Meagan Holder (right) as Rutendo & Karrueche Tran as Annunziata (left). Also, Young August Alsina as Khalfani. Enjoy!

Rutendo & Khalfani aren't exactly in this chapter though, but they're in the next one, for sure.

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Dang.

If Sonya Sophia knew that so many people were coming here, then she might not even have signed up for it, as she honestly wasn't a people person much at all.

She knew a lot of people were going to be here, but not this many people, jeez.

There were like over two hundred people here, and about thirty staff members who were also very professional and older actresses and actors.

Karalana and Sonya Sophia had just arrived at the Nation of Sensation, and there was a sign telling them to go upstairs, which was where everyone was right now.

Like the rest of Casablanca, the acting school had looked really prestigious, with people as well as their suitcases pretty much filling up the entire room.

That was what the place had looked like, and that was exactly what Sonya Sophia had felt like too— royalty.

The thing was, everyone here had had to have some kind of recommendation letter to get here, as this acting school was for the best of the best people, so the seniors did not mess around, man.

Yeah, there were leaflets for this, but at the bottom of the leaflet said you need a recommendation letter to come! so if one didn't have one, and they came?

Then they were absolutely done for.

As proof of this was needed.

Sadly for KA$EY and his wife Annunziata, they were running about an hour late, but it wasn't their fault that literally half of the people here had to travel from different countries, was it?

Everyone was talking to themselves really, that was until Annunziata had gone on the stage, literally silencing everybody up.

"Hello everyone, we are running a little bit late right now but I just wanted to let you know that you have thirty minutes until the spelling test starts, then after that, we'll do some warm up exercises. After that, you'll then be given some time — four hours, I think — to learn the script for Love Don't Cost A Thing. The cast list for this will be out tomorrow, then we'll just be working episode by episode. Hope I make myself clear."

Four hours was given to learn the script for Love Don't Cost A Thing and not any less because the script was going to be given to them today & they didn't have any other time in the past to learn it.

As soon as the first group was up to audition though when the four hours was up, everyone's script was going to be taken away from them to make things fair.

Whether they were in the first group or not.

They were only auditioning for the first episode though, and KA$EY had already planned everything out.

There were going to be seventy five episodes and five seasons, meaning fifteen episode per season. Each episode was also going to be twenty minutes, unless it was a special episode, which was only going to be an hour instead.

Obviously, not all of the first episode was going to be rehearsed for today, only the first two scenes.

But four hours was going to be given for this as quite a number of things had happened during the first two scenes, and the auditions were half an hour max, unless KA$EY & Annunziata had said otherwise.

Ie in case a cast member or group in general was too bad or too good.

Whilst a majority people were studying for the upcoming spelling test as though their life had depended on it, others weren't doing that as they had believed that they had already studied enough.

But in Sonya and Karalana's case?

They were kinda doing both.

"Girl, don't kid yourself," Karalana had whispered to her, with Sonya Sophia sitting down on a chair & Karalana sitting down right opposite her.

"You know you work better in a group setting than by yourself, but sadly, all of our friends back at acting school didn't get nominated. But what I guess I trying to say here is.... we can't be an island on our own. We've got to mingle with other people, whether you like it or not."

Sonya sighed to herself.

She was right.

Absolutely right.

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