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chapter eleven . audition results
Jonna paced her room, squeezing her hands together. She physically couldn't stop moving, her nerves doing the work for her while she couldn't get the upcoming cast list out of her mind. It was supposed to come out at any time.
Darnell was trying to distract her from his spot on her bed. He clutched onto her laptop eagerly, just as nervous for his best friend. He masked it well, and his constand jokes to Jonna helped ease her up a bit.
She didn't want the entire group in her room when the cast list was released, and even considered kicking Darnell out, but he stayed put and refused to leave her side.
"Jon, it's here." He told the girl, who immediately rushed to his side, sitting down on the spot next to him.
Jonna was quick to take the laptop out of his hands and open the email. She scrolled and scrolled and scrolled until her face fell. She closed the laptop and handed it back to Darnell, shaking her head to tell him that she didn't get cast at all, not even as an ensemble.
Darnell set the laptop down on the other side of him and wrapped her in a hug. "I'm sure you'll get casted in something else." He told her.
"I should've been casted in this." Jonna replied, "I was so prepared and everything, it was my best audition yet." She pulled away and looked down at her hands, on the verge of tears. "I'm just not good enough." A tear slid down her cheek while she said those words, and many more followed after it.
Darnell set his hands on her shoulders, shaking her gently so that she would look up at him. "Hey, hey. Don't say that, okay? You're really talented, like really really talented. If they can't see that then it's their loss."
Jonna gave him a small smile and leaned forward to give him another hug. "God, what would I do without you?" She laughed, wiping her tears with the back of her hand.
"You'd be dead." He joked, just to hear her laugh again. "I'm sure you're gonna wanna hang with the girls so I won't waste your time anymore." Darnell pulled away from her and stood up, "Just let me know if you need anything, okay?"
"Okay." She smiled, shooting him a thumbs up despite the fact that she was still crying.
"I'm here for you." He told her, playfully pushing her before he left the room. Darnell waved at Elizabeth and Lucielle. "She's all yours."
The two girls nodded and rushed past Darnell, immediately holding up their bags of ice-cream once they reached her room.
"We brought the goods." Elizabeth stated proudly, sitting down on the floor in front of Jonna's bed. She handed a container of ice-cream to Jonna and pulled out her own.
