Nimisha Ladva

My vision tunnels and I die.

So people are still talking about me at school.

People are still talking about me in drama.

But the day for the Lysander love potion scene keeps getting closer until of course one day, it's the day.

I get to rehearsal, and the director tells us what he wants us to do.

So Helena is going to find Lysander on the ground.

She will wake him up.

He has a magic love potion on him.

So when he wakes up, he's going to fall in love with Helena.

He's going to fall in love with me.

The director wants him to take my wrist and kiss it.

I'm supposed to stop him because he's obviously playing a cruel joke.

Everyone's mean to him in the play.

But there it is, that moment of first contact I always knew would be there.

But now my panic explodes.

I know who I am.

I'm a calculus tutor who smells a little bit like curry.

I'm the girl who wore her underwear to a swim party.

It just occurs to me, oh my God, Randy doesn't want to do this.

I am about to be rejected in front of the cast sitting in the audience.