Ohh. But.. What did Ronni pick? What is her(?) role? What is this project. More, I wants more!And I rarely get annoyed at teasers for not telling me enough.
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ummm, hello? why did you just do that to me?!?!?!? I NEED to know what Ronni picked!
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Poor kid – I take it she got the lead? Ouch.
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Loving this. Very curious what role she got. Did you post part of this on SYW at some point? The names sound familiar.
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From the Cobweb name, I'm guessing the project is Midsummer Night's Dream or the Tempest? There are all sorts of juicy roles there for an extrovert, but a nightmare for a shy girl . . . (Sorry, that nightmare pun crept in)
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*tries to grasp at teaser*No!I want to go on. I'm way too curious about Ronnie. Awesome teaser.
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First time visiting and I love visiting on Teaser Tuesdays!!! I love Ronnie, what an awesome character! I felt like I was in the scene!!! So I'm guessing she got the role?!I would love for you to visit my blog. I have a blog fest (my first) going on in the next few weeks and it's determing what a character looks like! I'd love to know what Ronnie looks like! Feel free to check it out!
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I love the bit about college–very accurate. Nice tease.
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Angie ~ Yes, Ronni was up on SYW =DAnd thank you, everyone else!
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This looks very interesting. Oh the drama!I'll take my coat…
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More!!! 😀
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I wonder what she picked. Nice teaser
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What did she pick?! I want to know more! Awesome teaser! Loved the voice!(sorry this is late)
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I would like to exchange links with your site talkmusebanter.blogspot.comIs this possible?
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Anonymous – LOL. I can't find a link to yours, though.
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