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f i v e godspell
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WINONA FELT RATHER GIDDY as she waited in the hallway for Polly and Jasmine, flyer in hand. Mr. Keating had sent her off with the task of watching the movie adaptation of Godspell; she tended to avoid anything religious, but he promised her it was nothing like she expected, and she trusted him.
As soon as she spotted Polly and Jasmine among the crowd of girls coming from chapel, Winona practically skipped up to them, saying, "I've found it!"
"Found what?" Jasmine said with a blink, taken aback but amused nonetheless. Winona was rarely this animated.
"What I want to do!" Winona said, still grinning. "What I think I could be really passionate about."
She handed Polly the flyer, and Jasmine leaned over to look at it.
"Godspell?" Polly said, looking back up at Winona.
She nodded, then said, "I'm gonna act!" Polly and Jasmine shared a glance. "I've always been interested but my parents would never let me try out for anything."
"And now they will?" Jasmine replied with a quirk of her eyebrow.
"Oh, hell no, but that's not the point," Winona told her. "The point is, for the first time in my whole life, I know what I want. And for the first time, I'm gonna do it whether my parents want me to or not. Carpe diem, goddamn it!"
Polly grinned at her friend, but Jasmine said, "Nona, how are you gonna be in a play if your parents won't let you? Like, stick it to the man, but how's it gonna work?"
"First I have to get the part, then I'll worry about that," Winona replied with a nod, feeling quite confident.
"Won't they kill you if you don't let them know you're auditioning?" Jasmine pressed.
"As far as I'm concerned, they won't have to know about any of it," Winona said, smiling smugly.
Jasmine shook her head. "Come on, that's impossible."
"Bullshit. Nothing's impossible."
Tentative to join in on the keeping-Winona-realistic-train but concerned nonetheless, Polly said, "Why don't you try asking them? I mean, maybe they'll say yes...."
"They wouldn't," Winona replied. "If I don't ask, at least I won't be disobeying them."
"But, I mean, if they said no before...."
"Jesus Christ, whose side are you guys on?" Winona said with a small chuckle. "I haven't even gotten the part yet. Can't I enjoy the idea even for a little bit?"
Jasmine shrugged.
"I'm sorry," Polly replied, hooking their arms together. "I'm proud of you. I am. I want you to do what you want to do. I just worry."
