Adriana's pov

Monday morning

After Friday's events, we came back home Saturday morning and I haven't seen or talked to jerk face.

Now it's Monday, and since there was a little problem with the r&j play, the teachers didn't pick who was gonna play what in Romeo and Juliet.

Mr Binney class and ours are gonna work together today, they're gonna choose TODAY, who's playing who.

I didn't want to be part of this in the beginning.

But since I don't have a choice, I'm gonna have to play my part, I hope I get to play the tree in the background.

"Nervous?" Kayla asks me.

"Yup" I answer vaguely.

"You're gonna be fine Adriana" She comforts me.

"Kayla, I might play Juliet, and I'm gonna have to kiss some stranger, so no, I'm not gonna be fine" I huff rolling my eyes.

"Well, did you think about how you might NOT be Juliet?" She asks me again.

"Not really and I'm not intending on doing so" I clarify.

"Let's get to class now" She says as she parks the car in the school's parking lot.

We both decide to meet at lunch, and after that we go in different directions to our classes.

You don't even have to ask, yes I am late.

I knock on the door and enter the classroom, Mr Binney's class is already here, so now more than 50 students are staring at me "What are you looking at?! I'm not a touristic attraction, move on" I huff rolling my eyes.

"Adriana, what a pleasure to have you here" My teacher says sarcastically.

"My pleasure" I put on my fakest smile ever, before sitting down in my usual seat.

"Where were you?!" Ashton whisper-yells at me.

"I was feeding our neighbor's dog" I joke.

"I'm not joking Adriana" He says through gritted teeth.

"I was at home Ashton, where did you expect me to be?" I answer annoyed.

"Well why weren't you here on time?" He questions me.

"I'm never early to class Ashton, but you wouldn't know that since we don't share any common class" I tell him.

"Well, from now until 4 weeks, I'm going to be sharing this class with you, and you better be there on time." He warns me.

"Sure" I give him a sweet smile.

If he actually thinks that I'm gonna listen to him he's so wrong, I'm not an early person, and I'm not intending on changing that anytime soon, take it or leave it, he should be glad that I even bother to come to school instead of scolding me.

"Mr Binney and I have chosen who's going to play who" My teacher starts getting the class's full attention "The person who's going to play Tybalt is Ashton Jones, Mercutio shall be Aaron Walmart, Juliet's nurse shall be Adriana Jones, Benvolio shall be Kyle, Rosaline shall be Candice Bells..." And the list goes on and on for a good 30 minutes.

All this stress has been lifted off my shoulders!! I won't be Juliet!! I would rather be a tree than be the main lead character, especially since they have the longest scripts.

"...Juliet will be Amanda Michelson and Romeo will be Jace Martinez" The teacher finishes and all of the class gasps excluding me.

Amanda was jerk face's longest girlfriend, he has the reputation of a bad boy, a new girl every new day, and Amanda has been trying so hard to get his attention so bad ever since they broke up, and now they HAVE TO DO THE KISSING SCENE!!! I'm not even jealous of that, I just want to laugh in jerk face's face HAHAHAHAHAHAH.

I'm not the jealous type of person, you're flirting with someone I don't care, if you're not my boyfriend you have your life and you do whatever you want with it, I'm not wasting my time on you, I'm not the kind to throw myself at someone, I'm not judging the ones who do, but if he isn't giving you attention, then he's not worth it, you're wasting your entire life on a guy who doesn't even acknowledge you while you could have already had 10 boyfriends before him if you weren't stuck on him.

I see you people thinking that I'm acting like I'm not LiKe OtHeR gIrLs, but everyone is different, we all have different looks and personalities, so not being like other girls, is kind of everyone.

"See you tomorrow for our first rehearsal!" Mr Binney dismisses us.

Well right now I'm doing my victory dance in my head.

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"Guess what?!" I say excitedly as I take a bite of my cheese&ham sandwich.

"Shoot" Kayla and Sophia reply at the same time.

"I'm not playing Juliet! I won't have to kiss a random person!!!!" I almost yell because of how relieved I am.

"I'm so happy for you!" Sophia tells me.

"Me too! Who are you playing?" Kayla asks me.

"I'm Juliet's nurse, not that bad" I answer her.

"Yeah that's alright" Kayla says.

"Do you know when the performance's due date?" Sophia starts again.

