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𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙀𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙚𝙚𝙣: "The Tech Rehearsal."
After school, I walked with Ricky and Big Red to the cafeteria where we sat quietly with the other kids, as we waited for Miss Jen.
"Hey, you okay?" Ricky asked quietly, with a small smile.
I gave him a sad smile. "Yeah. Just hoping we'll be able to find somewhere else to go."
"Okay guys!" Miss Jen clapped. "Wait, where's Gina?"
"I think she's going through a family thing right now." Ashlyn said.
"Okay. Prayers to our Gina."
There was a pause.
"I'm really not sure what to say. You've all worked so hard. I've seen all of you grow so much." She said. "But if we don't have a theatre, we don't have a show."
"What?"
We all broke out into a loud chatter, and my stomach dropped.
"Come on, Miss Jen, we've gotta do something." Carlos insisted.
"I think we...I don't know, I guess we could consider other venues?"
There was more chatter in discussion.
"Oh, what about the old Kingston downtown?" Ashlyn asked.
"It's condemned."
"The Lucky Ducky Puppet Pavilion?" EJ suggested.
"It's a massive Starbucks now." Miss Jen replied.
"How 'bout the El Rey?" Carlos said.
"Carlos, that's a great idea!" I smiled. Everyone else seemed to agree with his idea too.
Well, everyone except Miss Jen. She had a really weird, uncomfortable expression on her face.
"Miss Jen, I feel like you just had a really weird reaction to what I just said." Carlos said.
"Sorry, what did you say?"
"Carlos is asking if we could use the El Rey Theatre." Nini said.
"My Uncle Ruben is the listing agent, and the last thing they had in there was a fashion show like, four years ago." Carlos explained.
