I have a really great treat to share with you all this week. My dear friend, Lauren, has graciously allowed me to share some of her work here on the blog! We wrote this book over the past July and enjoyed doing it immensely. We did have to kill one character, which the process nearly killed us both. Of course she made me write the death scene. ;-) If you check out last times post, I added a scene from it that I wrote.Here is her excerpt, it is written as a girl's diary so it is a very neat point of view! These characters have been working on putting on a Pride and Prejudice play together. Our main character, Christina, received the role as Lizzie Bennet. While Aidan, our other main character, has the role of Mr. Darcy. Hope you enjoy!
Excerpt from, Heart Wars
Proposal Practice
Author, Lauren Michelle
Dear Diary,
Day 3. We worked the proposal. Need I say more? Oh, ok, you're right. I should. So, I think I have pretty well confirmed that Aidan is a totally awesome guy. Since when have I been talking like that? I don't care. Ok. So he smiled at me when I came in, and read these lines with the perfection that I had pictured when reading the book but had never seen played out to such perfection. Maybe it's because they were being said to me. Maybe it was because of who was saying it.
"In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you." As he was speaking he reached for my hair, and allowed his voice to crack a little.
"Aidan!" Our director screamed. "That's not in the script! Do you want this role or not?" He smiled mischievously glanced down at the script.
"Oh, I'm sorry, ma'am, I could have sworn it was in there somewhere." He kept his perfect British accent and winked at me. I blushed and couldn't stop the smile that formed.
"Begin again! Get it right, Aidan!" She looked down at the script. He looked down at his own and made a note. I glanced down at it. It simply read 'hands off while you're acting'. He began again. I felt my face flush and knew I had turned red as I tried to repress my excitement while he read. When it came to my turn, I must have looked really funny when I was excitedly rejecting his proposal.
"Christina! Stay in character!" The director screamed. Aidan shrugged, and I began my line again, but this time with a rather forced, but effective, serious face, along with a certain measure of cruelty. He protested, with his face as much as with his words. At first I was just reciting lines with a straight face, but I had seen the movie enough times to know the part by heart, so pretty soon our scripts were on the floor and our eyes were doing as much of the talking as our mouths, his pleading and mine sad, but screaming in anger. I looked over when we had finished, and our poker face director was even smiling. All of the other actors had been joking around and eating snacks during this part of rehearsal, but now they were sitting there, mouths open a little- whether they were full of food or not. When we had finished, they erupted in cheers and clapping. Aidan playfully grabbed my hand and we bowed.
"You were incredible. Sometimes I honestly thought you were serious." He leaned in a little and whispered.
"You did wonderful too. And no, I wasn't serious." He looked over at me and squeezed my hand a little harder, and my heart skipped a beat. So maybe I would be a good Lizzie. Maybe the best yet.
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Wasn't that fun? I just loved getting to read these as she wrote, it was so much fun seeing my character's written from another person's point of view. I was in charge of writing Aidan's point of view. Overall it was crazy fun and a great learning experience!
See you next week!
-Melody
