When Ms. Piper announced the names of every student along with their role to make sure she hadn't missed anyone, Julie saw Caleb turn to look at her with a sultry smile. Her eyes fell on her shoes, and she lifted one of them to see if she had stamped on something, that something being the worst bad luck in the entire history. Caleb's face twisted into anger, thinking she was comparing him to her shoe.
Ms. Piper said, "Students who are selected for props can come and stand on the left side near the wall so that you can start working on it. Mary will guide you on what you need to do."
"I am not going to work on colouring something so absurd," protested Mateo.
Mateo Jackson, who had arrived late to the room so that he could skip being part of the play, as like the other students, had been forcefully dragged into this charade and had hoped to be left out of it.
