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Pierre blocked her way, hands on hips "What the hell was that?"
Spencer kept her head down "I’ll get it together I promise"
"You proers, and Phi Te She was dressed in a siown to Spencer’s In her hand was the Macbeth script, Lady Macbeth’s parts underlined
"Why is she dressed like et dressed," Pierre spat "I was afraid soet ready to take over the role"
Spencer’s jaw dropped "You can’t switch out actresses in the middle of a play!"
Pierre put his hands on his hips "Watch ain, Phi’s in"
Spencer sank dizzily against a low table as Pierre storive the role over to Phi now There was no way she could send the scene she’d just perfor all the way from New Jersey
"Hey"
Spencer looked up and saw Beau standing next to her, his jaw clenched and his green eyes hard "Don’t listen to that asshole, okay?" he whispered "So you psyched yourself out It happens to everyone from time to time You can still turn it around Go to that place you were in yesterday Access that fire"
"I can’t access that fire" Tears welled in Spencer’s eyes "It made me crazy!"
"No, it didn’t" Beau clutched her hands and squeezed thee you have, use it Conquer it Don’t let it stop you"
Spencer stared at hi so close, almost like he was about to kiss her
But then Pierre swept through the backstage again, and the two of theain shortly Are you up for it, or do you want to save yourself the elanced at Beau in desperation, wishing he’d et nervous, look for e, okay?" he whispered
Spencer nodded "I can do it," she told Pierre
In no tihts were punishing The actors turned to Spencer, and Seth Cardiff, as playing Duncan, said his first line
It was Spencer’s turn to speak next, but the same icy freeze ioing to choke again The actors shifted uncomfortably The crowd covered their eyes Pierre shook his fists in fury And suddenly, Spencer realized This was exactly what A--what Kelsey--wanted For her to bomb To e and found Beau’s encouraging face And then, like a light switch snapping on, fire flooded into her veins She’d worked too da to win
"All our service in every point twice done, and then done double," she said loudly, and she was off The words flowed easily out of her estures were sharp and precise The other actors and the audience relaxed By the tiued about whether or not killing the king was a good idea, Spencer felt ale, there was even a ss, tapping his lips with a pen "Well, I suppose that was better"
Spencer swept past hiht her ar" At first, she thought he was just pulling her into a hug, but then he gave her a long, passionate kiss Spencer was so startled that she just stood there for a few seconds Then, she kissed hi a heavy velvet dress, she felt chills
Soasp Spencer turned and saw Nao at her Triumphant, she leaned in and kissed Beau even deeper Deep down, she wished the curtain would open so the audience could see this, too--so Kelsey would know just how badly her plan had failed
Chapter 28
THE TRUTH WILL OUT
After the play was over, Eh the double doors of Otto, the upscale Italian restaurant where the Macbeth cast party was being held The familiar scents of rosemary, olive oil, and warray-haired, no-nonsense woman behind the hostess stand Emily had been to Otto with her faraduated froe banquettes and sharing the family-style portions of penne alla vodka and Caprese salad For Beth’s graduation, when E, too, and the two of them had sent silly texts to one another and then snuck off to the patio area to flirt with a bunch of graduates from the boys’ basketball team Well, more accurately, Ali flirted with theht, Otto looked utterly different froraduation dinners The drama class had decorated the Italian-tiled roo posters of Macbeth playbills The rooe buffet table had been set up on one end, bearing a zillion types of pasta, a huge bowl of salad, eight different kinds of breads, and a bevy of desserts