A Midsummer Night's Dream

[Connie]

The theater was lonely and huge without all the people filling the seats. Connie looked around as she walked down the aisle. She had come here to practice her lines for "A Midsummer Night's Dream". She had a star role; she was playing Titania the fairy queen and she didn't know all her lines yet. She frowned up onto the stage. She dumped her bag where she was standing, in the middle of the stage and pulled out her script. She immediately noticed the highlighted words of what she had to speak. She scanned her booklet until she came to the part where her memory faded. She read out loud, her voice seeming to echo from the stage to the back of the theater, traveling up to the sky where it hovered and faded:

"I pray thee, gentle mortal, sing again:
Mine ear is much enamour'd of thy note;
So is mine eye enthralled to thy shape;
And thy fair virtue's force perforce doth move me
On the first view to say, to swear, I love thee."

She signed. 'Stupid Shakespeare and his old English words,' She thought as she put the script down and began memorizing her lines by repeating them, acting them out on the stage. She flew through every part until she came to a part that she didn't know then she stopped memorized for a while and continued on until she was almost done with her whole script.

[chockfull0crack]

He was never much for theater but knew the words repeated by the girl very well. Shakespeare was an idol of Maxwell’s. Although he much rather read one of his tragedies, A Midsummer Night’s Dream was something in which he had read on more than one occasion. Maxwell put his camera down and let it hang from the strap around his neck, he had hoped to be alone but found that someone had already beaten him to the Theater. He didn’t want to startle her, but he also didn’t want her eyes to fall upon him at the back of the house just standing there. He watched her act out the part of Titania, the fairy queen. He pushed up the sleeves of his sweater and let it hang open over his shirt underneath. He shoved his hands deep into his pockets and walked towards the front of the house down one of the aisles, “I must say you might make a convincing Titania, although I see you more as the fair Helena.” He spoke up as he got closer to the stage with a cocky sort of smirk on his face.

[Connie]

Connie was about to go on with her lines when she heard a voice. Her head snapped up at it, the voice came from a guy walking up the aisles, hands in his pockets. She slightly froze there on the stage a single thought running through her head, 'How long had he been watching her?' She didn't like being watch, even though being on stage was all about being watched, but she didn't like it when she didn't know that she wasn't being watched.
She remembered though that he had spoken to her and she should she supposed reply before seeming stupid. "Really now? And why is that?" She said looking at him from the stage. She wondered if she really wanted to know the answer to that reason. 'Well nothing can be done now,' She thought, 'I already asked.'