You and Ethan knew each other since kindergarten, like your entire classroom as well. It was a small town so everyone knew everyone.

Ever since childhood you had a certain dislike for Ethan because he was too loud and loved to terrorize the girls’s lives with the help of the other boys. Ruining their hair, pushing them in the grass or even water ballon wars. He was such a brat. When you joined the theater club he didn’t waste no joke.

When you two turned seven years old you managed to get Belle part on the winter play and Ethan made a drawing of you as the beast instead. Ever since that day you promised that you’d hate Ethan Landry, doesn’t matter how much time had passed. The drawing never came back on Ethan’s mind after you two grew up, but it completely changed everything you knew about yourself. You changed. Made sure to eat less, look better. That little silly nerd doesn’t even know much he made you hate how you looked. It all might sound silly but at seven years old it wasn’t.

So when you read his name beside yours to play Romeo Montecchio, you feel repulsed. Since when does Ethan Landry even tries out for the theater club? This couldn’t be happening. And it wouldn’t. You immediately run to your director, Mr. Miller. He loves you, had picked you step by step to play what he called “the perfect Juliet”, so of course he would hear you, right?

You go to him and explain everything, not noticing that the silly nerd was right behind you.

“Complaining already?” Ethan appears. You forgot how tall he was now, so the height difference felt a bit uncomfortable to notice.