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Landing a coveted role in a school production is exciting right up until you start complaining about it in front of the person who didn’t get it.

One teenager was cast as Rizzo in her school’s production of Grease, only to realize she had no idea who the character actually was.

Instead of researching first, she went around telling people she had a problem with some of what the role would entail.

Word got back to a friend who’d hoped for the same role, and the damage was already done.

She tried to apologize, but the damage to the friendship was already done.

Keep reading for the full story.

AITA for saying I wanted to keep my part in a musical?

So basically, my (16F) school is doing a musical. We have five classes and they were divided into four groups. My group is doing Grease, and I got the part of Rizzo, and she gets to sing a solo and has lots of lines.

Soon, she takes issue with what the role requires.

I didn’t really know anything about Grease, so I asked around what Rizzo does, and after learning about the character’s pregnancy scare, etc, I went around for a while saying I didn’t want to do THOSE ACTIONS! (I never said I didn’t want the part.)

Her friends soon began to misunderstand what she meant.

My friend asked my best friend if I didn’t want the part. And my best friend said to ask me.

They both assumed I didn’t want it, which is fair enough.

However, when that friend asked me about having the part, I apologised and said I was sorry, I didn’t mean for it to come out that way, but I did want the part.

This is where things started to get messy.

But then she got really upset and said I shouldn’t have been saying those things if I wanted the part, and that she had her hopes up she could get it. I apologised again and clarified, all over text.

The next day in school she asked me again in person, I AGAIN apologised and said I really didn’t mean for it to come out that way.

She tries to help get her friend another part, but her friend continued to give her the cold shoulder.

That same day, the coordinator mentioned she needed background pink ladies, so when I went home I texted that friend and said maybe she could go for the pink lady! That way we could both have lines.

But she said no, she just wanted my part, and ever since she’s been jerky to me, not upfront, but subtle enough it hurts.

She keeps excluding me when I try to sit next to my other friends (we share the same friends) and I end up sitting alone most of the time.

AITA?

What a mess!

What did Reddit have to say?

This user thinks there’s more than enough blame to go around.

Sometimes it’s better to not say everything that comes to your head out loud.

It’s a little insensitive to complain about a role so many other people around her clearly wanted.

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Auditioning for a role usually comes with some degree of research or working knowledge about the character.

The uncomfortable truth here is that this situation was preventable from the very beginning.

Getting cast in a part and immediately complaining about it, without knowing anything about the character first, put the friend group in an awkward position.

Of course, her friend didn’t handle the situation well either. No one is infallible, and you can’t expect your friends to always behave perfectly.

At the end of the day, this is just high school drama, and high school drama always fades eventually.