The three girls were struggling to contain a collective giggle as the teacher read several sentences contain the word "but".
'What are they, seven?' Nat thought to herself.
That wasn't the biggest elephant in the room... or rather, the circus tent. These girls wore bright colored baggy dresses in shades of pink, periwinkle, and jade respectively. Their faces were painted a pasty white with bright pink lips and red eyeshadow. They had on huge Mickey Mouse gloves and big red shoes, with crazy hair, red noses, and goofy grins.
Afterclass, Nat walked down the hall, the honking of clown noses all too tellingly ringing out.
"Yes? Hey!" Nat spat as a red clown nose was slapped onto her face.
"It's your initation!" a clowngirl said with a Goofy styled Hee-yuk. She was in a pink dress with a ridiculous pink beehive.
"For what?" Nat asked.
"You're one of us now! *giggle* You sat with us, so we wanna welcome you!" a clown girl in a periwinkle dress with neon blue pigtails explained.
"You'll love being with us, it's super fun!" a third clown in a jade dress with a big green afro added.
"Ummmmm... yeaaaahhhh..." Nat started with a long pause.
"Boopy!" the pink clown said.
"Perri!" the periwinkle clown said.
"Jojo!" the green clown said.
"Right... look, I'm not really a clown, never liked them, don't really..." the tomboy said, opening her eyes to a note in her hand.
Apparently these girls were the Drama Society, and they were getting ready for a play made for children by going to school "in character".
Boopy's real name was Starla, Perri's real name was Leni, and Jojo's real name was Jade. They wanted Nat to play the role of the fourth main Clown Dipsy.
"Me, an actress?" Nat thought as she walked to class. It sounded like it could be neat... if her character's name wasn't Dipsy the Clown.