After days and days working on the farm Alice was so done with everything. Days and days was a bit exaggerating but she was relaxing for today. She was in her room, enjoying the book she finished today and playing with Ophelia, the little Cleffa that was her companion. It was a relaxing day but after doing so many jobs, it felt as if she had nothing better to do. It felt like she was slacking off like hell. Which was stupid, she wasn’t born to only work and work and work. That would kill her within a few days. Her calves were still sore from running, and tilting and running to get that wolf and it wasn’t really a nice job at all. She yawned out of laziness. She was on the couch that was in her room, not as comfortable as the bed but Ophelia was playing and it was funny to watch, much funnier than her book that was. She was playing with the blankets, her toys and just making cute sounds that Alice couldn’t help but look at her. The fun was disrupted when Ophelia dropped herself and looked at Alice as if she wanted to say she needed something. The little Cleffa tapped her tummy and Alice got what she meant. The red haired woman stood up, she was wearing a dress with a broad black skirt, the top of the dress which was part of it was green with black and white dots. She grabbed the bag in the corner and got a cookie out of it an handed it to Ophelia after she picked up the little companion off the bed, ”We don’t want crumbles on the bed now do we?” She said as Ophelia started eating the cookie. She put Ophelia to the ground and went to search for some shoes that she could wear. She had some peach coloured heels that she put on because they were surprisingly comfortable and fitted better with her dress than the boots she had. She definitely would want a house if she would ever go on a shopping spree again. She picked up her leather jacket and her little blue backpack and suggested to Ophelia that they would go out. Since there wasn’t an urgency on finding a job or doing some work, she could only enjoy the moment and thus she let Ophelia walk all by herself. The inn was calm and almost abandoned and the city most people weren’t on the road. She simply watched Ophelia and nothing else, feet showed up rather quickly though if you were looking at something that wasn’t much taller than thirty centimetres.

She was discovering the city again, avoiding the request board in the town centre. They were around the theatres and Alice decided to have a look around. Before she could see anyone or ask what performance was tonight she heard some sort of yelp and she quickly picked up Ophelia and headed that way. Before anyone saw her, she could see two people, one was dressed like she pretended to be a princess, must be one of the actresses. ”What do you mean Carlos called in sick? I don’t care. The performance is already tonight. We worked so hard on this. We need a stage hand. You better fix a new one Leo because I’m not going to sit here and wait till the right opportunity of my brilliance is passing by. Did you have any idea how much work it is to know all the lines and then such an easy job as a stage hand calls in sick on the big night. Even if I had a broken leg I would be here and..” The girl didn’t seem to know that not everyone was able to go on and as the wording go: break a leg. She held her breath to not sigh out loud, someone on her left hand appeared, looking in distress, ”Alice? Alice where are you?” Alice herself stared with big eyes to this new guy. How did he? But the girl that had been screaming or something along the lines turned to look at the guy that stood now besides her, ”Yes Jerry?” She said as if she was the sweetest girl on Earth, that’s when she noticed Alice.. not that she knew, ”Who are you and what are you doing here?” the girl said with not a very nice tongue, ”Oh me. I’m Alice as well and me and this little one over here accidently entered the theatres. But I heard you have a problem, maybe I can help?” She shrugged, to indicate she had nothing better to do. The other Alice her face cleared as she understood the situation far more quicker than the two males, with a sugar sweet voice she asked the girl with the same name to come closer and take Alice with her through the theatre and explain everything a stage hand needed to know. The timing of the curtains. She gave the last sentences after which the curtains would have to close, unless applause wasn’t finished yet. And how to activate the lacrima for the light. Well when that was all done, Alice had some time to practice and watch the hectic ways of the theatre. She put Ophelia in her little backpack and waited for the show to begin. It was like having the front row seat, only at the back of the stage. She could see everything very clearly. Actors and actresses hurried along her to get to their stage and enter the scene. Which was interesting, she had never seen Romeo and Juliet before. She had to close the curtains when sets needed to change, from the ball room to the balcony scene and she had only once had to activate the lacrima to follow the other Alice, playing Juliet, all the time around. Which was weird, the play wasn’t called the Juliet, it was Romeo and Juliet. But the Romeo guy apparently wasn’t so important.

When the performance was over and done with, Alice shut the curtains, raised them once again to get the applause and dropped them again once the actors and actresses all left the stage to get out of the uncomfortable clothing. The Juliet-Alice showed up to pay her the money that came with the job even though Alice some sort of had volunteered. But she was absolutely not going to complain about it. She heard Juliet-Alice giggle about the fact that they had the same name as she was making her way to the back of the rooms. Well that was a good thing. Besides she seemed to be in a much better mood.

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