"You handled that pretty well." Wei Jingyu's voice came from beside her as he wrapped an arm around her shoulder. 'Well I'm no stranger to stage frights, as you very well know.' Xuan signed with a slight chuckle. Jingyu also chuckled and said, "Yours were. . . . . . something else."
'Okay. Now go. I know you're gonna rock it my star.' Ying Xuan signed and pushed Jingyu towards where the other actors were. "What? Not even a kiss for good luck?" Wei Jingyu pouted. Xuan rolled her eyes but gave him a quick peck on the cheek before pushing him towards the others.
Ying Xuan and Lu Zuan were not in the play, but they had been helping everyone get ready. Once it was all done and the actors, Weiwei and Shaoyan left for backstage, they both took seats in the audience. Weiwei's play was to be the second, and the first was almost half-way through by the time the two girls arrived. But they sat down and enjoyed it nevertheless.
'How do you think they did?' Ying Xuan signed as the first play finished and the whole cast came on stage to say thank you among a huge round of applause. 'I think it was quite nice. But ours is better.' Zuan signed back. It was too much of a hassle trying to shout among all this noise. One thing that Lu Zuan noticed was that Xuan had signed and not mouthed the words to her. She had been in the habit of usually mouthing words whenever she wanted to communicate with Zuan, probably due to how insecure Xuan felt about her disability.
But she had so naturally signed when she could have mouthed, Lu Zuan felt that Ying Xuan was maybe starting to accept herself, truly. "And why not? All is takes is for a few people to accept you." Lu Zuan thought to herself as the actors for the opening scene of Weiwei's play took their positions and the lights dimmed.
Ying Xuan was truly bounding with excitement as the play started. She loved the script, loved the cast, loved everything about the play. It was like watching her own child perform. But after the first few lines, Xuan's whole world shifted.
Ying Xi was being Ying Xi and was trying to sabotage the whole play, god knew why. In the first scene, she barely had any dialogues. The scene was about Marylene violating the fairy laws and being stripped of her wings and powers and banished to the human world. The judge was supposed to pass the sentence and tell her that she might be allowed back into the fairy world if she proved herself worthy in the human world. All Xi had to do was look miserable and try to sign a few times, because she was dumb.
But what Ying Xi was doing was playing the part of the perfect criminal. She talked back to the person who was playing the judge. YES!!! She seriously talked!! And bad-mouthed everyone, and all in all, threw a complete tantrum and ruined the whole scene.
Xuan and Zuan cast one horrified look at each other before getting up and rushing back-stage. "I CAN'T BELIEVE SHE DID THAT!!!!!!!!!" Lu Zuan shrieked as the two reached back-stage.