Lock and Key

Pranks and Theater

He nodded and left, not before giving me yet another wink that followed with another eye roll from me.

"I'm Mrs. Willons. " She gestured to the class, "Take a seat."

I walked to the only empty seat in the classroom. Right next to a girl with her hair hiding her face.

"Delilah came at the perfect time because today, because we are starting a new project!" Some of the class groaned but some cheered.

"You will be partnered with the person next to you." She explained that the project was reading a couple chapters of a book and making a poster for it. Sounded easy enough.

After she told us to work out times to get together, I turned to the girl on my left.

"Hi" I said boldly. She responded with a small smile. She was shy, and I liked that.

"I'm Lilah." I told her, hoping for a response back. Thankfully, I got one.

"I'm Caitlyn." She responded.

She had beautiful long red hair, and brown eyes. She also had a face of freckles.

"So, my dad probably wouldn't let me go to your house. Do you think you could come to mine?" I asked her and she nodded.

"What day?" She was still hiding her face behind her hair.

"Tommorow?" I offered.

She thought for a moment and then nodded.

"Cool." I exclaimed "Don't forget!"
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Kayla and Finn switched off walking me to classes throughout the day.

Finn and I were in calculus when the bell rang, signaling that it was lunch time.

Finn headed to his separate table, while I went to the lunch line. Kayla always told me how terrible the food was, so I was expecting the worst.

When it was my turn, I picked out a slice of pizza and a bag of chips, and then payed for them.

I sat down at a table with Kayla, Logan, and some other guy that I think I saw in one of my classes.

"Lilah, this is Luka. Luka, this is Lilah." Kayla introduced when I sat down.

"So this is the famous new girl, that everyone is talking about!" Luka exclaimed.

"People are talking about me?" I asked.

"Yeah! Everyone wants to know who the cute new girl is." He laughed.

This is exactly why I hate being pretty. Why couldn't I be average looking? I sighed and put my head down.

"You don't like the attention?" Kayla asked. She put her head down too, to get to my level.

"I'm not used to it. I'm always at home." I explained, as I sat up and took a bite out of my pizza. Or what was supposed to be pizza.

I set it down and pushed the tray away, making a face.

"I told you." Kayla shook her head.

"This isn't pizza. This tastes like straight cardboard." I complained.

"And that is why we are so excited for next year." Logan said "we get to go off campus for lunch."

Kayla and Luca both nodded in excitement. Someone sat next to me.

"Hi!" she greeted, with a cheery voice and phony smile. Kayla, Logan, and Luca all rolled their eyes. Ah. The queen bee. Every highschool has one.

"Can I help you?" I asked her. I already hated this girl.

"I just came to meet the new girl! I'm Maddie! You don't have to sit here, you know. You can totally sit with us!" She pointed to a table in the middle of the room.

There was a ton of girls in cheerleading outfits, and some guys with varsity jackets. Who knew this school would be so cliche?

I noticed Finn was sitting with them. Most of the girls were leaning towards him, listening to his every word.

I pressed my lips together. "I'm good here. Thanks though."

"Are you sure?" She pouted "Everyone is gonna love you! And you'll fit right in!"

I shook my head once more, and she glared at me. She flipped her brown hair and walked away, her heels clicking against the floor.

"Good choice." Luca said, still staring at her retreating form.

"That was weird. Why did she ask you to sit with them? That never happens." Kayla shook her head, watching as Maddie sat next to Finn, and kissed him on the cheek.

Of course they were dating. I shook my head in disgust. Just when I thought he was a good guy.

"Probably because she's gorgeous." Luca answered Kayla. I blushed, I'm not that pretty.

"Hmm, you're right. Plus, she's the talk of the school right now." Kayla said looking at me.

The bell rang and people start to leave the room. That was short.

I followed Kayla, but someone tapped me on the shoulder. I turned around and am met with Finn.

"What elective do you have?" He asked me.

"Theater." I responded, attempting to walk away but he grabbed my arm.

"Why are you acting like that? Are you mad at me or something?" He questioned.

"I just don't understand why you would want to be with her." I said nodding towards Maddie who is flirting with another guy. He looked at her and his eyes narrowed. He then shook his head at me.

"Why would you care anyway?" He asked.

"You just seemed really nice... Nevermind." I gave him a small smile and go to look for the auditorium.
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"So, I know we are starting this a little late, but I wanted Delilah to have a chance to audition." My drama teacher, Ms. Linn announced.

She had just told us that we were starting a new musical that would be performed towards the end of the school year.

The play is High school musical. I was so excited! I'd seen the movies a million times. They were literally my childhood, or what I remember of my childhood.

Ms. Linn announced that the auditions would be held after school today. Hopefully, my dad would be okay with me staying a little later.

We were told to work on reading the script and practicing for auditions the rest of class. I decided that I want to audition for Sharpay because of my blonde hair.

As I'm looking through the script, a guy who also had blonde hair stood in front of me.

"Hi" He greeted. "I'm Isaac."

"Hey, I'm Lilah" I responded back, looking up from the script.

"Who are you auditioning for?" He asked, glancing over the page I was looking at.

"Sharpay, you?"

"No way! I'm trying for Ryan!" He exclaimed "If we get the parts, we'd be siblings."

"Yeah!" I said with a smile.

"You wanna practice with me?" He asked, flipping to the page I was on.

"Sure!" I honestly love this school already. There's so many nice people here.

As were practicing, I notice that Isaac is a really great actor! I really hope he gets Ryan.

And I really hope I get Sharpay.

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~haylie♥