"Well the play doesn't have a precise date, but it's in 4 weeks, in a month" I tell them unsure of my answer.

"Well you can count on us to be there" Sophia reassures me and Kayla nods.

"Thank you girls, anyways, I gotta go, see you after school!" I tell them as I rush out of the cafeteria.

You're probably wondering, 'Adriana where are you going?'

Well I want to invite everyone out tonight, Me, Sophia, Kayla, Ashton and...I guess jerk face, we still haven't talked nor glanced at each other since the other night, so maybe I could try and make it up to him tonight.

Oh and by the way, I want to celebrate because I'm not playing Juliet, yes I know I'm doing wayyyy too much, but that's only an excuse to hang out with everyone, we've turned into a big friend group, and that's an opportunity to reunite.

I push through the school's back door, and walk towards the football field where Ashton and his shirtless friends are training, even Ashton is shirtless, my poor eyes.

But honestly I'm BEYOND shocked, I didn't know that my brother had abs and I don't think that he's got that many because he plays American football, hmm, that's odd.

"Ashton!" I shout his name making him turn around to check who's the weirdo looking for him.

Once I'm finally close to where he's standing, I hold my nose and fake gag at the sweaty bodies standing before me, eww they really need a shower.

Ashton immediately rolls his eyes and says "What are you doing here Adriana?"

"Well, can I talk to you" I pause "In private" I make sure to put more significance in the 'private' for Ashton to know that his friends are literally eavesdropping.

He nods and we go sit on the bleachers "So, what did you want to talk about, be quick, I should be playing on the field right now" He clarifies.

"Relax, I won't take years, I wanted to go out tonight, you me Kayla, Sophia and jerk face" I tell him.

"Yeah? What's the occasion?" He continues.

"There's not really one, I guess I just want to hang out with everyone like we used to before, we really did become a whole friend group" I tell him.

"Okay then, what time do we meet, and where?" He questions me.

"Let's say 8, and in the living room?" My answer turns out more like a question.

"Yeah alright, but just to tell you, we'll be leaving at 8:30" He adds.

"Why?" I ask confused.

"Because you and your friends take years to get ready" He jokes.

"That's not even true, we barely take 30 minutes" I huff crossing my arms on my chest.

"Whatever floats your boat" He says playfully before going back on the field.

Well, let's go back to class now.

As I made my way to class, the hallways were already empty, huh guess lunch is over.

I mentally sigh as the thought of seeing my teachers for few more hours invaded my brain.

I take out my phone once I'm in front of biology class and check the time, nah, I don't even need to do that I know I'm late.

I knock on the door, and enter the class, ugh I just want to go home and watch Netflix.

"You're late again Miss Adriana" The teacher points out.

"Yeah?" I act clueless.

"Yes, you are, of 5 minutes" He answers looking at his wristwatch.

"Well that's not even close to my record" The longest I have been late was basically of 45 minutes, there was 5 minutes left before the bell ran off.

"Watch it for next time" He warns.

"Ha, very funny" I mumble rolling my eyes before walking to the back of the class to sit.

"Move" I glare at the guy who was seated on my spot.

He rose his eyes to look at me, and he trembled in fear, poor guy, he scurried away, and a playful smirk appeared on my face.

I do feel kinda bad for the guy.

For the rest of the class we kept talking about cell biology, which is a branch of biology that studies the structure, function, and behavior of cells.

Yes I'm smart, being always late doesn't mean I'll end up stupid.

The bell FINALLY ran off after what felt like ages, I quickly gathered my stuff before rushing out of class.

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When school was over, the first thing I did was go home and relax, then I did my homework, and memorized a bit of my script, but you know what's worse?

All of the girls in the class need to learn Juliet's script in case she was sick or had any last minute emergency.

That's so unfair, but the same thing goes to the guys, so now I have to learn my script and Juliet's script.

"Ughhh" I groan as I fall on my bed, stretching my legs and arms looking at the ceiling, I look like a starfish.

And I sat there for a while spacing out.

After my zoning out moment, I sat back up and took my phone from my nightstand, 5:24

I better call the girls so we could start getting ready, I know that we're leaving at 8, but I want to prove Ashton wrong, he thinks that we will leave at 8:30, because we take too long to get ready, well now we can take all the time we need to dress up, play smart not hard.