Chapter 279 - Everyone Crying

Megan sucked and nibbled on Jim's lips while he stood there as a statue as he was not sure what to do. This was not supposed to happen and he couldn't push Megan away.

In the next scene, Megan's character was supposed to slap him and that slap was important for the play to move forward, he was not sure what to do to get slapped by Megan.

This was Amanda's main concern too. If that slap doesn't happen then the story can't progress but if Megan herself is kissing Jim then why will she slap him, there will be a loophole in the plot which would mess up the whole play.

Backstage Leo and Zoey too were worried about the same thing.

Jimmy decided to do something to get slapped by Megan. He suddenly pushed her to the wall and kissed her back passionately, he then broke the kiss and said, "This is what women like you want, right? Physical intimacy. You don't care if the man is interested in you or not, your interest is enough, right? I guess you will spread your legs for any man you want irrespective of him being disloyal to you. Women like you have no self-respect, do you?" Jim provoked Megan's character and that's when Megan realized the huge fuck-up she did and how Jim was covering up for it.

So, Megan acted along and got upset with Jimmy's words.

"Come here, I'll give you what you want" Jimmy grabbed her hand and pulled her towards him and acted disrespectfully towards her which angered everyone in the audience irrespective of the person being a man or a woman.

Except for Amanda everyone was angry as Amanda was feeling proud of Jimmy for managing this scene well, driving Megan to her anger.

Nothing being able to take his words anymore. Megan tightly slapped him, making everyone in the audience happy.

Not just the audience, but Amanda, Jimmy, Leo and Zoey were happy too as they were worried the play would be ruined.

The scene changed, Leo and Zoey took over the stage as it was their scene.

When Jim and Megan went backstage, Jim shouted at Megan.

"Meg, are you out of your mind, what happened to you? Do you realize you almost ruined the play?" 

Megan turned sad as this was the first time Jimmy scolded her, she couldn't control her tears, "I am so sorry, I suddenly forgot my lines and I was not sure what to say, so…"

Jimmy calmed down seeing Megan cry. He gently pulled her towards him and hugged her, he patted her shoulder and stroked her head, "Don't cry, it's okay. It happens. I am sorry, I shouted at you instead of being understanding of your situation."

Megan cried harder hugging him tighter, Jimmy stroked her head, "Shhh, calm down. It's okay, nothing is ruined now, everything has been managed"

"Is everything alright?" Amanda came backstage as she was worried about Megan as she almost ruined the play.

Seeing her cry and Jimmy consoling her, Amanda was relieved.

She too consoled Megan. The makeup artist was standing there, ready to adjust Megan's makeup which was ruined due to her crying.

In the next few minutes, Megan's makeup was fixed and she went on  the stage  for her next scene which was with Zoey.

"Amanda, don't worry, go and watch the play" Leo and Jimmy assured her and Amanda went back to the theater.

After some time, now it was time for the climax scene where Rick is almost destroyed by his wife and then he apologizes to her for what he did but he also explains his stand, for the first time he breaks all the walls around his heart and shares the pain and confusion he went through when he realized he prefers men, the fear of his family and society broke him apart and he turned into a cold man who let go of his humanity and turned into a monster.

This was the most difficult scene of this play as Jimmy had to convince the audience that he is not as bad as he believes him to be and the heart wrenching circumstances he went through is what turned him into the despicable man he currently is. 

This scene is deeply emotional and is supposed to have a huge impact that can move the audience.

This scene was all Jimmy.

On stage, Jimmy took a deep breath and the next moment he loosened the tie around his neck and he enacted the emotionally heavy scene.

It was a 10 minutes long monologue and as always Jimmy perfectly nailed the entire sequence with his dialogue delivery and emotions.

Just like all the times before and as Amanda expected almost everyone in the room had tears seeing his acting, they all could feel the emotions he described.

Majority of the audience was crying right now, as Jimmy's character dies after this scene.

Amanda and Jack looked around observing the audience and they saw almost everyone crying. Amanda smiled at Jack, as her play was successful. If she could bring emotions out of the audience then it was considered successful.

"I am proud of you" Jack kissed Amanda's cheek.

But on the other hand, Harry and Catherine were crying uncontrollably. The tears were flooding from their eyes without pause as they felt like their son really died.

The worst part was, they both hugged Will, who was sitting between them and continued crying.

Will too was moved by Jimmy's acting but he was not crying as he knew it was a play and acting at the end of the day but when his two best friends sobbed uncontrollably he felt like crying with them.

They both hugged him and they rested their heads on either of his shoulders and continued crying.

Will looked to his right and saw Jessica laughing at his situation.

"You are not crying?" He asked her.

"I saw this play ten times already, I am used to it now" She brightly smiled