Serenay Moon
Special
XV : Dairy of a Dumb-ass III
©2001 Kitty Ocean
I hate my sister. I truly do! I can't imagine something in the world that I hate more. She always does her hair the same way as mine and then complains I copied her. She once claimed I always did what she did and that I should stop coping her. Hello? Who would want to look like a walking make-up kit?
But the worst thing she had ever done was during high school. We both liked acting (she started liking it after I said I liked it and then said I copied her!) and there was going to be a new play. We didn't want the same part though. My sister tried to become the leading-Lady, while I tried to get the part of the Sea Goddess. We both played like our life depended on it! I remember my sister saying: "I'm sure you'll get the part. You were awesome!"
I chuckled. "Thanks, I hope you get the part you want too!" It was one of the first times we agreed on something. But the result struck like lightning!
Mister Gumble, the teacher who had organised the auditions, had decided my sister would play the Sea Goddess and that I would play the part of Princess Yumona, the leading part. I jumped up: "What? But I wanted...."
"No, Kitty." Mister Gumble smiled. "You are too good for the part of Sea Goddess. I insist you play Yumona."
You probably can figure out what happened at home. Star accused me of stealing the part she wanted. I didn't want that part, honestly! Come on, that stupid princess waits until her beloved comes home and even sacrifices her soul just to get him home safe. Gosh, it's the most horrible part ever!
But of course my sister didn't believe me. It would have become her break-through! She had slammed the door on her way out and left me alone with guild. I didn't mean to!
Anyway, Starleen hadn't looked at me for days. At the rehearsals, she acted like nothing was wrong, and so did I. After all, it was better than having nothing at all. But after rehearsal, she just became as hating as always.
She even talked her friends into hating me! Soon I was known as the girl who stole the part from her poor sister. That was a wrong move from her. I became really angry and wanted to kick everyone for their stupid ***, but I knew that if I would do that, I wasn't allowed to be in the play any more.
But even though Starleen tried, she couldn't avoid me always. When the day of the performance became closer, she was forced to practise her lines with me at home. "Kitty, Starleen," Mister Gumble had said, "You both keep on forgetting your lines. You should practise at home together."
Starleen really thanked him for that. So we tried, but we kept on forgetting our lines. "My Goddess," I started, "I wished you could do something and I would give my soul to save him."
"No, no!" Star exclaimed. "It's: I would sacrifice my soul to save him, can't you do anything?"
"Sorry!" She really ticked me off. "Let's go on anyway."
Star nodded. "My child, I know a way, but that would ask great courage and.... That isn't right, is it?" I shook my head. "I keep on forgetting it!"
"My child, the way I know asks great courage and even more sacrifice." I corrected.
Star looked up. "How do you know that?"
I raised my shoulders. "Mister Gumble said that it was best to know what line comes before yours so you would know when to talk."
"What comes after: I would do anything to save him. Please help him (bows humbly)?"
"Arise, I cannot ask you to do this."
Starleen checked it, I was right. "I think you overreacted."
"Don't you know the lines that comes before your part?"
She nodded. "Yeah, and I think I overreacted too." Both laughed. Instead of knowing our own lines, we knew the lines of the other! "Why would anyone want to know the lines her sister has to know?" She asks.
"Maybe because I like the part of Sea Goddess more." I giggled. "Pretty stupid huh?"
"Yeah, indeed." Starleen took her notes. "But we didn't get the part we wanted, just like in real show business. So we better try to learn the lines we were given."
I agreed. So from that day, we were kinda friends again and tried to do the best we could. We learned a few more lines, but not enough.
So Mister Gumble was pretty desperate the day of the premiere. Star and I saw him walking through the hallways with his hands in his hair.
"Are you all right?" Starleen asked.
Mister Gumble nodded. "Yes, yes, nothing to worry... Nothing to worry.... Oooooooooh." And he left again with his hands in his hair.
Then we had PE. We went out in the field to practise Baseball. Our PE teacher thought it was a very interesting sport and couldn't understand why Star and I didn't like it. You just slammed your bat against a ball and then run. What's the use? I don't see the fun in it. If it was swimming... okay....
Anyway, I had to slam my bat against the ball my sister would throw. I think that's called a pitch, I never remember boring stuff. So, my sister threw the ball at me and I slammed as hard as I could. Wow, a miracle, I had hit the ball! And it went fast, it went hard, it went straight to Star!
I now know why I hate this sport. I had never knocked out my sister before in a game. We all ran to her, while she was lying dizzy and knocked-out on the floor.
"My goodness, Starleen!" My PE teacher yelled. "Are you all right? How do you feel?"
Sometimes I feel like I'm surrounded by idiots, and then I'm not talking about my classmates. I just hit my sister in the head with a baseball.... How would you feel?
Thankfully, Star's injury wasn't that bad. She only had a big bump on her head that vanished with the help of even more make-up. Mister Gumble had nothing to worry about... if you wouldn't count the fact that we still both didn't knew our lines.
So, a few hours for premiers, Mister Gumble really had a nervous breakdown. He cried in the corner like a baby that this would become his greatest failure. Star and I knew who was to blame, but we tried, we honestly tried! Those lines were just too hard for us.
"I feel sorry for him." Star sighed. "He thought he had made a good choice by picking us."
I agreed. "Yeah, if I only knew my lines as well as you know mine...."
Star then pulled me to the empty hallway. "We can't just blame Mister Gumble for this!" She hissed.
"I know, but what can we do?"
"We trade."
"What?" I was astounded.
"You play me and I play you." Starleen sighed confident. "They will never see the difference. For crying out load, we are twins!"
I looked at her. "You really want to do that?" I asked and she nodded.
"It's the only way." And I knew she was right.
You probably had predicted this, but it won't harm me to tell it anyway. So when the curtain came up, Mister Gumble swallowed 100 pills to stay calm. Star (dressed as Princess Yumona) stood in the centre when Dillan (who played the prince) came up.
"My princess." He started with a bow. "The enemy has crossed your borderlines. I must protect you, therefore I'm going to the boarder." I saw him sighing and thinking that this would be the most horrifying play ever.
My sister kneeled. "No, my prince, you must stay here." Dillan gazed up! Kitty knew her lines??? "I have a bad feeling, you must stay here!"
Mister Gumble dropped everything from astoundness. Just like everyone else next to me. How was this possible? Well, I *honestly* didn't know!
So, at the end, everyone thought that Starleen and I had memorised our lines just in time and Mister Gumble thought it was the best play her ever made. He says that each year by the way. I think the only ones who know what was really going on, were our parents. But hey, if they hadn't known the difference, they would have been really stupid! They never mentioned it though.
So, to be short. I hate it. I hate the fact that I actually love my sister. But don't you dare telling her that!
Kiss,
Kitt
The end.